Oula A. Alrifai

Oula A. Alrifai
Oula A. Alrifai
Born (1986-09-12) September 12, 1986
Residence United States
Nationality Syrian
Alma mater University of Maryland, College Park
Home town Damascus, Syria
Television The First Step
Website http://oulaalrifai.com/

Oula Abdulhamid Alrifai (Arabic علا الرفاعي; born September 12, 1986) is a Syrian democracy youth activist, author, analyst,[1] and political asylee, from Damascus, Syria currently (as of 2015) living in the United States due to death threats to her family in 2005 from Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.[2][3][4] Oula is a co-founder and executive director of SANAD Syria.[5] She was featured with her family in The Washington Post [6] newspaper on an account of their human rights activism and support for the Syrian Revolution in 2011. Alrifai is Ammar Abdulhamid's step-daughter. Alrifai with her parents (Ammar Abdulhamid and Khawla Yusuf) and her brother Mouhanad sought political asylum in Washington, DC, in 2005.[7] She works as a researcher on the topic of Syria for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.[8][9] Alrifai has been published in the most prestigious American magazines including Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, The Hill and CTC Sentinel. Her research and policy analysis focus on Syria and the Middle East.[10]

Education

In December 2011 Alrifai received her B.A. from the University of Maryland in Government and Politics and Middle East studies, where she was awarded the full-tuition Academic Excellence Scholarship until her graduation.[11][12] Alrifai is a member of the National Political Science Honor Society (Pi Sigma Alpha) and a member of the International Honor Society (Phi Theta Kappa).

References

  1. ↑ "Oula A. Alrifai - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
  2. ↑ "Oula A. Alrifai (@OulaAlrifai) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
  3. ↑ "The Lawfare Podcast, Episode #118: Oula Abdulhamid Alrifai on One Syrian's Story and One Country's Tragedy". Lawfare. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  4. ↑ "Not Alright With Syria's Alawites". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  5. ↑ "Our Team". Sanad. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  6. ↑ Bahrampour, Tara (2012-01-08). "Syrian Americans anxiously monitor uprising". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  7. ↑ Abdulhamid, Ammar. "The day I met Syria's Mr Big | Ammar Abdulhamid". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  8. ↑ Reznick, Alisa (24 November 2014). "Syrian American Dissidents Scramble to Save Their Country". The Seattle Globalist. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "Oula Abdulhamid Alrifai - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  10. ↑ "Oula A. Alrifai - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
  11. ↑ "From Syria to the United States, MC Alumna Earns Full Scholarship to Maryland - Inside MC Online". insidemc.montgomerycollege.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  12. ↑ "About Oula". We broke the fear in Syria. Retrieved 2015-11-24.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/27/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.