Syria’s daily news scoops on Twitter

Posted on May 31, 2009 by 50% Syrian

Forward Magazine is now on Twitter, bringing Twitter-ers the latest news from Syria: Inside information and scoops you can’t find anywhere, stories from the homeland that only journalists have access to, untold stories from the nooks and crannies of Damascus and beyond.

Read Syria’s daily headlines on http://twitter.com/ForwardMagSyria

Syria now on Twitter

Syria scoops now on Twitter

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Banking in Syria 2009… Coming Soon ~ a special guide by Forward Magazine

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Forward Magazine

Syria’s comprehensive banking guide is on its way out… very soon. A special guide by Forward Magazine, “Banking in Syria 2009” is your guide to financial reforms and everything related to banks in Syria.

For more information, visit www.fw-magazine.com/node/1380

Banking in Syria 2009 guide - By Forward Magazine

To order your copy inside and outside Syria

For more details on Banking in Syria 2009…
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Abortion in Syria… under the microscope

Posted on May 24, 2009 by 50% Syrian

A few issues ago – in March – we dedicated our cover story to talk about abortion in Syria. I just found this Arabic article about our issue in all4syria website.

Forward Magazine, March 2009, Abortion in SyriaAnyhow, the stories reported in this article are spine-tingling. As I was giving the article a final look, after Mehdi was done with the editing, I couldn’t help but think about how well-written the article is. There was no ethical stand in the narrative. You as a reader were free to decide for yourself whether you thought the women in the article took an ethical decision or not. Some of them had 10 children and wanted no extra child to burden an already poor family, while others had a dream career to follow and wanted no extra child to impede her ambitions.

Personally, I was never able to have an opinion on the matter of abortion. I feel it’s up to God, He knows what motivates women (and people in general) to do what they do… who am I to judge? I don’t have enough knowledge nor wisdom to have a clear stand about this issue. It seems when it comes to abortion it is a case-by-case topic… it’s never black or white… in any kind of “crime” – if we wanna start by partially calling it so.

Ok, I am done with my dose of monologue for the day,

Ruba

Forward Magazine

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