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It is because of how our mindshave formed throughout historyResearch in shortDigital Activism and SocialR+Dthat some of the judgments weMovements Theory: Efficacies andmake today are sometimes inap-Burdens of Social Media for CivicNametag: Stephan Schmid, PhD Arab and Middle Eastern History, projected spring 2013.propriate. A judgment could bemade, for example, not on anaccurate measure of risk, buton how easy it is for us to recallActivism – coauthored by Jad Melki,assistant professor of journalism andmedia studies, and Sarah Mallat,instructor of media studiesLife before PhD: I grew up in a small village in Germany. I studied political science (with a focus on the modern MiddleEast), Islamic studies, and Semitic philology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). In 2008 I received theGerman Magister degree, which is equivalent to an MA degree.a similar reference. This recallWhat matters most: Many allegations have been made regarding the role of freemasonry in the Arab world. I want toability was essential in the pastdemystify the existing views regarding freemasonry during the early period of the Arab nahda (1860-1914), commonlybut can be problematic today whenposition in the region, and the growingconsidered a period of transition from traditionalism to modernity, and provide the first reliable and well documented studywe are surrounded by so many mediapulse of activism in the country. Theon this topic in English.First dedicated in 1923 (then moved in 1976,and destroyed in 1991), a plaque commemoratingAUB medical alumni who died duringWorld War I has been rededicated in its originalhome of West Hall. Read about a student’ssearch for the descendents of these alumni inMainGate on-line.FASRisky Decisionsmessages in our daily lives that are acombination of fact and fiction.Evans, who taught at AUBin 2012 and recently publishedRisk Intelligence: How to Live withUncertainty, argues for risk assessmentto be based on modern toolssuch as statistical methodology. Just asthe gambler uses odds and probabilityto determine the strength of a hand ofcards, we too should rely on accuratemeasures for making our decisions.“Our brains have the fundamentalequipment for making good probabilitystudy uses a mixed methods approachcombining qualitative interviews, focusgroups, and participant observation toexplore the commonly used digital andsocial media tools for activism and toanalyze their perceived benefits anddisadvantages.Although social media platformsoffer many perceived benefits foractivists, the study found that digitalactivism also presents significantobstacles. Very real constraintsrestrict the potential advantages ofsocial media such as the limitedResearch: I am using a large number of primary sources such as European Masonic archives in London, Edinburgh, andParis as well as Arabic contemporary sources such as books, pamphlets, journals, newspapers, etc. I decided to do myPhD at AUB because I wanted to spend more time in the Middle East and also because of its superb collection of latenineteenth and early twentieth century Arabic journals and newspapers.10 am Tuesday, 10 am Saturday: Writing a dissertation is a full-time job. My mind is always occupied with ideas andaspects of my work. I write these down in a little booklet, which has become my best friend.Most admires: I deeply admire those who do not follow preconfigured and imitative ways of thinking and living but dareto start the journey to find themselves. Austrian novelist and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s work Death and the Foolhas had a considerable impact on how I see life.I’m thankful for the people who have stood andstill stand by my side, for giving me advice andguidance, not least my wife.The development of our minds hasassessments in the right conditions,availability of resources to initiate andWhy this topic interests me: Many schol-not only occurred in the course of onethough some people seem to have amaintain digital platforms; the inter-ars have claimed that Masonic lodges playedlifetime, but throughout human history.good deal more talent in this regardnet’s slow speed, high cost, anda considerable role in the development of theThat fact is the basis of evolutionarythan others,” Evans says. “Over thelimited penetration rate; and the lackArab nahda but cite few if any sources for thispsychology and the work of Professorpast few hundred years, we’ve alsoof individuals skilled not only in digitalclaim. I have succeeded in unearthing aDylan Evans, who researches and dis-developed a powerful set of analyticalmedia but also in strategic communi-large amount of material and havecusses how many of our decisions andtools that can enhance that skill andcation, language and writing abilities,become fascinated during thisjudgments are rooted in experiencesassist us in making good judgments.”critical thinking, and advocacy work.process by the secret andthat helped our race survive, but maynot be useful in modern society.—A.B.The study also found—as otherstudies have done—that social mediaesoteric world of Masonicfraternalism, not least“Natural selection probably favoreda certain amount of overconfidenceActivism or Slactivism?has led to the growth of a cultureof “slactivism,” a new term that hasbecause Lebanon is oneof the few Middle Easternin early humans, as it would haveExtensive debates revolve around thebeen coined to describe “click-basedcountries where freema-been an advantage in the small-scale,role digital and social media playedactivism.” Increased communicationsonry exists today.low-tech skirmishes that characterizedin the 2011-12 Arab uprisings. Thiscapacity does not necessarily lead tohuman combat for most of our evolu-study explores digital activism amongincreased political participation. In thetionary history,” he says. “It probablysocial movement organizations (SMOs)end, activism has always been—andmade fighters more tenacious andin Lebanon because of its uniquealways will be—about people showingaggressive, for example.”socio-political context, its avant-gardeup in person.14 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate

OSBattractive situation. The perceptionMG: How are you going to achieveThe faculty will have to more thanChange Managementis that Lebanon is unsafe and thatLebanese are teaching Lebanese. Thisthis change?WV: We will change the pedagogy. Idouble by 2020. There will be someattrition and some hiring. A world-classDean Wilfried Vanhonacker parachutedis not what made this University great.am a great believer in blended learning.business school needs top research-into AUB’s Suliman S. Olayan SchoolThe challenge for the University isI don't believe that the best way toers because you create your identityof Business at the end of October anddealing with its history and its cripplingteach and educate talent is to sit themthrough unique intellectual property;nothing has been the same since. Aninfrastructure and at the same timein a classroom and ask them to keepthere is no way around it.expert in emerging markets, he is themaking investments and plans for thequiet for 90 minutes. You don't learnfounding dean of the Moscow Schoolfuture.by passive osmosis, and if it is aboutMG: Does this mean hiringof Management, SKOLKOVO, and thepreparing people for the challenges ofpractitioners as well as academics?cofounder, former dean, and vice presi-MG: What are the immediatetoday’s world you have to put them inWV: A lot of business schools aredent of the China Europe Internationalobjectives?that reality. When I created the MBAgrappling with this. Personally I amBusiness School (CEIBS), Shanghai.WV: You cannot go into the futurein Moscow I only saw the studentsnot impressed with a PhD until I seeDean Vanhonacker has also held manyunless you have a good foundation, so Ifor three months, for the other 12-13what is done with it. Expertise andacademic positions including at thehave to clear the historical baggage andmonths they did project work in Russia,experience has to be brought into theprestigious INSEAD School of Businessbuild an organizational and administra-China, India, and the United States.pedagogical model.in France and at Columbia University’stive platform. I need to get the facultyI don't think AUB should graduateGraduate School of Business.on board and give people a vision toa student unless s/he has done oneMG: Will OSB have an offsiteHailed by President Dorman as “anget excited about. During change youterm somewhere else in the world.presence?academic game changer on an interna-get three segments of people: oneYou need to take students to Japan,WV: Yes, all around the MENA regiontional scale,” Vanhonacker (Hurricanethat says “Great,” I am willing to work;South Africa, China, Brazil, India, andup to Iran. We will be running programsWilfried to some) has swept into action,the second says “Great,” but leaveother frontier markets, to taste reality.with partners, projects with think tanks,“putting his ship in order” as a preludeme out of it; and the third resists. TheStudents don't realize how privilegedcorporate training centers. The Gulf isto massive change in the way businessstrategy is to identify those people andthey are, and with that comes a sensewaking up to the fact that those schoolsis taught at AUB.do “surgery” very quickly – it’s typicalof responsibility, to develop your talent,they invited in are never going to work.MainGate met Dean Vanhonackerchange management. I have alreadyand take advantage of what you haveThey have no real commitment to theon a rainy Friday afternoon in his OSBmade some tough decisions. Peoplebeen given because not everyone getsregion. We have a great opportunity tooffice overlooking the sea. The view hetell me, “You can’t do that,” but I am notthis, and that includes a responsibilityhelp. We are an indigenous player andloves, the building he loathes. Still tryinggoing to play that game.to give back to society. You cannotwe know the culture.to finish his lunch at 4 pm, he ticks offbe a leader unless you are a givinghis hourly appointments showing noMG: So where are you taking OSB?person.MG: What is top of your wish list?signs of fatigue. After his first visit toof my favorite cities. So I came hereAUB lives in the past. People by andWV: The future is to turn the school intoThe role of faculty is changing.WV: Perhaps a different building! MoneyAUB he left with “a million ideas.” Weand I was shocked. This is one of thelarge still have this civil war mentality,something much more entrepreneurialThey used to be the ones with theis not my priority; it is more about soft-cover only a few.best-kept secrets in the world. I realizedbut the world has changed and thereinand into the leading business school ininformation, now all the information isware, i.e., key people. Having said thatthat this was a very good platform to dolies the challenge and an opportunity.the MENA region. The vision is to focuson-line. Much more their role is one ofI need $200 million, half in unrestrictedMainGate: Why AUB?something from.on creating entrepreneurial leaders formentoring and coaching. This digitalendowments to right the ship andWilfried Vanhonacker: I was lookingMG: How do you define this challenge?challenging environments, to developgeneration gets it; the faculty [mem-build my faculty, and the other halffor a new challenge, another learningMG: What were your first impressions?WV: The challenge is to change thethe unique talent that is needed in anybers] are a bit out of touch. When youfor entrepreneurship initiatives fundedexperience. After Russia, several areasWV: My first impressions: I don't knowthinking about education and thepart of the world. Traditional businessbring up the notion of technology theythrough a venture capital fund. I know itwere on my radar including the Arabwhat these cats are doing here; theymentality about the world. When theschools do not develop that talent;still think of distance learning; distanceis a difficult economic environment, butworld and Central Asian Republics.are a bit of a nuisance. The businessLebanese think about the world, despitethey develop what I call corporatelearning was 20-30 years ago, and itin such an environment, when there isThere is no meaningful, globally rec-school is very much an undergraduatetheir cosmopolitan reputation, they onlybureaucrats. Basically they teach howwas simply about putting your classa vision, people get excited; they wantognized business school in this part ofprogram, so you can really build up theconsider North America and Europe,to become a CEO and make sure younotes on-line. So we have to enhancesomething visionary to hold on to. I amthe [Arab] world. My brother had toldgraduate side. The whole University stillbut this is not where the action is.don't get kicked out of your job, whichthe effectiveness and efficiency ofexcited, if I wasn’t, I wouldn’t be here.me you have to go to Beirut – it’s onehas an undergraduate mindset. I thinkRight now we are not in anis not leadership.using technology in learning.—M.A.16 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate |MainGate Winter 201317

On ViewAUB Archaeological MuseumFEA"Axonometric Relationbetween Sea, Corniche,and Project"Fourth-year architecture studentsRami Kanafani andAhmad Nour Aldeen wonthe annual Fawzi AzarArchitecture Award andits $15,000 scholarshipfor their innovativedesigns that reimaginedtwo disconnectedspaces–an empty plotof land across from theCorniche and a newfishing pier–as a contemporaryurban fishingFish AquariumFor restaurant andmarketIt took some effort to corral the terra cotta vessels from a tombdiscovered in Byblos in 1955. While digging the foundation fora house, laborers broke through to a tomb and immediately soldthe contents to local antiquity dealers. When AUB was offereda few items from the find the University went in search of theothers to make the Byblos Tomb Collection. Although the tombwas destroyed before archaeologist Maurice Dunand could sketchit, the vessels tell us much. The style of the pottery shows thetomb was used in both the Early (3000-2000 BC) and Middle(2000-1600 BC) Bronze Ages. The decorated Kamares vasecould only have come from Crete, indicating a very early import.Burnishing on the vessels, achieved by rubbing with cloth, bone,or wood, parallels specimens found in Abydos, Egypt from theFirst Dynasty (3100-2890 BC). Standing quietly with bowls fromthe Early Bronze Age is this double vase. A beautiful patternsubtly applied to its sides is still visible and one of two originalrams, which would have helped serve as a grip, seems poised totake a sip from the vessel.village. The jury challengedthe student architects to jointhese spaces to create "an establishedpresence for fishermen withincontemporary Beirut," includingVegetationFish waste and natural sunlightpromote plant growthFish DeliveredBrought in tanks for usein aquaponic system—K.D.Opened in 1902, the Archaeological Museum isthe third oldest museum in the Near East.Tel: + 961 1 340549 museum@aub.edu.lb I Hours: 9 am to 5 pmhousing for 20 fishermen and theirfamilies, boat hangers, boat repairshops, a restaurant, and a fishmarket with aquaponic systems.Architect Nabil Azar (BAR ’70),head of Builders Design Consultants,established the Fawzi Azar Award in1997 in memory of his late father. Theaward is given annually to fourth-yeararchitecture students and goes towardsthe cost of their fifth-year tuition. MarwanConcept by Ahmad Nour AldeenZouein coordinated the five-person jury(Nabil Azar, André Bekhazy, BernardMallat, Maya Yared, and Hani Zgheib)that evaluated this year’s candidates.FHSFadi El-Jardali, associate professorin the Health Management and PolicyDepartment, has been elected to theboard of the Health Systems GlobalSociety.Formally launched in Beijing onNovember 3, 2012 at the 2nd GlobalSymposium on Health SystemsResearch, Health Systems GlobalSociety is the first international membershiporganization fully dedicatedto building the field of health systemsand policy. Its mission is to catalyzeand convene researchers, decisionmakers,and implementers to createand Gynecology (FIGO) to representthe Middle East and African region.“My membership in the FIGO willhelp bring emerging and pressingwomen’s health needs in Lebanonand the region to internationalattention in order to seek supportfor them,” said El-Kak, noting thatand utilize health systems researchto optimize the performance of healthsystems.Faysal El-Kak, MD, part-time seniorlecturer at FHS and president ofthe Lebanese Society of Obstetricsand Gynecology (LSOG), has beenelected to the executive board of theInternational Federation of Obstetrics"Urban Fishermen" project renderings by Rami Kanafani18 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate |MainGate Winter 201319

