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Lawyering for Change

In Lawyering for Change, TIMEP’s Legal Unit conducts a series of interviews with lawyers, legal practitioners, and academics who explore the roles that lawyers have played throughout the region’s protest movements and revolutions over the last decade.


Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, lawyers work to support those organizing on-the-ground; to mobilize the legal community; and to bring about systemic change. In Lawyering for Change, TIMEPs Legal Unit conducts a series of interviews with lawyers, legal practitioners, and academics who explore the role that lawyers have played throughout the regions protest movements and revolutions over the last decade.

  • Ahmed Ezzat discusses Egypt’s history of cause lawyering, the state’s crackdown against the legal community, and the critical role lawyers continue to play.
  • Karim Nammour explains the role lawyers have played amid protests in Lebanon and discusses current and future challenges for Lebanese legal professionals.
  • Bonyan Jamal weighs in on the challenges on the ground in Yemen facing her and colleagues and explains the role lawyers have played there over the past decade.
  • Joumana Seif describes the role that lawyers played at the onset of the 2011 protests in Syria and how that role has evolved in the years since amid conflict.
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