Co-founder and Vice President of the Euro-Arab Forum (www.euroarab-forum.eu), Rouba Al-Fattal Eeckelaert has a PhD in Political Science from the university of Leuven (Belgium) and author of a book entitled European Union Foreign Policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (March 2010). Also, the writer of several analyses, Rouba published recently an analysis in the Métropolitain Chaos Theory for Political Order in the Arab World (June 2011).

Dr. Al-Fattal Eeckelaert lectured in a number of international events such as the international conference “Women’s Rights and Art: International Women’s Day and the 60 Year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (March 08) with her speech on Women and the non-discrimination principle (case of Saudi Women): Beyond the Veil. In April 2011, Rouba was a speaker at the Debate in Action Conference in Amsterdam with her keynote speech The Impact of the Arabic Revolution on European Policy.

About the Euro-Arab Forum:

The EAF’s vision is to establish a regular and sustainedexchange forum in Brussels on relations between Europe and the Arab World. EAF follows a multi-disciplinary approach that includes political, cultural, religious, sociological, psychological, economical and other perspectives of analysis.

The main target groups of EAF include professionals from diverse backgrounds dealing with the relations between Europe and the Arab World, proactive and engaged Europeans and Arabs who are open to new ideas and who have a professional or private interest in the topic.