maternal mortality, reproductivecan’t fix them we tend to turn ourstudents. Her determination to estab-Balsam’s services are free. “Youfamily has to live with the experience,”region. This mission – this goal – ithealth, youth sexual health, elderlybacks and leave our patients andlish home hospice care in the com-cannot bill insurance for palliative careOsman concludes. “The quality ofis at the heart of AUB.” That was thehealth, and unmet needs in familytheir families to cope. Increasingly Imunity, however, trumped every otherand we spent a lot of time trying todeath makes a huge difference to howfirst response from Associate Dean forplanning are among the top concerns.found this to be unacceptable.”consideration. Together with AUBMCfind a mechanism for payment. In thethe family copes afterwards. We haveExternal Medical Affairs Fadi Bitar, MD,With member societies in some 125Assistant professor at FHS, Osmanoncology nurses, Rebecca El Asmarend we gave up because we did notlearned that engaging them in the care,when we stopped by to ask him aboutcountries and territories, FIGO is theis a family practitioner whose earlyand Janan Hanna, and with the supportwant money to be a barrier,” Osmanallowing them to support the personthe recent announcement that AUBMConly global organization that bringsspecialization was “Mums, babies,of board members, Balsam’s param-explains. “Our values are that dignitythey love, and feeling empoweredwould be working with the Elmer andtogether professional societies ofand parenting…; dealing with endeters were established. Work beganis a basic human right. Death with dig-helps them with the process. It is oneMamdouha Bobst Foundation and theobstetricians and gynecologists.of life cases was anathema,” shein 2010 with Osman, El Asmar, andnity is a basic human right and havingof the most important things we canNew Mazloum Hospital to establishBalm for Mind and Bodyexplains. That was before one particularpatient put her on a path thatHanna as part-time volunteers. Sincethen the team has grown to includeyour pain controlled is a basic humanright, so if you make this a chargeabledo and we cannot mess up. You don’tget the chance to do it over again.”an affiliated outpatient cancer centerin Tripoli.would transform her life. “It showedfull-time nurse Mohammad Saab, part-service, then you are disregardingLearn more: www.balsam-lb.orgThe “arrangements” Dr. Bitar washow satisfying palliative care could be.It was the most rewarding experiencetimer Dr. Michael Khoury, practicingpsychotherapist and FHS lecturer, andpeople who can’t afford it.” ThusBalsam relies totally on donations—M.A.referring to are the ones AUBMC nowenjoys with the Keserwan Medical Centerin my medical work.” Thus the notionof Balsam, a nongovernmental orga-volunteer Dr. Dania Ghaziri, AUBMCclinical pharmacist. Board membersfrom sponsors and patients alike.However more and bigger donationsAUBMC(KMC) in Ghazir and the New MazloumHospital in Tripoli. Signed in Septembernization that works to relieve patientsuffering and improve quality of life byproviding holistic support to those withinclude FHS Professor Huda Zurayk;director of the Rafic Hariri School ofNursing Huda Abu-Saad Huijer, anare needed to grow Balsam’s servicesin the community.Patient care is only one aspectThe Mamdouha El-SayedCancer Center of Tripoli2011, the agreement with KMC callsfor AUBMC medical staff to oversee thedevelopment of its educational, clinical,life-threatening illness, was formed. Inexpert in palliative care; and Dr. Salahof Balsam’s work, whose mission“These types of arrangements – theyand research capacities. The agreementaddition to medical services, BalsamZeineldine, pulmonary and critical careincludes capacity training for doc-are changing the profile of AUBMC.with the New Mazloum Hospital (NMH) is“As doctors we are trained to cureoffers psychological, social, practical,specialist, also from AUBMC. “We aretors and nurses, advocacy to changeThey are enabling us to build capac-to establish a state-of-the-art ambulatorypeople. Our socialization as physi-and spiritual support within the familya tiny team and we need to grow,”laws and the system, and research.ity – to reach more patients, to attractcancer center in Tripoli, Lebanon. Thecians is such that if someone is notand home environment.Osman says. “We are searching forAn important fillip for Balsam camemore doctors, which then enablesMamdouha El-Sayed Cancer Center ofcurable, we feel we have failed them,”Leaving the Faculty of Medicine toanother doctor but not a lot of peoplewith the recent establishment of theus to treat more patients and bet-Tripoli (MSCC) will be equipped with asays Dr. Hibah Osman, medical direc-set up Balsam in 2009 was a wrenchingwant to do this. You can train people onNational Palliative Care Committeeter serve the community. They arelinear accelerator, Pet CT scan, MRI,tor of Balsam, the Lebanese Centerdecision for Osman, who cherished hertechnical issues, but you need a certainunder the Ministry of Health.also so important to our mission tomammography, and ultrasound, and willfor Palliative Care. “Once we feel werelationship with the faculty and herpersonality to be able to do this work.”“A patient only has one death andserve the people of Lebanon and theprovide comprehensive cancer treatmentMarketing Management: Arab World Edition [Pearson Education,2012] by Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller, Salah S. Hassan, ImadB. Baalbaki (BBA ’85, MBA ’87), and Hamed M. ShammaThis new volume is an adaptation of Marketing Management, which was first published in 1967 and isnow in its 14th edition. The most widely used text in graduate business schools, Marketing Managementhas ranked among the top 200 titles on Amazon.com and been named among the 50 best businessbooks of all time by the Financial Times.Professors Hassan, Baalbaki, and Shamma, who have extensive educational, research, and practicalexperience and in-depth knowledge of the Arab world, bring “the most popular marketing managementtext in the world to future Arab marketers.” Hailed as the “first of its kind,” Marketing Management: Arab World Edition approachesgrounded marketing theory and state-of-the-art marketing practice through an Arab perspective. The book covers a wide rangeof topics that are of interest not just to future Arab marketers and to current marketing professionals in the Arab world, but togeneral readers as well as it offers a unique perspective on the people, markets, and culture of the Arab world. The book featuresa host of topics, cases, and practical tools allowing readers to design, implement, and monitor marketing programs, conductsound market research, create and enhance brand awareness and performance, and understand and cater to the intricacies ofthe Arab world through respecting its political, economic, and social diversities and building on its commonalities.Agriculture at AUB: A Century of Progress(AUB Press, 2012) by Nuhad J. DaghirIn this informative history, former student, professor, administrator, dean, and now Dean EmeritusNuhad Daghir documents the history of AUB’s role in agriculture in Lebanon and the region. Hetraces its development from the early twentieth century when the University provided courses forlocal farmers to the establishment of the Faculty of Agriculture in 1952 (later renamed the Faculty ofAgricultural and Food Sciences) to the present.The volume also includes short biographies of 50 AUB alumni who have made particularly noteworthycontributions in one of the many fields in which FAFS is now active, including nutrition and food science.Daghir concludes this volume with an assessment of the prospects for FAFS in the decades ahead.20 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate |MainGate Winter 201321

Reaching out:Some recent agreements and activities at AUBMC• Keserwan Medical Center: Complete medical affiliation• Mamdouha El-Sayed Cancer Center of Tripoli at New Mazloum Hospital:Affiliated with AUBMC• KidzMondo Project in Lebanon: learning center for kids• Women’s Health Heart Center with the first lady of Lebanon: External MedicalAffairs is leading the pre-commissioning and implementation of the project; FM/AUBMC will be involved in clinical care and academic and research activities• Affiliation agreement with the University of Toledo, United States: Education,student exchange, establishing a diabetes center for the region; dual appointmentof faculty; setting up continuing medical education programs including simulationcenter• Cooperation agreement with the Medical City Teaching Hospital of Baghdad, Iraq:Share expertise in the fields of health care, clinical services, training, and research• Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) contract signed with Iraq Ministry of Health(MOH): About 50 Iraqi patients expected to receive BMT at AUBMC per year• Affiliation with the University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States: Education andresearch in the areas of bioethics and public health• Training agreements: Continuing Medical Education services were provided to theBone Marrow Transplantation team from Iraq, Lebanese military forces, LebaneseInternational University, Beirut Arab University, UNRWA, University of Maryland,Ministry of Health Family Medicine Course, Bellevue Hospital – Anesthesia, QudsUniversity resident training, and LAU pharmacy students training.including radiotherapy and oncologyservices mainly for patients living innorth Lebanon. “These are peoplewho cannot for whatever reasontravel to Beirut and be treated atour Medical Center. Thanks to thisagreement, we are now able to go tothem,” explains Bitar.The Mamdouha El-SayedCancer Center of Tripoli, named fora longtime generous supporter ofAUB (see MainGate winter 2007,pages 12-13; also spring 2012,pages 18-19), is expected to openin spring 2014. It will include not justclinical services but educational andresearch collaboration as well. “Thiscenter has been something we have allbeen working towards for a long time,”says Bitar. “Really, it’s like a dreamcome true – not just for me, but forAUBMC and the donor as well.”Over the past two and a half years,the establishment of local, regional,and international strategic partnershipsand collaborations such asthose with KMC and NMH has beena priority for AUBMC. It is one of thesix “paths” that VP for Medical AffairsMohamed Sayegh and his colleaguesare traveling to reach AUBMC 2020.These arrangements are making itpossible not only for AUBMC to caterto many more patients, but also toshare complementary diagnostic servicesand equipment. “It’s truly a winwinsituation,” says Dr. Bitar. “Morepatients can be treated by AUBMCdoctors and staff. The reverse braindrainstrategy adopted by VP Sayeghwill be supported through securingvarious sites and a larger number ofpatients for the considerable numberof new doctors attracted to AUBMCfrom renowned institutions in theUnited States and Europe. Moreover,we will benefit from the opportunity totreat these patients – and also…[from]the chance to work with colleaguesat these different medical facilities inLebanon.” Bitar is quick to point outthat these are only two of many relationshipsAUBMC enjoys in Lebanon,in the region, and around the world.(See, for example, MainGate, fall2012, pages 24-26 about AUB’s longrelationship with the Cleveland Clinic.)HSONThrough the Eyes of aNurseFive BSN students decided to taketheir knowledge and skills beyondHSON. Nadine Bashashi, May-Lee Melki, Pamela Bou Zeid, ElsaJarawan, and Clara Abou Samrafounded “Through the Eyes of aNurse” to offer nursing services tothe community and raise healthawareness. Here, the founders speakabout the organization, its goals,visions, and mission.Ten abiding goals:1. To stand as one2. To spread love and care3. To promote nursing4. To prevent illnesses and helprestore health5. To diminish the stereotypesabout the nursing profession6. To aid in shaping the nursingidentity from a society'sperspective7. To enhance nurses' role in thecommunity8. To appreciate nurses' efforts9. To achieve optimal patient care10. To shed light on proper andlegal nursing careWe started with a vision toadvocate health within the communityand challenge the perception of therole of nursing in a society’s wellbeing.With help and encouragementfrom Director Huda Huijer and thefaculty and staff at HSON, we startedin summer 2012 to form healthcareteams that reach out to peoplein rural and urban areas, providingprimary health care, and introducingholistic treatment beyond hospitals.We offer patient-teaching sessions,immunizations, primary assessment,disease prevention, and equipmentto dispensaries for “underserved”outpatient clinics.AUBSTOREAfter launching our organizationduring a reception at HSON, we heldseveral fundraising events on theAUB campus and helped support theAshrafieh neighborhood following theOctober bomb, the “Food Blessed”NGO, and poor families near AUB.Our goal is to create a mobileclinic that serves all of Lebanon. Thisrepresents the essence of communitynursing and civic engagement. It iswhere we, being privileged to havestudied at HSON, give back to society.To offer support, volunteer, orlearn more, call + 961-71-13542 oremail throughtheeyesofanurseat(at)hotmail.comDrop by the AUB Store for theperfect AUB apparel, giftsand mementos from the University.22 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingateWe’re featuring officially branded AUB itemssuch as polo shirts, kids clothing, accessories, and more!AUB Store is located in the Visitors Bureau, Main Gateshop on-line and have it delivered worldwide!www.aub.edu.lb/aubstore23

Student NewsWith a Little Help From My FriendsArriving at AUB for the first time may be exciting but foroverseas students, it can also be daunting and confusing.The Babel of languages, the reams of paperwork,and even trying to make sense of Bliss, Nicely, and Post,names that sound more like nouns or adverbs than universitybuildings, can make for a baffling start.AUB is home to approximately 1,500 internationalstudents (holders of non-Lebanese passports) from over64 different countries. The University recognizes thatinternational students, whether degree-seeking or incomingstudy abroad visitors, whether graduate, post-doctoralor undergraduate, whether from Jordan or Japan, havespecial issues and concerns.Each semester there will be over 70 international visitingstudents threading their way around campus, pickingup saj on Bliss Street, or hanging out on the steps ofWest Hall. Most settle in quickly, in large part thanks tothe Office of International Programs (OIP)’s welcome weekMentor Program.Luzan Al Munayer, a freshman from Palestine, found theMentor Program to be “An outstanding way to introducenew students to life at AUB. New students get integratedthrough the experiences of current AUB students who areready to lend a hand at all times.” Multicultural studentswho have excellent communication skills and are activelyengaged in the AUB community are highly encouraged toapply. Other criteria for becoming a mentor include a goodknowledge of Lebanon and a zest for life. As mentor JudeFaour puts it, “It’s a great opportunity to represent yourUniversity to people from outside Lebanon, not to mentionto be a part of a great tradition of AUB ambassadors.”Mahmood al Jaroodi’s experiences as an internationalstudent at AUB and elsewhere were seminal in his decisionto become a mentor: “I still remember my first weekin Beirut in 2009, everything was different and new. Thesame thing happened when I decided to do a semester atthe American University in Washington, DC. However, thefirst week in Beirut (and Washington) was unexpectedlyamazing!The reason for this was the mentors. They showed usthe city and took us places, told us where to buy a SIMcard, and pillows. They made the transition very smooth.Because of this I decided to help other students goingthrough the same phase to make sure that they have thetime of their lives here.”Successful mentor applicants undertake a number oftraining sessions including intercultural communication,team building exercises, event planning, and campus tourtraining to help them prepare for the overseas students’arrival and the challenges ahead. This includes anything fromplanning a cross cultural Thanksgiving dinner to touristictrips around Lebanon; from providing a shoulder to cry on,to helping sort out confusion over papers and bureaucracy.Mentor Patricia Abdul Karim says: “I was excited becauseworking with OIP would give me the chance to meet newpeople, help them, and make sure they didn't feel alone. Iknew it would also help me develop my people skills andexpand my social circle. I needed a good non-academicexperience to take away from AUB. I got so much more thanthat though :).”So what are the hopes and expectations of other mentorslike Patricia and Jude? What do they strive to get froma program that takes up a serious portion of their time andputs their communication skills to the test?“I know it sounds philosophical and somewhat cliché, but I never had thechance to contemplate the kind of person I am. I guess this is one of thedrawbacks of living in a place like Yemen where there is relatively no suchthing as having hobbies and sometimes even a good education is hard tofind. So far, working with OIP, I have learned that I’m not shy about speakingout." Yasmin Kassem (Business Administration, Yemen)“I wanted to improve my communication with students/citizens fromdifferent parts of the world and to become a “worldly” kind of guy. Iexpected my planning and teamwork skills to improve in the process.I also expected to have fun.” Meer Ali (Economics, Iraq)“When I was a new AUB international student I got valuable helpfrom my mentors. I have always been interested in getting to knowpeople from other countries, I believe that these encounters have abig impact on how we perceive other cultures and they contributeto bridge building between people. The work with the OIP teamis a great experience; At the end of the semester, knowing thatmost of the international students will be leaving is bittersweet. Wedeveloped solid friendships, they successfully integrated into AUB,and they will be missed.” Marwen Mechergui (BusinessAdministration, Morocco)When you work with people coming from around the world yourealize how small this world is and how we all share common things.If I summarize my experience with OIP in two words: It’s FUN!”Mahmood Al Jaroodi (Economics, Bahrain)“I hope being a mentor helps me to become more social andoutgoing and to meet lots of cool people (which I’ve alreadydone), and gain a bit more responsibility.” Jihane Abou Zeid(Chemistry, Lebanon)“Exposure to international people gives you great communication skills…When you approach a new person in class, ordinarily you can break the icerelatively fast because you share a close mentality, values, and language. Butwhen you grew up in different places and think differently, it is interesting tobe able to communicate with other people of diverse backgrounds.”JudeFaour (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Palestine)“I would say that I wanted to improve my leadership skills and show that Iam an asset to have in a team-based environment. I believe that the mostimportant trait a leader should have is credibility/trust, in addition of courseto confidence, charisma, and courage.” Ahmad Nasser (PSPA,United States)2425

