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A More Abundant Life The Unseen Ravages of War Women’s Work Discover a treasure of handwritten Warfare’s devastating effects For Sheikha Hissah Al Sabah (BA ’74), student magazines from 1899-1933 on health care empowering women is serious business

American University of Beirut Magazine. Fall 2014, Vol XIII, No.1 Larger than life A future eco-entrepreneur puts worms to work Aiducation. Besher Al-Makhlouf grew up in Damascus. A gifted Although he plans to return to the region, Besher is hoping musician, he plays the clarinet and was a member of Syria’s to pursue a doctoral degree in the United States after he national youth orchestra. He always knew he wanted to graduates. “I’ve enjoyed every moment of my time at AUB, pursue a degree in a field that would enable him to have a and will miss everything about it,” he says. “At AUB, you positive impact on the region. Because he was chosen to meet people from different backgrounds, different receive an Asfari Scholarship, Besher was able to earn that ideologies, and different aspirations and so you see things degree at AUB. An economics major, Besher participated in from many points of view.” several student clubs, and was a research assistant in the Civilization Sequence Program.

To speak to someone about supporting financial aid, contact us at [email protected] or make an gift at https://give.aub.edu.lb The MainGate Fall 2014 Contents Volume XIII, No. 1

Student life, the liberal arts, AUB personalities Inspiration 5 past and present

Developing Worlds, Microbial and Otherwise 8 Eugene Gangarosa, the first dean of FHS, discovers new frontiers.

Discoveries 19 Research, the arts, and current events

A More Abundant Life 22 Handwritten student magazines from 1899 to 1933 reveal the hearts and minds of AUB students.

Wellness 29 AUBMC 2020, health, and medicine

The Unseen Ravages of War 30 When health-care delivery becom es deadly.

Impact 39 Regional impact, advocacy, and policy initiatives

First Prize to the Wrigglers 40 Worms rise and shine.

AUB Everywhere 47 Alumni profile, class notes, WAAAUB, and chapter news

Women’s Work Sheikha Hissah Al Sabah (BA ’74): feminist and 48 social welfare visionary.

In Memoriam 65 Presidenting

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from a rich diversity of distinguished CARING institutions. Growing numbers of patients are SUMMERING AT AUB traveling to Beirut to receive treatment at the AUB Medical Center. This More than 60 students participated includes some Iraqi patients who are in the Summer Arabic Program, only being cared for at AUBMC because of slightly fewer than last year. Due to the a special arrangement with the Iraqi severe water shortage caused by last Ministry of Public Health, which you year’s very dry winter, AUB has been can read more about on page 36. redrilling nonfunctioning campus wells to exploit older water supplies. The brackish water from one well is being CELEBRATING treated through reverse osmosis to produce water of an appropriately low The opening of the Ray R. Irani-Oxy salinity to use in cooling systems on Engineering Complex (IOEC) took campus. My own cooling system was place on September 9 to great fanfare. an hour spent in the late afternoon at The building is named for AUB INCOMING the AUB beach. alumnus and Trustee Emeritus Ray R. Irani (BS ’53) and the Occidental AUB welcomed 1,845 new ENHANCING OUR CAMPUS Petroleum Corporation. This new undergraduate students, 260 new complex contains cutting-edge graduate students, 105 medical Recently dedicated buildings are engineering labs, faculty offices, AUB as a beacon students, and 12 new PhD enrollees already being heavily used and are spaces for graduate students, and an of learning and in fall 2014. These numbers indicate enhancing our campus. The Wassef upper-floor terrace. FEA faculty are inclusivity AUB’s ability to draw excellent and Souad Sawwaf Building at AUBMC, also moving into the newly renovated applicants even in troubled times, for example, is the center for the 5th floor of the Bechtel Building, which not only from Lebanon itself but from University Health Services. I go there has been refurbished thanks to 51 other countries around the world. myself to see my family doctor. The donations from the Bechtel family and During a reception at West Hall, I PET-CT scan is functional and the the Bechtel Foundation. This global talked with a number of international cyclotron will be in operation this engineering firm has been a good students from Denmark, Germany, and coming academic year. friend and strong supporter of AUB for Malaysia as well as from nations closer many years, beginning with the very to home, all of them energized to begin The Issam Fares Institute for Public founding of FEA as an independent a new year at AUB. Policy and International Affairs (IFI) faculty in 1951. is in great demand from departments INTRODUCING across campus, who are making good LOOKING AHEAD use of the excellent conferencing and The University introduced three new communications facilities housed in Over the next months, my focus will undergraduate programs: Bachelor of Zaha Hadid’s stunningly designed be on providing both institutional Engineering in Industrial Engineering; building. continuity and also a big push for and two Bachelor of Science degrees, the launching of the 150th celebration in Medical Audiology Sciences and in Concrete pouring for the largest of AUB’s founding in 2016. My own Medical Imaging Sciences. There are addition to the Medical Center in 50 messages to the wider community will new graduate programs as well: MS years–the Halim and Aida Daniel focus on AUB as a beacon of learning degrees in Chemical Engineering, Academic and Clinical Center at the and inclusivity, the humanistic Energy Studies, Rural Community corner of Abdul Aziz and Maamari grounding of our undergraduate liberal Development, and the Scholar’s HeAlth Streets–has begun. This magnificent arts education, the importance of Research Program (SHARP). Kathy and new facility should open in December interdisciplinary research and creation I hosted a lively welcome reception at 2016, as we conclude AUB’s 150th of relevant new knowledge, and the Marquand House for 53 new faculty anniversary celebration. abiding values that define the AUB members, who have been recruited experience. 32

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From the editor I have had the privilege of being on campus for the start of the academic year on many occasions.  I am always struck by the fact that although it is in some ways repetitive, it is also always very special. Each entering class is different. This was true again in 2014. Cover FAFS graduate student The new school year kicked off with abundant energy as a student body of more than 8,000 (!) Sara Moledor and her students arrived at AUB—some for the first time, others (returning seniors) for perhaps the last award-winning worms. time. They “rendezvoused” with friends on the Main Gate steps, took deep breaths before Photo by Jean Pierre Tarabey heading up those daunting engineering stairs (more on those stairs on page 4), and explored new buildings on campus. Along with new students, AUB also welcomed many new professors, some 53 recruits from around the world, including Ethiopia, the Un ited States, China, Iran, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and of course Lebanon. With so much to report on from campus, I’ll share some highlights from this issue of the magazine:

Editor Ada H. Porter Mona Hatoum’s (DHL ’08) exhibit at the Alexander and Bonin Gallery in NYC Director of Communications –page 6 Responsible Director Nabil Dajani “When I set off for work I say that I am going to my second home.” Art Direction and Design Communicati on Design SAL –Hanaa Kobeisi (BS ’84, MPH ’86), page 9 www.cd-sal.com Production “I have plenty of ideas concerning how to make the world better. . . Office of Communications I saw an opportunity to turn my ideas into reality.” Photography Ali Hashisho –Tarek Sakakini (BEN ’14), page 10 Hasan Nisr Neil Singh “We have seen the transformation of health care. It is now directly implicated Jean Pierre Tarabey University Libraries, Archives in military strategy.” and Special Collections –Omar Dewachi (MPH ’00), page 30 Staff Writers Susanne Lane Barbara Rosica Ada H. Porter, Editor Contributing Writers [email protected] Maureen Ali Nicholas Boke Kathy Dorman Arianne Shavisi ACS CASAR FEA IFI NCC American Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Faculty of Issam Fares Institute Nature Conservation Community School Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Engineering for Public Policy and Cent er for Sustainable Abbr. Center for American and Architecture International Affairs Futures AUB American University of Beirut Studies and Research American University FHS IOEC OSB Office of Communications of Beirut CCECS Faculty of Ray R. Irani-Oxy Suliman S. Olayan PO Box 11–0236 Center for Civic Health Sciences Engineering Complex School of Business Common AUBMC Riad El Solh 1107 2020 Engagement and abbreviations American University of FM KSA PSPA Beirut, Lebanon Community Service Tel: 96 found in the Beirut Medical Center Faculty of Medicine Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Department of Political 1-1-353228 FAFS Studies and Public MainGate (MG): CAMES HSON LAU Faculty of Agricultural Administration New York Office Center for Arab and Rafic Hariri School Lebanese American and Food Sciences 3 Dag Hammarskjold Middle Eastern Studies of Nursing University REP FAS Regional Plaza 8th Floor CAMS IC LDEM Faculty of Arts External Programs New York, NY 10017–2303 Center for Advanced International College Landscape Design and and Sciences Tel: 212-583-7600 Mathematical Sciences Ecosystem Management SPC [email protected] Syrian Protestant College www.aub.edu.lb/maingate WAAAUB Printing Worldwide Alumni Lane Press Association of AUB

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Dear MainGate, Back in 1955, during my first year at the engineering school, the only access to the school from upper campus was either Facing the Bechtel Engineering Building is the through the stairs leading down to the Chemistry Building, familiar stairs linking it to the upper campus with a now the Department of Architecture and Design, (I noticed commemorative plaque in honor of the Class of 1961 with nostalgia that the names of some campus buildings who built them in the summer of 1959. have been changed since then!) or the one leading to the Homer Louis Saleh tennis courts. The hill facing the Bechtel Building was very (B.M.E 1959) In June 2010, at the 50th graduation ceremony at the Hostler steep, slippery, and particularly dangerous in winter; only June 20, 2014 Building for the Class of 1960, Engineer M. Abdel-Baki was a few daredevils ventured down its slope, not without invited to address the audience. He recalled to the audience accidents now and then, but despite its potential risks, it and particularly to his classmates the beautiful memories remained attractive to some. and the deep impressions that have marked each one of them while at the engineering school and in particular their Providing stairs at that place was not considered then to be a relations with the late Dean C. Ken Weidner (a great man priority by the “Buildings and Grounds” Department (now indeed and someone that the school and the engineering the “Physical Plant”). And so, the only safe access to the profession in the Arab countries and Africa owe a great deal). school remained through the existing stairs.

Later, when we took Concrete 1 and 2 with the late Professor K. Yeremian, I discussed with him the possibility of building stairs up the hill. With his encouragement, advice, and support, the project gradually took shape on paper but actual execution was still a long way to come.

At the 1958-59 ESC elections I was one of the 10 members on that committee and was appointed “Production Manager.” I was now ready to make the stairs project a reality.

Reviewing the stairs plan on site with Professor Yeremian Professor K. Yeremian and I met with Dean Weidner who gave us his full support with one condition: it had to be He remembered with pride the Saturday quizzes, the football built entirely by engineering students! As graduation time games, Tarboush Day. . . etc., but, to my surprise, he added was getting close and the preparations for the “final of the that “. . . one of the accomplishments of the Class of 1960 . . . finals” was in full sway, I managed to get volunteers from the we made the stairs which leads from engineering to the Class of 1962. We broke ground with them with the intent of upper campus. . .” as recorded on the video I took on that resuming construction in the coming fall by volunteers from day attending my sister-in-law’s 50th graduation year from other classes as well. the Pharmacy School. For documentation purposes, I am including the above photos as scanned also from the 1959 Yearbook. The first is with Professor K. Yeremian checking the design drawing and the site conditions and the second with 1962 class students breaking ground at the site with jackhammers.

I wish to extend my deep appreciation to all those who contributed in their own way to the materialization and final Erratum completion of the stairs project which I dreamed of when I joined the engineering school and which came true four Breaking ground with Class of 1962 students years later.

Artworks by Mohammad Rawas, But there is a commemorative plaque on the stairs’ steep I would propose that AUB consider naming the stairs “Dean Bacci and Tamara rocky wall stating that it was built by the Class of 1961. Weidner’s Stairs” after the first dean of the engineering Fakhoury were mistakenly attributed school, in recognition of his encouragement and support to Zahi Khuri on page 21 With two classes now proudly claiming their sole and direct that made it a reality and without whom the proje ct would of “Art in Office” in the spring/summer contribution in the construction of these famous stairs, I not have been built at that time. MainGate. Read the thought it was high time to tell the full story of how this project corrected page in the spring issue online. came to be and give also a long overdue credit to the Class of Yours truly, 1959, to the members of the E.S.C. (the Engineering Students Homer L. SALEH, Corporation at that time), and in particular to Dean Weidner. B.M.E. 1959 Inspiration

Student life, the liberal arts, AUB personalities past and present

Published & Produced 6 Exhibits: Changing Climate: Video Art from Central Asia—AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery. Twelve Windows: Richly embroidered panels form a visual map of Palestine—Alexander and Bonin Gallery, New York. And more.

On Stage: Anbara, based on the letters of Anbara Salam Khalidi and her Palestinian husband. Begins December 12 at the Babel Theater in Beirut.

Film: Meshkal, Dania Bdeir’s (BGD ’10) award-winning film.

Written Word: Contemporary ideas for redesigning a mosque in Tripoli; advice for medical students; a Palestinian memoir; an exploration of the links between African American political thought and the Middle East; discovering the evolution of modern navigation; a study of Armenian participation in Lebanese elections; a history of AUB with a focus on clinical medicine research; a guide to trees in Lebanon and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Developing Worlds, AUB’s first dean of FHS, Eugene Gangarosa: a pioneering epidemiologist Microbial and Otherwise 8 discovers new frontiers.

Hanaa Kobeisi (BS ’84, MPH ’86) combines a penchant for people and a Face to Face 9 talent for process to match students with financial aid.

Pricing and Revenue Management, Victor Araman teaches students how to By the Books 13 pinpoint the tipping point.

Globetrotters 15 FEA students and graduates embark on summer adventures.

A journalist, publisher, and political activist, Faris Nimr (BA 1874) thrived by Legends & Legacies 18 not allowing controversy to intimidate him. Inspiration

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12 3 PALESTINIANS OF THE DIASPORA TWELvE WINDOWS JAFET LIBRARy AGENDA

Conceptualized and inspired by Lily An installation of richly embroidered This fall at Jafet Library, exhibits on Chryssis’s (MA ’07) master’s thesis, this panels 90 cms square—forms the Arabic comics, Islamic art, World War I, exhibit includes photographic portraits centerpiece of Mona Hatoum’s (DHL’08) from the Samir Saleeby Book Collection, and excerpts from interviews with 20 exhibition at the Alexander and Bonin and much more. The 2015 calendar will Palestinians reflecting on life and Gallery in New York, September 13- also highlight the Ahmad Mustafa Abu- identity in the diaspora. It can be October 18. Each panel represents Hakima and Aida Suleiman Arif Book viewed at the Islamic Cultural Society a Palestinian town or village; together Collection, Arab and Islamic Science, in Boston, from mid-October through they form a visual map of Palestine. Arab Cinema, the Nadim Bitar Book mid-November. Hatoum renders this map into a complex Collection Arab Science Fiction and landscape crisscrossed by intersecting Manoug Photo Collection. webs of wire forming barriers and aggress ive diversions—a metaphor for CHANGING CLIMATE life under occupation. The panels, which Video Art from Central Asia, AUB also speak of resilience and resistance, Byblos Bank Art Gallery, September- were conceived by embroidery expert October 2014. Malak Al-Husseini Abdul-Rahim and embroidered by refugee women supported by the Lebanese NGO Inaash. Read more about Inaash on page 44.

Film On Stage

Keep your eyes open for Meshkal, Dania Based on the letters of Anbara Salam Khalidi and her Palestinian husband, Bdeir’s (BGD ’10) award-winning film, and on her autobiography (see MainGate, spring 2014, page 12), Anbara which we hope will be coming to a captures the couple’s aspirations, concerns, beliefs, and dreams. Aliya theater near you. Khalidi, who teaches history of Arabic theater at LAU, directs the play that stars Sahar Assaf, actress, director, and AUB lecturer. Anbara can be seen Special People at the Movies, film Thursdays through Sundays for four weeks, beginning on December 12 at festival to support the OpenMinds Fund the Babel Theater in Beirut. and the AUBMC Special Kids Clinic, October 24-28, Cinema Empire Sofil. More online 76

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1. reneWing architectural 4. geograPhies of liberation: principal of the Armenian Evangelical tyPologies: house, MosQue, library the Making of an afro-arab College since 1967. He has written Armenian Political iMaginary Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Renewing Architectural Typologies: House, Elections (1934-2009) (Haigazian University Mosque, Library (Yale School of Architecture, Alex Lubin, PhD, former director of the Press, 2014). The book focuses on the 2014) features student projects from three Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Lebanese legislative elections in which advanced studios that Makram El Kadi Alsaud Center for American Studies and the Armenian communities participated: (BArch ’97) and Ziad Jamaleddine (BArch ’95) Research (CASAR) at AUB, has written in Beirut since 1934, in Metn since 1951, of L.E.FT Architects taught with Hernan Diaz Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an and in Zahle since 1992. Alonso and architects from the British firm Afro-Arab Political Imaginary (The University AOC. The student projects explored multiple of North Carolina Press, 2014). A “fascinating, contemporary ideas for the design of a wide-ranging history,” this volume explores mosque in Tripoli, Lebanon. the links between African American political 7. clinical Medicine research thought, and the people and nations of the history at the aMerican university Middle East from the 1850s until today. of beirut, faculty of Medicine 1920-1974

2. Medical research essentials In Clinical Medicine Research History at the American University of Beirut, Faculty of Rania Esteitie, MD (BS ’04) has written 5. Quo vadis: evolution of Medicine 1920-1974 (WestBow Press, 2014), a useful guide for medical students and Modern navigation: the rise Mounir E. Nassar (BS ’55, MD ’59) documents residents to share what she learned from of QuantuM techniQues the origin and development of clinical her research experience and “the great Former (1952-55) AUB physics instructor medicine research at AUB. His book mentors I had along the way.” Medical Fouad G. Major, PhD, has written Quo Vadis: begins, however, with an overview of Research Essentials (McGraw-Hill Medical, Evolution of Modern Navigation: The Rise the establishment of the Syrian Protestant 2013) includes tips from Esteitie on a wide of Quantum Techniques (Springer, 2014), a College, which later became AUB. It also range of topics including how to dissect volume intended for non-specialists with includes insights from the author’s personal journal articles, present a poster, and only college-level knowledge of physics or journey into clinical research. understand basic statistical concepts. engineering. In addition to covering the essential principles underlying the design of satellite navigational systems, Major’s book 3. Walking out into the sunshine – begins with introductory chapters that place 8. native trees of lebanon recollections and reflections these systems in historical context with early and neighboring countries developments in navigation. Ghazi Q. Hassoun (BS ’56), PhD, professor Elsa Sattout, PhD, and Hala Zahreddine emeritus, North Dakota State University, (BS ’99, MS ’01), PhD, have written a has published his memoir, Walking Out Into comprehensive study of 68 tree species found 6. arMenian ParticiPation in the The Sunshine—Recollections and Reflections: in Lebanon and the Eastern Mediterranean lebanese legislative elections A Palestinian Personal Experience (Windy Region. Native Trees of Lebanon and (1934-2009) City Publishers, 2013). It includes two Neighboring Countries—A Guidebook for chapters dedicated to his time at AUB. Zaven Messerlian (BA ’59, MA ’64), Honorary Professionals & Amateurs (NDU Press, 2014) There is also a website associated with Doctor ’03, National Academy of Sciences of includes detailed scientific information and the book. the Republic of Armenia, has been the wonderful color photographs of each species. Inspiration

