Ali Sadreddine Al-Bayanouni ( ar, علي صدر الدين البيانوني) is a
Muslim Brotherhood leader in exile in London. He was born in 1938 in
Aleppo and brought up in a religious family, where his father and grandfather were both well known Muslim scholars. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood while in secondary school, in 1954, and went on to graduate with a law degree from the
University of Damascus
The University of Damascus ( ar, جَامِعَةُ دِمَشْقَ, ''Jāmi‘atu Dimashq'') is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus and has campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 through ...
in 1963. He served as a reserve officer in the Syrian Army from 1959 to 1960. Bayanouni became a member of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood's Shura Council and Executive Office in 1972. Due to his membership of the Muslim Brotherhood, Bayanouni was imprisoned from 1975 to 1977. After his time in prison, he emerged to become the deputy leader of the Brotherhood in 1977. He left
Syria two years later and eventually settled in
Jordan
Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...
, where he remained for twenty years. He arrived in
Britain
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* The United Kingdom, a sovereign state in Europe comprising the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands
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as a political refugee in 2000, after the Jordanian authorities requested he leave the country.
In the wake of the unrest in Syria he has called for the end of the
Bashar al-Assad government and the convention of "a free conference of all the nationalist forces in Syria" which would enable "Syrians to develop a collective national alternative".
See also
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Muslim Brotherhood of Syria
The Muslim Brotherhood of Syria ( ar, الإخوان المسلمون في سوريا, translit=al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn fī Sūrīya) is a Syrian branch of the Sunni Islamist Muslim Brotherhood organization. Its objective is the transformatio ...
References and notes
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Muslim Brotherhood, Syria
1938 births
Living people
People from Aleppo
Syrian Sunni Muslims
Syrian exiles
Muslim Brotherhood of Syria politicians
National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces members
People of the Islamic uprising in Syria
Syrian dissidents
Syrian expatriates in the United Kingdom
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