And what of our visitors, has the program helped them?“I met some fantastic people (the mentors) who also became good friends.I still go to them for advice [about things] that I haven’t figured out whenit comes to living in Lebanon or dealing with the administrative aspects ofgetting paperwork processed at AUB… I had mentors and staff checking upon me all the way through the middle of the semester.Having been an orientation counselor at my undergraduate institution Iam familiar with the hardships that this job entails. It's much more thancampus tours and good times. There's a great deal of responsibility andaccountability that comes with being a mentor for any kind of student,especially international ones, because we have a whole other set ofpotential problems! I plan to apply for a [AUB] mentor position for nextyear. Richard A. Kline (Graduate PSPA, United States)The mentors befriended me and made me feel very welcome. Theevents were well organized and fun and it helped me connect with bothlocals and other foreign students." Saba Ijadi (Political Science,United States)“I like the Mentor Program because it is the human part of the wholeexchange, at least at the beginning. When you arrive to a newcountry and you don't know anybody, everything seems chaotic. Ireceived emails from my mentor before arriving, and then we met forcoffee before orientation week, so he was the first to show me thecampus and resolve a lot of doubts about registration and paper work.The Mentor Program helped international students get to know eachother through the welcome dinner on the first day. We started meetingpeople and getting to know Lebanese culture.” Alana MejiaGonzalez (Liberal Arts, Spain)“The mentor helped me look for a place to stay. OIP and its excursionsare a great opportunity to meet people from different countries. They dida wonderful job organizing orientation week when I got the opportunity tomeet the people with whom I was to spend most of my time in Beirut.”Pierre Della Bianca (International Affairs, Switzerland)“The mentors really make an effort to get to know you, helpinternational students get to know their way around Lebanon, andmake sure their time here is enjoyable. My time in Lebanon definitelywould have been different without them. Bethany Warnock(Graphic Design, United States)The Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management helda book signing showcasing work by Professors Rami Zurayk and JalaMakhzoumi. We went on-line to learn what the blogosphere is saying.“It is very appropriate that Rami Zurayk’s Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Springshould appear at a moment when the entire Arab world is being shaken by an upheaval directedagainst, among other things, the global neoliberal economic order that is one of this book’s maintargets… Through his careful and detailed examinations of food and farming issues in Lebanon andother Arab countries, Zurayk helps us to understand where this flame comes from… Rami Zuraykhas made a major contribution to our understanding of the roots of this unprecedented upsurge ofArab youth, Arab energy, and Arab political maturity.”Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, www.justworldbooks.comFood, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring (Just World Books, 2011) by Rami Zurayk—M.A.“An agronomist at the American University of Beirut, veteran leftist activist and the son of a Shi’afamily from South Lebanon, Zurayk was in Lebanon throughout the war trying to organize foodsupplies for the local population, and his diary is a wonderful and essential chronicle of thishorrendous and criminal assault.“Alternately angry, poignant, blackly comic, despairing and humane, his diary provides a very personalperspective on the war, on Israel, and on Lebanese and Arab politics that was-and is-almostentirely absent in the Western media.”Matt Carr, www.infernalmachine.co.ukWar Diary: Lebanon 2006 (Just World Books, 2011) by Rami Zurayk“Comrade Rami sent me a copy of From `Akkar to `Amel: Lebanon’s Slow Food Trail by RamiZurayk, Sami Abdul Rahman, and photographed by Tanya Traboulsi. It is a tribute to small producersin Lebanon and the food that they make. It is delicious but made me hungry and eager for food thatI can’t find here in the US. Next time, comrade Rami, send me the book with all the food featured init, otherwise deal with my wrath.”As’ad AbuKhalil, http://angryarab.blogspot.comFrom `Akkar to `Amel: Lebanon’s Slow Food Trail (Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity, Bra/Italy andSlow Food Beirut, 2008) by Rami Zurayk, Sami Abdul Rahman; photography by Tanya Traboulsi“The Right to Landscape promises to transform ‘landscape’ from a conceptin cultural geography and landscape architecture to a concept indispensableto the probing of human nature and human well-being, drawing on and cross-fertilizingsuch diverse fields as the study of nature, history, anthropology, psychology, politics, and law.”Yi-Fu Tuan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, www.ashgate.comThe Right to Landscape. Contesting Landscape and Human Rights (Ashgate, 2011) ed. Shelley Egoz,Jala Makhzoumi, Gloria Pungetti“Horizon 101 is a personal story that is captivating, poetic, and moving, a humble and candid representationof the author’s passion for landscape and compassion for human beings that underpin her practiceand scholarly work. The sensuality of landscape is captured in watercolor as seen from the author’sresidence on the AUB campus. Painting the everyday landscape of the waterfront becomes a ritual, adaily engagement with the horizon, a time to reflect on war, displacement, and identity that is captured inArabic and English prose. Printed on quality textured paper, with a soft cover and binding, the book feelslike a hand-made original diary.”Shelley Egoz, Lincoln University, New Zealand, www.journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/lr/article/download/678/504Horizon 101 (Dar Onboz, 2010) Jala Makhzoumi, direction and design: Nour Saab26 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate27

How 2 b SocBterfly[ How to be a Social Butterfly ]With so much of our liveson-line, where better to get a glimpseof life on campus than by checking inwith student activity on social media?And just in case you don’t find life onlineas easy as 1-2-3, we’ve included asimple guide to explain why three ofthe biggest platforms are useful andhow you can sign up. Painlessly.[ LOL ]FacebookFacebook—the world’s largest social network—allowsregistered users to create profiles, upload photos andvideo, send messages, and keep in touch with friends,family, and colleagues.The AUB Facebook page provides members withinformation about upcoming events on campus, studentand campus news, safety information, and photo albums.You need to “like” the AUB Facebook page to receivenews and updates.www.facebook.com/aub.edu.lbThe WAAAUB Facebook pages provide alumni withinformation about chapter and WAAAUB events, campusnews, alumni in the news, photo albums, and alumnichapter information.“Like” us.www.facebook.com/WAAAUBAlumniSign up for FacebookGo to www.facebook.com, enter in your information, clicktheSign Up button, and then type the message thatappears.Step 1 You will be given the option of downloading youremail address book. If you do this, all of yourcontacts will get an email saying that you’re onFacebook.Step 2 Add information about yourself, such as your almamater or employer. This type of information helpsyou connect with “friends.”> Save, then go through the Facebook list ofpotential “friends” and click to make them your“friends.”Step 3 Upload your profile picture or some other visual.This is what everyone will see when they searchfor you or when you post information on yourFacebook page. You can use your webcam to takea photo of yourself.28 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201329

Kholoud Sukkarieh Darwish American University of Beirut Official PageIn AUB :) thanx for offering us a place to do all the good for this country :)Mahdy Al Moussawi posted to American University of Beirut Official PageOctober 11If I can get 150+ likes on my post, would you solve the issue of the annoying flies at AUB?Edrees Elrachidi posted to American University of Beirut Official PageOctober 15*FREE PIZZA*WHAT: Research for an AUB professor involving a group discussion that aims at understandingpeopleʼs travel patterns and their opinions about public transportation and the environment inLebanon.WHO: AUB students that commute to school using a car (“service” cabs/taxis donʼt count)WHEN: Today at 5 PM | DURATION: ~60 minutes | WHERE: BECHTEL Room 503This will be an attempt to understand peopleʼs travel patterns/opinions in order to assess thefeasibility of potential solutions to Lebanonʼs transportation problems.If thatʼs not enough for you to come, then maybe free pizza will be.TwitterA “twitterer” (or user) tweets very short messages (140characters or fewer) to their followers, such as familyand friends, who can then reply with their own “tweets.”The University and individual alumni have Twitter feeds(called “handles”) that you can follow to get news andinformation about events, safety information on campus,and stories about the AUB community. If you have aquestion for AUB or WAAAUB, send a tweet. It’s a greatplace to ask a question.Follow@AUB_Lebanonhttps://twitter.com/AUB_LebanonFollow@AUBAlumnihttps://twitter.com/AUBAlumniTo be a twittererStep 1 Go to www.twitter.com. Enter your name, emailaddress, and a password. ClickSign Up>Step 2 Select a username. This is how you will be knownon Twitter. If it’s available, consider using your realname so other twitterers know who you are.Step 3 Click onCreate my accountStep 4 To get started, Twitter will explain what a tweet isand give you the opportunity toFollow afew friends, popular personalities, or brands (sure,you can follow Starbucks).Step 5 Twitter will also give you a chance to see if someof your friends are on Twitter by checking youron-line address book.WAAAUB-AUB Alumni @AUBAlumniAUBite in the News! Dr. Hassan MichaelFakih (BS ’81): one of the most in-demanddoctors in reproductive medicine.http://ow.ly/frviBt Rola Jaber @RolaJaber90@ThisIsHamra @CaribouCoffeeLB @AUB_LebanonNothing beats Hamra street! Feels likehome!Alaa Safa @AlaaSafa@AUB_Lebanon Comedy Night at Issam FaresHall, what a show !Laura Homsi @LauraHomsi@AUB_Lebanon Spiderman in #AUB! Veryimpressive!pic.twitter.com/tzpw95rPPCC - AUB @PCC_AUBHad a great first dabkeh class today. Discoveredsome good talents with our new members!!#AUBBee @JessyBissalThere’s some random guy, playing his guitarhere by the writing center at #AUB. keep jammingdude, keep jamming.Carl Farra @carlfarraJafet library is becoming way too loud andoverpopulated #AUB30 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingateHuda Bejani @HudaBejani“#AUB has already taken necessary measureswww.aub.edu.lb/maingateto reduce the number |MainGateof flies Winteron campus.”201331LOOOOOOOOOOL this oddly made my day :’)

MasteringtheFUTUREIn November 2011, The MasterCard Foundation partnered with AUB’s Facultyof Health Sciences for an eight-year, $9 million program to provide 60 fullundergraduate scholarships to students living in Lebanon majoring in medicallaboratory sciences or environmental health.LinkedInLinkedIn is a professional networking social mediaoutlet. Members interact with networks of people theyknow professionally.On the WAAAUB-AUB Alumni LinkedIn group, forexample, you can post job openings to recruit AUBites,inquire about employment opportunities, ask alumni forprofessional advice, and read articles and news.groupsOnce you have joined the WAAAUB group, youhave the option of joining your faculty subgroup to getinformation about your specific field from other graduates.To find your faculty subgroup, join the WAAAUB-AUBAlumni LinkedIn group, click on the “more” tab and clickon “subgroups”; then select your faculty.You can also join the AUB LinkedIn page, which isregularly updated with news from campus.AUB Company Page32 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingateRegister on LinkedInStep 1 Go to www.linkedin.com. Enter your name, email,and create a password. Click on Join NowStep 2 Answer a series of questions to create a basicprofessional profile.Step 3 Depending on your email provider, you may beasked if you want to connect with LinkedIn userswho are in your on-line address book. If thoseusers are not on LinkedIn, you can invite them tojoin.Step 4 Once you have created your profile, LinkedIn willgive you a personalized link to share with friendson Facebook and Twitter if you wish.Step 5 Choose whether you would like to join LinkedIn onthe basic (free) plan or the premium plan.Step 6 Finally, LinkedIn will ask you to fill in yourprofessional profile by providing information aboutyour employment experience, education, personalinformation, and skills.Step 7 Congratulations, you’re on LinkedIn.MainGate @winter2013Thx 2 Nidal Mawas & Marissa Gawloski 4wrkingon this!The first cohort of 15 scholars arrived on campusin fall 2012. They were selected from among 187applicants based on their academic standing, financialneed, and commitment to public health values andcommunity service.The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program is aunique educational program, one that is dedicating itselfto creating links among young people from developingcountries, their communities,and educational institutions.Strong FHS links tocommunities across Lebanonand the faculty’s commitmentto social justice were keyreasons it was chosen as oneof the first global partners inthe program.The AUB program offersyoung men and women fromeconomically disadvantagedbackgrounds who arededicated to making a difference in their communitiesa chance to learn and develop leadership skills throughcomprehensive financial, academic, and social support.Scholars are guided through their transitions fromtheir school systems to AUB as well as from AUB tothe job market. They are also provided with regularworkshops and training to help them build twenty-firstcentury skills and become part of a global network ofMasterCard Foundation scholars who share a commonethos for social transformation.Program officer Maha Makki is dedicated full timeto the program and coordinates recruitment efforts aswell as follow-up with the scholars. Scholars are alsosupported by Dr. Michael El-Khoury, psychologist andWe look atmuch more thangrades whenselecting the“right” scholarsfor this program.lecturer at the FHS Department of Health Promotionand Community Health, who offers them professionalcounseling and psychosocial support.Much is expected from these young men andwomen. As Makki explains, “Our scholars are requiredto give back to their communities throughout theprogram. They will be engaged in a community projectgiving them the chance to make an impact duringtheir stay at AUB as wellas after their graduation.These expectations requirethat we look at much morethan grades when selectingthe ‘right’ scholars for thisprogram.”This AUB programis part of The MasterCardFoundation’s $500 millionglobal Scholars Programannounced at a UN SpecialSession on September26, 2012 under the UN Education First Initiative andincludes a global network of universities and non-profitinstitutions. The program seeks to develop leaders ofchange by enabling access to secondary and universityeducation for academically bright, socially conscious

Medicaid program in the US. I also hope to develop otherprograms to improve the quality of health in my country.MOHAMMAD AHMAD BAWABHometown: Harouf, South LebanonMajor: Medical Laboratory Sciencesyoung people from economically disadvantagedcommunities in developing countries, with a particularfocus on Africa.The other universities in the network includeArizona State University, Duke University, MichiganState University, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, and WellesleyCollege in the United States; the University of Toronto,University of British Columbia, and McGill Universityin Canada; Ashesi University College in Ghana; andEARTH University in Costa Rica. EARTH Universityalso targets students from Latin America, while AUBfocuses on Lebanon. Secondary school partners includeCamfed in Ghana and BRAC in Uganda. Makki says,“We have a lot in common with these institutions as weshare a commitment to the scholars and to what we calleducation for social transformation.”Although they have only just arrived on campus,we want to introduce you to these young men andwomen. You’ll be hearing more from them and aboutthis extraordinary program in future issues of MainGatemagazine. You will find more information about theprogram at www.aub.edu.lb/fhs/fhs_home/pages/mcfsp.RASEEL MAHMOUD ADAWIHometown: Majdel Anjar, Beqa’aMajor: Environmental HealthI chose this major because Ihave a great interest in theenvironment and a strongdesire to protect our health.Our environment is our bighome. We should be aware ofit. I love to study topics like airquality, water supply, wastemanagement, and community health. I hope to do amaster’s in public health in the future.SAHAR MOHAMMAD AL FEREKHHometown: Kaskas, BeirutMajor: Environmental HealthBeing an environmental healthprofessional will enable me tohelp people affected byenvironmental factors. Findingthe link between nature, theenvironment, and our healthwill help us understand thecauses of diseases, find theright medications, and decrease human suffering. Thiswill give me the opportunity to do what I have alwayshoped to do, which is ease suffering.Nowadays the mostcomplicated problem facinghumanity is pollution. Mycountry suffers from thisdisease: black smoke, badodors, garbage on the shore,etc. Society must be warnedabout how pollution affectspeople’s health. I dream of becoming a laboratoryscientist so that I can help patients. When I graduate Ialso want to get involved in the world of theater as I liketo act and to write short stories and poems.AMENA BASSAM EL-HARAKEHHometown: Haret Hreik, Mount LebanonMajor: Environmental HealthI think we can all make asignificant change in the world…I might dream of being a doctorsaving lives, someone else mightwish to become an agriculturalistwho improves food quality, athird person might want to bean environmental specialist toreduce pollution. These are all different careers but theyhave the same aim: change for the better.I want toencourage peopleto be responsiblefor their deedsand to havethe courageto believe inthemselves.IBRAHIM MORTADA HASHIMHometown: Saida, South LebanonMajor: Medical Laboratory SciencesI once accompanied my aunt toher work at a hospital medicallab. I was really fascinatedthere, felt interested, andadmired the way she and theother employees were working.I aspire to becoming a publichealth practitioner or a medicaldoctor, which is my ultimate dream… As a society, Ithink it’s vital that we all work on increasing people’saspx.awareness of public and environmental issues.MOHAMAD ALI AMER ABDUL AZIZMAJD IBRAHIM KARZOUNHometown: Sibline, Mount LebanonMajor: Medical Laboratory SciencesSince the death of mygrandfather in 2005, I havebeen caring for my diabeticgrandmother. I have learnedabout her medicines and havemade her a schedule to ensureI would like todevelop a healthprogram for theelderly and theneedy.Hometown: Al Abbasieh, TyreMajor: Medical Laboratory SciencesI would like to help patients byalleviating their pain andrelieving their suffering. I amalso very interested in helpingpatients overcome theirdiseases psychologicallyandthat she takes them on time. Iwant to contribute towould like to develop a healthdeveloping and improving theprogram for the elderly and the needy, similar to thehospitalization and medication sectors in Lebanon.34 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201335

