[3] He started his career in journalism in 1950 contributing to the first issue of Sawt al-Bahrain which was a monthly political magazine.
[1] Sayyar opposed the politics of Gamal Abdul Nasser in his articles in Al Watan.
[4] In 1956 he joined the High Executive Committee (Arabic: al-Hay'a al-Tanfidhiyya al-Uliya) which was a cross-sectarian nationalist political movement in Bahrain.
[3] The council was established by Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain, to review the proposals about the constitution.
[7] In 2020 a book entitled Ali Sayyar in the Memory of the Nation was published by journalist Kamal Dhib.