Professor's family witnesses history in Egypt

What started as a winter getaway to visit family in Cairo ended up as a brush with history for Shereen Abou-Gharbia and her mother — eyewitnesses to events that could help reshape the Middle East. They were intending to meet Shereen's father, Magid Abou-Gharbia, a professor at Temple's School of Pharmacy and director of the Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research. He had been scheduled to speak at a conference that was canceled. Despite the violence, Abou-Gharbia is heartened. "This was long overdue," he said. "The future will be good for us."
Feb. 4, 2011 | Philadelphia Daily News