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Yassin al-Haj Saleh

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Most recent articles by Yassin al-Haj Saleh

  • Syrian writer and political dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh was imprisoned in Syria from 1980 to 1996 for membership of the left-wing Syrian communist party, which he calls a "communist pro-democracy” group. Having fled the country in 2015, Saleh is now a fellow at Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin).
    The legacy of the Arab Spring

    "The Syrian revolution is resumable today and tomorrow"

    On the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring we can’t quite escape that substance called remembrance. Yet, eschewing facile modes of nostalgic remembrance and/or tragic lamentation, we opt for asking questions. Yassin Al-Hajj Saleh reflects

    By Yassin al-Haj Saleh
  • Portrait of the Syrian intellectual Sadiq al-Azm

    Critical philosopher and political activist

    Though Damascene born and bred, al-Azm is a true cosmopolitan - with no nostalgia for his mother′s baking, no tears shed over the good old days, and no longing for the fresh scent of jasmine so reminiscent of Damascus. He has always preferred personal freedom with all its associated risks to the comfort of a familiar environment. By Yassin al-Haj Saleh

    By Yassin al-Haj Saleh
  •  Meeting for National Dialogue (photo: dapd)
    National Dialogue in Syria

    A Political Farce

    The latest meeting for the purpose of national dialogue in reality served the regime in Damascus as an opportunity to legitimise its own sovereignty as well as to weaken and isolate the opposition, in the opinion of the Syrian dissident and writer Yassin Al Haj Saleh

    By Yassin al-Haj Saleh

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