Bassel Alhamdo

When Syria’s national football association handed a marketing deal to a Damascus start-up in 2019, the terms looked very favorable for the little-known firm. The company, Afkar Co. for Art, Visual and Advertisement Services, had no website and left little digital or media footprint.

It was midway through the second half when Syria’s young forward, Mohammed al-Hamwi, pounced on a header across goal and knocked it past the Italian keeper,putting his country on the path to one of its most dramatic international soccer victories. Syria’s 2-1 triumph over Italy in the group stages of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship electrified the nation, and crowned a run of eye-catching wins by the youth team over the previous decade and a half.

09. März 2020 Wir wollen über Kriterien der Auslandsberichterstattung diskutieren. Am 6. April 2020 um 16.00 Uhr laden CORRECTIV und der journalist zu einer Podiumsdiskussion in die Repräsentanz der Robert Bosch Stiftung (Französische Straße 32). Alle Infos hier. Als Hans-Ulrich Gack, der Leiter des ZDF-Studios in Kairo, 2017 den renommierten Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis erhielt, war der Laudator voll des Lobes: Er sei einer, der dort sei, wo Konflikt und Krieg erfahrbar werde.