''Abyaḍ wa Aswad'' ( ar, أبيض وأسود, , ''Black and White'') is an Arabic independent weekly

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published in

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, Syria. The magazine is privately owned.

History and profile

''Abyad wa Aswad'' was established in early 2001. Publication license was granted in 2002, making the magazine the first independent political weekly in Syria. The first issue appeared on 22 July 2002. The magazine, headquartered in Damascus, is a privately owned publication. Bilal Turkmani, former defense minister

Hasan Turkmani Hasan Ali Turkmani ( ar, حسن توركماني; 27 January 1935 – 18 July 2012) was a prominent Syrian military commander and Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party member. He served as the minister of defense in Syria from 2004 to 2009. He and t ...

's son, is the owner of ''Abyad wa Aswad''. The magazine adopts a critical attitude towards the activities of the

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and contains reform-oriented articles. For instance, the magazine criticized the Syrian foreign ministry in 2003 for not attending the special session of the

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had been voted. It further argued that both the foreign ministry and other governmental bodies had no dynamism and flexibility.

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