Damascus Al Sham- is the throbbing heart of the Arab culture and the metropolis of Syria or Bilad Al Sham and the Omayyade State. It is also my source and fountain, and the more that my roots go back to Kahtan, the pure Arab tribe, and to Yaarob, the grandfather of the Arabs, from whom descended all the Arab tribes, and finally, to a moiety of the tribe Juzam, which came to Egypt along with the Arab leader Amr Ibn Al-Aas during the Islamic conquest. This fact was mentioned by Ahmad Bin Ali Al - Kalkachandi in his book Subh Al Aasha (the morning of the night-blind). Juzam settled in a vast area of Egypt, which contained more than seventy villages which were called Kfur AIDI (AIDIs villages).

Doctor Engineer Osmane Mounif AIDI

Late Doctor
  Mounif Osmane AIDI 

The area was ruled by the head of the emirate who was elected exclusively from the elite, successively for years, until it was ruled by the deceased Emir Mohamad AIDI, who lived during Napoleons conquest of Egypt and fought against him.
Then, Mohamad AIDI, my great grandparent, participated in Ibrahim Pashas campaign over Syria at the early years of the nineteenth century, as a leader of an army division composed of  the descendants of his AIDI tribe.
Therefore, I always felt I had a duty to perform towards this homeland which spreads over significant parts of Asia and Africa, whose soil touches the shores of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, embraces the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and reaches out through the Mediterranean to Europe.
 

If God predetermined for mankind that one be more capable than the other, in intelligence or knowledge or wealth, I consider the capabilities that God blessed me with, as a debt which I am obliged, no matter how humble they were, to put in the service of others and the service of my fellow natives in the first place.And since I believe that the cultural heritage of our Arab people is entrusted to us all, and that the cultural and archaeological legacy in our homeland is an invaluable treasure, not only to us but to humanity in whole, a treasure which has to be preserved and protected, in love of the human being wherever he was, and in respect of the artistic, intellectual, and scientific creativeness of mankind, the  first signs of which appeared in our homelands.
 

Having learned from my earliest youth, that knowledge is a right and blessing for whom he can obtain it, that spreading knowledge is the duty of every one capable of it, and that if scientific research was employed to serve the good of mankind, it but becomes an effective tool which protects man from the caprices of nature, poverty, hunger and pain, shortens the distances between peoples and brings them close to one another and leads to the prosperity, safety  and security of man.
And since I am a bachelor with no offspring, I wanted to leave a good, virtuous trace, and that is my work, through which people remember me with gratitude and praise. When he was alive, my father had long encouraged me to get married saying : Man dies unless he has left behind sustained charitable work, or a science which renders benefit to all, or a virtuous son.
To me, the virtuous son is a work from which all can benefit in the future.
 

Having believed in all that, I have founded two organizations which work to achieve all of them. They are : Osmane Mounif AIDI Foundation for Heritage, Culture and Sciences, and Osmane Mounif AIDI Foundation for Culture, Communication and Development, as a small contribution on my part in the philanthropic efforts made by others, knowing that the goals for which these two and other similar foundations work in the rest of the world, is but firstly the responsibility of states, governments and huge institutions, but it suffices me to work within my capacity, and limited means.
The United Nations Organization has recognized on 15/12/2003 the Osmane Mounif AIDI Foundation for Culture, Communication and Development as a Non Governmental Organization, and announced that in the press declaration No. NGO/528-PI/1556 dated 6/1/2004 issued by its Department of Information .