An Interview with Yassin al Haj Saleh

Muftah interviews Yassin al Haj Saleh on the present and future of Syria.

by Andy Heintz

Yassin al Haj Saleh is one of the most prominent Syrian dissident intellectuals. He was arrested at the age of nineteen for his membership in the Syrian Communist Party and remained in prison for more than sixteen years. When the Syrian revolution began in 2011, Yassin, then working in Damascus, went into hiding. In 2013, he and his wife, …