| Honorific-Prefix: | Her Excellency |
| Diala Barakat | |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Office: | Minister of Culture |
| Term Start: | 23 September 2024 |
| President: | Bashar al-Assad |
| Primeminister: | Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali |
| Predecessor: | Lubanah Mshaweh |
| Office1: | Minister of State for Southern Development Affairs |
| Term Start1: | 10 August 2021 |
| Term End1: | 23 September 2024 |
| President1: | Bashar al-Assad |
| Primeminister1: | Hussein Arnous |
| Predecessor1: | Mohammad Samir Haddad |
| Successor1: | Ahmad Hadla |
| Birth Place: | Homs, Homs Governorate, Syria |
| Nationality: | Syrian |
| Party: | Syrian Social Nationalist Party |
| Residence: | Damascus |
| Alma Mater: | Roma Tre University, University of Damascus[1] |
| Occupation: | Doctor of Classical antiquities |
| Profession: | Politician, Professor |
Diala Barakat (ar|ديالا بركات; born 1980) is a member of the Cabinet of Syria is the current minister of culture of Syria since 2024.[2] She was member of the Second Hussein Arnous government as Minister of State[3] for Southern Development Affairs.[4]
She worked as assistant head of the Department of Antiquities of Homs, head of the Excavation Division in the Department of Antiquities of Homs, a teacher at Al-Baath University, Faculty of Tourism, Open Education and Postgraduate Studies, and chairman of the Inventory Committee of the National Museum of Palmyra.[5]
She participated in archaeological work, excavation and documentation with several foreign and national missions since 2001 and in documenting the damage to the Palmyra Museum as part of a team Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums in 2016.[6]