What makes Eugene Gangarosa tick? Lahore, Pakistan, which became a medical school. This was when he This world-renowned epidemiologist’s began to hear about AUB. stint as the first dean of AUB’s Faculty of Health Sciences is bracketed by work “I’d been working on the cholera in Thailand and Pakistan, at Walter pandemic that had swept across Reed, the Centers for Disease Control South Asia and into the Middle East,” (CDC), and Emory University. he explains, “and I had gotten to know AUB faculty members. I was very Gangarosa laid the foundation for the impressed with them.” treatment of oral-fluid rehydration therapy which greatly simplified the Not only, however, was he impressed treatment of all diarrheal diseases by the faculty, but he and his wife fell including cholera, published more than in love with Beirut on a visit in 1964. 100 peer-reviewed articles, established a foundation dedicated to controlling So when a position opened at AUB in water-borne diseases, earned the CDC’s 1978, he accepted the opportunity. The Medal of Excellence and, in January University wanted to upgrade the 2014, was granted Emory University’s highly-respected School of Public Hatcher Award for Public Health. Health, and Gangarosa seemed just the Developing man for the job. The civil war appeared For all this, thank Gangarosa’s mother to be over, and the couple decided that Worlds, and Paul de Kruif. AUB might be the perfect place for him to wrap up his career. His mother, having lost four of five Microbial and children to preventable diseases before After insisting that the restructured emigrating from Sicily to America in institution be called the Faculty of 1914, shared her sadness with her son. Health Sciences (FHS), instead of Otherwise He recalls, “even after so many years, Allied Health Services as some officials tears welled up as she told me, ‘You lose preferred—“This was an academic AUB’s first dean of FHS, a child, then another, then another.’” name that other schools looked Eugene Gangarosa: a down on; it implied a group of skilled pioneering epidemiologist De Kruif? Gangarosa was nine when he professionals who helped medical discovers new frontiers. was sent to recuperate from rheumatic professionals,” he explains—he and fever at a home for children. “The Rose moved to Beirut lock, stock, week’s highlight was the librarian’s and baby grand piano in 1978. visit. She brought Paul de Kruif’s Microbe Hunters. It was fascinating. They didn’t know that Lebanon was I read it twice. It defined my heroes, heating up again. They arrived, kept like Walter Reed, who conquered yellow their heads down, and hoped for the fever, and Paul Ehrlich with his ‘magic best. bullet’ [that would target a specific In his soon to be disease-causing organism].” The war intensified while Gangarosa published memoir, kept at it, turning the existing diploma Dr. Gangarosa program into a full-fledged two-year attributes FHS’s master’s program, bringing the nursing success in difficult times to many program into FHS, encouraging further outstanding work in parasitology, and increasing colleagues. Read an the number of students. excerpt in MainGate online. Then, in July 1981, his wife left for home. Finally, he joined them.

From there it was a relatively straight “We had planned to stay for the rest of shot to undergraduate and medical our lives,” he recalls, “but we left an studies at the University of Rochester, outstanding faculty at FHS. I credit epidemiological studies at Walter Reed them with the strength of the program. Army Research Institute, where he Aside from whatever I was able to do, worked with scientists like those the baby grand, to my knowledge, is described in Paul de Krief’s Microbe still in Marquand House.” Hunters. Then to Bangkok and on to direct the Medical Research Center in -N.B. 98 Face to Face

It is hard to imagine AUB without Hanaa Kobeisi (BS ’84, MPH ’86) or Hanaa Kobeisi without AUB. She has been on campus more than half of her life. Enrolled as an undergraduate in 1981, she received her BS in chemistry exactly 30 years ago followed by an MPH two years later.

Since then she has held various posts: as an FHS instructor in health-care management and later FHS coordinator of student affairs before becoming associate director of financial aid.

Though she was “of two minds” about leaving FHS when she first applied for the job, Kobeisi quickly grew to love her new position for its “challenges and variety.” Nowadays, apart from dealing with local students and parents on a regular basis, she takes care of some 80+ visiting US students who are participating in the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Prog ram. “This is a dynamic program,” she explains. “It’s also very demanding particularly since it requires complying with lots of US federal regulations with continuous changes and modifications. You have to be strict and meticulous. Ultimately everything goes back to the US government, so it is very demanding.”

But that’s just the business side of the job. She loves interacting with the students. “It smake me feel I am really making a difference. They are alone in a foreign country and they need help.”

When she is not “mothering” her overseas charges, Kobeisi is a real mother to two daughters, one of whom has just graduated from AUB and the other, an 11th grader, who is expected to follow suit. In her spare time she studies foreign languages and is a dedicated member of the AUB Choir.

Although she would love an office with daylight and fresh air instead of the one in the basement of West Hall where she has been for far too long, it’s the only drawback in a job that she loves. “When I set off for work I say I am going to my second home. I cannot imagine being anywhere else —except this actual office,” she says with a laugh.

-M.A. Inspiration

Student News Darwazah Student Innovation Contest

“This competition was a clear members of Team Limni, who are all The $5,000 second prize went to a opportunity for someone like me who MBA students, found the workshop team of MBA students (May Tehaili, has ideas, and needs help to bring useful. Explained team member Abbas Sabine Karout, and Diana Abou Daher) them to reality,” says Tarek Sakakini Jaber, “the business plan skeleton that for an innovative doctor-patient (BEN ’14). Organized and sponsored by we were introduced to was not communication service, an idea that the Darwazah Center for Innovation something we had seen before. We they say was suggested to them by a Management and Entrepreneurship at could definitely make use of it in the well-known entrepreneur. “We then did the Suliman S. Olayan School of future.” some research, surveying patients and Business, the Darwazah Student interviewing doctors, and realized that Innovation Contest caught the attention The finalists were announced on June 9 there was a real need for such a of many aspiring entrepreneurs and given just four days to prepare their service—and that doctors and patients including agribusiness major Walid presentations before a panel of expert would use such a service if it were put Mukahhal. “I have plenty of ideas judges. The $15,000 first prize went to in front of them.” Although they had no concerning how to make the world engineering students Karim Frenn intention of becoming entrepreneurs better, so when I saw the poster (BEN ’14) and Guy Daher (BEN ’14) for when they entered the contest, they are announcing the contest, I saw an their design of Planitous, a mobile app meeting now—“as a team,” they stress— opportunity to turn ideas into reality.” that helps you plan a customized to decide whether or not they want to itinerary based on your personal “indulge in the entrepreneurship “We received more than 100 preferences. “It was an innovative and world.” applications from five AUB faculties,” also a very viable proposal—just what explained Lama Hutet (BBA ’09), who is the judges were looking for,” says Azad. “The contest complements the assistant to the director of the classroom-based learning of our Darwazah Center and helped to Frenn and Daher say that they got their students providing them with a much- organize the contest. It is not just the idea for Planitous last summer when needed applied know-how,” says Azad. number of applications that was they started planning a trip to San He and Hutet learned a lot too. “The impressive, so too was the quality. “The Francisco. “We found that it was a contest went great,” says Hutet, “but outside judges were very impressed,” really difficult, long, and boring next year it will be even better.” says Associate Professor and Darwazah process, and thought that it should not Center director Bijan Azad, PhD. be that way. So we decided to solve this problem.” Frenn and Daher say they Sixteen semi-finalists were selected and plan to develop their idea and hope to invited to enroll in a training workshop launch an Android version at the end of on Saturday, May 17 to learn how to September, and have an iOS version prepare a business plan. Even the ready by the end of November. 1110 Chicago Style

For MasterCard Foundation (MCF) winter 2012). “Winning second place scholars Mohamad Bawab and for being the best presented project Yasmine Lawzi attending the recent was wonderful, but the great 13th International Conference of the interaction and feedback from people Community Campus Partnership for at the confere nce was the best prize Health in Chicago proved to be a life- that we got,” said Lawzi. changing experience. Together with their FHS advisers Maha Haidar Makki While the conference itself was a (BS ’97, MA ’00), MCF program officer, great learning experience, the two and Joumana Kalot (BS ’89, MPH ’95) were also inspired by the work of AUB from the FHS Outreach and Practice alumni in Chicago. Conference speaker Unit, they were coauthors of a prize- Dr. Bechara Choucair (BS ’93, MD ’97) winning conference poster: “A (see MainGate, spring 2010), Community Engagement Project for commissioner of the Chicago management. They were especially Public Health Students from the Faculty Department of Public Health introduced motivated by Rula Haddad Kalifa of Health Sciences at the American the students to the conference and (BS ’94, MPH ’96), president of the University of Beirut: An Opportunity talked about the impact of AUB on his WAAAUB Chicago Chapter, an for Building Bonds with Disadvantaged life. Spending time with him and with alumna whose career path they hope Communities and Assuming community health specialists from all to emulate. “She studied environmental Leadership Roles.” over the world was an eye opener for health at AUB and did a master’s in the two. “This makes us think how public health which is similar to Picked as the Viewer’s Choice Poster this field is rich with different our journey,” said Lawzi. “As Award and thus carrying off second opportunities. We can choose the environmental health students prize, the two-part poster explored one that we believe in, excel in, to minoring in the public health sector the MCF/FHS program and the MCF give our best,” Bawab explains. thi s encouraged us to become more scholars’ experiences interacting with engaged and never lose faith in our disadvantaged Lebanese children. It Away from the conference, Bawab and capability to make a change and gave the duo a chance to explain how Lawzi had a chance to meet other AUB give back to our communities.” this valuable experience had impacted alumni living and working in Chicago their own development and thinking in different fields: medicine, -M.A. (more on the MCF scholars in MainGate, architecture, hospital care, and

New Academic Programs – Fall 2014

Graduate Undergraduate • MS Energy Studies (Division of University • BS Medical Audiology Sciences (FHS, FM) Interdisciplinary Programs) • BS Medical Imaging Sciences (FHS, FM) • MA Islamic Studies (FAS) • BEN Industrial Engineering (FEA) • MS Rural Community Development (FAFS) • MS and MEN Chemical Engineering (FEA) • MS Construction Engineering (FEA) • Executive MS in Health Care Leadership (FHS) Inspiration Milestones in AUB history

Outlook becomes AUB's official student newspaper, 140 65 YEARS College Hall bell is rung for the first time, in 1874. YEARS in 1949. AGO AGO

AUB hosts the first solo art exhibition in Lebanon First surgery in Lebanon and the region, and only the 85 displaying the work of Lebanese artist Mustafa 15 fourth anywhere in the world, performed at AUBMC to YEARS YEARS AGO Farroukh, in 1929. AGO treat epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease, in 1999.

great opportunity for our USP students For ULYP students like Bilal Hindi and USP students to help others. They are also gaining Diala Diab, the summer tutoring sessions valuable teaching experience.” have been invaluable. “The SAT is the passport that you need to enter university,” tutoring USP student Dalia Malaeb says that says Diab. It’s a passport that she hopes she wishes she had been able to will eventually take her to medical school. Palestinian participate in such a program before Hindi, who is also planning a career in taking the SAT exam. Although she medicine, says that the USP student tutors students did well enough to be accepted to AUB, are “great teachers.” Some of them are where she is now majoring in biology, becoming good friends too. “Before I started tutoring, I thought it would Malaeb says sh e would have done even be boring. It is instead one of the best better with a little tutoring. volunteering experiences I have ever had.” Biology major Hussein Mohsen is talking about his experience this past summer tutoring aspiring AUB students. Mohsen is one of 101 students attending AUB as part of the USAID-funded University Scholarship Program (USP). In addition to taking a full load of courses, USP students are also required to complete a summer internship that focuses on civic engagement.

Some of these students decided to take advantage of this requirement to participate in a terrific program that AUB’s University Preparatory Program (UPP) has organized with the Unite Lebanon Youth Project (ULYP). “The goal of this program,” explained Dr. Samar Harkouss, who directs the UPP, “is to provide tutoring for Palestinian students who are preparing to take the SAT exam. It’s a

IN CASE YOU AUB Outdoors 2014 was a triumph. More Students sold orange and eucalyptus honey, MISSED IT. than 350 students helped to organize the cookies, and muffins during the Honey Day two-day event (May 24-25) that attracted Extension Event at FAFS on July 8. almost 23,000 people. There were comedy acts, bands, magic shows, and much more. The Office of Communications is organizing It raised more than $80,000, money that the second student video contest to collect will be used to support AUB student clubs stories about students’ academic experience and societies, the Fingerprints Endowed at AUB. First prize is $500. Scholarship Fund, and local charities. 12 13

By the Nu bers Wild life

AUB faculty and students from the Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management catalog the diversity of flora (start counting the 6,884 trees and shrubs) and fauna (not including felis catus) on AUB’s 61-acre campus.

number Insects 100-200 of species in each category Trees and shrubs 131

Reptiles 8

Birds 28

Herbaceous plants 20

Small mammals 3

By the Books Course: DCSN 211 Undergraduate, DCSN 350 Graduate Pricing and Revenue Management

SyLLABUS point that makes a product attractive. It is product design through pricing.” Victor Araman’s face lights up at the BIO mention of his course Pricing and Revenue CLASS TIME Management for two key reasons: “It is my Victor Araman is an associate professor research, it is closely related to my way of It is clearly Araman’s favorite course and, in the Business Information and Decision thinking; and it is a hot topic—how to price he says, the students love it too—that is if Systems track. He is also the director of in a sophisticated way in a competitive they stick with it. This is not a course for the OSB MBA program. He graduated from world. Cost-based pricing is history. Today, those not willing to put in the effort. École Centrale Paris with a degree in in many industries pricing is an art and a Basically, it is pitched at MBA level so some mechanical and electrical engineering competitive advantage based in part on undergraduates drop out in the first week, and holds a master’s in financial people’s ‘willingness’ to pay.” but those who stay with it say it is very engineering and a PhD in operations rewarding. Based on case studies, it is also research, both from Stanford University. Taking examples of price sensitive products highly technical using sophisticated He has worked and been a consultant for such as airline tickets, hotel rooms, and modeling and data analysis to examine companies in Silicon Valley. Before joining mobile phones, Araman’s course examines pricing challenges in retail—airline tickets, AUB, Araman was a professor at the Stern information, models, and approaches to car rental deals, and other fields, such as School of Business at New York University come up with the right price for the right online advertising and even real estate—to where he still teaches in the summer. channel at the right time. “But this is not see how to play with scarcity of capacity, He also spent a year as a visiting just about ‘willingness to pay,’” Araman product perishability, and to assess the professor at INSEAD in Singapore explains, “it is about finding the tipping elasticity of prices. and France. - M.A Inspiration

Incoming international students gather on 02 Oud player Moatassim Kammouni has a 05 Nadia younes transferred from the the (relatively) cool terrace of West Hall during BA in oriental music from the Lebanese University of Maryland to pursue a BA the Office of International Programs fall National Higher Conservatory for Music, in political science and an MA in Middle orientation. This year, 25 percent of the but keeps a day job as a mechanical Eastern studies. She’s half Lebanese, student body holds a passport from a country engineer. half Puerto Rican, and can’t imagine other than Lebanon, coming to Ras Beirut 03 Rebecca Ritters, from the University of leaving AUB. from 55 countries. Melbourne, Australia, studies political 06 Mads Thomsen, from Aarhus Universitet, science. She spent most of her life as Denmark, is a graduate student in Arab Learn more about international programs: an actor. and Islamic studies. [email protected] 04 Leonore Lekkerkerker, from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands, is getting her MA in Middle Eastern 01 Klaus Keller, from Germany, majors in studies at CAMES. international relations at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

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Many AUB students enjoy exceptional internship Name: Tala Kammourieh (BArch ’14) opportunities around the world and right next door. This picture was taken in Sawfar, Here’s a look at where some of them went recently, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon. what they learned, and their post-graduation plans. What I’m doing: spending some time away from the city in the serenity and Interested in providing an internship to an AUB student? cool breeze of this town. Email: [email protected], and we'll put you in touch Why? because it’s my getaway place, with the right person. and a place that is dear to me. I’m going to the US in August where I will be a student at the Graduate School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University Name: Mohsen Al-Amine (major, of Illinois in Urbana-C hampaign. chemical engineering) This picture was taken in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, at the COMPACT Name: Sara Mantach (major, electrical (Napco Composite Packaging and computer engineering) Technology Ltd.) office. This picture was taken in Madison, What I’m doing: working. Wisconsin. Why? I’ve been here since mid-June, What I’m doing: a nine-week research and I've gotten to know pretty much internship with Professor Zongfu Yu on a all there is to know about flexible project entitled “Nanophotonic materials packaging. It’s been a great learning and structures.” experience—one that has been Why? As a third-year engineering student, mutually beneficial as well. I am required to do a summer internship. The FEA Career Center provides us with many offers from different companies and Name: Rawan Dghei m (major, universities around the world. I applied chemical engineering) and was accepted here as an honorary This picture was taken in Oxford, scholar. England. What I’m doing: I am interning at Cumberland Electrochemical, which Name: Adham Shkeir (BEN Civil is only 30 minutes away from Oxford Engineering ’14) University. It develops This picture was taken in New York – electrochlorination plants for the at the Statue of Liberty. production of sodium hypochlorite. What I’m doing: I am in the USA for Why? I am working with the process an exchange program with MEPI [the engineer to develop P&IDs (piping Middle East Partnership Initiative]. and instrumentation diagrams), and Why? I was selected to participate in am also assisting with developing this “six-week leadership experience.” HAZOPs (hazard and operability The MEPI program includes courses at studies) for various clients. Roger Williams University plus visits to Washington, DC, Boston, New York, Rhode Island, and Seattle. At the end Name: Fatima El Sakka (major, of the program, I will move back to construction engineering) Lebanon to start my career as an engineer. This picture was taken in Belgrade, Serbia – on the Danube River. What I’m doing: taking a break from my summer internship with IAESTE- Serbia. Why? I am one of 150 students from almost 50 countries that is participating in this program. I am gaining valuable experience related to my major in highway engineering. Inspiration

