Abyaḍ wa Aswad (Arabic: أبيض وأسود, lit.

'Black and White') is an Arabic independent weekly political culture magazine published in Damascus, Syria.

[1] Publication license was granted in 2002, making the magazine the first independent political weekly in Syria.

[6][7] The magazine adopts a critical attitude towards the activities of the Syrian government[1] and contains reform-oriented articles.

[8][9] For instance, the magazine criticized the Syrian foreign ministry in 2003 for not attending the special session of the UN Security Council during which UN Security Council resolution 1483 that was about ending the sanctions against Iraq had been voted.