Academic Position : Professor of Law (Private Law and International Law) - School of Law, Cairo University; Yale Howard Holtzmann Fellow in International Arbitration

Education : Yale Law School (LLM - 2002; JSD - 2007); Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Maitrise - 2000; DEA Droit Privé - 2001); School of Law, Cairo University (LLB - 1999; DES Droit Privé - 2000)

Experience as counsel:

Domestic and international arbitrations under the Rules of ICSID, CRCICA, ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL

Publications:

• "The death of arbitrability" (forthcoming in Arbitrability, Kluwer, 2008)

• "Independence of International Arbitrators - An Arbitrator's Perspective," in The Independence of Arbitrators 43 (ICC Pub. No. 690, 2008)(with A. El-Kosheri)

• "The Reception of the Group of Companies Doctrine in Egyptian Law? Case commentary," 2007(3) Stockholm Int'l Arb. Rev. 103• "The Assignment of the Arbitration Agreement in Comparative Law," 10 J. Arab Arb. 15 (Sept. 2007)

• Consent in Context: Fulfilling the Promise of International Arbitration (Multiparty, Multi-contract and Non-contract Arbitration) (West, 2009)

• "The Quest for Cosmopolitan Law and Arbitration in the Arab W orld - Where Do W e Stand Now?," in Festschrift Ahmed Sadek El-Kosheri, From the Arab World to the Globalization of International Law and Arbitration 193 (M.Abdel Raouf, P. Leboulanger, N. Ziadé eds., Kluwer, 2016)

• "The Present – Commercial Arbitration as a Transnational System of Justice: Universal Arbitration Between Freedom and Constraint: The Challenges of Assessment and Control of Jurisdiction in Multiparty Multi-Contract Arbitrations," in Arbitration - The Next Fifty Years - 50th Anniversary Conference, ICCA Congress Series No. 16, 103 (Kluwer 2012)

• "Egypt: The Group of Companies Doctrine under Egyptian Law," in International Arbitration Court Decisions, 3rd Edition (S. Bond and F. Bachand eds., JurisNet, 2011)

• "The Limits of Consent: The Right or Obligation to Arbitrate of Non-Signatories in Group of Companies," in Multiparty Arbitration 71 (B. Hanotiau and E.A. Schwartz eds., ICC Pub. No. 701, 2010)

• "Toto Costruzioni Generali S.p.A. v. The Republic of Lebanon, ICSID Case No ARB/07/12, Decision on Jurisdiction, September 11, 2009: a Commentary," IBA Arb. Committee Newsletter (Jan. 2010)(with R. Ziadé)

• "The Death of Inarbitrability," in Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives 47 (L. Mistelis and S. Brekoulakis eds., Kluwer, 2009)

• "Toto Costruzioni Generali S.p.A. v. The Republic of Lebanon, ICSID Case No ARB/07/12, Decision on Jurisdiction, September 11, 2009: a Commentary," IBA Arb. Committee Newsletter (Jan. 2010)(with R. Ziadé)

• "The Independence of International Arbitrators - An Arbitrator's Perspective," in The Independence of Arbitrators 43 (ICC Pub. No. 690, 2008)(with A. El-Kosheri)

• "Judgment by Egypt’s Court of Cassation in the case No. 4729 of Judicial Year 72 rendered in June 2004 'The group of companies doctrine in Egyptian law', Observations," 2007(3) Stockholm Int'l Arb. Rev. 103

• "The Assignment of the Arbitration Agreement in Comparative Law," 10 J. Arab Arb. 15 (Sept. 2007)