Malik R. Dahlan LL.B, GAS, LL.M, AM, Prof. Dr. jur, FCIArb |
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Born | Sayyid Malik bin Rabea Dahlan, Al-Hassani Al-Hashimi Al-Qurashi Al-Makki |
Nationality | Saudi Arabian |
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Al-Azhar University National University of Singapore University of Cambridge Harvard Law School |
Occupation | Lawyer, international mediator, negotiator |
Known for | Rule of law, energy, political economy, Arabian history, Islamic public policy |
Notable work | APEC for the Middle East; The Hijaz: Integration, Islamic Statehood, and the Origins of Arab Self-Determination; Manliness |
Website | www |
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Prof. Dr. Malik Rabea Dahlan (مالك بن ربيع دحلان) (born Makkah, 18 August 1979) is an international mediator and academic specializing in international law and the politics of the Middle East. He has founded a number of policy, research and philanthropic organizations, and has written and advised on legislative affairs, defence, energy policies, and foreign relations. He is also a UN Constitutional Expert, Oil and Gas selected by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq. He is currently a chaired professor of international law and policy in London.
Malik Rabea Dahlan was born 18 August 1979 to the Al Dahlan (آل دحلان) family of Makkah. He is of the Hashemite bloodline of Sayyid Ahmad Zayni Dahlan (1816-1886) Jurisconsult of the Two Holy Mosques and Shafi’i Grand Imam of his time near the end of the Ottoman Empire. His mother, Huda Kayal, was an academic specializing in English literature at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. His father, Dr. Rabea S Dahlan, served as Lieutenant Governor of the Emirate of Makkah from 1989 until 1999.
He attended Belmont Hill School in Belmont, MA in the USA. Dahlan read civil law and jurisprudence at Al Al-Bayt University in Jordan and then at the University of Jordan in Amman, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in law in 1999. In 2016, the University of Jordan decorated him as its 50th Anniversary Honorary Alumnus.
He left to America to take government studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in addition to receiving his American legal training at Harvard Law School, obtaining a master's degree in law in 2001. Dahlan was also the first international student to receive the Harvard Law School Dean Leadership Award. He also obtained a master's degree in regional studies at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies.