Samir Nashar

Samir Nashar is a Syrian politician.

Political activities During his university studies in the late 1960s, Nashar joined the Arab Socialist Movement. He left the party after one of its splits into pro and anti Hafez al-Assad factions. In 2007, Nashar tried to form a movement of elites in Aleppo, called the Free Patriotic Movement. The group became inactive as a result of pressure from the security forces.

In November 2025, during the Syrian transitional government that followed the fall of the Assad regime, Nashar argued that federalization was the most realistic model for reorganising Syrian governing structures.

Arrests In 2003, during the Presidency of Bashar al-Assad, Nashar was arrested along with other political activists. He was later released. He was released from custody on 27 March.