Cesar Martin Redi on Jan 7, 2021

The death of Maha is truly sad news. I've know Maha for a long time from work, and we also had very close friends in common. Maha and I would share long talks about politics and the the UN, and the world hardships. You could say that Maha was a "misfit", and I always welcome misfits to wake us up, "normal people", from our "normality", and she certainly woke up lots of people. Maha was a very colorful person, in every sense, politics, ideas, fashion, and procedures, she had strong commitments and a very unique manner of dealing with them, she knew it and she stood for her oddities; Maha's political position was, in my own view, in the right place and she was not silent about it, a fighter; when she took a job she turned it into her thing, and went to sometimes comical ways of obtaining what she needed to succeed with any of her projects. She stood for all she believed was right and didn't care about the level of whom she had to confront when she believed that person was wrong. I will always remember and respect her for that. RIP (Cesar Martin Redi. United Nations, Department of Global Communications.)