Recent News

• 2020-11-01 Nophotozone 2020 overview of our activities
• 2019-03-19 PRESS RELEASE: Nophotozone Seeks the Fate of People Forcibly Disappeared in Syria
• 2018-03-19 Translated Bassel Khartabil Website into Arabic.
• 2018-02-08 Translated Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship & Memorial Fund Announcement by Creative Commons, into Arabic.
• 2016-05-21 Released poetry book, Waiting…

About Noura Ghazi

Hi, I’m Noura. I’m an International Human Rights Lawyer.

I’m the Executive Director of Nophotozone, a non-governmental organisation that seeks to promote legal awareness, human rights and knowledge, related to cases of detention and enforced disappearances.

I have professional legal licenses as Solicitor under training (2004), Bar of Damascus (2004), Lawyer (2006), and Professional trainer for children and women rights, certified by Amman center for human rights studies (2007).

In 2016, I wrote a poetry book called Waiting….

I have a Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noura_Ghazi

Facts

• Full name: Noura Ghazi (Safadi)
• Born 1981, Damascus, Syria.
• Lives and Works, Instanbul, Turkey.
• Wrote book Waiting…

Bio

Noura Ghazi is an International Human Rights lawyer. She has helped over 1,000 detainees and their families in Syria. She is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Nophotozone, the global NGO providing legal assistance, empowerment, and advocacy for detainees and their families and families of those forcibly disappeared in Syria. In 2015, she wrote a poetry book “Waiting…” to her husband Bassel Khartabil, famed technology innovator and nonviolent activist, while he was detained. In late 2015, Bassel was disappeared in Syria. In August 2017, Noura discovered evidence that Bassel had been executed shortly after his forced disappearance. In 2017 and 2018, Ghazi spoke Internationally about Human Rights at the United Nations and European Union regularly. Noura’s work has been covered by the BBC, Financial Times, NPR, NBC, The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Le Monde, and Al Jazeera. In 2018 Ghazi was named by Amnesty International as one of the “8 kick-ass women standing up for our rights.” She studied law at Damascus University. Noura is currently finishing a diploma in Arabic-English translation at Beirut Arab University and is doing a Master’s in conflict management and nonviolent mediation at Academic University of Nonviolence and Human Rights. She is from Damascus, Syria. She lives and works in Instabul, Turkey.