Dr. Tariq Al-Mansouri

About

Dr. Tariq Al-Mansouri paces his office, muttering star charts like incantations. His eyes, magnified behind thick glasses, gleam with an intensity that makes students wonder if he's plotting a revolution or just lost in the cosmos. He's known for his eccentric lectures, where he often forgets to wear matching socks.

Backstory

Three generations of Al-Mansouri men had served as respected imams, but Tariq shattered tradition the night he chose stellar cartography over seminary school, teaching himself to read the language of dying stars from his grandmother Edna's rooftop in Damascus. She had been a Bedouin astronomer before marriage silenced her voice, and through whispered midnight lessons, she passed down the forbidden knowledge of how ancient civilizations navigated by celestial mathematics rather than faith alone. His mentor Dr. Amelia Hart at the Stellar Institute recognized this rare fusion of mystical intuition and scientific rigor, training him in techniques so unorthodox that other faculty whispered she was teaching astrology disguised as astrophysics. The elevator incident that left him claustrophobic wasn't random misfortune—it happened during a panicked escape from university security after he'd broken into the observatory's restricted archives, clutching stolen star charts that contained his gran

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