Kefah Ali Deeb (Arabic: كفاح علي ديب; born 1982 in Latakia, Syria) is a Syrian human rights activist, artist and writer.
[1] After having taken part in protests against human rights violations in the context of the Arab Spring in Syria, she was arrested four times and finally fled to Germany in 2014.
In addition, her delegation demanded that the Syrian authorities as well as the opposition allow the unhindered access of humanitarian and medical aid to all areas, under the supervision of an independent international commission.
[6][7] From 2016 to 2019, Ali Deeb also wrote a series for the daily newspaper die tageszeitung about negative stereotypes towards migrants and her own difficulties in finding accommodation and learning the German language.
[1] In 2016, she exhibited her paintings and graphic art at the Institut français in Bonn, Germany, along fellow Syrian artists Darin Ahmad, Fouad El-Auwad, Akram Hamza and Adnan Sharbaji.
These works included a painting of an empty chair, created while she was still living in Syria, and represented her artistic vision of Syrian victims and refugees.