He is a Syrian journalist and blogger, born in Damascus on March 29, 1989. He is famous for his field coverage of the events of the Syrian Civil War. He worked with a number of Syrian local media and international news agencies. He graduated from Damascus University - Faculty of Mass Communication in 2011, then continued his postgraduate studies there and obtained a master's degree with distinction - majoring in public relations and public opinion in 2018
The Media

He started his media career as a coordinator of the press team at the Syrian Center for Documentation, then moved to Sham FM Radio, for which he worked as a correspondent in Damascus in 2012, as a delegate to most of the governorates in the midst of the Syrian events, then he worked as a correspondent for a private Kuwaiti channel in late 2013, after which he cooperated with TV. and BBC Arabic Radio in 2014, before moving in mid-2015 to work with the French Press Agency (France Press) office in Damascus and become one of its correspondents in Syria, and in April 2020 he became the director of its office in Damascus. On the sidelines of his field work, Al-Mounis became known for his activity on Facebook through his participation in editing the page of Diary of a Mortar Shell in Damascus, in addition to his own news account, in which he publishes daily reports on the field and service situation in Damascus and its countryside. He worked as a media consultant for the United Nations Development Program in Syria from 2019 until the beginning of 2020, and he is currently teaching the practical side of journalism at the Faculty of Mass Communication at Damascus University since 2017, in the departments of public relations and journalism.

Blogging

Maher Almones has been writing on his own blog (Overdose Blog) since 2009

The movies

Hana Damascus, (Author), Directed by: Duha Ibrahim Aam/ 2012, Ten Minutes After Birth, (Author), Directed by: Nadine Al-Habel/ 2013, Sun Seed, (Writing and Directing) / 2013 Military Line, (Author), Directed Photo report: Dany Ghannam / 2014, Now Its Time (idea and direction) / 2015

The prizes received

1Best Arab blogger award in 2012 for the "Alphabet of Spontaneous Creativity" competition to select 100 posts from what they wrote in literature, story, politics and poetry. Best cinematic script award in 2014 within the Youth Cinema competition held by the General Foundation for Cinema in Syria for the movie Ten Minutes After Birth. The Fakhri Al-Baroudi Award for Young Historians for the year 2019 (second place) held by the Damascus History Foundation, for a research entitled “8:30 Damascus time,” documenting the journey of radio and television in the transmission and spread of news during the period from 1951 to 1979 in Damascus.