Issam Eid
Issam Eid (Arabic: عصام عيد) (born November 8) is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist/editor who is well known in the automotive world within the middle-east and gulf regions. He is between the young journalists who appeared in the automotive field from very early age. His first article "VW Beetle, the Love Bug"1 was published in September 2005 in ArabWheels2 magazine.
His articles ranged among ArabWheels and Telecom Review3 from 2005 till now. He wrote also for a period of time for 3arabiyi M3adali4, a Lebanese tuning corporation.
In 2008, Eid was elected president of the student council at the American University of Technology5. His name was mentioned in Al-Balad newspaper[]. On the same year, Issam has hosted a safety and entertaining campaign on campus entitled “Automotive Show” to avoid car accidents in Lebanon, featuring Lebanese Rally Champion Abdo Feghali6. It was covered by Al-Balad newspaper on the 28th of March 20087. Issam was interviewed for a small career history about his involvement in motoring journalism in Al-Akhbar newspaper on the 5th of May 20088.
Eid currently works as an editor for ArabWheels, owned by Trace Media9 with three other publications: Telecom Review, T210 and Weddings by Sporteve11.