Syria Activist

Mazen Darwish

مازن درويش

Activist In opposition Independent Verified

Syrian lawyer and founder of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression. Detained by the Assad regime in 2012; released 2015 after international pressure. Now based in Europe; continues to document Assad-era atrocities for international accountability cases.

Country: Syria
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist

Position

1 source document on file for Mazen Darwish (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

Interview English

Mazen Darwish (head of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression) — interview with Al Majalla (post-Assad-fall, late 2024 / early 2025): a national transitional-justice framework "with accountability at its core" is imperative to prevent vengeance and renewed civil war, but must be objective and "steer clear of the pitfalls of victor's justice."

The absence of accountability, I believe, would open the door to widespread acts of individual vengeance, plunging Syrian society into instability and potentially even civil war. Therefore, establishing a comprehensive…

118 words original source ↗

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Mazen Darwish [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mazen-darwish

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mazen Darwish." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mazen-darwish.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-mazen-darwish,
  title     = {{Mazen Darwish}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/mazen-darwish},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.