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Sami Moubayed

Damascus, Syria

Sami Moubayed is a Syrian political analyst and historian based in Damascus, Syria. Moubayed is the author of "Damascus Between Democracy and Dictatorship (2000)" and "Steel & Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria 1900-2000 (2006)." He has also authored a biography of Syria's former President Shukri al-Quwatli and currently serves as Associate Professor at the Faculty of International Relations at al-Kalamoun University in Syria. In 2004, he created Syrianhistory.com, the first and online museum of Syrian history. He is also co-founder and editor-in-chief of FORWARD, the leading English monthly in Syria, and Vice-President of Haykal Media. Close.

Sami Moubayed

Damascus, Syria

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Entries from Sami Moubayed at PostGlobal tagged with 'Syria'

Palestinian Land, Freedom, and Justice

The Palestinian and Arab dream is not so far removed from Martin Luther King's.

Region's Dynamic Will Change, Regardless of the Outcome

Peace isn't likely, but a regional shake-up is.

Syrian Population Rides Political Tides

For many years, Syria suffered from major depopulation, when people were forced to leave due to political upheavals.

Wanted: Inspiring Syrian Heroes

Young Syrians want leaders who attract investment and jobs, not those who preach revolution.

Syria's Misguided Optimism

Young nations—like young people—sometimes do crazy things. The Syrian Republic was 28 years old when the Golan Heights were occupied in 1967. Young, passionate, spirited—and foolish—it dragged itself, and everybody around it, into a imbalanced war with Israel. The rest...

Damascus Needs Lovers

Syria’s capital has few good role models for how to love.

Good Christians, and Orientalists to the Bone

Christmas celebrations in Syria don’t mean westernization – after all, Christmas came from the East.

Sexual Repression in Syria

Many in the Arab World are sexually deprived. Outlawing prostitution only makes it flourish in the underground. Syria once legalized prostitution, and should do so again.

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