Summer 2010 Vol. VIII, No. 4 Curios Collections & MainGateAmerican University of Quarterly Magazine

Departments: Letters 2

Inside the Gate Views from Campus The Reluctant “Starchitect”: Rem Koolhaas on campus; graduation 2010; 4 R+D: poisonous commutes. Reviews 16

Beyond Bliss Street

Legends and Legacies Background check on Daniel Bliss and Marquand House. 50 MainGate Connections The Fabric of Life: Widad Irani Kawar’s collection catalogues the intricacy of 52 traditional Palestinian embroidery. Alumni Profile The Sign of Success: Former investment banker and architect, 54 current novelist and screenwriter Raymond Khoury (BArch ’83) is, as one close friend puts it, an “all-arounder.” Reflections Open Door—Open Minds: Speaking with Maroun Kisirwani (BA ’59, MA ’64) 57 Alumni Happenings 61 Class Notes 65 In Memoriam 72

MainGate is published quarterly in Production American University of Beirut Cover Beirut by the American University Office of Communications of Beirut for distribution to alumni, Office of Communications Terra cotta male figurines Randa Zaiter former faculty, friends, and PO Box 11–0236 (II millennium BC), AUB supporters worldwide. Riad El Solh 1107 2020 Archaeological Museum Photography Beirut, AUB Jafet Library Archives Editor Tel: 961-1-353228 Mazen Jannoun Inside Front Cover Ada H. Porter Fax: 961-1-363234 Hasan Nisr Photo by M.O. Williams Director of Communications Nishan Simonian New York Office 3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Responsible Director Table of Contents 8th Floor Nabil Dajani Contributing Writers Background picture Maureen Ali New York, NY 10017–2303 Cesnola Collection, AUB Ann Kerr-Adams Tel: 212-583-7600 Archaeological Museum Art Direction and Design Susanne Lane Fax: 212-583-7651 Office of Communications Sierra Millman Najib Attieh Barbara Rosica Chantal Harb John Waterbury [email protected] Printing Tomoko Furukawa Hanan Zurayk (BA ’73) www.aub.edu.lb Lane Press Curios and Collections MainGate Summer 2010

Off the Shelf Discover the quirky, curious, and Seek and You Shall Find 18 intriguing items (an upside-down Have 15 minutes on-line or an world map from 1151, the 1913 Student 28 afternoon on campus? Visit AUB’s Union Gazette) tucked away in the collections. University’s archives.

Captured President Emeritus John Waterbury 22 shares his passion for photography, his favorite images of Lebanon, and the collection he’s donating to AUB.

World Mission Speak, History A century ago, stunning Politicians, poets, people found 40 photography by former SPC 46 through history...No, the Oral History Professor Maynard Owen Williams took Project wasn’t funded by the CIA, but it amazed readers on a journey from the does have its mysteries. Arctic to the opening of King Tut’s tomb with National Geographic Magazine. His collection still inspires today. from the president

Dear Alumni and Friends,

On June 26, AUB celebrated its 141st commencement. Especially for our graduates and their families, it was a day to reflect on the past and look forward with anticipation to the future. During my address that evening, I described how we are at “an historic crux” or turning point in AUB’s long journey. We are on the verge of making great strides toward augmenting our academic programs, promoting research excellence, and enhancing our campus and medical facilities. As we move ahead with plans to strengthen and revitalize this university, it is also an opportune time to remind ourselves of what binds us together. AUB is an extraordinary assemblage of constituent communities and individuals, each with their own stake in this institution, and each of whom brings their own vital perspective to our common endeavor. Yet we are fundamentally one community, united by the values that define this University: the pursuit of excellence, a commit- ment to the free expression of ideas, respect for the dignity of every human being, an eagerness to champion diversity, and the belief that each one of us can and should make a difference. Crucially, we are also dedicated to the principle that all qualified applicants should be able to [email protected] afford an AUB education. These shared values are powerful and enduring, and they allow us to transcend the differences and disagreements we sometimes have. Our keynote speaker for commencement this year was the celebrated and influential Palestinian intellectual, Walid Khalidi, a renowned scholar of the Arab-Israeli conflict and advocate for Palestinian identity and cultural heritage. Professor Khalidi spoke with engaging eloquence on the importance of AUB in the broader context of this region and the numerous upheavals of the twentieth century which have influenced and informed generations. On regarding history, he said: “I do not dwell on the past to avoid the future, but to remind you that the Arrow of Time does indeed start in the past, before passing through the present on its flight to the future.” Khalidi’s talk reminded us that we have a past worthy of remembering and a legacy worthy of pride. AUB, as the “first modern liberal university in the Arab world”, is one of the great experiments in education in the Middle East. Working individually and as a group, with shared conviction and sense of purpose, we can all ensure that this “great experiment” will continue to succeed.

President Peter F. Dorman

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Have you ever flipped through a fourteenth century treatise on the interpretation of dreams, or maybe a rare illustrated manuscript of the Qur’an from Anatolia? Or perused an AUB yearbook from 1928? I don’t have a Kindle and love the feel of flipping the pages of a novel as I read, but I have to admit that AUB’s digitized collections are amazing. When we started working on this “collections” issue we began with some of the more obvious campus treasures—the Archaeological Museum, the Post Herbarium, the Natural History Museum (NHM) Collection. (I’ll never forget the first time I visited the NHM Collection in the basement of FAFS—big buckets of preserved marine life, glassy eyed birds of prey peering down at you, rows of delicate butterflies tucked away in countless drawers.) But after more research, I began to appreciate that there are other AUB collections—some off limits on campus—that are actually more available to the public than their well-known cousins thanks to the internet. Jafet’s Archives and Special Collections Department’s and Saab Medical Library’s digitized collections are on-line and ready to be explored by anyone, anywhere: there’s a twentieth century political poster collection, nineteenth century photographs, early student publications, colorful instructional medical posters from the 1930s and 1940s, and a great number of Arabic manuscripts. It’s not the same as holding a book in your hands, but since you won’t be manhandling most twelfth century manuscripts anyway, it’s wonderful to be able to “flip” through their pages.

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Spring 2010 Vol. VIII, No. 3 Errata Regarding “Aural Attack”: I so appreci- ate Professor Marjaneh Fooladi’s effort No Regrets, page 46, Spring 2010, Vol. Views from Campus, page 8, Winter 2010, to study and assess the problem of VIII, No. 3 Vol. VIII, No. 2 noise pollution in Lebanon. My hus- Please note that my husband and I SCORA (the Standing Committee On band and I come back to Beirut at were involved in the management of Reproductive Health including AIDS), which least once a year, but every visit we the SABIS School, not in its is part of LeMSIC (Lebanese Medical are confronted with the two big blights establishment. We were members Students’ International Committee), that affect all visitors to the country and of the team that greeted Leila Saad organized a concert in collaboration with surely all who live there: noise pollution in Dubai when the school busses the Office of Communications on December and the ever present tobacco pollution. arrived from Lebanon, and it was the 15 to benefit AUBMC and the Hotel-Dieu Many other countries have addressed team that built the “portacabins.” HIV/AIDS Fund. these issues. Flagging taxis rather than The SABIS® School was built by the constant honking to solicit fares the open-mindedness and vision of would be an easy solution. So would Charles Saad; the dreams, drive, and ticketing anyone racing a motorcycle determination of Ralph Bistany; the in a residential area after 10 pm! As wisdom and boldness of Leila Saad; for the smoking problem, we can’t determination of Carl Bistany, and the hard work of many others. imagine anything better than having a Roshan Germanos (BA ’55) non-smoking area in which to enjoy the Dubai, UAE delicious Lebanese cuisine. I hope that Professor Fooladi’s work will convince legislators to take some action on these social and health issues. Dr. and Mrs. Fayez (BS ’57, MD ’61) Tushan Carmel, Indiana Viewfinder AUB's 141st commencement: Congratulations to the 1,707 graduates joining the ranks of 55,500 alumni worldwide!

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4 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Summer 2010 5 On AUB’s Master Plan (MP) being short-listed for the Agha Khan Favorite attractions at Architecture Award: Outdoors 2010 “The Agha Khan award is the most prestigious 1- Toastmasters—for wit, humor, and an eagerness to engage award recognizing 2- Nursing Club—for tapping into the "need to know" with a fortune teller 3- Syrian Club—for diversity-delicious chocolate and fun games architectural excellence 4- Civil Welfare League—for engaging children’s minds in our region, and it is an 5- Circuna (our circus)—for providing inspiration achievement by itself to 6- Kids Corner—for inventiveness and an ability to capture the imagination be short-listed.” 7- Pony Rides—for providing a rare opportunity Samer Maamari, 8- Climbing Wall—for opening new horizons 9- All the student “clowns” for making it happen AUB’s vice president for 10- Special Olympics for caring Facilities and Planning. The MP provides architectural, landscape and urban design Seen and Heard guidelines to serve the existing and future needs Recycling Knowledge installed Microsoft operating systems of the University. and software. Bassem Dghaidy, a sec- More On-line ond-year computer science major who refurbished over 40 PCs, stressed the importance of helping recipient institu- tions like the Bhannes Medical Cen- ter. Speaking for Bhannes, Romona Mosallem highlighted the value of com- “War is, of course, one puters for children who are unable to of the main instruments write any other way. Another recipient, of modernization.” Hussein Mattar from the Marwaheen Refurbishing AUB's computers Municipality, said that the computers Architect Rem Koolhaas, AUB has been nominated as an offi- helped provide local youngsters with speaking at the Department cial Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher opportunities for a better future. of Architecture and Design’s (MAR) thanks to a new campus com- inaugural event of the Amine puter recycling initiative by the Center That’s My Mummy Architecture Lecture Series. for Civic Engagement and Community More than 80 children between the Service (CCECS) in partnership with ages of six and 13 paid close atten- More On-line Computing and Networking Services tion to a PowerPoint presentation on (CNS). This environmentally sound how to make a mummy and then set scheme provides cash-strapped facili- to work on the task themselves. After ties and municipalities with refurbished visiting the AUB Archaeological Muse- AUB computers equipped with legally- um to study ancient Egyptian artifacts,

6 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate education among Beirut seniors. In a institutions as the Institute for trial phase 50 senior citizens attended Studies, Khalidi has been credited with study groups on computers, classi- helping restore Palestinian identity dur- cal music, and Beirut’s architecture. ing his 60-year career as a staunch “We aim to promote a new vision for supporter of the Palestinian cause. healthy aging in Lebanon and the Diplomat, author, region,” says Myntti. professor, and political commenta-

Modern mummies A Question of Identity tor Eric Rouleau, Barnard College Anthropology Profes- a French journalist each child wrapped a doll in white sor Nadia Abu El Haj in a CAMES lec- born in , has plaster bandages before decorating ture entitled “A Return to Jewishness: been editorializ- their “sarcophagus” shoe boxes with Phylogenetics, Recognition and the ing for the French hieroglyphs, dressing their mummy Liberalism of a Colonial Imagination” daily Le Monde for with a crown and jewelry, and tracing explored how researchers are using more than three its face. This was the fourth Friends genetic anthropology to study the decades. The former French ambas- of the Museum activity for children Jewish Diaspora and most especially sador to Libya, Tunisia, and Turkey, this year, designed to encourage an to determine the “Jewishness” of so- Rouleau has focused much of his writ- early interest in the museum and its called Lost Tribes. She explained the ing on Arab states in the Middle East collections. science behind testing the Y-chromo- and North Africa as well as countries Challenging the some in mitochondrial DNA in search including Iran, , Turkey, Greece, Gray Cells of the genetic marker Cohen Modal and Cyprus. Haplotype (CMH) thought to denote a Billed as the most Excellent news for the “golden old- direct line of descent from the priestly famous actor in ies”! Spearheaded by Cynthia Myntti caste known as Cohenim. She further since the (AUB Neighborhood Initiative) and illustrated how two competing ideolo- 1960s and one of Professor Abla Sibai, expert on aging, gies in Israel are lobbying to establish the most famous the “University for Seniors” enjoyed rival criteria for “who is a Jew.” in the Arab world, Dourade Al Lah- “We aim to promote AUB Awards ham (along with AUB awarded three honorary degrees Nihad Qali) domi- a new vision for in a ceremony in Assembly Hall on nated Syrian com- healthy aging in June 26, 2010. edy on stage and Lebanon and the Activist and aca- television for years. Al Lahham later demic Walid Kha- moved away from pure comedy to region,” says Myntti. lidi has taught at social criticism and what he called Oxford University, “nationalist commentary.” Al Lahham a soft launch in April. When it’s offi- AUB, and Harvard combined his passion for the theater cially launched in winter 2010, this University, where with a concern for the rights of chil- membership-based and member-run he was a senior dren, and served as UNICEF Regional initiative will organize study groups, research fellow at Goodwill Ambassador for Childhood in educational trips, and lectures. After the Center for Mid- the Middle East and North Africa. two years of planning, focus groups, dle Eastern Studies and a survey, Myntti and Sibai con- until 1997. Through his scholarship, More On-line firmed a “huge interest” for continuing activism, and role in developing such

www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Summer 2010 7 PRODUCTION GRADUATION 2010 AND REGALIA BY THE NUMBERS

Invitations 8700 LOGISTICS Programs Printed 8500

Caps, Gowns and Hoods 1764

Number of Degrees Distributed 1707

Name Tags 600

Signs Produced 300 21625

Press 42

Email Announcements 12

Plastic Chairs 12,500

Parking Spaces 760

Barriers (300 each) 400 14029 Wooden Chairs 305

Flags 18

Flower Arrangements 17

Lecterns 8 7774 Venues 8 6009 Emblems 7

Stages 6 40

Visitors 5521

Graduates 1707

Staff Facilitators 178 PEOPLE AND

Faculty Members 134 TRAINING

Student Volunteers 79

Security Guards 66

Academic Marshals 37

Red Cross Staff 25 Security Supervisors 14 FOOD Staff Volunteers 5 AND Workshops and Trainings 5 BEVERAGES Speakers 3 Water Bottles 6000 AUDIO VISUALS Food Receptions 9 Photo Cameras 15 AND MULTIMEDIA Walkie-talkies 12

Video Cameras 8

Screens 5 R&D

Nametag: Layale Abi Esber, PhD Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, projected 2011

Life before PhD: I hold a BS degree in electronics from the Lebanese University (2002) and an MS degree in environmental technology from AUB (2005). While working as a research associate with Professor El-Fadel, I developed my interest in in-vehicle carbon monoxide exposure and published four manuscripts in leading journals. My doctoral research builds on the work I did as a master’s student.

What matters most: Many of us spend a lot of time in our cars— commuting to work, driving to the mountains, visiting friends— completely unaware of the fact that we may be poisoning ourselves through exposure to chemicals in the air. The problem is believed to be related to several factors including “self pollution,” which is the ingression of a vehicle’s own engine fumes into the passenger cabin. My work will shed light on the risk of human exposure while commuting and hopefully provide the automobile design industry with the knowledge it needs to eliminate or minimize cabin exposure due to self pollution.

Research: I am examining the self pollution potential of a wide range of popular cars and looking at where the pollutants are coming from and how they reach the driver and passengers. I’m also interested to find out what passengers are breathing and what—if anything—we passengers can do about that. In addition, I want to explore how engineers can mitigate the effects of self pollution. I hope that there’s a design process that achieves a compromise between engineering excellence and commuter protection.

10 am Tuesday, 10 am Saturday: I am probably studying at AUB or in my room at these two particular times! If not, I’m watching a movie, or on a field trip with friends and family.

Most admires: I have a high regard for my advisor and friend, Professor El-Fadel. He has been very supportive while I’ve been at AUB and I have learned many things from him both academically and while working on consulting projects.

Why vehicular self pollution: I chose this topic because of its potential significance across many stakeholders including the scientific community, the general public, and the industry.

www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Summer 2010 9 catalyst for change and the next as a From the Faculties distasteful yet incontrovertible phenom- enon of contemporary architecture. Reluctant “Starchitect” Both fame and vision made Kool- haas a catch for the inaugural lecture of a bi-annual Amine Architecture Lec- ture Series that the University’s Depart- ment of Architecture and Design has launched to attract top international architects to AUB. Co-founder and principal of the Rot- Seattle Central Library photographed by Philippe Ruault terdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), this Dutch archi- Professor Howayda Al-Harithy, tect made his name first with elabo- chairperson of AUB’s Department of rate meditations on the city, beginning Architecture and Design, who intro- with "Delirious New York: A Retroactive duced Koolhaas at Issam Fares Hall Manifesto for Manhattan" (Academy later explained, “For us, [his presence] Editions, London, 1978), and later with meant a lot, because he’s not just doing unconventional, modernist large-scale architecture, he’s an urbanist. He has a structures that often defy classification. very well established discourse on the Koolhaas won the prestigious Pritz- city… [and he talks] about the city ker Architecture Prize in 2000 and was in an unconventional way—cities named by Time Magazine as one of its that are not planned, cities that 100 most influential people in 2008. are [built by] other than Casa da Musica photographed by Philippe Ruault He has positioned himself on the the conventional If Rem Koolhaas were less ambitious, border between muscular realism and means.” he might now be, in his own words, quixotic audacity, unsuccessfully pro- “striving to make interesting shoebox- posing to include clinics for home- es” like so many other contempo- less people in the Seattle rary architects tasked with building yet Public Library and another tower in already skyscraper- that St. Peters- dominated urban landscapes. burg’s Gazprom “On our part there is also an effort headquarters to… convince the world to abandon be built of ice. high rise in the way that it is currently OMA’s recent applied as a kind of icon,” this star works include architect—or “starchitect”—told a rapt the huge China audience at AUB’s Issam Fares Hall Central Television in May. “What does celebrity mean? Headquarters in If you’re so famous, can you use Beijing and an your fame to, for instance, define an ongoing redesign agenda? Or… to kill a particular typol- of the art displays ogy [e.g. towers]?” Koolhaas seems at the State Her- uncertain that you can, and he speaks mitage Museum of fame one moment as a potential in St. Petersburg.

CCTV/OMA Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren photographed by Iwan Baan

10 MainGate Summer 2010 Seattle Central Library photographed by Philippe Ruault Casa da Musica photographed by Philippe Ruault Rendering of the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec. Image courtesy of the OMA.

