Zeina Nassar

Zeina Nassar is a German professional boxer of Lebanese descent. She is the current Berlin Boxer title-holder and in 2018 she won the German Women's Elite Championship in the ‘up to 57 kg’ weight category. Nassar helped to change the current rules for boxing matches in Germany so that women with headscarves can compete. She became an official Nike Athlete in 2017. She first became interested in boxing at 13 after coming across a YouTube video of female boxers. She won her first title in 2014, becoming the Berlin boxing champion. She is the current the title-holder and has held the title five times in a row. In 2018, she became the first Muslim woman ever to win the German Women's Elite Championship in the ‘up to 57 kg’ weight category. Nassar hopes in the future that she will be able to change the competition rules internationally and at the Olympics.

Nassar had a role in the play ‘Stören’ at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.