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Editor in Chief | Sami Moubayed |
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Staff writers | Ruba Saqer, Mehdi Rifai |
Categories | Newsmagazine |
Frequency | Monthly |
Circulation | 12,000 monthly |
Publisher | Abdulsalam Haykal |
First issue | 5 January 2007 |
Final issue | November 2011 |
Company | Haykal Media |
Country | Syria |
Based in | Damascus |
Language | English |
Forward Magazine was a Syrian English-language newsmagazine published monthly in Damascus existed from January 2007 to November 2011.[1]
It was the first private English-language periodical to be licensed in Syria since all private media was nationalized by Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1958 during the short-lived Syrian-Egyptian union. The magazine started in January 2007 with the motto, "The Only Way is Forward." In December 2009, Forward launched its digital edition in collaboration with Pressmart Media.