Al-Harithy pointed to the strong rela- Sinno suggests that students should large. How do you hide it? How do you tionship between Koolhaas’s work on be pressed to engage critically with the integrate it?” the “irrational” city—characterized by work of top architects. Indeed, stu- Abou Fakhr says he’d like to hear urban sprawl, informal or illegal settle- dents who attended the May 17 lecture speakers more directly address Bei- ments and a “culture of congestion”— showed equal enthusiasm in praising rut’s problems. While OMA has several and the department’s research inter- and questioning Koolhaas. projects underway in the Gulf, Kool- ests and teaching goals. “The city, Firas Abou Fakhr, a fifth year archi- haas has not worked in Beirut and so especially Beirut, is core and part of tecture student at AUB, interned in declined to speak about it. There are what we do every day.” Rotterdam during summer 2009 in obvious parallels, however, between Like Koolhaas, the department part so he could see the work of inno- Rotterdam, the city where he is now wants to make students aware of archi- vative architects such as Koolhaas. working again after a 30-year gap, tecture’s role in society and encourage “Personally, I’m much more of a fan and Beirut. Both cities were destroyed them to experiment boldly and freely, of his smaller-scale architecture, his by war. “War is, of course, one of the says Tarek Sinno, an architect with houses, smaller museums and galler- main instruments of modernization,” Nabil Gholam Architects and a part- ies, because there’s much more detail Koolhaas told MainGate after the lec- time instructor at AUB. and it’s much more intricate,” he says. ture. “Basically, there are two important “I don’t think education at AUB is just “These huge-scale buildings become examples. There is the city of Munich preparing you for the market or to be kind of gestural, like a mark in the city. that after the war was completely employed and do whatever is being done Although he says he has a position [restored to] the way it was, and there by everyone else,” he says. “It’s having a against this kind of icon in a city, at is the city of Rotterdam, that was com- critical eye and developing your capacity the end of the day, all the buildings we pletely rebuilt, and I find Munich has to… design different things and approach saw in pictures were kind of iconic, incredible qualities, but Rotterdam also architectural issues and problems what- no?” Abou Fakhr thinks again: “It’s has incredible qualities… You know, I ever the city, which is quite important.” tough not to be iconic in anything that used to be very modernist, and I used to think, Okay, it has to be rebuilt, etc. Now, I’m not so sure anymore.” Koolhaas is comfortable with contra- diction and for this, and other reasons, Al-Harithy feels certain he’ll return to Beirut. “I have a strong feeling,” she says. “It’s a city that I’m sure would interest him.”

—S.M.

Prada Transformer photographed by Iwan Baan

MainGate Summer 2010 11 FM/AUBMC Lebanon and the Middle East accord- the ceremony, El-Hoss expressed his ing to the educational needs of the area pride in having his name associated Tracking Progress and to the curriculum designed by the with the program and said that bio- The emphasis at AUB’s 43rd Middle AUBMC Post Graduate Medical Edu- ethics will immunize the medical pro- East Medical Assembly (MEMA), held cation Council. The AUB CME office fession against human frailties and in April, was firmly on continuing edu- will also be responsible for implement- ensure a healthy confluence between cation. Speaking at the conference, ing procedures and policies according professional practice and responsible Mohamed Sayegh, the Raja N. Khuri to CCF CCE guidelines. Dr. Fuad social awareness. Dr. Thalia Arawi, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine under- Jubran, representing the Cleveland founding director of the program, was lined the Medical Center and Faculty Clinic Foundation Center, highlighted named its head. of Medicine's dedication to playing a the importance of continuing medical leadership role in continuing medical education for the progress of the field Transforming Pain education in the region. At the same and of doctors. MEMA participants In an emotional speech dedicating time, Minister of Public Health HE are eligible for AMA PRA, Category the Yesser Ladki Nsouli Chemotherapy Dr. Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, who is 1 credits, which are recognized by Treatment Room in her mother’s name, also an AUBMC surgeon, noted that the American Medical Association and Mona Nsouli said, “Hope is helping Lebanon is about to pass a law that will comply with the Lebanese Order of people fight cancer and making a dif- make continuing medical education for Physicians Continuing Medical Educa- ference to others.” She also thanked all doctors mandatory. In April AUBMC tion guidelines. AUBMC VP/Dean Mohamed Sayegh and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation on behalf of herself and her father Center for Continuing Education (CCF Ethically Sound Medics Emeritus Professor Afif Nsouli for mak- CCE), a co-sponsor of this year’s MEMA, signed a partnership agree- ment to create a Continuing Medical Education (CME) office at AUBMC to serve as an extension for CCF CCE in Lebanon and the Middle East. The new AUB CME office will be authorized to certify medical education activities in

Rush hour: AUBMC admitted 22,290 patients last year

A new Bioethics and Professionalism ing her family’s vision a reality. During Program, named for AUB alumnus HE the ceremony in the Naef K. Basile Salim El-Hoss, was launched April 7. Cancer Institute in February, President The program will be an interdisciplin- Dorman said, “This is an extraordinary ary resource for faculty, students, and moment that puts the name of a distin- others involved in bioethics educa- guished family in medicine at the heart tion, research, and consultation. At of the Medical Center.” Dr. Fuad Jubran, left, and Dean Mohamed Sayegh

12 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate He added that the center is one of to raise funds. Some baked cookies the few in the world to conduct CHD late into the night to sell to their neigh- research. bors. Others sold their own toys. One even charged her parents “each Bravo les Enfants! time they said a bad word.” (This It’s hard to imagine a group of ten and particular student declined to provide eleven-years-old taking time from their an exact amount of money the tac- childhood activities—or demanding tic had raised.) Through all of their academic curriculum—to help the less hard work, the students were able to fortunate, but sometimes charitable raise an impressive $1,480—no small giving comes from the most unlikely sum, especially for people of their of donors. age. Thus, we say to these young Meet the 5th grade students at fundraisers, Bravo les enfants, and Fixing Lycée Français New York. This spring, thank you. Broken Hearts with the help of their teacher and one Established in cooperation with of their parents (Carol Marshi, a Brave FHS AUBMC in 2003, the Brave Heart Heart volunteer), they created a fun- Fund (BHF) for the treatment of Con- draising drive to benefit the Brave The Cost of Tobacco in genital Heath Disease (CHD) in chil- Heart Fund at AUBMC. Touched by Lebanon dren launched its fifth annual aware- the Fund’s Mission Statement—“No In front of a packed audience includ- ness and fundraising campaign on child should die from heart disease ing ministers, officials, and journalists, April 19 with the ad “Save 98%” because of a lack of funds”—the FHS researchers recently revealed the stamped on the image of a new- children devised some creative ways awful truth about tobacco in Leba- born, and the tag line “Don’t save non. The Issam Fares Institute- money save lives.” funded study found that over In Lebanon, around 400 3,500 Lebanese die from of the 700 babies diag- tobacco related illness each nosed with CHD each year year. While local net annual need medical care. If prop- revenues from the tobacco erly treated, up to 98 per- industry amount to $271.3 cent of children with CHD million, direct and indirect can recover to lead normal costs are around $326.7 lives. BHF co-founder Jou- million due to disease, loss mana Ghandour Atallah told of productivity, and environ- the audience that 248 CHD mental degradation. Among surgeries were performed in the researchers’ recommen- 2009 thanks to BHF, a 25 per- dations were higher taxes cent increase over 2008. Fel- on tobacco products, bet- low BHF co-founder Dr. Fadi ter health warnings, smoking Bitar, director of AUB’s Chil- bans in public areas, tobacco dren’s Heart Center stressed advertising bans, and finan- the center’s ability to handle cial incentives to encourage complex CHD cases, with sur- tobacco farmers to switch vival rates comparable to other crops. advanced hospitals in the world. More On-line

13 HSON FDA requirements. The last piece of 70 competitors from the region. Her the puzzle was a judicious company report analyzed the views of smoking Lifetime Commitment acquisition strategy which gave Hikma and non-smoking students and pro- HSON Director Huda Abu-Saad Hui- its global reach. fessors who had been instrumental jer has been honored with a lifetime in pushing for the ban. Opinions More On-line achievement award by Macmillan are understandably divided between Cancer Support, in collaboration with FAFS those who resent it and those who call the International Journal of Palliative for a complete ban. In the meantime, Nursing. Presenting the award in Organic Attack Abla’s success is a great incentive for London, Professor Philip Larkin com- those taking SOAN 236, introduced How can Lebanon push the country’s mented on Huijer’s “extraordinary for the first time in fall 2009. development of organic agriculture to commitment and dedication to the the next level? In a May 19 lecture, More On-line profession.” Huijer, who returned to Kanj Hamade from the University of AUB seven years ago, has had an out- Bologna, Italy tackled this question first FEA standing career in Europe, the United by noting that conversion to organic Kingdom, and the . She agriculture is a challenge not only to First of Many has been integral to the development farmers, but to political and market The first Munib and Angela Masri Insti- of the international children’s palliative institutions and extension services tute of Energy and Natural Resources care agenda and has worked with the well. In Lebanon, organic farming (M.A.M.IENR) Research Workshop World Health Organization and other has reached a stage of development, which took place on May 21 provided international agencies to ensure the in terms of both local market and an opportunity for recipients of the highest standards of clinical practice, organic movement institutions, which first M.A.M.IENR grants to present education, and research in this field. allows for important future develop- their results. “Hopefully this will be More On-line ment beneficial to both consumers the first of many workshops,” said and farmers. Hamade took the exam- FEA Dean Hajj. “It is much more OSB ple of the organic sector development dynamic for faculty to share their in the Balkans to draw lessons for results and for others to know what Dreamer or Visionary? the adoption and implementation of a is happening. I hope we will have In an OSB EMBA Leadership Series National Action Plan for Lebanon. To greater cross faculty participation in talk entitled “The Role of Quality in bring such a plan to fruition will take the future.” M.A.M.IENR was estab- Building a Global Business,” Said Dar- political will, the involvement of the lished in 2007 to promote research in wazah, CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuti- government, and a partnership with science and engineering that contrib- cals explained how his multinational, organic stakeholders. utes to sustainable and responsible multi-million dollar business began use, management, and conservation simply with his father’s dream and his FAS of natural resources and energy. “We conviction that quality is the key to are getting excellent results,” said success. Darwazah outlined the step Smoking Out the Facts Hajj, “and we will probably renew by step strategy employed to conquer Broadcast media student Robine Abla these grants, plus we have new ones a market dominated 100 percent by reached the semi finals of the Zayed coming up with the Dar Al-Handasah multinationals. Technology transfer University Film Festival with her report, Endowment, so next year we will have and purchasing licenses were crucial a short film on the “Smoking Ban a full day workshop and maybe more along with rigorous quality control, on Campus.” One of six Social and than one in the future.” aggressive marketing, and a finely Behavioral Sciences students to enter tuned instinct for how best to handle the competition, Abla was up against

14 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate Faculty Committee (USFC) the first New On-line Faculty News topic, appropriately, was freedom of speech. USFC VP Elias Ghanem wel- www.youtube.com/AUBatLebanon Clash of Titans comed participants, while Philosophy Professor Bashshar Haydar acted as Smoking Ban on Campus moderator. “In the name of liberty and Broadcast media freedom we are back,” said Ghanem. student Robine Abla’s “Once again AUB has proven itself a short film reached leading institution for social affairs in the semi finals of Lebanon and the Middle East region.” the Zayed University As a condition for re-launching Speak- Film Festival. Five er’s Corner, the administration vetoed other news reports two topics: religion and politics. In the produced by AUB students on politics, Hamra’s first session several students raised nightlife, stress and more are also on-line. their objections to these restrictions. “I believe the students are mature Politics and Change: A Century of The Axis of Science (professors rep- enough to handle these topics, after Arab Activism in the United States resenting the hard sciences) and Pro- 36 years it is important,” said Ghanem. Helen Samhan, fessors Gone Wild [the professional/ “As we gain momentum we will call for executive director of soft (but ruthless) sciences] faced off change.” Session two focused on the Arab American on the Hostler center court this spring. Lebanese identity with CVSP Profes- Institute Foundation For two weeks in April the teams com- sor Hani Hassan acting as moderator. in Washington peted to see which one would reign Hassan pointed out that it was notable D.C. Samhan (MA supreme. And the winners were… that neither the constitution nor the ’75) lectures and resoundingly Professors Gone Wild Taef Agreement tackled Lebanese publishes widely who trounced their opponents 3-1, not identity. He opened the debate with on Arab American affairs, the immigrant once but twice! a series of questions about the mean- experience of Arabs, the history of anti- ing of nationality. Thereafter various Arab racism, and political involvement. definitions were explored which will Student News resonate with alumni from the days Gulliver’s Troubles: Barack Obama in the when Speaker’s Corner was active in Middle East Open Debate—Almost the 1970s: Lebanon and Arab Nation- Aaron David Miller, For the first time in 36 years, AUB stu- alism; Lebanon and the Islamic world, public policy fellow dents gathered outside West Hall to and what makes Lebanon unique. at the Woodrow attend Speaker’s Corner. Re-launched Speaker's Corner will be held intermit- Wilson International on April 6 by the University Student tently throughout the academic year. Center for Scholars and author of The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace speaks at the IFI Bill and Sally Hambrecht distinguished Peacemakers Lecture Series at AUB.

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Medinet Habu IX. The Eighteenth Dynasty Temple, Part I: The Inner Sanctuaries, with Translations of Texts, Commentary, and Glossary (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2009) by The Epigraphic Survey; preface by Peter F. Dorman

This is the ninth volume in a series that documents the work of the University of Chicago’s Epigraphic Survey at the massive temple complex of Medinet Habu in Luxor. How did you get involved with this project? An Egyptologist by training, I have been involved in many expeditions in Egypt over the years. In 1988, I was appointed both as assistant professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago and associate director of the Oriental Institute’s Epigraphic Survey in Luxor, Egypt (ancient Thebes). A year later, I was appointed field director—a position I held until 1997. My wife Kathy and I, often with our two daughters, traveled regularly between Chicago, Illinois and “Chicago House” in Luxor, Egypt for almost ten years. It was during this time that I was most closely involved with the Epigraphic Survey, which was founded in 1924.

16 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate Arts

François Salignat (piano) and Ziad Nehme (MS '06, tenor) performed works Bottom and top left: Outdoors 2010; Top right: Folk Dance Festival of Schumann, Britten and Mozart in Assembly Hall on May 12. Since 2008, Nehme has been a member of the International Opera Studio at the Hamburg State Opera.

What is an epigraphic survey? It is a precise and detailed documentation of the inscriptions and relief scenes found on temples, tombs, and other struc- tures. James Henry Breasted, an American historian and archaeologist who was at the University of Chicago for many years, developed a demanding epigraphic technique that has come to be known as the “Chicago House Method.” This process involves a collaborative effort among artists, photographers, and Egyptologists, and its excellence depends on the mutual confirmation of different sets of eyes and minds. It is a task not best left to a computer—as you might think— because it depends ultimately on the exercise of informed human judgment.

What is particularly interesting about Medinet Habu IX? Medinet Habu IX is the most recent Survey publication on the Medinet Habu complex in western Thebes, which com- prises the huge mortuary temple of Ramesses III, as well as an earlier temple to the god Amun, founded by the Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut, fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Medinet Habu IX is the first of several volumes dedicated to this earlier temple. Hatshepsut holds a unique place in ancient Egyptian history as the only woman to rule in the guise of a male pharaoh. One of the wonderful features of this book is that it includes images of Hatshepsut that were effaced or reattributed after her death, to conceal the historical record of her unorthodox self-presentation.

www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Summer 2010 17 Off the Shelf

This summer, we sift through the AUB archives to discover quirky, curious and amusing items that readers can further explore for themselves.

Love and Marriage A Man for All Time Tucked away in the outsize archives of Jafet Library The Saab Medical Library also has a “jewel”: it’s the are three original Gibran Kahlil Gibran pencil and Kitab al Qanoun fi al Toubb (The Book of the Canon watercolor nude drawings. One of them, Three Nudes, is of Medicine) by Abu Ali al-Shaykh al-Ra’is (born 980 attributed to the chapter entitled “Love and Marriage” AD), better known as Ibn Sina or Avicenna. The Saab from The Prophet. The figures were composed to volume is a fine example of the Arabic edition of the reflect the sentiments: “Love one another, but make Canon that appeared in Rome in 1593. AUB acquired not a bond of love. Stand together, but not too near its copy, which predates the one in the National Library together.” The drawing was a gift from AUB Trustee of Medicine in the United States, in 1929. The twelfth William A. Shahdi, presented to AUB President J. Paul century Latin version of the Canon was a reference Leonard in 1959. Seated Nude and Portrait and Nude for medical students in Europe until the end of the Osmosis complete this valuable trilogy. nineteenth century.

Fully digitized in English and Arabic: http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/ projects/saab/avicenna/english.html

It should come as no surprise to learn that AUB holds an impressive collection of ancient manuscripts 27 of which, appraised by Sotheby’s London Islamic manuscript expert Nabil Saidi, can be partially viewed on-line. The jewel in the crown is a Syriac New Testament, known as the Beirut Codex and attributed to Monk John in the ninth century. Presented to Daniel Bliss in 1871 by Abdul Masih of Mardin, master builder The Jewel in the Crown of College Hall, the Codex is among two or three extant in the world. Copied on vellum and bound and protected Direct questions about the manuscripts to the Archives and Special Collections staff at: between beautifully decorated leather boards, it is [email protected] | http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~webjafet/ kept under lock and key in Special Collections. Most collections/specialcollections/arabmanus.htm ordinary mortals will only ever see it on microfilm.

