Haytham Manna

Haytham Manna (Arabic: هيثم مناع; born May 16, 1951) is a Syrian writer and spokesman for the Syrian National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change in Paris.

Biography

Haytham Manna studied medicine and social sciences at the University of Damascus. In 1976 he was elected to the first Politburo of the " Communist action covenant." He had two years living underground and left Syria in 1978. He studied it in Paris and Montpellier, co-founded theoretical journal " Sou'al " and held various positions in international human rights organizations. Manna has lived in Paris since 1982.

During the uprising in Syria in 2011 he became chairman of the foreign representative of the Syrian National Coordination Committee, which unlike the Syrian National Council, based in Istanbul occurs against the militarization of the uprising as well as against foreign intervention in Syria.

Works

• Islam et heresies: L' obsession blasphématoire. Harmattan, 1997, ISBN 2-7384-5901-3.
• L' Algérie contemporaine - accounting solutions et 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.
• "It can succeed - democratic change in Syria " in: Wolfgang Gehrcke / Christiane Reymann (ed. ), Syria. How to Destroy a secular state and a society Islamized, PapyRossa Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89 438-521-7.