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The legacy of the Arab Spring

"The Syrian revolution is resumable today and tomorrow"

Syrian writer and political dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh was imprisoned in Syria from 1980 to 1996 for membership of the left-wing Syrian communist party, which he calls a "communist pro-democracy” group. Having fled the country in 2015, Saleh is now a fellow at Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin).
Syrian writer and political dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh was imprisoned in Syria from 1980 to 1996 for membership of the left-wing Syrian communist party, which he calls a "communist pro-democracy” group. Having fled the country in 2015, Saleh is now a fellow at Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin).
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Yassin al-Haj Saleh
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23.02.2021
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Arab Spring, Arabellion, Assad regime, Authoritarianism, Democracy and civil society, Free speech and censorship, History of the Near and Middle East, Islamism | Political Islam, Jihadism | Jihadists, Salafis | Salafism, Syrian Civil War, Syrian opposition
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