18 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate Which Way is Up? Student Life If you have trouble reading maps, just try figuring A skeleton, a girl, and a boy: Girl: my father is very out Muhammad al-Idrisi’s (upside down) world map. proud of this skeleton. Boy: why? Girl: I guess it was Known as the Tabula Rogeriana, it was drawn for his first patient! King Roger II of Sicily by the famous Islamic explorer/ If you want to know what else made AUB students cartographer in 1154. Pieced together from personal laugh one hundred years ago, visit the on-line Student knowledge and information from travelers, Idrisi’s map Union Gazette. The 1913-32 collection provides was one of the most advanced in the ancient world. A intriguing insights into the sorts of things preoccupying gift from the Scientific Educational Group in 1951, luminaries such as Emile Bustani and others. From AUB holds six beautiful facsimile panels, alongside the speculation about the face of war in 1950 to love poems, scholarly Latin version of the map published by Konrad articles on the benefits of physical exercise and the Miller in 1931. pitfalls of kissing, and delightful hand drawn ads for snazzy suits and shiny shoes, the Gazette is an amusing snapshot of campus life and well worth a browse. And guess what, even then they were complaining about noise on Bliss Street! Poem from the Gazette: “I think that I shall never see / A school like the AUB / And when I’m old and white of hair / I’m sure to send my grandsons there.” And—not surprisingly—many of them did…

http://dd.aub.edu.lb/projects/jafet/fazette/intrd.html

Head Count Tamir Nassar’s “snaps” give the term mug shot a whole new meaning. His endearing photos capture the reality of anthropological expeditions led by the renowned neuroanatomist Dr. Ariens Kappers during his time at AUB in the 1920s and 1930s. Nassar accompanied Kappers during field trips to study the tribes of the Syrian and Transjordanian deserts primarily to measure their heads. Unlike other AUB photo collections, Nassar’s photographs portray the harshness of everyday life and capture the spirit of the Bedouins who gaze unflinchingly into the camera.

http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/saab/tamir-nassar/index.html

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Photo © Digital Documentation Center (see also CNS website www.aub.edu.lb/cns/) Memoire Another charming Nassar legacy is a collection of hand drawn teaching Trapped in Time charts from the Apart from the evocative images of insects forever 1930s and 1940s trapped in amber which are beautiful to study, Professor simplifying aspects of Aftim Acra’s personal yet erudite account of amber neuroanatomy and microscopic anatomy for his students. excavations in Lebanon makes fascinating reading. His His son, (also his student) recalls the charts hanging first encounter with amber was a “eureka” moment all over the laboratory on the fourth floor in Van Dyck which led to years of excavation accompanied by his son and in the ladies’ dormitories several floors below(!). Fadi and friend Raif Milki, all three of whom became Generations of medical students benefitted from Nassar’s amber buffs and helped to put Lebanese amber on the thoughtful visual aids, some of which can be viewed international map. on-line.

http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/amber/acra/index.html http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/saab/instr-posters/index.html

Poster Wars Bad Old Days Good Old Days

Left, Right, Pro, Anti? Where did you stand during Art, as an antidote to war, was equally evident on those turbulent times? Were you captivated by the visual campus and in Ras Beirut until conflict took hold. propaganda all around campus or did you just walk on? Jafet’s Art Poster Collection, prolific in the 1960s, Take a stroll down memory lane and remind yourself slowly dwindles as the fighting progresses. A touching, of the impact of the AUB Political Poster Collection. nostalgic collection, this is a gentle reminder of the other Retrieved from their original source or from various spots face of Lebanon. It recalls Ras Beirut at its zenith—and on campus, the collection is a potent graphic record of the curiously somehow captures how far it has progressed in Palestinian and Lebanese conflicts. Professor of Design the recovery process. These days we take the art posters Zeina Maasri chose the first poster on the right as her on the walls for granted, but as the Jafet collection favorite. Why not visit the on-line gallery and pick the one shows, this was barren territory for a while. (And you prefer? Lebanese artist Hussein Madi is still prolific!)

http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/jafet/posters/english.html http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/jafet/artposters/index.html

20 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate The Miracle of Life Every archive has its macabre element, even if it’s there for a good reason. FM’s Abnormal Fetus Collection is a sobering reminder of the miracle and the frailty of life. An invaluable teaching tool for FM students, the specimens were contributed in 1970 to the Department of Pathology by Dr. Harald Noltenius for teaching purposes.

http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/health/specimens/gross- specimens/fetuses/fetuses.html

Second Post More palatable, perhaps, is the curious 1960s If you cannot visit the Post Herbarium (see page 28) “paper” fetus found in the Saab Medical Library. This then you can discover what an erudite scholar George model “atlas” of a 10 mm pig fetus indexes 546 levels of E. Post was by browsing the digital version of the two internal and external development. It was cut out and volume The Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai. Post first drawn by Erling S. Hegre, PhD, Professor of Anatomy at wrote this colossal work in Arabic and then translated the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. it into English; it was later expanded and revised by John Dinsmore of the American Colony in Jerusalem for printing by the AUB Press in 1932. To this day it The Female Form remains a standard botanical reference for the region. It is the beautifully drawn, high quality prints that make Baillière’s Anatomy and Physiology of the Female Human Body http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/saab/post-flora/index.html stand out. Researched by Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, with plates by Georges M. Dupuy, the Anatomy was printed in London in 1921. This well preserved historical guide to the female body remains a valid learning tool today.

http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/saab/bailliere/index.html

—M.A.

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A brief note on President Emeritus John Waterbury’s photography and photography collection.

22 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate I did not undertake any serious photography before, roughly, 1969-70. I think I was aware of some of the great photographers like Cartier Bresson, Bourke White, and Alfred Steiglitz before then, but the fact that I am not sure speaks volumes. My daughter, Trishka, was born in Salé, Morocco, in April 1967. About a year later the daughter of my good friend, Mike Marshall, the Ford Foundation Representative for North Africa and resident in Rabat, was visited by his daughter, Katie Marshall, then a student. She was a serious photographer and took some wonderful black and white shots of Trishka, playing in the Marshall’s garden. Marianne, my first and now deceased wife, and I treasured those photos. Around 1968 I decided that I needed a good camera and some technique so that I could record the growth of my daughter. My friend Doug Davis had a Pentax Spotmatic and advised me to get the same. It seemed very expensive at the time, but what a camera! I used it and perhaps one updated model for virtually the next 20 years. I think in the early 1990s I bought a Canon EOS Rebel probably on the advice of my dear friend and superb photographer, Mary Cross. In 2005, my daughter gave me a Canon EOS Rebel XT digital which I have used pretty faithfully ever since. My current camera is a Canon EOS 40D digital. I still have my last Pentax Spotmatic, two EOS Rebel bodies, and the EOS Rebel Digital. I also have a little hand held LEICA point and shoot which is now at least 20 years old.

Left: Common kingfisher, Marquand House Top: Ceiling in Habarieh, South Lebanon

MainGate Summer 2010 23 Although I assumed my photography would be devoted primarily to my family, when we moved to Cairo in September 1971, it immediately captured me. It’s dusty, grimy, and blessed with many wonderful textures that black and white capture beautifully. For the next six years I photographed Cairo and most other parts of Egypt, the Sudan, Algeria, and Tunisia in black and white. By the time I returned to the United States in 1977, commercial processors had pretty much abandoned black and white film. The prints I received after 1977 in the United States were of very poor quality. It was at that point that I sadly converted to color. I have never learned to process my own film. Over the next twenty years, I traveled widely in the developing world and lived for extended periods in a number of countries. My collection, 90 percent in color, expanded accordingly. Since 1998 when I became president of AUB, I have photographed Lebanon extensively. It is not ideal from my point of view inasmuch as I was always accompanied by some security. Since 2008 I have been much less conspicuous. Somewhere around 1999 Mary Cross and I made our only joint photo expedition to Cairo. About a year later we exhibited our Egyptian photographs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. I have had one other exhibit, in June 2006, sponsored by the President’s Club of AUB and assembled on the fourth floor of West Hall. A few of my favorite photographs of Lebanon follow. We are in the process of cataloging and digitizing the entire collection, which in time will be donated to AUB.

—President Emeritus John Waterbury

24 MainGate Summer 2010 Far left: Jebeli tomatoes, Chouf Center left (top to bottom): The eyes have it, ; September; Jinna, Nahr Ibrahim Center right (top to bottom): Miziara Church; Salt baggers, Sheikh Zened, North Lebanon; Nba’ Al Murshid, Chouf Right: At his ease, Tripoli mina

MainGate Summer 2010 25 Left: Tripoli madina Center left (top to bottom): Maqam Nabi Ayyoub; Jebel as-Shaykh; folk dance festival; Corniche bathing party Center right (top to bottom): Just before the war; Anfe salt ponds; Aamaiq Right:14.02.05 RBH; Chalhoub family mourners, Qana

26 MainGate Summer 2010 27 andSeek You Shall In basements, casements, museums and archives, AUB has a wealth of specialized collections representing every discipline… some are just waiting to be discovered, all are to be appreciated. An introduction to a few of AUB’s gems.Find

The Post Herbarium

Location: In a temperature and humidity controlled Post Herbarium curator room on the second floor of FAFS, close to the Biology Nada Sinno Saoud undertook Department (kindly hosted by FAFS but seeking a a major recuration of the permanent location). herbarium. Species vouchers Acquisition: The collections of George E. Post, under each genus are now former professor of surgery and biology at the Syrian geographically separated and Protestant College (now AUB) and the basis of his filed under Lebanon; Rest well-known Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai, of the Middle East; Europe; augmented by gifts, donations, exchanges, and the Africa; and Rest of the World. University’s research collection. Major donations As a result of this effort that include the collections of Abby Bliss (wife of Daniel resulted in the establishment Bliss) and Mary Stuart Dodge (wife of David Dodge). of a data bank, the Post Period: 1863-present. Post began collecting plants Herbarium changed from a from the eastern Mediterranean region when he first plant storage site to a plant arrived to Tripoli in 1863. He continued to do so library. throughout his career at AUB 1868-1909. Relevance: The Post Herbarium is the only herbarium Substance: The combined collection of plant specimens in Lebanon and in the region that is listed in The is vast and represents regions worldwide. Because Herbaria of the World, 8th Edition under the acronym the collection spans a period of almost 150 years, it “BEI”. Particularly valuable are 220 type specimens provides a unique historical catalogue of the flora of the that were identified and published by Post. The Post region and as such is an invaluable reference and a data Herbarium receives requests for information from all bank for the biodiversity of Lebanon and the region. over the world and sometimes grants specimen loans Material: 70,000 plant specimens belonging to 177 for research purposes. families and 955 genera of flowering plants now Access: For researchers or interested visitors who have segregated geographically according to present day been trained to handle fragile herbarium sheets. national boundaries. In 2001 with support from AUB and the UK Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species, —M.A.

28 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate Natural History Museum (NHM) Collection Location: Largely in the Biology Department from the late Abdul-Monem Talhouk’s Butterfly basement—a precarious location that was recently Collection and the eighteen/nineteenth century Peyron threatened by flooding—along with various exhibition Beetle Collection currently under restoration. A huge cases and objects distributed throughout the effort is involved in restoring and maintaining the department. collection, but the work proceeds only intermittently. Acquisition: This unique scientific collection was Major improvements have been made over the last started when AUB was founded through the work 12-13 years with the acquisition of new cabinets and of Professors George Post (see Post Herbarium) and cases but there is still a lot of work to be done. William Van Dyck (see the Van Dyck Bird Collection) Relevance: The collection, says Sadek, “represents and continues to this day through the effort of the history of AUB. Everything else came and professors and students. went, people, buildings, etc., but this collection Period: 1863 to the present. remained intact and it highlights AUB’s historical Substance: An astonishing array of specimens importance. This was pioneering science from the collected in their thousands including 1,419 birds, very beginning.” One function of a museum is to 30,000 insects, 7,000 fish, and more than 4,000 compare past and present. The AUB Natural History mammals, amphibians, and reptiles. (See Post Museum is a key reference for species loss, habitat Herbarium to find out about the NHM’s substantial destruction, species invasion, and the identification flora collection.) of endangered species. Material: Cabinet after cabinet containing case after Who has access? Scientists, students, and the case of specimens of birds, insects, animals, reptiles, general public. Display cases scattered throughout invertebrates, and amphibians. Described by chairman the Biology Department provide some semblance of of the NHM Committee Riyad Sadek as “the earliest and a museum but much of the collection is stored in only decent collection in the Arab world, a remarkable cabinets awaiting the day when a location and funds early effort,” the collection has the caché of being will be available for a proper museum setting. comprehensive and historically accurate. Alongside the prodigious Post-Van Dyck contributions are donations —M.A.

www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Summer 2010 29 AUB Mineral Collection Location: The Geological Museum, Post Hall, second floor. Acquisition: Part of the Geological Collections (including minerals, rocks, and fossils) was accumulated by Professors Jessup, Riley, Day, and others. The collection also includes purchased samples, possibly some additional donations, and collections contributed by faculty and students. Period: The collection dates from the early days of AUB until today. It is as old as the earth. Substance: Minerals from many groups including the Silicate mineral group, the Carbonate, Oxide, Sulphate, Sulphide, Halide, and the Hydroxide mineral group. Material: Solid crystalline materials, over 1,000 mineral specimens. The collection contains examples Van Dyck Bird from all the main mineral groups on earth and Collection Location: Natural History Museum collection, Biology Department basement. Acquisition: The bulk of the collection was put together by William Van Dyck. Period: Late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries, with some further specimens added later. Substance: 1,419 birds meticulously preserved and catalogued. The collection includes finches, birds of prey, ducks, geese, herons, doves, sparrows, and much more. Material: Birds from Lebanon and the region; all groups found locally plus migrating species. Relevance: The bird collection, according to Riyad Sadek, chairman of the Natural History Museum Committee is “a handsome collection that could not be assembled today.” With George Post, Van Dyck planted the seeds of the Natural History Museum and in doing so provided a valuable record of bird species that used to be found in Lebanon, including on the AUB campus itself. The collection serves as a stark reminder of species loss and of endangered species. Who has access? The collection is available to students, scholars, and members of the general public (with supervision).

—M.A.

30 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate a very large number of schools. It provides an early introduction to science for youngsters, igniting their interest in the subject. The mineralogy collection ranks reasonably well compared to similar university geological museum collections abroad, but requires the attention of a curator to better arrange and organize the displays. All the current displays were arranged by Professor A. Abdel-Rahman, chairman of the Geology Department, with the help of geology students. Who has access? It is open to the public during includes some mineral formations that are quite rare normal working hours. University students from and hard to find. outside AUB accompanied by their professors receive Relevance: It is the only collection in Lebanon guided tours particularly of the rock and mineral located in the only geological museum in the country. collections. Hundreds of students from a large number As such it is very heavily used more for educational of schools—usually from grades 4 to 12/13—also purposes than for public viewing. It plays a significant receive guided tours of the various geology collections. role for teaching mineralogy and other geology courses to students from AUB, other universities, and from —M.A. The E.W. Blatchford Collection Location: Jafet Library Photographic Archives. are from different ethnic groups. Pictures were taken Acquisition: Presented in 1924 to the library by Mrs. mostly outdoors or inside buildings and houses but Howard Bliss, widow of the second president of AUB. there are a number of studio portraits too. She named the collection after her father Eliphalet Material: Mounted album prints of standard Wickes Blatchford who collected these photographs measurement approximately 23 x 28 cm. There are with her mother during their travels. a few smaller sizes and three are larger, with one Period: 1880-1900. oversize triptych of a panorama of Jerusalem. The Substance: 801 photographs arranged by country and majority of pictures are sepia, four are colored, and subdivided by cities, towns, sites, people, activities, one is in blue tint. The photographs are labeled or and other subjects: 52 photographs of Europe (, have written explanations on their mounts. Italy, Malta, Spain, Belgium, Greece), 1 of Mecca, 83 Relevance: The collection captures the essence of of Turkey, 1 of Cyprus, 32 of Syria, 87 of Lebanon, the region at the turn of the nineteenth century. It 214 of Palestine (including 141 of Jerusalem), 7 of provides valuable documentation of Smyrna before its , 315 of Egypt, and 14 of Tangiers. Important sacking, of historic , Beirut, and Jerusalem. late nineteenth century photographers of the Middle It is a showcase featuring the best photographers East including Bonfils, Dumas, and Sarrafian are of the region. The campus section is of particular represented in the collection; some 446 photographs interest to AUBites. are signed by 20 leading photographers. Subject Access: With permission from AUB Archives and matter includes landscapes, mountains, lakes, rivers, Special Collections and on-line http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/ historical monuments, archaeological sites, buildings, projects/jafet/blatchford/ and architectural details. There are scenes of daily life, urban and rural; also portrayals of trades, occupations, —M.A. skills, and agricultural practices. The people featured

www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Summer 2010 31 The Muybridge Collection

Location: Jafet Library Archives and Special Collections. Material: 123 photo lithographic plates from the Acquisition: Donated by Mrs. Howard Bliss, widow study Complete Human and Animal Locomotion, of the second president of AUB, as part of the E.W. which originally comprised up to 20,000 folio sized Blatchford Collection of photographic materials lithographs of horses, horses with riders, horse-drawn assembled by her parents in the late nineteenth/early carriages, animals, and human motion studies. twentieth centuries. The donation was made in 1924 Relevance: The Muybridge book, Complete Human Period: 1887. and Animal Locomotion, was the most comprehensive Substance: The 1887 Eadweard Muybridge Collection analysis of movement ever undertaken and as such is is part of the photographer’s famous work exploring still widely studied. It is a “must” for students of film, human and animal locomotion, later published under animation, and graphics and is included today in the the title Complete Human and Animal Locomotion, reading list for the motion graphics course at AUB’s comprising 781 plates. In his elaborate “electro- Department of Architecture and Design. The Jafet plates photographic” investigations Muybridge rigged 12-30 are a boon to students. In the archive files concerning cameras usually a foot apart, each with a special the Muybridge collection is this notation: “Muybridge shutter triggered electro magnetically by wires tripped was a true scientist and the acquisition of his work by the subject—horse, elephant, or man. This reflects the spirit of enlightened enquiry so characteristic experiment marks photography’s transition from stills of AUB in the nineteenth century.” to animation and was a major step in the graphic Access: With permission from AUB Archives and representation of motion. Special Collections.

—M.A.

