Picture © ‘Hope’ Mayas Dirar

 Freedom Women Collective are artists Arafa Gouda, Nisreen Barazi, Gaida Dirar, Shuke Halake Aeroro and Faisa Omar, supported by fellow artists, activists and collaborators including Ethar Dirar, Mayas Dirar, Malak, Biftu and Sabrina. Based out of Hull (UK) the international collective are women who survived war, conflict and persecution, working with photographer and visual researcher Dr Lee Karen Stow and curator Prof Sarah Perks.