Yassin al-Haj Saleh
- January 10, 2024
- Editor
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Yassin al-Haj Saleh Biography
| Name | Yassin al-Haj Saleh |
| Birthday | Feb 1 |
| Birth Year | 1961 |
| Place Of Birth | Raqqa |
| Home Town | Raqqa |
| Birth Country | Syria |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
| Spouse | Samira Khalil |
Yassin al-Haj Saleh is one of the most popular and richest Editor who was born on February 1, 1961 in Raqqa, Raqqa, Syria. Yassin al-Haj Saleh (born 1961) is a Syrian writer and political dissident. He writes on political, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world.
He has been granted a Prince Claus Award for 2012 as “actually a tribute to the Syrian people and the Syrian revolution. He was unable to collect the award as he was then hiding among the Syrian underground. He was awarded Swedish Tucholsky Prize in 2017. He was one of the talkers in a two-day anti- capitalist forum, which was held in Ankara, Turkey, on Nov 23-24, 2013. Additionally, he was speaking at the event ‘Reporting Change – Stories from the Arab region’ in Amsterdam on 15 June 2014, an event jointly organized by Human Rights Watch and World Press Photo.
Yassin al-Haj Saleh Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Editor |
| House | Living in own house. |
Yassin al-Haj Saleh is one of the richest Editor from Syria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yassin al-Haj Saleh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
From 1980 until 1996, he spent time in prison in Syria for his membership in the left-wing opposition group Syrian Communist Party (Political Bureau), which he calls a “communist pro-democracy group”. However, he has also stated that his time in prison allowed him to break out of the “internal prisons [of] narrow political affiliation [and] rigid ideology”, and has called the Syrian revolution an “open-ended and multi-leveled struggle”, while remaining supportive of aspects of Marxism. He was arrested while he was studying medicine in Aleppo and spent sixteen years in prison, the last in Tadmur Prison. He took his final examination as a general medical practitioner in 2000, but never practiced.
Al-Haj Saleh is married to Samira Khalil, a communist dissident, former political detainee and a revolutionary activist abducted in Douma in December
- After 21 months of hiding in Damascus and whole Syria, for being wanted by both the government and radical Islamist militants, he fled to Turkey and lived in Istanbul until 2017. Al-Haj Saleh is now a fellow at Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin).
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Top Facts about Yassin al-Haj Saleh
- Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian writer and political dissident.
- He was born in 1961 in the city of Raqqa, Syria.
- Saleh spent 16 years in prison for his activism.
- His wife, Samira Khalil, was abducted by the Syrian government in 2013 and has not been seen since.
- Saleh’s writing focuses on democracy, human rights, and social justice.
- He received the Prince Claus Award for Culture and Development in 2012.
- Saleh currently lives in exile in Istanbul, Turkey.
- He is a frequent contributor to international media outlets such as The Guardian and Al Jazeera English.
- Saleh’s memoir “The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy” was published in 2017.
- He advocates for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Syria through dialogue and negotiation rather than military intervention.