Kefah Ali Deeb | |
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كفاح علي ديب | |
Born | 1982 (age 42–43) Latakia, Syria |
Alma mater | Damascus University |
Occupation(s) | Writer, visual artist, museum guide |
Years active | 2012–present |
Known for | Human rights activism, Multaka museum guide |
Awards | Sharjah Arab Creativity Award 2012 |
Website | kefahalideeb |
Kefah Ali Deeb (Arabic: كفاح علي ديب; born 1982 in Latakia, Syria) is a Syrian human rights activist, artist and writer. She left Syria after persecution during the Syrian war and has lived in exile in Berlin, Germany, since 2014. After the fall of the Assad regime, she declared in a January 2025 interview that she wants to return to Syria in order to take part in the country's future.
In Germany, Ali Deeb has been interviewed and published her own opinion columns about the life of migrants in newsmedia and online projects. Since 2015, she was active as a museum guide for the Multaka project, an initiative of Berlin museums to convey art historical contexts to Arabic-speaking visitors. As writer and translator she has also published several books for children in Arabic.