Ali Haidar (politician)
{{Short description|Syrian politician (born 1962)}}
{{Update|date=July 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
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|office = State Minister for National Reconciliation Affairs
|office1 = Leader of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (Intifada)
|term_start1 = 23 June 2011
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|term_start = 23 June 2011
|term_end = 26 November 2018
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|party = Syrian Social Nationalist Party (Intifada)
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1962}}
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|alma_mater = University of Damascus
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|children = 2
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Ali Haidar (born 1962) is a Syrian politician who is the leader of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party – Intifada Wing, and from June 2011 to November 2018 was the Minister of State for National Reconciliation Affairs.Lebanon Debate. [http://www.lebanondebate.com/news/375495 جناح الانتفاضة بـ"القومي": لن نجير أصواتنا للسلطة]
Early life
Ali Haidar was born to an Alawite family in Hama-Masyaf in 1962. He studied ophthalmology at the Damascus University, and specialized in surgery and eye diseases. Whilst studying ophthalmology he was classmates with Bashar al-Assad. He graduated from Damascus University in 1994.
Career
In 2012, Haidar led his party into the Popular Front for Change and Liberation 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.{{cite news|title=Syrian minister confirms readiness for talks with opposition|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-02/13/c_124343770.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130215070556/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-02/13/c_124343770.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 February 2013|accessdate=12 February 2013|agency=Xinhua News Agency|date=12 February 2013}} 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 presidential election; his SSNP supported the re-election of Bashar al-Assad.{{cite web|url=http://tishreen.news.sy/tishreen/public/read/315368|title=SSNP Supports Bashar al-Assad's Presidential Nomination|date=7 May 2014|accessdate=3 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103112632/http://tishreen.news.sy/tishreen/public/read/315368|archive-date=3 November 2014|url-status=dead}}
Personal life
Haidar is married and has two children.{{cite news|title=Minister of State for National Reconciliation Affairs: Dr. Ali Haidar |url=http://sana.sy/eng/article/483.htm |agency=Syrian Arab News Agency |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002205104/http://sana.sy/eng/article/483.htm |archivedate=2 October 2013 }} 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.{{cite news|last=Aziz|first=Jean|title=Syrian Government Insists: No Conditions on Dialogue|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/02/obstacles-remain-syria-negotiations.html|accessdate=25 February 2013|newspaper=Al-Monitor|date=22 February 2013}}{{cite news|title=Son of SSNP leader slain in Syria|url=http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/6914|accessdate=25 February 2013|newspaper=Al-Akhbar|date=3 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516135642/http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/6914/|archive-date=16 May 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title=Syrian forces raid university – Thursday 3 May|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/middle-east-live/2012/may/03/egypt-syria-bahrain-libya|accessdate=25 February 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=3 May 2012}}
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Category:Syrian Social Nationalist Party politicians
Category:Syrian ophthalmologists
Category:People from Hama Governorate
Category:Damascus University alumni
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