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The Ukrainian-Syrian-Russian triangle and the world

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 25 March 2022

Up to recently, it had seemed that many people in the west think that the Russian War in Ukraine is qualitatively different from

Worldless Syria: Depopulated discourses and denied agency

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 6 July 2021

The prevailing Western discourses about Syria are fundamentally flawed, and should be discarded in favor of “new, emancipatory” alternatives, writes Yassin al-Haj Saleh.

The greater jail: The politics of prison in Syria

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 19 February 2021

In a talk co-organized by the assassinated activist Lokman Slim, former Syrian political prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh argues that “the politics of prison” are central to understanding the “politicide” of the Syrian people at the Assad regime’s hands.

An Arab revolutionary legacy?

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 2 February 2021

[Editor’s note: This article is the fifth in a series published in collaboration with Mada Masr to mark the tenth anniversary of the Egyptian revolution.

A letter to the Progressive International

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 21 September 2020

When a new “Progressive International” invited Syria’s Yassin al-Haj Saleh to join, he was happy to accept. When he then submitted this letter for their publication, they ceased contacting him without explanation.

State of starvation

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 19 August 2020

The famine looming today in Syria is caused not by a lack of food, but by policies consciously adopted by the Assad regime for many years, argues Yassin al-Haj Saleh.

Letters to Samira (15)

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 8 December 2019

“Do you see how beautiful the moon looks?” I ask you while we’re on our way home at night, crossing between the last

Letters to Samira (14)

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 19 October 2019

With your abduction and disappearance for more than six years now, I have experienced the worst that any man can experience. It has

Terror, genocide, and the “genocratic” turn

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 19 September 2019

[Editor’s note: The below is an edited version of a talk given by the author in Paris on 4 September. An extended version

Letters to Samira (13)

Yassin Al-Haj Saleh 7 March 2019

Sammour, I’ve written to you before about unpleasant things; happenings that shouldn’t have happened, and a world whose horizons have become dimmer in