Sami Moubayed

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name = Sami Moubayed


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website = http://www.samimoubayed.com

Sami Moubayed is a Syrian political analyst, journalist, and author based in Damascus, Syria. His articles on Middle East affairs have appeared in a variety of newspapers, including al-Ahram Weekly, Gulf News, The Daily Star, and Asia Times and an online panel with The Washington Post. He is the author of several books on modern Syria.

Biography

Moubayed studied at the American University of Beirut and obtained his PhD in Middle East Politics from the University of Exeter.

He currently teaches at the Faculty of International Relations at al-Kalamoun University in Syria. He is also Editor-in-Chief of FORWARD, the leading English monthly in Syria, and Vice-President of Haykal Media. Over the last ten-years, Moubayed has interviewed leading regional and international figures, like German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Lebanese President Elias Hrawi.

Works

His works focus on Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine. He is the co-creator of www.syrianhistory.com, an online museum of Syrian history. It contains over 4,000 photographs, documents, and rare audiovisual material on Syria during the years 1900-2000.

Moubayed has written much about pre-Baath Syria, and is a specialist on former Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli, whose biography he authored in a book entitled "The George Washington of Syria" (Beirut, 2005). He has currently finished writing a television script for a 30-episode series on the former Syrian leader.

Selected works

He is the author of several books on modern Syria, including:

The George Washington of Syria (Beirut, 2005)

Biography of Syrian President Shukri al-Quwatli,

Damascus Between Democracy and Dictatorship (Maryland, 2000)

This book covers the periods between 1949 and 1957, when ten coups shook Syria. Each attempt to overthrow the government was led by powers sympathetic to either the Soviet Union or the United States. The book claims ultimately that this destroyed Syria's chances for a stable democracy.

Steel & Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria 1900-2000 (Cune Press, 2006)

Book that cover the Syrian nationalists who led the independence struggle against the French.

External links

* [http://www.samimoubayed.com Sami Moubayed Homepage] (Last Accessed: 1st April 2007)
* [http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/sami_moubayed/ The Washington Post, PostGlobal Panelist] (Last Accessed: 1st April 2007)
* [http://www.worldpoliticswatch.com/author.aspx?id=23 Articles from worldpoliticswatch] ] (Last Accessed: 1st April 2007)
* [http://www.syrianhistory.com Syria History Museum] (Last Accessed: 1st April 2007)