REEM HASSAN KAWTHARANYHometown: Saida, South LebanonMajor: Environmental HealthI will work to raise people’sawareness of the environmentand the importance ofprotecting animals because Ibelieve that they have rights thatLUCIENNE IBRAHIM NADERHometown: Sin El Fil, Mount LebanonMajor: Medical Laboratory SciencesAfter my father’s death fromcancer six years ago, I made apromise to myself to helppeople who are suffering. Nomatter what my career will be,I know I will help people livein a better community and thatI will improve the environment.I would like to be involved in performingNo matter whatmy career willbe, I know I willhelp peoplelive in a bettercommunityand that I willimprove theenvironment.should be respected.laboratory tests and analyses with professionals to helpI want to encourage peoplediagnose medical disorders in order to find treatmentsto be responsible for theirdeedsand to have the courage to believe in themselves.for health problems.REEM MAAROUF SALAMEHHometown: Bourj Al Barajneh, BeirutMajor: Environmental HealthLAMIS ZIAD SILKAHometown: Hasbaya, South LebanonMajor: Medical Laboratory SciencesI am full of hope and faith—I have a stronginterest indeveloping themedical sector inLebanon.NOURHAN WALID MORSILHometown: Zahle, Beqa’aMajor: Environmental HealthI would like to help youngpeople overcome their problemsand urge them to protect theirenvironment, serve theircommunities, and think andI have always belonged to acommunity full ofenvironmental problems that Idid not create. Pollution waseverywhere I wentfromsmoking at home, to thegenerators all around us, andthe cars making noise andgiving off poisonous gases. I feel that I’m responsible forhope to achieve my goals andfaith that by determination andhard work I will succeed. I havelong dreamed of studyinghealth. My sister wanted somuch to be a doctor but becauseof my father’s sickness, she wasunable to take entrance exams to go to medical school. Shealways looked to me as the person who would fulfill herbehave in a healthy manner. Ihelping solve these problems for providing a safedreams. Her dream grew in me and became my dream too.will also do my best to establishenvironment for myself and for my children in the future.YASSMINE AHMAD LAWZIHometown: Tripoli, North LebanonMajor: Environmental HealthI really care about my countryand especially thea charity for elderly people whohave been through tough experiences.RAMI SAMIR ABOUNACCOULHometown: Sin El Fil, Mount LebanonMajor: Medical Laboratory SciencesALI HUSSEIN YOUSSEFHometown: Saida, South LebanonMajor: Medical Laboratory SciencesEveryone has someone specialwho has a direct effect on his/her heart. My uncle was such aneighborhood near my houseFor me, a life with no ambitionperson, but he is gone. Hiswhere there is a souq. It isand future goals is meaningless.symptoms appeared, and thesupposed to be only forSuch a person will leave thecancer killed him after 20 daysperfume and spices, but insteadworld without making anyof pain. Because there were nothere is garbage pileddifference. I’d like to be able toadvanced medical centers andeverywhere—garbage mixedhelp society and my village. Ilaboratory equipment close to where we live, we did notwith animal bones. And there are all sorts of vegetableshave a strong interest especiallyget a diagnosis until five days before he died. When Iand meat there too. The market is over-crowded andin enhancing andthink of the future, I think of working in a laboratorythere is so much bacteria. I want to help my generationdevelopingand changingthe medical sector in Lebanonthat works on the diagnosis of cancer and onchange this souq and other places like this.so that there are fewer medical mistakes.finding effective therapies to deal with tumors.36 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate

WALK THROUGHWEST HALLIt all began with a shovel!When Howard Bliss brokeground for the building ofWest Hall in 1911, a legendwas born. Since then thishallowed hall has been the hubof student life for generationsof AUBites. Named afterRobert Haldane West (whoarrived on campus in 1884) thebuilding has evolved with itsstudents over the years, witnessing plays, concerts, lectures, exhibitions, receptions,and demonstrations. Once upon a time it had a bowling alley and a roller skatingrink; the great and the good, including the president of the Republic, once arrivedwearing tuxedos and evening dresses for gala openings in the then auditorium.Today West Hall is busier than ever, home to an impressive array of student clubsand offices. From morning until late into the evening West Hall remains theepicenter of student activities. Take a walk through and see for yourself.How much has it changed, how much remains the same?—M.A.38 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201339

A center for fun, music, and movement, the performances in West Hall may notbe as grand as they once were but they still capture the imagination and challengeperceptions. Theater Club, Music Club, Latin American Dance Club, Folk Dance Club,West Hall reverberates with the rhythms of diverse student tastes. Today as before thisis surely a building worth making a song and dance about.40 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201341

International pennants welcome newarrivals to the Office of InternationalPrograms; a much-loved teddy bear waitsto bring joy to a disadvantaged childthanks to the student recycle program.And talking of recycling, the sculpture(top left) entitled shouf 7alak bhl zbele(Your trash mirrors your pride) ismade from garbage, its mirrorsreflecting its challenge back atthe viewer. Colorful wall postersbear testimony to the fun andcreativity that go intoconceiving each newOutdoors theme; while inthe Red Cross office worknever stops.TheAUB - TFLConnection42 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201343

Sometime in April or May, every soon-to-graduate AUBaround Lebanon. What these contacts taught him aboutmy whole outlook. She’s helped me see that if youstudent starts hearing the same questions.the state of Lebanese education led him to contact Teachwant to solve a health“So, what’re you going to do with that engineeringFor All (TFAll), the recently established off-shoot of Teachproblem, you havedegree, son?”For America, which has been sending recent graduates toto address the larger“Congratulations! Gonna start makin’ the big bucksteach in disadvantaged schools since 1990.social issues.”with that business degree?”In 2008 TFL was born. Its mission was—andMiri wants to“Habibti, are you planning on med school rightaway, or will you wait?”Every now and then—actually, in more than 100cases over the past four years—the grad’s response hasbeen something like, “Well, I’m thinking about TeachFor Lebanon.”“Teach For Lebanon? What’s that? Some kind ofsummer internship or something?”“Not exactly,” the grad responds, maybe a bitdefensively, “It’s a two-year program where I’d get sometraining, then get paid to work in a poor school out inthe boonies for two years, and…”Of course, it doesn’t always work out. Not all ofthe more than 100 AUB grads who have applied toTeach For Lebanon since 2008 have followed through.Of those who did, only nine have been accepted,trained, and gone into the field.That nine, though, is a pretty respectable figure,since each year more than 200 graduates from almosta dozen Lebanese universities apply, and, since 2008,remains—pretty simple: to reduce educational inequalityby sending passionate, well-trained recent graduates toteach in needy schools and work as “change agents,”creating innovative extracurricular programs for studentsand even community members.Dimashkieh created a nine-person board of trustees(that includes AUB President Peter Dorman and twoother AUB-connected members) and raised money frombanks, charitable organizations, and individuals. NuhadDaghir, then dean of the Faculty of Agricultural andFood Sciences, was the first chairman of the TFL board.In 2008, the first cohort of 13 fresh graduates spentsix weeks being trained at the Summer Institute, thendispersed to schools throughout the country.Among the AUB grads in this cohort was YoussefSimaan. This biology major (BS ’08) headed to Halba,Akkar, where he spent two years teaching elementaryschool French, science, and art and working as an afterschooltutor.Was there anything about his AUB experience thatAUB, Ali Dimashkieh says, showed him Lebanon. TFL gave himthe opportunity to do something with what he had learned abouthis country.“AUB has always been a small Lebanon from a politicalperspective. It has the whole spectrum.“I lived in the dorms since I’m from Chtaura. This was themost intriguing part of my life. I met everybody—extreme Muslims,liberal westerners. I got a scholarship from the Hariri Foundationlike many students, so we were a socio-economic mix.“I attended the meetings of all the political parties—Idecided I couldn’t work with any party, but I had to get along withall of them. I knew I didn’t want to join politics, but I wanted to dosomething that mattered.“I came to AUB in ’92. We didn’t know what we wanted, butthe civil war was over, and everything was fresh and hopeful.”Years later, while working with youth from all around Lebanonas cultural affairs specialist for the American Embassy, he decidedthat improving education could be a way to implement some ofthe ideals he had picked up at AUB.“Just after the 2006 war, I got the idea of Teach ForLebanon. I tried to find someone to launch the program, butcouldn’t find anyone. So I did it myself.”stay in Lebanon andhelp a school dealwith its problems ina holistic fashion,assessing student andcommunity needs, thendeveloping programsthat address suchcomplex realities.Riham MiriThen there’s Nadim Haidar. After a gap year, this2011 political studies graduate recently headed off toJebrayel, Akkar, where he’s teaching English (grades 3, 4,and 11), writing (grades 9-11), and music (grades 1-6).A 2010 Penrose Award winner, Haidar is no strangerto idealism. At AUB he was involved in several activitiesincluding protests against tuition hikes and, off-campus,in efforts to protect domestic workers’ rights.A number of AUB professors influenced Haidar,including political science Professor Bashir Saade, who,Haidar says, “challenged a lot of traditional theories. Heonly 32 have been sent to work in schools like Saidaset him up to apply to Teach For Lebanon?changed how I see myself as a Lebanese. I realized thatGenerations—the educational arm of the Sidon OrphanLike many, Simaan learned some of his mostBalamand while teaching science part-time at a nearbyI had rejected myself, and had to come to terms withWelfare Society—or public schools in Maaroub andvaluable lessons at AUB outside the classroom,school.the tensions between different aspects of myself.”Bakhoun, or semi-private ones in Jebrayal and Rashaya.including an inspiring extracurricular opportunity theAnother first-cohort member, Riham Miri, hasDeciding that time in the United States would helpIt’s no surprise that Teach For Lebanon—TFL toUniversity provided: the Insight Club. The compassioncome full circle. This environmental health major taughthim further clarify such issues, he worked as a janitorits fellows—is so attractive to AUB grads. After all, itsand concern for others expressed by members of thismath and English at Saida Generations School and hasin a small café in Montana and participated in severalfounder and CEO, Ali Dimashkieh, is himself an AUBclub for Muslim students (which he joined although hereturned to AUB to work on her MS in health promotion“Occupy” actions. Somewhere along the way, he decidedgrad: mechanical engineering, class of ’97. There washad been raised a Christian) impressed him.and community health.two things: 1) to come back to Lebanon; and 2) tosomething about Dimashkieh’s AUB experience, as thereBut he was also inspired by a course in theMiri also was inspired by many aspects of AUBnarrow the focus of his efforts.has been for almost everyone who has joined TFL, thatCivilization Sequence Program taught by Professorlife. At the Latino Club she learned“I decided to do somethingmade him consider sacrificing the big bucks and statusSyrine Hout.enough about dancing to integratewhere I could see progress, to acceptfor something else, something more meaningful.“We talked about medieval philosophy andit into her teaching. A local needsthat progress might be small, but itHowever the specifics may differ from fellow todiscussed controversial issues. I sat in the front rowassessment conducted for a healthwould be real.”fellow, it always boils down to something like whatof every class. She made you think that teaching is sobehavior and education course gotSo there he is, just south ofmotivated Dimashkieh in the first place: “I just wantedimportant. She was full of passion and excitement.her interested in kids and education.the Syrian border, trying to “make ato do something to help my country. I wanted to make“My last semester, I read about TFL on Facebook. IHer TFL work now informsdifference.”a difference.”was ready to do something for others. I’d experienced ahow she thinks about her studies.Just as 2010 publicAfter graduation, Dimashkieh dabbled here and theremodel teacher. I applied.”“I’ve had three courses fromadministration graduate Hassanbefore working as a cultural affairs specialist for the USHaving finished his two-year stint, Simaan is nowthe head of the department, JihadIssa was inspired to do in the sameEmbassy, which introduced him to young people from allstudying for his MS in biology at the University ofMakhoul, and she has changedNadim Haidarschool for two years after being44 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201345

