SEPADPod With Zaid Al Ali

Richardson Institute

On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Zaid Al Ali, the Senior Adviser in Constitution-Building in the Arab Region for International IDEA. He has law three law degrees from Harvard Law School, the Sorbonne University, and King's College London. He has been practicing international commercial arbitration since 1999 and has been advising on constitutional drafting in Arab countries since 2005. Zaid is the author of Arab Constitutionalism: The Coming Revolution (2021) amongst other pieces. He is on twitter at @zalali. On this episode, Simon and Zaid talk about studying law from a political family, 9/11, the war on terror, the invasion of Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, the new constitution and its failings, constitutions after the Arab Uprisings, developments in Tunisia and much, much more.