Syrian Expert House Participants
Name of Participant | Affiliation |
Abdo Hossam Al-Deen | former Deputy Oil Minister |
Abdul Karim Bakkar | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Abdul Karim Sabri Omar | Kurdish National Council |
Abdul Rahman al-Sarraj | Al-Masar Center |
Abdulahad Sefo | Assyrian Democratic Organization, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian National Council |
Abdulalziz al-Shallal | defected major general, Free Syrian Army |
Abdulaziz al-Masri | economic researcher, water expert |
Abdulaziz al-Tammo | Kurdish Future Movement |
Abdulbaset Seda | former president of the Syrian National Council; member, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Abdulelah Fahed | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Abdulhadi Sweed | Homs Revolutionary Council |
Abdulhakim Bashar | president, Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria |
Abdulhameed al-Hammoud | judge, Independent Judicial Council |
Abdulhamid Darwish | president, Democratic Progressive Party in Syria |
Abdulhamid Zakaria | defected colonel, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Abdulilah Al-Mulhem | Syrian National Council |
Abduljalil al-Saeed | political activist, cleric |
Abdulkadir Rajah | Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies |
Abdulkarim Agha | Turkmen Movement |
Abdulkarim Omar | political activist |
Abdullah Khalil | lawyer, human rights activist (Raqqa) |
Abdullah Kilani | political activist |
Abdullah Sultan | defected lieutenant, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Abdullatif al-Dabbagh | former Syrian Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates |
Abdulrahman Abbarah | political activist |
Abdulrahman al-Haj | Syrian National Council |
Abdulrahman al-Hassan | defected general, Free Syrian Army |
Abdulrazak al-Athma | political activist |
Abdulsalam Othman | political activist |
Adel Amin | defected judge |
Adib al-Shishakli | Special Representative of the Syrian National Council to the Gulf Cooperation Council; National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Adnan Ghassab al-Mahamed | human rights activist, Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies |
Adnan Omar Zureiq | lawyer (Idlib) |
Adnan Sallow | defected major general, Free Syrian Army |
Adnan Shammaa | businessman |
Afif Suleiman | defected colonel, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Afra Abdelrahim Sharabajee | human rights activist (Darayya) |
Afra Jalaby | human rights activist, Syrian National Council |
Ahmad Assi al-Jarba | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian National Council |
Ahmad Hassoun | Free Syrian Lawyers Union |
Ahmad Ismail | political activist |
Ahmad Rahal | defected general, Free Syrian Army |
Ahmad Tohme | Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change |
Ahmed Abdel Aal | political activist |
Ahmed Adnan Al-Jumjumy | lawyer, activist |
Ahmed al-Ali | political activist |
Ahmed al-Siasneh | Sham Scholars Committee |
Ahmed Barre | defected general, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Ahmed Ghalib al-Ahdab | businessman |
Ahmed Hassan Al-Mohammad | Idlib Revolutionary Council |
Ahmed Ismail Khalil | political activist |
Ahmed Mohammed Kanaan | Syrian Reform Movement |
Ahmed Mustafa Qassoum | lawyer, activist (Idlib) |
Ahmed Qassim al-Khatib | activist, uncle of Hamzeh al-Khatib (14-year-old boy killed by Syrian security forces) |
Ahmed Rashid | Free Aleppo Lawyers Union |
Ahmed Samer Aqad | businessman |
Akram al-Badri | defected major, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Alaa Mullah Mahmoud | independent activist |
Alan Ammo | political activist |
Ali al-Besh | defected member, Syrian Parliament |
Ali Al-Zeer | Free Syrian Lawyers Union |
Ali Amin Sweden | Syrian Revolution General Commission |
Ali Ammash Alao | defected general, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Ali Badran | lawyer, political activist |
Ali Mohamed al-Amin | political activist |
Ali Nawaf Al-Assi | political activist |
Ali Sadr al-Deen al-Bayanouni | Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian National Council |
Amal al-Nassan | Free Syrian Lawyers Union |
Amer Bitar | defected judge, Independent Judicial Council |
