Sarah Hunaidi

Sarah Hunaidi, or Sara Hunaidi, (born 1995) is a Syrian writer and human rights activist. She is a member of the Syrian Women Political Movement.

Biography Hunaidi was born in 1995 in Suwaida Governorate, Syria, to a Syrian father and a Lebanese mother. She was in the 11th grade at the start of the Syrian revolution in 2011. Her cousin, Sate’ Ihsan Hunaidi, who was killed by the Syrian army at a checkpoint in April 2011, was commemorated as the first martyr of the revolution in Suwaida. At a young age, she became involved in the uprising by writing anti-regime posts on Facebook, attending flash protests in her city, and helping other activists. She studied International Relations at DePaul University in Chicago, and holds a master's degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University.

Hunaidi is a contributor to publications such as Foreign Policy, the Independent, BuzzFeed, the BBC, Al Jazeera English, and NPR. She is working on a biography of Samira Khalil, a Syrian activist who went missing in 2013. Hunaidi is noted for translating her diaries written during the siege of Douma.