Yassin al-Haj Saleh

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Yassin al-Haj Saleh

Yassin al-Haj Saleh ( Arabic ياسين الحاج صالح, DMG Yāsīn al-Ḥāǧǧ Ṣāliḥ ; * 1961 in ar-Raqqa , Syria ) is a Syrian writer and dissident. His topics include politics, culture and social issues in Syria and the Arab world.

While studying medicine, Saleh was arrested in 1980 for membership in a banned communist party. He was imprisoned for 16 years, the last of which in the dreaded Tadmur Prison . After his release in 1996, he graduated with a medical degree in 2000 but never practiced. He calls for democratic reforms and writes as a political writer for various Arab newspapers. One of them is al-Hayat , a pan-Arab newspaper that appears in London. He was unable to leave Syria for a long time because he was forbidden to have a passport. The 2014 film Baladna Alraheeb (Our Terrible Country) by Ali al-Atassi and Ziad Homsi describes Yassin al-Haj Saleh's flight from Syria to Turkey, where he has lived in Istanbul since 2013.

On December 9, 2013, his wife Samira Khalil, along with human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh and lawyer Nazem Hammad , were presumably kidnapped by Islamists in Douma, a suburb of Damascus, Syria.

In 2017, al-Haj Saleh received the Tucholsky Prize from the Swedish PEN section.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Filmed Conversations , House of World Cultures , 2008
  2. ↑ a b c We need a new Syria , Gabriela M. Keller: Interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, taz , May 10, 2011
  3. ↑ Baladna Alraheeb (English: Our Terrible Country) , Mohammad Ali Atassi, Ziad Homsi, Syria / Lebanon 2014
  4. ↑ [1] "My way into exile"
  5. ↑ Tucholsky Ödülü Suriyeli Yazar Yassin al-haj Saleh'e verildi , evrensel.net, accessed on January 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Haj Saleh, Yassin al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saleh, Yassin al-Haj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian writer and dissident
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH ar-Raqqa , Syria