Rasha Mubarak
Rasha Mubarak is Central Florida Regional Director at Florida Young Democrats. Lives in Orlando, Florida. From Brooklyn, New York.
Education
- Studied Molecular Biology and Microbiology at University of Central Florida
Activism
- Co-founder at Floridians Responding to Refugees
- President at PCRF - Orlando
- Board of Directors at Muslim Women's Organization
- Co-founder at Arab Fest
- Former President at Young Democrats of Orange County
- Former Central Florida Regional Director at CAIR - Florida
- Former Director of Development & Programs at Arab American Community Center
- Former Volunteer at Palestinian Medical Relief Society
Orlando IWD event
On March 8 2025, the Orlando district of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization held a spoken word and trivia fundraiser to commemorate International Women’s Day and gather the Orlando community in the face of recent attacks on women. The slogans raised at the event were “Defend Women’s and Reproductive Rights,” “Stand with the Women of Palestine” and “Stop the Deportations! Keep Families Together.”
Cassia Laham, member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Orlando, kicked off the event by explaining the history of International Women’s Day and the current situation of women stating, “Today, women of all sectors of society face renewed attacks by the forces of reaction, with Trump and his cabinet full of abusers and women-haters leading the charge against our rights.” She continued, “Just as we fought before, we will fight again!”
Other speakers focused on varied topics. Rasha Mubarak of Florida Palestine Network spoke of the struggle of Palestinian women, and two teenage organizers with the Farmworkers Association of Florida discussed the impact of deportations on their community. Chants of “When immigrant rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!” rang throughout the building.
Vanessa Christaldi of the Students for a Democratic Society at UCF read a poem focused on the ownership of one’s body and the inspiration of women resistance fighters. “What is the right way to have a body? And more importantly, what is the right way to assert that I am more than that?” She ended her poem with an acknowledgment that all of the rights women have today, both domestically and internationally are won through struggle, not simply given.
The co-sponsoring organizations were the Florida Palestine Network, the Students for a Democratic Society at UCF, The End to Genocide Coalition, The Farmworkers Association of Florida, and the Palestinian Feminist Collective.[1]
'Ceasefire Now'
Rasha Mubarak, Beth Miller, Camille Landry, Sherene Seikaly.
Frost betraying the cause?
Rasha Mubarak August 22, 2022.
As someone who helped build out Maxwell Frost’s campaign: connect him with local/national orgs/stakeholders — my only ask of him was that he stay right on Palestine. The Florida Palestine Network powered his camp, when no one else would, let alone even believe in him. We did. In return, he violated his commitments to center the most vulnerable communities.
Regardless of Election Day results it is clear that he does not stand for human rights & is boldly anti Palestinian.
Florida Palestine Network
Orlando, FL – On October 14, 23 nearly 1000 people gathered at Lake Eola to demand an end to the violent occupation of Palestine and urge U.S. representatives to end U.S. aid to Israel.
“The solution is easy: end the occupation of 75 years,” said Rasha Mubarak, an organizer with the Florida Palestine Network (FPN). FPN organized the rally amid increased attacks on Gaza from the Israeli occupation forces, with a Palestinian death toll numbering nearly 3000 men, women and children.
The rally began at the Lake Eola amphitheater with speeches given by Palestinian and other community activists. They echoed stories of their families trapped in Gaza, Palestine, and the emotional toll of the recent attacks. Speakers highlighted calls to action to stand with the Palestinian people, including signing a petition to urge local elected officials to end their support of Israel. One of these local politicians, Maxwell Frost, once stood with Palestinian activists in the streets before doing an about-face in the run-up to his election. Now Frost supports U.S. funding for Israel.
The rally next marched around Lake Eola before taking to the streets and making its way to city hall. Chants of “Joe Biden what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?” and “Palestine will never die!, could be heard from the large procession.
Once at city hall, the group continued speeches in support of Palestine. One notable speech was given by Ahmad Daraldik, a Palestinian student who was removed from his position as president of the FSU student senate after an anti-Palestinian hate campaign. He highlighted how all oppressed people have a shared interest in fighting for the Palestinian people against Israeli occupation. Daraldik said, “We are all Palestinian!”
After the march back to Lake Eola, the petition signatures had increased by hundreds and the organizers urged attendees to continue fighting for Palestine. The rally closed with chants of “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”
The cosponsors of the rally were Las Semillas, FRSO Orlando, Healing our Homeland, Orlando DSA, Orlando Dream Defenders, Samidoun Network, Palestinian Feminist Collective, Unbought Power, REAL, and Orlando for Gender Equality. [2]
AMP Virtual Palestine Advocacy
American Muslims for Palestine - NJ Chapter plans to go live.
