Razan Ghazzawi during a conference in Lebanon in 2008
Born
1980 (age 43–44)
Nationality
Syrian-Palestinian[1]
Alma mater
Damascus University, University of Balamand
Occupation(s)
Assistant Professor, teacher-activist; Media Officer; Blogger
Website
razanghazzawi.org
Dr. Razan Ghazzawi, (Arabic: رزان غزاوي; born 1980) is a Syrian-Palestinian blogger, campaigner, teacher, and activist, originally from Gaza in Palestine and Homs from Syria. Ghazzawi finished their PhD in Gender Studies and International Relations at the University of Sussex.[1] They currently work as a tenure-track assistant professor in Queer Studies at Oregon State University, USA, since September 2023. Ghazzawi has been highly involved as a dissident since they started blogging in 2005, and weaponized their blogging to disseminate information about Syrian regime human rights violations following the 2011 Syrian Uprising. Ghazzawi has been particularly outspoken on activists' arrests and the violations of human rights committed by the Bashar al-Assad government,[2][3] as well as on the sectarianism, Arab racism, and transphobia and homophobia towards Syrian ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities within Syrian cisgender and straight activist communityand opposition in diaspora and exile. Ghazzawi was called "iconic blogger and leading activist" by The Telegraph.[4] Jillian York (who has been called "one of the leading scholars on Internet control and censorship"[5]) wrote that Ghazzawi was "one of [their] heroes."[1]
^ abcYork, Jillian C (5 December 2011). "Why Syria's arrested blogger, Razan Ghazzawi, is one of my heroes". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
^Libre, Electron (6 December 2011). "Syrian blogger Razan Ghazzawi arrested". France24. Archived from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
^al Shaar, Omar (19 December 2011). "Syrian Authorities released Blogger Razan Ghazawi". Day Press. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
^"Syria 'arrests iconic blogger Razan Ghazzawi and leading activists'". The Telegraph, 16 Feb 2012.
^Town, Your (28 April 2011). "Blogger Seeks Out the World From Cambridge". The Boston Globe.
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