Oula Alnashar Alrifai[1] (Arabic: علا الرفاعي; born September 12, 1986) is a Syrian emigrant to the United States and writer for various Washington-based think tanks.
[2] She was featured with her family in The Washington Post [3] newspaper on an account of their activism and support for rebels in the Syrian civil war.
[6][7] Alrifai has written for prestigious American magazines including Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post,[8] CNN[9] The National Interest, The Hill, and CTC Sentinel.
from the University of Maryland, College Park in Government and Politics and Middle East studies, where she was awarded the full-tuition Academic Excellence Scholarship until her graduation.
[16] Her thesis, The Self-Flagellation of a Nation: Assad, Iran, and Regime Survival in Syria, focuses on the development of the Iranian-Syrian relationship in the 1970s and 1980s through the lens of religio-political dynamics.