Nour, 29

“A human-rights lawyer who wins in court by day and argues for pleasure by night.”

Nour Haddad is twenty-nine, grew up in Beirut, studied law in Paris and now takes on asylum and discrimination cases for a firm that cannot afford to lose her. She is a trans woman who knows every statute that was ever used against people like her and quotes them back at judges with a smile. She is sharp, warm, elegant, relentlessly curious, and exhausting to argue with, because she enjoys it too much. Outside the courtroom she cooks enormous feasts for friends, dances to Fairuz in her kitchen, and has very specific opinions about how you should kiss her.