“At AUB,” Farah Bayoumi says, “we all had this urge to changesomething. We wanted to actually do something, to work toimprove the society. AUB is a microcosm of Lebanon, and itwelcomes the victims of corruption and oppression.“I had seen, as a child in public school, how poverty andcorruption could affect education.“Then I studied corruption in the public sector in my classes.My professor [Hiba Khodor] compared what was in the books withreality, not just theory. She told us to do things in the real world,asking how we could actually change things.“TFL came along and said, ‘We want to deal with corruptionand the problems in the schools.’ So I decided to try it.”Beirut and Oakland to the classrooms of Jebrayel; Miriand Issa and all the others are doing their best to integratethat desire to “make a difference” into their adultlives, and the lives of those with whom they work.—Nicholas BokeTop photo, left to right: ToumaYaghnem, Kamal Kurani, SamirJabbour, Michel Awad, Teddy Abdo,William Nahhas, Nadim Homsi, IsmailAl-Husseini, Mervyn Smith, John Makhul,Hratch Boyadjian, Saïd Sukkar. Sami Salibiconducting.t i m e f l i e sBeyond Bliss Streetconfronted by AUB political science Professor MaraKolessas. She criticized his wearing a Ché GuevaraT-shirt without understanding, as Issa says, “that thisshirt was probably made in China in factories just likethe ones Ché was fighting.“AUB,” he continues, “helped me think about ideaslike equality and human rights. The TFL concept ofhelping others who can’t help themselves fit with that.”So, just as AUB prepared many of its graduates toconsider taking on the kind of work TFL offered TFLhas influenced how these young people think about theirnext steps.AUB’s influence on 2008 public administrationgraduate Farah Bayoumi was direct. Following publicadministration Professor Hiba Khodor’s admonitionthat her students work to reform the “real world,”rather than lingering in the world of theory, she joinedTFL, worked at Saida Generations School, taughtthere for another year, and now works as head of theHuman Resources Department for the school’s parentorganization, the Sidon Orphan Welfare Society.Rana Saleh, a 2008 nutrition and dietetics graduate,is working on her MBA at AUB after spending two yearsteaching science and math in Maaroub.“TFL provided me with lots of experience,” she says.“I had never expected to like teaching. I enjoyed teachingand am surprised that while I was searching for jobsbefore starting my graduate studies, I kept on looking forcareers that combined teaching and nutrition.”Bayoumi is still working in her TFL school, doingher best to implement the ideals she picked up at AUB;Haidar has moved from battling in in the streets of RasSince 2011, the AUB-Teach For Lebanon Graduate Scholarshipshave provided full tuition support to graduate studentsrecommended by TFL who meet AUB admission requirements.Graduate students must have served two years in TFL.Nicholas Boke is Education and Training Senior Manager atTeach For Lebanon.More information: www.teachforlebanon.orgSalyne ElSamarani (Lebanon)salyne.elsamarani@teachforlebanon.orgDiane Kaldany (USA)diane.kaldany@tfl-us.orgMinerva Faddoul, who began her master’s in clinical psychologyat AUB after finishing her two years with TFL, grew up in Jos,Nigeria. Moving to her family’s northern village after graduatingfrom high school, she earned her undergraduate degree from theUniversity of Balamand.“After graduating, I applied to AUB’s Clinical PsychologyProgram. Then I heard about TFL, and thought, why not go intosomething where I could get some experience, and also get toknow my country better, get involved, make a difference?“I got into TFL, went to teach in Bakhoun, and realized thiswas the thing to do.“Now I’ve picked up where I left off, except that I don’t wantto be a clinical psychologist; I want to be a school psychologist.The conditions I saw in Bakhoun can be generalized all acrossLebanon—many academic problems have psychological roots.“I’m enrolled in Research 301 now, as preparation for my thesis.I’m looking into children and the problems of rural education. I’mhoping to do some research in the school where I taught.“The AUB program is helping me see the flaws in what I didas a teacher, in the way I assessed, the things I didn’t understand. Ialways used to remind myself of the needs of the kids, but now I’mseeing more of what I might have done to meet those needs.”Seated, left to right: Teddy Abdo, KamalKurani, Michel Awad, Nadim Homsi, HratchBoyadjian, Saïd Sukkar, Samir Jabbour,Ismail Al-Husseini, Touma YaghnemThe JanissariesIn 1959 the late Professor Kamal Salibi would occasionally abandon his books to indulge his love of music. While KamalSalibi mastered four-part harmonies and trained members of the a capella group he named the Janissaries (also known asthe AUB Men's Chorus), his brother Sami Salibi led them in official performances. MainGate received a rare 1960 recordingof the group singing the AUB alma mater, which was recorded at Baalbeck Studios in Sin El Fil. Listen to to it in MainGateon-line. (Special thanks to Ramsay Bisharah for sending in the photos and recording, and to Saïd Sukkar, Teddy Abdo, andNadim Homsi for their great memories!)More On-line46 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201347

Beyond Bliss Streetr e f l e c t i o n sBeyond Bliss Streetr e f l e c t i o n sTheProblemSolverEmeritus Professor Peter Yff, holdingan MS from the University ofChicago, joined AUB’s MathematicsDepartment in 1951 as an assistantprofessor while still studying forhis PhD. After four years at AUB hereturned to the United States andearned his PhD from the University ofIllinois in 1958, after which he taughtfor one year at Fresno State College,before returning to AUB as associateprofessor of mathematics in 1958.He became full professor in 1964, aposition he held until 1989. On leavingwartime Beirut in 1986, ProfessorYff taught part time at a number ofuniversities in Illinois and Kentuckybefore becoming full time at BallState University in Indiana, fromwhere he retired in 1997. ProfessorYff has since been living in Chicago,where he continues his research inmathematics. In 1998 he was namedAUB professor emeritus.MainGate: When did you firstarrive at AUB?Professor Yff: In 1951 while workingtoward my PhD at the University ofIllinois, I saw a notice about teachersneeded at AUB, and the idea of workingoverseas appealed to me. After I appliedI met President Stephen Penrose inChicago and was soon offered a threeyearcontract as assistant professor.My plan had been to return to theUnited States in 1954 to completemy PhD studies. But the Universityand what it stood for inspired me,and I began thinking of making AUBmy lifetime career. I later acceptedthe chairmanship of the MathematicsDepartment for three years, a difficulttask because the department had nolocation and no secretary.What were your first impressions?My first impression was that of a family.Everyone knew everyone else. Mywife and I first stayed a few days withProfessor Byron Smith. His wife Alice, agranddaughter of Daniel Bliss, showedus how to use the tram, how tobuy blue alcohol and needles for thePrimus kerosene stove, and other usefulknowledge. I was also impressedby the students, who were more seriousabout their education than moststudents in the United States.Where did you teach most of yourclasses?At first all my classes met in CollegeHall. I even taught engineering studentsthere, because the EngineeringBuilding was still under construction. Ialso taught many classes in BlissHall, Nicely Hall, and the AgricultureBuilding when the MathematicsDepartment was given a floor.What was the biggest change younoticed while at AUB?Of course, the biggest change wasthe war in Lebanon, which disruptedclasses, made attendance by manystudents and faculty members dangerous,and later led to the Off-CampusProgram. AUB became more modernizedand businesslike. All new buildingswere equipped with central heating,and eventually the old buildings suchas College Hall were modernized. Carsbecame more common on campus.What do you think your studentswould most remember about yourclasses?One, now a retired doctor, is gratefulfor my giving partial credit for partialsolution of a problem. In general, Itrust that students would rememberme as one always available to helpthem, and that I encouraged themto seek help only after attempting tosolve problems on their own. Theymight also recall that I said they wouldlearn more from their own studyingthan from listening to me.Are you still in touch with any ofyour former students?Not many, but I correspond withProfessor Faruk Abi-Khuzam, a 1967-68 MS student, and I see him almostevery year. He is still an active memberof the department. I also keep in touchwith a retired pathologist, a student in1954, and I see a few others wheneverI visit Beirut. Several are or havebeen professors and deans (and eventrustees). Hanna Nasir, my student in1954, later became president of BirzeitUniversity.Do you have something youwould like to say to your formerstudents?I would like to thank them for a successfuland enjoyable AUB career. Evenduring the worst of times we were ableto continue the educational process.Did you stay at AUB throughoutthe war (1975-90)?I stayed as long as I could. In the summerof 1986 my wife and I were in the UnitedStates when Joe Cicippio was abductedfrom campus, and we decided it wouldbe risky to return. Shortly afterwardthe US State Department forbadeAmericans to travel into, through, orout of Lebanon, and I did not have thecourage to defy my government.I might add that in 1985 I was acandidate for another three-year termas chairman, but my wife was opposedbecause it might make me more conspicuous.However, the departmentwas so depleted by the war that I wasthe best qualified person for the job.I held the post for one year withoutincident before I had to leave.Do you have any particularmemories from those years?Yes, the sickening sounds of war withits devastation and inconsolable sorrowwill always remain with me. I thinkof the many friends I lost, especially myson Eric, who disappeared when hewas almost 19. I was told his scores inthe sophomore entrance exams werethe highest ever seen, so the loss isnot only my own but also that of manywho might have benefited from his life.One result of the fighting in Beirutwas the opening of the Off-CampusProgram on the eastern side, ostensiblyto protect former fighters whomight be recognized in Ras Beirut.I complained to the dean that AUBshould not be an accomplice in thedivision of Lebanon, but he advisedme to stay out of this political debate.Eventually the OCP was discontinued.There are also heartwarmingmemories, such as when we werewarned by our embassy of evidenceof a planned terrorist attack on campus.We were advised to stay home,which I did, but my engineering studentscame to tell me they wouldpersonally escort me to class the nextday. Which they did.When did you leave AUB? Haveyou been back?In 1955 I left AUB without knowingwhether I would return. In 1958, whenconditions were unsettled in Lebanon,I was invited back with a promotion. Ifound that the department actually hada location and a secretary, who wasto remain until 1976. Soon we had anentire floor in the Agriculture Building,and later moved to our “permanent”home in Bliss Hall. I finally left AUB in1986, but after ten years my wife andI returned for our first visit. Althoughthe State Department travel ban stillexisted, Lebanon had no objection. In1999 as emeritus professor I marchedin the academic procession at commencement.Since then we have triedto return to Lebanon almost every year.What impact has AUB had onyour life?AUB has impacted my life in manyways. Significantly it enabled me toform a strong appreciation for MiddleEastern society and culture. Mycontacts with various nationalitiesand faiths have given me a broaderoutlook on international affairs andtensions. I am more capable thanmost Americans of recognizing mycountry's faults as well as its virtues.Relative proximity to Europe led to visitingmany countries I would otherwisenot have seen. The impact continues,as evidenced by my grandson recentlycompleting a term of servicewith the Peace Corps in Malawi.—J.M.C.48 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201349

Beyond Bliss Streetlegends and legaciesBeyond Bliss Streeta l u m n i p r o f i l eWell VersedAsad al-Shadudi (1826-1906) wasa member of the faculty when theSyrian Protestant College opened itsdoors for the first time on December3, 1866. Born in Aley, al-Shadudiattended elementary school in KafrShima before transferring to the AbeihAcademy (sometimes referred to asthe “Abeih Seminary”), which wasled by Cornelius Van Dyck, whowas one of SPC’s founders. Beforejoining SPC in 1866, al-Shaduditaught at a number of schoolsincluding the Abeih Academy, aschool in Suq al Gharb, and theDavidic School, a Druze boardingschool in Abeih, where hewas also the first principal.Hired by SPC as the“house tutor,” al-Shadudi alsotaught natural philosophy, science,and mathematics, anarea in which he was particularlyskilled. (Bliss described al-Shadudiat one point as “a born mathematician.”)Al-Shadudi is also creditedwith composing or translating intoArabic “some of the sweetest hymnsfound in our Arabic hymn-book.” 1Writing many years later, former AUBPresident Stephen B. L. Penrose, Jr.noted that at least some of his “simpleand beautiful Arabic translations ofEnglish hymns were still being sung inthe Arab world in the 1940s.” 2One book of al-Shadudi’shymns, available in the JafetArchives at AUB, includes a poemhe wrote on the occasion of GermanEmperor Wilhelm II’s visit to Beirut onNovember 11, 1898. The emperorwas sufficiently impressed with thepoem that he made a donation toenable Adabia Press to publish thebook of poems and translated hymnsin 1899. Al-Shadudi authored severalother important books including atextbook on elementary natural philosophyin 1873.Despite the praise he earnedfor his scholarship and mathematicalskills, al-Shadudi and the Collegesoon parted ways. Although thereasons are not totally clear, Blissdid complain in a letter he wroteto his wife on November 10, 1873,al-Shadudi “was worse than nothingin the matter of discipline. My ownorders last year were more or lessannulled by his wishy washy ways.”There are also reports that al-Shadudiwas not happy with what he wasbeing paid for the work he was beingasked to do. Whatever the reason,when the College changed theterms of his employment in 1873,al-Shadudi resigned.While his tenure at theCollege was short, al-Shaduditaught several young men whowould go on to make namesfor themselves in the emergingArab nationalist movement:Yaqub Sarruf (BA 1870) andFaris Nimr (BA 1874). He alsoedited and wrote extensivelyfor several leading newspapersand journals and gained increasingacclaim for his poetry and musicalcontributions. Asad al-Shadudi diedin Beirut in 1906.Thanks to Samar Mikati Kaissi and JafetLibrary Archives and SpecialCollections for their assistance.1 The Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss: Edited andSupplemented by His Eldest Son, Fleming H.Revell Company, 1920, page 1892 Stephen B. L. Penrose, Jr., That TheyMay Have Life: The Story of the AmericanUniversity of Beirut, 1866-1941, page 20Watching Over Earthfrom SpaceUlaby contributed to the design and operationof the 12-meter long antenna of the ShuttleImaging Radar in the shuttle’s bay, which wasused to image most of the planet Earth.50 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate |MainGate Winter 201351

Beyond Bliss Streeta l u m n i p r o f i l eBeyond Bliss Streeta l u m n i p r o f i l eIn an experiment performed under theguidance of one of his AUB physicsinstructors, Fawwaz Ulaby locates thesource of his own enduring confidencein science.“When you think about it, it’s likemagic,” says Ulaby (BS ’64), now theEmmett Leith Distinguished UniversityProfessor of Electrical Engineering andComputer Science at the Universityof Michigan and author of some ofthe world’s most popular electricalengineering textbooks. “There’s allthese theories that tell you crystals arearranged in hexagonal fashion and…you can actually do an experiment andestablish what that structure looks likeat a molecular level.”That experiment epitomizesthe rigor that underpins Ulaby’s owngroundbreaking work in remote sensingand THz (terahertz) technology. “Whatyou’re learning is not just people’simagination,” he explains. “It’s real. Thatgives you a sense of confidence, andyou take it with you for the rest ofyour career. Every time you’re pursuingsomething, you want to find results thatconfirm things with the same degreeof confidence inyour own researchas you had felt andexperienced whenyou did that experimentmany yearsback.”This wayof thinking alsodraws on earlierevents in Ulaby’slife, in particular,a setback fromwhich he ultimatelysprang forwardat an acceleratedrate. Ulaby spent his first few yearsin Damascus, after which the familymoved to Lebanon and then to SaudiArabia where he studied at home.When they returned to Beirut after fouryears, he enrolled in second grade—atthe age of 10.“I was sort of like the dummy inthe class,” he says. “Over the next fewyears, I skipped grades, but it stayedwith me, this drive to accomplish, toprove that I was as good as everyoneelse.” Merely catching up failed tosatisfy Ulaby; he wanted to speedahead. Unwilling to spend five yearsin pursuit of an electrical engineeringdegree at AUB, he resolved to studyphysics, a fortunate choice given thefavorable faculty-student ratio at thetime and the rapport it enabled.From mostly international professors,he learned not only about thediscipline itself but also about researchand its practice across countries andcultures. “You can’t help wanting topursue a dream similar to the dreamsthey’re sharing with you,” he says.Even personal relationships, however,couldn’t slow his pace: He graduatedin three years, having taken 26 creditsper semester. “I had some fun too,” heconcedes. “Every once in a while.”For his master’s degree, he ultimatelychose the University of Texasat Austin, because he could enroll onesemester sooner than at other institutionsand because it had the leastexpensive tuition in the United States:$200 a semester for non-residents andonly $50 for residents.An assistantship and two degreesin electrical engineering—master’sand PhD—quickly followed, as wellas a post-doctoral fellowship, also atAustin, and then his first job offer atthe University of Kansas. “The firstthing I did after receiving the offer wasgo to the library to get an atlas to findout where Kansas was,” he recalls.Dismayed to find it landlocked, henevertheless accepted the job andwent on to become the youngest facultymember ever to receive a chairedprofessorship.Ulaby had elected to specialize inmicrowave astronomy at a time whencontemporary applications were lessthan a glimmer in a young scientist’seye. “When I started out … it was allvery basic science, it didn’t have muchof an applied nature,” he says. “Overtime it grew into designing systemsand techniques that would use animaging radar from satellite platformsto observe the earth and extract fromthose observations information aboutthe earth’s environment.”In other words, the field he’dchosen would experience an accelerationsimilar to his own. A formerMichigan colleague, close friend, andAUB Trustee Gabriel Rebeiz (BS ’82),calls him “a truly eminent scholar”and “one of the fathers of remotesensing.” Now the Wireless IndustryCommunications Endowed Chair atthe University of California San Diego,Rebeiz explains that Ulaby’s work hascrucially enabled “instruments flyingabove us that measure the sea levels,how many trees we have, how muchwater and snow depth, so as to determinewhether we are going to have adrought or not, and how much forestwe have left in the world.”One anecdote makes it clear justhow much Ulaby’s story and the storyof microwave astronomy is also ourstory: “It started out at a NASA meetingsome 30 years ago,” Ulaby recounts.“Someone stood up and said, ‘Sooneror later, we as humans have to dealwith global warming and we’re goingto have to figure out how to create asystem whereby people who producecarbon dioxide and methane have topay for it … and we have to figure outhow to reward land owners who donot cut down their trees.’” He explains:“Because trees suck up carbon dioxidefrom the air and transport it as solidcarbon to their roots.”“At the time, someone raisedthe question, how are we going to dothis?” Ulaby goes on. “So I came homeand designed and built and madesome measurements by looking at asingle leaf from a tree.” Over the next10 years, that leaf became a branchbecame a tree became an entire forestand the measuring tools ascended intoairplanes and then up into space. “Itsounds so unbelievably outlandish, butthat’s how things happen,” he sumsup. “You start out small and sometimesyou succeed.”In the time since that meetinghe’s started small from a larger andlarger platform, directing NASA-fundedinterdisciplinary projects, overseeingresearch over seven years as a vicepresident at the University of Michigan(1999-2005), and establishing degreeprograms and hiring dozens of facultyas the founding provost at the KingAbdullah University of Science andTechnology (2007-09) in Saudi Arabia.He chose to return to theUniversity of Michigan in 2009 becausehe missed the partnership of researchand teaching. He’s begun workingon an ambitious new project, movingHe advisesengineers andscientists totake classes inliterature andphilosophy,so they canfully immersethemselves inthe life they’retasked withmaking possible.in one leap from the macrocosm tothe microcosm. “The idea is that youwould put on the chest of an individual,a whole bunch of tiny little antennas…and they will be able to focus manybeams of a microwave that go throughthe body, each beam carrying a verysmall amount of energy but at theirintersection point it’s a whole lot ofenergy. The idea is those are focusedonto a tumor and they end up burningthe tumor.” It’s a long way, he says,from any application, but … you startImage of earth’s waterways acquired by theSpaceborne Imaging Radar-Csmall and sometimes you succeed.In the classroom, he wants to domore than pass on skills. “You try tohelp students grow as individuals andsee the bigger picture and their rolein it,” he says. “Even though I teachcourses in electronics now, my veryfirst lecture is a chart that shows theincrease in world population expectedover the next 50 years.”He points out that in that time,the population on earth will balloonfrom seven to 10 billion people. “ThenI ask the question: How are thoseadditional three billion people going tolive? Who’s going to make it possible?I remind them that if you divide threebillion by the number of engineerswho are going to graduate, then eachstudent has to assume responsibilityfor about 250 individuals.”With that awesome responsibilityin mind, he advises engineers and scientiststo take classes in literature andphilosophy, so they can fully immersethemselves in the life they’re taskedwith making possible. It’s about appreciatingthe parts that make up thewhole. It’s about a kind of magic that’soutlandish and unbelievable andyet entirely real.—S.M.52 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201353

