About the Speaker
Azza
Abo Rebieh
Syrian artist and activist
Azza Abo Rebieh is a Syrian artist born in Hama in 1980. During the Syrian Revolution, she created graffiti, led workshops with women, and organized puppet theater for children in rural villages. In 2015, she was detained by the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Following her release, her prison drawings were exhibited at the Drawing Center in New York. Her work explores memory, resistance, and survival and is held in collections including the British Museum and Institut du Monde Arabe.