Shafik Gabr

“2024 is around the corner,” the speaker said and paused. It must have been thirty or forty seconds before he…

Paris is an attractive city year-around. I was visiting for two nights staying at the George V, a stone’s throw…

It was an afternoon to remember. I was invited by old friend Josef Trimble to visit him in Innsbruck –…

Attending the World Economic Forum in Davos is a rare event experienced by few, though prior to COVID-19 the number…

Bozeman is a city most inhabitants of this earth had never heard of. It’s a city in southern Montana in…

It was an incredible coincidence. Sitting in warm Sri Lanka, watching the Indian Ocean and the palm trees with greenery…

The mail today brought my much-anticipated copy of “Leadership,” the newest volume of wisdom from that eldest of elder statesmen,…

It was a most pleasant invitation. Sam (Samir) Metaini, a classmate and now a history professor at the University of…

I had the pleasure of being invited for a weekend to a beautiful Greek island to meet a dear and longstanding…

On my final approach to Oslo airport, I looked out the window and beheld a welcoming vision: a sunny blue…