Radio interview TONIGHT with Syria’s Sami Moubayed (Forward Magazine’s chief editor)

Forward Magazine’s editor in chief, Dr. Sami Moubayed, will be guest interviewee at Radio Melody FM (97.9 fm) tonight at 10pm to talk about his career as university instructor, historian, writer and journalist. Moubayed, who is only 31 years old, has conquered many terrains on the media front and is considered one of the top [...]

Suggestion Box of Doomed Ideas: Cinema in Syria

 
I had intended this for a later post, but I got to thinking about it since so many coffee shops were being overrun by viewers of soccer matches. First, though, some background of the situation as I understand it. In the good old days we only hear about in magazines (like our March 2009 issue [...]

The Suggestion Box of Doomed Ideas: Parking in Damascus

In what might become a regular feature of the blog, I start today with a suggestion that truly can only be described as doomed. Not because it’s a bad idea, mind you, I don’t think it is, and I’ve had some support. Simply put, it is doomed because no one will ever, ever take the [...]

World Economic Forum names Syrian entrepreneur as Young Global Leader

  The Davos-based World Economic Forum (WEF) named a Syrian entrepreneur to be among 200 most distinguished young leaders in 2009. Abdulsalam Haykal, founder and CEO of Transtek Information Systems and Haykal Media, was selected as a Young Global Leader by WEF’s selection committee, composed of top media leaders and chaired by Her Majesty Queen [...]