Sarah Hunaidi, or Sara Hunaidi, (born 1995) is a Syrian writer and human rights activist. She is also a member of the Syrian Women Political Movement.[1]
Biography
editHunaidi was born in 1995 to a Syrian family in Suwaida Governorate, Syria. She was in 11th grade when the Syrian revolution began in 2011. At a young age, she became involved in anti-regime protests through social media as well as organized demonstrations held in Suwaida.[1] She was exiled from Syria in 2014 and she relocated to the United States.[2] She studied International Relations at DePaul University in Chicago.
Hunaidi is a contributor to publications such as Foreign Policy, the Independent, Buzzfeed, the BBC, Al Jazeera English, and NPR.[3] She is working on a biography of Samira Khalil, a Syrian activist who went missing in 2013.[4] Hunaidi is noted for translating her diaries written during the siege of Douma.[5]
Hunaidi was one of the leading voices of the Syrian community in the United States who supported the assassination of Qasem Soleimani amid the debate on its legality.[6] Her writing has been described as a determined narrative to tell the world about the Middle East and its experience of Soleimani's atrocities.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b SWPM. "Sara Hunaidi". The Syrian Women's Political Movement
- ^ Hunaidi, Sarah (February 22, 2024). "Sarah Hunaidi". Foreign Policy.
- ^ "Syrian Druze between revolution and Assad: MEMO in Conversation with Sarah Hunaidi". Middle East Monitor. August 30, 2023.
- ^ "The Role of Women in Syria's Future". Middle East Institute.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b Azizi, Arash (November 10, 2020). The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-78607-945-9