Thursday, September 01, 2005

Syria Gives permission to 17 Magazines and Newspapers

Syria has authorized on Wednesday licenses for 17 magazines and newspapers to deal with various advertisement, culture, social, art, marketing, informatics, designing and animation topics.

Prime Minister Mohammed Naji Ottri issued decisions in this respect among which is a magazine for the Syrian Computer Society to be issued monthly, and another for animations in English and Arabic called " The Animation World," in addition to a social and cultural magazine for the Roman Orthodox Archbishopric of Homs, central Syria.

The licenses are to cover all the regions in Syria including Tartous on the Syrian coast and Deir al- Zour , Northeast Syria.

S. Younes.