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What Lebanon Wants Maingateamerican University of Beirut Quarterly Magazine Spring 2012 Vol. X, No. 3 X, No. Spring 2012 Vol. what lebanon wants MainGateAmerican University of Beirut Quarterly Magazine Departments: Letters 2 President’s view Taking AUB’s message on a global tour Inside the Gate Views from Campus Clown doctors bring more than laughs to CCCL’s young patients; air pollution study: “we need at least 160 two- 8 year-old trees to offset the carbon footprint of one passenger car” in Beirut; international design star Reza Abedini takes a local approach to teaching graphic design; two centers open at AUBMC: the Special Kids Clinic and the Mamdouha El Sayed Bobst Breast Unit; the students behind the “Lebanon would be better if…” project Reviews American Sheikhs: Two Families, Four Generations, and the Story of America’s Influence in the Middle East by Brian VanDeMark; In the Shadow of Arabic: The Centrality of Language to Arabic Culture, edited by Bilal Orfali; Public Health in the Arab World, coedited by Samer Jabbour, Rita Giacaman, Marwan Khawaja, and Iman Nuwayhid Beyond Bliss Street Legends and Legacies AUB Calling Harvey Porter (1844-1923) 49 Alumni Profile Fragments of Life Helga Seeden (BA ’63, MA ’67). A dreamy interest in past civilizations and 50 an intense desire to wash potsherds brought Professor of Archaeology Helga Seeden (BA ’63, MA ’67) to Lebanon in 1960. She went on to codirect the post-war excavation of downtown Beirut, become editor of Berytus Archaeological Studies, and discover the true meaning of millions of potsherds. Reflections Culture Club English Professor Mary Clark Hallab savors the AUB experience of the 1960s and 1970s 52 Alumni Happenings WAAAUB Third Annual Convention; events in Baltimore, Montreal, Paris, Mount Lebanon, Jordan, and beyond 55 Class Notes Hala Labaki (BA ’97), Carole Makhoul Hani (BS ’96), and Daniel Neuwirth (BA ’97) create a foodie 58 revolution on shahiya.com; a missed date led to lifetime love for Alaa Halawi (BS ’02) and Farah Nowaihed Sanjad (BS ’04); Gabriel Rebeiz (BEN ’82) appointed to the Wireless Communications Industry Endowed Chair at the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering In Memoriam 66 MainGate is published quarterly in Production American University of Beirut Cover Beirut by the American University Office of Communications Artwork by the Office of of Beirut for distribution to alumni, Office of Communications Communications former faculty, friends, and Randa Zaiter PO Box 11–0236 supporters worldwide. Riad El Solh 1107 2020 Photography Beirut, Lebanon AUB Jafet Library Archives Tel: 961-1-353228 Editor Fax: 961-1-363234 Ada H. Porter Ahmad El Itani Hasan Nisr Director of Communications New York Office Nishan Simonian 3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza 8th Floor Responsible Director New York, NY 10017–2303 Nabil Dajani Contributing Writers Maureen Ali Tel: 212-583-7600 Andrew Bossone Fax: 212-583-7651 Art Direction and Design Jean-Marie Cook Office of Communications Susanne Lane Najib Attieh Sierra Millman Zeina Tawil Barbara Rosica [email protected] Printing Tomoko Furukawa Safa Jafari Safa www.aub.edu.lb Lane Press What Lebanon Wants MainGate Spring 2012 RESPONSIBILITY IMPROVED QUALITY OF L I F L E A T N E A M N 26 B O What Lebanon Wants R R I I Lebanon asks, AUB answers. A very broad G V view of how AUB is working to make the H N country a healthier, happier, safer place T E E to live. R F U T U S R N E O I F T 46 O P Early Warning Signals R O We know that toxic chemicals pose a O E health risk in the workplace. But what U R R A if the worker is just ten years old? FHS Y C Dean Iman Nuwayhid examines the O H impact of potentially dangerous working U T environments on children in Tripoli. T L H A E R R E E T T T T E E B B D O O F S S U U O I T I R R T T U N N , E E F F A A H S President's view President Dorman: On the Road to AUB's Future University presidents no longer have the luxury of working within campus walls. They are now called on to be visionaries who carry their message to the outside world. San Francisco, Washington, DC, Costa Rica, and Paris were just a few of President Dorman’s road stops in March. We asked him about some of the “takeaways” from these visits. Why do you make an annual trip to Washington, DC? I go every year around March, which is a good time for us to go and “wave the flag” because this is when House com- mittees work on the federal budget. Bill Hoffman, our Washington representa- month as part of a delegation with are essential to the fostering of open tive, lines up visits with congressmen the