Haytham manna biography samples

Syrian opposition leader

Haytham Manna (al-Awdat)^[1] 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).^[2] 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.^[3] 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.^[4]

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