Re: Samir Sobhy

['tewabech bishaw' via xUNICEFers]

Very Sad to hear the passing away of Samit Sobhi. My sincere condolence to his family and friends.  May his soul rest in peace.

Tewabech

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On Sunday, December 13, 2020, 03:20:39 AM GMT+3, Habib Hammam <hha...@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

 

It is so sad to learn of the passing of Samir Sobhy. As  a UNICEF colleague, he was a man of ideas and convictions, a skillful negotiator, always positive but never a pushover. I appreciated him especially as a person doing his own thing, a humanist and an artist and as a person who knew how to appreciate life.

 

His eloquent poem on impending death has much of darkness and of doubt. Unlike his ever positive spirit for which indeed he will be remembered by those of us who knew him. We are all travelers. Travel well my friend.

 

Habib Hammam

Rye, NY

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['hamatoure53' via xUNICEFers]

Mes sincères condoléances à sa famille et à la famille Unicef

Que la terre lui soit légère et que Dieu l accueille dans son paradis éternel 

Touré Hamadassalia 

Envoyé de mon appareil Samsung de Bell via le réseau le plus vaste au pays.

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Objet : Re: Samir Sobhy

Very sad to hear that Samir is no longer with us. May he rest in peace. Sincere condolences to his family.

 

Mahendra

['Shahnaz Kianian-Firouzgar' via xUNICEFers]

Samir was a consummate diplomat and a skilled professional with a high sense of integrity and fairness. I first got to know him in context of UNICEF high level fundraising in the Gulf region in early 80s with Prince Talal. His advice and contributions were invaluable. 

My condolences to his family and loved ones. 

RIP, Samir!

Shahnaz 

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On Dec 13, 2020, at 15:18, 'hamatoure53' via xUNICEFers <allme...@xunicef.com> wrote:



['Eimi Watanabe' via xUNICEFers]

I join the long list of colleagues who mourn the passing of Samir Sobhy, a talented and wonderful colleague whom I worked with in the Programme Funding Office in the 80s.  Perhaps we might remember him by looking at his art work at Samir’s website,  https://www.artofsamirsobhy.com/?fbclid=IwAR2l9E3uM50wuCO7_6qHX68LTB2cOiVHgsuNM-3qvhQN5wanZnK87Ul8uno), which Helene Gosselin has called our attention to.

Eimi

On 13 Dec 2020, at 17.41, Iyabode Olusanmi <oiya...@gmail.com> wrote:

So sad. May his soul rest in perfect peace.

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 1:44 PM Mahendra Sheth <mahen...@gmail.com> wrote:

Very sad to hear that Samir is no longer with us. May he rest in peace. Sincere condolences to his family.

 

Mahendra

 

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Subject: Re: Samir Sobhy

 

Very Sad to hear the passing away of Samit Sobhi. My sincere condolence to his family and friends.  May his soul rest in peace.

['Purushottam Pradhan Pradhan' via xUNICEFers]

Very sad news. May he rest in peace. Sincere condolences to his family

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 7:34 AM, Narinder Sharma

<sharmar...@gmail.com> wrote:

RIP Sameer. It is sad to see colleagues leaving but that is the truth of this life.

Narinder Sharma

On Dec 12, 2020, at 7:20 PM, Habib Hammam <hha...@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

 

It is so sad to learn of the passing of Samir Sobhy. As  a UNICEF colleague, he was a man of ideas and convictions, a skillful negotiator, always positive but never a pushover. I appreciated him especially as a person doing his own thing, a humanist and an artist and as a person who knew how to appreciate life. 

 

His eloquent poem on impending death has much of darkness and of doubt. Unlike his ever positive spirit for which indeed he will be remembered by those of us who knew him. We are all travelers. Travel well my friend.