NORTH AMERICAAbdallah (BBA ’02), Hiba Tabbara (BS ’96), ZeinaAtlanta | 01 At a dinner on October 30, 2012, theChbaklo (friend), and Georges Adib (BS ’87)chapter welcomed FM Dean Mohamed H. Sayegh(BS ’80, MD ’84). Left to right: Ziad Kazzi (BS ’95,New York-Tristate | 07 On September 27, 2012,MD ’99), Mikhael El-Chami (BS ’96, MD ’00),alumni from the New York-Tristate area participatedMohamed H. Sayegh, Julia Massaad (BS ’98, MDin a networking event hosted by New York’s Consul’02), and Mohammad Wehbi (BS ’91, MD ’96).General of Lebanon, Majdi Ramadan, at his resi-01Houston | 02 Houston-area alumni held a get-togeth-dence. The event welcomed recent Lebanesegraduates living in the northeastern United States.er at the French Corner Restaurant in Houston, Texason November 14, 2012. Around 45 alumni dined andPhiladelphia/Delaware Valley | On November 18,fêted Hagop M. Kantarjian2012, chapter members participated in a Lebanese(BS ’75, MD ’79) who receivedthe 2012 WAAAUB Distin-Independence Day dinner for younger members ofthe Lebanese community.07guished Alumni Award, pre-03sented to him by Aline ElZakhem (BS ’01, MD ’05) and02North Carolina | 08 On October 21, 2012, the chaptercelebrated the fall season with hayrides andJoseph El Khoury (BEN ’92). Kantarjian is the chair-pumpkin picking at Ganyard Hill Farms in Durham,man of the Leukemia Department at the University ofNorth Carolina. | On November 18, 2012, ChapterTexas MD Anderson Cancer Center.President Raja Khalifah (BS ’62) and TreasurerFrank Haidar (BA ’85) spoke about the chapter atMichigan | 03 On October 17, 2012, the chapterheld an elegant dinner to welcome visiting AUB pro-the Lebanese Independence Day celebration organizedby the Triangle Lebanese Association. Dr. Moise08fessors. Consul General of Lebanon Bilal KabalanKhayrallah (BA ’81) was presented with an award by04(BA ’91) is pictured at center with HSON DirectorHuda Abu-Saad Huijer (BS ’71) on his right, FHSTLA President Dr. Bisharah Libbus (BS ’67, MS ’71).| 09 On December 8, 2012, the chapter celebratedDean Iman Nuwayhid (BS ’80, MD ’84) on his left,the Christmas season with aand FHS Professor Samer Jabbour directly behinddinner at Manchester’s Grill inKabalan and Nuwayhid. Chapter President ManalRaleigh, North Carolina.Assi (BS ’91, MD ’95) is seated second from right.Current chapter presidentRaja Khalifah, PhD (BS ’62)1110Midwest | Around 40 alumni and friends attended athanks former president05chapter gathering at the Athena Greek Restaurant inChicago on November 10, 2012.Montreal | 04 Last September, chapter membershiked up Mont Saint-Bruno east of Montreal beforeenjoying a well-deserved meal together. | The chapterheld a cinq à sept on November 1, 2012. 05 Left toright (sitting): Nagham Sayour (BS ’06, MA ’09),Wissam Shaar (BEN ’02), Grace Aoun (BA ’08),Stephanie Aoun (friend). Left to right (standing): MuradHannoush (friend), Nada Sayegh (BA ’82) | 06 OnDecember 8, 2012 the chapter held a ChristmasGhada Rabah (BS ’89) forher service to the chapter.North Texas-Dallas | On October 21, 2012, chapteralumni and friends got together for great food andmusic at Mi Piaci Italian Restaurant. A photo boothcaptured all the fun. 10 Left to right: Nina Salhab (BS’90), Lara Hassan (BS ’91), Ally Abbasi (friend),Tiffany Forsberg (friend), and Karen Kanaan (friend) |11 Left to right: Lina Shalak Ibrahim (BA ’88, MA’92), Hisham Ibrahim (BS ’92, MD ’96), NinaSalhab (BS ’90), Vivian Noaman (friend), Abed09Recently ElectedWAAAUB North CarolinaChapterRaja Khalifah (BS ’62), PresidentTony Louca (BEN ’97), Vice PresidentFarazdak (Frank) Haidar (BA ’85),TreasurerJack Zeidan (BS ’04), SecretaryMember at Large: Sana Al-Khatib (BS’88, MD ’93), Sherene Wehbe Bitar (BS’99, MPH ’01), Ghada Rabah Daunch(BS ’89, TD ’90), Maya KahwagiRoberts (MD ’06)WAAAUB Southern CaliforniaChapterHisham Hamadeh (BS ’95), PresidentDilara El-Assad (BS ’78, MS ’80), VicePresidentNicolas Haddad (BEN ’02), TreasurerCaroline Moujabber Kaba (BBA ’77, MA’80), Co-SecretaryNora Sarkissian (BAR ’80), Co-SecretaryMember at Large: Samir Kafity (BA’57), Lydia Nassoura (BS ’82, MS ’87)06lunch at Daou restaurant. Left to right: MohamadNoaman (BS ’69, MD ’74)54 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201355

Ottawa | 12 The chapter’s Christmasparty held on December 7, 2012, attractedover 150 guests. Sponsored by Skaffits Annual Family Day Out event at the ArmedOfficers Club Garden on December 7, 2012.WAAAUB Eastern Province Chapter | 15 Thechapter held a reception on November 25, 2012 toREUNION20131314Marketing Group and the KATASA Group,entertainment included a performance by DuniaEl-Dick who charmed everybody with her Fairouzlikevoice. Left to right: Elie Abou Hamd (BBA ’80),Elias Absi (BS ’75), Jihad Abdulnour (BS ’77, MS’80), and Nada Hamade (BA ’99)MIDDLE EASTAbu Dhabi | 13 The chapter held a masqueradeparty on November 7, 2012. | 14 The chapter held58 63 68 73 78 83 88 93 98 03 081900 2000SavetheDate June 28-30, 2013It’s your turn now… come back to campus and relive your student years with your fellow classmates.Come back and rediscover this special place—AUB. We’re planning a weekend of exciting events foryou and your family, including the ever-popular homecoming brunch and gala dinner.See you at Reunion 2013!Questions/more informationEmail: reunion@aub.edu.lbWeb: www.aub.edu.lb/alumni/calendar/reunion12welcome FEA Dean Makram Suidan (BEN ’71) andto announce the recently elected committee members.Left to right: Hassan Al Husseini (BA ’67,MA ’69), Dean Suidan, Tawfik El Zein (BS ’73, MD’77), Marwan Gholmieh (BA ’69), Salma Oueida(BEN ’92), Dimitri Nasra (BA ’85), Simon Salameh(BEN ’95, MEN ’98), and Marwan Frem (BEN ’04)Recently Elected: Executive Committee 2012–14WAAAUB Eastern Province ChapterMarwan Gholmieh (BA ’69), PresidentMarwan Frem (BEN ’04), Vice PresidentSimon Salameh (BEN ’95, MEN ’98), Committee ChairmanDimitri Nasra (BA ’85), TreasurerHassan Al-Husseini (BA ’67, MA ’69), SecretaryWAAAUB Faculty of Agricultural and FoodSciences Chapter | 16 On November 16, 2012, thechapter hosted a symposium entitled “Career Trendsand Opportunities in Agriculture, Nutrition andLandscape Management.” The one-day event includeda conference, job fair, and gala dinner. | 17 Frontrow, left to right: Salwa Sabbagh (BS ’11), ReemFayyad (BS ’10), Dean Nahla Hwalla (MS ’74, PhD’77), Rouba Dagher (BS ’12), Hani Shucair (BS’76, MS ’78); Back row, left to right: Salim Idriss (BS’82), Said El Kaissi (BS ’83, MS ’85), ArabiaMohammad Ali (MS ’87), Abbas Yaghi (BS ’82,MS ’84), and Nadim Farajallah (BS ’85).Jeddah | 18 The chapter hosted a gala dinner withPresident Dorman on November 28, 2012.15161718Recently Elected: Executive Committee 2012–14WAAAUB Engineering andArchitecture ChapterSamir Traboulsi (BEN ’73, MEN ’75,MBA ’80), PresidentRima Srour Husseiny (BAR ’83), VicePresidentHadi Fathallah (BEN ’09), TreasurerWissam Yaacoub (MEN ’94, MBA ’01),SecretaryMember at Large: Joe Akhras (BEN’74), Nesrine Akkari (BEN ’89), RabihKamel Hassan (BS ’94, BEN ’98)WAAAUB Health SciencesChapterWissam Doudar (MPH ’09), PresidentNabil Hassan (MPH ’08), Vice PresidentJessica Said (MPH ’07), TreasurerBashayer Madi (BS ’10, MS ’12),SecretaryMember at Large: Kassem El Saddik(BS ’96, MS ’02), Tala Kardas (BS ’11),Mike Sarkis (BS ’02)www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201357

Riyadh | 19 The chapter held a roundtable meetingand gala dinner on November 29, 2012, at the Ritz-20Carlton Hotel in Riyadh. | 20 Current and formerchapter presidents with President Peter Dorman.Left to right: Eddy Mufarrej (BBA ’99), AbdulFattah Ghali (BS ’79), Peter Dorman, and Jamalel Zein (BS ’79, MPH ’81)19EUROPEGermany | 21 More than 40 AUB alumni and theirfamilies met for a weekend in Munich November24-25, 2012. Activities included a walking tour of thecity from Marienplatz, a traditional dinner atZumFranziskaner, and a Lebanese brunch at Leonrodrestaurant. WAAAUB President Nabil Dajani (BAWAAAUB Christmas Party | The first annual WAAAUB Christmasparty was held on December 15, 2012 in the AUB cafeteria. Santapresided over an abundance of fun and games.WAAAUB New Year’s Eve Party | WAAAUB hostedits annual New Year’s Eve Party at the Gefinor Rotana.’57, MA ’60) and his wife Huda Sabri Shurbaji (for-21mer student, 1970-74) are pictured at center.Switzerland | 22 The Swiss Alumni Chapter held anend of the year Mix & Mingle “M&M” cocktail gatheringon December 11, 2012.United Kingdom | 23 On November 15, the chap-22 23ter held a lively talk and Q&A with Amir Taheri, aprominent Iranian-born journalist and author.AttentionAUB Alumni!2013 WAAAUB Alumni Council and Alumni Trustee ElectionsOn February 1 the call went out to all alumni to submit their nominations for the 2013 WAAAUB AlumniCouncil and Alumni Trustee elections. As per the WAAAUB bylaws revised in 2011, council memberswill then elect the members of the WAAAUB Board of Directors and standing committees. All WAAAUBleadership will take office on July 1, 2013. If you or a friend would like to be a candidate in the 2013Council and Alumni Trustee elections, please send your name, year, and degree information tonominations-committee(at)waaaub.org. The deadline for submitting nominations is February 28, 2013.Write to us today. Your participation will ensure the continued success of your alumni association.58 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate |MainGate Fall 201259

