Abdelkader, Engy
Engy Abdelkader, Esq. is an attorney based in the New York/New Jersey area who is working on
a number of notable human rights cases involving clients from all over the world. She has an
extensive record of public speaking on Islam as well as civil liberties, Arab-American and Muslim
issues at law schools, universities and community forums. As a Civil Rights Attorney and the
national director of Civil Rights at the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington, D.C.,
she provided information, advice and legal representation to American Muslims throughout the
United States who had suffered discrimination in employment or educational opportunities, at
airports or on airplanes, by local, state and/or federal law enforcement officials, as well as to
victims of hate crimes. Miss Abdelkader has also worked with the American Civil Liberties Union,
the Arab-American Justice Project run by the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee in New
York, and the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she provided research on the case of Maher
Arar. She presently serves on AMAL’s Board of Directors.