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