Syrian Opposition Coalition’s (SOC) vice-president
He has a degree in law
He was born in Salamiya, Hama province in 1946
He has opposed the Assad regime since it seized power in a military coup in 1970
He was in charge of the clandestine group the Arab Socialist Democratic Baath. He has contributed to it since 1979
He was wanted for the Assad regime’s security agencies for nearly five years before moving to Algeria in the late 1980s
He continued his dissident activities and wrote political essays and novels
He cofounded and presided over the National Democratic Bloc in Cairo in 2011
He has joined the Syrian revolution since day one. He was a cofounder of the Syrian National Council and the SOC. He was elected member of the SOC’s political committee more than once
He wrote hundreds of articles and studies as well as around 30 novels and short stories
On July 5, 2021, writer and thinker Okab Yahya passed away in Istanbul. He died of cancer at the age of seventy-five, a lifetime during which he dedicated himself to the struggle against tyranny, injustice and for a free Syria.
