Noura al-Ameer

Noura al-Ameer al-Jizawi^[1] is a Syrian anti-government activist and vice-president of the Syrian opposition.^[2] When she was 26, she was jailed for six months imprisoned in Damascus and Homs, released late in 2012.^[3]

Biography

In 2016, she and her husband, Bahr Abdul Razzak, were living in Gaziantep, Turkey. She received a suspicious email, and Razzak, a security expert, found evidence she had been hacked by the Iranian government.^[4]

She was able to study at the University of Toronto for a masters at the Munk School of Global Affairs through a Scholars-at-Risk scholarship.^[2]