Hiba al Haji sits with her mother in a cafe on the outskirts of Antakya, close to Turkey's border with Syria. Hiba distributes humanitarian aid and school supplies to displaced Syrians within Syria and the camp for IDPs in Atmeh. Bradley Secker
Role Of Syrian Women Evolves As War Rages On -- Washington Post
ANTAKYA, Turkey — Hiba Alhaji’s flight from Syria was sparked when she was summoned for interrogation after she encouraged her university students to join protests against the government. Her inquisitors never realized that the trunk of her car parked outside was full of guns she was running for the rebels.
Afraid it was just a matter of time before she was found out, Alhaji says, she left Aleppo the next day for Turkey, where she founded the Free Syrian Women Organization. She now channels her revolutionary spirit into distributing food and medicine to refugees, and counseling women who were raped before they, too, fled the civil war in their homeland.
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My Comment: Their numbers may be small in the rebel movement, but I expect that as more men get killed in this bloody civil war .... more women will start assume positions of political leadership and power.
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