32 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate Cypriote Collection Location: Archaeological Museum. Acquisition: More than a third of the Cypriote Collection consists of pottery from the Cesnola Collection that was donated in 1868 (see box). There are also items from the Rouvier (acquired in 1905), S. Merrill (1907), Dorman (1936), and Ford (1939) collections. Period: From 2500 BC-330 AD. Substance: 178 items—mostly pottery vessels from different periods, a few terracotta figurines, and some limestone sculptures. The collection includes several representative pottery type jugs of Red Polished III ware, White Slip II ware bowls, Black- on-Red ware Juglets (all from different periods), and Luigi Palma di Cesnola a couple of particularly interesting limestone pieces: Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904) was an Italian-American the head of a beardless youth dating from the sixth soldier and amateur archaeologist. Born in Rivarolo Canavese, century BC and the head of a wreathed youth from near Turin, he went on to serve in the American Civil War the first half of the fifth century BC. receiving the Medal of Honor for his heroic efforts during the Material: Clay, limestone. Battle of Aldie in June 1863. It was while he was serving as the first US consul Relevance: This collection is particularly important to at Larnaca in Cyprus (1865–77) that he accumulated the Archaeological Museum because it includes many an extraordinary collection of Cypriot antiquities through of the items in the museum’s first collection and also excavations and purchases that he paid for with his own funds. because it represents a complete and comprehensive He donated part of his collection to the Syrian Protestant chronological survey of the material culture of Cyprus. College (later renamed AUB) in 1868. In addition, he sold items Access: On display at the Archaeological Museum, to Napoleon III for the Louvre, to the State Hermitage Museum also included in “Cypriote Antiquities in the in St. Petersburg, and to the city of New York for its Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cesnola was the Metropolitan Museum’s first Archaeological Museum of the American University director from 1879 until he died in 1904. of Beirut,” Vassos Karageorghis and Leila Badre, A.G. Leventis Foundation, Nicosia 2009 that is available for sale at the Archaeological Museum.

www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Summer 2010 33 34 MainGate Summer 2010 Glass Collection Location: Archaeological Museum. inspired by Greek pottery. Other noteworthy items are Acquisition: This large collection of 900 pieces was vases of molded and cut glass from Syria and Lebanon. assembled gradually from donations and purchases. Material: Glass. Period: From 700 BC to 700 AD. Relevance: The appearance of glass blowing in Substance: The glass collection includes items from Phoenicia in the first century BC revolutionized the art the ranging in date from the Phoenician era of glassmaking. One of the most famous glass blowers (700-300 BC) to the beginning of the Islamic Period. of the period was Artas from Sidon who inscribed his Although tableware was definitely the most common name on vases that have been preserved in famous use (as displayed at the Archaeological Museum), glass museums around the world including the Louvre. (By containers were also used for medical purposes and the first century AD, there were commercial workshops for cosmetics (as kohl flasks and perfume bottles). producing glass products not only in Phoenicia but The Phoenicians invented the blowing technique also in Gaul, Italy, and Germany. In which transformed glass into a fine and more addition, many Sidon glassworkers set transparent product and made it possible up workshops in Roman cities such as * to use it for a large variety of shapes and Aquileia and Campania. ) forms. AUB’s collection includes some Access: On display at the particularly fine examples of Phoenician Archaeological Museum.

pendants made of polychrome glass * http://archaeology.about.com/od/glass/ss/ and small core-formed perfume bottles glass_making_4.htm

www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Summer 2010 35 The Moore Collection Location: Jafet Library, Special Collections. Relevance: The collection includes wonderful Acquisition: These images were taken by Dr. Franklin T. portrayals of places and people in Lebanon, Syria, Moore who taught at the Syrian Protestant College (now and at AUB in the late nineteenth and very early AUB) from 1892 until he died suddenly in 1915 at the twentieth centuries. There are photos of the original age of 46. Dr. Raif Nassif found the negatives in the attic College Hall, of the Main Gate and Fisk Hall as they of Van Dyck Hall in 1967 where they had been stored were being constructed, of Lee Observatory looking many years before. He and Professor Marwan El-Sabban out to the Mediterranean Sea, and much more. In preserved, restored, and digitized the collection. addition to the campus itself, Moore also documented Period: From 1892 until 1902. the area around the College including a very different Substance: 107 photographic glass plates. but still recognizable Bliss Street. There are also Material: 5x7 inch glass plates, black and white some particularly interesting photographs related photographs, digital files of the restored images. to science and medicine—and of some of Moore’s

36 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate Zaki Nassif Collection Location: Jafet Library, Special Collections. Acquisition: The family of composer and musician Zaki Nassif donated the collection to AUB in January 2008. Period: From 1954 until 2004, shortly before Zaki Nassif died. Substance: The collection includes more than 1,100 handwritten musical scores and lyrics; poetry, tapes, and CDs; more than 50 trophies and prizes; and some personal belongings such as his books, papers, pen, watch, and passport. Material: Paper, tape, electronic media, etc. Relevance: Zaki Nassif, who studied music composition and piano at AUB (1936-41), was one of Lebanon’s foremost composers and performers. Along with Toufic El Bacha, Philemon Wehbeh, Assi, and Mansour Rahbani (who are sometimes referred to collectively as the “Big Five”), he is credited with promulgating Lebanese folk music primarily through Radio Orient (later Radio Liban) and in launching the Baalbeck Festival in 1957. Many vocalists including Fairouz, Sabah, Wadi El Safi, Nasri Chamseddine, and Majida El Roumeh have performed—and continue to perform—his songs. He is fondly remembered and celebrated by legions of fans throughout the Arab world—especially in Lebanon where he wrote and sang what became Lebanon’s unofficial national anthem during the Civil War: “Rajeh Yittammar” (It [Lebanon] Will be Rebuilt). In addition to documenting the many and important contributions that Zaki Nassif made to the colleagues and their wives, college students, and cultural life of Lebanon and the region, this collection hospital patients as well. is significant because it is the first time in the region Access: The Moore Collection photographs have that the collected works of an individual have been been captured in a book, “The Moore Collection: systematically and professionally archived. Every item Franklin T. Moore Photographs (1892–1902),” is being sorted, numbered, and documented so that it which is available from AUB Press, www.aub.edu.lb/ is preserved, protected, and made available for future php/aubpress/site/index.html. Some of the original generations. digitized but not restored images are also available Access: At the Jafet Library. You can also learn more on-line at http://ddc.aub.edu.lb/projects/jafet/moore/ about Zaki Nassif and the Zaki Nassif Music Program index.html. All 107 restored images are available at AUB at http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/znmp/Pages/ on-line at http://www.aub.edu.lb/communications/ index.aspx multimedia/gallery/Pages/moore1.aspx

www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Summer 2010 37 Oral History Project Location: Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies a social activist, and someone who was working at Jafet (CAMES), Ada Dodge Hall. Library at the time. We know that CAMES students and Acquisition: Audio taped interviews conducted by professors conducted these interviews in the late 1960s AUB students and faculty in the 1960s and 1970s. and early 1970s, but exactly why they were made—and Period: 1969-70. how they decided who to interview is still a mystery. Substance: The collection consists of 49 interviews. Material: Transcriptions and audio recordings. Although there are some famous names Relevance: The collection is important because (primarily politicians and literary it includes rare interviews with some important figures), there are also interviews individuals such as former Syrian Prime Minister with less prominent men and women Husni Al Barazi; Lebanese politician and such as a nursery owner, parliamentarian ; Aref el Nakadi, who was a Lebanese judge and founded Beyt al yateem el Durzi (the Druze Orphanage); Adel Osseiran (former speaker of the Lebanese Parliament and one of the founders of the Lebanese Republic); published author and women’s rights advocate Anbara Salam al Khalidi; Saeb Salam, who served as Lebanese prime minister on four different occasions between 1952 and 1973 (and was also Anbara Salam’s brother); and world renowned Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani. Access: The seven interviews mentioned above are available on CAMES’ website. http://www.aub. edu.lb/fas/cames/Pages/oral_history.aspx (For more information about CAMES’s Oral History Project, see page 40.)

Terracotta Anthropomorphic Figurines Location: Archaeological Museum. Hollow molded figurines begin to appear with Acquisition: Like most of the museum’s collections, the Phoenicians around the fifth century BC. By this was assembled gradually from donations and the third century BC, facial features appear more purchases. lifelike. Figures dating from the Roman-Byzantine Period: From 3000 BC-300 AD. Period (30 BC-330 AD) are not just of individuals Substance: The earliest figurines from the Early but represent more elaborate themes as well such and Middle Bronze Ages (2300-1600 BC) are as musicians and loving couples. In the absence primarily hand made of nude females emphasizing of texts associated with the figurines, their exact the symbols of fertility and reproduction. In role remains undefined. The most plausible the Late Bronze Age (1600-1450 BC) molded interpretation is that they were used as ex-votos figurines were introduced with a Hathoric hairstyle (offerings) associated with the fertility cult. (named for the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor). Material: Clay.

38 MainGate Summer 2010 Relevance: AUB’s collection of terracotta figurines—primarily of Phoenician type—is unusually complete for this period and represents a wide variety of modeling and molding techniques. Access: On display at the Archaeological Museum and in Badre, Leila, Les figurines anthropomorphes en terre cuite à l’Age du Bronze en Syrie, Bibliothèque archéologique et historique (BAH), volume CIII, Paris, P. Geuthner 1980.

39 World Mission A century ago, a young SPC missionary named Maynard Owen Williams followed his passion for discovery to become a pioneering travel writer and photographer. Here is a brief look at the extraordinary life, writing, and photography of this journalist who met Lawrence of Arabia, witnessed the opening of Tut Ankh Amoun’s tomb, and was the first photographer to capture the Arctic in color photographs as National Geographic Magazine’s first foreign correspondent.

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40 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate In 1911 Maynard Owen Williams left his hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan to teach at the Syrian Protestant

AUB Library Archives College (SPC—renamed AUB in 1920). He went as a “staffite,” one who took up missionary work for a few years—in his case three—rather than for an entire lifetime. Throughout his tenure as a young teacher, Williams wrote letters to his mother describing the new world he was living in and the work he was doing. His mother found them so interesting that she showed them to the editors of the Kalamazoo Gazette who published excerpts from his letters and later asked him to become their correspondent in Syria. His letters capture not Above: Williams’ room in Beirut, 1913 only descriptions of what he saw and experienced but Below: Williams was the only American to go on the Citroen- Haardt expedition across Asia in 1931. also the excitement he felt being in a foreign land and his interest in that land and its inhabitants, devoid of prejudice or judgment. Williams’ enthusiasm and adventurous spirit made the most grueling travel experiences seem mere inconveniences. A gifted photographer as well, many of his pictures made their way into his articles. While at SPC, Williams traveled extensively visiting the Holy Land, Antioch, and Damascus. He also took a trip to the excavations at Carchemish where he met the archaeologists David Hogarth and T.E. Lawrence, later known as Lawrence of Arabia. Of the discoveries made on that trip he wrote: “I was at Carchemish on the day the greatest Hittite find ever unearthed was revealed to the eye of man for the first time in three thousand years. I never had a more exciting time in my life.” His description of the difficulties he and his companions had to surmount on a trip to Petra reveal his passion for discovery. His enthusiasm and interest in everything he saw and experienced must have engendered in his readers a corresponding interest in a world they had never seen and probably would never see. After earning a degree in journalism from the Colombia University School of Journalism in 1916 Williams became foreign correspondent for the Christian Herald traveling to Siberia, Japan, China, and to Russia where he reported on the Russian Revolution in Moscow (1917). He also witnessed and wrote about the Armenian massacres in Van in 1918. At the end of World War I, he signed on as National Geographic Magazine’s first foreign correspondent—a position that opened the door to a world of geographic adventure and discovery. In 1925 he

MainGate Summer 2010 41 went on the Arctic expedition with Donald Macmillan a photograph of the ship on which he had just lectured, he and Admiral Byrd and was the first photographer to sat down on a bench opposite that ship and died. He was take color photographs of the Arctic. He was also the buried in Istanbul where his son lived at the time. only American to go on the Citroen-Haardt expedition Today’s readers should be grateful to Williams across Asia that began in Beirut and followed trade who recorded so much of what he saw and experienced routes to what is now Beijing. Although he wrote and to his mother who kept a scrapbook of the letters about the difficulties the team encountered during the he wrote home as well as the articles that appeared in expedition—dismantling the trucks so they could be the Kalamazoo Gazette. Not only did she launch his carried across narrow paths and dealing with various journalistic career, but she also started the collection of rulers across Asia—it is clear that nothing detracted his life’s work by keeping copies of what he wrote. from the wonder and excitement that Williams felt Williams’ son George has continued to build being part of that expedition. He was also present as the the collection that now includes three volumes of the National Geographic correspondent at the opening of the articles he wrote for National Geographic Magazine, an Tut Ankh Amoun tomb. article he wrote for the Kalamazoo Gazette and another He returned often to the Middle East and wrote one for the Christian Herald, and a set of three tiny articles about SPC, the independence of Lebanon and leather bound journals and papers tied together by a Syria, the Holy Land, Greece, and Turkey. After he retired string that are from his early days as a young missionary. from the magazine after 34 years, he used his talents An article of this length can in no way adequately to introduce travelers on Mediterranean cruises to the describe the extent of Maynard Owen Williams’ travels or marvels they were about to witness. In 1963, after taking relate all that he wrote about during his lifetime. He lived

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Left: Williams near West Hall, 1931 Left, bottom: The opening of King Tut Ankh Amoun’s tomb, 1923 (Photo: M.O. Williams) Below: Ferries crossing the Bosphorus (Photo: M.O. Williams)

43 National Geographic Stock an extraordinary life, bringing the far reaches of the world and their inhabitants closer to the hearts and minds of a growing audience. To appreciate the vastness of his contribution, one need only look at the titles of the articles he wrote and the pictures he took for National Geographic Magazine—many of which can be found on the magazine’s website (www. nationalgeographic.com). Although one cannot help but be amazed at the extent of his travels, it is his attitude to life and to his work that is most impressive. In response to a letter from the editor of National Geographic in which he was told that his salary would be cut, Williams wrote:

AUB Library Archives “The decrease will call for a change of living, but that should involve no real loss. Sacrifice is a luxury. After so many evidences of your interest and support, I cannot but express my interest and support in what, because of your personal feelings and sympathy, must be a trying time for you... I hope you don’t regard the decreases as in any sense a personal cross. But I hope I’m still enough of a Christian to appreciate a cross, be it mine or yours, and it is a relief to feel that if it is, I’m now having a share in bearing it.”

Far above: View of AUB, 1946 (Photo: M.O. Williams) —H.Z. Above: Al-Kulliyyah documented Williams’ visit to campus in 1931 Right: Last shot: 1963. After taking a photo of the ship on which he had just lectured, Williams sat down on bench opposite the ship and died. Special thanks to George Williams and to the AUB archives for their contributions.

44 MainGate Summer 2010 For more on Maynard Owen Williams, visit the following sites at www.aub.edu.lb/maingate National Geographic Society Publications Index (search for Maynard Owen Williams) National Geographic image collection (search for Maynard Owen Williams) Kalamazoo College Collection (Williams’ biography) Williams’ photography from the Steven Kasher Gallery (NY, NY) More On-line

MainGate Summer 2010 45 SpeakHistory What led Anbara Salam to become the first Muslim woman in Greater Syria to unveil in public in 1927? Why didn’t her brother, four-time Prime Minister Saeb Salam, ever establish his own political party? How did the Yemeni republicans who overthrew the Imamate in 1962 and later took refuge in Beirut view Egypt? What value did prominent Lebanese families in the nineteenth century place on education?

