Biography

Ammar graduated from the Faculty of Law at Damascus University 2003, and has continued his studies in Egypt, where he obtained a master's degree in public law in 2006. He obtained a PhD of international criminal law from Cairo University in 2011 and completed a PhD, entitled “International Cooperation to Combat Terrorism Crimes”.

Until 2014, Ammar worked as a lecturer at faculty of law of Damascus University, and the Syrian Virtual University.  He was also a lawyer in the Syrian Bar Association.

As a result of the worsening violence because of the war in Syria, Ammar has moved to London. He currently works at a human rights and refugee organization and is interested in furthering his research on international criminal law, terrorism and international responses to war crimes in Syria.

Areas of Interest

• International criminal justice
• Criminal Law
• Counter terrorism
• International cooperation to combat crimes
• Human rights (HR) protection; refugee issues
• Accountability  and reconciliation / post-conflict.

Teaching

2011-2014   Damascus University, Syria – Lecturer, Faculty of Law. Tutor of Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code, Crimes against people and money, and Crimes against security of the state.

2011-2014    Syria Virtual University – Lecturer, Faculty of Law. Tutor of Penal Code, Tutor of Crimes against people and money subject, and drugs law.            

Current   Arabic Academy in Denmark – online programme. Lecturer in Criminal Law.

Publications

• Blog titled: ‘In the midst of political bargaining, migrants are the biggest losers’.
• Published by Middle East Centre of LSE, London   2016
• Working paper on international efforts to combat money-laundering crimes, submitted to scientific seminar on anti-money laundering crimes. Organized by London Centre for Studies and Research, London, 13th-14th July 2014
• Research titled: Criminal Investigation by video conference technology, published at the Journal of the University of Damascus "Economic and legal sciences”, Fourth Issue of 2013
• Research titled:  Implementation of foreign criminal judgments, comparative research, published at Journal of the Syrian Bar Association, No. 14 of 2011