Alice Kandaleft Cosma (Arabic: أليس قندلفت كوزما; c. 1895 - c. 1965) was a Syrian diplomat and women's rights activist.

[4] She then moved to New York City where she earned a Masters of Arts in Educational Psychology and School Administration from the Teachers College, Columbia University around 1921 or 1922.

Prior to her appointment as a representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Kandaleft Cosma taught at various girls' schools in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria through the 1920s and 1930s.

[7] In 1922, whilst in the United States, Kandaleft Cosma attended the International Congress of Women in Chicago, where she denounced imperialism in the form of the mandate system.

[13] Tasked with conducting socio-political examinations of Palestine following World War II, Kandelaft Cosma is noted to have been the only woman who testified before the Anglo-American Committee.

Listed as a high ranking woman in the field of education within Baghdad,[17] Kandaleft Cosma was nominated by the Syrian government to go to the United Nations in order to vouch for women's rights and protections in Syria, making her both the first Syrian representative in the CSW (Commission on the Status of Women) and the first Arab woman to represent Syria at the United Nations.

[14] As the Syrian government's first female representative to the United Nations, one of her responsibilities was to counter international stereotypes which surrounded the status of women in Syria and its neighboring states.

She further expressed her preference of using the original version of the wording (Commission on the Status on the Political Civil, and Economic Rights of Women) rather than its present name to no avail.

[22] In 1933, Kandaleft Cosma wrote an article that challenged imperialism and colonialism,[23] which was a continuation of a speech she had delivered known as, “The World as It Is and as It Could Be”, while representing Syria at the meetings of the International Congress of Women in Chicago during the same year.

[24] These reflections, “The World as It Is and as It Could Be - Continued”, were included in a column by Rebecca Stiles Taylor (an American journalist who was writing for the Chicago Defender at the time).

[25] Notable Syrian writers and politicians met here, including Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Omar Abu Risha, Michel Aflaq, Fakhri al-Baroudi, and Muhammad Sulayman al-Ahmad.