Rania Muhareb, PhD, LLM

Rania Muhareb is the 2025 Palestine Health and Human Rights Postdoctoral Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the right to health in Palestine in the context of apartheid, settler colonialism, and genocide. She recently completed her PhD at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the School of Law at the University of Galway (2020-2024), funded by the Irish Research Council and Hardiman PhD scholarship, examining the mobilisation of the apartheid framework by grassroots organisers and human rights organisations in the pursuit of international justice and accountability in Palestine. Prior to this, Rania worked as a legal researcher and advocacy officer with the leading Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq (2017-2020).

Rania is a policy member of Al-Shabaka – the Palestinian Policy Network, a member of Al-Shabaka’s editorial committee, and has a decade of experience in human rights, legal research, and advocacy in Palestine. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (2016) from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and a BA from Sciences Po Paris’s Middle East and Mediterranean campus in Menton (2014). She has authored and co-authored numerous articles, including in the Health and Human Rights Journal, Institute for Palestine Studies, Statelessness and Citizenship Review, República y Derecho, Middle East Policy, The Lancet, and BMJ in addition to legal blogs and media articles. She has presented her research at academic conferences, workshops, seminars, and in guest lectures mainly focusing on apartheid and international law in Palestine.