Acknowledgments

All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds

“He initiated you from the earth, and He settled you on it.”

Quran 11:61

Acknowledgment, credit, and respect go to the noble known or unknown people who lost or spent their lives on construction sites to achieve construction greatness.

As such, if this book was given another name, it would have certainly been

“The Martyrs of Construction Greatness.”

I would like to thank my dear wife, Jwan Salman, for being there for me each step of the way, and for offering brilliant ideas and contributions until the book came to life.

I would like to thank my dear sons Omar Hashem, Ahmed Hashem, and Karim Hashem for giving me reasons to live and shine in my career as a professional and a writer. ...

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