The Syrian journalist and political analyst Ahmed Sawan died after suffering with the disease. He is of Palestinian origin and was born before the Nakba in Palestinian Safad in 1947.
Sawan’s last media appearance was on the third of last February, on the “Al-Suriya” screen, before he was admitted to the hospital late last month.
According to the biography that Sawan wrote and published by the Damascus branch of the Syrian Journalists Union, he began working as an editor in the government newspaper Al-Thawra since 1967. He was a founding member of the Syndicate of Journalists in 1968 and a founding member of the Union of Journalists in 1975.
He received a number of press assignments, including:
Presidency of the political studies department in the Syrian Revolution newspaper in 1976.
Presidency of the editor-in-chief of the local Al-Fida newspaper in Hama in 1978.
Chief editor of the daily Al-Wehda newspaper, which was published in Lattakia in 1984, and he was its first founding editor-in-chief.
– Editorial secretariat of Tishreen newspaper in 1989, then director of editing for Tishreen weekly magazine since its publication in early 1998, then director of research at the Unity Foundation in March 2001.
He held the position of advisor to the Minister of Information between the years 1985 – 1987 and 2002 – 2004.
He worked as a political commentator at Radio Damascus since 1976, and prepared for television in 1992 for three years the programs “Spotlight on Events” and “Beyond the News.”
Editor-in-chief of Voice of Palestine magazine in 1980 until his death.
He has a number of books, including:
Lectures on the Palestinian issue issued in 1991.
– “Heavy Ball”, a political study on the peace process since the Madrid Conference, published in 2000.
Al-Aqsa Intifada and Western Media – Damascus 2001.
Hafez al-Assad, an immortal national school, in 2002 – Beirut.
– “The Trial”, a political study on the Zionist campaign against the stream of Arab nationalism in Israel – published in 2003 in Damascus.
Sawan holds a BA in Literature, Department of Arabic Language, from Damascus University in 1973, and a diploma in Media / Journalism Branch 1972.
Source: RT
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