Gratitude to the American University in Cairo faculty.

Thank you for leading AUC as its thirteenth president with a historian's depth and a builder's agenda, from Campus 2026 to climate research, keeping a century-old university young.

Thank you for two decades of service to AUC, from teaching physics to shaping the whole university's academic vision as Provost, showing students that a scientific career and institutional stewardship can be one calling.

Thank you for making the animal mummies of ancient Egypt speak, and for four decades of excavation, teaching, and joyous public storytelling that have made Egyptology feel alive to millions far beyond the Nile.

Thank you for building translation studies at AUC into a bridge between Arabic literature and the world, and for Translating Egypt's Revolution, which preserved the language of Tahrir for history.

Thank you for founding A2K4D and insisting for two decades that data governance, fair platform work, and responsible AI must be written with voices from Egypt and the Global South at the table.

Thank you for scholarship on social movements and state-society relations that takes both Latin America and the Middle East seriously, and for directing Alternative Policy Solutions so that rigorous research reaches Egypt's policy debates.

Thank you for diagnostics built from nanosensors, chips, and ordinary smartphones, chemistry aimed squarely at catching infectious disease and cancer early in the places that need affordable tests most.

Thank you for carrying AUC's research enterprise on your shoulders as chemist, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Associate Provost for Research, quietly building the structures in which other people's discoveries become possible.

Thank you for decades of teaching Egypt's engineers that waste is a design flaw, and for cradle-to-cradle thinking that turned campus, industry, and community projects into working proof of sustainability.