 Welcome to this virtual celebration of your graduation from AUS. We know that this is no substitute for being together and we look forward to seeing you when circumstances permit. In spite of the difficulties, you have persevered and have been successful. As you make the transition to life after graduation, I am sure that your ability to persevere will serve you well. The University is proud of your accomplishments and grateful for the contributions that you've made to enriching AUS as students, as campus leaders, and as role models for your peers. I wish you continued success as you join your fellow alumni to make the world better. Congratulations again. I hope that you enjoy this video intended to celebrate all that you have accomplished. Congratulations. On behalf of His Highness, Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi, member of the UAE Supreme Council, ruler of Sharjah, president of the American University of Sharjah, members of the Board of Trustees, the faculty and staff. Congratulations to the class of fall 2020. Much has changed since the first day you stepped on to campus and the world has changed in unexpected ways. AUS has expanded facilities, launched new programs, enhanced research opportunities for faculty and students, and renewed the focus on student success, including an increased emphasis on the transition to University life. Due to the foresight and the extraordinary vision of His Highness, AUS today is not only characterized by the incredible buildings that we enjoy due to his generosity, but the campus is much more. It is a diverse academic community enriched by the students, staff, and faculty who contributed to the advancement of the academic mission of the University. While the change that has occurred at AUS has been significant, it pales in comparison to the change that has taken place in the world. The pre-final exam anxiety that you experienced just a short time ago may seem minor when compared to the challenges ahead. However, my confidence is restored each time I speak with AUS students and graduates who are confident, capable, and prepared to face a complex future. At just as you have successfully negotiated the challenges associated with pursuing a degree, I am confident that you will rise to even greater challenges that lie ahead. Education is a gift that comes at a cost and sacrifice, and we should not forget to thank those who have supported you in order to make today possible. Please join me in recognizing the family members and friends who have supported you through this journey. Given what you've accomplished academically and as contributors of the AUS community through class discussions, community service initiatives, leadership roles, performances, extracurricular activities, and research and teaching assistants, I am confident that you will continue to make a difference in the world. Congratulations graduates. I am delighted to join you, your families and friends, in celebration of this major milestone in your lives. A degree from AUS is here finally. It's indeed a distinct honor for me to share the excitement of this moment with all of you and to express the sense of pride that everyone in the AUS community feels for your accomplishments. We all know that you have come to this point through a great deal of dedication, persistence, and hard work. That is always the case for an AUS graduate, but the fact that you have done so and that the severe restrictions mandated by the current pandemic simply adds to our pride and to our admiration for your achievements. It should also be a source of great joy to all of you. Rejoice in this your day and please accept my warmest congratulations on your graduation and my best wishes as you embark in the new phase in your life. Warm greetings to the graduating class of all 2020. Even under normal circumstances, graduation is the culmination of a challenging journey. But you on top of that have had to contend with almost two semesters of learning in a global pandemic. The difficulties of learning remotely are significant. Yet my faculty colleagues who have taught you tell me that you have adapted well to these circumstances. So on this happy occasion, let me send you congratulations on behalf of my faculty and staff colleagues and other members of the CAD community. We salute your resilience and your accomplishments in the face of adversity. We wish you all success in your life after CAD. The next phase of your life's journey is commencing. How exciting. We owe a collective thanks to my faculty colleagues who taught you conscientiously. We also owe a debt of gratitude to family and friends who have given you love and support and kept you going. I have heard that leaving CAD is a bittersweet moment. Please stay in touch and let us know how you're doing. Good luck and Godspeed. Congratulations to the class of 2020 and I speak on behalf of all of us when I say that these are such exciting times ahead of us despite the current global situation. Now I studied in CAD and I suppose the aspect of my university experience here at AOS that I will miss the most is the aspect of interaction and all the experiences that I've had because of the interaction with all sorts of people at AOS. Whether it's through working with different people, both professors and students or just having classes with such a diverse group of students, it's this aspect that has allowed me to have all sorts of opportunities and just a rich set of experiences and it's also something that I miss the most, this aspect of interaction, especially with online learning and distance learning and not having