His death has left us with great sadness, as he worked tirelessly for the progress of his people and towards consolidating relations with the international community.

The late Amir has a number of achievements in building the modern state, but in my humble opinion, his most notable achievement after his heroic deeds during liberation is rebuilding a modern state.

Many Arab intellectuals know about, and have read for, Jose Saramago.

From the UAE, Sultan Al Qassemi tweets

My sadness for losing you is similar to having lost one of my dearest relatives.

Dr Ghazi Al Gosaibi. Image sourced from Facebook fan page.

We hope that our brethren in Lebanon will continue the progress for which he worked.

We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children s future.

Wael Eskander commented in a blog post he wrote as a response to slander against the late Pope

As hundreds flocked to Algiers to pay tribute to their former president, netizens remembered Ben Bella's rule.

Lebanese blogger Jihad Bazzi wonders what Saramago might be doing now in his afterlife حيث ولد الآن، يتلفت مراقبا . سيكتب عما يرى، لا فرق ما إذا كان في الجنة أو في جهنم، او حيث أظنه مكانه المفضل بعد الموت العدم الرائع The writer has passed away...

While addressing this Assembly in 1967, His Late Majesty King Mahendra said, and I quote,

Finally, I would like personally to pay tribute to a great friend and a dear colleague, the late Ambassador Sami Kronfol.

The late Paul Samuelson once said that every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

It was founded in 1993 by Rafik Hariri, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon.

(a) Dr. Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, former President of Malta, to pay special tribute to the late Ambassador Arvid Pardo of Malta

Stranger still is his attack on, of all people, US President Woodrow Wilson.

The documentary ended with Yasser Arafat's widow Suha Arafat requesting that the Palestinian Authority exhume her late husband s body so the investigation could be continued.

We recall with reverence the visit of the late Holy Father to Sri Lanka in 1995.

On this day we also recall our former colleague, the Permanent Representative of Lebanon, Ambassador Sami Kronfol, who passed away recently.

On behalf of the Arab Group, I express our most sincere condolences to Lebanon and its fraternal people, as well as to Mr. Hariri's family.

On 11 November 2004, the General Assembly met to pay tribute to the memory of Yasser Arafat, late President of the Palestinian Authority.

The late American philosopher John Rawls suggested that the best way to judge the rightness of any social policy is to put oneself in the place of the underdogs before reaching a conclusion. A decision is right if it improves the situation of a society's worst off.

Well here's the late, great Jerry Andrus' impossible crate illusion in 3D, in which Jerry is standing inside the impossible crate.

Ali, from Jordan, visits the Automobile Museum, where he took a few pictures of cars which were owned by the late King Hussein.

Abdeslam Ben Abdelali was one of al Jabri's students. Writing on al Awan, an online blogging platform dealing with philosophy and current affairs, he shares his thoughts about the late philosopher

Dima_Khatib I got to know Hugo Chavez in September 2002 in Caracas, more than 10 years ago.

His father, Alan P. Bell, was a psychologist, Professor Emeritus of Indiana University, in Bloomington, and a former Kinsey researcher.

The inspiration for the song had initially come to Jackson after a meeting with the President of South Africa Nelson Mandela in the late 1990s.

We wish also to recall the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who passed away on 11 November 2004.

Intellectuals like the late Edward Said gave voice to it, but it has many followers in the United States and Europe.

As the late Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere demanded publicly Must we starve our children to pay our debts?

Mir Hossein Mousavi, chosen by the late Ayatollah Khomeini to be prime minister in 1981, was such a figure.

Ronald Reagan famously said that government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem.

When former US president Bill Clinton tried to set up the second Camp David summit, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hesitated.

The reason behind this delay was partly due to a (late) shipment of torpedoes (that was) originally ordered from Germany in early 1905.

One of the late Pope John Paul II s unfulfilled dreams was to visit Moscow and forge a rapprochement with the Orthodox Church.

This is especially true of our flawed heroes, as we see today with the Chinese Communist Party s treatment of Mao Zedong.

It is not exactly clear how long Venezuela s Hugo Chávez was actually dead before his passing was officially announced.

But attractive. The late Christopher Hitchens, by contrast, was not joking when he parsed Margaret Thatcher s sex appeal.

The former Amir had foresight and worked hard to establish capable institutions which could defend the country internally and externally and that is something which not anyone can do except those who could shoulder responsibility.

The late President lay in state in the East Room, and then in the Capitol Rotunda from April 19 through April 21.

The words the late Pope John Paul II pronounced during his apostolic visit to Chile retain all their relevance the poor cannot wait.

The late President was one of the eminent world leaders who devote their lives to their people and to the achievement of the objectives of development and progress.

That fact led to the observation by the late Pope John Paul II that Lebanon is more than a country Lebanon is a message.