Abed Awad is a NY/NJ practicing attorney & adjunct law professor; he provides expert witness opinions and testimony explaining Islamic law, laws of Muslim countries, and Muslim culture to clients, attorneys and courts. He is fluent in Arabic.
Abed Awad can provide expert testimony regarding Islamic and Middle Eastern law involving the following countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Mali, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Singapore.
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Abed Awad provides litigation support services such as briefs and reports explaining Islamic law, Arab Law, and Muslim Culture to attorneys, their clients and courts throughout the United States. If you need an expert in Sharia, Islamic law, Middle Eastern Law or the laws of Arab Countries, Mr. Awad can assist you in these areas and help prepare you for litigation involving these issues.
Abed Awad is an attorney with offices in NY and NJ. He is a general business and civil litigation attorney focusing on complex matrimonial law, commercial law, entertainment law and foreign law. Awad has been qualified and recognized as an expert witness in Islamic law and the law of Muslim majority countries by courts throughout the United States. In addition to his Juris Doctorate, he holds an M.A. in Near and Middle East Studies and a Certificate in Comparative Law from the University of London. Mr. Awad was a Managing Editor on Pace International Law Review and has published extensively on different areas of the law in various publications including the New Jersey Law Journal, Matrimonial Strategist, the Journal of the Legal Profession, Middle East Executive Reports, among others.
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Awad was the Law Clerk for the Honorable George E. Sabbath of the New Jersey Superior Court. Mr. Awad is an Adjunct Law Professor at Rutgers Law School, New Jersey and has taught at Pace Law School, New York and Seton Hall Law School. He has taught: (1) Islamic Jurisprudence; (2) Islamic Banking and Finance; and (3) Matrimonial Litigation. Mr. Awad was selected as one of ten Lawyers of the Year 2002 by the LAWYERS WEEKLY (USA) for his ground-breaking decision enforcing the mahr provision contained in a Muslim marriage contract.
Mr. Awad is a frequent public speaker at bar associations, universities, conventions, and political events. He lectures throughout the United States on subjects ranging from law, politics, gender, religion to culture. Mr. Awad is a regular media commentator and analyst appearing on numerous television channels including Al-Jazeera, CNN, ABC, BBC Arabic Television, BBC World Service Arabic Radio, NPR, Channel 4 (United Kingdom), Future TV, CNN, CNNfn, Al-Qataria and Al-Arabia among others.
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Partner, Awad & Khoury, LLP Practice Areas: complex civil litigation, matrimonial, laws of the Middle East, Islamic law and international law. Qualified and recognized by American courts as an expert in Islamic law, Islamic family law, Muslim culture, Jordanian law, Egyptian law, Syrian law, Dubai law & Moroccan law, to name a few.
Media Commentator - Political and Legal Issues Frequent political and legal commentator for numerous television and radio networks, including but not limited to Aljazeera, ABC, CNNfn, BBC World Service Radio, BBC World Service Arabic Television, CNN, NPR, Al-Rafidain TV, Al-Qataria, Al-Saah TV, Al-Arabia, Channel 4 (England), Shams Radio, Vatican-Arabic Radio, & The Voice of Arabs Radio (Cairo).
Honorable George E. Sabbath NJ Superior Court, Law Clerk Sept. 1998 Sept. 1999 Drafted opinions; Wrote legal memoranda; Prepared cases for trials and hearings.
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Lawyer of the Year (2002). Selected as one of ten Lawyers of the Year for 2002 by the National Lawyers Weekly (USA) for my ground breaking enforcement of a Muslim marriage contract under New Jersey law.
Community Activism Award (2007). Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee (Philadelphia).
Vision and Achievement Award (2009). Mental Health Association in Passaic County (New Jersey).
Panelist, Islamic Law of Bankruptcy, World Bank (Washington DC) November 2015 Panelist, Family Law and Immigration, New Jersey Foundation of Justice, CLE, November 2015 Panelist, Islamic Family Law in American Court, ABA CLE, November 2015 Religion, Culture & Divorce, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (Ohio), October 2011 Panelist, Women and Islam, Gender Equity Conference, US Military Academy, West Point, April 2011 Panelist, Oklahoma Ban on Sharia, New York City Bar Association, December 2010. Lecturer, Recognition & Enforcement of Foreign Money Judgment by American Courts, U.S. Department of State Training of Iraqi Judges, Washington, D.C., September 2010 Lecturer, Islamic Family Law in American Courts, ACCESS (conducted workshop for Michigan State Court Judges), February 2010. Panelist, Islamic Capital Markets, New York City Bar Association (CLE), February 2010. Panelist, Islamic Law of Bankruptcy, Journal of Law & Religion, October 2009.
Articles Cited in Published Decisions: The Florida Bar v. Bryant, 813 So.2d 38 (2002). Concurring opinion extensively quotes from my Attorney-Client Sexual Relations law review article as authority supporting the suspension of an attorney for his sexual relationship with an existing client.
Articles Published: Abed Awad & Robert S. Popescu, Abu Zahar v. Abu Zahar: Appellate Court Declines to adopt a bright-line rule prohibiting out-of-country visitation, New Jersey Law Journal, September 22, 2003.
Abed Awad, Court Enforces Mahr Provision in Muslim Marriage Contract, New Jersey Law Journal, September 9, 2002.
Abed Awad, Beware of International Service of Process, New Jersey Law Journal, March 13, 2002.
Abed Awad & Robert S. Popescu, When Custody Disputes Go Global, New Jersey Law Journal, August 7, 2000.
Abed Awad, Attorney Client Sex Should Always Be Off Limits, New Jersey Law Journal, March 13, 2000.
Abed Awad, Attorney-Client Sexual Relations, 22 The Journal of the Legal Profession (University of Alabama School of Law) 131 (1998).
Abed Awad, The Concept of Defect in American and English Products Liability Discourse: Despite Strict Liability Linguistics, Negligence is Back With a Vengeance!, 10(1) Pace International Law Review (1998).
Abed Awad, U.S. Claims Against Iraq Outside UNCC Jurisdiction: Focus on Letters of Credit, 22(2) Middle East Executive Reports 9 (Feb. 1999)
Enforcement & Setting Aside of Arbitral Awards in Egypt, Forthcoming.
Iflas & Chapter 11 - Classical Islamic Law and Modern Bankruptcy Law, Forthcoming.
School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, England. M.A., Near and Middle East Studies, June 1995
School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, England. Certificate, Comparative Law, June 1994
Columbia University, New York, 1992-1993 Completed the following graduate classes: Islamic Revivalist Movement, Islamic Legal Texts, Arabic Composition, and Modern Arabic Poetry.
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