About The Author
Osama Al Sharif is a veteran journalist living in Amman, Jordan. His experience as publisher, editor and syndicated writer in Arabic and English spans more than 25 years.
He was educated in the United Kingdom and the United States and received his bachelor of journalism from the prestigious University of Missouri in Columbia in 1982. He edited the Amman based The Jerusalem Star for few years before launching The Star weekly in 1989.
In 1994 he co-founded Arabian Publishing Company, which published BYTE Middle East, an IT monthly, and other pan-Arab magazines. He also was co-founder and Chief Editor of Arabia.com, the Arab world’s first online portal. In the late 1990s he managed The Gulf Today in the UAE, before returning to Jordan to become chief editor of Ad-Dustour, Jordan’s oldest Arabic daily. In 1996 he became a member of the Royal Committee for the National Agenda and was responsible for drafting the guidelines for a liberal mass media law.
In addition to doing consultancies, especially for print and online media, he is a syndicated political writer in Arabic and English. His weekly and monthly essays appear in Ad-Dustour (Jordan), Al-Ayyam (Bahrain), Gulf News (UAE), Arab News (Saudi Arabia), Venture (Jordan) and The Star (Jordan).