| Sami Moubayed | |
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| Born | date of birth unknown Syria |
| Occupation | Writer historian Journalist |
| Nationality | Syrian |
| Subjects | Syria and the Middle-east |
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www.samimoubayed.com |
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Sami Moubayed (سامي المبيض) is a Syrian political analyst,[1] journalist, and author based in Damascus, Syria. He is editor-in-chief of Forward Magazine, published in English in Syria since 2006. His articles on Middle East affairs have appeared in a variety of newspapers, including al-Ahram Weekly, Gulf News, The Daily Star, Asia Times, and an online panel with The Washington Post. He is the author of several books on modern Syria and his latest: "Syria and the USA: From Wilson to Eisenhower" is due for release in the US in May 2011, by IB Tauris.
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Moubayed studied at the Faculty of Political Science 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 and serves as a member of the university's Board of Trustees. He is also Vice-President of Haykal Media, the publisher of Forward Magazine. Over the last ten-years, Moubayed has interviewed leading regional and international figures, like Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, and Lebanese Presidents Elias Hrawi and Amin Gemayel.In December 2008, he was the first Syrian journalist to interview a US president, being ex-President Jimmy Carter, during the latter's visit to Damascus. The interview was published in Forward Magazine (a posh pro government magazine in Syria), the 1st Syrian media outlet to publish an article of the caliber. he also turned some heads lately by calling for the government to legalize prostitution, a taboo subject in a middle eastern country.
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, which is due for release in 2009.
He is the author of several books on modern Syria, including: