Sami Moubayed
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Born | London | 16 July 1978
Occupation | Historian |
Nationality | Syrian |
Subject | Syria and the Middle East |
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Sami Moubayed (Arabic: سامي مروان مبيّض) (born 16 July 1978) is a Syrian historian and writer whose works cover the modern history of Damascus from the late Ottoman period until the creation of the United Arab Republic in 1958.[1]
In 2017, he co-founded the Damascus History Foundation, a non-governmental organization, aimed at preserving the archives of the ancient city of Damascus.[2]
Biography
[edit]Sami Moubayed, a native of Damascus, studied at the Faculty of Political Science at the American University of Beirut (
In 2000, Moubayed joined the Arab Political Document Center at
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Works
[edit]In 2004, along with Syrian web-designer Sahban Abd Rabbo, Moubayed co-founded www.syrianhistory.com, an online museum of Syrian history containing over 10,000 photographs, documents, and rare audiovisual material on Syria during the years 1900–2000.[7] The website also contains unpublished audio clips from historical Syrian figures.[citation needed]
Moubayed has written much about pre-Baath Syria and advocated for a political solution to the Syrian civil war.[8] In 2016, was voted into the London-based Royal Historical Society.
Selected works
[edit]He is the author of several books on modern Syria, including:
- The Politics of Damascus 1920-1946, (Damascus, 1998)[citation needed]
- Damascus Between Democracy and Dictatorship, (Maryland, 2000)[citation needed]
- Steel & Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria 1900-2000, (Cune Press, 2005)
- Syria and the USA: From Wilson to Eisenhower, (IB Tauris, 2012)
- Under the Black Flag: At the Frontier of the New Jihad, (IB Tauris, 2015)
- Forgotten Tales from Damascus: Four Stories 1916-1936, (Arabic, Riad El Rayyes Books, Beirut 2016)
- East of the Grand Umayyad: Damascene Freemasonry 1868-1965, (Arabic, Riad El Rayyes Books, Beirut 2017)
- West of the Damascus Synagogue (Arabic, Riad El Rayyes Books, Beirut 2018)
- The Makers of Modern Syria 1918-1958: The rise and fall of Syrian Democracy 1918-1958 (IB Tauris, London 2018)
In 2015, he compiled the correspondences of Syrian nationalist Abdul Rahman Shahbandar and Prime Minister Hasan al-Hakim, originally written during the years 1926–1936.[9] In 2018, he edited and compiled the memoirs of Husni al-Barazi, Syria's Prime Minister during World War II, and Ahmad al-Sharabati, Syria's defense minister during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948.
References
[edit]- ^ "Who is Sami Moubayed?". Al-Iqtissadi. Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ Sarah, Salameh (7 December 2017). "Inauguration of the Damascus History Foundation at the Orient Palace". Al-Watan Newspaper. Archived from the original on 10 December 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "Sami Moubayed, visiting scholar at Carnegie Middle East". Archived from the original on 10 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "Syrian History - Ex-Minister and MP Munir al-Ajlani with Syrian historian Sami Moubayed in Beirut on July 1, 1997". syrianhistory.com. Archived from the original on 15 December 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ "Sami Moubayed, visiting scholar at Carnegie Middle East". Archived from the original on 10 April 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- ^ "Sami Moubayed". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Archived from the original on 6 August 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ "موقع التاريخ السوري - أكبر مجموعة صور لتوثيق التاريخ السوري". Archived from the original on 22 September 2004. Retrieved 31 March 2007.
- ^ "Navigating the Syrian Crisis". carnegieendowment.org. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "أحدث رسالة في هذا الكتاب يناهز عمرها الثمانين عاماً ... مراسلات الشهبندر تثبت أن التآمر لم يتوقف على سورية وشعبها منذ القدم". صحيفة الوطن (in Arabic). 7 April 2018. Archived from the original on 8 April 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
External links
[edit]- Sami Moubayed Homepage . Retrieved 1 April 2007
- Forward Magazine
- The Washington Post, PostGlobal Panelist. Retrieved 1 April 2007
- Articles from worldpoliticswatch. Retrieved 1 April 2007
- Syria History Museum. Retrieved 1 April 2007