Nyrabia worked on founding a democratic bloc inside the Syrian Coalition and joined the similar attempts led by dissident writer and politician Michael Kilo.

[5] He married Amal Mohammad, a civil engineer and also a leftist activist, from Latakia, in 1976, in Damascus, and they had their first child Orwa Nyrabia in 1977 [6] He was detained in September 1980, by the Military Intelligence apparatus of Hafez al-Assad's government, and was released from prison in November 1985, without charges.

Nyrabia left Syria for the first time to Germany, via Turkey, in February 2013 [8] In addition to a successful career as a senior mechanical engineer, managing major industrial projects in Syria, Nyrabia had a long political career, starting from being the head of the Students organization of Syria's non-soviet communist party,[9] usually referred to as "The Political Bureau", led by veteran dissident Riad al-Turk, and one of the founding bodies of the National Democratic Rally, a prominent opposition constellation of the country in the 1970s and 80s.

Nyrabia started writing in leading regional newspaper al-Hayat in 1998,[10] and later in Al-Jarida,[11] his op-eds in both were among the most read in the country, providing analysis and views on Syrian political map and possibilities.

[citation needed] In the period 2002 to 2004, Nyrabia worked on the development of the party he was a member of in the 1970s, known as the Political Bureau, into what is known today as Syrian Democratic People's Party, giving it a modernised approach towards democracy and social justice, before he resigned his position in the party, and worked independently on the creation of the Damascus Declaration national council; a convention of a wide array of Syrian Opposition forces, that took place in December 2007 in the home of known Syrian dissident Riad Seif in Damascus.