{
  "id": 246947,
  "title": "Actress, engineer, jihadist's widow among Syria's new women MPs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/actress-engineer-jihadists-widow-among-syrias-new-women-mps",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-07T02:30:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Al-Monitor",
    "slug": "al-monitor",
    "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/08/actress-engineer-jihadists-widow-among-syrias-new-women-mps"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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 hardline 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 al-Assad, who was toppled by an…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}