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02-10-2012
Soccer, Egypt, and SCAF-Sponsored Hooliganism
(Atlantic Council, Sahar Aziz & Khaled Beydoun) Across the world, soccer occupies a sacred space that stirs up feverish nationalism and ardent fidelity to a team. Team loyalties often mirror a nation’s social and political fault lines. Egypt’s February 2 soccer game-turned-massacre, th..
01-29-2012
Confronting Discrimination in the Post-9/11 Era: Challenges and Opportunities Ten Years Later
The Civil Rights Division and the George Washington University Law School co-sponsored a conference entitled “Confronting Discrimination in the Post-9/11 Era: Challenges and Opportunities Ten Years Later.”
..01-20-2012
The Importance of Muslim Women in Counterterrorism
(Huffington Post, Sahar Aziz) In December 2011, Janet Napolitano testified that lone wolf terrorists are America's primary domestic national security threat. Based on recent terror..
At the Law Office of Sahar Aziz, we strive to provide our clients with zealous and competent representation. Attention to detail, responsiveness, and a focus on client satisfaction define our firm's approach to practicing law. In each of our cases, we put our clients' best interests first to provide high quality legal services. Through our advocacy and demonstrated commitment to civil rights, we focus on protecting individual rights and the rule of law.
Our firm serves individuals seeking legal services in connection with immigration, employment, and civil rights matters. We also assist nonprofit organizations on various legal matters including registration for tax exempt status, developing and implementing good governance policies and practices, compliance with state and local laws, representation in matters before government agencies, and developing effective civil rights advocacy strategies.
In addition to these services, our lawyers have an expertise in handling discrimination issues that disparately impact Arab, South Asian, and Muslim communities in the United States. Such issues include racial and religious profiling, religious accommodation in the work place, backlogs in processing of citizenship applications, misidentifications on screening watch lists, and government infringements on religious freedoms. Our attorneys have trained attorneys at the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission religious accommodation law in connection with Muslim employees and the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division on the Religious Land Use and Inmate Protection Act in the context of nationwide anti-mosque campaigns; represented nonprofits before federal agencies in connection with allegations of systemic civil rights violations; presented and published papers about post-9/11 discrimination, and represented an Afghan female civil rights activist in securing asylum.