Omar Taleb

Omar Taleb is a former Nonresident Fellow at TIMEP focusing on impunity and access to justice in Lebanon. He is a Lebanese human rights lawyer with over eight years of experience in litigation. He does qualitative and quantitative research for a multitude of local and international organizations, much of which were published. Omar currently focuses on strategic litigation and advocacy, and provides protection for marginalized groups, including survivors of domestic violence, migrant domestic workers, and children at risk, and ensures legal guarantees for detainees. He also focuses on the need for officials to uphold the rule of law, by providing contemporary local and international legal jurisprudences and contemporary interpretation of legal scripts. You can follow him on Twitter: @Omar_N_taleb.

Articles by: Omar Taleb

The Cost of Collapse: Lebanon’s Judiciary Under Economic Strain

To shed light on the realities confronting Lebanon’s courts and the repercussions of the economic crisis on justice and the rule of law, we spoke with Omar Taleb, lawyer and former Nonresident Fellow...

أزمات وتعطل وأجور متدنية: سؤال وجواب عن القضاء اللبناني

ما بين التدخلات السياسية، ونقص المستلزمات، واضراب العاملين بسبب تدني الأجور، يعاني القضاء اللبناني من أزمات متشعبة ومتنوعة تغذي تدهور الثقة في الدولة ومبدأ سيادة القانون

قروض مدعومة للأثرياء: عن تطويع القانون في قضية نجيب ميقاتي 

يلقي عمر طالب نظرة معمّقة على الظروف السياسية والتكييفات القانونية التي أدت إلى إسقاط تهم الفساد عن الرئيس الحالي لحكومة تصريف الأعمال في لبنان، نجيب ميقاتي