Faltering Homelands and Missed Opportunities- Reflections on the State of the Ummah Dialogues with H.E. Sheikh Saif bin Hashil Al Maskery- Assem Rashwan

, through many senior positions, he held throughout his long career in public service, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, rising from the Third Secretary to being appointed as the permanent representative of Oman to the UN, Geneva, Assistant Secretary General of the GCC, back to head of the Media department, MFA, before being appointed Secretary of State for Tourism. He was a member of the State Council for three terms. He’s a member of the Consultative Council for the GCC Supreme Council and a founding member of the Arab Parliament.

Synopsis:
The book is a collection of a series of interviews with Sheikh Saif Al Maskery, conducted by the well-known journalist Assem Rashwan, on various topics, political, economic, and social affairs relevant to the Middle East. His reflections and opinions on the many events witnessed by the region over the last century are an invaluable historic documentation of a volatile and important area and are an engrossing must-read.

Author:
Assem Rashwan
Born in Sohag province, Upper Egypt 1955.
BA Journalism and Publishing – Cairo University
Worked for Rose Al Yusuf, Dar al-Hilal, and the Mosawer magazines
1984 – 1987 editor-in-chief of Bahrain’s Echo of the Week magazine.
1987 -2017 helped establish and became director of UAE newspaper “Gulf” in Oman
and worked as a military correspondent from the UAE’s Gulf House during Yemen’s civil war in the summer of 1994.
contributed to the preparation of 13 books issued by the Ministry of Information in Oman.
published a series of books, most notably:
Eyewitness Vision – the first documentary book on the experience of the Omani Shura – 1999 – Gulf House of Journalism, Printing and Publishing UAE
“Harvesting the Forty and the Way to the Future” 2010 by the Amman Press Foundation.
Qaboos. Sultan um Sahib” Riad al-Rais – Beirut 2015.
“The homelands of the fallen machine.” 2016.