Abdulsalam_Haykal
Abdulsalam Haykal
Syrian entrepreneur (born 1978)
Abdulsalam Haykal (Arabic: عبد السّلام هيكل) (born July 14, 1978, in Damascus) is a Syrian technology and media entrepreneur, who lives and works in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is the co-founder of Haykal Media, one of the Middle East’s main provider of digital knowledge and information platforms in Arabic, with several flagship products including the Arabic editions of Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Popular Science, the new magazine Aliqtisadi, the English monthly Forward Magazine and Manhom[1] (a large directory of individuals and companies in the Arabic language). The Report: Emerging Syria 2008 listed Haykal Media with its magazines and online media as one of three main players in the media sector in Syria.[2] Haykal is also the founder and a board member of Transtek, an enterprise software development firm.