Fayez Sara

Journeys

Biography

Fayez Sara is a Syrian journalist, writer, and opposition figure who spent decades as a prominent voice of democratic opposition in Syria before 2011 and became an important figure in the Syrian National Coalition and Geneva peace negotiations afterward. He has been imprisoned multiple times by the Assad government for his journalism and political activities, including a stint in Sednaya prison. His career spans from the 1970s leftist opposition to the post-2011 mainstream Syrian opposition — a continuity of democratic dissent across half a century of the Assad system.