Bassel Jamali is the Dale and James J. Pinto Fellow with the International Advocacy and Litigation program. He graduated from Georgetown University with a J.D. and a Master of Arts in Arab Studies. During his dual-degree program, Bassel worked at several human rights and non-profit organizations, including the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, where he worked on reports on human rights violations and provided support for human rights defenders. Prior to graduate school, Bassel spent a year abroad in France, where he taught English, and graduated from Whitman College with a B.A. in History.