Welcome Philippe Raymond Jabre Mu’taz Sawwaf A former AUB student (1977-78), An AUB graduate (BArch ’74), Sawwaf to AUB Jabre is founder and chief investment is an executive board member of the officer of Jabre Capital Partners SA; a Saudi Binladin Group and managing member of the board of overseers of director of its Architecture and Six new trustees joined the Columbia University Graduate Building Construction Division. He School of Business; and founder of has executed projects in Saudi Arabia, the AUB Board of the Association Philippe Jabre, a in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Trustees in 2014. charitable organization benefiting Africa, including the expansion of the people of Lebanon. A long-time Mecca and Medina Hajj facilities; King supporter of AUB, Jabre made his first Abdullah University of Science and gift to the University in 1997. He has Technology (KAUST); the clock tower since funded scholarships for i n Mecca; and the Jeddah and Dakkar hundreds of AUB students. airports. He also sits on the boards of International College, Construction Products Company, Mimar Invest, Roots Group Arabia, Growth Gate Partnership, and Saned Equity Partnership. An accomplished illustrator certified by the Bob Godfrey Studio in London, Sawwaf continues to publish his cartoons. With the Arab Gulf Fund for Development, Sawwaf set up the not-for-profit mic rofinance organization Al-Ibdaa in several countries. The Wassef and Souad Nabil Antoine Habayeb Maher Mikati Sawwaf Building, named in honor of A former AUB student (1977-79), An AUB graduate (BBA ’01), Mikati is Sawwaf’s parents, was inaugurated in Habayeb lives and works in Dubai executive director of M1 Group, where January 2014. where he is president and CEO of he manages investments in fashion, General Electric’s Middle East, North retail, travel, aviation, and real estate Africa & Turkey region. He travels to and is a member of the M1 Group Lebanon regularly. In addition to being Investment Committee. He previously an AUB trustee, Habayeb is also a served as executive director at member of the board of trustees of Investcom Holding, where he oversaw Balamand University; member of the all new business ventures in Europe, board of Mubadala Infrastructure the Middle East, and Africa. He is a Partners Limited; member of the board board member of Growthgate Capital of directors of the US Saudi Arabian Corporation; Royal Jordanian; Hope Business Council; and a member of the Construction Material; Jetscape; and a board of trustees of the Arab Forum for director of the Mikati Foundation. He Environment and Development. is a graduate of INSEAD (MBA ’06). Mikati and his family have been strong supporters of AUB for many years. 1716

Fadlo R. Khuri Abdo George Kadifa A former AUB student (1981-82) and An AUB graduate (BEN electrical active alumnus, Khuri is a professor engineering ’81), Kadifa is executive and chair of the Department of vice president, strategic relationships, Hematology and Medical Oncology and a member of Hewlett Packard at Emory University. He has been a Company’s Executive Council. He was member of the Atlanta International formerly operating partner, Silver School board of trustees since 2009 Lake Partners; and vice president and chairs its education committee. of global delivery at IBM Global As a member of the board of trustees Technology Services. He maintains of the Naef K. Basile Foundation, he close ties with Lebanon through his has been particularly involved with involvement with numerous activities AUBMC’s Naef K. Basile Cancer inc luding LebNet and the American Institute. One of the world's leading Friends of the Lebanon Mountain experts in lung and other Trail. aerodigestive cancers, Khuri was awarded the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Memorial Award in 2013 from the American Association for Cancer Research.

Honorary degrees

The 2014 honorary degree recipients were Lebanese sculptor and painter Saloua Raouda Choucair; entrepreneur Samih Darwazah, founder of Hikma Pharmaceuticals; and Yusuf Hannun, an award-winning molecular biologist and clinical doctor. 18 Inspiration

Legends & Legacies A member of the Class of 1874, Faris Nimr was born to a Greek Orthodox family in Hasbeya in southern Lebanon in 1856. His father and two of his uncles Faris were killed during fighting between the Druze and Maronite communities when Nimr was just five years old forcing him, Nimr his younger brother and sister, and his mother to flee to Beirut. He spent one year at the British Syrian Mission School in Beirut before traveling with his mother to Jerusalem where he attended the English School of Zion for five years. When he returned to Lebanon, he enrolled at the Abeih Academy, which SPC founder Cornelius Van Dyck had established in 1846.

After graduating from SPC in 1874, Faris Nimr taught at the Prussian School for A lifelong friend of Yaqub Sarruf, Faris Nimr Girls and the Greek Orthodox School. In (BA 1874) was a leading 1876, he and SPC alumnus Yaqub Sarruf journalist, publisher, and (BA 1870) founded Al-Muqtataf, a path- political activist, and the breaking scientific magazine. Nimr and recipient of the Syrian Protestant College’s first Sarruf became lifelong friends and Sudan’s first politic al newspaper, the honorary doctoral worked together on many projects over Sudan Times, in 1903. degree in 1890. the years. They were both hired to teach at SPC and were promised faculty Faris Nimr married Helen Eynaud, the positions, but the College abruptly daughter of a former British consul to changed its mind and rescinded its Alexandria, shortly after he arrived in offers in 1885. Although no official Cairo. They had a son, Albert, and four explanation was given, it was widely daughters including Amy, who became believed at the time that the College an artist; and Katie, who married was nervous about some of Sarruf and historian George Antonious. The family Nimr’s political activities, and unhappy lived in the Cairo suburb of Maadi for with their support for Professor Edwin almost 60 years where they were visited Lewis during the “Darwin Affair” of by many distinguished guests from the 1882. Relations between the College and United States, Europe, and the Arab Sarruf and Nimr warmed over the years, world. An excellent orator and however, as evidenced by the fact that respected journalist, Nimr was SPC awarded them its first honorary widely admired and sought out for doctoral degrees in 1890. his opinions on the leading issues of the day. Sarruf and Nimr moved to Cairo in 1884 where they continued to publish Although Cairo became his home, Nimr Al-Muqtataf and founded an evening returned to Beirut on several occasions. newspaper, Al-Mumqatta, in 1889. Faris In 1929, he participated in an alumni Nimr was primarily responsible for luncheon in West Hall where he was Al-Muqattam, which became a leading lauded for his generous donations to newspaper in the Arab world. It the Alumni Fund. He was also provided a pro-British perspective, an Com mencement speaker in 1942. Active alternative to that provided by the well into his nineties, Faris Nimr died in French-leaning Al-Ahram newspaper. 1951 at the age of 95. Interestingly, while he opposed French colonialism in Syria, Faris Nimr was a strong supporter of British interests in Egypt. He also founded and published Discoveries Research, the arts, and current events

Four AUB faculty members go off the beaten path to find pre-Islamic On the Road in Iran 20 architecture.

Handwritten student magazines (1899-1933) are featured in an exhibit Collective 22 and book curated by the President’s Club.

Fighting counterfeit prescription drugs; strengthening family businesses; Pursuits 24 the Russian Empire and the Middle East.

Domestic abuse and women’s rights; legislation to address gender-based Under Discussion 26 violence.

Tylor Brand, a 2014 PhD student in Arab and Middle Eastern history, knew he had a major R+D 27 find when he unearthed Acting President Edward Nickoley’s personal diary, but he didn’t know it would change the course of his research.

At the Tissue Culture Facility Core Lab, Dr. Nadine Darwiche (BS ’84, MS ’87) and AUB Spaces 28 an interdisciplinary team work on developing anti-cancer drugs from plants with medicinal properties. Discoveries

Discovering Iran

Discovering Iran of a doctor sitting beside me on a domestic flight. It When assistant professor of art history May Farhat seems getting such invitations is not uncommon. In sent an email around inviting faculty to join her on bazaars and gardens locals would approach us to a trip to Iran in the spring, she received many practice their English or to speak their minds on positive responses. Time constraints and other topics such as Iranian-western relationships or logistics eliminated many of those who were eager simply to make sure we knew that they welcome to go but eventually Farhat’s group, including us in their country. Dr. Rola Hammam (MD ’02); Assistant Professor Darius Martin (Department of E conomics), and DM: My expectations were in black and white and Professor Richard Saumarez Smith (Department now the reality is in co lor. I was surprised by how of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies) set normal and organized the country is. I had expected off on their journey of discovery. This is their story. some hassle because of my US passport. Instead I had a frictionless entry and was never restricted in Why we went any way. May Farhat: The idea of organizing a trip to Iran came to me late one night. I am an art historian who RS: My expectations that Iran is a country with a specializes in the art and architecture of the Islamic very rich history, and astonishingly beautiful art and world, and I wrote my dissertation on the shrine of architecture, were amply fulfilled. I began to the eighth Shi’I Imam Ali al-Rida in Mashhad, a appreciate it as a lynchpin in the civilizations of major pilgrimage city in northeastern Iran. As a the world, especially Indo-European civilization. graduate student, I had fallen under the spell of Iranian culture, its stunning architecture and Our strongest memories gardens, its exquisite cuisine, and Iranians’ courtesy MF: Iran’s most enduring and captivating aspect and hospitality. Over the years, many of my friends is its predominantly arid landscape, which and colleagues had asked me to organize a trip to is so different from our Mediterranean world. Iran. With the election of Hassan Rouhani, a Set against an arid starkness, Iranians’ love for moderate political leader, a pol itical détente was in nature, and for large, expansive, enclosed gardens, the air, and I felt that the time was right for a visit. planned around watercourses and pools, is most beguiling. This love for green nature in bloom—a Rola Hammam: I always was intrigued by Persian paradisiac al setting par excellence—is beautifully My expectations history as well as modern Iranian culture; my captured in tile patterns, carpet designs, and most that Iran is a interest in Isfahan architecture came from a book I alluring of all, Persian poetry. country with read as a child describing its wonders including the acoustics of the music hall and the beautiful RH: The tomb of Hafez in Shiraz with people reciting a very rich mosques. potent Hafez poetry from different corners of the history, and monument. The ambience, music, and poetry were Darius Martin: My mother is from Iran. I heard truly enchanting. The very strong picnic culture in astonishingly stories about it growing up, I wante d to finally all the different cities; the talented young men beautiful art and see it for myself. singing traditional and modern songs through the night under the Isfahan Bridge cheered on by the architecture, were Richard Smith: I’d long wanted to visit Iran since people; quite marvelous. amply fulfilled. my doctoral research was on northwest India which has close cultural and linguistic links to Iran. The DM: I’ve never seen anything like the bazaars in Iran. chance of going with an expert in Iranian architecture was not to be missed. RS: My abiding memory is of a diverse, sophisticated culture which I want to know better. What we discovered RH: The trip exceeded my expectations. The people -As told to M.A. were the friendliest and the most curious I have met. I was invited for dinner at the home 2120

Discovery/Rediscovery

“The Creator, if he exists, has a special preference for Edmond Peyron (1827-1908), a French entomologist whose beetles.” So said British Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane. With 13,000 specimens include around 6000 from the Levant. The over 370,000 species already described, and millions yet to Syrian Protestant College purchased his collection in 1912 be identified, beetles are the most abundant of terrestrial providing an important platform for the university beetle organisms. The Natural History Museum at AUB has a collection which includes many type specimens. Time and fabulous beetle collection. Away from the public view; financing permitting, the delicate beetles in the Peyron in stacks and stacks of meticulously organized cases in Collection are being painstakingly curated, which involves a cold, quiet room, the beetles offer a wonderful learning transferring them from brass to stainless steel pins, and opportunity to the expert or layman. The beetles at the onto more appropriate surfaces, while retaining their museum come in a bewildering assortment of size and century old hand written labels. color, some too small to be mounted on pins, and others as big as birds, in colors across the spectrum. An essential -K.D. piece of this compendium of beetles was the work of Discoveries

Collective A More Abundant Life

Once upon a time ... before the days of Facebook, Instagram, email, and even typewriters, AUB students were inspired to write magazines. This was when writing magazines meant handwriting them, not once but twice over—a copy for the library and a copy for circulation. This far-sighted The President’s Club was founded by Myrna Bustani enterprise not only showed initiative and and Ali Ghandour (former commitment, it also means that AUB’s Jafet student) in 1981 to raise Library Archives houses a wonderfully preserved funds to help improve the treasure trove of these meticulously produced lives of students on campus publications, providing unique insight into the by supporting projects that are not covered by the hearts and minds of AUB students between 1899 and 1933. “A More Abundant Life—as Illustrated in AUB regular university budget. Student Handwritten Magazines 1899-1933.” Over the years, the club has funded smart classrooms, Mona Chemali Khalaf, chair of the President’s sports programs, cultural Club, carefully reviewed some 46 magazines for This “abundance of life” immediately becomes activities, and innumerable apparent with topics as diverse as coeducation, other projects that enrich this project, 38 of which were handwritten. Some were in English, some in Arabic, three purely in physical exercise, theater, and concert reviews; student life. More than 80 odes to love—both romantic and as a “Love Letter benches have been adopted French, and several in a mixture of two or three as part of the club’s very languages. As well as a wealth of opinion, debate, to Applied Mathematics”; cartoons; sports successful Bench Campaign, poetry, and prose, they contain hand-drawn commentaries, and, of course, wide-ranging which it launched in 2001. political debate. (Contact Ms. Salma Oueida illustrations—some by pioneering artists like Omar Unsi, others by enthusiastic amateurs—and ([email protected]) Eventually typewritten pages appeared but in the AUB Development captivating adverts that indicate that the average Office to name your AUB student back then looked a great deal more even they were customized with hand drawn bench!) dapper than any sighted on campus today! illustrations, photographs, and emblems. In the era of cut/paste/photoshop, and print it is worth Learn more about the club’s Working with Jafet archivists, Khalaf culled a taking a moment to marvel at the painstaking activities and membership: effort that went into encapsulating AUB student aub.edu.lb/development/ fascinating cross section of pages from this volunteers/president_club prolific 34 years of production to mount an life back in the “old days.” exhibition and publish a catalog entitled, -M.A. 2322

Flip through the pages of the catalog of handwritten student magazines at “MainGate” online and on the President’s Club’s website. Discoveries Pursuits

Drug Counterfeiting Drug counterfeiting is a serious problem works closely with policymakers and worldwide, particularly in parts of the Middle stakeholders to ensure that what we learn from East, Asia, and Africa where it is estimated that systematic literature reviews is used to inform more than 30 percent of all drugs are mislabeled decisionmaking. We are leading the and/or include the wrong or inactive ingredients. multi-disciplinary SPARK team that includes The WHO-funded Center for Systematic Reviews Lama Bou Karroum (MPH ’11) and Racha in Health Policy and Systems Research (SPARK) Fadlallah (MPH ’13). Our primary review at AUB, one of only four such centers in the question: What has been the effectiveness of the Elie Akl Fadi El-Jardali world, has made drug counterfeiting one of its interventions that have been implemented so priority topics. A joint collaboration between the far to combat or prevent drug counterfeiting? associate professor associate professor Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine, SPARK of medicine and of health policy co-director, SPARK and systems and co-director, SPARK

How Top Management Ties with Board Professor Marc Goergen from Cardiff University The Profitability of Members Affect Pay-Performance Sensitivity and I have conducted the first study on the effects Family Firms and IPO Performance of pay-performance sensitivity (PPS), using Recent corporate governance reforms have stock-options, on the performance of IPOs of firms emphasized the importance of an independent where social and family ties among top managers board of directors. An Initial Public Offering (IPO), and board members exist. We find that social ties when a firm sells its shares to the public for the can create value and improve IPO performance, first time, is a critical stage in a corporation’s life whereas family ties have the opposite effect. More cycle. IPOs face more difficulties than mature importantly, the use of PPS in an IPO firm increases the positive effect of social ties and firms in attracting independent directors who do reduces the negative effect of family ties. Our not have ties with members of the firm, so they Salim Chahine results confirm the importance of executive are likely to hire family members and friends. compensation schemes in aligning the interests professor of finance and acting dean of While family and social ties may encourage the Olayan School of Business of executives with those of shareholders. collaboration driven by shared affiliations, they may also generate excessive managerial power and mismanagement of human resources.

The Russian Empire and the Arab Middle East I am exploring how Russia experienced and essential to understanding the nature of this explored the Middle East in the imperial era that relationship. Many Russians believe that their ended with the 1917 Revolution. I am especially society enjoys a special relationship with the interested in learning more about the relatively “East” – one that is more familiar and neglected social and cultural contacts that sympathetic that its relationship with the produced political results over a long-term period traditionally defined “West.” By examining of engagement. Today the Russian Federation is Russian attitudes toward Middle Eastern home to more than 20 million Muslims and societies, I hope to uncover the sources of current Paul du Quenoy conducts an active policy of engagement with the challenges and antagonisms, a topic that seems contemporary Middle East. An appreciation of especially vital in the context of the Arab Spring associate professor of history Russia’s earlier interactions with the region is and Russia’s involvement in it. 2524

Quiz

Bookworms Match AUB deans with their favorite book – and find out why they like it.

Salim Chahine, Suliman S. Olayan School of A Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man And the Sea Business B Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Nahla Houalla, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged Sciences C James Joyce, Ulysses Patrick McGreevy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences D Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Iman Nuwayhid, Faculty of Health Sciences E Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Mohamed H. Sayegh, Faculty of Medicine F Natsuo Kirino, Out Makram Suidan, Faculty of Engineering and

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Mohamed H. Sayegh B; Makram Suidan A Suidan Makram B; Sayegh H. Mohamed Key: Salim Chahine F; Nahla Houalla E; Patrick McGreevy C; Iman Nuwayhid D; Nuwayhid Iman C; McGreevy Patrick E; Houalla Nahla F; Chahine Salim Key:

It is a powerful book that puts man in perspective with Because there is a lot to do while waiting. . . A nature. D

Because it has a selection of interesting and beautiful It is a beautiful portrayal of how the political B poems by one of the world’s most incredible poets… E environment can shape personal life. I read it long ago. Although it’s serious, it grabs you.

Because after a character spews the most vicious words C of racial hatred, Joyce imaginatively transforms him by In a brutal and shocking style, Kirino describes poverty this closing description: “On his wise shoulders through F and fragmented family relationships in Japan. This novel the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, shows the dark side of a complex society that is dancing coins.” ultra-modern, traditional, rational, dysfunctional, peaceful, and violent at the same time.

Professors, students, and friends gathered in Jafet Library has launched a "Book Exchange" IN CASE YOU Bathish Auditorum on May 28 to pay tribute to program in the Reference Desk Area to make it AUB professor of sociology and director of the easier for readers to swap used books of all MISSED IT. Center for Behavioral Research Samir Khalaf genres and languages. Learn more on Facebook (BA ’55, MA ’57). or email [email protected].

AUB offered its first MOOC, Citizenship in the AUB is offering a professional diploma for green Arab World, last summer. It was taught by technologies in Lebanon and Egypt. The Pro- Professor Dina Kiwan and was offered with Green diploma, which is being funded by the Edraak, an initiative of the Queen Rania European Union Tempus Programme, is AUB’s Foundation for Education and Development. first online diploma program.

