Actress, engineer, militant’s widow among Syria’s new women MPs

DAMASCUS: In Syria’s first post-Assad parliament, women lawmakers stand out more for their diversity than their numbers: a famous actress, a Christian engineer, a Kurdish leader and the widow of a hard-line Islamist commander. Women hold 22 of the 207 current seats in Syria’s parliament, or just over 10 percent, similar to the previous assembly under longtime ruler Bashar Assad, who was toppled by an Islamist alliance in 2024 after more than a decade of civil war. The parliament held its opening session in July, though some of its seats have yet to be filled.

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