Professor Sobhy Abdel-Hafez is a great loss to mycology in Egypt and Middle East region. He born on 17 June 1945 in Palestine, graduated from Assiut University in 1967 and gained his PhD there in 1974. In 1974, he was appointed as a Lecturer in Botany at Assiut University, where he remained for the rest of his career prior to his retirement in 2001 when he was appointed Emeritus Professor. He sadly passed away on 1 November 2018 at the age of 72. We feel honoured to have known such a warm and inspirational figure, who demonstrated through his life just how much can be achieved by just one person with sufficient motivation and vision as Ahmed M. AbdelAzeem (President of Arab Society for Fungal Conservation) mentioned. Really, it was a great shock of sadness for all students and mycotaxonomists to hear that Professor Abdel Hafez passed away.
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