Dr. Ali Haidar

As Foreign Insurgents Continue to Terrorize Syria, the Reconciliation Trend Grows

In June, 2014, I met with Dr. Ali Haidar, Syria’s Minister of National Reconciliation, in his Damascus office. An eye surgeon and leader of the SSNP (Syrian Social Nationalist Party, an opposition party within Syria), Dr. Haidar assumed position as Minister of Reconciliation in June 2012.
Photograph by Eva Bartlett
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