Haytham Manna
{{Short description|Syrian opposition leader}}
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Haytham Manna (al-Awdat) is a Syrian writer; he spent three decades as a human rights activist who helped create and became spokesperson for the Arab Commission for Human Rights (ACHR). In 2011, during the early stages of the Syrian civil war, he resigned as spokesperson for the ACHR and helped create and become spokesperson for the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC), one of the two main opposition groups active in the uprising that became a civil war. Manna lives in Paris. In 2015, he was elected co-chairperson of the Syrian Democratic Council, a newly founded umbrella organisation of secular, democratic, non-Islamist opposition in Syria.[http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=74441 New Kurd-Arab alliance potential player in Syria talks]
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 Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) as a QMH member.{{fact|date=April 2023}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/executive-board-of-democratic-syria-assembly-elected|title=Executive Board of Democratic Syria Assembly elected|publisher=ANF|date=2015-12-13|access-date=2016-05-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220074139/http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/executive-board-of-democratic-syria-assembly-elected|archive-date=2015-12-20|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last1=Hisham Arafat|title=Kurdish-Arab alliance in Syria loses Arab block|url=http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/13ba959f-86b4-418d-89ab-50291dc9f67f/Kurdish-Arab-alliance-in-Syria-loses-Arab-block--|website=Kurdistan 24|access-date=30 November 2016|date=6 April 2016}}
Selected Works
- Islam et heresies: L’obsession blasphematoire. Harmattan, 1997, {{ISBN|2-7384-5901-3}}.
- L’Algérie contemporaine – bilan et solutions pour sortir de la crise. Harmattan, 2000, {{ISBN|2-7384-8804-8}}.
- 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, {{ISBN|978-3-89-438-521-7}}.
- DAECH, L'Etat de la barbarie, Point de Repère, Paris; 2014 {{ISBN|978-2-35930-140-3}}
- Islam and Women's Rights, SIHR, Geneva 2015
- Les Parias de Damas, Les Points sur les I, Paris, 2016 {{ISBN|9782359302172}}
- Ocalanism, Ideological Construction and Practice, Scandinavian Institute for Human Rights, Geneva, 2017 {{ISBN|2-914595-85-9}}
• Short Universal Encyclopedia of Human Rights, 3 Volumes, 2018, Beirut, Bisan, 2018, {{ISBN|978-3899-11-240-5}}
- La Chute de l'Islam politique, Hachette-Antoine, 2021, {{ISBN|978-614-469-856-3}}
- Big sticks: The Lie Industry, The Philosophy of Defeat in Hybrid Wars (Russia/Ukraine), SIHR, Germany, 2022,
- Atlas of No Violence, • Atlas de la Non-Violence, Hachette-Antoine, 2023, {{ISBN|9786140601673}}
References
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[http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/48372 Haytham Manna (al-Awdat), Diwan, Carnegie Middle East Center]
{{cite web | last =Haddad | first =Bassam | title =The Current Impasse in Syria: Interview with Haytham Manna | publisher =Jadaliyya | date =2012-06-30 | url =http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/6245/the-current-impasse-in-syria_interview-with-haytha | access-date =2012-11-26 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130104192826/http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/6245/the-current-impasse-in-syria_interview-with-haytha | archive-date =2013-01-04 | url-status =live }}
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External links
- [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/haytham-manna/ guardian.co.uk/profile/haytham-manna]
- [http://haythammanna.net/ haythammanna.net]
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Category:People of the Syrian civil war
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