Nazila Ghanea teaches international human rights law at the University of Oxford. She has published a number of books and articles on human rights in the Middle East, freedom of religion or belief and minority rights. She serves on the OSCE Advisory Panel on freedom of religion or belief and has been invited as an expert to numerous UN fora. She currently has a co-authored monograph under contract with Oxford University Press on freedom of religion or belief. This post is written in her personal capacity.