A survey led by Professor Hala Ghattas from the Nesreen Ghaddar, associate provost and Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences professor of mechanical engineering, was published in the British Journal of Nutrition awarded the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for showed that over 40 percent of Iraqi refugee Arab Researchers in engineering sciences in children under the age of 5 have anemia, an iron recognition of her contributions to the field of deficiency that could have major long-term green engineering. health consequences. Discoveries

Under Discussion: Domestic Arianne Shahvisi

Assistant Professor Violence Department of Philosophy

Domestic violence in Lebanon, as by women's groups, and completely everywhere else in the world, is a ignores the major issue of marital rape. serious social problem. Between 2010 Yet even if the legislation is improved, and 2013, 25 women were murdered it is important to remember that, as by family members in Lebanon. In the experience of many other countries addition, the organization KAFA attest, prosecutions are limited by (enough) receives 2,600 reports of other factors. First, victim-blaming is domestic violence each year. Far from common: women are often made to being individual aberrations, domestic feel responsible for the abuse they violence is a symptom of the much suffer. Second, women's life options broader political issue of global are severely restricted by societal patriarchy. We live in a world in norms and structural barriers, which the rights of women are of meaning that many are trapped by secondary importance. Women are economic dependence. instrumentalized in pornography, the media, and public discourse, producing The year ahead will be critical in an impression of objecthood that is ripe pushing for vital amendments to the for abuse. Patriarchy is pervasive; from legislation. Let us also remember that the annoyances of everyday sexism to the fight begins inour communities, the dangers of being abused within in doing a better job of caring for one one's home. another in non-judgmental ways, in deconstructing sexist norms and For Lebanon, 2014 was historically struggling for economic justice, and significant: on April 1, condemnation in remembering that the only person of domestic violence was written into who can definitively end the cycle of law with the aim of creating space for violence is the person who decides legal challenges to abuse that had not to hit. previously been deemed a private matter. Sadly, the legislation falls -A.S. short of the recommendations made 2726 R+D

Biggest discovery to date: Edward Nickoley’s [acting president, 1920-23, and former FAS dean, 1924-37] private diary, hidden in the AUB archives. It’s as close to a gold mine as there is for those seeking a personal outlook on the Tylor Brand famine of World War I. PhD Arab and Middle Eastern Where is this going? I hope to provide a more History, realistic, human face to the famine, which will 2014 help us understand not only life during the crisis in Lebanon and coastal Syria at that time, but also how individuals and societies are affected by and respond to catastrophe. Often it is easy to forget that from 1915 to 1918, people woke up in the morning and went about their daily lives as the world slowly and often excruciatingly changed around them. Even those who died in the famine often survived for years in varying degrees of comfort and distress. My goal has been to recover this lost aspect of the famine period to show the diversity of experience during the crisis. People were not passive. They struggled, endured, and suffered, but they also adapted, threw parties, watched films, played sports, and helped each other to physically and emotionally survive.

How I got here: My initial focus was on identity history, but after some frank and quite accurate evaluations of my research proposals by Professor Samir Seikaly, I was forced to reevaluate my career path. Because my interests had shifted to the history of disease and disaster, the late Professor Emeritus Kamal Salibi (BA ’49) suggested that I explore the famine period since at the time it had been relatively overlooked despite its immense impact.

What I’ll remember most about AUB: My home, the History Department.

Best moment of the day: I always get a thrill when I find copies of books signed and donated to the Jafet Library by Philip Hitti (BA 1908), Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali, and other historical celebrities. 28 Discoveries

Dr. Nadine Darwiche (BS ’84, MS ’87) is leading a drug. “You have to be very patient,” she says, multidisciplinary team that includes AUB “but it is of course enormously rewarding AUB colleagues with expertise in cancer research, research as well.” chemistry, and chemical engineering. Working with Drs. Najat Saliba and Tarek Ghaddar (chemistry) and Dr. Walid Saad (chemical Spaces engineering), Darwiche is studying several plants Yarrow and that are well known in Lebanon to have medicinal properties to identify which of them might be knapweed have Tissue Culture Facility most successfully used to develop anticancer anti-cancer properties Core Lab, Diana Tamari drugs for the market. This research is being that are effective against Sabbagh Building funded by Hikma Pharmaceuticals. colon and skin cancer, Darwiche works primarily in the Tissue Culture and might fight Facility Core Lab in the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Building where she is assisted by Zeynab Jaber, a leukemia and breast biochemistry graduate student, and research cancer as well. assistant Melody Saikali (BS ’08, MS ’11). In this core lab, she grows, treats, and prepares samples from cancer cells to investigate the mode of cancer cell death from two promising medicinal Darwiche has been studying medicinal plants in plant species that are known to have anticancer Lebanon for a long time. In addition to being a properties: Akhilia zat al-alf waraqah (yarrow) and professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics Shawk al-dardar (loggerheads or knapweed). and coordinator of AUB’s new PhD program in These two plant species have been shown to be Biomedical Sciences, Darwiche is also a founding particularly effective against colon cancer and member of AUB’s Nature Conservation Center. skin cancer, and may be promising against One of its longstanding projects is to identify and leukemia and breast cancer as well. Darwic he develop local plants and products that can be says that it can take years—even decades—and as marketed to ensure sustainable agro-industrial much as a billion dollars to produce an anticancer growth that benefits local communities. Wellness AUBMC 2020, health, and medicine

Health care’s obscure boundaries in times of war. “Mainly we need to The Unseen Ravages of War understand that we are all implicated in what’s going on in the region, 30 western politicians, local politicians, academics. We are all partly responsible and partly victims.”

The Neonate Fund 33 Critical care for fragile newborns.

Dr. Souha Kanj Sharara of the Infection Control and Prevention Program Check-Up: Fighting Infections 34 (ICPP) explains the basics and offers tips for staying healthy.

New Balance Center at AUBMC; agreement with the Iraqi Ministry of AUBMC News 36 Health; fashion designer Reem Acra (BBA ’82) designs new uniforms for AUBMC.

Sahtein Fresh Tomato Fettuccini: pasta perfection from Marlene Matar (BS ’63), 38 with the MUFA breakdown from Marie Claire Chamieh (BS ’86, MS ’93). Wellness

To this AUB assistant professor Dewachi and AUB co-authors Zeina of medical anthropology and public Maasri (Architecture and Design, health and his research colleagues, BA ’96), Fouad Fouad (Health Sciences), however, the hell that happens on and Ghassan Abu Sitta (AUB Medical the battlefield is only the beginning Center)—with collaborators from Johns of the dystopian devastation that Hopkins University, Birzeit University, warfare has wrought since the end of and the University of Montreal—was the Cold War. recognized in the accompanying Lancet editorial, which noted that “the effects Everybody knows about the of the conflicts in Iraq and Syria … both psychological problems, such as have resulted in the militarisation of post-traumatic stress syndrome, those health care.” agonies suffered by people who have The fought and witnessed wars. Most know Gone, the authors find, are the days about the security problems such as the when ambulances were allowed safe landmines still being dug up in passage, when doctors were expected southern Lebanon and others to treat everyone, no matter what side Unseen unexpectedly unearthed by spring they were on, when hospitals were safe flooding in the Balkans. Then there havens. “Hospitals,” the editorial are political problems, such as the explains, “have become part of the plight of Syrian children born in battlefield,” echoing the article’s Ravages Lebanon whose parents can’t register assertion that “the targeting and them in Syria, a situation that will misappropriation of health-care cause untold difficulties for these facilities have become part of the of War stateless children and their families. tactics of warfare.” But there is a whole new set of Omar Dewachi (MPH ’00) agrees: problems, manifested most recently War is, indeed, hell. in the attack on a hospital in South “We have seen the Kordofan, Sudan, in May: security and military issues become mixed transformation of with political and psychological ones. health care,” Dewachi “We have seen the transformation of says. “It is now directly health care,” Dewachi says. “It is now implicated in military directly implicated in military strategy. The war on terror has blurred all kinds strategy. The war of relationships.” on terror has blurred all kinds Dewachi and his colleagues’ article, “Changing therapeutic geographies of relationships.” of the Iraqi and Syrian wars,” published in the February 2014, issue of the prestigious British medical journal The Lancet, explored Dewachi, who added a PhD in social the ramifications of the fact that “war anthropology from Harvard in 2008 to is a global health problem [whose] his medical degree from the University repercussions go beyond death, injury, of Baghdad and master’s in public and morbidity. The effects of war are health from AUB, describes himself as long term, reshaping the everyday lives an ethnographer whose interest in this and survival of entire populations.” field was whetted by personal The significance of the work of experience. 3130

“I started med school in Iraq right after the Thus, a journalist travels back and forth Gulf War in 1991,” he explains, “and I lived from Iraq to Lebanon for cancer treatments; through the post-war experience as a medical an Iraqi accountant has rented a small educator and a doctor. I watched the collapse apartment in Beirut because he has to spend of the health-care system.” so much time there getting treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Iraq has entered into He describes the impact of UN sanctions on contracts with several Lebanese hospitals, the highly respected Iraqi health-care system. while the Jordanian Ministry of Health has Lacking medicine and equipment, doctors requested international aid to support the care had little to offer their patients. People lost it provides to Syrian and Iraqi refugees. faith in the system. Dewachi, like many doctors, left the country, going first to AUB, then to Harvard.

“I arrived in the US in August 2001. Then came A consequence of what 9/11. The preparation for war turned my attention back to Iraq. The war and some scholars refer invasion defined that moment for me.” to as the “increased militarization of the The kind of collapse Dewachi had experienced, the authors find, is a consequence of what planet” caused by the some scholars refer to as the “increased war on terror, which militarization of the planet” caused by the has “produced a sense war on terror, which has “produced a sense of permanent and of permanent and pervasive war,” especially in the Middle East. Characterized by urban pervasive war.” warfare, ethnic, and religious hostilities, the involvement of regional powers and militant transnational groups, the last few years have seen multiple examples of the breakdown of Some can find treatment—often expensive, state authority and, with it, the breakdown of sometimes requiring that the extended national health-care systems. families help pay the bills—while back home things get worse. Some ramifications of this collapse are obvious. “Medicine has become both a “There’s a mistrust of doctors, after what target and an instrument of war,” the has happened, both by the people and by article explains, citing the example of the government,” Dewachi explains. “The US the Syrian doctor in Idlib who was arrested use of polio campaigns to locate Bin Laden and detained for 10 days while security forces intensified this. . . . The nature of war has tried to ascertain whether he had treated been redefined by the war on terror. It produces participants in an anti-regime demonstration. an enemy that is almost non-human and has to be eliminated.” Other consequences are broader. The authors “introduce the concept of One result of this perfect storm of health-care therapeutic geographies—defined as the problems is, co-author Fouad Fouad told geographic reorganization of health care National Public Radio reporters in November within and across borders under conditions of 2013, the first evidence of polio in Syria in war.” Health care is no longer national: 14 years. Cases found in Deir Ezzor prompted it is international. It is no longer a system, UNICEF to launch a local campaign, which, in but a patchwork of idiosyncratic turn, prompted health officials in Lebanon to arrangements. send out 5,000 workers to deliver the vaccine. Wellness

Although there hasn’t been a case in Lebanon for 12 years, Fouad says that it’s crucial to attack the problem immediately: “It’s not just about ‘fast enough.’ They should be ‘wide enough.’”

Fouad goes on to explain that health officials suspect that the virus was brought to Syria by foreign fighters from Pakistan. “We’re seeing strange diseases that we thought were finished,” he says. “It means now it’s a collapsed system. So, no one wants to say it’s a failed state, but at least in some part, it is.”

Old diseases reappear. New ones appear. Dewachi explains in “The Toxicity of Everyday Survival in Iraq” (www.jadaliyya.com), that the United States’ use of depleted uranium artillery shells in Iraq has caused increased rates of cancer and congenital birth defects. “Iraq’s toxicity and the resultant social scars run as deep as the molecular and genetic makeup of society and will afflict generations to come.”

What should be done? The first thing, the authors of the Lancet article conclude, is to become clear on what’s happening and the A worker peers from the top of a bombed ambulance at the Red ramifications of these changes. There’s Cross Station in Tyre a need to “introduce new transnational Photo: Reuters/Ali Hashisho methods of inquiry so we can begin to understand, before we are able to provide answers to health problems related to populations enduring “We’re seeing strange protracted and long-term conflicts.” diseases that we thought Then? were finished,” he says. “This is the failure of global systems,” “It means now it’s a Dewachi says. “Mainly we need to understand that we are all implicated in collapsed system. So, no what’s going on in the region, Western one wants to say it’s a politicians, local politicians, academics. failed state, but at least in We are all partly responsible and partly some part, it is.” victims.” -N.B. 3332 Neonate Fund

It wasn’t so long ago that there was no Neonate Fund. “It was always something,” remembers Dr. Khalid Yunis (MD ’79), “that I wanted to set up, ever since I returned to AUB in 1996.” A volunteer-led It took the effort of Dr. Yunis, professor fund brings critical of pediatrics and head, Division of care to fragile Neonatology, and the energy, newborns. commitment, and extraordinary generosity of five women (Hala Dahdah Abou Jaber, Mona Al Khatib Alami, Maya Fakih Ghandou r, Marwa Rizk Jaber, and Rada Lozi Sawwaf) to make it happen. These women are all mothers of newborns who required immediate medical attention at birth, and who wanted to help other families in similar situations get the medical care their babies needed. “It is because of them that we are able to provide families with Upcoming Neonate Fund the best and most appropriate care for Parents don’t expect their babies to “There was one family that had 2014 events their babies,” says Dr. Yunis. spend time at the NICU and so it is not quadruplets born premature. One of include: something they prepare for, either them was in critical condition and had World Prematurity Becoming a mother gave Pascale Nakad emotionally or financially. While a to stay longer with lots of medical Day - November 17, (BS ’99) a very special appreciation for normal delive ry at AUBMC might cost intervention, which of course meant 2014 the powerful role that the Neonate Fund about $2,000-$3,000 (total cost for the more expenses. . . . The parents could Fundraising plays in the lives of so many grateful mother and baby), just one night at the barely afford to pay for the ride to the Gala Dinner - families. “Imagine that at what should NICU can run as high as $1,500 to hospital and back home. The Neonate December 2014 be a completely joyous moment—the $2,000. Although some babies only Fund covered a big part of the bill, birth of your child, you find out that need to spend a couple of nights at the leaving a small amount to pay. It’s your child needs special help. This is so NICU, others stay for up to six months wonderful to see a family with very scary—and then you find out that this or even longer. Almost 35-40 percent limited income get the best care and help will cost more money than you can of the 15-20 babies who are admitted to pay a minimal amount for it.” imagine.” As coordinator of the Neonate the NICU each month require financial Fund, Nakad knows only too well what assistance. In just two and a half years, NICU nurse manager Tania Daaboul this experience is like. She meets the Neonate Fund has provided over says that the families who receive families whose babies are being cared $1.5 million and supported 166 families. support are enormously grateful for the for at AUBMC’s Neonatal Intensive Care financial assistance they receive from Unit (NICU) to help them sort through As a NICU nurse at AUBMC for nine the Neonate Fund. “They also express what they can afford to pay, and how years, Grace Abdel Nour has come to their appreciation to us,” she says, “that much help the Neonate Fund can know many of these families well. She there are people who are willing to provide. has seen parents and, she says, support them, even though they don’t especially dads brought to tears know them personally. . . . The role of because of the financial pressure. the Neonate Fund is vital; hand in hand with this team, we are working together to save as many lives as we can.” Wellness

Check Up: Fighting Infections MainGate talked to AUBMC’s Dr. Souha Kanj Sharara, professor of medicine, head of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and chairperson, Infection Control and Prevention Program (ICPP).

Q. What are the main conditions you On the other hand, the majority of deal with? bacterial infections will only get A. As an infectious diseases specialist, better with medicine. So skin, lung, the majority of infections one deals urine, and other bacterial infections with in the hospital are pneumonias, must be treated with antibiotics. urinary, wound, and blood stream infections. What is good about the People somehow equate fever with AUBMC fellowship program is that the need for antibiotics. They don’t fellows are exposed to a large variety understand that antibiotics do not of diseases, from endocarditis work unless you have a bacterial (infection of the heart valves) to infection. It has nothing to do with meningitis. In the hospital, we also whether or not you have a fever. It’s a treat severe infectious diarrhea, and major problem in Lebanon because infections acquired from medical antibiotics are available over the devices. counter and people buy them and take them because their friend or a Patients come to the clinics with neighbor advises them to, so they Dr. Kanj Sharara different types of infections. Brucella self administer antibiotics, which or Malta Fever is endemic in Lebanon. can be useless for viral infections. It Dr. Kanj Sharara completed her MD at It is a bacterial infection from is because of this abuse that we have St. Joseph University and her residency unpasteurized milk products such a high and growing resistance in internal medicine and fellowship in or raw meat. Patients suffer from to antibiotics. infectious diseases at Duke University, fever, headache, joint pain, and North Carolina. She was a research sometimes spinal infection. We also I strongly advise people not to buy or fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical treat sexually transmitted diseases, take antibiotics unless prescribed by Institute and then a member of the malaria, and upper respiratory tract a doctor. The majority of respiratory Duke faculty where she is still a infections including influenza. These viral infections, diarrhea, and even consulting professor. She joined conditions are usually treatable. bacterial gastroenteritis, can get AUBMC in 1998. Unlike other specialties where better without antibiotics. patients have to live with certain Q. What attracted you to this diseases, we can often treat and Another key point to mention is that specialty? cure infection in a short time. It is the old belief for taking a full course I chose infectious diseases because A. rewarding. of antibiotics is changing. If, for it is not limited to one organ system; example, someone starts a course for you see so many pathologies in Q. Can you explain the difference a suspected bacterial infection and different organs. I love the holistic between a virus and a bacterial the symptoms evolve to suggest a approach to the patient, rather than infection? People tend to confuse virus, doctors should advise patients managing dysfunctional organs. the two and take antibiotics for not to complete the course of Also, this is an ever-evolving field both. antibiotics. There is no evidence to with new viruses, bacteria, and They are two different say that the packet or the bottle must resistance mechanisms. It is A. microorganisms. The majority of be completed once started. If you challenging and is not limited to any viral infections are self-limited and finish the course unnecessarily you age group. Some of the best internist get better without any treatment. might be exposing bacteria in the professors who taught me at Duke Hepatitis B and C, HIV, flu, and the gastrointestinal system that you were infectious diseases specialists. herpes groups are some of the very don’t need to kill. Patients should They served as true role models and few viruses that can be treated with continue to take antibiotics for inspired me to pursue this career drugs. In over 90 percent of viral bacterial infections as prescribed path. infections, though, there is no though, and to consult with their treatment. We rely on the immune doctors before doing something system to control the infection. different. 3534

