Yassin al-Haj Saleh(Is this your profile?)

Yassin al-Haj Saleh (Arabic: ياسين الحاج صالح; born 1961) is a Syrian writer and political dissident. He writes on political, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world. 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]...