Yassin al-Haj Saleh (Arabic: ياسين الحاج صالح; born 1961)[1] is a Syrian writer and leftist political dissident.

2012), lauded by journalist Kim Ghattas as "an online Arabic news platform that is one of the best sources of information and analysis in the region.

[8] Al-Haj Saleh is married to Samira Khalil, a communist dissident, former political detainee and a revolutionary activist who was abducted in Douma in December 2013.

[9] After 21 months of hiding in Damascus and whole Syria, for being wanted by both the government and radical Islamist militants, he fled to Turkey and lived in Istanbul until 2017.

[10] One of the most influential Arab writers and dissidents as well as a prominent intellectual voice of the Syrian revolution, Yassin Al-Haj Saleh writes on political, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world for several Arab newspapers and journals outside of Syria, and regularly contributes to the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper, the Egyptian leftist magazine Al-Bosla, and the Syrian online periodical The Republic.