Syria Through Western Eyes

by Mansour Omari

The major international newspapers and magazines lacks real look at the civil and social movements and activities in Syria, and in return these media outlets turned into a sponge thirsty for exciting news and moving images and video clips of the tragic events or military developments, and as a result of it seems like obsessed with terrorism, what turned them into a kind of yellow journalism in one way or another in dealing with what could trigger the western receiving attention, and omitted the presence of a large segment of Syrian society and the struggle of civil and peaceful community, and painted a picture replete with violence and red and black colors in Syria in the minds of the western audience what led them to look to Syria to be an epicenter of horror and prefer not to get involved in.
It is a major influential problem in the formation of Western public opinion, a view formed by the individual or coherent groups, towards the events in Syria by in the international media outputs depending on the selective content and alteration of the information depending on a specific approach or moving away from the truth, through the innovative descriptions that rely mostly on the use of vocabulary or inappropriate terms.

184 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Mansour al-Omari (Arabic: منصور العمري‎) is a Syrian journalist and human rights defender, he contributed to the documentation of human rights violations in Syria with the beginning of the Syrian Uprising. al-Omari was born in the Syrian capital of Damascus in 1979 to a middle-class family,
In 2010 he was the editor in chief of the English section of Peace Weekly, the Syrian edition of the US magazine, and the official translator of Damascus Short Film Festival, later he played a basic role in conveying the western point of view of the Syrian news to the Arab world, basically writing for Orient net, and other Syrian local media outlets. and also worked a s a translator for HRW, CMFE and VDC.
Awards
Mansour al-Omari received the PEC Award in June 2012, The PEC Award is given annually by the PEC committee to reward a person or an organization who worked for the protection of journalists and the freedom of the press, at that time al-Omari was still detained.
In 2013 He received The Hellman-Hammett Award that recognizes writers for their commitment to free expression and their courage in the face of political persecution.