Q. What about the growing problem are slowed down but not killed, their immunity. With too much of drug resistance? again allowing them to develop prevention there is a danger they A. Drug resistance is becoming a big resistance. could contract childhood illnesses health issue. All kinds of bacteria are like chickenpox not as children, but becoming drug resistant. We need a later in life, when it could be a killer. multidisciplinary approach to curtail the problem and, most importantly, In general it is Q. What are your top tips for staying antimicrobial stewardship, which healthy and avoiding infectious means you need good control over better for children diseases? how antibiotics are being utilized, to be exposed to A. Do what your mom taught you to do! including in animal feed. We are common viruses • Wash your hands. increasingly exposed to antibiotics • Avoid close contact with people even when we are not taking them. during childhood in who are sneezing and coughing. The Ministries of Agriculture and order to develop • Use the crook of your arm, not your Health, the Syndicate of hands, i f you cough or sneeze. This Pharmacists, and the Order of their immunity. avoids spreading the virus through Physicians need to be involved. We handshakes. are working towards antimicrobial • Keep a bottle of alcohol-based hand stewardship to control antibiotic use cleanser with you. inside hospitals but this needs to be Q. Is there such a thing as too much • Wash your hands before eating or applied nationally and in outpatient prevention? rubbing your eyes. settings. Since 2005, significant work A. Certainly not in a hospital setting. • Wash fruits and vegetables well in this area has been done at AUBMC’s ICPP is a state-of-the-art before eating them and don’t AUBMC. We have instituted several operation. The recent Joint consume food from unreliable types of stewardship efforts Commission surveyors were sources—especially raw meat, eggs, including restricting the use of broad impressed by our policies and and unpasteurized milk products. spectrum antibiotics and creating an procedures. Alcohol-based hand • Keep up-to-date on your electronic antimicrobial restriction sanitizers are available in all patient vaccination schedule. Children form, establishing guidelines for care areas. We are partners in need their measles, polio, tetanus, management of common infectious international networks where and pertussis shots, but so do diseases, educational efforts, as well AUBMC data serves as a benchmark. adults. This is especially important as implementing strict infection Three of the program staff are for adults who are working with control practices to prevent the certified in infection control (CIC), young children. spread of resistant bacteria. which is the highest certification in • Older people should take the flu the field one can get from the United vaccine. It is changed every year A major problem in Lebanon is that States. according to the circulating virus. there is not enough control of the generic drugs that are sold. In some In general it is better for children to -M.A. cases these drugs are not as effective be exposed to common viruses as the original products so bacteria during childhood in order to develop Wellness AUBMC News

New Balance Center at AUBMC

“We are targeting all aspects of dizziness Center is the first comprehensive and imbalance, whether related to ear, multidisciplinary balance center in neurologic, muscular or orthopedic Lebanon and one of very few in the issues,” explained Dr. Marc Bassim, Middle East. It provides a range of assistant professor of otolaryngology at services including computerized AUBMC. Dr. Bassim is talking about dynamic posturography testing, which AUBMC’s new multidisciplinary Balance is one of the most effective ways to Center, which caters to patients with assess the different systems involved dizziness, a complex complaint that can in maintaining balance, as well as the result from disorders of various organ patient’s adaptive mechanisms. The systems and medical conditions. It Balance Center also offers detailed affects between 20 and 30 percent of testing of the inner ear balance system people worldwide and increases with rotary chair testing, video- significantly with age. nystagmography (for testing inner ear and central motor functions), head- With specialties including otology, impulse testing, and vestibular evoked audiology, and physical therapy for myogenic potentials. rehabilitation, AUBMC’s Balance

Partnership with the Ira qi Ministry of Health

AUBMC and the Ministry of Health in Dean for External Medical Affairs Iraq signed a far-reaching agreement in Dr. Fadi Bitar (MD ’86). April. It addresses some of the immediate health-care concerns in Iraq, and is AUB is helping to rebuild that health- helping to lay the groundwork that will care infrastructure and is assisting speed up the day when Iraqi medical and with capacity building in Iraq as well. In paramedical staff will be able to provide additio n to training the Iraqi physicians desperately needed care for their who travel with their patients to AUBMC, patients in Iraq. Medical Center doctors and staff are also training health-care providers in Iraq, Unfortunately, many Iraqis who require screening patients to be sent to AUBMC, medical attention today are required to following up with patients after leave the country to get it. Since 2008, treatment, and providing management more than 38,000 patients have traveled consultancy services. A team from to AUBMC seeking medical care for a AUBMC traveled to Baghdad in January wide variety of conditions including and March to lay the groundwork for adult and pediatric cardiology, bone the establishment of a bone marrow marrow transplant, ophthalmology, ENT, transplantation unit in Baghdad neurology, PET Scan, and radiotherapy. Medical City. Iraqi physicians who travel with these patients are being trained at AUBMC The two parties have also agreed to work so that they can provide appropriate together to set up a new medical school follow-up care when they and the in Baghdad. “These types of agreements patients return to Iraq. “We welcome highlight AUBMC’s commitment to the opportunity to work with colleagues establish regional partnerships, build in Iraq to provide exceptional care for bridges, and share knowledge with Iraqi patients until the health-care associates and partners in the region. infrastructure in Iraq is ready to This is a critical component of the accommodate them,” said Associate AUBMC 2020 vision,” explained Dr. Bitar. 3 7 36 37

Say Goodbye to Scrubs World-renowned fashion designer Reem “AUBMC is, and always will be, near and “It is wonderful to see AUBMC’s growth Acra (BBA ’82), known for her elegant dear to my heart,” said Acra, whose and expansion over the years, and it was and glamorous bridal and couture gowns bond with the institution dates back to truly my wish to design a wardrobe for and ready-to-wear collections, has her birth at the hospital attended by the staff that would honor, celebrate, designed new uniforms for AUBMC. The obstetrician Dr. Fayez Sweidan. She grew and acknowledge the work they do every staff from the Medical Center’s Patient up on campus while both parents worked day,” she said. Affairs Unit, Patient Access and Finance, at AUBMC. Additionally, her brother, Sari Private Clinics as well as receptionists Acra, studied at the Faculty of Medicine By creating a special collection of uniforms and clerks will wear Acra’s fashions. Her and graduated with the class of 1989. “It for AUBMC’s dedicated staff, Reem Acra designs add smart sophistication and was my pleasure to design these uniforms has elevated the medical center's image, sleek, tailored elegance to all of the and the experience only reinforces my helping to brand and convey AUBMC’s associates at AUBMC. connection with the center,” added Acra. continued excellence and professionalism.

IN CASE YOU AUBMC became the first Medical Center in Lebanon and AUBMC’s Department of Family Medicine held its first the fourth in the world to receive ACGME-I open house on June 11. Watch the AUBMC website for MISSED IT. Accreditation. news about another open house this fall.

MEMA 2014 took place on April 24-26. The focus of this The National Cedar Medal, rank of Officer, was year’s meeting, which was sponsored jointly with MD awarded to VP Mohamed Sayegh (MD ’84) and Anderson Cancer Center Global Academic Programs Dr. Nagi El Saghir. (MDACC GAP) and in collaboration with King Hussein Cancer Center of Amman, Jordan, was hematological Dr. Brigitte Khoury, associate professor and clinical malignancies. psychologist at AUBMC, represented AUB at meetings organized by the WHO in April 2014 to lay the FAFS Dean Nahla Hwalla has been awarded the 2014 groundwork for the development of the Mental and Susan Bulkeley Butler Leadership Excellence Award by Behavioral Disorders Chapter of the International the International Breast Cancer and Nutrition (IBCN) Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Delegates from group at Purdue University. more than 15 countries participated in these important meetings in Amman, Jordan. 38 Wellness

In Focus Sahtein Fresh Tomato Fettuccini

Here is an easy-to-prepare and healthy pasta recipe using fresh tomatoes, basil, and parmesan cheese. Thanks to Marlene Matar (BS ’63) for opening her kitchen to us. Find instructional videos and more recipes—from mafroukeh baida to Irish soda bread—at www.marlenematar.com.

INGREDIENTS: sauce. Place pot over medium heat and mix long enough to Send your recipe submissions to • 2000 g red ripe tomatoes, heat it through. Remove from [email protected] cut into big chunks heat, cover, and let rest five • 4 tbsps olive oil minutes before serving. This 1950s era “iron lung,” • 1 big onion (100 g), finely • Serve hot with grated photographed at the then American chopped parmesan cheese on the side. University Hospital, was a high tech • 5 fat garlic cloves (20 g), ventilator for patients with respiratory failure. The patient’s body was placed crushed GOOD FOR yOU? inside the machine, while their head • ½ to 1 small chili, seeds remained outside. The machine removed, finely chopped Marie Claire Chamieh assisted breathing by creating a • 3/4 cup basil leaves (BS ’86, MS ’93) vacuum around the chest, making it • 500 g fettuccini Lecturer, Department of easier for the chest and lungs to • ½ cup grated parmesan Nutrition and Food Sciences, expand—pulling air from the mouth cheese says: into the lungs. It was widely used • Salt and freshly ground • This meal is a good source of during the polio epidemic of the black pepper vitamins A, K and C (coming 1950s, though the cumbersome from the basil and tomatoes) machine made caring for the patient PREPARATION: • It is a good source of difficult. Today’s modern ventilators manganese and selenium help patients breathe more effectively • Place tomatoes in a food (mainly from the onions, than the “iron lung” by pumping air processor* and pulse until garlic and basil) into their lungs through a tube placed fine. Pour into a food mill • It also contains amounts of in the throat, freeing the patient’s placed over a large bowl or essential fats (MUFAs from body, and enabling significantly pot to extract skin and seeds. olive oil) enhanced care. • In a medium size pot, fry • It is a good source of energy onions in 2 tbsps olive oil until (mainly carbohydrates) they start to color. Then add crushed garlic and chili and However: fry for a few more seconds. • Some vegetables could be • Pour tomato sauce over added (such as zucchini or onion-garlic mixture and broccoli) to increase vitamin cook covered, until onions and mineral content Dr. Hassan Chami *If you do not have are tender. Season. • If you aren’t vegetarian, a a food processor, Director of place tomato • Boil fettuccini according to good source of protein may Respiratory Care Unit chunks in a pot package directions and drain. be added, such as chicken, Assistant Professor, and simmer 5-10 Add the rest of the olive oil. turkey or shrimp Faculty of Medicine minutes until soft then churn in the • Chop basil and add with • To increase fiber content, food mill. fettuccini to pot with tomato use whole wheat fettuccini 39 Impact

Regional impact, advocacy, and policy initiatives

FAFS graduate student Sara Moledor puts worms to work and wins the Samir & Claude Abillama Eco-Entrepreneurship Award. Other winning First Prize to the Wrigglers projects include an innovative dust-trapping window screen, a website 40 linking farmers to market, and a socially responsible way to dispose of pharmaceutical waste.

AUB’s Office of Regional External Programs (REP) helps build institutional Gateway to Opportunity 42 know-how throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

NGOs Mean Business 44 OSB workshops develop business expertise to help NGOs build capacity.

Hot Chicks 46 Sustainable food production at AREC: reducing the cost of raising chicks. Impact

First Prize to the Wrigglers

Early morning coffee chez Paul on Bliss Street and the subject under discussion is . . . worms! Hardly an everyday topic, it’s nevertheless the one that netted FAFS graduate student Sara Moledor the first ever $20,000 Samir & Claude Abillama Eco-Entrepreneurship Award. Recently inaugurated at AUB under the auspices of the Nature Conservation Center, this annual award invite s proposals for marketable and sustainable novel technologies that benefit local communities while safeguarding the environment. 4140

“Red Wrigglers are the best,” Moledor other worm species, all with the declares. “You can buy them online.” potential to turn her vermicomposting The unlikely image of trusty Liban experiments into a thriving Poste arriving at one’s door with a tub ecobusiness. of Red Wrigglers is quickly dispelled as Moledor explains that Lebanon has its Vermicomposting puts the Red own Red Wrigglers along with up to 30 Wrig glers and friends to work munching through vegetable waste to excrete 100 percent natural compost, which helps plants thrive without the You can need for chemical fertilizer. It is cheap, create a mini effective, and simple to set up. You fertilizer yields across large-scale worm can create a mini vermicomposting populations; and how to price the value vermicomposting operation on your balcony, under your of the compost in a commercial market. operation on your coffee table, or you can expand it into balcony, under a village enterprise Moledor explains. The Abillama Award jury selected four She has tried it in the AUB lab, around finalists and while Moledor’s worms your coffee table, the FAFS green houses, and as a stole the show, the three runners-up or you can expand small-scale village test case. The hard have much to celebrate. An innovative it into a village working worms can rest their case but dust-trapping window screen made is vermicomposting sustainable as a from statically charged, recyclable enterprise Moledor business venture? That is the challenge plastic will be developed through explains. now facing Moledor. How to turn this sponsorship from Jammal Trust Bank; proven eco-friendly operation into a Zira3apedia, a pioneering website money-spinner? linking farmers directly to buyers has caught on with the Beirut Chamber of The kit materials are cheap and Commerce; and a socially responsible easily available. Moledor opted for scheme to bury pharmaceutical waste recyclables: the ubiquitous blue plastic within locally recycled hard board has fruit crates and the compacted felt piqued the interest of several potential wrapping material popular with local sponsors. If the first year is anything to packing agents. Now she must consider: go by, competition for the Abillama how to grow the worm population to Award will be fierce next year. keep up with potential demand (they are slow reproducers); how to calculate -M.A.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT. The Ministry of Tourism signed a Takaful 2014, the Fourth Annual developing countries, to determine memorandum of understanding with Conference on Arab Philanthropy and research priorities, and to provide AUB’s Nature Conservation Center on Civic Engagement, took place at AUB and essential elements for developing a December 5 to cooperate in the field of at the University of Balamand on June 4-6. sound ethical framework for health ecotourism through the exchange of care research. information and expertise. The Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program held its 6th Phase Two of the National Multiple regional conference in Kuwait. The focus Sclerosis Awareness Campaign was of this meeting was to explore ways in launched at AUBMC on June 6. which ethical research can be promoted in Impact Gateway to Opportunity

The Office of Regional External Programs exports AUB expertise across the MENA region from Sudan to Saudi Arabia, and beyond.

“Through this office,” explains Hassan with AUW, sums it up this way: Diab, PhD, VP for Regional External “REP is helping AUW to align with Programs (REP), and Interim AUB Chief international academic standards.” Operating Officer, “AUB is expanding Qatar opportunities throughout the region. Maya Nabhani Zeidan (MS ’97), FAFS Al-Fardan Group We are introducing new academic program review and accreditation Holding Co. programs and helping to set up officer, is one of the people at AUB educational institutions.” Actually, REP who is helping AUW do this. She says is doing even more than that. Since it that the material that she taught in was established in 1975 as the AUB the workshops she organized at AUW Services Corporation (AUBSCO), REP “was the latest in nutrition and has been and continues to be involved dietetics curriculum planning, goal in an extraordinary range of projects. development, and assessment as Here are just a few examples. It is per guidelines from the Accreditation working with the Lebanese Ministry Council for Education in Nutrition of Education to improve educational and Dietetics (ACEND), the US-based

standards in Lebanese public schools; accrediting agency for nutrition Sudan with the World Health Organization to programs.” As one of the members Ahfad University build capacity in advanced health of the team at FAFS led by Dean Nahla for Women managerial skills development; with Hwalla (MS ’74, PhD ’77), that was (AUW) the United Nations Population Fund’s involved with FAFS’s successful effort Youth & Reproductive Health Programs to secure its trailblazing ACEND as part of its Country Programme Action accreditation, Zeidan is very familiar Plan in Iraq; and with the Ahfad with these guidelines. University for Women (AUW) in the Sudan to offer enhanced educational “We’re particularly proud of our opportunities for women. relationship with AUW,” says Diab. “It was estab lished almost 50 years “We turned to AUB,” says Professor ago [in 1966] and plays an important Amna E. Badri, “to benefit from its role in the Sudan promoting women’s long and proven expertise in academic development and empowerment. In excellence.” As vice president of this way it is similar to another REP academic affairs at AUW, Badri has project that we are concluding this been intimately involved in AUW’s summer—with PNU [the Princess Saudi Arabia relationship with REP dating back to Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University] The Princess Nourah 2007. She speaks eloquently about in Saudi Arabia.” The first university Bint Abdul Rahman University (PNU) the many “fruits of this cooperation” for women in Riyadh, PNU was and Fahad Bin Sultan including the introduction of new established subsequent to a royal University (FBSU) programs, restructuring existing directive and so its progress is being courses, training faculty members, watched very closely in KSA. REP Iraq establishing a student information provided support for PNU’s College United Nations Population system (SIS), and streamlining the of Education and Center for Teaching Fund (Youth & Reproductive Health Programs) academic and administrative functions. and Learning, and restructured the Registrar Moueen Salameh, PhD, who deanship of female student affairs. coordinates REP’s far-reaching project 4342

REP is also expanding educational just rely on the expertise of AUB opportunities for underserved faculty members,” says Sami Gheriafi populations because of its geographic (EMBA ’13), director of institutional reach. One of its current projects is with consulting at REP. “Many AUB staff Fahad Bin Sultan University (FBSU) in people are also involved in REP projects.” Tabuk, which is in a remote part of Saudi Arabia. “This project,” says Diab, United Arab “is giving people who live in an isolated Emirates area a chance to enroll in strong With REP support, Bin Omeir Education academic programs and in this way to Foundation advance themselves professionally.” Fahad Bin Sultan University has become Fahad Bin Sultan University, which the leading private Congo signed a five-year agreement with REP Kinshasa School of in June 2014, is one of REP’s many university in the Tabuk Public Health repeat clients. The relationship dates Province. back to 2007 when FBSU first contracted with REP to develop entirely new curricula for its colleges of business, Gheriafi says that clients are attracted engineering, and computing. “With REP to AUB because of its academic support,” says AUB Professor Ahmad reputation, and also its long history Nasri who has been seconded to FBSU of outreach to the region. “We have as its president, “FBSU has become the been advancing AUB’s academic lead ing private university in the Tabuk mission through consulting, technical Province.” assistance, and training for almost 40 years. AUB has a track record. There In just four years, FBSU has achieved a have been instances when clients have four-fold increase in student enrolment come to us after talking with other and has hosted a number of important consulting firms that are interested national and regional gatherings only in securing a one-off contract. including the Interactive Robotics That’s not the case with AUB. We’re Assistance for the Physically Challenged here for the long term. It is very 2012 conference, with the University gratifying that we have so many Jordan of Versailles in France and the repeat clients. ” Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC International Islamic University of Malaysia. Nasri says that it has been a Diab notes that REP has conducted challenging assignment but also a very hundreds of projects in more than 20 rewarding one. “We are proud that our countries in the region, but hastens students achieved very impressive to add that there are still many results in the first, second, and third opportunities for REP, and for AUB. annual student scientific conferences, Zeidan agrees. “I think AUB should thus raising the reputation of FBSU in collaborate with other institutions the entire country.” and organizations, locally and Lebanon Kuwait regionally. This involvement enhances Developing Rehabilitation National Bank of Kuwait One of the priorities of REP’s current AUB’s role as a productive partner Assistance to Schools and contract with FBSU is to build the sharing knowledge and expertise for Teacher Improvement (D-RASATI) capacity of the registrar’s office, the the betterment of communities while library, finance, and purchasing. “This enabling learning beyond campus is the type of comprehensive service we walls.” often provide for our clients. We don’t Impact

