Sima Abd Rabo

[3] After the beginning of the Arab Spring and the eruption of protests and violent crackdowns in Syria that resulted in a civil war, Sima Abd Rabo, who was based in the UAE at that time, joined the networks of the Syrian opposition and started working with several international institutions on supporting local communities.

[9] In 2014 she co-sponsored an open letter of condemnation against Norwegian filmmaker Lars Klevberg for presenting fictional film clips about children in the Syrian war as authentic footage.

[10] The production funded by the Norwegian Film Institute was severely criticised by journalists and film-makers covering military conflict in the Middle East and investigated by the open-source intelligence network Bellingcat.

The initiative has secretly negotiated a Code of Conduct for Syrian Co-Existence between social leaders in government-controlled Syria and the Diaspora and had elected Sima Abd Rabo as a spokesperson.

[15] Together with several Muslim interfaith dialogue representatives, Sima Abd Rabo co-signed a declaration of solidarity against xenophobia, antisemitism, and for international remembrance of the Holocaust in 2020.