Afra jalebi biography
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The lens of Islamophobia is a thick one these days, says Syrian writer Afra Jalabri, who calls injustices and serious human rights violations unnecessary.
Afra Jalabi is a Montreal-based Syrian writer.
She serves on the Executive Committee of The Day After project, an international working group of Syrians representing a large spectrum of the country’s opposition engaged in an independent transition planning process, and she was a signatory to the Damascus Declaration, an umbrella group that aimed to improve human rights and create gradual change in Syria.
She is a contributor to the book The Syria Dilemma, edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel (MIT Press).
In issue #11 of the quarterly magazine Critical Muslim, she wrote about her January 2014 visit to liberated areas in Syria:
It seemed people were walking normally everywhere in all the towns we passed, or sitting in front of their porches, but mostly in sombre silence.
The houses we visited were so orderly, with sp