New Politics, Winter 2015 Yassin Al Haj Saleh is one of Syria’s leading political dissidents. He spent from 1980-1996 in Syrian prisons and became one of the key intellectual voices of the 2011 Syrian uprising. He spent 21 months in hiding within Syria, eventually escaping to Istanbul. He was interviewed via email by New Politics…
Yassin al-Haj Saleh: “The International left is suffering a major crisis”
Socialist Core, 29 November 2014 Interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Syrian writer and activist. Bashar al-Assad’s political prisoner for 16 years between 1980 and 1996. He has been living in Istanbul this last year. Interview conducted by Lucha Internacionalista (Internationalist Fight – LI) from the Spanish State and İşçi Demokrasisi Partisi (Workers Democracy Party –…
Raging with the Machine: Robert Fisk, Seymour Hersh and Syria
PULSE, 25 April 2014 In the West, Robert Fisk and Seymour Hersh are considered critical journalists. They occupy dissident positions in the English-speaking press. Among Syrians, however, they are viewed very differently.The problem with their writings on Syria is that it is deeply centered on the West. The purported focus of their analysis – Syria,…