Rawan Osman (Arabic: روان عثمان, born 1983 or 1984) is a Syrian-born activist, now a refugee in Germany holding German citizenship.
[2] Osman grew up in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon,[3] though she returned to Syria after graduating high school.
[3] In 2011, at the onset of the Syrian civil war, she moved to Strasbourg, France, to learn skills to open a wine bar in Damascus.
[3] In 2022 and 2023, she was part of Sharaka's Arab delegation to the March of the Living, a Holocaust commemoration event in Poland.
[1][8] In the film Tragic Awakening: A New Look at the Oldest Hatred, she describes her reaction when she learned about Jewish history and realized she had been indoctrinated: "I was angry.