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24 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 407 (2008-2009)
International Law, Secularism, and the Islamic World

handle is hein.journals/amuilr24 and id is 413 raw text is: ARTICLES INTERNATIONAL LAW, SECULARISM, AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD ADRIEN KATHERINE WING* IN TR O D U CTIO N ........................................................................... 407 I. GLOBAL CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM .................................. 409 II. FUNDAMENTALISM IN THE MUSLIM/ARAB WORLD .... 414 III. A WESTERN EXAMPLE: FRANCE ....................................... 418 IV. THREE EXAMPLES FROM THE MUSLIM/ARAB W O R L D ..................................................................................... 420 A . T U RK EY ................................................................................. 420 B . T UN ISIA .................................................................................. 422 C . PA LESTIN E ............................................................................. 424 V . P R A X IS ...................................................................................... 425 C O N C LU SIO N ............................................................................... 427 INTRODUCTION After September 11, 2001, many Americans became vitally interested in the Middle East. 1 In this Age of the War against Terror, * Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University of Iowa College of Law. J.D., Stanford Law School, 1982; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1979; A.B., Princeton University, 1978. Dean Wing delivered the first annual ILSP international law lecture at American University Law School on October 4, 2007. The author was a consultant specialist for the United States Department of State in 2001 and assisted the Rwandan Constitutional Commission in developing a post-genocide constitution. She was an independent contractor, hired by the State University of New York at Albany, who assisted the Palestinian Legislative Count draft a constitution for an autonomous Palestine during 1996. She was also an advisor to the African National Congress (South Africa) Constitutional Committee from 1991 to 1994. Many thanks to research assistants Saba Baig, Kevin Dawson, Ataftna Essama, Meredith Friedman, Elizabeth He, Cynthia Lockett, and Peter Nadimi. 1. Cf. J. H. Crawford, The Terrorist Attacks of ]] September 2001, Sept. 26, 407