Haytham Manna

Haytham Manna ( Arabic هيثم مناع; * May 16, 1951 ) is a Syrian writer and spokesman for the Syrian National Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change in Paris .

biography

Haytham Manna studied medicine and social sciences at Damascus University. In 1976 he was elected to the first politburo of the “ Communist Action League ”. He had to live underground for two years and left Syria in 1978. He then studied in Paris and Montpellier , co-founded the theoretical journal “Sou'al” and held various positions in international human rights organizations . Manna has lived in Paris since 1982.

During the uprising in Syria in 2011, he became chairman of the diplomatic mission of the Syrian National Coordination Committee, which, in contrast to the Syrian National Council, which has its seat in Istanbul, opposes the militarization of the uprising and foreign intervention in Syria.

Since 2015 he has been the co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council , the political arm of the Syrian Democratic Forces that are fighting the terrorist Islamic State (IS) in Syria.

Works

Islam et heresies: L'obsession blasphematoire. Harmattan, 1997, ISBN 2-7384-5901-3 .
L'Algérie contemporaine - bilan et solutions pour sortir de la crise. Harmattan, 2000, ISBN 2-7384-8804-8 .
Human Rights in the Arab-Islamic Culture. Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, 1996.
"It can succeed - democratic change in Syria" In: Wolfgang Gehrcke / Christiane Reymann (eds.), Syria. How to destroy a secular state and Islamize a society, PapyRossa Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-89 438-521-7 .

Web links

Website (syrian)
Haytham Manna at The Guardian (English)
The Syrian democracy movement and the struggle for Syria ( antiimperialista.org , May 11, 2012; contains a short biography of Manna)

Individual evidence

↑ The Syrian Democracy Movement and the Struggle for Syria , antiimperialista.org , May 11, 2012.
^ Wilhelm Langthaler: Annan peace plan to stop violence . Haitham Manna, spokesman for the Syrian “National Coordination Body for Democratic Change” (NCB), in Vienna, antiimperialista.org .

personal data
SURNAME	Manna, Haytham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Manna, haitham; al-Manna, Haitham; هيثم مناع (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Syrian writer and spokesman for the Syrian National Coordinating Committee for Democratic Change in Paris
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1951

[1] The Syrian Democracy Movement and the Struggle for Syria , antiimperialista.org , May 11, 2012.

[2] Wilhelm Langthaler: Annan peace plan to stop violence . Haitham Manna, spokesman for the Syrian “National Coordination Body for Democratic Change” (NCB), in Vienna, antiimperialista.org .