Ali Haidar (born 1962) is a Syrian politician who is the leader of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party – Intifada Wing, and since June 2011 the Minister of State for National Reconciliation Affairs.Lebanon Debate
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Early life

Ali Haidar was born in

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masyaf Masyaf ( ar, مصياف ') is a city in northwestern Syria. It is the center of the Masyaf District in the Hama Governorate. As of 2004, Masyaf had a religiously diverse population of approximately 22,000 Ismailis, Alawites and Christians. The c ...

in 1962. He studied ophthalmology at the Damascus University, and specialized in surgery and eye diseases. Whilst studying ophthalmology he was classmates with

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. He graduated from Damascus University in 1994.

Career

In 2012, Haidar led his party into the

Popular Front for Change and Liberation The Popular Front for Change and Liberation ( ar, الجبهة الشعبية للتحرير والتغيير, ''al-Jabha aš-š‘abiyya li'l-taghayyir wa'l-taḥrīr'') is a coalition of Syrian political parties and is the leader of the official ...

coalition of non-Ba'athist parties in the Syrian parliament. Haidar is one of two non-Ba'athist candidates elected to Parliament in May 2012 who were given ministerial posts, the other being Jamil Qadri. On 12 February 2013, Haidar stated in a press briefing that the Syrian government can hold talks with head of Syrian opposition, Moaz al Khatib. These talks did not transpire. Haidar announced in May 2014 that his party was withdrawing from the Popular Front for Change and Liberation over discrepancy in positions towards the

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; his SSNP supported the re-election of Bashar al-Assad.

Personal life

Haidar is married and has two children. His son Ismail was murdered on 2 May 2012 alongside SSNP member Fadi Atawneh on the al-Mahnaya junction on the road between Homs and Masyaf when their car was ambushed by members of the Syrian armed opposition.

References

1962 births Living people Syrian Social Nationalist Party politicians Syrian ophthalmologists People from Hama Governorate {{Syria-politician-stub