Khalaf Ali Alkhalaf (Arabic: خلف علي الخلف; born 10 November 1969 in Raqqa, Syria) is a Syrian poet and writer who holds Swedish citizenship.

Later that year, Alkhalaf travelled to Saudi Arabia, where he continued writing articles criticising the Syrian government and calling for a democratic alternative.

He also wrote an article titled "A Public Self-Declaration to the Syrian Security Authorities",[3] and he could not return to Syria until 2013, when Raqqa was no longer controlled by Bashar al-Assad's government.

[16] Later, Alkhalaf began covering the events of the Syrian revolution from Egypt, through various Arabic-language satellite channels,[17][18][19][20] newspapers and websites.

[21][22] He also participated with a group of activists in the establishment of the Coalition of Democratic Voices,[23] the first political rally held during Syria's revolution.

The conference was held to support the Syrian civil war and help find solutions to save Syria from tyranny.

[25] From the beginning of the Syrian civil war, Alkhalaf called for continued nonviolent resistance and peaceful protests against the Bashar government.

The Haquna movement also led actions of nonviolent resistance in Raqqa following its occupation by the Islamic extremist group ISIS from January 2014 to October 2017.

Haquna's nonviolent resistance has also led to friction with anti-Bashar revolutionary groups such as Jabhat Al-Nusra[30] (at one time affiliated with Al-Qaeda), Ahrar al-Sham, and ISIS, notably after the latter killed three Syrians at the main square in Raqqa.

He also co-founded the Association of Syrian Writers and Journalists in December 2017 in Malmö, Sweden, where helped write its rules of procedure and eventually became its chairman.