Circa September 10 2020
🗓️ SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, September 15, at 1:30 pm EST. As part of our first-ever Virtual Palestine Advocacy Days, we're bringing you the most exciting AMP Congressional Plenary to date - LIVE here on Facebook!
🗣️ Six members of congress will be speaking: Reps. Betty McCollum, Rashida Tlaib, Donald Payne, Jr., Debbie Dingell, Judy Chu, and Andre Carson; along with an amazing lineup of speakers, including Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Diana Buttu, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Rasha Mubarak, Salih Booker, and our very own Dr. Osama Abuirshaid and Dr. Hatem Bazian.
Our Revolution connection
Our Revolution - Florida April 2020 monthly meeting.
Virtual guests were Rasha Mubarak Unbought Power, Jen Perlman Congressional candidate District 23, Rep. Dotie Joseph Florida House District 10, Nadia B. Ahmad lawyer and environmental activist..
Other participants included Democratic Socialists of America, Progressive Democrats of America, Corrine Daly Our Revolution - Florida, Kristin Our Revolution - Tampa Bay, Elizabeth Attlee-Hall Our Revolution - Volusia, Maruxa Cardenas Our Revolution 305, Kristi Lara Our Revolution.
DSA convention
International speakers at the Democratic Socialists of America national convention July 2019 in Atlanta included Rasha Mubarak US Palestinian Campaign for Human Rights, Nuha Zein Sudanese Professionals Association, Workers Party of Brazil, Nuevo Peru, Oliver Schroder Die Linke, Seichi Yanada? ZENKO (National Assembly for Peace and Democracy), Hanan Yahya Yemeni Alliance Committee, Aaron Pedrosa Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses), Bruno Magalhaes Socialism and Liberty Party Brazil, Waltraud Fritz Klackl Party of the European Left.
Florida Young Democrats convention
Florida Young Democrats June 17 · 2019
FYD Convention 2019 — with Johnny V. Boykins, Ian Dunne, Rasha Mubarak, George Thurlow, William Byatt and Jake Sanders.
Opposing "Muslim ban"
Representatives from CAIR - Florida announced late January 2017, that they were filing a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump, in response to his executive orders barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country over the weekend.
The lawsuit is filed from 20 plaintiffs, including CAIR - Florida Chief Executive Director Hassan Shibly and other activists, lawyers and representatives from civil rights organizations, and it claims Trump’s orders were unconstitutional against both the First and Fifth amendments.
In Orlando, Rasha Mubarak with CAIR called the orders “discriminatory, anti-immigrant, anti-refugee and anti-Muslim,” and decried them for trying to “criminalize groups of people in an attempt to galvanize the American people.
Speakers recounted both personal stories and tales of helping people at the Orlando International Airport last weekend during the confusion immediately following the ban. Ida Eskamani, an aide to Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, said her own grandmother, who is 84 years old, has now been prohibited from entering the United States.
Alex Barrio, District Director for Sen. Darren Soto, recalled an Iranian UCF student going for a PhD who has been barred from returning due to the executive order.
Other speakers, like Isabel Vinent with the Florida Immigrant Coalition, blasted the United States’ foreign policy even before Trump.[3]
CAIR
Rasha Mubarak, is a Palestinian activist with close associations with CAIR. Currently, Mubarak serves as the President of the Young Democrats of Orange County in Orlando, FL, as well as an organizer for CAIR - Orlando, replacing Ahmad Abrar Saleem.
Central Florida comrades
Central Florida Jobs with Justice October 12, 2015 ·
CAIR - Florida, you all are awesome. — with Ali Akın Kurnaz, Carlos Guillermo Smith, Rasha Mubarak, Jonathan Alingu, Meli McGuire Maniau and Denise Diaz.
Tlaib swearing in
Choosing to take her oath on a Quran, Rashida Tlaib was sworn in while wearing traditional Palestinian attire with a group including Linda Sarsour, Nihad Awad and Rasha Mubarak as her guests.[4]
Manal Fakhoury January 4 2019·
With Rashida Tlaib’s mom :-) — with Laila Mokhiber, Linda Mansour and Rasha Mubarak at Ronald Regan International Airport Washington DC (DCA).