These and many other intriguing questions are boxes hold the handsome, gold-engraved, leather-bound addressed in a series of free-wheeling interviews transcripts, typed in Arabic on fragile, transparent sheets. conducted with political and religious leaders, poets and The longest of the 32 existing transcripts is 275 pages (its writers, and other social figures, as part of AUB’s short- correspondent digital recording more than eight hours); lived but ambitious “Qism al-Tarikh al-Shafawi” (or one of the shortest, a mere ten pages. “Oral History Project”) following the 1967 war. Apart from the selective interest of a handful of “Lebanon [held out] open arms to everybody at that researchers and the omniscient oversight of the archives time,” says Samiha Fahas Mishalani, one of the principal librarians, these documents have, for the last 40 years, interviewers for the project and former AUB employee, remained largely obscure. speaking from her home in Washington, DC. “All these In that time, many of the project’s major players have people came—prime ministers, ex-prime ministers— passed away, including then-AUB history professor Joseph everybody came because it was a free, flourishing country.” J. Malone, credited by his contemporaries with having first The bulk of the 49 interviews included in the conceived of the idea of establishing an oral history library collection took place between September 1969 and August at AUB. 1970 when what is now known merely as the Oral History “At that time, I didn’t know what oral history meant,” Project came to an abrupt and ignominious end. “We had Kisirwani says. “So [Malone] explained, and said it all over $70,000 which we did not spend,” says AUB Dean of started after the death of [John F.] Kennedy [in 1963] Student Affairs Maroun Kisirwani who took leave from his when people started collecting information from everybody US doctoral program to coordinate the project. that knew him and had dealt with him. In our case, it When it destabilized the region and caused refugees would involve interviewing political refugees and leaders.” to flee to Lebanon, the war made Beirut into a hub for “Most probably, [Malone] had been mulling over the increasingly tortuous political maneuverings and created idea for some time,” says historian Kamal Salibi. Then the conditions that made these interviews possible. The chair of AUB’s History Department, Salibi played only an project, however, ultimately fell victim to the politicized indirect role in the project, but he formed a critical link paranoia that took hold after the Arab defeat in 1967. between some of its participants. In a restricted room in the Jafet Library Archives In its essence, the project was an attempt to capture and Special Collections, nearly two dozen sturdy beige history in its most natural form—the observations and

46 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate reflections of individuals caught up in events greater than Anbara Salam (1897 – 1986) themselves—and to martial it against the scribes to come. Lebanese Writer, Feminist, Translator, Pioneer “You know they tamper with the historical books,” “I wore a particularly severe form of hijab since the age of says Gladys Salibi Boecker, another principal interviewer ten. It didn’t only cover our faces, but also cut us off from the and former AUB employee, from her London home. “We outside world entirely. I mean that we never saw the people [wanted to] keep these [interviews] for the record, because who came to visit the house and my father. Women had their if, let us say, they change some parts of history…at least place in society and men had theirs…However, when they we have the original tapes done with these people, who brought me teachers at the house, I never met with them in lived in this area, who lived during this time.” hijab, that’s for sure. Malone and his colleagues tasked Mishalani, Boecker, We spent two years in England…and in that time, I took and Kisirwani with selecting and interviewing prominent off the hijab, but I remained somewhat attached to it...when I members of Arab society. (A promise that the transcripts boarded the ship here, of course I revealed my face but I still and recordings would be sealed for 20 years likely wore a traditional silk shawl, and felt shy to remove it—almost loosened some lips.) The project began humbly. “They as though I would be naked then.” wanted, at first, just to see anybody who was getting on in years and ask them questions,” Salibi says. His father Saeb Salam (1905 – 2000) Leading Sunni Muslim Politician, four-time Prime Minister of Lebanon The project was an attempt “Why didn’t I form a party? Unfortunately, to capture history in its over time, I came to realize that any party I wanted to form would be most natural form—the known as the ‘Saeb Salam party’ and not a party that observations and reflections developed its identity based of individuals caught up on the thoughts and ideas of its youth. And a in events greater than party, like every other themselves. thing, if it doesn’t grow naturally and develop through trial and error, and mother participated in one of the earlier recording emerging with success, sessions. “It was practice for us,” Boecker says. then it won’t have the The interviews themselves were largely open-ended, necessary advantages Kisirwani recalls. “[We wanted] to let them speak their minds or will to endure… from the beginning…from their youth…right up until the Yet to this day, I ask period in which we were interviewing them,” he says. myself…Why didn’t The interviewers were able to contact some I form a party? It is prominent figures through Salibi, a good friend of Saeb a huge obstacle Salam’s, and the late Yusuf Ibish, a project advisor and [this question] and AUB professor of political science, who came from an in my political aristocratic Damascene family with extensive connections. life, I’ve been “They really hit it big time through the good offices very candid, and I of Yusuf Ibish,” Salibi recalls. “Through him they were believe in that and able to get in touch with the founders of the Yemen Arab I know the harm that Republic, who had overthrown the Imamate. [Gamal Abdel] such an idea might do, but I’m not prepared Nasser had rounded them up and put them in jail in Egypt, to let it go.” because Nasser thought that overthrowing the Imamate was

MainGate Summer 2010 47 just a service to him and that he would run the affairs of the Yemen. They thought, however, that they’d overthrown the Imamate so as to turn Yemen into a republic.” A few years after the project ended, one of those founders, Mohamad an-Numan, was shot dead in broad daylight about 100 meters from the Ministry of Information in Ras Beirut. “It was one of the first anonymous assassinations by a professional,” Salibi says. “Not the first, but certainly one of the very first.” Although several of the principals interviewed for this article no longer recall how—or why—it ended, Kisirwani remembers it well. “Some articles appeared in the local papers and some leaflets were distributed on campus, accusing us of CIA activities,” he says. In 1967-68, similar accusations had been leveled against the Middle East Area Studies Program (MEAP)—the predecessor to today’s Center for Arab and Mohamad Ahmad an-Numan Middle Eastern Studies—an incident that Salibi describes in his Arabic memoir, A Bird in an Oak Tree (Amman, 2002). (1933 – 74) Malone himself used to claim, perhaps jokingly, Son of Yemeni aristocrat and republican Ahmad that he was a highly placed CIA agent, Salibi says. “We Mohamad an-Numan, roving ambassador of the Yemen had a very good dean called [Edwin] Terry Prothro. He Arab Republic (later assassinated in 1974) used to say, ‘He is the only CIA man I know, whose “Of course, [Egypt] was the principal model because Egypt, cover is being a CIA man.’” Although there is no evidence she is the ancient text, and she is the fresh printing. She is that Malone served as a clandestine agent, it turned out the newspaper and she is the magazine and she is the song. that both MEAP and the Oral History Project did receive She is the cinema. You couldn’t read anything in Arabic, funding from US military programs, from the Advanced whether old or new, except if it came from Egypt. All the Army Research Program (MEAP), and the US Defense shining names, you found your way to them by way of Egypt Department (Oral History Project). This news came as a and we didn’t know the Arab countries except through Egypt, or more precisely, through Egyptian journalism.” surprise to Salibi and Kisirwani. Abdullah Shehadeh (1844 – ??) Some articles appeared in the Lebanese Teacher and Poet with a Doctorate in Arabic Literature local papers and some leaflets “The family [at the time of my youth] paid a lot of attention to were distributed on campus, its son’s education, because whatever he learned increased his knowledge and enlarged his value and people respected accusing us of CIA activities. him. For instance, sometimes, there are people who love and worship money, but this is nonsensical, because money gets “We were ordered to stop the project as a result of used up and we can acquire it whenever we want. There the negative publicity in the local papers and on campus are also people who love learning instead of money because itself,” Kisirwani says. And that was that. learning is a gift from God and all people cannot acquire it... Abbreviated though it may have been, the AUB For learning is the light that makes a person radiant, and this Oral History Project collection now forms an unusually glory illuminates his way for the period of his life. This light rich depository that merits additional exploration. Brief won’t be extinguished or absent itself except after the death of the person.” excerpts from four of the interviews accompany this article.

—S.M. (text and translation)

48 MainGate Summer 2010 Known and Unknown... Participants in the Oral History Project

Ibrahim Abou Khater Originally from Zahle Successful eye surgeon who fought in the Shahin As-Salibi Established what may have been the first Ottoman Army during World War I Jolinda Abou Nasr women’s center at Lebanese American (1878 – 1978) Lebanese medical doctor University (then Beirut Women’s College) Dr. Suleyman who served in the Egyptian army officer; (b. 1912) Lebanese poet, author and As-Salibi father of AUB Emeritus Professor Kamal Said Akl founder of The Lebanese Genius party Salabi (1895 – 1975) Syrian politician of Kurdish Abdallah Bakr From South Yemen? Husni Al Barazi descent, served as prime minister for one Lawyer, member of the “Ahrar” (Liberals) Elias Brax year beginning in 1942 party Mrs. Husni Al Barazi Wife of Husni Al Barazi Farid Braydi ?? Ibrahim Al-Alloussi Iraqi writer, journalist and linguist Boutros Charbel ?? Philippe Al-Fata ?? Najib Dahrouj ?? Syrian author of the Qamoos as-Sana’aat Poet and follower of the transcendentalist Ibrahim Dammous Samih Al-Kasimi ash-Shamawy (A Dictionary of Syrian Dahesh Industries) (1913 – 2000) Nationalist Lebanese Mickhael Darwish Raymond Edde statesmen who served as legislator and ?? Al-Ma’louf cabinet minister Shawkat Al-Mulla Judge from Tripoli Lebanese politician, deputy of Baabda, Dr. Elias El-Khoury Lebanese deputy from Beka’a, Minister of Health Nazem Al-Qadiri assassinated during the Lebanese Civil Mariam Freiji ?? War in the late 1980s Edmond Gaspard Prominent Lebanese lawyer Syrian deputy, minister, president and Lebanese Druze sheikh and writer, director Salim Hariz Nazem Al-Qudsi exile after the country became a military general of the Ministry of Education. dictatorship Ali Kamal Originally from Iraq? Hana’Al-Quwatly Relative of President Shukri? Lebanese owner of a well-known nursery Eleanor Kamar Hassan Al-Quwatly, Son of Shukri Al-Quwatly or someone from that served many prominent people Junior Dar Al-Fatwa? Lebanese founder of Khalidi maternity Mustafa Khalidy Philippe As-Saddi Head of the lawyers’ syndicate hospital Lebanese Druze aristocrat, in charge of Antoine Diab Ma’louf ?? Sheikh Aref the Dawudiyyeh school and the founder of Lebanese deputy of Baalbak, vice An-Nakadi the Druze orphanage Habib Moutran president of the Wataniyyeen Ahrar party Prominent Yemeni aristocrat and (Liberal Citizens Party) government member known as “Abu El (1905 – 1998) Lebanese deputy, prime Ahmad Muhammad Adel Osseiran Ahrar” (Father of the Liberals), who quit minister An-Nu’man political work after the assassination of his Afif Osseiran Lebanese priest, convert from Islam son in Beirut Nizar Qabbani (1923 – 1998) Syrian poet Reverend Bishara Lebanese cabinet minister and hospital ?? Toufic Riz An-Nu’man co-founder Muhammad Ahmad Anbara Salam (See preceding excerpt) (See preceding excerpt) An-Nu’man Saeb Salam (See preceding excerpt) Muhammad Ar-Radi From Iraq? (1908 – 1985) Lebanese Director of Emir Farid Chehab Yemeni Minister of Foreign Affairs, played General Security and later ambassador Ahmad Ash-Shami a crucial role in dealings with Gamal Abdel Abdallah Shehadeh (See preceding excerpt) Nasser in the early 1960s Ahmad Ziara ??

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Midwest to Middle East Daniel Bliss, the founder and first president (1866-1902) of the Syrian Protestant College (SPC - renamed AUB in 1920), left behind his six siblings and a promising business to forge a new life in the Near East.

About this series: The AUB campus resonates with to its development. Their stories have Born to Loomis and Susanna Bliss in history, much of it based on the become legends in the chronicles Georgia, Vermont on August 17, 1823, educational pioneers who dedicated of AUB and their generosity lives on Bliss was only nine years old when his their lives to the University or the in the legacies they bestowed on mother died. He spent much of his philanthropists who gave generously the University. In this new series, childhood in Ohio before leaving home we relive the stories of trailblazers at 16 to work at a variety of jobs. At like John Wortabet, Butrus Bustani, 23 he gave up “a promising busi- D. Stuart Dodge and we explore the ness partnership” to enter Kingsville context of their legacies symbolized in Academy in 1846 to study algebra, 1 buildings like Lee Observatory, Dodge Latin, and Greek. He excelled at Hall, and more. Kingsville and at Amherst College where he met his wife, Abby Wood. He graduated from Amherst in 1852 and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1855 where he became an ordained minister. He and his wife had been married just one month before they traveled to modern day Lebanon in December 1855. In Beirut, Daniel and Abby Bliss joined a community of missionaries— many of whom would become lifelong colleagues and friends. They spent six years as missionaries in Abeih, just north of Aley, and then at Suq al-Gharb. Bliss was reportedly sur- 2 prised when he was chosen to lead the initiative to establish “a college

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3 or other educational institution.” and his family took up residence there. When he died in 1882, he left his estate, The couple spent the next three and Although Marquand’s name does not including his mansion in Southport, a half years (from August 1862 to come up often in the history of AUB, Connecticut, to his adopted daughter, March 1866) in the United States and he was “one of the famed jewelers Virginia Marquand Monroe, who used 6 England drumming up financial sup- of New York City.” Born in Fairfield, the proceeds to establish the Pequot port for the new college, the SPC. As Connecticut in 1799, Frederick (aka Library in 1894, which she continued 13 he noted at the time, “money does not Frederic) Marquand was head of to support throughout her life. The make a College but no College exists the firm Marquand and Co. and was a books and manuscripts at the Pequot 4 without money from somewhere.” leading—and very successful—silver- Library, which feature many items that It was while Bliss was in the United smith for many years. By the time he Marquand Monroe collected herself, States that New York granted a charter retired in 1839, he had also become include contributions from “everyone to SPC; it welcomed its first class of just “an extensive proprietor of real estate” who was anyone in the nation’s found- 7 16 students in December 1866. in New York City and was reputably ing, from Colonial days to the post- 8 Bliss, his wife and their four one of the city’s wealthiest residents. Revolutionary period and up to 14 children, Mary, Frederick, Howard and In addition to being a very suc- the Civil War.” William would spend most of their cessful businessman, he was also a lives in and around the college. Abby philanthropist who is “remembered 1. Daniel Bliss, Letters from a New Campus, page 18. was clearly a remarkable woman in for his generous gifts of a fine stone 2. Stephen B.L. Penrose, Jr., That They May Have Life: The Story of the American University her own right. In addition to being public library and valuable books to of Beirut 1866-1941,” page 10. 3. Certificate of Incorporation (Charter) of the Daniel’s “life partner” and “adviser Southport; the Marquand Chapel Syrian Protestant College. and assistant,” she was also a good to Yale College, and the Marquand 4. The Founding Fathers of the American University of Beirut: Biographies, compiled by friend for many years of the poet Emily Chapel to Princeton College, New Ghada Yusuf Khoury, page 17. 9 5. Founding Fathers, page 49. Dickinson who she met as a student Jersey.” 6. Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck, The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from at Amherst College. A member of the American 1700 to 1800, Volume II, published by Although he had always said Board of Commissioners for Foreign the author, New York, 1905, page 10 427. that he would resign at the age of Missions . Marquand donated 7. http://famousamericans.net/ 5 frederickmarquand/ 70, Daniel Bliss did not retire until $5,000 in 1877 to build “a house for 8. http://oaklawnct.org/_mgxroot/ st page_10731.php June 1902 shortly before his 81 the president” of the Syrian Protestant 9. http://famousamericans.net/ birthday. He was succeeded as College. This was not his only gift to frederickmarquand/ 10. In the Missionary Herald, president of the college by his second the college: he also “contributed to November 1876, volume 72, Frederic Marquand son, Howard Bliss who was pastor the provision of the original chapel in is listed as a member 11 of Union Congregational Church in College Hall.” Although he does not of the American Board of Commissioners for Upper Montclair, New Jersey at the seem to have ever visited the campus, Foreign Missions 11. Stephen B.L. Penrose, time. he did have personal ties with at least Jr. That They May Have Life: The Story Daniel Bliss died on campus on some of the missionaries who were of the American July 27, 1916—a little more than a instrumental in setting up the College University of Beirut 1866-1941, page year after Abby Bliss passed away including Dr. Henry H. Jessup who 55. 12. Henry Harris Jessup, also in Beirut, on April 12, 1915. They describes meeting “his friends Mr. Fifty-three years in Syria, Volume 1, are both buried in the Anglo-American Frederic Marquand and Mrs. Baker” page 336. 12 Cemetery in Beirut. in Paris in November 1867. 13. http://www. pequotlibrary. After he retired in 1839, Marquand com/library_info/ history.html The Presidents’ Perch organized the Southport Savings Bank 14. Bill Slocum, Americana in Perched on upper campus, Marquand serving as its first president. He con- the Stacks, House has been home to AUB presi- tinued to make charitable gifts endow- New York Times, August 14, 2005. dents since 1880 when Daniel Bliss ing hospitals and schools of theology. Beyond Bliss Street maingate connections

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FabricWidad’s daughter Mary modelingof dresses from her Lifecollection.

Editor’s note: the Arab-Israeli conflict first hand when Widad, More than 50 years after they members of Widad’s family from the graduated, Ann Kerr-Adams occupied territories waited for hours at has interviewed six of her AUB the Mandelbaum Gate to cross over for in Jordan classmates to discover the lives they a once-a-year visit with their relatives. have built in the Middle East. They could only stay for a few hours. Widad grew up in the midst of conflict When I started this project to interview but became a master at utilizing her my four AUB roommates, I realized I talents and interests in a positive—and could not leave out two classmates with unusual—way. whom I had remained close and whose Looking back to that visit in homes I had visited in Amman during 1955, I can see how Widad’s lifelong frequent sojourns to the Middle East devotion to the beauty of Arab culture over many decades. Widad Irani Kawar was already in place. She and her and I became friends in Professor Habib fiancé (and future husband) Kamel Kurani’s philosophy of education class took me to see the historic churches in 1955 when Widad was doing a mas- and mosques of Bethlehem and MainGate welcomes contributions ter’s degree in education after graduat- Jerusalem and the surrounding villag- from alumni reflecting on their ing with her BA from the Beirut College es. Widad was already fascinated by AUB experiences as well as stories for Women (now Lebanese American the different clothes the people wore, about their lives after graduation. University—LAU). Our friendship was particularly the women’s dresses that Submissions may be sent to sealed when she invited me to visit her were distinctive to each village. [email protected] family in Bethlehem for Christmas and I The devastating interludes of experienced the warmth of Arab hospi- Arab-Israeli wars were disillusioning, tality and family life. I also learned about especially for someone like Widad who

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had grown up in Quaker schools. At participating in the social and civic life LAU and at AUB, Widad had been of Amman, Widad visited Palestinian active in politics, caught up in the villages and refugee camps, col- idealism of pan-Arabism that was the lecting artifacts and beautiful post-colonial hope of that time. The embroidered dresses. She learned atmosphere on the AUB campus was the history of each item, particularly heady with such leading Palestinian of the dresses and what made them intellectuals as Walid Khalidi defining the distinctive to a particular village or goals of and hopes for region. She spent hours listening an independent Palestinian state. to people’s stories and wrote them After graduating from AUB in down as narratives to complement her 1955, Widad realized that the most collection. effective and natural way for her to Soon the collection was too big contribute to a better understanding for their home, so she and Kamel of the Palestinian people was through built a new house with an entire her love of Arab arts and culture. basement devoted to housing the This was her passion and even while ever growing collection, complete she was raising her four children and with proper temperature controls. Essentially a private museum, the area “I freed includes, along with shelves and racks myself from the pressures of politics for the costumes, a large work room and my childhood in Palestine. I was with a long work table and floor-to- engulfed in the battles between the ceiling book shelves with historic and British, the Arabs, and the Zionists contemporary books. Paintings by where I felt helpless,” Widad told Arab artists decorate the walls of the me. “I discovered a new field where I mini-museum as well as all the rooms could do research where I saw it was of the Kawar’s home. In the center needed.” of the entrance is the ceiling from Widad is at home in her world an old Damascene palace and on which she describes as Palestinian, the walls hang several embroidered Jordanian, Christian, Muslim, and dresses and samples of old jewelry, Arab. “I found my identity in the Arab all expertly lit. traditions and Arab culture Today Widad’s collection is world which I am trying to preserve.” famous; she has had exhibits in such —A.K.A. places as Japan and Iceland and has published catalogues in many lan- More On-line guages. In Jordan, her knowledge and appetite for collecting are well known. Postscript: Widad’s husband, Kamel

Ann and Widad in Palestinian wedding dresses. When I visit her, I see people from Amin Kawar (AUB former student), different walks of life ring her doorbell passed away in June 2010. He stud- to show her artifacts and inquire if she ied at AUB in 1943-44 before going to would like to buy them. Now she is England to become a mining engineer. planning, with her children, to create a They had a wonderful life together, public museum as a long term home raising four children and following their for the collection. respective careers and hobbies.

