Meet the team

Dr Yasmine Nahlawi (PhD Public International Law, Newcastle University) is Director of Dar Justice and an international law specialist with a focus on international legal mechanisms and processes pertaining to the Syrian conflict. She has consulted and led on Syria-related international accountability initiatives including with Adalaty and the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project and has delivered trainings and guest lectures to NGOs and universities across the world. Yasmine has published widely on Syria, including her book ‘The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria: Mass Atrocities, Human Protection, and International Law’ (Routledge 2020).

Sema Nassar is a human rights defender with a focus on detainees and forcibly disappeared persons. Since the early stages of the Syrian conflict, she worked on documenting human rights violations and sexual violence in detention centers. Sema contributed to numerous reports and policy papers on documentation, gender-sensitive accountability, and legislation concerning missing persons, including work with the Conflict and Civicness Research Group at LSE IDEAS. She is a co-founder of multiple initiatives, such as the ‘We’ Network for WHRD in the MENA region and Urnammu for Justice and Human Rights. Sema continues to share her expertise with civic actors and support feminist initiatives in the diaspora, and serves as an investigator with Dar Justice and as a research consultant at the LSE Middle East Centre.

Muzna Alnaib is a Syrian activist, investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. Her work focuses on human rights and the protection of civilians in Syria and the wider Middle East. She serves as an investigator with Dar Justice. Additionally, she is a co-editor of Syir Notes and a Partner in Superpower Partners, a non-profit creative partnership based in London. She has worked as a consultant with various media organisations such as Al-Jazeera English and the BBC among others.

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Mahmoud Bwedany is a Syrian activist from Syria’s eastern Ghouta who has been working in media and advocacy in the Syrian context since late 2017.  He is Dar Justice’s Communications Coordinator, as well as a board member and volunteer with the Do Not Suffocate the Truth campaign which addresses the use of chemical weapons in Syria.