Michel Kilo

Michel Kilo (Arabic: ميشيل كيلو‎, born 1940) is a Syrian Christian writer and human rights activist, who has been called "one of Syria's leading opposition thinkers." He was born in the Syrian Mediterranean coastal city and province of Latakia in 1940. Michel Kilo studied journalism in Egypt and Germany. He has translated many political and economics books from German to English. As a columnist he wrote opinion pieces for two Arabic papers, the Lebanese daily Annahar and the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi. Recently he wrote several articles about the Syrian uprising for Assafir Lebanese daily newspaper. Kilo was first arrested by the government in the early 1980s, following this arrest he moved to France but came back to Syria in 1991....