 

Habib Hammam

Rye, NY 

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['Misrak Elias' via xUNICEFers]

May Samir rest in eternal peace. Condolences to his family 

Misrak 

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On 14 Dec 2020, at 5:41 AM, Gourisankar Ghosh <gourisan...@gmail.com> wrote:



RIP SAMIR SHOBY 

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼💐

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 8:13 PM, Moira Hart-Poliquin <moira...@gmail.com> wrote:

So so sad - Samir kept in touch , became an impressive artist and writer, he thought and card deeply. I will miss him. Moira 

On Dec 13, 2020, at 9:18 AM, 'hamatoure53' via xUNICEFers <allme...@xunicef.com> wrote:

Mes sincères condoléances à sa famille et à la famille Unicef

Que la terre lui soit légère et que Dieu l accueille dans son paradis éternel 

Touré Hamadassalia 

Envoyé de mon appareil Samsung de Bell via le réseau le plus vaste au pays.

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Date : 20-12-13 12:45 p.m. (GMT+00:00)

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Objet : Re: Samir Sobhy

Very sad to hear that Samir is no longer with us. May he rest in peace. Sincere condolences to his family.

 

Mahendra

 

From: 'tewabech bishaw' via xUNICEFers <allme...@xunicef.com>
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Date: Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 4:37 AM
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Subject: Re: Samir Sobhy

 

Very Sad to hear the passing away of Samit Sobhi. My sincere condolence to his family and friends.  May his soul rest in peace.

 

Tewabech

 

 

 

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On Sunday, December 13, 2020, 03:20:39 AM GMT+3, Habib Hammam <hha...@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

 

 

 

It is so sad to learn of the passing of Samir Sobhy. As  a UNICEF colleague, he was a man of ideas and convictions, a skillful negotiator, always positive but never a pushover. I appreciated him especially as a person doing his own thing, a humanist and an artist and as a person who knew how to appreciate life.

 

His eloquent poem on impending death has much of darkness and of doubt. Unlike his ever positive spirit for which indeed he will be remembered by those of us who knew him. We are all travelers. Travel well my friend.

 

Habib Hammam

Rye, NY

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['Guy Scandlen' via xUNICEFers]

I was so deeply saddened  to learn of Samir's passing.

After retiring, I had had an opportunity to work for him in Senegal.  

Apart from his deeply felt and educated concern for development issues, I found his sense of humour absolutely wonderful. 

Once we were speaking of pronouns and I happened to mention the vast lexicon of all personal pronouns used in using Thai.

At one point I mentioned the formal phrase for "I" when addressing the Thai King - which is translated as "I, who am lower than the dust under the soul of your foot..."  Samir, reflected for a brief period and then said:  "That might be a good way for people to address UNICEF Reps..."  No one agreed.

May he rest in peace.

Guy Scandlen

On Sunday, 13 December 2020, 07:20:37 am GMT+7, Habib Hammam <hha...@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

 

It is so sad to learn of the passing of Samir Sobhy. As  a UNICEF colleague, he was a man of ideas and convictions, a skillful negotiator, always positive but never a pushover. I appreciated him especially as a person doing his own thing, a humanist and an artist and as a person who knew how to appreciate life.

 

His eloquent poem on impending death has much of darkness and of doubt. Unlike his ever positive spirit for which indeed he will be remembered by those of us who knew him. We are all travelers. Travel well my friend.

 

Habib Hammam

Rye, NY

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['Dina Britain' via xUNICEFers]

Thank you guy for your very kind words. My uncle was certainly a unique personality and he will be greatly missed.

Best regards 

Dina

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On 14 Dec 2020, at 4:02 PM, Guy Scandlen <guysc...@yahoo.com> wrote:



['Stephen Umemoto' via xUNICEFers]

Farid,

       Much appreciate you additional contribution to UNICEF history. 

