Forward Magazine
| Editor in Chief | Sami Moubayed |
|---|---|
| Categories | Newsmagazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 12,000 monthly |
| Publisher | Abdulsalam Haykal |
| First issue | 5 January 2007 |
| Company | Haykal Media |
| Country | Syria |
| Based in | Damascus |
| Language | English |
| Website | Forward |
Forward Magazine is a Syrian English-language newsmagazine published monthly in Damascus from 2007-2011.
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.
Forward Magazine was founded by media and technology entrepreneur Abdulsalam Haykal. The first edition appeared on 5 January 2007. According to a statement on the magazine's website, Forward was built "on the firm conviction that the only way is forward in Syria and other options do not exist." While the magazine claims to be "the only balanced, local, and reliable source of information on Syria in the English language," some observers have dubbed it as "pro-regime."
The magazine has been able to attract several leading media figures as contributors including David Ignatius of The Washington Post, Hala Gorani of CNN, and Riz Khan of al-Jazeera. It has featured exclusive interviews with international figures, including former US President Jimmy Carter, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, and Syria's First Lady Asma al-Assad.
The magazine has established its own blog recently, Untold Damascene Stories, with its own writers as the blog's contributors.
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