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beIN SPORTS Partners With Twitter For FIFA World Cup 2022
Twitter will share beIN content from every World Cup match with sports fans.
The beIN Media Group and its sports channel beIN SPORTS is the official broadcaster of the FIFA World Cup; this year hosted in Qatar in November 2022. To aid the distribution of its content, beIN has now entered a strategic partnership with social media powerhouse Twitter, which will see beIN providing exclusive content from the upcoming event.
beIN SPORTS will share and highlight important match moments throughout the event, giving brands more sponsorship opportunities through Twitter Amplify. The partnership will see 320 videos distributed, with highlights, analysis, and a summary of the important events from each match being shared through the @beINSPORTS Twitter account.
“We have seen a 74% increase in the monthly average volume of football content circulation among the platform’s users compared to the past 12 months. For example, Saudi Arabia alone recorded over 53 million tweets about football so far this year,” says Kinda Ibrahim, Twitter Head of Media Partnerships for the Middle East, Africa, & Turkey.
BeIN SPORTS is the region’s largest broadcaster, and fans will be treated to real-time coverage that will help to contribute to the atmosphere of this exciting event.
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“As one of the official media outlets that broadcast the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in 24 countries within the Middle East and North Africa, our teams of talent will work hard to deliver the best content and sports media coverage through the latest advanced technologies creating lasting memories in the minds of millions of followers across the region,” says Faisal Mahmoud Al Raisi, Digital Media Director, beIN Middle East & North Africa.
In a recent survey by GWI, over 261 million Twitter users admitted to following at least one major football-related account, with 72% praising the quality of the sports content, highlighting the value that the beIN and Twitter partnership can bring to everyone involved — including the fans.
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Visa’s Return To Syria Starts With A Test And A Bank In Lebanon
Foreign visitors will be the first users to benefit, but whether Syria’s own banks and cardholders follow is still an open question.
Visa is returning to Syria. Its first live international card transaction in the country was a test rather than a launch, and the milestone event ran through a Lebanese bank.
The acquirer (the bank on the merchant’s side of a card payment) was Fransabank Lebanon, with Paymera as the other named partner. Nadim Moujaes, who heads a Fransabank Group subsidiary, describes the test as both the culmination of “longstanding efforts to link Syria back to international payment networks” and “the first step in a larger path”.
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa makes the first electronic payment in Syria using a @Visa card at a store in Damascus, following the lifting of US sanctions on Syria. pic.twitter.com/lpAN7nQ6Fc
— Tech Magazine (@TechMGZN) August 27, 2026
“We are excited to have successfully tested live transactions today as we plan to enable international visitors to use their Visa cards while in Syria,” says Leila Serhan, Visa’s senior vice president and group country manager for the North Africa, Levant and Pakistan region. Although a significant first step, that plan doesn’t come with a hard date for when a visitor’s card will work normally.
Mohammed Safwat Raslan, governor of the Central Bank of Syria, says the test paves the way for international card acceptance in Syria and that maintaining strong compliance, risk management and operational controls will remain essential. Serhan likewise stresses that Visa has worked within applicable legal, regulatory and compliance requirements. For a test transaction, it seems there was a great deal of attention paid to the rules, with the entire operation being carefully managed.
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The test is the latest step in a sequence that began in December 2025, when Visa announced a strategic roadmap to support Syria’s integration into the global digital economy. In February 2026 it hosted its first industry gathering of banks, ecosystem partners and policymakers in Damascus and, the same month, signed an agreement with Syria’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in San Francisco.
Michel Kattouah, Paymera’s CEO, called the test “the return of international card acceptance,” but while that’s positive news, there’s no word yet on when a Syrian bank will issue a Visa card to a Syrian customer.
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