presidents of AUC and LAU, was and transparent societies. on both sides of the aisle. I focus on educating people about the existence those who have jurisdiction over areas of American institutions overseas and In San Francisco you met with such as appropriations and foreign rela- particularly in the Arab world. Many a group of alumni and friends tions. I also meet with representatives congressmen, especially those recently from the Silicon Valley area. As of USAID and the State Department, elected, have no idea about us. Lebanon’s largest private employer, among others, to reiterate our support does AUB have a particular for programs that provide essential fund- What message did you bring to responsibility to introduce new or ing for scholarships and other projects. those in the US capital? innovative technologies? These visits also afford an The message is that we can be a source The idea was to have an informal opportunity to connect with the many of information for policymakers, adding roundtable with these people to brain- friends of AUB in Washington. This another perspective to their thinking storm about what AUB might do in the year [Lebanon’s ambassador to the about how the US government could areas of technology and innovation. United States] Ambassador Antoine and should react to what is going on Leading the lively discussion was our Chedid gave a dinner in my honor at his here. We’re not outside observers by own VP for Information Technology residence that was absolutely delightful. any means and we have a long history Rita Khayat-Toubia, who came to AUB in this region. Now we’re standing up from the southern Bay area. Is the Arab Spring changing how in front of them saying, “We’re here, It is true that we are Lebanon’s Washington perceives AUB’s role we have been here for a long time, and largest private employer, and I do in the Middle East? we are indelibly part of the local scene.” believe that we have a responsibility Perceptions are definitely changing; the I would like Washington legislators to pursue innovative technologies. In Arab world remains a hot-button issue to better understand how American many ways, AUB is looked at as a in Washington. One of the goals, initially educational institutions abroad project, beacon of “fill in the blank”: technology, on my visit alone and then later in the both explicitly and implicitly, values that education, medicine. .you name it. So, 2 MainGate Spring 2012 | www.aub.edu.lb/maingate President's view we not only have a responsibility, but learned a great deal about how plants paintings coming out of this region we actually have a built-in tendency to survive, grow, and recycle as well as during the late 19th and early 20th pursue these things and we are looking how fragile the rain forest is. We also centuries were actually based, both in into multiple possibilities. encountered some remarkable wildlife, theme and in content, on Orientalist including howler monkeys and coatis. perceptions of the Middle East, such Where could we have the greatest as renderings of odalisques and harem impact? Could AUB be the future Are there any lessons AUB can women. But Saleeby’s take is com- site of a technology park for learn from EARTH? Did you pletely different: it’s impressionistic and Lebanon and the region? discuss future partnerships? very much in the mold of western The idea of a technology park did EARTH is very much devoted to eco- traditions. He experimented with major come up during the roundtable. There friendly agriculture, reusable materials, trends in western art and brought that was definitely interest there and also in recycling, making a minimal impact perspective back to Lebanon. This is Lebanon, among a number of business on the environment, and having a why Saleeby’s work and that of his leaders, to have AUB take the lead zero-carbon footprint; but more than students are so important in terms of in that regard. This idea is not new that, inculcating essential values of contributing to the development of the and it is promising, but it’s a complex cooperation and respect among their art scene we presently see happening undertaking: it needs major funding, students. They also have a working around us. it needs space—likely off-campus—in banana plantation at the university, and which people could get together and those values are broadcast to all of the AUB has plans to create an art generate collaborative projects, and employees at EARTH. So, it is very museum to house his art and that it requires willing donors to put up much an engaged community; they are of other great artists.
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