the opportunity to have this as much. But I am grateful and I do cherish the experiences that I've had over the past five years and all the lessons that I've learned that I will definitely take and use in my life and my career going forward. And so congratulations to all of us and may we all embrace the challenges and the opportunities that life will throw at us in the future and most importantly may we all stay healthy and just stay positive. Hello everyone. On behalf of the faculty and staff of the College of Arts and Sciences, I congratulate you on your graduation and reaching this important milestone in your life. Interacting with you is one of the great privileges of working at AUS. I had short discussions with many of you in the hallways of CAS. I have learned from your professors about your stimulating classroom discussions and have watched you perform on stage, present in international conferences and win international awards. I have witnessed this process of transformation myself and I sincerely say you are nothing short of inspiring. We are proud of your achievements but you should not stop here. There is much more to do and today marks a new beginning. We are aware that finding a job or starting your own business or going to graduate school can be stressful and challenging at the best of times and that the current health situation and the declining economy may intensify this stress and amplify the challenges. However, I am confident that with your strength, resilience, unique skills and the education you have received at AUS you will overcome these challenges and succeed in whatever you choose to do. Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most as great things never come from your comfort zone. As you have learned in CAS, chase your dreams but don't lose sight of the greater purpose. Congratulations and I wish you all the best. Hello everyone and allow me to begin this by extending a massive congratulations to all of my fellow graduates. This is a great big moment for all of us. We're all moving on to another chapter of our lives and I'm sure you're all very excited but for some of us and myself included, getting to this point wasn't necessarily the smoothest ride. If you know me and you know my story at AUS then you probably know that it wasn't very smooth. It was a very turbulent trip but joining the Mass Communication Department made a world of a difference. I managed to make some of the best friends that I can think of and I managed to really connect with some incredible professors who really helped me become the best version of myself. Through the things they taught me in and out of a classroom I really learned a lot from them. I learned how to really just understand the world differently especially the media. Just looking at the media in a different perspective and I truly attribute all of that to my professors. They were all wonderful and great people and I will miss them very much and the friends that I made here are friends I'd probably call that for life I imagine hopefully and I'm lucky enough to be able to call them my friends and I truly respect and admire them all and I hope you guys and everyone who watches this has had a similar experience at least the good part of that experience minus the turbulent beginning but with that I'd like to end with saying again congratulations to all of you and I wish you all the best of luck in your future be it a career or or furthering education or anything else whatever you decide you want to do it is all in your hands whatever you wish to do you should do that and again congratulations one more time go celebrate safely be responsible and be happy congratulations. Our dear graduates this is to congratulate you on your graduation from the American University of Sharjah and to congratulate and thank all those who supported you along the way your families your loved ones sponsors and of course my colleagues here at the University. At the time of filming I'm staring into a camera imagining your proud beautiful faces that I've been looking forward to seeing. Again at the time of filming the world is going through a global transient. In our global fight against and defense against the pandemic we have postponed face-to-face meetings so this is the message the world is going through a transient and some are talking about going back to normal when it's becoming clearer and clearer and that that's not the case and some are too eager to define the new normal. Take them with a grain of salt for it is you who will define the new world and it will be anything but normal. In defining your challenges and rising up to them it is with great pride that I know and I hope you do too that you have strong roots and strong wings so fly high fly far and don't forget your roots. We're here for you you have all the strength you need with the new world. Proud of you looking forward to always staying in touch with you. Thank you. Greetings to everyone and a hearty congratulations to the graduating class of 2020. Graduating today are some of my closest friends colleagues and the students I'm used to seeing in the halls of engineering building. No matter how we think we performed during our time at AUS we'll always cherish the memories of being part of such a prestigious institute and such a challenging college and I'm sure you'll agree with me that our time at AUS has been incredible and certainly not enough. Let me remind you all this batch has experienced some of the history making moments of the College of Engineering. You started your journey in the cozy engineering buildings and witnessed the inauguration