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SuccessThe Sign of

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Raymond Khoury (BArch close friends from his school days, and he used to give us the wildest ’83) is, as one close friend whether they live two minutes away essay subjects. He had a great sense puts it, an “all-arounder.” or across the world. of humor,” Khoury says. “He’d write He has written three Richard Gazala, a childhood best the letter ‘y’ on the board and say, New York Times (NYT)- friend relates a story that Khoury once ‘Okay, I want 1,000 words’… So I bestselling novels and told him: it’s February 1984, Raymond went into the dictionary, pulled out all his fourth will debut in and his family are preparing to be the words with ‘y,’ and just wrote an October. He is a prolific evacuated from Beirut by US Marines. essay where every other word started He watches his parents throw clothes with ‘y,’ and I still have it here.” television screenwriter. He into suitcases then fills his once started an internet own with photo albums, company and made a personal mementos, and let- living from property ters, documentary evidence development. He is a of a past that otherwise former investment banker threatened to vanish. with an MBA and, while “That kind of blew me training to be an architect, away,” says Gazala. “He still he illustrated a handful had copies [of writings] he of books for Oxford and I had crafted together University Press. from the early ’70s, and he would scan these and send In retrospect, it is easy to trace the them to me.” path that connects all these incarna- Khoury and Gazala tions, to sort it out from the complex met when they were seven network of possibilities spiraling off years old and living in the this autostrade on which writing is same building. Until the Khoury’s cruise control. war broke out, they were Except that the path wasn’t inseparable, reading MAD exactly smooth or direct. Choices at Magazine and Woody Allen, every crossroads demanded sacrifice. writing up their own versions And the “early signs” that predicted a of Nixon’s famed Enemies writing life might have merely flickered List. “He could look at MAD out were it not for the collision of luck Magazine and replicate it so and Khoury’s innate drive. you couldn’t tell the differ- “[Writing] isn’t something I do to ence between [the maga- Khoury’s 2005 debut novel topped the NYT best-seller list for 22 months. earn a living,” he says, speaking via zine] and his copy,” Gazala Skype from his home workspace in recalls. Then, in 1975 both families In the fall of 1978, the family London. “It’s something I do because decided to leave Beirut and their returned to Beirut and Khoury was I feel that’s what I need to do, that’s paths diverged. enrolled at AUB. He decided to spe- what I do well… It’s the work I want When the innocence of child- cialize in architecture, a respectable to achieve in my life.” At the same hood abruptly gave way to the realities career with artistic prospects. “After time, Khoury emphasizes that his of exile, Khoury found himself in Rye, [a few] years in New York, he came vocation is only one important part New York, where he completed high with a different outlook on things and of his life—he is devoted to his wife school. “I had an English professor that really showed,” says Kamal Milki and two daughters, and a handful of who was incredibly creative and mad (BArch ’83). Khoury made the work

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before he made any real money from writing. During this period of his life, Khoury bought apartments, fixed them up and sold them, living off the profits and ferrying his laptop from one improvised workspace to another. “By 1995, I had two scripts with my name on them that I thought were really powerful…and they both kind of took on lives of their own, which triggered my career as a real screenwriter,” he says. One of them, an adaptation of the book The Maid of Buttermere, would serve as a call- Khoury and his family in Mykonos, 2009. ing card in Hollywood. they all sweated over look effort- kind of environment, who hates his His original screenplay for The less, Milki recalls, while his laidback life,” Khoury says, then describes Last Templar would turn him into a personality, loyalty, and generosity of a surreal interview with the British novelist. On New Year’s Day 1996, spirit clasped people to him and kept actor John Cleese that followed the a London book agent who Khoury them by his side through the years. screenplay being short-listed. “So had met called him, having read In 1984, Khoury made a fateful in the meeting, John Cleese says, the script, and gave him the kind of choice when he settled in London. ‘I sense there’s a lot of you in this advice that requires a New York or “Life in England was fun, but I character,’ and I wanted to tell him, Los Angeles state of mind: “Maybe couldn’t see a career in it,” he says. ‘More than you’ll ever know, John.’” the way to do this is let’s create a “There was always this hope that, Khoury’s aversion to the bank- book from this screenplay and have it come on, this thing in Beirut is going ing life had spurred him to pursue published, then we sell the film rights to be finished and we’re going to go another dream: building a career in to the book, and then you adapt this back and live there happily ever after the movie business. “Really it was book and make it a screenplay, which as planned.” just a dormant dream, if you like, you already have.” Instead he and a friend enrolled until that fateful meeting on the It would take seven more years in a one-year intensive business pro- beach,” Khoury says, referring to a before Khoury adapted the screenplay gram at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, chance encounter in the Caribbean into a book (and five additional years France. “December ’85, Beirut was with a banker who invested in before the book became a television still a no-go zone, so it was like, okay, screenplays as a hobby. The two movie). The success of the novel I’m not going to be an architect, so formed a partnership based on one set off the chain reaction of events I’m going to go for the job that pays of Khoury’s ideas; just a few pages that make stamina and good fortune the most.” of notes persuaded the financier that look like fate, turning the page on yet This next period of Khoury’s this architect-turned-banker-turned- another new beginning in a life life would eventually inspire an early property developer should write the that has savored them. screenplay that he submitted to a movie. “‘Trust me,” the guy said. —S.M. British screenwriting contest under ‘You’re a writer. Just sit down and a friend’s name and passport photo. write,’” Khoury recalls. “That screenplay was about a guy He did just that, but it would who worked in an investment bank be years and many more false starts

56 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate Beyond Bliss Street reflections Open Door Open Minds

In 2010, Dean Maroun Kisirwani (BA ’59, MA ’64) is retiring from the University after nine years as dean of Student Affairs—51 years after he graduated from AUB.

MainGate: Why are you now retiring from AUB for a second time? Maroun Kisirwani: For two basic rea- sons. Being away from my family for over 20 years. My wife and children live in Australia, and I have been commut- ing three times every year minimum. This year I had a rather serious opera- tion, and being alone with medical problems is not advisable.

What are your retirement plans? No particular plan. Life could be extremely dull after such a hectic life, so I may be looking for something.

When did you first arrive at AUB and what were your first impressions? Moving to AUB from International College (IC) wasn’t much of a change. At IC we were also exposed to a vari- scholarship lasted through my BA informal. Students liked to join you on ety of cultures and different groups. which I earned in 1959. campus, to talk to you, and certainly, With many fewer class hours at AUB, ask for favors—something unknown in I became deeply involved in student When you completed your PhD in the United States. politics, which occupied much of my the United States and returned to time. teach in PSPA did you find AUB What do you think your students students different from American would most remember about your Did you study public administration students? classes? from the beginning? The relationship between faculty and I think, I hope they’d remember the With little money, I applied directly students in America was completely pleasant atmosphere in the classroom. to USAID’s Point Four Program, and formal, limited mostly to the class- The easy give and take discussions. ultimately chose PSPA. The AID room. At AUB relations were more Good dialogue. And during the war

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years we frequently discussed cur- qualified. Our admissions rent political issues. It wasn’t always policies were compromised easy, but it gave me the opportunity by threats and pressures. In to remind the students that at AUB one year we were forced to you have to talk like civilized individu- admit at least one hundred als, ready to listen to the viewpoints unqualified students. of other students you might strongly disagree with. And it worked. What was the biggest change you noticed while Did you stay at AUB throughout at AUB? the war (1975-90)? The enormous growth of the In 1988-89, one of those years when University and the changes the war took another turn for the worse, brought about by that growth. I went on sabbatical leave with my Professors used to greet family to Australia, and then stayed one another when passing a second year on leave without pay. on campus. Now they don’t When I returned to AUB without my wife even know one another, so and children, that’s when I began my there’s not the same sense international commuting. But basically, I of community. Maybe that’s remained at AUB throughout the war. due to increased size, but maybe also to the big turno- Do you have any particular ver among professors. People memories of those years? no longer come to make a Photo AUB © Photography Department / Mazen Jannoun Of course, like everyone, I remem- career at AUB. They stay a ber the tensions and the threats, the few years and then leave. developed good relationships with all kidnapping of friends and colleagues. Another change: Students used to be groups of students, and met with them A member of our department, Leigh more respectful in the past—respectful individually and in groups. I explained Douglas, was kidnapped and killed, of one another and of their professors. my open door policy, that I wanted to and my neighbor in Faculty 2, Joe Also, the administration and staff listen to all their complaints, to hear Cicippio, was kidnapped and kept have grown enormously. Years ago of any conflict—any misunderstand- captive several years. Add that to the administrative offices consisted of ing among them—before it developed. the constant shelling—we were never only a handful of people; now there Report it to me, I said, and if I don’t without fear of being kidnapped or are many. The Registrar’s Office and settle the problem, then you can go killed. It was a very tense time. Human Resources are examples. and settle it yourselves. We rarely left campus. But I The policy worked. The students remember friends who would come When you became acting dean of could come to my office any time. I told pick me up with armed guards carrying Student Affairs, what did you feel them I would even leave any meeting Kalashnikovs to take me out for dinner. about the move from professor to to attend to an urgent problem. I The biggest impact of the war dean? was also serious about punishing stu- was on the quality of education. Faculty Well, for me the job itself was a chal- dents unwilling to abide by regulations. members left. At one time I was the lenge. At the beginning I taught one Sometimes students misbehaved. only member of PSPA; I had to do all course. I was still thinking I would In one political case a group of the work of running the department be acting dean for only a year or students started beating a student of and writing student recommendations. two. I felt that failure was always a another political group. Four of the And many of the students were not possibility, but I was determined. I students were actually expelled from

58 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate Beyond Bliss Street reflections the University for one year—all from on campus. During those nine years Maroun Kisirwani one very active and influential political AUB students enjoyed quite a calm (AUB BA ’59, MA ’64) party. We resisted all the enormous atmosphere, especially when com- 1959–60: Jafet Library Reference outside pressure from political leaders pared with other campuses in the Librarian and even members of parliament. country. I think this was my biggest 1960–66: Instructor, International That was five or six years ago, achievement—the elimination of seri- College but students somehow remember ous confrontation and tension between 1966–69: Teaching Assistant, Indiana the incident. They know serious con- student groups on campus. University sequences will follow unacceptable 1970–71: Research Fellow, behavior. We also will not tolerate any What about other operations of International Development Research unethical, immoral behavior. the Office of Student Affairs such Center, Indiana University The election period is always the as housing? 1971: PhD, Indiana University tensest time on campus. All political Housing has been working well. 1971–72: Assistant Professor, Mankato State University, Minnesota parties are highly excited and deter- More and more students are living on 1972–2000: AUB Department mined to promote their causes. My campus, especially women students. of Political Studies and Public policy has been to prevent flags, Dorms are operating at 100 percent Administration (PSPA), Assistant, pictures of political leaders, and slo- capacity, and last year AUB bought a Associate Professor gans annoying or humiliating to other building in Ras Beirut, the Mayfair, for 2001–10: AUB Acting, then Dean of groups. The whole campaign period a new women’s dormitory, which now Students until announcement of the results is houses 170 students who seem to always critical, tense. enjoy it. Although they miss being on campus, they are very close, and they who needed guidance—and help them Is it true—something one hears have more freedom. go through the University and realize so often—that student groups are their dreams. The appreciation and controlled by political parties or As you retire, do you have any admiration I received from my students figures outside campus? regrets? is my greatest reward and a source of The word control may not be exact. Leaving Lebanon is my big regret. But I satisfaction and happiness. In brief, I The students are influenced, certainly. really don’t have much choice with my am indebted to AUB for my education And sometimes the campus groups family in Australia. All my life has been and my friendships, and for developing are actually extensions of outside spent in Lebanon—my acquaintances, in me a sense of fairness and caring political groups. my friends, my memories—all are in for others. Control, okay—I don’t like it, Lebanon, and I cannot forget. I will because it could undermine students’ be living physically in Australia, but Do you have something you own concern and interest. They coordi- mentally, I’ll always be back here in would like to say to your former nate with leaders outside. They receive Lebanon. students? instructions, no doubt about it—and Yes, I would tell them two things: keep that’s been the case for a long time. What has been the effect of AUB on supporting AUB. The University is But we would like them to become on your life? important for the future of the country independent thinkers. The impact of AUB on my life can and the region. Second, support hardly be described in words. My your country. Be good citizens. Looking back over your nine years association with this great institution Edited and condensed by as dean, in which areas were you extends over five decades. Interacting Jean-Marie Cook. Read the full most effective? daily with students dominated my life, interview in MainGate on-line. Certainly in reducing the tension and made me care genuinely for the between the different political groups young generation—particularly those More On-line

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Clockwise from top: Enjoying the panorama; hiking club; frozen feet at Tannourine el-Tahta; a monastery near Deir el-Balamand.

As member and then vice-president of the AUB Camping and Hiking Club from 1973-1976, I enjoyed some memorable expeditions throughout Lebanon along with the club’s cadre of national and international members. On weekends and holidays, we would pick up our gear, hop into our mini Volkswagen van provided by the Lebanese Ministry of Youth and Sports, and head off into Lebanon’s beautiful mountains and valleys. Cont. page 65.

60 MainGate Summer 2010 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate Almost 150 AUB alumni and their families and friends braved a fierce sandstorm on March 19 to attend the Chapter’s Family Day

Out at the Arizona Golf Resort in Riyadh. Although the weather made Riyadh it impossible for some folks to attend and required that the festivities be moved indoors at the last minute, everyone had a great time. The chapter held its third event in less than four months on April 22 at the Arizona Golf Resort. Almost 300 alumni and friends were on hand for the chapter’s gala dinner that featured performances by singers Manel Mallat and Raja Rayess and their band. Platinum Sponsor BLOMInvest and Silver Sponsors Al-Jol, Unimac, and Lavida Lounge gave generously, as did the Al-Faisaliah Hotel that provided accommodation for the entertainers.

The sprawling Kuwait Hunting & Equestrian Club was the place to be on March 12 when more than 400 AUB alumni from the Kuwait Chapter and their families and friends—including lots of children— gathered to swap stories, reminisce about their days on campus, (Top) Future alumna in Riyadh? (Bottom) Chapter members with and participate in various games and activities that took place Lebanese Ambassador Marwan Zein (third from left) throughout the day. Kuwait Alumni Chapter Committee Chairman Faisal Ali Al Mutawa (BA ’70) welcomed everyone and thanked the

sponsors who contributed to the success of the event. Kuwait The Kuwait Chapter hosted another successful event on May 28 with their annual gala dinner at the Diamond Ballroom at the Kuwait Sheraton Hotel held under the auspices of HE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. More than 250 AUB alumni were on hand to hear President Dorman speak about the University; everyone appreciated guest of honor HE ’s (BA ’67, MBA ’70) observations about Lebanon and AUB and the way neither have wavered from their commitment to coexistence and openness. Siniora also took Kuwait Chapter annual outdoor gathering

Geneva Toronto Muwaffak Bibi (BBA ’77) President Rana El-Mogharbel (BA ’97, MA ’99) President Mohamad Ali Mahfouz (BS ’98) Vice President Rabih Hijazi (BBA ’00) Vice President Diana Cotran (BBA ’77, MBA ’80) Treasurer/ Wahbi Hammouda (BS ’75) Treasurer Secretary Tareq Hawwa (BS ’89) Secretary Manal Azzi (BS, TD Education ’02, MS ’06) Mirna Rahal (MS ’96) Member at Large Member at Large Carla Abou Mrad Karam (BA ’96) Member at Lara El Zahabi-Bekdash (BS ’01, MD ’05) Large Member at Large WAAAUB New Leadership Kassem Haydar (BS ’89) Member at Large Bahrain North Carolina May Al Otaibi Al-Khalifa (BA ’72) President Ghada Rabah (BS ’89) President WAAAUB 2010 election Dafer Ahmed Ali Al Umran (BA ’73) Vice Tony Louca (BE ’97) Vice President results are on-line: President Ibrahim Alameddine (BS ’99, MS ’02) Treasurer http://www.waaaub.org/ Munira Zu’bi (BBA ’78) Treasurer Raja Khalifah (BS ’62) Secretary pdf/2010_WAAAUB_Election_ Ashraf Obeid (BE ’85) Secretary Wassim Fares (BS ’96, MD ’00) Member at Large Results.pdf Salma Al Basha (BA ’82) Head of Communication Farazdak Haidar (BA ’85) Member at Large Committee Sherene Wehbe (BS ’99, MS ’01) Member at More on the elections in the Faten Halabi (BBA ’93) Head of Events and Large Cultural Committee next issue! Jack Zeidan (BS ’04) Member at Large MainGate Summer 2010 61 Dana Rashdan (BBA ’02) Youth Committee the opportunity to thank the Kuwaiti alumni, the government, and the Kuwaiti people for their support for Lebanon. After dinner, everyone

Kuwait enjoyed performances by comedian Pierre Shamasian and Lebanese singer Asmara and her band.

AUB alumni and friends from the Bahrain Chapter gathered at the Bahrain National Museum on April 10 to hear Minister of Culture Left to right: Yasmine Mahmoud Sadi (BS '79, MS '80), HE Fuad Sinora (BBA '67, MBA '70), and Maha Abdel Karim Abbas (former student) and Information Sheikha May Bint Mohamad Al Khalifa talk about major cultural and educational accomplishments in Bahrain. The president of the Bahrain Alumni Chapter Sheikha May Al Otaiba (BA ’72) took the opportunity to thank the minister for her strong

Bahrain support for AUB and noted that the chapter was proud of the role that it and other NGOs played in implementing important educa- tional projects in Bahrain. Everyone then adjourned for a traditional Bahraini breakfast hosted by Minister Al Khalifa.

