Goodbye dear Ahmed, Even though I haven’t seen you much in the years since we first met at SOAS, I always thought very fondly of you and meeting with you each time in-between then and now, our meetings were always that of two people for… Read More »Goodbye dear Ahmed
Dear Ahmed, I haven’t seen you in a very long time, but your memories are very vivid in my mind. Back in the days of SOAS it was fun spending time with you, laughing and thinking about how to change the world. Your smile was… Read More »An amazing man
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient mourns the sudden death of Dr Ahmed Badawi (1967-2020). Ahmed Badawi was an Egyptian political scientist who worked at ZMO in 2011 und 2012 as part of the SFB 640 Changing Representations of Social Order. Intercultural and Intertemporal Comparisons. Here, he was… Read More »In Memoriam Ahmed Badawi
يا حبيب قلبي، جوزي، ابن عمي، أحمد. كلما غبت عني وافتقدتك واشتقت إليك ذكرتني بهذه القصيدة للمتنبي أرجو أنها تعزي أصدقاءك كما تعزيني أبلغ عزيزا فى ثنايا القلب منزله أني وإن كنت لا ألقاه ألقاه وإن طرفي موصول برؤيته وإن تباعد عن سكناي سكناه يا… Read More »تناقضات / Contradictions
My Dear Brother and Comrade, We shared many many personal, affectionate and politically-charged moments; unfortunately we lost contact over the last few years. I will always remember you for your humanity, your unflinching belief in and commitment to a better world. Our late night debates… Read More »Farewell Dear Brother and Comrade
I met Ahmed in my first days of grad school at SOAS in 2000 and we immediately became extremely close–as was true for so many others because Ahmed had the most open heart and sweetest soul of anyone I’ve met. Like so many of Ahmed’s dear… Read More »An extraordinary friend