Mediamax, 22 February 2012 Yasin Al-Haj Saleh- is a Syrian writer and political dissident. He writes on political, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world. In 1980 he spent time in prison in Syria for his membership in a communist party. He was arrested while he was studying medicine in Aleppo…

The Times, 19 November 2011 Yassin al-Haj Saleh, a Syrian opposition activist and intellectual in his fifties, was imprisoned from 1980 to 1996 for his membership of a Communist pro-democracy group. He has been in hiding with his wife, Samira al Khalil, since March. “I’ve been in hiding since March 30, after Bashar Assad’s first…

NOW Lebanon, 7 September 2011 Yassin Al Haj Saleh is a Syrian writer and political dissident who is wanted by the Syrian regime for his pro-democracy activism and has been in hiding since the popular uprising—and the government’s subsequent bloody crackdown—began this spring. Saleh already knows well the kind of retribution the Syrian government doles…

Los Angeles Times, 21 April 2011 Protests continue to convulse the streets of Syria, and the demonstrations that erupted last month have come to pose the greatest challenge to President Bashar Assad's 11-year rule. Yassin Haj Saleh, a prominent Syrian writer who spent 16 years in prison as a political dissident, has attended demonstrations in…

Reason, 5 May 2005 Syrian writer and dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh has been one of the most daring and interesting voices coming out of Syria in recent years, and is regularly published in the weekly cultural supplement of Lebanon's daily Al-Nahar (as well as in the English-language Daily Star). It is hard to imagine that…