Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian writer, intellectual and former political prisoner. He 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. He is the author of The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy (Pluto Press, 2017).