Religious Double Standard: Big Surprise

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Forward Magazine

By Mehdi Rifai,
Part of me wants to leave this particular can of worms alone, but I’m not going to. It’s been a few years since the Danish cartoons, since the Dutch Submission, and since the Pope’s somewhat insensitive comments about Muslims. Personally – and I do mean personally: These are not Forward Magazines views, not [...]

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Young Syrian manager speaks about personal success story to Melody FM’s (Shabab Soorya) – tonight 10pm

Posted on February 24, 2009 by 50% Syrian

Forward Magazine’s and Haykal Media’s advertising manager, Belar Saeb (24-years-old) will be guest interviewee at Radio Melody FM (97.9 fm) tonight. She will speak about her personal success story as a young manager and professional and the challanges young professionals face in the feild of media and advertising -  at 10pm during the popular Shabab [...]

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Carter v.s Forward Magazine: 1st Syrian media outlet to conduct an interview with a U.S President

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Forward Magazine

Forward Magazine is the first Syrian media outlet to ever carry out an interview with an American president. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is the first American leader to speak to Syrian media – he spoke to Forward last month and broke many important news, including:

The appointment of a US ambassador to Syria is expected [...]

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