of the new and advanced engineering and science building. Your batch is the first batch to attend classes in ASB and a very lucky batch to experience having the first female C and Dean of the region, Dean Chirinthakinay. And not to forget passing your senior year in a pandemic and making it to this day regardless of the many obstacles. We acknowledge your hard work and dedication and wish you all the best. Today you're leaving AUS with so much more than a degree. You're leaving with memories, friends by your side and the experience of a lifetime. Congratulations again and I hope you enjoy this day. Dear graduating class congratulations from the bottom of my heart. I am the Dean of the School of Business Administration and I am extremely proud today to celebrate your success in the name of the entire school and the faculty, your professors. The world needs not only your talent but also your courage, commitment and resilience as you graduate during these hard times. Please do not let that set you back. On the contrary, I would like to mark the special achievements, the exceptional potential of this graduating class of which you are part. Your time together, your ideas, your friendships, all of this that you developed throughout your four years of journey at AUS will positively influence you throughout your career and throughout your life hopefully. We have provided you with the necessary academic and professional skills to succeed in this changing world but also hopefully prepared you to be the best you can as a responsible citizen and a proud AUS alumni. Today is a special day so you and your parents and friends, all of you, even your professors have been waiting for four years for this day so I hope that you will celebrate it to the fullest even under the circumstances. You have achieved something marvelous in the face of adversity and you should be proud of it. I send you all my heartfelt best wishes and I look forward to congratulating you in person when you come back to SBA hopefully very soon to visit us. Remember that you leave behind in SBA an entire family, friends, faculty, all of those who shared the last four years of your life. We hope that you will come back to us and inspire fellow students who are starting the same journey that you started four years ago. These new students are in need of a big brother, a big sister to mentor them, encourage them, inspire them and motivate them so we're counting on you. The SBA will be so happy to hear what happens next in your life and still be there to support you as much as possible in your professional careers so keep in touch and best of luck in the next chapter of your life. All the best. Stinguished guests, administrators, professors, families, friends and the members of the AUS class of 2020. My name is Saba Khatib and I'm graduating with the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Marketing with a minor in Music. I'm honored and humbled to be speaking to you all today on behalf of the students of the School of Business Administration. First of all I'd like to start with a huge congratulations to my fellow classmates. I don't think any of us would have expected to be graduating this way but nonetheless it's a special day that is definitely worth celebrating. One of the things I'll truly miss about AUS is getting to walk around campus specifically in February where all the different cultural clubs are practicing their dances for Global Day and the whole campus is filled with different types of music being played. Memants like these would remind me how uniquely diverse the AUS campus is and how vibrant it can be. I'm definitely proud to be an AUSer and I'm so grateful for all of the memories that AUS has given me. Once again a huge congratulations to you all and good luck on your future endeavors. Thank you. The world needs you and AUS will continue to need you. You along with the 16,000 alumni that you join will continue to remain an important part of the AUS community just as I hope that AUS will remain part of you. I look forward to the time we can gather to celebrate your graduation. Until then, I wish you continued success. Congratulations, proud AUSers. Friends, faculty, fellow graduates. We did it! We accomplished our dreams and our major steps that we took in this journey. I hope that wherever our future takes us we allow it to take us somewhere and even beyond. The past four years were more than an academic journey. I would definitely miss my morning rides to Sharjah and I would miss the ITF room at SBA but I'm definitely prepared for a career in corporate finance. Besides quality education, AUS gave me friendships and memories that I will forever remain grateful for. It gave me the opportunity to represent students in the Student Council for one year, which I consider one of my greatest achievements. In the future, I hope that I be used to being able to represent AUS as an alumina and make AUS community proud. After graduating high school I always went with the quote that says be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire. And this quote has governed the life I live for the majority of my academic and social sweeps throughout my time in college. To thank you to my MCM department and faculty that shaped me to the woman I am today that you guys are looking at. And of course my friends that turned into my family. I can't wait to see what the future holds for me and each one of you and take all that AUS has taught us over the four years. Patience, commitment, hard work and kindness. Here's to our next journey of adulthood. AUS, you'll be missed. Thank you once again.