Mou'mina Arbo

The Honourable
Mou'mina Arbo
مؤمنة عربو
Member of the People's Assembly
for Hama
Assumed office
5 October 2025
Personal details
CitizenshipSyria
EducationBachelor Degree in Law from University of Aleppo

Bachelor Degree in Political Science and IR from Mardin Artuklu University

Master's Degree from the University of Lancashire

Mou'mina Abdul Ghani Arbo (born 1982), formerly known by her nom de guerre Nour Khatib and also known as Nour Arbo, was selected as a member of the People's Assembly of Syria with the highest number of votes by the local electoral committee in Hama.[1][2][3] She is a human rights activist and director of the Documentation Department at the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR).[4][5][6][7]

Born in Hama, Arbo joined the rebellion against the Ba'ath regime during the Syrian revolution in 2011, which led to her detention for a year. She then moved to northern Syria, where she worked with the Salvation Government, before moving to Turkey and later the United Kingdom.[3][6]

Arbo holds a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Aleppo, which she studied in areas controlled by the Syrian Salvation Government. She also holds a bachelor's degree in political sciences and international relations from Mardin Artuklu University in Turkey and a master's degree from the University of Lancashire in United Kingdom.[6]

During the March 2025 violence in Syria's coastal region, Arbo, using the name Nour al-Khatib, provided preliminary casualty figures on behalf of the SNHR.[8] Also in 2025, Arbo spoke publicly about the difficulties of determining the fate of people who remained missing after the fall of the Assad government, citing SNHR's documentation of deaths, executions and missing persons.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "اللجنة العليا لانتخابات مجلس الشعب: قرار رقم 79 لعام 2025 النتائج النهائية لانتخاب أعضاء مجلس الشعب". الذاكرة السورية (in Arabic). Retrieved 2026-08-15.
  2. ↑ "مؤمنة عربو تحصد أعلى الأصوات في انتخابات مجلس الشعب بحماه - Alwehda Website". alwehda-news.sy (in Arabic). 2025-10-06. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
  3. 1 2 "صحيفة الثورة | من ميدان الثورة إلى ميدان البناء.. مؤمنة عربو الفائزة الأولى بانتخابات حماة". موقع نبض. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
  4. ↑ "Syrians Fleeing Lebanon Risk Repression Upon Return | Human Rights Watch". 2024-10-30. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
  5. ↑ Nelson, Mateo (2024-12-09). "Cells, interrogation rooms, inscriptions: The need to protect evidence in Assad's prisons". Syria Direct. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
  6. 1 2 3 "مؤمنة عبد الغني عربو - نور الخطيب". الذاكرة السورية (in Arabic). Retrieved 2026-08-13.
  7. ↑ "نور عبد الغني عربو (نور الخطيب)". Syria Direct (in Arabic). Retrieved 2026-08-13.
  8. ↑ "The need to protect evidence in Assad's prisons". Syria Direct. 8 March 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
  9. ↑ "Investigation documents the killing of more than 10,000 detainees in Assad's prisons". Enab Baladi. 2025. Retrieved 20 August 2026.