Sarah Hunaidi
@SaraHunaidi
Exiled Syrian Writer, Human Rights Advocate, Feminist, Translator, Person | 🎓 @Harvard |✍🏼: @NYTimes @ForeignPolicy @Independent +|. She/Her/Hers 🌈
I wrote about memory, our past, and future for the @nytopinion nytimes.com/2025/04/13/opi…
"While most Syrians lived in fear of speaking the truth, some resisted and documented the crimes of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad as they happened. Among them was Samira Al-Khalil." If you don't know Samira, read her powerful story here 👇🏼 nytimes.com/2025/04/13/opi…
As long as the regime was in power, Syrians lived in a story the regime told and controlled. But as anti-Assad forces entered Damascus in December, the regime finally collapsed, and the oppressive silence began to lift.
I wrote about memory, our past, and future for the @nytopinion nytimes.com/2025/04/13/opi…
A haunting but beautiful account of silences that we may, now, begin to hear. From @SaraHunaidi on the writings of Samira al-Khalil nytimes.com/2025/04/13/opi…
What a great article by @SaraHunaidi about painful memories & being free finally to speak about them. 💔❤️ #Douma4 #Syria
I wrote about memory, our past, and future for the @nytopinion nytimes.com/2025/04/13/opi…
‘The immense weight of carrying our collective memory lies on shoulders of those of us who are able to speak now. With the regime toppled, #Syrians face daunting task of writing our own history. Memory is our weapon against erasure’ @SaraHunaidi nytimes.com/2025/04/13/opi…
Syrian Druze writer-in-exile @sarahunaidi has a message to Israel, who says it is bombing Syria to protect the Druze community: “Stay out of it.”
Isr**l MUST stop bombing Syria. All it does is fuel sectarian rage against the Druze—who it claims to care about. As a Druze, I say: no thanks. A gen*cidal state won’t protect us. Get the hell out of our sky.
Make no mistake—this is Assad’s remnant hate. But the interim gov’t is also failing: no real power-sharing, no political dialogue, no accountability for its crimes on the coast. It’s losing people’s trust, one day at a time.
After Assad’s fall, I stopped writing in English. I turned to my people—in Arabic—to build together, to speak with each other. But some still crave blood, not words. Today, my people in Sweida are being killed in cold blood.
Why are some key Tehran allies staying out of the Israel-Iran conflict? @sewella apnews.com/article/iran-h…
أشرفية صحنايا: الانتهاكات مستمرة! شهدت مدينة أشرفية صحنايا خلال الثمانية وأربعين ساعة الماضية عدة انتهاكات تمثلت في عمليات اعتقال وخطف طالت عدة مواطنين، كان من بينهم عضو في اللجنة الأمنية التي تشكّلت في أعقاب الأحداث الأخيرة التي شهدتها المدينة نهاية نيسان الفائت. وأفادت…
Excited about this. Join us on Tuesday!
Join @SaraHunaidi, @nadimhoury, Jelnar Ahmad& myself for a timely discussion on the recent surge in sectarian violence in Syria. We’ll explore the underlying dynamics & the broader implications these developments may have for Syria’s future @ArabReform_ARI arab-reform.net/event/what-ris…
It's about time <3
Following Trump's decision to lift sanctions, Syrian public and private banks were issued SWIFT codes in preparation for their entry into the global SWIFT system.
Do I miss Twitter? no... I mean X. Ahhh but hey, the sanctions are lifted :) It's been a good couple of days.
سياسة ١٠١: ليش الدستور مهم؟ وكيف فينا نغيره؟ youtu.be/QRlQAlcRNSw?si…
I have just spent a week in Damascus, my second trip since the fall of the regime, and I thought I would share a few comments which may be useful to understand the situation there, particularly in the wake of the killings in the coastal area. I was there from March 12 to 19.