Experts on countries of origin by surname

Asylum and immigration caseworker, political commentator, and lecturer with comprehensive experience on Egypt, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.

The expert holds research experience on international public law, international human rights law, international relations, and immigration law. The expert has obtained doctoral qualification. He is educated in Arabic and speaks several dialects of Arabic as well as Modern Standard Arabic.

The expert maintains his expertise in all legal matters related to Libyan nationals including cases pertaining to asylum, immigration, family, and crime. The expert writes experts report on all legal matters as well as nationality matters, languages, blood feuds, honour killing, domestic violence, risk of return and Islamic law.

The expert undertakes language analysis to determine nationality and origin for individuals whose identity are in dispute. This service is provided to anyone whose actual or disputed identity belongs to an Arab country.

The expert takes instructions on country conditions and language analysis cases.

Leah Zani, Ph.D. (she, ze, they) is a public anthropologist, author, and poet. Zani earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, where she studied the effects of air warfare in Laos. She trained as a researcher with the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the Nobel prize-winning Mines Advisory Group. She has presented her research in Laos to the United States Congress. Recently, she held the Human Rights Seat of the American Anthropological Association, where she advised leadership on global issues of academic freedom. Zani currently serves as a Scholar Rescue Fund Ambassador, assisting displaced scholars as they seek asylum in the United States. She has written for Cultural Anthropology, Kenyon Review, Consequence, and SAPIENS, among others. She is the author of Strike Patterns, winner of the 2023 IPPY Gold Prize for Creative Nonfiction.

The Expert is a medical and psychological anthropologist with extensive training in public health. Her research and practice have focused on conflict-affected populations, including survivors of conflict-related sexual violence/genocide-rape, youth heads of household, and children associated with armed forces and armed groups.

The Expert conducted four years of in-depth fieldwork on the ground in Rwanda between 2003 and 2012. In 2016, she conducted short-term research in Afghanistan on human trafficking, and in 2017, she directed a center for mental health in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She has completed short deployments for child protection and mental health support in emergency response, the longest of which was for 3 weeks in 2016 across Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, and Serbia to assess the protection situation of forcibly displaced Syrian, Afghan, and Iraqi children seeking asylum.