Professor Gabriel Sawma is a lawyer with Middle East background. Graduated from the Lebanese University, School of Law in 1970 and nominated to become a judge in 1975. He studied Islamic shari’a at the law school; practiced law at the law firm of Rizkallah and Farah in Beirut, Lebanon, and supervised commercial contracts in Europe, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Jordan and Syria.

Taught the following courses at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey, USA:

• Arabic 1001.
• Arabic 1002.
• Arab Culture and Civilization.
• Near East as Source of Western Culture.
• Middle East Constitutional Law and Islamic Shari’a.

Taught Islamic finance at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Consultant for Laureate Education on Islamic finance. Maryland, USA.

Author of “The Qur’an, misinterpreted, mistranslated, and misread; the Aramaic Language of the Qur’an”. http://www.syriacaramaicquran.com

Author of an upcoming book on “Islamic Shari’a vs. the U.S. Constitution”.

Lecturer on Islamic shari’a, http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=7899

Expert Consultant on recognition and enforcement of foreign Islamic shri’a judgments in U.S. courts. Consultant on Islamic divorce in USA and Canada.

Professional Affiliation

Member of:

The Lebanese Bar Association of Beirut, Lebanon.

Associate Member of the New York State Bar Association.

Associate Member of the American Bar Association.

Writings

Wrote extensively on International law in the area of the European Union Law and Islamic shari’a. Following are excerpts:

• Supremacy of the European Union Law, http://gabrielsawma.blogspot.com/2005/03/supremacy-of-european-union-law.html
• Limitations on the Effectiveness of Trademark Laws in the European Union, Case Study, http://gabrielsawma.blogspot.com/2005/04/limitations-on-effectiveness-of.html

• Doing Business in the Arabian Gulf, http://gabrielsawma.blogspot.com/2005/05/doing-business-in-arabian-gulf-region.html
• Islamic divorce in U.S. courts, http://www.phillyimc.org/en/islamic-divorce-us-courts
• Prohibition of interest in Islamic banking and finance, http://searchwarp.com/swa615826-Prohibition-Of-Interest-In-Islamic-Banking-And-Finance.htm
• the Scope of Immunity for Heads of States under International Law, http://searchwarp.com/swa65501.htm
• Do sanctions on Iran Work, http://gabrielsawma.blogspot.com/search/label/Nuclear%20threat
• The mahr provision in Islamic marriage contract, http://searchwarp.com/swa521011-The-Mahr-Provision-In-Islamic-Marriage-Contracts.htm
• Application of Islamic shari’a in U.S. courts, http://gabrielsawma.blogspot.com/2008/06/application-of-islamic-sharia-in-us.html
• Muslim brotherhood and the Middle East Upheaval, http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2011/04/22114.php

Media Coverage

Featured on BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8608878.stm

and CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/11/egypt.divorce/index.html?iref=allsearch

Editor in chief of International Law weblog, http://www.gabrielsawma.blogspot.com

Website, http://www.islamicdivorceinusa.com

Contact Information

Email: gabrielsawma@yahoo.com

Email: gabygms@gmail.com

Tel. (609) 915-2237