Amir was a wonderful student. Over the past months, I made a point of talking with him as much as possible. I learned from his many questions and gentle humor. After each class, he would keep me company as I walked back to my office. He always had insightful questions — sometimes challenges to what he had just learned, sometimes questions cloaked as assertions, and sometimes just questions. I can only imagine Amir during the family’s dinner-table conversations! One might have thought him naive with all the questions, but this would be wrong. It was intellectual integrity and courage… Amir wanted to understand an idea to its very roots. As a scholar, I will miss the profound contributions he would have made, and as a colleague, I will miss the thoughtful care and joy he brought to any exchange of ideas. My deepest sympathies.
–Daniel Schwartz, LSTD Professor