Oula A. Alrifai

Oula A. Alrifai
Born (1986-09-12) September 12, 1986
Residence United States
Nationality Syrian-American
Education

University of Maryland, College Park (BA)

Harvard University (MA)
Home town Damascus, Syria
Television The First Step
Website http://oulaalrifai.com/

Oula Alnashar Alrifai[1] (Arabic: علا الرفاعي‎; born September 12, 1986) is a Syrian democracy youth activist, author, analyst,[2] and political asylee, from Damascus, Syria currently (as of 2017) living in the United States due to death threats to her family in 2005 from Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.[3][4][5] Oula is a co-founder and executive director of SANAD Syria.[6] She was featured with her family in The Washington Post [7] 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.[8] She worked as a researcher on the topic of Syria for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.[9][10] 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.[11] Oula became a U.S. citizen in 2016.[12]

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.[13][14] 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). Alrifai is currently resuming her education by earning a Master's degree at Harvard University[15].

References

  1. ↑ "From Syria to the United States, MC Alumna Earns Full Scholarship to Maryland - Inside MC Online". insidemc.montgomerycollege.edu. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
  2. ↑ "Oula A. Alrifai - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
  3. ↑ "Oula A. Alrifai (@OulaAlrifai) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
  4. ↑ "The Lawfare Podcast, Episode #118: Oula Abdulhamid Alrifai on One Syrian's Story and One Country's Tragedy". Lawfare. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  5. ↑ "Not Alright With Syria's Alawites". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  6. ↑ "Our Team". Sanad. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  7. ↑ Bahrampour, Tara (2012-01-08). "Syrian Americans anxiously monitor uprising". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  8. ↑ Abdulhamid, Ammar. "The day I met Syria's Mr Big | Ammar Abdulhamid". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
  9. ↑ Reznick, Alisa (24 November 2014). "Syrian American Dissidents Scramble to Save Their Country". The Seattle Globalist. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  10. ↑ "Oula Abdulhamid Alrifai - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  11. ↑ "Oula A. Alrifai - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
  12. ↑ IOM USA (2015-12-16), A Decade After Leaving Syria, Oula Touches Her Home Keys Again, retrieved 2017-01-23
  13. ↑ "From Syria to the United States, MC Alumna Earns Full Scholarship to Maryland - Inside MC Online". insidemc.montgomerycollege.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  14. ↑ "About Oula". We broke the fear in Syria. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
  15. ↑ "Oula A. Alrifai". cmes.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
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