children birth_place name birth_date spouse yearsactive image article_title citizenship occupation
orwa nyrabia , layla nyrabia homs , syria mouaffaq nyrabia موفق نيربية 1949 amal mohammad 1970 -- present mouaffaq nyrabia.jpg mouaffaq nyrabia
 syria syrian national coalition 23px politician and engineer
mouaffaq nyrabia

mouaffaq nyrabia -lrb- ; born 28 november 1949 -rrb- is a syrian dissident , politician , political writer and mechanical engineer , best known for his pivotal role in the creation of damascus declaration , a prominent syrian opposition structure until the syrian revolution erupted in march 2011 .
since he left syria , in early 2013 , he has been an active member of the national coalition for syrian revolutionary and opposition forces , a member of its executive board , representing the secular political current `` muwatanah '' -lrb- arabic for `` citizenship '' -rrb- .
nyrabia worked on founding a democratic bloc inside the syrian coalition and joined the similar attempts lead by dissident writer and politician michael kilo .
in june 2014 , the democratic bloc , which became a major force inside the coalition , voted nyrabia to be its candidate to preside over the coalition , after ahmad jarba , who is a member of the same bloc .
