Ammar Mohammad Deeb Tawouz

A unified Syria — the state of law and institutions — in which society takes pride in its religious identity

Preacher at the Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin Mosque; imam and preacher in Aleppo since 1998; member of the Fatwa Council in Aleppo; director general of the Ghiras Foundation; arbitrator and expert in financial arbitration and family reconciliation; member of several civil-society organisations working in varied fields: civic, human-rights, community and cultural; teacher in the Sharia secondary schools and at the Dar of Dr Nour al-Din Itr in the city of Aleppo; programmes coordinator for Dar al-Fuqaha: Gaziantep and Aleppo; secretary of the Syrian League in Antep; member of the Revolutionary General Body; member of the Council of Shaykhs of Gaziantep; volunteer in the relations department of the Authority of Religious Endowments and Religious Affairs; member of the board of trustees of the Sharia Council in Aleppo Governorate; member of the general body of the council of Aleppo Governorate and the city of Aleppo; member of the Shura body of the League of Syrian Scholars; head of the Gaziantep branch of the League of Syrian Scholars; charged with work at the endowment library in Aleppo since 2008; licensed in the reading and audition of a number of scholarly works and hadith transmission records, with licences from shaykhs in the Islamic world such as Professor Dr Nour al-Din Itr, Shaykh Othman Bilal, Shaykh Zuhair al-Nasir, Shaykh Mohammad Muti al-Hafiz, Shaykh Mohammad Darwish al-Khatib, Shaykh Abd al-Ghani al-Daqar, Shaykh Muawwad Awad Ibrahim, Professor Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi, and Sayyid Mohammad Alawi al-Maliki; took part in a number of conferences, seminars and scholarly, educational and administrative courses — organising, presenting and participating — locally and internationally, in Aleppo, Damascus, Kuwait, the Emirates and Turkey

Strengthening trust between authority and society, and within society itself; strengthening real community participation in building the country; raising up the Syrian economy