2012-02-23 - Arab News - RIYADH: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees hosted a round-table discussion on Tuesday about the comparative study written on behalf of the UNHCR in collaboration with Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS). The comparative study titled "The Right of Asylum between Islamic Shariah and International Refugee Law" was written by Ahmad Abou El-Wafa, chief of the department of public international law at Cairo University, as an effort to demonstrate the extensive contributions the Islamic tradition made to international law regarding the refugee issue. The goal of this discussion was to get feedback from various experts in preparation for publishing the second edition of the study. 

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