Sarah Hunaidi, or Sara Hunaidi, (born 1995) is a

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writer and human rights activist. She is a member of the Syrian Women Political Movement.SWPM. "Sara Hunaidi". The Syrian Women's Political Movement

Biography

Hunaidi was born in 1995 in

Suwaida Suwayda (), also spelled Sweida, is a mainly Druze city located in southern Syria, close to the border with Jordan. It is the capital of Suwayda Governorate, one of Syria's 14 governorates, bordering Jordan in the South, Daraa Governorate in ...

Governorate, Syria, to a Syrian father and a Lebanese mother. She was in the 11th grade at the start of the

Syrian revolution The Syrian revolution, also known as the Syrian Revolution of Dignity, was a series of mass protests and civilian uprisings throughout Syria – with a subsequent violent reaction by the Ba'athist regime – lasting from 15 March 2011 to 8 De ...

in 2011. Her cousin, Sate’ Ihsan Hunaidi, who was killed by the Syrian army at a checkpoint in April 2011, was commemorated as the first martyr of the revolution in Suwaida. At a young age, she became involved in the uprising by writing anti-regime posts on Facebook, attending flash protests in her city, and helping other activists. In 2014, at the age of seventeen, Hunaidi was forced into exile from Syria due to threats to her life for her opposition to the Syrian regime. She has since lived in Lebanon, Turkey, and the United States, where she currently resides. She studied International Relations at DePaul University in Chicago, and holds a Master's degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Hunaidi is a contributor to publications such as ''

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Samira Khalil Samira Khalil () is a Syrian dissident, former political detainee and a revolutionary activist from the Homs region of Syria. Khalil is currently missing after being abducted in Douma on December 9, 2013, along with fellow activists Razan Zaitou ...

, a Syrian activist who went missing in 2013. Hunaidi is noted for translating her diaries written during the siege of Douma."Commemorating Four Disappeared Syrian Human Rights Activists – Oxford Syria Society Event With Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, Lubna Al-Kanawati and Sarah Hunaidi , DPIR". www.politics.ox.ac.uk.

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