Usamah Khalidi

I wish to use this space on my blog to offer my condolences to the family and friends of the Palestinian scientist, Usamah Khalidi, a professor of Bio-Chemistry at AUB.  I never met Usamah but knew many of his relatives and students and admirers.  I only heard the most wonderful things about him.  I know that when a Palestinian resistance group needed a "lab," he helped set up one for them.  He made many unannounced contributions to the Palestinian resistance. That i know.