Leila al-Shami

1978

Leila al-Shami (Arabic: ليلى الشامي) is a British-Syrian human rights defender, anarchist political activist, blogger and writer. She was a member of Haitham al-Maleh's Human Rights Association in Syria (HRAS) during the Damascus Spring in 2001, co-founded the Tahrir International Collective Network during the Arab Spring in 2012, and co-authored *Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War* with Robin Yassin-Kassab in 2016.