“It is so wonderful,” says Lena Yashruti To make this proje ct “special,” Chahine Idriss (former student ’84), “that AUB is and project manager Lina Tannir finally doing something like this for the (BBA ’91, MBA ’00), who also teaches community. AUB was for a long time finance at the Olayan School, worked very distant. It has so much to offer—its closely with colleagues from AUB and experience, its expertise, its reputation.” from the NGO community. “We Idriss is executive director of Inaash, consulted with NGOs, like Al-Majmoua, the Association for the Development of the leading microfinance NGO in Palestinian Camps, which was founded Lebanon, that we knew to be in the late 1960s to provide financial professional and experienced and support for Palestinian refugees living asked them to assist us to develop the in camps in Lebanon. Inaash’s office is program,” explained Tannir. They also in Hamra, within walking distance of called on the expertise of some of their AUB. It is one of the 24 NGOs that work colleagues at the Olayan School, and in primarily with Palestinian and Syrian AUB’s Offices of Development, and NGOs refugees in rural areas that sent Grants and Contracts. representatives to a three-day training workshop at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business in April 2014. Mean Working with the Organized as part of the “NGOs Serving Communities in Need” project, the NGO sector is a new April wor kshop was funded by Projacs type of project for Business International. “The response to the first the Olayan School. workshop that we held in February was OSB and Projacs International excellent. Even before it ended, we had I think we have redefine “business as usual” for phone calls from people asking when demonstrated that the Lebanese NGO community. was the next one, and could they there are enormous participate,” says Acting Dean of the Olayan School Salim Chahine, PhD. opportunities for us to contribute. We “Our goal was to develop a program want to do more. that would be relevant to NGOs—that would help them become more effective, to build ca pacity. NGOs play such an important role in our In the opening session on NGO community—especially now. I believe management, Al-Majmoua operations the Olayan School has a role to play in manager Abed Moqaddem stressed the supporting them. This is something we importance of managers having should do,” explained Chahine. planning, monitoring, leadership, and organizational skills, the types of skills Another workshop participant, Lama that Al-Majmoua has needed to Mikati (BS ’07, MS ’14) who is director overcome the challenges it has faced of Nasma: Learning and Resource since it was established in 1997. Center, an NGO that offers children Executive director Youssef Fawaz from low income families access to a (BEN ’81), PhD, talked about some of library, multimedia facilities, and a those challenges—the July 2006 war, computer lab, agreed. “What really security tensions in Tripoli, and the motivated me to attend the workshop influx of Syrian refugees. “Many of the was that it was the first one directed to participants were interested in hearing building the capacity of NGOs from a about how we had managed, what business perspective. During my three lessons we had learned,” explained years at Nasma I have attended many Fawaz. NGO conferences and workshops that tackled various issues, but none were Two of the most popular sessions Inaash’s unique, based on a business framework. That is during the three-day workshop were hand embroidered what made this project special and the ones on fundraising and applying artisanal products are available at particularly useful.” for grants. “That [applying for grants] is www.isnaash.org. 4544

always a challenge for us in the NGO “I think some type of follow-up community,” explained Idriss. Joudy consultancy or mentoring program that El-Asmar, communication officer at the matched each NGO with one of the Arab Foundation for Sustainable professionals would be very beneficial Development Ruwwad, agreed. “It’s a to ensure that what we learned is being challenge for us at AUB too,” said Rosie implemented correctly and is meeting a Nasser, associate director of the Office specific need of the NGO,” said Lama of Grants and Contracts (OGC). “It’s also Mikati. something we have a lot of experience doing.” Nasser, who has been working Lena Idriss is especially interested in at OGC since it was established in 2001, learning more about new fundraising enjoyed the chance to share some of tools. “We hear about things like what she has learned. “I received many crowdfunding, but very few of us have positive comments afterwards from the resources or know how to pursue people saying how much they these ideas. It would be great if AUB appreciated the advice, especially the could help with this.” Inaash, which session on ‘tools for finding research was awarded first prize at the end of the support and grant writing.’ It was great workshop for a proposal promoting to be involved in this project,” she says. women’s embroidery, wants to expand. “We offer the finest Palestinian Associate Vice President for embroideries in the world,” says Idriss, What really Development Imad Baalbaki (BBA ’85, “and are working with local designers motivated me MBA ’87), PhD, who also teaches at the to develop new products. We need to to attend the Olayan School, shared his expertise in a find buyers for these products. We need session on the importance of having a help with this.” workshop was fundraising strategy. “It’s very tempting that it was the first especially for small NGOs to feel that Joudy El-Asmar hopes that future one directed to they must apply for any grant or knock workshops will provide more on any prospect donor door, to take opportunities for participants to building the advantage of every opportunity to get “exchange experie nces, learn about capacity of NGOs funding. It is better though,” counseled other's success stories, and about the from a business Baalbaki, “to have a strategy, to think lessons they learned from their through what you want to do and why— failures.” Another topic that is a high perspective. and why you think people might be priority for her and her colleagues is interested to give to you.” advocacy and lobbying. Ruwwad, which received an award during the On the third and final day, participants workshop for a theatrical project to were introduced to budgeting and bring together people from different planning, covering topics such as sides of the conflict in Tripoli, works financial reporting, including what is with some of the most marginalized required by various government communities. “We want to help them entities. “This is the nitty gritty,” said become active citizens, to become Tannir. “Some people think this stuff is aware of their rights, and be able to boring, but it’s important—and advocate for them. We're hungry,” says important to get right.” El-Asmar, “to learn the ‘how-to-do’ so we can achieve this mission.” What’s next? “We want to offer more workshops, and reach more NGOs,” Chahine and Tannir have already talked says Chahine. He and Tannir are also about the need for a mechanism that developing case studies, including would encourage NGOs to work one with Inaash as part of a larger together to support each other. effort to collect data and share “Working with the NGO sector is a new information with the NGO community. type of project for the Olayan School. I Several of the participants had some think we have demonstrated that there recommendations for Chahine and are enormous opportunities for us to Tannir. contribute. We want to do more. We will do more,” says Acting Dean Chahine. 46 Impact

Everybody loves chickens. can’t generate enough electricity to heat the chicks. Hot We love to roast them and broil them; to scramble and boil and poach their eggs. This conglomeration of approaches arose when several AUB professors met to talk In Lebanon alone, every year 600,000 about collaborating. When Abiad, Chicks breeding hens produce 3,000,000 laying environmental engineer Darine Salam hens and—get this!—60,000,000 meat birds. (MA ’06), and mechanical engineer Kamel AREC develops the energy-efficient Aboughali (BS ’83) looked into ways to chicken coops of the future. That’s a lot of chickens. More important, from combine their expertise to reduce the cost of an environmental standpoint, it’s a lot of raising chicks, they realized that important chicks: a lot of chicks mean a lot of electricity. research had been done in this field and decided to enlist help from other professors. This is why, Assistant Professor of Food Joined by Associate Provost Nesreen Ghaddar Pr ocessing and Packaging Mohamad Abiad (energy) and civil engineer Ghassan Chehab (BEN ’98) explains, he and several colleagues (BEN ’96, MEN ’98) they developed and applied for a grant to ramp up the poultry submitted a proposal which was approved facilities at AUB’s Agricultural Research and in December 2013. Supply Openings Education Center (AREC) in the Beqa’a. “I’ve

been interested in moving toward sustainable “This is the first time a system like this has food production for a long time,” he says. been developed,” Abiad says, “with the three “We have to find ways to make it more complementary systems. It mostly relies on Return Opening affordable for producers.” solar, but the others serve as back-up. The 30 research shows that in theory it will work, 1.0 m The project, “Energy Efficient Poultry but we have to try it out.” Produ ction: A Showcase of Various Renewable Energy Applications at AREC- The point is not merely to see if it’ll work. AUB,” is designed to dramatically reduce It is to also develop a training center for

the cost of raising chickens. local farmers and regional researchers. The grant proposal explains the center will

Over the long run chickens aren’t expensive provide “hands-on training for local schools, to raise. It’s only during those first few weeks technical institutes, university students, and

Diagram 1 that the featherless chicks need a steadily representatives from local businesses [that] warm environment. serve the energy industry.” Schematics of a single pen placed one meter above the birds. How do you keep them warm? Articles about the project have appeared in At the moment, it’s done with heat lamps and several specialized journals. One recently other processes that need a lot of electricity. published in the International Journal of In Lebanon, of course, electricity’s expensive Energy Research puts the project into a Heat Exchanger and unreliable. broader perspective , noting the regional food

Thermal insecurity situation is worsening because of Parabolic Storage Solar Tank But this grant from the UN Economic and “steadily increasing energy costs.” Concentrator Auxilliary Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Heat Source will enable Abiad and his colleagues to The article explains that the system will pay

reduce the energy required for raising chicks for itself in one year. Hot AF by two-thirds. HWS “In research you learn as you go,” Abiad Cold AF How? explains. “This will be like a big lab. Once Solar panels? Sure. And maybe inexpensive, it’s up and running, we’ll study it and tweak HWR sustainable construction materials? Yup. it here and there.” Hot Water Circulating Pump How about adding an “earth heat tube Antifreeze Heat Circulating Pump Distribution Unit exchanger” to facilitate heating and cooling A big lab that, if all goes according to plan, and ventilation? Good idea; that’s included, will allow farmers to stay in business, too. And maybe an “anaerobic digester . . . feeding their families while they provide

Diagram 2 using manure generated by AREC livestock” Lebanese kitchens with affordable chickens. to produce methane which can be burned Parabolic concentrator solar heating system. instead of propane when the solar panels -N.B. AUB Everywhere

Alumni lives in action, WAAAUB and chapter news, every day and extraordinary class notes, and unexpected revelations

Sheikha Hissah Al Sabah (BA ’74) is a feminist and social welfare Alumni Profile visionary whose work has helped change the lives of Arab and African 48 women.

WAAAUB Events and Newly elected leadership in Qatar, a spirited class ring ceremony, a new 50 summer camp for the children of alumni, reunion, and the sixth annual Announcements WAAAUB convention.

WAAAUB Around Chapters around the world host iftars, picnics, meet-and-greets, gala dinners, and 51 cultural events. the Globe

Jawad Sbeity’s (BS ’96) Beirut by Bike combines getting fit and giving back, StandingOUTstanding 56 and makes sure that both are fun.

Nadine Chahine (BGD ’00) on the visual aesthetics and accessibility of The Reveal 57 text; a typographer’s success increases her visibility.

Class Correspondents: Taki Mahdessian (BBA ’64) provides a first-hand account of the 50th reunion; Patrick Hitchon (BS ’70, MD ’74) describes the Class Notes 58 AUB/Iowa connection; Lina Shihabuddin (BS ’85, MD ’89) reflects on life 25 years after AUB; and a greeting from Linda Adra (BA ’91) AUB Everywhere

Alumni Profile Women’s Work

At the tender age of five, Sheikha Hissah Al Sabah Al Sabah’s CV includes a master’s in hospital (BA ’74) was sent to boarding school in Britain. It administration from George Washington University; was an educational experiment cut short by the jobs as head of personnel at the International onset of the Suez Crisis but it was a formative Marine and Petroleum Company, and head of experience. Five years later, when she arrived in medical services, research, and development at the Beirut from Kuwait to attend the Lebanese Military Hospital, as well as deputy chairperson, Evangelical School for Girls (LESG), she was already Kuwait Drug Prevention Committee; honorary a veteran in terms of standing on her own two feet. chairperson, Arab Federation of NGO Societies for Drug Prevention and chairperson, Drug Prevention Committee, Kuwait Volunteers Women's Society for Community Service. In conversation she frequently cites her parents as crucial influences in her You really had to personal development. As the father of struggle to get an 85 five girls and one boy, Sheikh Saad always from Elie Salem but they encouraged his daughters to do well in everything were good days and my they did. AUB training helped me An entrepreneur by nature, she opened the first a lot when I applied to fashion boutiques for Kuwaiti women in 1974 as a way of getting to know the Kuwaiti female graduate school in the population. Despite his liberal tendencies, Sheikh United States. Saad saw this as a step too far for a member of the Kuwaiti ruling family. Aided and abetted by her mother, Hissah won him over.

The second daughter of Sheikh Saad Abdallah Al Ever the pioneer, she also started the first Kuwaiti Sabah and the granddaughter of AUB alumnus NGO dealing with drug prevention in response to Sheikh Fahed Salem Al Sabah, Hissah Al Sabah says the plight of Kuwaitis who had been tortured with she is lucky to have had parents and grandparents drugs during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. who valued education. Sheikh Fahed Salem Al As the wider problem of drug abuse became Sabah (her maternal grandfather) had given apparent, her groundbreaking work was permission for the building of an English school in adopted as national policy. Kuwait on condition that his daughters and his granddaughters could attend. Thus it came to pass As for many Kuwaitis, the invasion was a life- that after five years at that school Al Sabah arrived changing event for Al Sabah, instigating a in Beirut fluent in English and rather poor in Arabic. massive switch in priorities. Nowadays women’s Remedial Arabic lessons did the trick. empowerment and maintaining her network of school friends are the main points of focus. “In Hissah Al Sabah formed lasting bonds with her 2010 my school friends and I celebrated our 50th fellow pupils at LESG and like many, she is proud of anniversary together. I call them my ‘Golden Girls’ its history. “It’s older than AUB, it had its centenary and we make a point of getting together five or six in 1960,” she explains. From there she went on to times a year.” Beirut College for Women (BCW, now Lebanese American University) and then to AUB where she Those get-togethers take place when she is not recalls favorite professors like Adnan Iskander and attending conferences, congresses or leading Arab Elie Salem. “I learned a lot from AUB. Coming from women’s delegations to different parts of the world BCW you had to work hard and these professors in her capacity as president of the Council of Arab were not easy. You really had to struggle to get an 85 Businesswomen (CABW), a position she has held from Elie Salem but they were good days and my since the council’s founding in 1999. “It was my AUB training helped me a lot when I applied to father who encouraged me to become president,” Al graduate school in the United States.” Sabah explains. “Or rather he told me that I should 4948

not go for it unless I could become president. When I did, he said he would do everything he could to back me as president, and he did.”

Hissah Al Sabah glows with pride at the fact that the CABW has achieved international recognition and for the first time this year includes all 22 countries in the Arab League with Mauritania and Yemen as the most recent members. “It has brought Arab women together throughout the region,” she says. “Previously North African women were not united with the Gulf and the rest of the Middle East, now they work together in clusters to achieve practical business partnerships. We have joined many international women’s groups and have a significant presence at all their meetings.” Hissah Al Sabah is also president of a new organization called the Union of Arab African Business Women that promotes investment between Gulf and African women. “You can start a business in Africa for as little as $1,000,” she explains. “Gulf women have the money and African women need money to grow small and medium enterprises.” It is little wonder that Hissah Al Sabah has been included in Arabian Business’ list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Arab Women year on year since 2011.

Al Sabah makes a clear distinction between life before and life after assuming the presidency of CABW. Mention her previous work experience Previously North and she quickly dismisses it as “that’s before I retired.” The term ‘retirement’ is relative. African women Alongside her work as president of CABW, she were not united is chairperson of ASAS, a regional real estate with the Gulf and holding company. She is vice president of the the rest of the Committee for Kuwaiti Women’s Affairs and as such dedicates a lot of time to nurturing cottage Middle East, now industries into viable businesses. they work together in As she was looking forward to taking the summer off in what she calls the “Three-Bs” – clusters to Beirut, Bikfaya, and Batroun – Al Sabah was achieve practical simultaneously focusing on the challenges ahead. business The CABW calendar was already filling up. It will have a major presence in an upcoming women’s partnerships conference in Malaysia, she will be speaking at the Deauville Women’s Forum, and there are myriad meetings and seminars. “Occasionally I suggest that I should step down as president,” she says, “but every time I mention this it gets rejected. I must say as I look back over the last 14 years it makes me feel very content to see where the Arab woman is today, to see her working hard and trying her best to succeed in so many different fields; and to see women supporting each other.”

-M.A. AUB Everywhere

WAAAUB Events and Announcements WAAAUB Recently Elected Leadership

QATAR Class Ring Ceremony

Hayssam Hikmat Hamdan (BS ’82, MS ’84) President

Fadia Wajih Fakih (BA ’95) Vice President Catherine Samir Nasrallah (MPH ’12) Treasurer Nadia Mohammad Fanous (BS ’09, MPH ’11) Secretary

Member at Large: Green Field, 5/23/14 Abdul Rahman Chamseddine (MA ’09) Interested in purchasing a class ring? Rima Abdulrazzak Charbaji Contact [email protected] (BBA ’04, MBA ’08) Mohamad Wajdi El Ghotme (BEN ’11) Summer Camp for Alumni Children Maya Ziad El Hajjar (BBA ’09) Khalil Kamel Temsah (BS ’08)

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Look for additional coverage of WAAAUB events in the WAAAUB e-newsletter Al Jame’a and at www.aub.edu.lb/alumni

July and August A new summer camp for alumni children and others ages 5-11. Made possible through a collaboration between WAAAUB and local day-care center Dent de Lai (ddL), the camp offers a wide variety of indoor and outdoor recreational and educational activities. 5150

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On the map: Find recent alumni activities from around the globe. Visit the WAAAUB website at www.aub.edu.lb/alumni to find a chapter near you and to learn about upcoming events.

WAAAUB wants to hear from alumni in

14 12 Phoenix, Pittsburgh, 8 11 9 10 6 and Vancouver! 5 7 2 1 3 13 17 18 The Chapters Committee is looking for 4 15 16 a few dedicated volunteers to build alumni chapters in those areas.

Interested alumni, please write to the committee at: [email protected] 1 Atlanta 2 Northern California

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AUB alumni in Spain and the Ivory Coast are interested in forming chapters in their countries. If you are interested in Chastain Memorial Park Huddart Park Atlanta, GA 6/1/14 supporting these initiatives, Woodside, CA 6/21/14 join other members on IFTAR their WAAAUB Facebook 3 North Carolina pages by Googling “AUB IFTAR alumni in Ivory Coast” or “AUB alumni in Spain.”

Ray’s in Midtown Aladdin’s Eatery Atlanta, GA 7/25/14 Raleigh, NC 7/11/14 AUB Everywhere

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Legacy Ceremony, West Hall, September 1, included 100 alumni parents and their children.

