[Chapter-delegates] Remembering Nabil

[jack.bakaev at isoc.org.lb]

Thank you Raul, we are touched with those words,

i am also thankful to your effort in holding many workshops and meetings 
along with Nabil, Salam, Nicolas and other ISOC collogues including 
Sally, were we learned a lot from your experience.
the Internet Society Lebanon chapter (ISOC-LB) is committed to continue 
building on and improving the legacy of Nabil especially  the Lebanon 
internet exchange point Beirut IX, and the .LB ccTLD, ISOC-LB is now the 
managing entity of .LB
Also Nabil was a founding Member of ISOC-LB and its first president.
Maybe what Nabil have done is not anything special, as he said, but for 
sure it is the corner stone for an internet for everyone in Lebanon.
Hope we meet again and we will definitely share a Domain Iris in Memory 
of Nabil.

Jacques Bakaev
Internet Society Lebanon Chapter




On 2025-01-03 13:59, Raúl Echeberría via Chapter-delegates wrote:
> Dear colleagues:
> 
> During my years on the Internet Society Board, as a member and as
> Chair, and then when I worked for the Internet Society as VP of Global
> Engagement, I had the opportunity to travel a lot and meet
> extraordinary people from ISOC chapters and community from all
> regions.
> 
> Hundreds of amazing people and hundreds of amazing stories.
> 
> One of those people that I was so pleased to meet was Nabil Bukhalid,
> Internet pioneer in Lebanon and founder of the Lebanese Domain
> Registry, among other achievements.
> 
> Nabil was a very respected and well-known person but he did not lose
> his humility. A very nice person with whom it was impossible not to
> have interesting conversations.
> 
> The 3 times I had the opportunity to visit Lebanon, the chapter
> colleagues (Nicolas, Salam, Jacques and many others) and Nabil, were
> excellent hosts and representatives of traditional Lebanese
> hospitality. I have very fond memories of lunches and dinners shared
> on those trips to Beirut.
> 
> In 2017, I was able to share with Nabil, in California - USA, the
> moment when he was recognized as a member of the Internet Hall of
> Fame. He did not feel that he had done anything special. That day he
> told me: I was just in the right place at the right time.
> 
> In 2018, on my last visit to Lebanon, Nabil gave me a bottle of wine
> that we had already tasted a couple of years before in a previous trip
> (Iris Domain 2009) . A wine that I really liked and that Nabil was
> proud of. I think because it was produced in his region.
> 
> Today marks 2 years since his unexpected death. I can't think of a
> better way to honor him than to share these memories. And today I will
> toast Nabil with that wine that he gave me in 2018 and that I still
> keep.
> 
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