🎗Fadwa Suleiman🎗 was an actress from Syria’s Alawite community, and a prominent voice for the Revolution. She was known for her work in radio, theatre and TV shows. When the uprising began, she used her position to speak out against the Assad regime and cross sectarian divides 
Despite being from the same community as al-Assad, she said that she does not belong to any religious group but to the Syrian people, and outlined the regime’s responsibility in dragging the revolution into sectarianism & militarization, by choosing a brutal military solution
She was visible at protests calling for the downfall of the regime and shared a platform in Homs with football star turned revolutionary Abdelbasset Sarout ✊🏼. She also produced many video messages encouraging peaceful struggle against the regime.
She said “I just wanted to go just to say we Syrians are one people [...] to contradict the narrative of the regime and show people that there is no sectarianism in Syria. I wanted it to stop its lie that those who protest are armed groups, foreign agents or radical Islamists.”
Due to fear of arrest, she cut her hair short and moved from house to house to evade capture. She finally fled Syria in 2012 but remained active in causes related to the Revolution. She died of cancer in exile in Paris in August 2017. She was 47 years old. #100faces #9yearsstrong
Find her story, and others on the blog …esofthesyrianrevolution.wordpress.com/2020/03/21/fad…
