Haytham Manna: President of the Scandinavian Institute for Human Rights -Spokesperson of the Arab Commission for Human Rights up to Sep.2011 - Born in Omalmayaden (South Syria) in 1951. Family name: ALOUDAT - Studied Medicine at the University of Damascus in Syria, and Mary & Pierre Currie in France. - Received a Diploma in psychosomatic treatment from the University of Paris 13, and a Diploma in sleeping and waking disorders from the University of Montpellier, 1989. Taught courses on sleeping disorders at the University of North Paris in 1990. - Co-founder and member of the direction of redaction of the French theoretic revue SOU’AL (1980-1990). - Co-founder and Director of the Revue MOUKARABAT (1998-2006) - Studied social sciences and received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Higher Institute of Social Sciences, Paris, 1983. - Coordinator of Dr. Kuzbari (President and founder of the Syrian League for Human Rights) Committee ( 1982-1985). - Co-founder and international relations supervisor of the Committees for The Defense of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria (1990-1998). - Vice President of the International Federation for Human Rights(1994-1997). - Member of the Commission of Religions in Amnesty International-Paris (1995-1998) - Member of Reform Penal International(1996-1999) - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists(1996-2001). - President of the Arab Center for the Independence of Judiciary 2002 - Spokesperson of the Arab Commission for Human Rights (1998-2002) - Honored by Human Rights Watch in 1992. - Medal of Human Rights- National Academy of Sciences- Washington (1996). - Member of the direction of Justicia Universalis - Member of the Direction of AVRE (France) - President of the International Bureau of Humanitarian NGOs (Geneva) - 2004 - Core team Member of the Arab Human Development Report, UNDP, 2005-2006
Works: - The Revolt of the Peasant Commune in 1886, Damascus, 1975. In Arabic - Woman in Islam, Beirut, 1980. In Arabic. - L’Islam et la maladie, EHESS, Paris, 1983, (in French) - The Arab-Islamic Society From Muhammad to My, Paris, 1986. In Arabic - The Production of Man in the Mediterranean East: The Clan, The Tribe And The State, Beirut, 1986. In Arabic - The Woman!!, Coln, 1988. In Arabic - Sommeil-Veil: Approche éco-psycho-somatique, Université de Paris XIII, 1989. In French. - The World of Sleep, Lataqia, 1990. - The Veil, Coln, 1990. - The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Beirut, 1990. - The Challenges of Enlightenment, Coln, 1991. - The Victim and The Executioner, Cairo, 1995. - Human Rights in the Arab-Islamic Culture. 1996 - Citizenship in the Arab-Islamic History ( In Arabic and English) 1998 - Islam et Hérésies, l’Harmattan, Paris, 1997. ( in French) - Torture in the Arab World in the 20th century. Paris, 1998. ( In Arabic and French 2end edition: Violence et torture dans le monde arabe- l’Harmattan 2000) - First writtens about Human Rights in the Arab World, Coln-Beyrouth, 1999, in Arabic. - Islamic fudamentalisms and human rights, Cairo 1999 et Arbil 2000. - State of law in Tunisia, Cairo, 1999. - Short Universal Encyclopedia of Human Rights, editors al-Ahali, Bisan, Erabe, Paris-Beyrouth-Damas,2000-2002. - Islam and women rights, Cairo, 2001. - Freedom in the literature of exile, Damascus-Paris, 2001. - Islam and International Humanitarian Law, Amman 2002 - US and Human Rights, Paris et Damas, 2003 - A scream before the kill. Paris and Damas, 2004 - On Human Rights Culture. Beyrouth and Jedda 2004 - The Futur of Human Rights, Impunity and International Law, 2005 - Protection of journalists, 2005 - Rights of Child, 2005 - Human Rights and Humanitarian Action in the Arab World. In English, 2006 - Justice or Barabrism, 2006 - Civilian Resistance, 2008 - International Justice, from Norengerg to Gaza, 2009 - Dictato