More than 40 AUB alumni and friends from the Cyprus Chapter including Minister of Education and Culture Andreas Dimitriou and WAAAUB Board Member Ioannis Violaris (BA ’78) were on hand at the Hilton Park Hotel in Nicosia on April 9 to welcome President Dorman and to hear from him about some of the challenges that higher education institutions such as AUB face in the Middle East. (Top) Left to right: Salma Al Basha (BA ’82), Minister of Education Sheikha May Mohamad Al Khalifa, May Al Otaibi (BA ’72), Zahra In his remarks, Minister Dimitriou emphasized the importance of Aljaibili (MS ’74), Munira Zu’bi (BBA ’78) (Bottom) On May 8, Bahrain developing joint research and educational programs among uni- alumni held a lunch for thirty people featuring guest speaker HE Dr. Mohamed Jaber Al Ansari, advisor to the King for Cultural Affairs, at versities in the region. During the cocktail reception that followed, the Marina Club. A question and answer session and book signing by Dr. Al Ansari followed the lunch. Mallis Panayobis (BA ’60) commented on his experience at AUB: “I graduated from AUB as a well rounded person. I still remember the CS courses that I took…and the positive impact that they had on my approach to life.” Cyprus

Despite the rough economic news from Dubai, nearly 800 AUB alumni and friends from the Dubai Chapter were on hand on April 29 to welcome President Dorman and Trustee (BBA

Left to right: President of the Cyprus Chapter Terpsa Constandinidou ’79, MBA ’80). They also heard from Dorman about his vision for Pavlou (BBA ’83), Minister of Education and Culture Andreas Dimitriou, and President Peter Dorman the University and from Rayan El Kattah (BS ’05, MD ’09) who spoke about the life-changing opportunity the chapter’s support had given him. After dinner and dancing, everyone got down to the

Dubai serious business of raising money for AUB scholarships. Mikati set the bar high with a $100,000 gift to support 10 scholarships; a scholarship auction raised $560,000 and an art auction netted $100,000. Around 30 sponsors also came forward to provide critically needed—and much appreciated—financial support. The evening’s theme was “Your Compassion, Their Future”; the chapter Left to right: Raja Trad (BA ’78), Najat Zaarour (BA ’68), President Peter Dorman, May Mikati (BA ’80), Najib Mikati (BBA ’79, MBA ’80), successfully met its “Dubai for 100” goal by raising enough funds Yasser El Hajj (BEN ’89), Rabih Hamzeh (BEN ’88), Rola Harb (BA ’80) to support 100 student scholarships.

62 MainGate Summer 2010 Abu Dhabi’s gala dinner at the Fairmont Hotel on May 13 was a very special evening—and raised more than $300,000 for the Abu Dhabi Endowment Scholarship Fund. Association President Elias Assaf (BE ’88) welcomed more than 650 alumni and friends, Abu Dhabi including President and Mrs. Dorman and Dean Iman Nuwayhid (BS ’80, MD ’84), and recognized the Abu Dhabi committee and the event’s sponsors. During a generally festive evening featuring a lively performance by Paula and the Chehade Brothers, everyone paused to remember Hasib Sabbagh (BE ’41), co-owner and chairman of CCC, who passed away in January 2010. The associ- May 13 Abu Dhabi gala dinner ation presented his son, Suheil Sabbagh, with a painting by Lena Kelekian (BS ’81). They also honored three long-time members, Sami Khoury (BE ’53), Mounir El Halabi (BE ’55), and William Haddad (BE ’60) and presented the President’s Award to Nawar El Hage (former student) and Georges Jabbour (BS ’94).

AUB alumni in , gathered at the ATHR Gallery Eastern Province on Saturday, February 20 to hear Patrick Bade, senior lecturer/tutor at Christie’s Education in London speak about Impressionism. In addition to being the course organizer and director of Christie’s Opera Course, Bade is also a part-time lecturer at a number of places including the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the National Art Collection Fund. The more than 40 AUB alumni in attendance including Consul General of Lebanon Ghassan Al-Moallim (BA ’91) were fascinated by Bade’s portrayal of this particularly rich artistic period. The lecture was followed by an exhibit of paintings Feb. 11 joint event between the AUB Eastern Province Chapter and LAU by local artists.

Almost 500 AUB and LAU alumni gathered in al on February 11 to celebrate the first of what they hope will be many joint occasions. The Eastern Province Chapter arranged for Sheikh Abdel Aziz al-Turki, a philanthropist, businessman, and a member of LAU’s Board of Trustees to be the featured speaker. North Carolina In his remarks, al-Turki stressed the important role that both insti- tutions play by graduating Arab leaders in business, economics, politics, education, and other fields. Trophies were presented to Rawabi Holding, Nesma Partners, Khalid al Turki and Sons, MAC, Medgulf, Nesma Trading, Kettaneh, Rabia Landscape, MEC, Saudi New Chapter! AUB alumni in North Carolina got together in March Consolidated Engineering, AYTB, CCC, TEKFEN, Faisal Electro for a spring hike. Left to right: Chapter President Ghada Rabah Mechanical, and MEA Airlines in appreciation for their invaluable Daunch (BS ’89); Member at Large Jack Zeidan (BS ’04); Serena Badran-Louca (BE ’97) and VP Tony Louca (BE ’97); Member at assistance—not just in raising more than $100,000 that evening, Large Farazdak (Frank) Haidar (BA ’85); Lola and Aref Abdul-Baki (BS ’56); Secretary Raja Khalifah (BS ’62); Sabrine and Ramsey but with many other initiatives that benefit both universities as Daunch. The chapter also held an Easter egg hunt for lots of little ones on April 11. well. After dinner, everyone sat back and enjoyed a performance by Theater les Diseurs.

MainGate Summer 2010 63 The more than 100 alumni and friends from the Greater Washington Washington DC Chapter who gathered at the Lebanese Taverna restaurant in Bethesda on April 18 got a chance to hear Makram Rabah (BA ’03, MA ’07) speak about some of the stories he uncovered while researching his book A Campus at War: Student

Washington DC Washington Politics at the American University of Beirut 1967-1975. Chapter President Suheil Muasher (BS ’72, MD ’76) kicked off the event by welcoming everyone to the chapter’s spring luncheon that fea- tured remarks by Lebanon’s ambassador to the United States, HE Left to right: Gustave Cordahi (BE ’07), Alham Ghadry (BA ’75), Makram Rabah (BA ’03, MA ’07), Firas Maksad (BA ’02), Suheil Antoine Chedid, and journalist Hussain Abdul-Hussain (BA ’00) Muasher (BS ’72, MD ’76), Ziad Hubayter (BS ’97, MD ’01), Hady Khoury (BS ’94, MS ’99), Tilda Farhat ( BS ’96, MS ’98) who introduced Rabah. During the Speaker’s Corner that followed, various members of the audience including Ramzi Rihani (BBA ’72), Michael Maalouf (BE ’71), Marwan Muasher (former student), Firas Maksad (BA ’02), and Gustave Cordahi (BE ’07) shared their memories and impressions from their times on campus. A book signing followed the event.

The New York Tristate On May 6 the AUB New York Office organized an event highlighting

Chapter held a net- Tristate New York student life at AUB. Entitled “AUB Student Life: Past and Present”, working event at the al Bustan restaurant on the panel discussion featured major speakers from five decades: April 20 and a May 15 brunch (right) at the Elias Khoury (former student), Ramzi Rihani (BBA ’72), Randa restaurant Balade Slim (BS ’81, MA ’84), Hussain Abdul-Hussain (BA ’00), and Makram Rabah (BA ’03, MA ’07). The event was moderated by Trustee HE Dr. Marwan Muasher (former student) with welcoming remarks by HE Dr. , President of the United Nations Security Council and former chairperson of the PSPA department at AUB. The event was co-sponsored by the New York Tristate Alumni Chapter and welcomed alumni and Daniel Bliss Society members.

AUB alumni from the Ohio Valley Chapter and their friends joined

May 6 panel on "AUB Student Life: Past and Present" members of the Dayton Arab American Forum (DAAF) for a Mother’s Day dinner and dancing at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dayton, Ohio on May 8. This was the first event—of hopefully many— that the Ohio Valley Chapter planned with a local Arab American community.

The Ottawa Chapter’s East European dinner on March 13 was a formal meal, birthday party and music extravaganza all in one (spe- cial thanks to the host Czes for the Hungarian birthday song.) Maria

North Texas-Dallas Ghazzaoui (BA ’99) sang songs in Russian and Arabic, to the delight of her fellow diners, a few of whom lent their own expert voices to the melodies; even the chapter’s resident poet Andre Skaff (BE ’67) was inspired to created a few lines of poetry to commemorate the moment. (The meal was wonderful as well!) The North Texas-Dallas Chapter held a spring outing on April 11 at Bicentennial Park in Southlake, Texas

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time flies (Continued from page 60) 1930s Association and the Order Yousef A. Barakat of Engineers in Tripoli and spring because of (BS ’35) In January, 2010 Beirut. Along with the late the seasonal gale three generations of the Dr. Nassib Hammam, he co- force winds. On Barakats from the United founded the Tripoli branch one such occasion States and Lebanon gathered of the Alumni Association we woke up in the to celebrate Yousef Barakat’s in the 1950s. In the 1960s middle of the night to 100th birthday at his home he served as general sec- a horrendous storm and birthplace, Monsef, Jbeil. retary of the AUB Alumni blowing away our Educated at the literary Association. tents. We salvaged forum founded by his maternal At 100, Barakat still what we could and uncle, Hanna Khairallah, then enjoys visits from his fam- sought shelter in the at the American Red Cross ily and friends. He is in Bessos, second from right. nearby monastery, Orphanage in Ghazir, Shweifat good health, reads An-Nahar where we were cared We certainly had our full share High School, and Tripoli Boys’ newspaper and plays tawleh for by the kindly monks. of adventures… School (TBS), Barakat enrolled “trick track” daily. He also Throughout the three years In the 1970s, a favorite at AUB with the help and continues to follow AUB we toured many other areas site of the Camping and Hiking of Lebanon (Zahle, Bkfayya, support of Huntington Bliss, news with interest. Club was a cabin tucked away at Farrayya, Damour, Beit-ed- TBS principal and grandson the bottom of one of Laklouk’s deen, Barouk, Beka’a…), each of Daniel Bliss. 1950s mountain peaks. We would go providing us with more memories After graduating from Raja F. Hajjar there between Christmas and and adventures. Regardless of AUB, Barakat worked as a the New Year fortified with where we went or the affiliation teacher and school princi- provisions, sleeping bags, and of the places we visited, the local pal in Iraq for eight years. blankets, eager to climb to people were always extremely There he met his wife, Mabel the summit where stunning generous and hospitable, Salloum, also a school prin- panoramic views of Mount which particularly impressed cipal. He then worked on Sannin and beyond greeted and pleased our international construction projects with us. Another favorite was the members. The AUB camping hike through undulating hills such companies as CAT, Iraq and hiking club provided a great to Qartaba, a beautiful village Petroleum Company, and opportunity for its members to several miles away. Each day the team that built the AUB (BA ’50, MA ’52) has for- interact and get to know each after these outings, we would Medical Center. warded a photo of AUB’s other’s countries and traditions. return to the cabin ready for Barakat was an active 1911 staff football team. He It was the ultimate mixture of the ritual of hearty dinners, member of the AUB Alumni believes the person in the education, fun, and adventure. chat and games, including chess, where beating our club’s —Hagop Bessos advisor, Professor Peter Heymen (BS ’73, MS ’76) PhD, FRCPath (Mathematics Department), Head of Immunohaematology remained an unfulfilled ambition. Research and Development Section Another favorite camp Scottish National Blood Transfusion site was Deir-el-Balamand, Service, Edinburgh south of Tripoli, overlooking a [bessos(at)blueyonder.co.uk] beautiful strip of coastline on the Mediterranean Sea. However, More On-line this site was best avoided in the Yousef on his 100th birthday surrounded by: (left to right) Bassam (BS ’61, MD ’65), Moufid (BBA ’63), Mona (MS, University of Illinois), and Amin (BS ’63, MD ’67)

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center is his late uncle Tawfik At the age of 72, cal science at the University of Jureidini. If anyone can iden- Mugharbil still runs the labora- Kuwait; senior researcher and tify other team members, tory at Dar al Ajazi al Islamia senior advisor at the Palestine please contact Hajjar at [raja. Hospital. You can find him Research Centre, Beirut, hajjar(at)idm.net.lb] there from 10 am until 12 Lebanon; instructor at the noon daily except Sunday. University of Calgary, Canada; 1960s He enjoys his three grandchil- head of the Department Hikmat G. Nasr dren, long walks with his wife of Studies at the Palestine (BA ’61, MS ’65) is a retired of 40 years, Betsy Martin Research Centre, Beirut, World Bank senior agricultur- an instructor at AUB, helped (BS ’75), and visits from old Lebanon; researcher at the ist. He received his PhD from to build the medical school friends—most recently from Palestine Research Centre, the University of Wisconsin in Aleppo, Syria as a WHO former classmates Dr. Amal Beirut, Lebanon; and visiting in 1970. He taught briefly expert, returned to Beirut to Shammah (BS ’64, MD ’68), professor at the University early in his career at AUB’s work at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Najwa Khoury (BBP- of Jordan and American Faculty of Agricultural and and then moved to Karantina Brief Business Program ’62), University in Washington, DC. Food Sciences, leaving in to head the government and Zubeida Barmania He is the author of 19 1976 as assistant professor. lab there. At the start of (MA ’67). The Mugharbils books and more than 46 Nasr has been a very active the , he have two children, Raghda refereed academic studies AUB alumnus for the past spent three days in Karantina Al Zein (MA ’96) and Martin dealing with different aspects 20 years, holding leadership trapped on the bus from Ain Mugharbil, who graduated of comparative government, positions such as the presi- el Roumaine. He moved to from LAU in 1999. international politics, Palestine dent of the Washington, DC the United States to work at issues, the Zionist movement, Looking for old friends Chapter; president of AANA; the State University of New and classmates! and Arab-Israeli politics. For member of AUB’s task force York at Stony Brook, but he the past 35 years, he has for the establishment of returned to Lebanon in 1977 been a regular weekly con- WAAAUB; and a member of to head the Berbir Medical As’ad Abdul Rahman tributor to a number of Arab the WAAAUB council. Nasr is Center and to teach at the (BA ’65, MA ’67) received newspapers. Abdul Rahman married to Julia Saad Nasr Lebanese University, Beirut his doctorate in political sci- has four children, including a (BBA ’64); they have two Arab University, and Saint ence from the University of son Basil Abdul Rahman daughters and four grandchil- Joseph University. In addi- Calgary, Alberta, Canada in who studied computer sci- dren. Nasr continues to con- tion, he established the labo- 1973. He is a noted politi- ence at AUB (BS ’05). sult in the field of economic ratories of the Mohammed cian, writer, and academic development and to pursue Khaled Social Foundation, who has held and continues Bushra Jabre his hobbies of travel and play- the Child and Mother Welfare to hold distinguished, high- (BA ’65) is the senior com- ing bridge with his beloved Society, Dar Al Ajazi al Islamia level positions in Palestinian munication advisor of the wife. [hgnasr(at)gmail.com] Hospital, and Ain Wa Zein and Arab leadership. Abdul Johns Hopkins Center for Hospital. In 1997 Mugharbil Rahman is chairman of the Communication Programs, Usama Mugharbil was appointed secretary gen- board of trustees and director working mainly to assist (BS ’63, MS ’65) earned eral of Lebanese Association general of The Encyclopedia countries in the Near East in his master’s in biochemistry for the Advancement of Palestina and has served as developing strategic health and his PhD at Vanderbilt Science (LAAS) and asked director general of the Abdul communications programs, University in Nashville, to sponsor the Second LAAS Hamid Shoman Scientific and women and youth Tennessee where he devel- International Conference on and Cultural Foundation. empowerment interventions. oped a taste for country Computer Simulation, which Abdul Rahman has Jabre directs an annual music. He started out as was held at FEA. been a full professor in politi- regional training workshop

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on development communi- guage training to current and she would like to contact cation for the Arab region prospective employees. After her fellow chemistry class- in collaboration with AUB’s AUB, Qaisi earned two mas- mates from 1977. [bayan. Faculty of Health Sciences. ter’s degrees: one in education tabbara(at)gmail.com] She lives in Vienna, Virginia. from Florida State University Looking for old friends [bushra(at)aol.com] (1985) and one in human and classmates! resource development (HRD) 1970s from Texas A&M University Souheil Hindi (2010). Qaisi lives with his 1980s (BA ’70) writes: “1967-72: in Saudi Arabia, Damascus, family of four in Saudi Arabia. Zaki Dorkham the golden days of AUB. The Beirut, and Cairo. He writes Baby Boomer Generation that his trips to the United Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut leading the world with new States during the 1990s attitudes, philosophy, and “added a lot to the inner side way of life. The Lebanese of my mind full of architectural League, the Palestinian perception and new artistic revolution, Che-Guevara, visions.” Barudi expects to Bretton Woods—an unprec- launch his website very soon. edented upheaval against [anchatarch(at)yahoo.com] all that was conventional. All that was coupled with Nassif Hitti (BS ’80, MD ’85) lives in the best education, the (BA ’75, MA ’77) is ambas- Bunbury, West Australia, best professors AUB has sador to France for the Arab (BS ’76, MD ’80) has served as where MainGate and emails ever had. A mix that cre- League and permanent rep- chairman of the Department of from WAAAUB are his only ated the present leaders of resentative to UNESCO. He Neurology at the University of links to AUB life. Dorkham the Middle East. Proud to lives in Paris. [mailto:hitti(at) Medicine and Dentistry of New works as a GP surgeon belong to this generation.” wanadoo.fr] Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson in West Australia. His wife [so.hindi(at)hotmail.com] Medical School since 2003. He Samar Awn (MPH ’83) is a Amal Muraywed is married to Dr. Mary Maral professor of community health Khalil Klink (BA ’75) has been a senior Mouradian (BS ’78, MD at Curtin University in Perth, (BE ’70) has worked at the lecturer teaching ceramics ’82). They have one daugh- West Australia, as well as the Council for Development at AUB’s Fine Arts and Art ter, Marla, who is a fresh- director of the WA Centre for and Reconstruction in Beirut History Department since man at Princeton University. Cancer and Palliative Care since 1984. He is currently 2000. She encourages the [jalbutsu(at)umdnj.edu] Research. The couple has a senior civil engineer in the AUB community to share in two children: a son in his sixth Projects Division. Klink lives the growing number of artistic Bayan Tabbara and final year of a double in Beirut and has three adult events and activities on cam- (BS ’77, MA ’80) lives in degree in law and commerce children, all AUB graduates. pus. [am14(at)aub.edu.lb] Beirut with her family. She at the University of Western He is looking forward to this has worked for the UN for the Australia, and a daughter, who summer’s class reunion. Ghaleb Qaisi past 30 years, currently as a is a third-year medical student [klink48(at)hotmail.com] (BA ’75) works in the Dhahran social affairs officer. Tabbara at the same university. Industrial Training Division of has three children who grad- Mohamad M. Barudi Saudi Aramco as the principal uated from AUB: two engi- Kassem Barada (BArch ’75) has practiced as of the English Language Unit neers and one English litera- (BS ’81, MD ’85) writes, “I an architect and contractor where he provides English lan- ture major. She writes that have been doing gastroen-

