Fakhri al-Barudi Author

Sami Moubayed is a Syrian-British historian and founding chairman of the Damascus History Foundation. He specializes in pre-Ba‘th Syria and his most recent book is The Seat of Damascus Power (2024). He is also the author of The Makers of Modern Syria (2018), Under the Black Flag (2015), and Syria and the USA (2012). In 2023, he was a visiting fellow at Durham University, UK, and in 2006 he helped found the Syrian Studies Center at St Andrews University in Scotland. In 2012–2014, he worked as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Middle East in Beirut.

Fakhri al-Barudi (1887–1966) was a Syrian nationalist leader and poet.