Minister of Tourism from 2001 to 2011, Syrian Arab Republic. He is a member of the “Syrian Artists Syndicate,” the “ Teachers Syndicate ,” and the “ Syrian Engineers Syndicate .” He is the owner of the “Second Songbook Encyclopedia,” a musician, and a zither player. He participated in establishing the “ Syrian Scientific Society for Informatics ”, and served as a member of the Society’s Board of Directors between 1989 and 2001. He also held a number of positions at the “ University of Damascus ”, including: professor of computer engineering, teaching assistant in the College of Civil Engineering, and director of electronic computing in the same college between 1988. And 1995, and head of the Department of Topographic Engineering. He also founded the Surveying and Accurate Geodesy Unit in 1985. He has many studies, research, books, and television programs, such as: “The Arabs and Music Program,” “The Informatics Program” between 1997 and 2001, and “The Book of Programming and Information Processing,” and “Syrian Tourism Atlas.” He won the “Zaryab International Award in Music” in 2016, the “Al-Basil Award for Intellectual Production” in 1999, the “Title of Best Arab Program Presenter” for “The Asmahan Program,” and the Gold Medal for Best Presentation in 1996 during the “Cairo Radio and Television Festival.” He holds a doctorate in information engineering in 1982 from France. He also studied engineering between 1967 and 1972 at the University of Aleppo , and music between 1956 and 1966 at the Music Institute in Aleppo.