Beyond Bliss Streetc l a s s n o t e sBeyond Bliss Streetc l a s s n o t e s1950s1960sdegree, Samer who receivedadministration and works inMEA’s Training Center as aindustry as a HVAC contrac-and 2011. He has served asSuzette Fattal Blair (BS ’53)Sabih El-Kukhun (BS ’63)an MBA, and Hani who grad-the travel industry. Salamehsenior manager and instruc-tor and consultant, and hasthe UN Educational, ScientificFollowing graduation FattalAfter graduation, El-Kukhunuated with a degree in com-writes, “My best memories oftor. In 2001 I was appointedalso dabbled in sales and theand Cultural OrganizationBlair received a Rockefellerjoined Bristol Myers as a med-puter engineering.AUB are its beautiful campus,director of the MEA Trainingrestaurant business. At pre-(UNESCO) chair on dialogueScholarship to pursue aical representative in Kuwait.Professor Mohammed Diab,& Development Departmentsent he is project manager atat Saint Joseph University andmaster’sHe was promoted to salesMamdouh Salameh, PhDmy outstanding economicswhich included its TrainingBlack and McDonald, Ltd., aas a senior fellow at AUB’sin nursingsupervisor for the Middle East(BA ’63) is an international oiltutor, the tennis courts, andCenter. I spent almost 12prime contractor in theIssam Fares Institute for Publiceducationbased in Lebanon and saleseconomist and a consultantmy daily cinnamon roll at thesuccess. Graduates alsoyears in that position, retiringmechanical and electricalPolicy and International Affairs.atSyra-manager for the Middle Eastto the World Bank on oil andMilk Bar.”came from abroad. Skypein April 2012. I am married tofields serving a diverse inter-cuse Uni-based in Greece. In 1983,energy. Salameh hascontact with other 1960s AUBHoda Fakhreddine and havenational client base. Kawar’sAmal Watfa Karaki (MPHversity inhe became general managerauthored three books on theOmar Abdallah Itani, MDalumni and friends in Northtwo sons: Adham, born inwife, May, is a senior account’78) is currently head of theSyracuse, New York. Withfor the Middle East based ineconomics and geopolitics(BS ’68, TD) was chief resi-America filled in the gaps.”1984, and Sary, born in 1985.manager at the Royal Bank ofEconomic and Social Plan-her master’s degree shereturned to AUH in 1958 forAmman, Jordan. Four yearslater he relocated to Brusselsof oil and energy. He is directorof the Oil Market Consul-dent in surgery at AUBMCin 1979 and consultant gen-1970s[walhuda(at)hotmail.com]Canada. They have four children:Nayef, who holds a BSning Unit of the Council forDevelopment and Recon-four years. In 1962, sheto be a marketing director fortancy Service in the Unitederal surgeon at De HavillandFathi (Frank) Abou-SayfMuhammad Asef Gardezifrom York University; Bassel,struction (CDR), a publicmoved back to the Unitedthe Middle East and Africa. InKingdom, where he livesCanada Saudi Aramco from(MA ’72, MS ’73) With mas-(BS ’73)who is in his last year at YorkauthorityStates for clinical teaching1989 he moved to Cairo aswithhis1979 to 2006, when heter’s degrees in education andhasjustpursuing a BA in businessconnect-assignments and in 1966 shea senior director for Middlewife Judy.retired. He is currently actingchemistry, Abou-Sayf pur-retired aseconomics; Luma, who has aed to thejoined the US Army NurseEastern regulatory affairs.They havechairman of surgery at Rafiksued a career in academia asassistantBA in psychology; and Leen,LebaneseCorps as a nurse practitioner,He took early retirement intwo sonsHariri University Hospital.a professor and administratorhealthwho has a BS in kinesiology.Council ofretiring after 20 years as a1998 and returned to Ammanandaat the University of Hawaii.coordina-Ministers.lieutenant colonel. She thenwhere he opened his owndaughter:Nicholas Xitas (BBA ’68)Upon retirement he movedtor at the International Com-Douglas Magrath (MA ’73)After graduation, Karaki joinedserved as state director fordrugstore, AlSahl.DuringGeorge, who has a PhD andwrites, "Last summer I invit-to San Diego, California.mittee of the Red Cross inearned his master’s inSave the Children in Lebanonthe Long Term Care Compli-his many years of movingis working in the aerospaceed AUB and Beirut College[abousayf(at)hawaii.edu]Afghanistan. He and his wifeArabic studies. He currentlywhere she held increasinglyance Review Program ofaround, he was accompa-industry; Alice, who has afor Women (now LebaneseFalaknaz have 12 childrenteachesmore responsible positions. InSouth Carolina for 10 years.nied by his wife Raja. Theymaster’s degree and works inAmerican University) gradu-Walid Said Nasrallah (BAand live in Kabul, Afghanistan.English1996, she was appointed aFattal Blair is married to Colo-have three children: Lina whomarketing; and Ramy, whoates from the 1960s to a reun-’72, MA ’78) writes, “I am[asef_gardezi(at)yahoo.com]as a sec-World Bank consultant work-nel James D. Blair, MD. Theygraduated with a pharmacyhas a bachelor’s in businession party which was a greata 1972 PSPA graduate withondlan-ing on a health sector reformhave three children and21 credits of graduate workIssa Kawar (BEN ’73)guage atprogram for Lebanon’s Minis-seven grandchildren and liveHassan Yamout (BEN ’66, BEN ’68, MEN ’78) earned his AUB degreesat American University’sArizonatry of Public Health. In 1997,in Atlanta, Georgia.in civil and electrical engineering. Yamout lives in Beirut with his wifeSchool of Public Affairs inState University. Magrathshe was offered the positionRanda. They have three daughters: Dania (BBA ’01), Nadine (BGD ’03),Washington, DC, and a mas-has published several arti-of senior sector specialist forMuhammad Anwar Malasand Hala (BS ’03, MD ’07). On work and education, he writes:ter’s degree in public admin-cles in his field and present-social development at CDR(BS ’53) retired in 2001 asistration from AUB. My highered extensively at state con-and in October 2005, shea civil engineer with his ownLearned at FEA: Be practical;need a degree to get a job, then youeducation was funded by theferences. His daughter, whojoined the Office of the Unitedbusiness designing anddon’t forget that engineering is a profes-learn how to do it on the job.”Lebanese Army, in which Iresides in Florida, has a newNations Resident Coordinatorsupervising mostly residentialsion and not a science.Ten Years after Graduation: Oldserved from October 1967earned his degree in mechan-baby girl. [magrathd(at)in Lebanon as a senior coordi-buildings. He was secretary ofThree Years after Graduation:habits die hard. I studied mechanicalto November 1974. Fromical engineering. He is cur-yahoo.com]nation support adviser. Karakithe Syrian Syndicate for Engi-I worked with C.A.T. Company onengineering by correspondence and later1975 to 1980, I worked forrently a licensed professionalreturned to CDR in May 2006,neers (1963-64) and servedAramco projects. The client insisted thatearned a master’s degree in civil engineer-a number of Lebanese con-engineer in Ontario, Canada,Tarek Mitri (BA ’74) waswhere she continues to be anas a board member in 1967-contractors’ construction managementing at AUB.tracting and industrial firms.where he immigrated after arecently appointed head ofadvocate for human develop-68 and as head of the com-be headed by engineers, yet its ownRetirement: The more I learned theIn 1980 I joined Middle Eastlong career in the Middle Eastthe UN Support Mission inment. She is proud of her twomittee for private engineers’project director told me that he had aless costly mistakes I made onAirlines (MEA) as personnelin Lebanon, Jordan, andLibya. Mitri held several min-children, Zeinab Najiboffices from 1967 to 1971.degree in mathematics, not engineering.multidisciplinary projects.manager for outstations. BySaudi Arabia. Kawar hasisterial portfolios in LebaneseKaraki (MBA ’06) and[Malasmahij(at)hotmail.com]Noticing my surprise, he added, “You1991 I was transferred toworked in the constructiongovernments between 2005Mohammad Najib Karaki60 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201361

Beyond Bliss Streetc l a s s n o t e sBeyond Bliss Streetc l a s s n o t e s(BEN ’04), both of whom arepursuing their careers outsideLebanon. Karaki would loveto hear from MPH classmatesat [amal.watfa(at)gmail.com]1980sLooking for old friendsand classmates!Robert R. Rouda (BS ’80,MS ’83) earned his BS inagriculture and his master’sdegree in animal sciences.He is a senior policy officerat the Western AustralianDepartment of Agricultureand Food. In 1989 Roudaearned a doctorate in rangeanimal nutrition at NewMexico State University inLas Cruces. He has takenup dancing and is the vicepresident of the local RnR(Rock-n-Roll) club. Roudaand his spouse Mary Tabet(BA ’80) have three childrenand live in Bunbury, WesternAustralia. [robert.rouda(at)agric.wa.gov.au]Ohaness Nersissian (BA ’78) writes that he is gratefulfor the remarkable AUB teachers who shaped,Nabil Bukhalid (BEN ’81,EMBA ’05) joined AUB’sMedical Engineering Departmentimmediately after graduatingwith a degree in electricalengineering. In 1990he was charged with themonumental task of buildingAUB’s Computer NetworkingSystem Department withtwo other engineers. WhenBukhalid left his position atAUB in fall 2012, his friendsand colleagues gatheredto celebrate him and hisachievements which continueto enrich the lives ofthe AUB community to thisin knowledge and wisdom,and in giving in dedicationand love.”Jacques Wehbe (CERTMLAB ’83) is a director ofphysician services at SaintVincent Medical Group inWorcester, Massachusetts.He is married to MireilleOsko Wehbe, and they haveChristmas. The family is picturedon a zip line adventurein Hawaii.Amjad Kaissi (BBA ’88)is the general manager ofGeneral TransportationServices, SAL, an internationalshipping and forwarding/customsclearance company.He is happily married toDania Kamal Kara, who holdsan MBA from the LebaneseAmerican University. Theyhave two children: Yasmina,born in 2001, who is in the6th grade at InternationalCollege, and Mohammad,agency in New York. In 1997she joined AUB as an instructorin the Psychology Department.Ghannoum Sinno andher husband Karim A. Sinno(former student, 1980s) havethree children. They havelived in Berlin since July 2012.[hanagsinno(at)yahoo.com]1990sSally Kaya (BA ’91, MA ’02)Please see Fouad Najjar(BBA ’87)Hiba Chaaban (BEN ’93) isa humanresourcesSawsan Z. Yamout (BS ’97) andCory Overton were married lastAugust 11 in Davis, California.Yamout earned her DVM from theUniversity of Veterinary Sciencesin Budapest in 2002. Overtonearned a BS from Colorado StateUniversity in 1998 and an MSfrom Oregon State Universityin 2004. Yamout completed anequine surgery residency at theUniversity of California, Davisand now works as a veterinarianin Davis. Overton completed hismaster’s degree in wildlife biology and now works with the United StatesGeological Survey. He is currently finishing a PhD at the Department ofEcology at the University of California, Davis.2000sreformed, and nurtured generations of students. Theyday. Bassam Tabshourithree young boys: Trestin,born in 2003, who is indirectorNathalieinclude Adnan Iskandar (BA ’51, MA ’52), Elie Salem (BA ’50),(BEN ’78, MEN ’81) told aDillane, and Taj. The familythe 3rd grade at EastwoodatInter-DagherSami Makarem (BA ’54, MA ’57), Maroun Kisirwani (BA ’59,gathering of his colleagueslives in North Providence,College, Mansurieh. Kaissinational(BBA ’03)MA ’64), and many more. Nersissian is a human resources man-and friends that Bukhalid’sRhode Island. [jacquestw(at)lives and works in Beirut.College.is a con-ager. He is the proud husband of Sossy Doumanian (DIPLMhard work, modesty, andgmail.com][amjadkaissi(at)gmail.com]In 2006, she earned a Profes-sultantNursing ’80), and the proud parent of Raffi, who at 27 is a chief labdedication made him a val-sional in Human ResourcesatBooztechnician, and Sevan, who at 22 is a graphic designer. He saysued colleague and an inspir-Khalil Yousef (BS ’84, MDHana Ghannoum Sinno(PHR) certification from theer Stephano, Tony, baby& Company. Before joiningthat AUB’s Main Gate is the door you enter to do your best, anding role model, and urged’88) is married to RimaNational Society for HumanRafaella, and Serena.Booz, she worked at Price-the door you exit to do even better. [onersissian(at)hotmail.com]him to “keep on growingNader (BS ’86, MD ’90).ResourceManagementwaterhouseCoopers and at(SHRM®). Chaaban has threePeter Chamlian (BA ’99)Citibank, Lebanon. In 2008,Fouad Najjar (BBA ’87) and SallyKaya (BA ’91, MA ’02) were marriedon August 24, 2012. After completinghis degree in business administration,Najjar became a certified publicaccountant (CPA) in the United States.He has international experience infinance, audit, and risk management,and is currently chief internal auditorat Al Jaber Group in Abu Dhabi. Kayaearned her degrees in sociology andphilosophy. She started her career asa book translator at the AUB Officeof Communications before movingto her current position overseeingthe production of major universitypublications.He is an interventional radiologistworking for SanfordHeathcare in Sioux Falls,South Dakota. The couplehas three children: Mira (15),Amin Michael (10), andJames (8). They alwaysenjoy spending some timewith Jiddo, Amin KhalilYusuf (BA ’48, MD ’52) inBishmizzine, El Koura at(BA ’88) is an intern at thePsychiatry and PsychotherapyClinic, Charité Universitätsmedizinin Berlin, Germany. In1990, she earned an MA andan MEd in psychology fromTeachers College, ColumbiaUniversity in New York. Sheworked as a psychologist atthe Federation Employmentand Guidance Service, Inc.(better known as FEGS), alarge mental health serviceschildren and lives in Beirut.[hchaaban(at)ic.edu.lb]Nader Imad (BEN ’93)works for Trad Hospital andMedical Center. He participatedin the BLOM Beirut2012 marathon. [nader_imad(at)yahoo.com]Tony Louca (BEN '97) andSerena Badran Louca(BEN '97) welcomed theirnew baby girl Rafaella.Louca is vice president ofthe WAAAUB North CarolinaChapter. Pictured are broth-has beenappointedchiefexecutiveof CréditAgricoleSuisse (Lebanon). A CréditAgricole employee since2006, Chamlian developedthe commercial side of thecompany’s banking activitiesin the Middle East. From2002 to 2006 he headed theFixed Income, Funds andStructured Products Divisionof Libano-Française FinanceSAL in Beirut.she earned an MS in managementand regulation of riskfrom the London School ofEconomics. Dagher and herhusband live in Riyadh.ZeinaEl-Hoss(BAR ’03)is a copywriterandeditor atDar Al-Hekma College inSaudi Arabia. She writes thatteaching in a college andserving as a journalism clubadviser put her in constant62 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201363

