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Amel Mili
Arabic Program Director at University of Pennsylvania
Amel Mili is the Arabic Program Director at the University of Pennsylvania. She has an extensive academic background, holding a Master's Degree and a PhD in Global Affairs from Rutgers University, Newark. Additionally, she earned a JD in Law from the Law School of Tunis and a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Tunis.
From 1991 to 2009, Mili served as a Magistrate in the Administrative Tribunal of Tunisia. Following this, she was the director of the Arabic Language and Culture Program at the Lauder Institute from January 2010 to May 2017. Currently, she is also a lecturer in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages at Drexel University and is a co-founder of the Middle East and North Africa minor program.
Her research interests include the intersection of religion and law, gender politics, constitutional transitions, and language policies in education. Dr. Mili has published numerous articles and co-edited the book Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) .12
