Haytham Manna (al-Awdat) is a

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writer; he spent three decades as a

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activist who helped create and became spokesperson for the

Arab Commission for Human Rights The Arab Commission for Human Rights ( ar, اللجنة العربية لحقوق الإنسان / french: Commission Arabe des Droits Humains / ACHR) is an Arab world non-governmental human rights organisation that was founded in 1998. Founding ...

(ACHR). In 2011, during the early stages of the Syrian civil war, he resigned as spokesperson of the ACHR and helped create and become spokesperson of the

National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change The National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC), or National Coordination Body for Democratic Change (NCB) ( ar, هيئة التنسيق الوطنية لقوى التغيير الديمقراطي ), is a Syrian bloc chaired by ...

(NCC), one of the two main opposition groups active in the uprising that became a civil war. Manna lives in

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. In 2015, he was elected co-chairperson of the

Syrian Democratic Council The Syrian Democratic Council ( ku, Meclîsa Sûriya Demokratîk, MSD; ar, مجلس سوريا الديمقراطية; syc, ܡܘܬܒܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܐ ܕܝܡܩܪܛܝܬܐ, translit=Mawtbo d'Suriya Demoqraṭoyto) is the political wing of the Syri ...

, a newly founded umbrella organisation of secular, democratic, non-Islamist opposition in Syria.

Values–Citizenship–Rights Movement

While holding the position of spokesperson for the NCC, Manna launched the Values–Citizenship–Rights Movement (QMH) and was elected to the General Federal Assembly of the

(SDC) as a QMH member. Manna became a co-leader of the SDC assembly, but resigned from the role on 19 March 2016 in protest at the council's announcement of a federal system for Northern Syria, i.e. at the creation of the

Democratic Federation of Northern Syria The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. It consists of self-governing sub-regions in the areas of Afrin, Jazira, Euphrates, Raqqa, Tabqa, Ma ...

. Selected Works * Islam et heresies: L’obsession blasphematoire. Harmattan, 1997, . * L’Algérie contemporaine – bilan et solutions pour sortir de la crise. Harmattan, 2000, . * Human Rights in the Arab-Islamic Culture. Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, 1996. * Citizenship in Arab-Islamic History, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, 1997. * "Es kann gelingen – demokratischer Wandel in Syrien" In: Wolfgang Gehrcke/Christiane Reymann (Hg.), Syrien. Wie man einen säkularen Staat zerstört und eine Gesellschaft islamisiert, PapyRossa Verlag 2013, . * DAECH, L'Etat de la barbarie, Point de Repère, Paris; 2014 * Islam and Women's Rights, SIHR, Geneva 2015 * Les Parias de Damas, Les Points sur les I, Paris, 2016 * Ocalanism, Ideological Construction and Practice, Scandinavian Institute for Human Rights, Geneva, 2017 * La Chute de l'Islam politique, Hachette-Antoine, 2021, * Big sticks: The Lie Industry, The Philosophy of Defeat in Hybrid Wars (Russia/Ukraine), SIHR, Germany, 2022,

References

External links

guardian.co.uk/profile/haytham-manna

haythammanna.net
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