Personal
- Name: Omar Shabsigh
Education: Degrees:
- Ph. D. Technical Sciences, Academy of Communications, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1977,
- Army General Staff High Diploma, Frunze Military Academy, Moscow, 1977,
- B.S.E.E., University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1958
Work:
2008 – Now: Elected member to the Arabic Language Academy in Damascus.
1999 – Now: Telecommunications and computing consultant
2003: Disaster telecommunications consultant to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
1986 - 1999: President of the company “Computer Systems Ltd.”
1965 - Now: Lecturer, Factually of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. University of Damascus. One of the founders of the Electrical Engineering Department.
1959-1986: Army officer, retired as Brigadier General
1968-1972: Chief Engineer of the Signal Corps of the Armed Forces.
1968-1972: Member of the Board of Directors at the Syrian Telecom.
Awards:
1981: Award of Merit of the year for the design and implementation of a multi-high speed PSK modem given by the Scientific Studies and Research Center.
Publications:
A) Books:
- Principles of Radio, translated from English into Arabic, 1962, 2 volumes.
- Principles of Electricity, translated from French into Arabic, 1964, 2 volumes.
- Electrical Measuring Equipment, in Arabic, 1965. (A university text book).
- Electronic Measurements, in Arabic, 1965. (A university text book).
- Mathematics in military operations, translated from Russian into Arabic, 1979.
- Operations Research, translated from Russian into Arabic, 1980.
- Prediction of propagation for HF frequencies for radio amateurs, in Arabic, 1981
- Modern digital modulation techniques. Part I, Minimum Shift Keying, in Arabic, 1982.
- DX amateur communications, in Arabic, 1986.
- Deciphering of old writings in the Caucasus, translated from Russian into Arabic, 1992.
- Advanced Electronic Communication Systems, translated from English into Arabic, 1994, published by the Arab League.
- Genocide of the Adighe, translated from Russian into Arabic, 1995.
- Memories of a Russian Officer in the Caucasus, translated from Russian into Arabic, 1997.
- The Loss of Circassia, translated from Russian into Arabic, 2002.
- Emergency communications equipment operation, in Arabic 2003
- Emergency Communications, in Arabic, 2003.
- Disaster Management, translated from English into Arabic, 2003.
- Radio Reference Book, in Arabic, 2004.
- Handbook of Alpha digital communications program, translated from German, 2004.
- Handbook of Multipsk digital communications program, translated from French, 2004.
- Concise Handbook of Radio Communications, in Arabic.
- Detection and Estimation Theory, Schonhoff & Giordano, graduate text book translated from English into Arabic, 2011, published by the Arab League for Arab Universities.
B) Articles and papers
Scientific papers:
- Fuel Cells, in Arabic, 1966.
- Reliability of electronic equipment, in Arabic, 1966.
- Principles of using computers for military purposes, in Arabic, 1968.
- Introduction to single side-band (SSB), in Arabic, 1968.
- Coaxial cable communications, in Arabic, 1968.
- Boolean algebra, in Arabic, 1969.
- Frequency synthesizers, in Arabic, 1969.
- Random Access Discrete Address (RADA) communications, Translated from English from Signal magazine, 1969.
- Satellite communications, in Arabic, 1969.
- Tropospheric radio communications, in Arabic, 1970.
- Using loading coils on voice cables, in Arabic, 1970.
- Stability of PSK radio communications under interference, in Russian, 1975.
- Digital radio communications, in Arabic, 1979.
- Automation of command and control systems, in Arabic, 1980.
- The computer as a tool in command and control, in Arabic, 1981.
- Types of digital modulation of radio signals, in Arabic, 1981.
- Effect of CW interference on MSK reception, IEEE transactions on Communications, August, 1982. (First ever for a Syrian from inside Syria).
- Characteristics of banking computerization, in Arabic, 1997.
- Enterprise computerization vis-à-vis personal computing, in Arabic, 1997.
- Algorithms for the Optimal Reception of Binary DPSK Signals in the Presence of Gaussian Noise and Interference, ICTTA IEEE conference, March 2004.
- Optimal reception of MSK signals under CW interference, in English, to be published soon in the IEEE.
Management papers:
- Helping people become what you want, in Arabic, 1981.
- The abominable No-man, translated from English into Arabic, 1981.
- Release yourself from tension, in Arabic, 1981.
- Let us open our inner minds, in Arabic, 1981.
- Solving disputes, translated from English into Arabic, 1982.
- Indication guilt, translated from English into Arabic, 1983.
- Law of delay, translated from English into Arabic, 1984.
- Accusing somebody for the failure of a project, translated from English,
1985.
- Learning begins where others reached, Tishrin Newspaper, 1997.
Other papers:
- Bad practices in using the correct Arabic language, Tishrin Newspaper, 1997.
- Air and water pollution in Damascus area, Tishrin Newspaper, 1997.
- Using Arabic local dialects, its negative effects on the language, Tishrin Newspaper, 1997.
- Suggestions about using formal Arabic in everyday activities, Tishrin Newspaper, 1997
- Formal Arabic, a very musical-sounding language, Tishrin Newspaper,
1997.
- The Arabic language in schools and in the media, Tishrin Newspaper, 1997.
- Hopefully, a positive step in the introduction of computerization in Syria, Tishrin Newspaper, 1997.
- Lessons that should be learned from the Tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean (Tishreen News Paper, January 2005)
Papers in political science:
- A war with no casualties, translated from English, 1970.
- The making of the modern Arab, Tishrin Magazine, 1998.
- The Historical French-Israeli relations, Tishrin Magazine, 2000
- Series of article on the policies of education. Tishrin Magazine. 1999-2000
- What is required from private universities? Tishrin Magazine, 2001
- The Government did it again. Tishrin Newspaper, 2003.
- A bribe is a bribe. Tishrin Newspaper, 2004.
- How we Arabs abused our language. Tishrin Newspaper, 2004
- The education crisis in Syria. WEB site www.all4syria.org , 2004
C) Major University Projects Supervised:
- Frequency shift keyed modem using phase-locked loop.
- Differential phase-shift keyed modem.
- Four phase shift keyed modem.
- Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) communication system.
- A high frequency transmitter receiver.
- Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS).
- A software defined transceiver (SDR) for the HF bands.
(All of them firsts in Syria and first in the Arab world).
Languages
Arabic, English, Russian, French, Circassian and some German and now improving it, Learning Turkish.
Societies
- Syrian Engineering Society.
- Syrian Computer Society.
- IEEE (Life member).
- IEEE Communication Society.
- IEEE Computer Society.
- New York Academy of Sciences.
- National Geographic Society.
- Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT).
- Syrian Scientific Technical Amateur Radio Society (The Syrian Radio Amateur Society).
- Northern California DX Foundation.
- Friends of Damascus Society
- Circassia Benevolent Society, Syria
Hobbies:
· Reading
· Photography
· Music
· Amateur Radio
· Astronomy
· Environment protection