Oula Abdulhamid Alrifai (Arabic علا الرفاعي; born September 12, 1986) is a Syrian democracy youth activist, author, analyst, and political asylee, from Damascus, Syria currently (as of 2015) living in the United States due to death threats to her family in 2005 from Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Oula is a co-founder and executive director of SANAD Syria. She was featured with her family in The Washington Post newspaper on an account of their human rights activism and support for the Syrian Revolution in 2011. Alrifai is Ammar Abdulhamid's step-daughter. Alrifai with her parents (Ammar Abdulhamid and Khawla Yusuf) and her brother Mouhanad sought political asylum in Washington, DC, in 2005. She works as a researcher on the topic of Syria for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.