Firas Sallam

Firas Sallam is an academic instructor whose research bridges modern administrative and governance sciences with classical Islamic jurisprudence. He came to these questions from practice: some twenty-five years in aviation, in flight dispatch, operations control, and quality, safety and training management, including as Manager of Quality, Safety & Training at AVISAV in Algeria. He now teaches Aviation Systems and Management at Qatar Aeronautical Academy in Doha.

A single question runs through his books: how does a system learn that it is going wrong? In aviation and management, he answers it with the Synergy Management Approach, set out in How To Manage Aviation Safety: Advancing to Safety II with Synergy Management Approach and Lead With Synergy: How Great Leaders Engineer Synergy from Diverse Talents. Air Law for Flight Dispatchers is a guide compliant with ICAO Doc 10106. In Four Idols That Must Fall: What Can Tell a Civilization It Is Wrong?, he turns the tools of safety science, systems theory and cybernetics on modern political and epistemic institutions.

He translated John Dewey’s Liberalism and Social Action into Arabic, with an introductory study and indexes, and co-founded Dar Ikdam, a publishing house and research center in Istanbul. He writes in English and Arabic.