Designation: Historian, Writer, elected researcher

Organization: Royal Historical Society in London

Sami Moubayed is a Syrian author, historian, and founding chairman of The Damascus History Foundation. A former Carnegie scholar, he was recently a visiting scholar at Durham University in the UK and is a regular writer for Gulf News and the London-based Al Majala. His book Siket Al Tramway was a finalist, shortlisted for the 2023 Sheikh Zayed Book Award.