As Herodotus 3rd Age Academy, we invite you to the public presentation titled “Syria; Before Yesterday, Yesterday and Today” which will be given on Thursday, November 24, 2022 15:00 at The Karia Hotel (former Karia Princess) by our association’s past president Dr. Samer Atasi.
The presentation will be in English and accompanied by power point slide show. It will also be open to the public, we will be happy to see the friends of our members who would like to join us.
Dr. Samer Atasi
He was born in Damascus in 1947. Atasi family records in Homs start in the 1450s. The family elders were mufti in the Syrian region during the Ottoman period. in 1876, the great-grandfather of Samer, Khaled was elected deputy in the first Ottoman Parliament, and his grandfather, Hashim Atasi, became chairman of the house and prime minister of the Syrian state, in 1919-1920, then the head of the “national front” against the French occupation and became president of Syria three times until 1955. Samer’s mother’s side is from Istanbul Beylerbey.
Samer went to school in Damascus and Beirut. After highschool, he studied electronic engineering and mathematics in Paris. Then while working at the research center of the French “Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique”, he received in 1972 Docteur Ingenieur and in 1975 Docteur es Sciences Mathematiques diplomas.
He joined the scientific research body of IBM in 1978 and between 1980-1988 he founded and directed the Kuwait-based “IBM Scientific Center”. . This center has established joint projects in environmental sciences and computer linguistics with universities and research centers in the Gulf.
He came to Turkey in 1988 and founded the company “Universal Elektronik Teknoloji Ltd”. The company was an importer and distributor of electronic security products. In 2010, Samer relinquished his share of the company and came to Bodrum to retire. Samer is starting a second retirement after serving 2 terms as H3A president. Samer is interested in AI and linguistics. He is currently trying to improve his German as a seventh language.