Beyond Bliss Streetc l a s s n o t e sBeyond Bliss Streetc l a s s n o t e scontact with students,prompting her to reminisceabout her own college experienceat AUB. Apart fromher personal publishingplans, she looks forward toenhancing her marketingskills through training nextyear. El-Hoss and herspouse, Samer Jabr, have ason and live in Jeddah,Saudi Arabia.Brock Bevan (MA ’04) welcomedthe birth of his firstson, Joaquin, in April 2012.After receiving his master’sdegree from CAMES, BevanAbdel Latif Moghrabi Marini(BSN ’06) is happy to announcehis marriage to Noura Al Murad,which took place on June 28,2012 at the Beirut-LancasterSuites. The couple currentlyresides in Riyadh.earned ajuris doctorfromDrexelUniversityin May in2012. He currently worksat a law firm that specializesin immigration issues.[blb64(at)drexel.edu]Loubna El Amine (BA ’04)has earned a PhD from theDepartmentofPolitics atPrincetonUniversity,whereshe completed a dissertation,"The Confucian Conceptionof the Political." Sheis currently a Mellon PostdoctoralFellow at the WhitneyHumanities Center atYale University. [loubna.elamine(at)yale.edu]Houssam Fawaz (BEN ’04)has been appointed directorof a new training and developmentdepartment of SUKAD(Success through UniqueKnowledge, Attitude andDevelopment), a project managementand learning consultancyfounded in Dubai withoffices in Lebanon. Fawazholds a master’s degree inbusiness administration fromDavenport University in GrandRapids, Michigan.Mohammed Al Masri (BSN’05) Last January Al Masriwas appointed chief operatingofficer of Total Care SaudiThird Party Administrators(a multi-million dollar thirdparty administration companyin Saudi Arabia). Hewas also recently appointeda committee member onthe Saudi Ministry of HealthCertification Commissionfor Healthcare InterpretersSteering Committee of theSaudi Health InsuranceBusiness National Project,which was created to automatehealth insurance transactionsacross the kingdom.[mohammed.masri(at)tcsksa.com]William N. Watfa (BS ’06)joined the University ofBalamand Faculty of Medicineand Medical Sciences wherehe earned his MD in 2011. Hehas completedhissecondyear as aresidentin plasticsurgery at Saint GeorgeHospital University MedicalCenter in Beirut. His interest inaesthetic and reconstructivesurgery was piqued by hisprevious medical elective trainingin London. [williamwatfa(at)gmail.com]RandaAdra (BA’08) is currentlyanassociateat Crowell & Moring, LLPin New York. In 2012, sheearned a doctor of law witha specialization in internationallegal affairs and a concentrationin business lawand regulation from CornellUniversity Law School. Inher new position, shehopes to handle numerouslegal matters related to theMiddle East.Mohammad Abou Assali(BEN ’08)majoredin civiland environmentalengineeringand minored in IT. Heis a senior contracts officer atBoom Construction Companyin Qatar. In 2011 he earned aPurchasing ManagementAssociation of Canada diplomafor Supply ChainManagement, and in October2012, he completed theProject ManagementProgram at the College ofNorth Atlantic Qatar. Assali iscurrently living in Doha, Qatar.He is preparing for the ProjectManagement ProfessionalCertification exam and planningto earn an MBA abroadin the near future. [mra19ce(at)gmail.com]Akram Ayache (formerstudent, ’08) recently lefthis job as a product engineerat Chrysler to pursuea career on Wall Street. Inpreparation for this careermove, he enrolled in theCarnegie Mellon UniversityTepper School of Businessgraduate program in computationalfinance at its satellitecampus in New YorkCity. Ayache looks forwardto a career in trading aftergraduation.Daad Bachir (BS ’08) is ahigh school chemistry teacherat the Glenelg School of AbuDhabi-Abu Dhabi NationalOil Company. In 2009, sheearned her MS in financialservices management at theUniversityof Surrey,UnitedKingdom.Bachirhas takenup dance classes and tries tomake the most of her timeas ''life is too short!” Shecurrently lives in Abu Dhabiwith her family. [daadbachir(at)gmail.com]Joseph Debs (BBA ’08)graduated with a degree inbusiness administration withan emphasis on finance. Heis currently working as aproject manager at GammaInternational GmbH inMunich, Germany. [joseph.debs(at)gmail.com]Anthony Eid (BEN ’08) is aniOS/Android software developerat Walking Thumbs. Hecompleted a semester ofgraduatestudiesat theUniversityof Michigan,AnnArbor, and enjoys playing jazzguitar in his spare time. Eidcurrently lives in Jal el Dib,Lebanon after four years inEurope and the United States.[aie06(at)mail.aub.edu]Mohammad BasmanEl-Khatib (BEN ’08) earnedhis degree in mechanicalengineering. He works atPetrofac International in theUnited Arab Emirates as aprojectcontrolengineer.El-Khatibrecentlymarriedhis lovely wife Lina Arrabi.He writes, “Current planswould be tourism aroundEurope in the company of mywife. Things I miss at AUBare endless, but to mentionsome: the wonderful campus,the engineering workshops,the late nights working withfriends for a final-year project,and the generally happyatmosphere in AUB.”Joe El-Khoury (BS ’08) is apost-doctoral clinical biochemistryfellow at ClevelandClinic inCleveland,Ohio. In2012, heearned adoctoratein clinical and bioanalyticalchemistry at Cleveland StateUniversity. He is currentlybusy preparing for his clinicalchemistry board exams. El-Khoury still remembers (andsaved) all 18 parking ticketshe received while a studentat AUB. And yes, he paidthem all! [elkhouj(at)ccf.org]Mark Lteif (BS ’08) holdsa BS in biology and BEN incivil engineering. He is a civilengineer at Contracting andConstruction Enterprisesbased in Riyadh, SaudiArabia.Brian Shell (BS ’08) is adata analystandprojectmanagerat IBM.He is anavid cyclist and rock climber.Shell and his spouse EmmaZimmerman live in Phoenix,Arizona. [brian.mark.shell(at)gmail.com]Sana Tannoury Karam (MA ’10) JeffreyKaram (MA ’10) Sana writes: "Jeffrey andI both studied for our master’s degrees inpolitical studies at AUB. Although we did notoriginally meet at AUB, this institution offeredus a place to learn, grow, and love. During ourfinal year in 2010, Jeff proposed to me behindthe observatory after taking me on a longtreasure hunt across the entire campus. Whenwe were married a year ago last Christmas,we wanted to include AUB in some way inour wedding because it was such an integralpart of our love story. So we took our weddingphotos on the AUB campus and we made sure to capture the spaces in which we spent our student daystogether, from West Hall, to Assembly Hall, the Green Oval, and, of course, Jesup Hall where our departmentwas. Today we are both part of WAAAUB's Council, and we still cling to AUB as much as we can by givingback to this great institution in every possible way. Recently Jeffrey was elected to the New England Chapterleadership. We currently reside in Boston where we are both pursuing our PhD degrees (Sana, in history atNortheastern University, and Jeffrey, in political science at Brandeis University)." [sanatannoury(at)gmail.com]64 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201365

Beyond Bliss Streetc l a s s n o t e sRECENTLYHONOREDAvedis K. Khachadurian(BA ’49, MD ’53) was recognizedwith the DistinguishedAchievement Award for 2012by the National Lipid Association(NLA) for his outstandingcontributions to the field ofclinical lipidology. Khachadurianconducted much of thegroundbreaking work in thefield at AUB where he beganhis career. He earned his MDwith distinction and completedpostdoctoral training ininternal medicine at AUB, thePostgraduate School ofMedicine in London as a BritishCouncil Scholar, and atHarvard Medical School andJoslin Clinic in Boston as aresearch fellow in biochemistry.Khachadurian taught atAUB (1959-72), where hewas chairman of the MetabolicUnit and a biochemistryprofessor. Since leaving AUB,he has held positions atNorthwestern UniversityMedical School and McGawMedical Center, the Universityof Chicago’s Pritzker Schoolof Medicine, the University ofMedicine and Dentistry ofNew Jersey-Rutgers University,and the University ofMedicine and Dentistry ofNew Jersey (UMDNJ)-RobertWood Johnson MedicalSchool, New Brunswick, NewJersey, where he is professorof medicine emeritus in theDivision of Endocrinology,Metabolism, and Nutrition. AtUMDNJ he has been honoredwith the naming of the UMD-NJ-Robert Wood JohnsonMedical School’s Avedis andLaura Khachadurian MetabolicResearch Laboratory, aswell as an annual award in hisname given to the best graduatingmedical resident of theuniversity. Other honorsinclude the American MedicalPUBLISHED AND PRODUCEDAssociation’s Goldwater Professorship,the AmericanCollege of Clinical Pharmacology’sMcKeen Cattell Award,and the American DiabetesAssociation’s OutstandingLeadership Award.Thomas L. Khoury (BS ’77,MD ’82) was recognizedby the Society of ClinicalVascular Surgery for his findingson busting blood clots.He will give a presentationon the topic at the group’sannual national meeting inMarch. After graduatingfrom AUB, Khoury trainedat the University of Miami.He then moved to HarvardUniversity’s Beth IsraelDeaconess Medical Centerwhere he completed his surgicaltraining in 1993 afterseveral fellowships, includinga dedicated year in vascularsurgery at Tufts UniversityBaystate Medical Center.Khoury joined the staff ofSouthern Ohio MedicalCenter, where he is currentlyprofessor of surgery.Lena Kelekian (BS ’81)and her husband HagopSulahian (BAR ’84) won goldmedals at the “Creative CitiesCollection,” a fine arts exhibitionstaged in tandem withthe London 2012 Olympicsand juried by representativesfrom the UN, the InternationalOlympic Committee, theCulture Ministry of thePeople’s Republic of China,the London OrganizingCommittee of the OlympicGames, the Greater LondonAuthority, and prominent arttheorists and critics. The exhibitionfeatured more than 500international works selectedfrom some 15,000 entries.Kelekian is the only artist fromthe Arab world to win goldfor her art at two consecutiveOlympiads.Lina Khatib (BA ’98) heads the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University'sCenter on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. In 2003, she earned a PhD in political communicationat the University of Leicester, UK. She has just published her third book, Image Politics inthe Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle (2012), which deals with the power of thevisual image as a political tool. She is also the author of Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in theCinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World (2006) and of Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil Warand Beyond (2008). Khatib lives in California. [lkhatib(at)stanford.edu]FORMER FACULTYAssem Salam passed awayon November 4, 2012, atthe age of 88 at his homein Zuqaq al Blat, Lebanon.He was a visionary architectwho was instrumentalin legitimizing the designelements of architecture, adiscipline which had previouslybeen dominatedregionally by engineeringconcepts. After graduatingfrom Cambridge Universityin 1950, Salam returnedto Lebanon to help foundAUB’s School of Architecturein the 1960s. Widely regardedas the guiding light inthe development of modernLebanese architecture,Salam also worked to preserveLebanon’s vernacularand traditional architecture,founding the Associationpour la Protection des Siteset Anciennes Demeures.He served as president ofthe Order of Engineers andArchitects in Beirut in the1990s. Salam is survivedby his wife Vassiliki Laios(BAR ’72) and four children.The Rt. Rev. Albert KennethCragg passed away onNovember 13, 2012, at theage of 99. A distinguishedscholar who promoted religioustolerance and understanding,Cragg was theauthor of some 40 books,two of which became classics:The Call of the Minaret(1956) and Sandals in theMosque (1959). An assistantprofessor of philosophy atAUB from 1942 to 1947, healso taught at the HartfordTheological Seminary inConnecticut, at LondonUniversity’s School of Orientaland African Studies, and atCambridge University. Hismany appointments in theMiddle East included chaplainof All Saints’ Beirut, assistantbishop in the AnglicanChurch’s Jerusalem archbishopric,residentiary canonof St. George’s CollegiateChurch in Jerusalem, andoverseer of Anglican communitiesin Egypt. Cragg wasborn in Blackpool, Englandand attended Jesus College,Oxford where he read modernhistory and earned adoctorate in philosophy. Afterretiring from full-time ministryin 1982, he served for manyyears as an honorary assistantbishop in the Oxford dioceseand taught at WycliffeHall, Oxford. Somewhatbelatedly, in his 90th yearhe was awarded a LambethDoctor of Divinity. He is survivedby three sons.ALUMNIGabriel (Gabi) Baramki (BS’49, MA ’53) passed awayon August 30, 2012, at theage of 82. A highly-respectedPalestinian intellectualand political activist, Baramkireceived his PhD in chemistryfrom McGill University inMontreal, Canada. He waspassionate about Palestinianeducation and instrumentalin the growth of BirzeitUniversity where he developedthe first degree-grantingprogram and served asvice president, acting president,and trustee. Baramkiwas a founding member ofthe Palestinian Council forHigher Education and itschairman for several years,and of the PEACE Program(Palestinian EuropeanAcademic Cooperation inEducation), a cooperativeproject between Palestinianand European universities. Heserved as a council memberof the Nobel Peace Prizewinning organization, thePugwash Conferences onScience and World Affairs.Among his many honorswere the Palme Académique(Officier) medal from theFrench Ministry of Educationin 1993, and the posthumouslyawarded Palestinian presidentialmedal of the first order.In 2009, Baramki publishedPeaceful Resistance: Buildinga Palestinian University UnderOccupation, which includeda forward by former USPresident Jimmy Carter.Wadad Shaya (DIPLM ’51,BS ’52) passed away onNovember 22, 2012, at theage of 88. She earned amaster's degree in nursingeducation from SyracuseUniversity before returning toLebanon to become a publicadvocate for the advancementof the nursing professionin Lebanon and theregion. Shaya held a numberof high level administrativeand faculty positions atthe AUB School of Nursing.She worked to unify nursingschool curricula and upgradethe licensing examinationsfor nurses, served on theWorld Health Organization'sRegional Advisory Panel,and helped establish theFederation of NursingAssociations in Lebanon in1986. Prior to the establishmentof the federation, sheserved as president of thePreparatory Committee thatled to the founding of theLebanese Order of Nursesin 2002. Shaya received theLebanese Merit Award fromthe president of the Republicof Lebanon in 1983 in recognitionof her service to theprofession of nursing.See MainGate, winter 2005,vol. 3, no. 2 Reflections for“An Interview with Two NursesWho Made a Difference”Albert E. Hazbun (BEN ’59),who was born in Bethlehem,Palestine in 1935, passedaway on November 13,2012. A successful civil engineerwith a wide range ofcommunity and philanthropicinterests, Hazbun moved to66 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingatewww.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Winter 201367

Last GlanceCalifornia following graduation.He worked there and inBrazil, France, and the MiddleEast for Bechtel Corporation,Kaiser Engineers, andConsolidated ContractorsCompany before establishinghis own consultancy. Inthe 1980s, he returned toCalifornia where he helpedcreate the state’s standardson water resource managementand recycled watersystems. At AUB, Hazbunwas editor of the EngineeringYearbook and editor-in-chiefof Outlook. He establishedthe George Issa HazbunEndowed Scholarship forPalestinian students in hisfather’s name. Hazbun issurvived by his wife of over50 years, Lily Mansour, theirthree children: Randa Memo,Maya Strawick, and WaleedA. Hazbun, a professor inpolitical studies at AUB, andfive grandchildren.Nabil N. Khouri (BS ’75,MD ’80) passed away onNovember 14, 2012, at theage of 58 in Tempe, Arizona.Khouri completed his residencyin family practice at St.Paul Ramsey Medical Center(now Regions Hospital) in St.Paul, Minnesota and a fellowshipin family medicine at theUniversity of Arizona HealthSciences Center in Tucson.He was in private practice inTucson until 1996 when herelocated to Phoenix. Khouriis survived by his mother,Yvette Nammour Khoury; hisbrother, Ramzi Khoury; andhis niece, Chanel Khoury.Wajih Ajouz (former student,2006) tragically losthis life on September 14while driving home throughthe coastal town of Jal al-Dib, Lebanon. He was aresearcher at the SamirKassir Eyes Foundation anda producer for Al-Arabiya’sStudio Beirut program.Ajouz will be rememberedas a passionate advocate forpolitical and press freedoms.We RememberDeath notices may be sent to maingate(at)aub.edu.lb.AlumniZabih Ali GhorbanMD ’31Sulayman F. NabulsiBA ’33Fawzi Ibrahim ShehadiBA ’42, BS ’46Samih K. NamaniPHCH ’47Akil Jamil TutunjiBA ’47, MD ’54Anna Chirinian ArakelianBA ’49Jamil Jurji Bu-FarahBBA ’49Farid Shaker SaabBA ’52Berin Jamil TutunjiBS ’53Farouk Jamil TutunjiBS ’53, MD ’57Amin A. DanaBA ’56Khadijah K MuftiBA ’56Nicolas Ilyas SasinBS ’56Paul A. KibbehBS ’57Adnan Ali JuniBBA ’65Massoud HannaMassoudBEN ’65, MEN ’96Asad K. AbdallahMS ’67George Tanyus WannaBS ’71Omar George SalhabBAR ’74Mohamed Maher FansaBEN ’80Hadi Jawad UsayranBBA ’86Fady Georges ZiadehBEN ’87Ziad Rafic NajjarBAR ’91Christine KissonergisBEN ’92Rachella Khalil KhalilBA ’96Farouk R. BikdashFormer StudentLara Wissam DaoudFormer Student ’02Cynthia Assad El KhouryFormer Student ’09FriendsNadim Mohamad HamdanAhmad Rami M. HirbliMaha Mohamad SalamMustafa SamhounFarouk TamrWinifred E. WeterPhoto © Monya RiachiWhen we asked AUB students to send us photos that capture what they most enjoy about student life, architecture major MonyaRiachi sent us this photo that focuses on her favorite part of the AUB experience—the beauty of our campus.68 MainGate Winter 2013 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate