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). In 2023, he was a visiting fellow at Durham University, UK, and in 2006 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 and in 2025 joined the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Qatar.

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