Samira Khalil, dissident Ulfat Idilbi, best-selling Arabic-language novelist. Assala Nasri is a musical artist Rasha Omran, poet Bouthaina Shaaban, Bashar al-Assad's political adviser and previous Minister of Expatriates Muna Wassef, theater, television, and film actress. Hediya Yousef is an ex-guerilla and co-chairwoman of the executive committee of the Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava.