Eyad Abdallah from Syria

Eyad Abdallah is a writer and philosopher. He is a founding editor of Al-Jumhuriya, Study of the Syrian Revolution, where he wrote critically of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. After an interrogation, his home in Damascus was raided and he fled to Lebanon. There, the French Embassy helped him travel to France, where he was assisted by La Maison des Journalistes.