Suheir al-Atassi (سهير الأتاسي
Suhair al-ʾAtāsī; born 1971) is the leading female
secular activist in the
Syrian opposition, and since November 2012 co-vice-president of the
opposition government. She has been called the "Lady of the Revolution" and is widely respected in secular and intellectual circles within the Syrian opposition structure. She had previously run the media wing of the banned
Jamal Atassi Forum, which was named after her father, a founding member of the
Ba'ath Party who later left and founded the
Democratic Arab Socialist Union.