Raad Chalabi

Born in the middle of the previous century, author Raad Chalabi with a PhD degree in Chemistry and a Masters degree in Polymer Engineering embarked on a scientific and commercial journey accumulating several patents(Plastics;Waste Treatment) and managing companies in the USA(Investments), Japan (Waste Treatment ;Synthetic Fuel), UK(Banking Services; Software), Russia( Software), Bahrain(Petrochemicals), Cyprus(Software), Spain( Waste Treatment), Malaysia(Software) and Switzerland(Plastics Recycling).

Aside from his first book, Software to Money, in which he documented his business credentials and experience, his following eleven books were based on a view of life that a fictional character called Ramiz Alkhishin has. The latter is a grocer who shuns traditional thinking and avoids trendy lifestyles.

The books are intended to reflect the ongoing intellectual battle between peddlers of certainty, who believe in eternal absolutes that are free from human contamination, and managers of chaos, who see the management of unpredictable and random events that confront humans as the only reality there is.

If you are a supporter of the former or a defender of the latter you are both welcome as settlers within the covers of the books.

The dialogues in the books are neither with you or against you they just say whatever you wish them to say depending on how you interpret what is said.

As a reader of his books the author invites you to bathe yourself, as the electron does, in a sea of possibilities and continue to swim until you no more can. When that happens, do what the electron does, namely collapse all the possibilities into a single choice and let us hope that it is a wise one. What is a wise choice the reader may ask; one which is not irreversible would be the author's reply.