Haytham Manna

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Haitham Youssef Nasser Al-Awdat (Arabic: هيثم يوسف ناصر العودات; born 16 May 1951) is a Syrian physician, anthropologist, writer, human rights activist, and politician. He has served as president of the Law–Citizenship–Rights Movement since 2015. Manna is a long-time advocate for human rights and democratic reform in Syria and has played a prominent role in several Syrian opposition movements. Manna studied medicine at Damascus University before continuing his medical education at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. He later pursued social sciences at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences under the supervision of anthropologists Marc Augé, Maurice Godelier, and Françoise Héritier. He earned a doctorate in anthropology from Sorbonne Paris North University (formerly Paris 13 University), specializing in psychosomatic therapy, and also completed postgraduate studies in sleep and wakefulness disorders at the University of Montpellier. Alongside his academic career, Manna became active as a writer and journalist. He contributed to several Arabic-language periodicals, including "Arab Studies'', edited the bulletin ''Revolutionaries'', and published medical and political journals during his years at the University of Damascus. For more than three decades, Manna was active in the international human rights movement. He helped found the Arab Commission for Human Rights (ACHR) and served as its spokesperson. Following the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, he resigned from the commission to help establish the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC), a domestic Syrian opposition coalition advocating democratic reform through political dialogue and opposing both the government of Bashar al-Assad and armed Islamist groups. Manna served as the NCC's principal spokesperson. In 2015, Manna founded the Law–Citizenship–Rights Movement (QMH), a secular political movement promoting democracy, citizenship, and human rights. That same year, he was elected co-chair of the newly established Syrian Democratic Council, the political wing associated with...