Sami Moubayed and Tammam Salam. In December 2008, he was the first Syrian to interview a US president, being Jimmy Carter. Additionally, Moubayed has been accredited with landmark interviews with Brazilian bestselling author Paolo Coelho and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales . In 2004, along with Syrian web-designer Sahban Abd Rabbo, Moubayed co-founded www.syrianhistory.com, an online museum of Syrian history containing over 10,000 photographs, documents, and rare audiovisual material on Syria during the years 1900-2000. The website also contains unpublished audio clips from historical Syrian figures. Moubayed has written much about pre-Baath Syria, and in 2016, was voted into the London-based Royal Historical
Dave Shea (web designer) Dave Shea (web designer) Dave Shea is a Canadian web designer and co-author of "The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web". He is known for his work in web-standard development—from his design community project CSS Zen Garden to his active contributions at the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Shea is also a writer “for a large global audience of web designers and developers on his popular blog, Mezzoblue” and is the founder and creative director of Bright Creative in Vancouver, BC. Along with co-authoring his own book with Molly E. Holzschlag, Shea has contributed to online magazines "Digital