      Because of our different regions, I worked with Samir only once saround 1983 at the very beginning of his UNICEF career.  Jim Grant had called me and told me that Prince Talal wanted to visit the Philippines. I was introduced to Samir (initially from a distance as Jim's man in UNICEF for the Prince) and over the next three months in a sort of carnival of events with the Prince and Imelda Marco as the two leads, Samir and I along with a gentleman named Soliman (the Prince's man for his UNICEF work) were supporting cast members in a show involving New York, rural  Virginia, Los Angeles, Riyadh with the grand last act in Manila.  In spite of the craziness, I found Samir a continuing font of wisdom, good humor, good judgement, adapataion and calm.  I was pleased to learn that he was joining UNICEF for good and regretted not again having the opportuniity to work wit him.   May he Rest in Peace.        Steve 

On Sunday, 13 December 2020, 06:47:07 GMT, Farid Rahman <faridr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Habib,

Deeply saddened to learn about the passing of Samir Sobhy. He was distinguished colleague, thoughtful and articulate with great diplomatic skills and a wonderful sense of humour. 

I came to know Samir  during hectic times when we were launching ‘Operation Life Line Sudan’ in early 1989. He and Charles LeMunier were 

the regular  members of JPG’s party on his very frequent visits to Khartoum as Special Assistant to SG on OLS. Samir was the Regional Expert who advised on our tough negotiations with the local government officials. 

Before every negation JPG would hold internal consultations. Ever smiling Samir would often offer a contrary opinion and argue out his point of view  with GPG , with great diplomatic skill, and persuasion, (probably honed during his career with the Egyptian Foreign Service). I remember being struck by the courage of this young and fairly junior staff member ,  with his small stature and delicate frame, challenging and holding JPG at bay. His views were always balanced and well respected.

In those  days we met with Sadiq El Mehdi The Prime Minister  , flew south to meet John Garang and had many many meetings  to hammer out the framework of OLS . Samir made an important contribution to this effort.

On the 30 June 1989 there was a military coup and the government was overthrown by General Hassan el Bashir. I learnt about it at 5 in the morning and rushed to the Hilton Hotel to inform Mr. Grant and party. We turned on the Radio and Samir monitored the Arabic broadcasts giving us a running commentary. We soon learnt that Soldiers had been posted outside the hotel rooms and JPG et al were, defacto, under ‘ house arrest’ ( “ for his own safety”). Just before noon we got a message on our walk talky that  all Heads of Diplomatic Missions were required to attend a meeting called by the General.

JPG started getting ready to go, but I stopped him saying that I would attend,  and that his joining the meeting could be interpreted as the UN recognising the coup.( As he was the Special Assistant to the SG in addition to being UNICEF’s EX-DIR ) I recall there was a tense discussion and Samir settled the matter by emphatically stating “ Mr. Grant, Farid is right, you should not go”. That night we quietly met the General in the military headquarters and got a chit  from him allowing the UNICEF plane  to fly out with JPG and Party.

Samir and I developed a close bond of friendship which I have cherished over the years. Lately he took to painting , a passion which I also share. He will indeed be missed

May He rest in Peace

Farid

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On Dec 13, 2020, at 7:48 AM, padmini <pad...@grot.org> wrote:



Very deeply saddened to learn of Samir Sobhy's death! He was such an pro-active colleague when I was in the Mena section.  I have many good memories of our working together and our friendship. Not least of all, his special coffee-making equipment that he carried on his trips and treated me too occasionally to excellent coffee!

My heartfelt condolences to his family.

Padmini

On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 05:50, Habib Hammam <hha...@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

 

It is so sad to learn of the passing of Samir Sobhy. As  a UNICEF colleague, he was a man of ideas and convictions, a skillful negotiator, always positive but never a pushover. I appreciated him especially as a person doing his own thing, a humanist and an artist and as a person who knew how to appreciate life.

 

His eloquent poem on impending death has much of darkness and of doubt. Unlike his ever positive spirit for which indeed he will be remembered by those of us who knew him. We are all travelers. Travel well my friend.

 

Habib Hammam

Rye, NY

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