4 Houston 5 Midwest 8 Montreal

MEET AND GREET TALK IFTAR with President Dorman Westminster Campus Evanston, IL 6/8/14

6 New England

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PICNIC with LAU, Burke Lake Park Fairfax Station, VA 6/22/14

Majorca Bistro and Tappas Houston, TX 6/24/14 Vincent Massey Park Ottawa, Ontario 6/8/14 5352

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IFTAR 13 Greece 17 Engineering and Architecture Chapter

PLAy CELEBRATION OF FEA CLASS OF 2014 by Betty Taoutel, Passport N# 10452 DAIS Cultural Center Athens, 5/10/14

14 United Kingdom

WORLD CUP KS Restaurant on the Keys Ottawa, Ontario 7/18/14

10 Toronto WAAAUB Clubhouse Campus, 5/19/14 LEADERS ROUNDTABLE Telus House Toronto, Ontario 5/28/14 18 Computer Science Chapter

11TH ANNUAL REUNION 11 Geneva Spain v. Netherlands GALA DINNER Calligan’s Bar, Holiday Inn London, 6/13/14

15 Jordan

HONORING CEREMONy Dr. Samih Darwazah AUB Alumni Club of Jordan Amman, 6/17/14 Green Oval Campus, 5/26/14 ANNUAL RAMADAN NIGHT with LAU Alumni Club Grand Hotel Kempinski King Hussein Club Geneva, 6/7/14 Amman, 7/11/14

16 12 Germany Kuwait RAMADAN GHABGA SPRING GATHERING

Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel Kuwait City, 7/19/14 Würzburg, 5/17-18/14 AUB Everywhere 5554

REUNION 6/20-22/14 What a weekend! AUB Everywhere

Q. When did you first become and corporate social responsibility. Q. Do you think that Beirut by Bike interested in biking? We’ve been supplying bikes to the can be about more than just play? A. It was the Beirut traffic of course, “Follow the Women” organization A. Children need a safe place to play. and that turned into a final-year since 2004. It’s an annual bike ride Parents won’t let them outside if project at AUB. Then my colleagues for female cyclists that promotes they’re afraid. Kids should get to

The Beirut by Bike and I took the project to Solidere, peace and justice in the Middle East. play games, not play with weapons. Cycling Club was when they were still rebuilding the In 2014, we supported 26 local Maybe it’s a small thing, but I’d like founded by Jawad downtown. We asked them to put in initiatives with “Bike for Charity” to have an outlet in the north, in the Sbeity (BS ’96) in bike lanes, and they actually gave us fundraisers. Recently, in 2012, the south, in the Beqa’a. It’s a way for 2001, well ahead of its Paris and New some land on the condition that we company initiated “Bike for All,” a people to get out of the house, meet York counterparts, to start a cycling club. Now we have a free training service for new bike each other, and communicate. promote cycling for big 3.7 km track by the sea. riders. We partner with schools, Under current circumstances, the a healthier and more too—we go to them, and they come need for play is serious business. environmentally friendly lifestyle. Q. How big is Beirut by Bike? to us. Our goal is to create space for both A. We’ve had more than 100,000 fun and philanthropy. rentals, so I think that the club is Q. What are some of the obstacles making a difference in the lives of that you have encountered? -B.R. individuals and communities. We A. We are hoping to gain government have a fleet of 2,000 top-quality support so that we can reduce our bikes. fees and expand our philanthropic mission. Rental locations are Q. Who rides? expensive, and it would be great to A. We have customers of all ages, from get a break on that, so that we can 3 years old to 84 years young. It’s a give people a break. great family activity, and we’ve been around long enough that now I’ve Q. Why would a bike club rent taught little kids to ride who are still Segways? biking as teenagers. We’ve had A. We want to encourage people to couples meet here who have gotten try new things like skateboarding, married. Segways, and roller blading as well, by giving them some space to Q. As a philanthropist, what are some practice. We have 20 Segways. It’s a of the most satisfying things great way to see Beirut’s historic you’ve been able to do? sites. A. Beirut by Bike organizes programs in both environmental awareness

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The Reveal

Nadine Chahine (BGD ’00) is an award-winning typeface designer who works as the Arabic specialist at Monotype, one of the world’s largest and most highly regarded typeface foundries. She has an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading, UK, where she explored creating a harmonious relationship between Arabic and Latin scripts; and a doctorate from Leiden University, Netherlands, where her researc h focus was on legibility of the Arabic script. Chahine is the recipient of two Awards for Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club, New York in 2008 and 2011, her work was featured in the 5th edition of Megg’s History of Graphic Design, and in 2012 she was selected by Fast Company as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. Her typefaces include: the best-selling Frutiger Arabic, Neue Helvetica Arabic, Univers Next Arabic, Palatino Arabic and Palatino Sans Arabic, and Koufiya. With the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AgeLab, Dr. Chahine has conducted research in the field of legible typography that focuses on how typeface style affects driver distraction. DIN Next Arabic Visit Nadine’s blog: Univers Next Arabic Sony SST Arabic www.arabictype.com/ Chahine’s passion for fonts started when she Akko Arabic blog/in-the-press/ was a student at AUB. “I was always frustrated by the dearth of quality Arabic fonts. It felt as if this was a reflection of a much larger issue—of everything that was not what it should be in our part of the world. That was a state of affairs that was intolerable, and so I set about trying to make my world look a little better, one letter at a time.”

-B.R. AUB Everywhere 40s to 60s Class Notes

a school physician in New Haven, Connecticut (CT), so she could be more available to her two children. She then became the public health officer in 1940s Meriden, CT and in 1976 accepted a position as the health officer for DeKalb County, Georgia near Atlanta (population, 500,000). My mother was working in this capacity at the time of her death in 1988 from complications following a car accident. My father died ten months later from a broken heart. Sadek Omar (BA ’47, MA ’52) was awarded the Shield of Honor at the Mother spoke to us about having to 2013 International College (IC) learn English before being allowed to commencement ceremony for his matriculate at AUB medical school. years of service as an exemplary REMINISCENCE They were married nearly 44 years educator. Sadek started his career as ago. . . . On May 9, 2014 my eldest a chemistry professor at AUB (1950-56) Hanifeh G. Naib (BA ’40, MD ’44) daughter, Erica Bohan, graduated from before moving on to IC to head its Patrick Bohan writes of his late mother: the University of Minnesota Medical chemistry department. He later served

It’s easy to submit [My mother] was among the first 14 School. We gave her the doctor’s bag as IC principal and vice president. a class note and female AUB MD graduates. She was my mother received upon her The commencement ceremony was share your news! from Aleppo. She and my father, graduation from AUB. held under the auspices of Minister of Email: Francis Bohan, met during World War II Communications Walid al-Dauk. Sadek [email protected] or submit a class note when my father, an American Navy was accompanied by his wife Siham, AND update your enlisted man, was stationed in Beirut Raymond Habiby, PhD (BA ’41) is living his daughter Nouha Ghandour information with AUB as a naval intelligence officer. They in Dallas, Texas after years of serving (BA ’71), and Nouha’s husband Farouk by logging on to the married (eloped) in December 1944 as professor of political science at Ghandour. online community at alumniconnections.com in Jerusalem, and then took a ship to Oklahoma State University (OSU). He /aub/ Boston, Massachusetts. My mother received his PhD from the University practiced medicine from our home of Minnesota in 1965 and started in the late 1940s into the 1950s. She teaching at OSU that same year. He completed a master’s degree in public would like to hear from his former health from Yale University and became classmates. [email protected] 1950s Dr. Erica Bohan with her grandmother’s doctor’s bag.

Heratch O. Doumanian (BA ’53, MD ’57) After graduating from medical school, Heratch emigrated to the United States. He served for two years in the US Army Reserves as a captain in the Medical 5958

Corps in Germany. In 1965 Heratch ’64 Class Correspondent completed training in radiology at the Taki (Devian) Mahdessian (BBA ’64) University of Chicago Medical Center, and a year later completed a fellowship in cardiovascular radiology at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis. In 1967 he married the former Sona Dermenjian (BS ’65) who earned her degree in pharmacy at AUB. Heratch practiced radiology in northwest Indiana where he served as medical director of radiology at St. Mary Medical Center in Gary and Hobart, Indiana for 25 years. He also served as an assistant professor of radiology at the Northwest Center for Medical Education in Gary, Indiana. Dr. and Taki with fellow classmates at the honoring ceremony for the 50th reunion. Mrs. Doumanian have three children: Greta, a lawyer; John, a radiologist; The 50th reunion of the Class of 1964 Our class spokesperson Abdul- and Leo, a urologist. Retired since 2008, took place June 20-22 in Beirut on our Hamid Bibi (BBA ’64) was eloquent Heratch and Sona spend most of their beautiful campus. Forty-one of us and funny and spoke of a bygone time in Chicago and southern California. braved time and distance to celebrate time—the beginning of the hippie [email protected] this milestone with friends and generation and more carefree times family. A particularly moving in the 1960s. John Makhoul moment for me was marching to (BEN ’64) made us proud with his Assembly Hall to the music of achievements and contributions Chariots of Fire—our scarves and to FEA. name tags with our graduation photos waving in the wind. Overall, it was an opportunity for The years melted away as I us to reconnect and rekindle 1960s re-experienced the excite ment friendships with classmates, some of commencement. of whom we hadn’t seen for 50 years. Abdul Ghaffar Musa (BS ’62, MD ’66) I am very glad I went, and hope you Share your news with retired in May 2013 after practicing will join me for our 75th! the Class of 1964. gynecological oncology for 37 years in Taki Email: upstate New York. He then relocated [email protected] or [email protected] to Great Falls, Virginia outside of Washington, DC where he enjoys working on his new house with his wife went through an intensive program Sultana. His daughter Jumana is 20 which included two years at the minutes away, his son Hassan works in Defense Language Institute in cardiovascular research at Ohio State Monterey, California, two years at AUB University in Columbus, Ohio, and his for a master’s degree, and extensive youngest child Tina just finished her travel throughout the MENA region. I second year of medical school. lived in the Middle East for six and a half years, but focused on the issues of the region for about 20 years. Along the way, I made many Arab friends, gained Ebrahim Al Abed (BA ’65, MA ’75), an appreciation for Arab culture and director general of the National Media language, and developed a strong empathy for the aspirations of the Council, UAE, and director general of (MA ’68) writes: I was Robert Talley average citizen. the Emirates News Agency (WAM) was born into an army family. My first job recently honored with the Arab Media after high school at a military academy [Robert’s son Quinn Talley sent us the Personality of the Year award at the was as a reporter. After winning two photo to the left and commented, Arab Media Forum at Madinat Jumeirah “best story” awards, I decided to enroll “Several years ago, many kind people at in Dubai. at Oklahoma University’s School of AUB were able to locate and produce an Journalism. Upon graduation I received electronic copy of my father’s thesis from a regular army commission, and 1968, . decided on a military career where I Dubai: past, present, and future I had the thesis printed and bound, and ended up specializing in Arab world presented it to him for his 81st birthday, intelligence. To qualify for my work, I in 2010.”] AUB Everywhere 70s to 80s

MD ’74 Class Correspondent Patrick Hitchon (BS ’70, MD ’74)

was taking a sabbatical year from AUB. After experiencing the hospitality of AUB 1970s alumni, and with a little persuasion from Adel, I was sold. It would be University of Iowa. I started here in July of 1975, married my wife Nancy in 1978, and yadav Pokhrel (BEN ’71) is married and joined the faculty in 1980. has three children, now grown. He has written four books: three in English and Needless to say, AUB alumni are one in Nepali. He continues to embrace everyw here. The affiliation between life’s challenges. AUB and Iowa dates back to the 1950s, [email protected] when AUB Faculty of Medicine Dean Norman Nelson (AUB faculty 1952-53) took the post of dean at the College of Medicine in Iowa. This was followed Saadeh George (BS ’72, MD ’76) Since by Dr. Hans Zellweger (AUB faculty retiring from full-time National Health 1952-59), who was chair of pediatrics Service work where his last position was at AUB before coming to Iowa. These as a consultant psychiatrist, Saadeh has two arranged for large numbers of been doing visual art work, preparing trainees from AUB to go to Iowa in The AUB-Iowa Connection for several collective exhibitions, as well various departments, including It was late June, 1974, and I remember as for a solo show in October entitled ophthalmology, neurology, radiology, walking on the Corniche towards the Gardens of Uruk in Beirut. This art work psychiatry, pediatrics, and internal AUB Beach. We called it a beach, explores ancient Sumerian mythology medicine, to mention a few. Two other although it never did have, nor will it such as “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and notable people in the nascent AUB/Iowa ever have, a beach. Anyway, I had just the “Enuma Elish.” universe were the late left the American Embassy in Ain Mansour Armaly [email protected] (BA ’47, MD ’52), who after completing Mreisseh with my J-1 visa to come to the an ophthalmology residency at AUB was United States for a residency. I had on the faculty at Iowa for 13 years and mixed feelings about leaving, as I am eventually moved to George Washington sure we all did. Lebanon, Beirut, and Talal Abou Mrad (BS ’72, MS ’75) is an University and became president of the AUB had provided us with the closest academic who recently participated in Pan-American Glaucoma Society, and thing to paradise. Reluctantly and out the colloquium, La Nouvelle Geopolitique AUB professor (AUB of necessity, it was now time to move Ronald Bergman de L’Energie at Faculté de droit de faculty 1975-83) who had moved to on in pursuit of a neurosurgical l’université Paris Descartes, in Paris, Iowa after writing the first edition of residency in the United States. Leaving France. Functional Neuroanatomy with Afifi AUB after eight years, I thought I [email protected] while at AUB. deserved a severance package. The reason for the survival and growth As we flew towards the western horizon of the AUB-Iowa connection is twofold. with [Mount] Sanin and the Lebanese Gladys Mouro (BS ’76) is currently It’s because of AUB’s high academic coast behind us, I had tears in my eyes working as an international nursing standards, and the ongoing commitment not knowing when we would be back. consultant. In November 2011, she was of Iowa leadership to offer opportunities Off we flew across the ocean, my friend elected board director of Sigma Theta to the talented medical students and Ziad Kronfol (BS ’70, MD ’74) headed Tau International (STTI) for a four-year residents they can count on from AUB. for Iowa City to do a psychiatry term. STTI is an international nursing Our alumni continue to live up to the residency, and I went to Detroit for honor society that inclu des over 400,000 University’s motto, “That they may have general surgery at Wayne State members around the world. Gladys life and have it more abundantly.” Not University. After a year, the pursuit of was a consultant for the King Faisal only do AUB graduates excel, but they neurosurgery was underway and my Specialist and Research Hospital in reach out to other alumni, and advance choices were University of Wisconsin, Riyadh helping them to achieve the the principles of AUB’s founding fathers. University of Iowa, University of American Nurses Credentialing Center’s With this time-tested felicitous Illinois, or staying on at Wayne State. Magnet designation, the highest level exchange, graduates from Lebanon and I decided to visit Ziad in Iowa in of excellence for nursing. In 2009, the Middle East will always be welcomed Share your news with the October 1974, and bumped into my MD Class of 1974. Email: Gladys spearheaded AUBMC’s Magnet to Iowa, their home away from home. neuroanato my professor and assistant [email protected] designation when it became the first Patrick director of the Faculty of Medicine at or [email protected] institution in the Middle East and AUB, (BA ’51, MD ’57) who second outside the United States to Adel Afifi achieve this credential. 6160

degree in Bible engagement. He completed the degree in three years while serving the Bible Society in the Gulf fulltime. After successfully completing the nine-course program, he s wrote a dissertation entitled, “Engaging 1980 the Scripture Message of Hope among Telugu Migrant Workers in the United Rana Chalabi (BA ’81) continues to Arab Emirates.” In addition to his exhibit her work worldwide. Recent master’s degree in agricultural exhibits include an exhibit in Rana is director of the Division of economics, Hrayr holds a BBA in Brattleboro, Vermont, the SYRA ARTS Bacterial Diseases at the Centers for business administration from Haigazian gallery in Washington, DC, and an Disease Control and Prevention in University. He has worked extensively in exhibit of her musicians series in Japan, Atlanta, Georgia. She has led massive Bible Society organizations throughout which was graced with a performance global campaigns to deliver vaccines to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle by one of Japan’s premier oud players. some of the world’s poorest countries. East. He is a regular contributor to the Rana’s standing exhibit at the NUN With fierce determination and deep Armenian press. His book, The Center in Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt has compassion, Rana brings decades of Armenian’s Path of Struggle for resulted in requests for commissioned clinical and research experience to Existence, which is an anthology of work. She is looking forward to helping children in developing articles written over 30 years, was continuing to expand her artistic countries avoid deadly and preventable published in 2010. Hrayr is married to horizons and her creative endeavors in diseases such as bacterial meningitis Dr. Arda Boynerian Jebejian (MA ’99). Lebanon and Jordan in the coming year. and pneumonia [see MainGate, fall 2011, They have two children. [see MainGate, spring 2014, “The pages 62-63]. World health experts Reveal”] [email protected] estimate that her efforts will have helped to save some 7 million children Taysir Awadallah (MA ’86) After by the year 2020. receiving his master’s degree in education, Taysir spent 34 years Not one to rest on her laurels, the working with United Nations programs perpetually optimistic and adventurous as an education specialist. He also Rana looks towards the future for fresh worked with NGOs as an educational challenges. “I’m looking beyond consultant. vaccines toward child health in general “World health and child development. I feel I am ready experts Nursing ’86 Class to tackle more complex issues, like a Correspondent estimate that larger focus on quality of life beyond Mary Khazen Karish (BS ’86) her efforts Rana A. Hajjeh (BS ’84, MD ’88) has just survival,” she said. “I think it will will have won the prestigious Service to America come down to the same strategies we helped to Federal Employee of the Year Award used with vaccines—staying evidence- save some recognizing a United States federal based, having the policies needed to employee for significant contribution implement scientific interventions, 7 million to the nation. The Samuel J. Heyman making sure you will have impact, and children by Service to America Medals (also known then monitoring and evaluating the the year 2020” as Sammies) are presented annually by impact.” the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership Rana A. Hajjeh for Public Service to pay tribute to BS ’84, MD ’88 America’s dedicated federal workforce, highlighting those who have made significant contributions to the country. After leaving office life behind, I Honorees are chosen based on their became a master gardener and a commitment and innovation, as well as public speaker and trainer on organic the impact of their work addressing the and sustainable horticultural needs of the nation (http://serviceto practices. If you are a nursing student americamedals.org/SAM/index.shtml). from the Class of 1986, please contact Share your news with the Class of 1986. Email: As “federal employee of the year,” me so that I can write a Class [email protected] Rana will be honored at a fall gala in Hrayr Jebejian (MS ’84) was awarded a Correspondent report. or [email protected] Washington, DC in a ceremony that has doctorate of ministry (DMin) from the been labeled “the Washington Oscars.” New York Theological Seminary in New York on May 14. Dr. Jebejian earned his AUB Everywhere 80s to 00s

