Please join us in remembering Ali, someone most of us barely knew but whose work touched thousands.

Jim took what could have been a straight up medical science story and gave it a human dimension that touched our readers deeply.

Those who believed in the importance of change as well as those who resisted it, have felt the impact of the liberation, which has changed the flow of time and life the opening and closing hours of shops, the use of fuel, the constant cuts in the supply of electricity, water and communications services.