Peter Dawkins on Jan 7, 2021

I first got to know Maha when she was briefly reassigned to the Web team in 2017. At that time the Web team also covered social media and that is what Maha was focusing on (having originally worked for UN Radio).

Maha was an extremely colourful person. You always knew she was coming through the office as she would have so much to say about all kinds of subjects. She was never short of an opinion on anything that was going on - from the rather mundane affairs of staff life to some of the most complex international affairs of the day.

She was highly articulate and fluent in English, French and Arabic, often switching between languages mid-sentence !

She was a complete force of nature with very high levels of energy and enthusiasm and never afraid to speak truth to power. She had the energy of a lion.

It is hard to accept she is gone but while she was here she lived her life to the full.

We will always remember her.

Peter Dawkins,

Dpt. Global Communications, United Nations