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On April 11, 2015, Brennan married Yado Yakub, a Syrian-American [60] attorney who is a judge advocate in the United States Marine Corps. [61] [62] [63] During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 30, 2018, Brennan announced she was pregnant with their first child, a boy who was born on September 11, 2018. [64]
The Women's Affairs Office (Arabic: مكتب شؤون المرأة) is a department of the Government of Syria. It was created on 22 December 2024 by the Syrian transitional government in the aftermath of the fall of the Assad regime [ 1 ] as part of broader efforts to include Syrian women in political and social leadership.
According to the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), which represents American health care providers of Syrian descent, there are estimated 4000 Syrian physicians practicing in the United States representing 0.4% of the health workforce and 1.6% of international medical graduates. [56]
Six children and three women from the ethnic and religious Yazidi group were kept imprisoned by the woman for months in 2015, the Stockholm District Court said in a statement. The woman was not ...
Rights groups have reported mass executions in Syria's prisons, and the United States said in 2017 it had identified a new crematorium at Sednaya for hanged prisoners. Torture was widely documented.
Women in Syria are active participants in social, economic and political factions of Syrian society. They constitute 49.9% of Syria's population. According to World Bank data from 2021, there are around 10.6 million women in Syria. [6] However, Syrian women and girls still experience challenges, especially since the outbreak of the civil war in ...
Aisha al-Dibs (Arabic: عائشة الدبس) is a Syrian civil society activist and the head of the Women's Affairs Office in the Political Affairs Administration of Syria's transitional government. She became the first woman to hold an official position in the new Syrian administration that was formed after the fall of the Assad regime. [3]
While Syrians/Syro-Lebanese immigrants settled across the United States, New York City became the central hub of the Syrian diaspora in America. The heart of New York City's "Syrian Colony" was Little Syria in downtown Manhattan. By the early 1900s, Syrians from Little Syria began to settle in Brooklyn. [2]