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terology here at AUBMC for Rimane Bitar Jabr College for Advanced 1990s 18 years (as many of you (BS ’85) lives in Beirut with Education in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Issam F. Ardakani know) and I am enjoying it. her husband Mohamad [mhourani(at)hotmail.com] My oldest son is about to Mounir Jabr (BBA ’75) and leave AUB and go to the their sons Nazih and Samer. Hakikur Rahman United States for further [jabr(at)cyberia.net.lb] (MEN ’86) writes: “Being training (and I am not look- a graduate of AUB has ing forward to that!)... Hope Najla Khatir Fakih instilled me with confidence to see you all this summer. (BBA ’85, MS ’87) works for and pride at having had the [kb02(at)aub.edu.lb] the Mutual Judges Fund in benefit of excellence in edu- the Ministry of Justice. She cation. I fondly remember Vicken Khanamirian is married to Dr. Riad Fakih; the glorious years of my (BA ’90) is the manager of (BS ’82, MS ’85) lives in they have three children. studies at AUB. The warm, an insurance brokerage firm Toronto, Canada with his [caissejuge(at)hotmail.com] heartfelt relationships with in Beirut. [issam.viagrp(at) wife of 20 years, his daugh- friends, classmates, col- gmail.com] ter, age19, and his son, age Salam Mahamoud leagues, teachers, and staff 17. He is currently general Hammoud made my AUB education Soha Soueid manager for the Armenian (BS ’85, MS ’88) graduated perhaps the best years of (BS ’90) lives in Beirut and Youth Centre of Toronto, from FHS with a master’s in my life. More than anything, has worked at the Central a complex that includes a public health. He has worked I miss the beautiful campus. Bank of Lebanon since 500-seat theatre, a univer- in Curacao, Netherlands I consider any opportunity 1990. She is married to sity-size gymnasium, and Antilles as a quality con- to become engaged in aca- Imad Mrad (BE ’93); they a two-story building des- troller at Medical Industries demic and research projects have two children: Hadi, age ignated to become a high of Curacao, and has held as a tribute to the enduring five, and Marya, age three. school. Khanamirian is also several positions in the quality and spirit of AUB’s [SSoueid(at)bdl.gov.lb] a senior consultant at HH Municipality of Dubai, as a excellence. Towards this Inspections Ltd. an environ- health inspector, a wastage end, I would welcome hear- Ghiwa El Najjar mental inspection company. area inspection officer, and ing from my friends among [mrvicken(at)gmail.com] currently as a senior sup- AUB alumni.” [email(at) port officer in the customer hakik.org] Fouad Al Barri and support section of waste Looking for old friends management. Hammoud and classmates! is interested in preserving the environment, educating the public to appreciate the Khalil Nassar importance of environmental (BS ’88, BS ’90, MS ’92) sustainability, and promot- received a BS in biology (BS ’91, MS ’95) As soon as ing occupational safety and and a BS and an MS in she completed her degree in health. His wife works in the agricultural and food sci- microbiology, El Najjar started field of children’s education. ences. He is manager of the working as a quality analyst (BS ’85, MD ’90) is an [smhammoud(at)dm.gov.ae] Animal Health Department in the Quality Management otolaryngologist/ear, nose, of ARD (Unifert). Nassar is Department of King Faisal and throat specialist practic- Rida Blaik Hourani married and living in Awkar, Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, ing in a private clinic in Beirut. (BA ’85, MA ’88) is an assist- Lebanon. [khalil.nassar(at) Saudi Arabia. She met her [fuadent(at)hotmail.com] ant professor at Emirates gmail.com] husband, Ghassan Tawile, in

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Riyadh; they have a baby girl. president of the Middle East Rewa Zeinati [GEl-Najjar(at)Kfshrc.edu.sa] Federation of Organizations of (BA ’99) is an aspiring poet Medical Physics (MEFOMP). whose work has been pub- Ahmad Dimassi [duhaini(at)yahoo.com] lished in Cedar Times (http:// (BE ’95) is married to www.cedartimes.com/). Hania Sabbidin (BE ’02, Firas El Samad Zeinati grew up in Lebanon ME ’06). He works as a and Abu-Dhabi. She software solutions sales earned her MFA in creative manager at Computer she married an English writing, from the University Business Machines in Beirut. accountant. [anahobik(at) of Missouri, Saint Louis. [a.dimassi(at)cbm.com.lb] hotmail.com] Zeinati is married to Nabil Choueiri (BS ’98, MD ’02). Ibrahim Duhaini Peter Edde (BS ’96, MD ’00) After com- 2000s pleting a residency in fam- Najib Makarem (BA ’95) holds an undergrad- ily medicine at AUB, Edde uate degree in political sci- moved to the United States ence, a law degree from the and finished his residency Lebanese University, and a in 2004 with a degree from PhD in economic law from Temple University. He has the University of Montpellier, been in private practice and France. He was recently elect- has done some teaching as (BS ’95, TD ’96) has been ed the managing partner of a family medicine precep- chief physicist and radiation Zulficar and Partners, a law tor. Edde resides in Bala safety officer since 2004 firm of more than 40 lawyers Cynwyd, Pennsylvania with (BBA ’00) After graduation, at Rafik Hariri University based in Cairo, Egypt. [FRS(at) his wife and son. He is treas- Makarem began work as a Hospital (RHUH). In 2000, zulficarpartners.com] urer of AUB’s Philadelphia, business consultant and he earned a master’s in Delaware Valley Alumni married Rasha El Jurdi medical physics from Wayne Rayana Hobballah Chapter. (BA ’02). They live in Abu State University in Detroit, (BE ’95) is married to Mazen Dhabi with their two children. Michigan. He then worked at Hamdan (BBA ’92); they Mayssa Zayat Makarem was part of the AUB several hospitals in Michigan have two beautiful girls, Noura (BS ’96, MD ’00) “I am cur- Alumni Committee in Abu and as a consultant train- and Karma. Hobballah cur- rently a pediatric gastroenter- Dhabi from 2005 to 2009. ing medical physicists on rently works at the Banque ologist in Wichita, Kansas mar- He started his career with a prostate seed implant pro- du Liban in the Corporate ried to Elie Khalife. I have two major accounting firm and is cedures. He also served as Governance Unit in Hamra, children, ages six and three. currently a senior manager secretary general of the Great Beirut. [rayahob(at)gmail.com] I love living in Wichita where with PricewaterhouseCoopers Lakes, Michigan Chapter of my brother Estephan Zayat in the Middle East where he the American Association Nada Loutfy Baker (BS ’87, MD ’91) and his family primarily provides govern- of Physicists in Medicine. In (former student 1992-95) live, and where the Lebanese ment agencies with advisory 2006, Duhaini helped found moved to Leicestershire, community is huge. Many services ranging from strate- the Lebanese Association of England in 2009 where she AUB MDs are actually living gic planning and restructur- Medical Physics (LAMP). He teaches science at Reed and practicing here. You are ing, to change management was also the founding mem- Education, a secondary all welcome to come and visit!” and transformation. [najib. ber and currently serves as school. In November 2009, [mayssazayat(at)hotmail.com] makarem(at)ae.pwc.com]

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Sarah Bou Diab manager handling a broad RECENTLY His pioneering work with portfolio of multinational and HONORED “chemoprevention” has led regional clients. He left Ogilvy Philip A. Salem to some of today’s research to pursue a more challenging that focuses on isolating and career at Hill and Knowlton, treating such precancerous the top communications and infections. PR consultancy in the Middle East where he is now an Samir Rizk Akruk account director managing the Jeddah office’s opera- tions. [osmatawar(at)gmail. (BBA ’02, MA ’05) is married com] to Issam Nader (BS ’03). They live in Ain Anoub. She Christelle G. Elia is currently a senior inter- (BS ’61, MD ’65) has been nal auditor at AUB. She honored with an endowed loves to travel and has vis- chair in cancer research at ited UAE and Jordan. She St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and her husband spent their in Houston, Texas in rec- honeymoon in Bulgaria and ognition of his extraordi- (BS ’65, MS ’67) The National New Year’s in Sri Lanka (her nary contributions to can- Research Corporation, a pres- favorite place so far). She cer medicine. Salem joined tigious US healthcare market writes that she loves AUB, St. Luke’s in 1991 and is guide, has recognized Akruk which is associated with dif- currently the director of its as a Patients’ Choice doctor ferent stages of her life which (BS ’05) After completing Cancer Research Program. for the second year in a row. are all “deeply cherished and an internship at St. Georges From 1971-1985, he direct- This honor was accorded to very precious to me...” Hospital in Achrafieh, Elia ed AUB’s cancer research less than six percent of the moved to and worked and treatment programs. 720,000 active US physicians Rami Rishmani as a head dietician and Salem has received prestig- in 2009. Akruk taught at Beirut (BA ’03, MPH ’05) is project kitchen production manag- ious honors from the presi- College for Women, currently manager for business devel- er in a Lebanese franchise dents of Lebanon and Italy Lebanese American University, opment and franchise man- called Nutrislim, a weight- and the US Senate, giving 1967-71. He went on to com- ager for GlobeMed/MedNet. loss company. Moving back him an international reputa- plete his PhD and post doc- [rishmani-r(at)hotmail.com] to Lebanon in 2008, Elia tion. In the early 1970s, toral training at the University worked as an interviewer he was among the first of Georgia and his MD in Osmat Awar and field research in the researchers to demonstrate 1983 from the Universidad (BBA ’05) has worked in Epidemiology and Population that chronic repeated infec- Autonoma De Ciudad Juarez, communications and pub- Health Department (EPHD) of tions in the gastrointestinal Mexico. For the past 24 lic relations in Saudi Arabia AUB. She now has her own tract may cause inflammation years, Akruk has had a gen- since graduating from AUB. diet clinic in Mtayleb where that could eventually lead to eral internal medicine prac- He started off as a junior she conducts International cancer. He discovered that tice in Yardley and Langhorne, account executive at MEMAC Sports Science Association treating these infections with Pennsylvania, where he has Ogilvy Public Relations and (ISSA) certified fitness cours- antibiotics at an early stage been affiliated with Saint Mary worked his way up the ladder es and personal training. could prevent and reverse Medical Center. Akruk is mar- to become a senior account [christelle(at)hw-clinic.com] the development of cancer. ried to Vera Bahou, an interior

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designer who runs her own the Jordanian prime minis- Association for a three-year Award for Clinical Excellence, business, and they have two ter, head of the Economic term starting July 2010. A and many other awards. adult children, Ramsey and Research Department at businessman and econo- He has been awarded Viola. An executive committee the Central Bank of Jordan, mist, Chammas is the first approximately $1 million member of the new WAAAUB and CEO of Jordan’s Stock non-American alumnus to in grants and is repeated- Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Exchange. Internationally, hold this position since the ly listed as Best Pediatric Chapter, Akruk reports that Toukan represented Jordan founding of MIT in 1861. Ophthalmologist in America’s he is proud of the work ethic, at the United Nations in Chammas is pictured with Top Doctors, Washingtonian, intellectual curiosity, and rigor New York (Economic and Dr. Susan Hockfield, presi- Consumer’s Checkbook, that AUB instilled in him. Financial Committee) 1973- dent of MIT, as he receives America’s Registry of [samakruk(at)hotmail.com] 78, and as ambassador of the George Morgan Award Outstanding Professionals, the Hashemite Kingdom of for excellence in educational and the National Registry of Umayya Toukan Jordan to the Netherlands, counseling. Who’s Who. Belgium, Luxembourg, and After graduating from the European Union from Mohamad S. Jaafar AUB, Jafaar pursued clini- 1996-2000. He has been (BS ’74, MD ’78) received cal fellowships in pediatric governor of the Central this year’s Prevention ophthalmology and strabis- Bank of Jordan since 2001. of Blindness Society of mus at Boston Children’s Among other awards he has Metropolitan Washington’s Hospital, Harvard Medical received are: the Jordanian Professional Service School, and Texas Children’s Grand Order of Istiklal Award. Jaafar is chair- Hospital, Baylor College (Independence), 1995; the man of the Department of of Medicine. In 1983, he Jordanian Grand Order of Ophthalmology at Children’s established the Pediatric Al-Kawkab, 2001; and the National Medical Center. Ophthalmology and (BBA ’67, MBA ’70), gov- Belgian Grand Cross, Order Jaafar has received Strabismus Service at the ernor and chairman of the of the Crown, 2001. Toukan’s the Achievement Award of King Khaled Eye Specialist board of the Central Bank of wife, Lina Mufti, holds a PhD the American Academy of Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Jordan, received the “2009 in international law. Ophthalmology, the Honor Arabia. Jaafar moved to Central Bank Governor of the Award of the American Washington, DC in 1986. He Year” award for the Middle Nicolas Chammas Association for Pediatric is married to Siwar Jaafar East region from The Banker, Ophthalmology and (BS ’77), and they have two a magazine of the Financial Strabismus, the Sauber daughters. Times of London. In November 2009 he also received an award from the Union of Arab Banks for his many monetary and diplomatic achievements. Under Toukan’s able leader- ship, Jordan has maintained its very conservative banking sector for many years which served it well during the global (BE ’85) has been elected financial crisis of 2008. vice-president of the Alumni at the Night of Vision Gala. Left to right: Drs. Salim Jarawan (BS ’68, MS Toukan has served Massachusetts Institute of ’70) Mohamad Jaafar (BS ’74, MD ’78), Munir Nasr (BS ’61, MD ’65,) Maurice Atiyeh (BS ’56, MD ’60), Amin Barakat (BS ’63, MD ’67), Suheil Muasher (BS ’72, as economic advisor to Technology Alumni MD ’76), and Dertad Manguikian, (BS ’62, MD ’66).

www.aub.edu.lb/maingate | MainGate Summer 2010 71 FRIENDS AND ALUMNI Scholarship Fund. A devoted COLLEAGUES family man, Mokhtari is sur- Rev. John (Jock) Pairman vived by his wife of 43 years, Brown (AUB faculty 1958- Suzy Koumashian, whom he 65) passed away in Berkeley, met at AUB, his twin children California on April 4. Born Andre and Nahid, and three in 1923 and educated at grandchildren. Dartmouth, Harvard (Society of Fellows), General Theo- The parents of Karim Habr logical Seminary, and Union (BA ’10) have established an Theological Seminary, Brown endowed scholarship fund to was a classical and biblical memorialize their son, a politi- scholar specializing in the cal studies and public admin- Old Testament and ancient to establish medical training istration (PSPA) senior who Greek etymology. At AUB, programs for medical person- was killed in a car accident on he was professor of classics nel. In the mid-1970s, Farah January 24. Proceeds from and general education. He and his wife moved to the Shahrokh Mokhtari (BE ’66) the Karim Habr Endowed also taught at the Church United States. Civic-minded passed away March 20 at the Scholarship Fund will provide Divinity School of the Pacific to the end, he donated his age of 66. After graduating financial assistance to PSPA in Berkeley, California. Brown body to the Emory School of from high school in Tehran students in good academic was a peace and environ- Medicine. With a big, satis- he was awarded a USAID standing. The family invites mental activist who protest- fied smile, Farah said, “I want five-year merit scholarship contributions to “help young ed nuclear armament and the new medical students to to study at AUB. In 1970, people invest in the future of advocated for environmen- benefit from my body during Mokhtari earned a doctor- our country and the region.” tal awareness. He authored their anatomy classes in the ate in structural engineering numerous scholarly works same way I benefited when from the University of Mis- including the American Uni- I was a medical student.” In souri. He then moved back versity of Beirut centennial 2007, Farah established the to Tehran with his family and publication, The Lebanon Dr. Gebran and Mrs. Salma joined the Tehran Polytechnic and Phoenicia (1969), and Farah Endowed Scholarship Institute and subsequently The Barrington Atlas of the for Lebanese nursing stu- served as chairman of the Greek and Roman World. dents at AUB’s Civil Engineering Depart- Brown is survived by his School of Nursing. He is sur- ment. He also co-founded a wife Emily who taught at the vived by his daughters Rima successful engineering con- American Community School Farah, Samia Farah Hazim sulting firm in Iran. in Beirut, four children, and (BS ’80), and Asma Farah In 1979, Mokhtari five grandchildren. Ghannam (BSN ’82) who moved with his family to wish to thank the entire AUB southern California where he Gebran Mansour Farah, MD community for their condo- taught graduate level struc- was born in Damascus, Syria lences and prayers. tural engineering courses and and passed away March 4 in served as president of the Atlanta, Georgia at the age On May 22, AUB held a International Division of the of 92. Farah was educated memorial for Helen Khal a National Education Corpo- at St. Joseph University in celebrated painter, author, ration. After his retirement Beirut. He worked with the art critic, and AUB painting in 2001, he established two World Health Organization instructor, 1967–76. Khal AUB scholarship funds. As (WHO) for 25 years in north was an active member of the a tribute, his friends and fam- and east Africa, assisting local AUB community throughout ily have established the Dr. government health ministries her life. Shahrokh Mokhtari Memorial

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