Amjad Farkh | Syrian Revolution General Commission |
Ammar al-Wawi | defected captain, Free Syrian Army |
Ammar Jellou | lawyer, political activist |
Ammar Qurabi | National Change Party |
Ammar Rajab | Human Rights Activist |
Amr al-Sarraj | Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies |
Anas Airout | political activist, Imam |
Anas al-Abdeh | Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian National Council |
Anas Alwan | political activist |
Anas Kayali | political activist |
Anwar al-Bunni | lawyer, human rights activist; National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian |
Asaad Mustafa | former minister of agriculture |
Assem Abdelaziz | political activist |
Awad Ahmed Ali | defected general, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Ayman al-Sayed al-Dughaim | Idlib Revolutionary Council |
Azad Maaou | political activist |
Badr al-Deen Bilal | defected judge, Independent Judicial Council |
Badr Jamous | Syrian National Council, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Bahaa al-Khatib | human rights activist, former political prisoner |
Basem Amer | Political Office, Farouk Brigades, Free Syrian Army |
Basem Hatahet | Syrian National Council |
Bashar al-Amin al-Ali | Kurdish National Council |
Bashar al-Herakey | Syrian National Council |
Bashar Khattab | political activist |
Bashir Isaac | Assyrian Democratic Organization |
Bashir Zine el-Abidine | political researcher |
Basil Kouevi | businessman |
Bassam Al-Abdullah | political activist |
Bassam Al-Ahmad | human rights activist, Violations Documentation Centre in Syria |
Bassam Al-Aloulu | defected general, Free Syrian Army |
Bassam Ishak | Syrian National Council |
Bayan Fathi | Syrian Women’s Association |
Burhan Ghalioun | former president, Syrian National Council; National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Daad Mousa | lawyer and human rights activist; National Preparatory Committee for Transitional Justice |
Daham al-Sattam | political activist |
Daoud Ahmed al-Selmy | political activist |
Dara Bashar | political activist |
Dawod al-Sulyman | Idlib Revolutionary Council, Syrian National Council, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Delber Ali Ahmad | independent activist |
Diab al-Barho | political activist |
Fadel al-Salim | Syrian National Council |
Fadel Al-shakfeh | Syrian Network for Human Rights |
Fadi Ahmad | political activist |
Fadi al-Salman | activist (two brothers killed by Syrian security forces) |
Fadi Sabbagh | lawyer, activist |
Fahad al-Basha | Al-Ayam newspaper |
Faisal Youssef | former president, Kurdish National Council |
Fares al-Shoufi | political activist |
Fares Mashaal Tammo | lawyer, Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Victims of the Syrian Revolution |
Farouk Ismail | political activist |
Farouk Taha | former Syrian Ambassador to Belarus |
Farouq Habib Abu Salim | Homs Revolutionary Council |
Fateh Hassoun | defected colonel, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Fawaz Al Awwad | Liberation & Building Bloc |
Fayez Sara | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Fida Majthoub | Syrian National Movement, Syrian National Council |
Fida Nasri | lawyer and activist |
Gabriel Koreah | Assyrian Democratic Organization |
George Sabra | Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian National Council |
Ghanem Hassan | political activist |
Ghassan al-Najjar | Syrian Reform Trend |
Ghassan Hitto | former prime minister, Interim Government, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Ghassan Ibrahim | media activist |
Ghassan Mufleh | political activist |
Ghayath Bilal | Revolution Leadership Council in Damascus |
Ghazi al-Bakri | Idlib Revolutionary Council |
Habib Issa | lawyer, political activist; National Preparatory Committee for Transitional Justice |
Hafiz Abdulrahman | human rights activist |
Haitham Abdul Aziz al-Tammo | political activist |
Haitham al-Maleh | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Hammam Youssef | Syrian National Council |
Hamzeh Ghadban | political and media activist |
Hanadi Duraq al-Sibaey | Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Victims of the Syrian Revolution (brother killed by Syrian security forces) |
Hanan al-Balkhi | Syrian National Council |
Hani Darkanzaly | political activist |
Hasan Jobran | professor; Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies |
Hassan al-Safadi | Sham Scholars Committee |
Hassan Alswad | Syrian Commission for Justice and Accountability |
Hassan Saleh | deputy secretary, Yakty Party |
Hassan Sayed Khan Barakohany | political activist |
Hawass Hassan Osso | Kurdish Political Activist |
Hazar Ibrahim | political activist |
Hazem Adnan Araour | political and media activist |
Hazem Nahar | political and human rights activist; National Preparatory Committee for Transitional Justice |
Hind Kabawat | human rights activist |
Hisham Marwa | Syrian National Council, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Hooshang Darwish | independent kurdish activist |
Hossam al-Qtalaby | Syria Justice and Accountability Centre |
Hossam al-Sabbagh | defected captain, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Hossam Hafez | defected diplomat |
Hussein al-Sayed | Syrian National Council, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Hussein Ammash | economist; former head, Commission of Planning |
Ibrahim al-Haj Ali | political activist |
Ibrahim Miro | Syrian National Council |
Iklas Badawi | defected member, Syrian Parliament |
Imad al-Din Rashid | Syrian National Movement, Syrian National Council |
Iman Shahoud | defected judge, Independent Judicial Council |
Ismail Haji Bakri | political activist |
Ismail Hamey | secretary, Yakty Party |
Izzat al-Baghdadi | Center for the Study of the Syrian Revolution |
Jaber Zein | Local Coordination Committees, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Jabr al-Shoufi | Damascus Declaration for National Democratic Change, Syrian National Council |
Jalal Khanji | Aleppo Local Council, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Jamal al-Shoufi | political activist |
Jamal al-Ward | Syrian National Council, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Jamal Asaad | political activist |
Jamal Suleiman | actor, prominent social figure; National Preparatory Committee for Transitional Justice |
Jameel Deyarbakrley | political activist |
Jean Antar | political activist |
Kamal al-Labwani | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Kamal al-Rifai | political activist |
Kameran Peakas | Unity Party |
Karima Reshko | Kurdish human rights activist |
Kenan al-Rifai al-Jandaly | political activist |
Khaled Abu Salah | political and media activist |
Khaled al-Dughaim | political activist |
Khaled al-Haj Mahmoud | political activist |
Khaled al-Ramla | political activist |
Khaled al-Tahan al-Nuaimi | political activist |
Khaled Saleh | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Khaled Shahab al-Deen | defected judge, Independent Judicial Council |
Khuloud Helmy | human rights activist |
Louay Safi | Syrian National Council, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Maaz Ahmad al-Sarraj | political activist (Deir ez-Zor) |
Mahmoud Abu Zeid | Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies |
Mahmoud al-Mouslet | Syrian National Council |
Mahmoud Attour | lawyer, activist |
Mahmoud Marei | lawyer, National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change |
Mahmoud Suleiman | Union of Syrians Abroad |
Malak Qasim | lawyer, Kurdish human rights activist |
Malaz al-Atassi | political activist |
Mamdouh Jumaa | Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Victims of the Syrian Revolution (brother killed by Syrian security forces) |
Mamdouh Kayali | political activist |
Marcel Shahwar | human rights activist |
Marwan Kabalan | Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies |
Marwan Kuayed | judge, United Judicial Council |
Massoud Akko | Human Rights Activist |
Mays al-Kuraidy | political activist |
Mazen Hashem | Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies |
Mazen Joumeh | Free Aleppo Lawyers Union |
Mazen Sawaf | businessman, Syrian National Council |
Media Mahmoud | political activist |
Michel Kilo | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Moataz Osama al-Rifai | political activist |
Moaz Sibai | Watan Committee |
Mohamed Farouk Tayfur | Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian National Council |
Mohamed Khalifa | Syrian Revolution General Commission |
Mohamed Said Soliman | businessman |
Mohamed Sheikh Shuaeby | political activist |
Mohammad Ashraf al-Sino | lawyer, political activist |
Mohammed Abdullah Al-Sheikh | defected member, Ba’ath Party |
Mohammed Abu al-Khair Shukri | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Mohammed Al-Abdullah | Syria Justice and Accountability Centre |
Mohammed Al-Abdullah | Free Aleppo Lawyers Union |
Mohammed al-Haj Ali | defected major general, Free Syrian Army |
Mohammed Aldgam | Idlib Revolutionary Council, Syrian National Council |
Mohammed Amin Abdel Latif | Founder of the United Judicial Council, killed by the regime |
Mohammed Awad | defected colonel, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Mohammed Bassam Al Emadi | former Syrian Ambassador to Sweden |
Mohammad Bassam Tablieh | lawyer and political activist |
Mohammed Faraj | political activist |
Mohammed Fares Barakat | defected major general, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Mohammed Ghanem | Syrian American Council |
Mohammed Haji Abdullah | political activist |
Mohammed Ibrahim al-Ali | political activist |
Mohammed Khuneifis al-Sharey | Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Victims of the Syrian Revolution (14-year-old son was killed by Syrian security forces) |
Mohammed Mulla Rashid | political activist |
Mohammed Mustafa | Kurdish Political Activist |
Mohammed Obaid | legal adviser, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces; Syrian National Council |
Mohammed Osei | political activist |
Mohammed Sabra | Legal Adviser to the Interim Government, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Mohammed Saeed Nahaas | businessman |
Mohammed Saleh Ali | political activist |
Mohammed Sayer | defected judge, Independent Judicial Council |
Mohammed Suleiman Khalil | political activist |
Mousa al-Kurdi | physician and civil society activist |
Mousa al-Nabhan | political activist |
Mousa Amhan | Free Syrian Lawyers Union |
Mousa Mousa | Kurdish political activist, Syrian National Council |
Moutee al-Bateen | Syrian National Council |
Muhammad Anwar Majney | defected judge, Independent Judicial Council |
Muhannad al-Hassani | lawyer; president, Syrian Organization for Human Rights (SAWASIAH); National Preparatory Committee for Transitional Justice |
Muhannad Talaa | defected lieutenant, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Mulham al-Jundy | political activist; Syrian National Council |
Mulham Durubi | Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian National Council |
Muna Mostafa | Syrian National Council, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Muntaser al-Sinou | political activist |
Munzer Makous | Special Representative to France, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Musab al-Jazaery | political activist |
Musab al-Tahan | Syrian National Council |
Mustafa al-Sheikh | defected brigadier general, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Mustafa Hadyed | human rights activist, Dawlaty Organization |
Mustafa Jomeh | Syrian National Council |
Mustafa Mohammed | Syrian National Council |
Mustafa Osso | President, Azadi Party in Syria, Kurdish National Council |
Mutea Alwan | political activist |
Nael Gerges | lawyer and human rights activist |
Nael Turkmany | independent activist |
Nagham al-Ghadry | Syrian Revolution General Commission, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Najaty Tayarah | Syrian National Council |
Nashaat al-Haj Ahmed | defected lieutenant colonel, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Nasr Hassan | political activist |
Nawaf al-Bashir | Liberation & Building Bloc |
Nidal Syam | political activist |
Noor Bitar | Center for the Study of the Syrian Revolution |
Numair Nasser | political activist |
Obeida Faris | Syrian National Council |
Obeida Nahas | Syrian National Council |
Omar al-Kilani | political activist |
Omar Alsayed Yousef | political activist |
Omar Kush | political writer, researcher |
Omar Lattouf | defected police officer |
Omar Mushaweh | Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian National Council |
Omar Obeid Tarrad | Defected officer, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Omar Owsi | political activist |
Osama al-Atrash | businessman, political activist |
Osama al-Rifai | Sham Scholars Committee |
Osama Edward | Assyrian Network for Human Rights |
Othman Meshaal | political activist |
Oukab Yahya | Democratic National Bloc |
Qasim al-Dairi | Human Rights Activist, Idlib; killed by regime while traveling to attend Managing the Transition in Syria Conference |
Qassem Saad Eddin | defected colonel, Homs Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Radeef Mustafa | lawyer and activist; National Preparatory Committee for Transitional Justice |
Raed Safadi | economist, World Bank |
Rafat Mustafa | political activist |
Rajaa al-Taly | human rights activist; National Preparatory Committee for Transitional Justice |
Rami al-Dallaty | political activist |
Rami Hamedo | Free Syrian Lawyers Committee |
Rami Kara Ali | political activist |
Rasha Joumeh Letouf | Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Victims of the Syrian Revolution (three brothers killed by Syrian security forces) |
Rashid al-Kufri | Syrian National Council |
Rawya al-Aswad | political activist |
Raymon Majoun | Syrian National Council |
Riad Al-Asaad | defected colonel, Commander of the Free Syrian Army |
Rima Falihan | Local Coordination Committees, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Risan Sheikhmousa | head of Public Relations Office, Future Movement |
Saad Eddin Hassan Bek | political activist |
Sabd al-Hamwi | political activist |
Sabri Mirza | Political Committee, Yakty Party |
Saed Malikey | political activist |
Saeed al-Masri | defected police officer |
Saffan Hussein | political activist |
Safi Jadaan | Syrian Center for Human Rights |
Sahban Mushaweh | political activist |
Salah al-Deen al-Hamwi | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Salah Badr al-Deen | political activist |
Salah Hasson | political activist |
Salahuddin al-Rihawi | Idlib Revolutionary Council |
Salem Abdulaziz al-Mouslet | Council of the Syrian Arab Tribes, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian National Council |
Salim Idriss | defected general, Chief of Staff of Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Samer al-Homsi | political activist |
Samir Nashar | Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, Syrian National Council |
Sara Sheikhi | Kurdish activist |
Sema Nasser | Syrian Network for Human Rights |
Shafkar Huvak | Kurdish activist |
Shirvan Ibrahim | independent Kurdish activist |
Suhail Abdulbaqi | defected judge, Independent Judicial Council |
Suhail Hamdan | businessman |
Suhair Atassi | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Sultan Hashim | Syrian Secular Coalition |
Talal Fayyad Houshan | defected judge, Independent Judicial Council |
Talal Subaey | political activist |
Talal Sunbulli | Syrian American Council |
Tamam Baroudi | Syrian Economic Forum |
Tarek al-Sayed | political activist |
Tariq al-Shathly | political activist |
Tayseer Darwish | defected lieutenant, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Thabit Abbarah | Union of Syrians Abroad |
Wael Kuwaity | political activist |
Wajd al-Sibaey | independent activist |
Walid al-Bunni | National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces |
Walid Safour | Special Representative to the United Kingdom, National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces; National Preparatory Committee for Transitional Justice |
Walid Shekhu | political activist |
Wasim al-Muhzem | activist and brother-in-law to Mahmoud Al-Jawabrah (killed by Syrian security forces) |
Wassem Bitar | defected police officer |
Yahya Beitar | defected general, Supreme Military Council, Free Syrian Army |
Yaroub al-Shara | defected colonel, Free Syrian Army |
Yassar Barish | political activist |
Yasser al-Najjar | Syrian National Council |
Yassin al-Hamwi | political activist |
Yousef Hussein | professor |
Youssef Hourani | political activist |
Zaher Shehab | Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Victims of the Syrian Revolution (seven family members killed by Syrian security forces) |
Zaradasht Mohammed | Kurdish political activist |
Ziad al-Qasim | political activist |
Ziad Basha | defected judge, Independent Judicial Council |
Ziad Haj Khalil | political activist |
Ziad Hassan | political activist |
Ziad Talas | defected colonel, Free Syrian Army |