SCHOOL / THE FIRST QUESTIONS
Mr. Aref Elahmad and the chemistry years
A Grade 10 chemistry-festival photograph shows me beside my first chemistry teacher, Mr. Aref Elahmad, after I presented my research.
Read the school chapter ↗PEOPLE / EXPERIMENTS / MEMORY
Not everything important became a paper.
Some of my clearest memories belong to ordinary photographs: a teacher beside me at a school chemistry festival, a failed embedding block, friends gathered around a research poster and a microscope on my desk at home. Each photograph leads to a longer story about the people or the work.
01 / PEOPLE & BEGINNINGS
The people before the publications.
The school chemistry festival, an early medical encounter, and later visits to my old classrooms appear in photographs and longer personal stories.
THE PATIENT / CLINICAL HISTORY
A physician remembered
I remember Dr. Elsheikh Abdelrahim from the early years of the eosinophilic illness that complicated my education.
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SCHOOL / AN EARLIER WORLD
Returning to the first classrooms
A later visit to my former school classrooms brought back the first chemistry exhibitions and the people I studied with.
Open the photographic archive ↗02 / THE EXPERIMENTAL RECORD
Before a result has a title.
A bench photograph can bring back an afternoon in the laboratory. To understand what the experiment established, I still turn to the measurements and the paper.
SCIENTIFIC FIELDNOTES / ORIGINAL PLOT
Humidity, resistance and capacitance
The TiO₂ fieldnotes bring resistance and capacitance measurements into view alongside droplet-profile images. The plots show the actual questions being tested.
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RESEARCH MEMORY / MICROSCOPY
The room after iftar
The microscopy-room photograph accompanies my recollection of long zebrafish research evenings during Ramadan.
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EXPERIMENTAL FAILURE / HISTOLOGY
The section that did not cooperate
During a zebrafish histology attempt, the agarose and paraffin separated during processing. The block yielded no usable tissue sections.
Read the experiment ↗03 / CHEMISTRY IN PUBLIC
Science beyond the bench.
Student organizing, travel, scientific conversations and historical-chemistry work have their own source records.
CHEMISTRY FESTIVAL / STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Hosting and opening doors
The chemistry festivals and meeting posters recall the work of bringing experiments into classrooms and public conversations.
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2017 / ACS PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD
Conferences as working archives
Original photographs of meeting posters, colleagues and scientific exchange are preserved together with the research questions.
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LEADERSHIP / PRE-LABORATORY INITIATIVES
Youth projects, ACS and quality
The Youth Company, the Qatar University ACS student chapter and quality-management work have a dedicated page. Chem Squad remains a separate scientific circle.
Explore the leadership record ↗04 / THE MOVING RECORD
What the camera kept.
The original recordings include laboratory equipment, microscopy and explanations recorded during research and student activities.
COLLEAGUE / RECORDED EXPLANATION
Khaled at the reaction board
Khaled Jama Mohamoud explains a reaction associated with his thesis in a short recording from our chemistry circle.
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SAVED PHOTOGRAPHS / SCIENTIFIC RECORDINGS
The images before the film
The photographs show rooms, instruments and colleagues; short recordings preserve moments that a still image cannot.
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Some of these stories continue in research papers, others in longer personal chapters. The links below lead to the work itself.