(BEN ’94) has been Malek Ladki (BEN ’87) was named Nadine Alameh named chief executive officer of executive chairman of Mobetize Corp., Snowflake Software, Inc., a company a company that integrates mobile offering software products that financial services into traditional facilitate data exchange and telecom service offerings. He earned a interoperability within the data doctorate in telecommunications from 1990s provider, defence, and aviation the University of Liverpool. markets. Nadine holds two MS degrees and a PhD from the Massachusetts 1991 Class Institute of Technology in the field of 25th Reunion Year, MD ’89 Correspondent information systems engineering. Class Correspondent Linda Adra (BA ’91)

Left to right: Lina Shihabuddin; Nader Atallah, pediatric cardiologist in Syracuse, NY; Assem Hajj, CMO, CMC Lebanon; Ahmad Zaatari, plastic Please welcome Linda Adra as the surgeon, Hammoud Hospital, Saida, Lebanon; Ibrahim Husheimi, (BS ’94) returned to Class Correspondent for the Class of Mona yassine neurosurgeon, Lebanon; Habib Ghaddar, hematology oncology, Texas; Kuwait after graduating from AUB. She Hanadi Muneimneh, internist, Utah; Ali Attar, internist, Virginia. 1991. She will be contacting classmates currently holds the position of general throughout the year and writing a brief manager/partner at Innovation Lina Shihabuddin (BS ’85, MD ’89) column on their news and views for Twenty-five years ago we graduated as Systems, focusing on custom solutions Class Notes. Her own class note the MD Class of ’89. Several of us left for the banking sector, the oil industry, follows: Lebanon and AUB but Lebanon and and the government. Mona previously AUB never left us. We stayed in touch worked on banking solutions with through memories and pictures, and we One thing AUB has instilled in me is Unisys in Kuwait. Later, she moved to will always remember the great time we the passion for sharing knowledge. Dubai as a sales manager covering the had together acquiring the education There is nothing more fulfilling to me Gulf region for the Global Information which allowed us to achieve and reach than learning something new, except Technology Company (GET). In 2012, the successes we are all enjoying. sharing what I have learned. This has Mona earned her EMBA from American Lina taken me into the world of education, University. [email protected] and after 17 years of teaching at the Ahmad Zaatari (BS ’85, MD ’89) writes: university level and four years of After 25 years we became 50. The young studying towards my EdD at the aspiring students became physicians, University of Sheffield, UK, I am finally teachers, and parents. The bakery at the completing my last dissertation corner of the blue building remains, but chapters. I currently reside in Jeddah the students discussing their exams are with my husband Khaled yamak gone. The tension before the exams (BBA ’90) and my two younger sons evaporated long ago, and is now Omar and Jad. Next fall, my eldest transformed into uncertainty for those Bilal (pictured with me above) will who stayed, and nostalgia for those start his third undergraduate year at who left. We remain together because Bishop’s University in Canada. It we have lived in times of danger, despair, and agony, and we have shared makes me proud to say that this stories of success and advice on how to summer he is taking two courses as Wissam Chehabeddine (BS ’96) and help our patients. After 25 years some a visiting student at my own AUB! his wife Maysaa Kassar Chehabeddine of our professors have left, and others I look forward to hearing from my have been blessed with a baby boy, Mohammad Hadi. Share your news with are still giving AUB values to future former classmates! the Class of 1991. Email: physicians and leaders. But, we have Linda [email protected] or grown older while still looking happily [email protected] back at those 25-year-old students at the corner bakery. . . 62 63

Environmental Design (LEED) Mohamad Zaher Dabboussi (BS ’04) accredited professional. An avid With his degree in computer science, cheese maker and nature enthusiast, Mohamad recently started Darwich advocates for healthy living in www.awfarshi.com, a website that and out of work as he enjoys early provides the public with easy access morning bike rides to the local farmers to all ongoing offers and discounts in markets. He spends the weekends with the Lebanese market. This marketing his wife and two children. platform is free for both advertisers [email protected] and consumers. [email protected] Abdel K. Darwich (BEN ’96) is an associate and principal mechanical engineer at Guttmann & Blaevoet in After graduating, Susan Daniel Fayad Sacramento, California. He is a leading (BA ’97, TD ’98) went on to teach and innovator in the field of mechanical work with NGOs. Before leaving systems with more than 16 years of Lebanon in 2006, she worked as a experience designing HVAC systems senior educational adviser for for health care, commercial, industrial, AMIDEAST/Lebanon. After starting a and educational buildings. Darwich family and relocating to Richmond, earned an MS in mechanical Virginia in 2006, she continued to engineering with an emphasis on work in college advising. Most recently, heat transfer from Boston University. she has been teaching student development at John Tyler Community Linda Eid (BS ’06) writes: After I College. She has also published an graduated with my degree in award-winning children’s book, My chemistry, I worked as a research “Darwich’s consistent Grandfather’s Masbaha, which can be assistant and product developer for efforts for sustainability found at www.amazon.com and at two years at IBSAR, AUB’s Center for helped him become other internet book sites. Nature Conservation. I then moved the second individual http://susandanielfayad.com. to Abu Dhabi, where I taught science in the Middle East to and chemistry at an international school before moving on to Vienna, become a Leadership in Austria to pursue my master’s degree Energy & Environmental in international relations. In 2011, I Design (LEED) accredited graduated as valedictorian from professional” Webster University Vienna, with two honor’s awards for academic 2000s+ excellence among Webster students worldwide. While matriculating, I benefited from a wide range of work He was recently selected as one of the Ramzi Jurdi (BA ’01) was named experiences, including publishing in “40 under 40” engineers in the United international partner at Chadbourne The Vienna Review, and working at States by Consulting-Specifying & Parke, LLP. He joined Chadbourne’s OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Engineer magazine. In 2013 he was Dubai office in 2008 and has focused Exporting Countries). Since 2010 I given an international level American his practice on international dispute have worked as a technical Society of Heating, Refrigerating and resolution and compliance matters. cooperation coordinator with the Air-Conditioning Engineers Technology Ramzi currently serves as the elected Permanent Mission of the United Arab Award for innovative and sustainable president of the American Business Emirates to the International Atomic design. One of Darwich’s more notable Council of Dubai and the Northern Energy Agency. One of the first staff designs is the Jess Jackson Sustainable Emirates, a chapter of the US Chamber members to be recruited by HE Building at the University of California, of Commerce, and is a frequent Ambassador Hamad Al Kaabi’s team in Davis, which is a net-zero energy speaker and commentator on US/UAE Vienna (UAE’s special representative building that is completely passive, economic relations, as well as US for international nuclear cooperation), using no active cooling mechanical economic sanctions. He received a I work closely with him and UAE equipment in an atmosphere where bachelor’s in political science with stakeholders on the development of temperatures can reach as high as honors, and earned a JD with honors nuclear infrastructure and human 105°F. Darwich’s consistent efforts for at George Washington University Law resources in the UAE, for both the sustainability helped him become the School. Emirates nuclear power program and second individual in the Middle East to for non-power applications. Almost become a Leadership in Energy & eight years after graduating from AUB, AUB Everywhere 00s

sets up new research projects and “I work . . . on the collaborations with researchers and development of nuclear scientists from the world’s most infrastructure and human innovative research and academic institutions, focusing on the resources in the UAE” revolutionary stem cell field, which will soon have the potential to dramatically Linda Eid BS ’06 increase life expectancy and improve quality of life issues for millions of people. She is proud to be able to work Farah Khalifeh (MS ’11) received a on creating, experimenting, and I remain grateful to the University for master’s degree in experimental patenting new ideas that benefit the its exceptional vision and its strong pathology, immunology, and scientific community and meet the cohort of professors who gave me a microbiology. After graduation, she developing needs of the health-care solid knowledge base and a firm moved back to Jordan, where she market. Farah writes, “I am grateful methodology for succeeding in LIFE accepted a position as a research and to AUB for a lifetime of experience, beyond academia. Sincere salutations development officer at Stem Cells of education, and great memories.” to everyone at AUB, from Vienna! Arabia in Amman. She is on a team that [email protected]

Help us celebrate AUB’s “I am grateful th th to AUB for a 25 and 50 Reunion years! lifetime of experience, education, If you are a member of the Class of 1990, or and great the Class of 1965, consider becoming a Class memories.” Correspondent.

Farah Khalifeh MS ’11

After serving as associate communications coordinator at the AUB Faculty of Health Sciences, Rabih El Khodr (BA ’06) is now based in Dubai setting up his training and consulting Find out more by emailing: [email protected] venture, Standup Communication. He specializes in public speaking training; helping individuals, corporate employees, and aspiring entrepreneurs bring out the best communicator in them. [email protected] 64 65 In Memoriam

Alumni Mary Deeb Barrow (BA ’33) Born in woman who conducted her life with humility Jerusalem, Palestine in 1913, Ms. Barrow and strength. A teacher who eventually passed away on May 2 in London, England. established a well-known kindergarten She was one of the first female graduates of school in Wimbledon, she is still remembered AUB. Her parents were socially progressive by former students and their parents. pillars of the Greek Orthodox community, Ms. Barrow’s loving bond with her extended intent on educating their daughter like her family was a strong foundation for her long, brothers. Ms. Barrow met her husband, fruitful life. She will be missed by her Reginald (Reggie), while working with the surviving nieces: Rima Deeb Joury, Naila BBC (British Broadcasting Service) in Deeb, Mona Deeb Lyons in Amman, and Mary Deeb Barrow Jerusalem. She was a scrupulous, determined Hala Deeb Jabbour in the United States. (BA ’33)

Shukri Suleiman Salameh (former student, and Charles Malik (philosophy). Mr. Salameh 1939-40) was born in Jerusalem, Palestine was an accomplished man who lived a on June 25, 1915, and passed away in May remarkable life, experiencing hardships with at the age of 98. He served as chief clerk/ resilience, grace, and dignity while rapidly government attorney in the government advancing to the position of deputy to the of Palestine between 1932 and 1941, while assistant secretary-general of personnel Notices for In Memoriam pursuing a diploma in law at the Jerusalem services a t the United Nations. He is survived may be sent to Law School. To supplement his legal training, by two daughters, Margaret Salameh King [email protected] he studied political science for one year at (BA ’70) and Randa Salameh Samara Shukri Suleiman Salameh AUB where he found lasting inspiration from (BA ’68, MA ’70). (former student, 1939-40) his favorite teachers, Assad Rustum (history)

Samuel B. Bashour (BA ’40, MD ’45), FACS a 50 Year Club member of the Texas Medical was born in Safita, Syria in 1920 and passed Association, a fellow of the American College away in Dallas, Texas on June 14. After of Surgeons, a clinical instructor of surgery at completing his general surgery residency at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center in School, and the third president of the staff of Houston, Texas, he served as a major in the Irving Community Hospital. Integrity, honor, US Army Medical Corps for two years at courage, and commitment were the Sandia Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico foundations of his character. Dr. Bashour is as the base surgeon. He later settled in Irving, preceded in death by his seven brothers and Texas where he practiced surg ery for over sisters, and will be dearly missed by his three 30 years. He was an elder at St. Stephen’s children, Charles Allen Bashour, MD and his Presbyterian Church, past president of the wife Janie; Sara Louise Klinke and her Samuel B. Bashour Irving Rotary Club, and a 32nd Degree husband Preston; Mary Ann Randolph, JD, (BA ’40, MD ’45) Scottish Rite Mason, a founding member and and her husband Mark; and eleven first president of the Irving Surgical Society, a grandchildren. member of the Dallas County Medical Society,

Zareh Leon Kevorkian (BEN ’45) Born in the Middle East while working for the Jerusalem, Palestine on February 22, 1923, engineering company of Shahan Soghikian Mr. Kevorkian passed away in Olympia, (BEN ’48). From 1960-69, he worked on a Zareh Leon Kevorkian Washington on April 19, 2013 at the age of 90. variety of large projects in Iraq. In 1970, (BEN ’45) He enjoyed a long career as a dam and bridge Mr. Kevorkian immigrated to the United engineering specialist in Iraq, Lebanon, and States to join his younger brother Jerry, a the United States. In 1958, he helped design professor at the University of Washington. some of the first sewage treatment projects in He enjoyed over 30 years of service with the In Memoriam

Washington Department of Transportation Soghikian’s daughter Cynthia, and her Alumni and retired at the age of 76. He then became a husband Christopher Wolfe (BA ’74). Deeply Zareh Leon founding member of the Armenian Church of loved and appreciated by his fr iends, family, Kevorkian Seattle. Mr. Kevorkian passed away in the coworkers, and the Armenian community, (cont’d) loving company of two daughters, Cynthia Mr. Kevorkian will be remembered for his and Aline Kevorkian. Also present were his positive outlook, sense of humor, sound physicians who were his old friend Shahan judgment, prodigious memory, and huge heart.

Robert Bahij Saba (BA ’52, BS ’53) of Applications Center, one of NASA's then six Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania died on July 23 at Regional Technology Transfer Centers. In the age of 82. He was born in Jerusalem, 2,000, Mr. Saba was awarded the Federal attended St. George's School, and received a Laboratory Consortium Outs tanding Service master’s degree in civil engineering from the Award for technology transfer. Later, he Massachusetts Institute of Technology where became the coordinator of the Fire Fighting he earned many honors and awards. Mr. Saba Task Force in Worcester, Massachusetts. He served in managerial and executive positions was hired as a consultant to FirstLink, a with the American Concrete Pipe Association, Department of Defense National Center of US Steel Chemicals , USS Engineers and Excellence for first responder technology Consultants, Pullman Swindell, and US transition. Mr. Saba is survived by his beloved Robert Bahij Saba Constructors. For many years he operated his wife Mona Asfour Saba (BA ’53); his brother (BA ’52, BS ’53) own consulting firm in technology transfer Salih, his children Naila Busacca, Michael, and business development, and later, he and Philip; and five grandchildren. became a business development specialist with the Mid-Atlantic Technology

Wael Dajani (BEN ’55) passed away in August With an amiable temperament, and a keen 2013 in Abu Dhabi at the age of 79. His class sense of humor, Mr. Dajani was liked by all was the first to graduate as mechanical who knew him. He is survived by his wife engineers from the Faculty of Engineering, May, two brothers, Mazen (BBA ’58, MA ’69) headed at the time by Dean Weidner. Mr. and Amer (BEN ’63), and three children Dajani distinguished himself as a power Bashar, Ammar, and Nawar. He is station engineer at Kuwait's Ministry of predeceased by a sister, Nour (MS ’76), Electricity and Water, and then as a who was a professor at FAFS. Wael Dajani petroleum operations engineer at the Abu (BEN ’55) Dhabi oil company ADNOC.

Layla Bayatti Sabie, PhD (BA ’57) passed Dr. Sabie lived in Morehead with her late away on June 14 at the age of 79 at her home husband Dr. Mohammed K. Sabie. She is Layla Bayatti Sabie in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Sabie was a survived by her three children: Sheda Sabie (BA ’57) retired professor at Morehead State King, Kal Sabie, Mona Sabie Womack, and University. She received a master’s degree eight grandchildren. and a doctorate from George Peabody Teachers’ College of Vanderbilt University.

Leila Deeb (BA ’60) Born in Cairo, Egypt in Ridder, Reuters, Radio Canada, and Radio 1939 to a Palestinian father and an Egyptian New Zealand. A staunch supporter of mother, Ms. Deeb’s family left Jerusalem, women’s rights, Ms. Deeb worked for Palestine in 1948. She majored in English UNIFEM, the United Nations entity for gender literature at AUB and taught for a few years at equality and the empowerment of women, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and for the Palestinian Department of for Palestinian Refugees. She then went to Refugee Affairs in Amman. After retirement, work for the Jordanian Ministry of she spent much of her time in Jericho Information, and the Ministry of Social renovating the family house there. She Leila Deeb We lfare. Later she became a journalist for the passed away from kidney failure on June 21, (BA ’60) Jerusalem Star, Jordan Times and Al Dustour. and was laid to rest near her cherished She was also a correspondent for BBC, Knight homeland of Jerusalem. 66 67

Nami Maroon Jabbour (BBA ’60) was born in and university days throughout his life. Alumni Beirut on December 7, 1933, and passed away During Lebanon’s civil war, he protectively on July 22, 2013. He and his twin brother, moved his family to London, England and Jubran, grew up playing in the streets and then to Virginia, United States. The last eight alleys of Ras Beirut. Mr. Jabbour went to years of his life were strained by his need for Aleppo College in Syria for two years, and dialysis due to an inherited diabetic condition then finished his degree in business at AUB. that he developed in his early thirties. He enjoyed the outdoors, and was passionate Nevertheless, he still enjoyed family life. He about swimming, especially at the AUB is survived by his wife of 50 years, Hala Beach. He applied his business and Deeb, and by four children: Rana Jabbour Nami Maroon Jabbour managerial skills to various fields including Dimechkie, Mayya Jabbour Saab, Marwan (BBA ’60) the real estate, finance, and restaurant Jabbour, Adnan Jabbour, and four industries. Mr. Jabbour cherished close grandchildren. relationships with friends from childhood

Beta Martinian Nahapetian (BA ’66) was States where she eventually settled in the born in Tehran, Iran on September 19, 1944 Washington, DC area with her husband, and passed away on November 4, 2013. She whom she met at AUB, Ara Nahapetian, Sc.D. won a full scholarship to AUB where she (BS ’65, MS ’67). Ms. Nahapetian also worked earned her degree in child psychology. On a at Iran Electronics Industries, DuPont, whim she took an aptitude test in the new Remington, and for the FBI. In addition, field of computer science, and was soon hired she established h er own consultancy. An by IBM in Iran as its first female computer extraordinarily gifted and spirited woman, analyst. She continued to be a feminist she was a life master bridge player, world pioneer driving her own sports car and living traveler, and devoted wife, mother, and Beta Martinian Nahapetian in her own studio apartment in Iran in the grandmother. Ms. Nahapetian is survived by (BA ’66) 1960s. Sought after as a systems analyst, she her husband, their two children Eta and Kate, worked in Geneva, Paris, and the United and four grandchildren.

Hassan Ibrahim Al Husseini (BA ’67, MA ’69) Like many cosmopolitan Saudi professionals, died suddenly of a massive coronary on May 2 Mr. Al Husseini had fond memories of AUB at his home in Al Khobar. He was 68 years and a profound admiration for the people of old. A journalist who dedicated his life to Lebanon and Bahrain whose deep culture promoting progressive social, cultural, and and genuine hospitality matched his own legal causes, Mr. Al Husseini earned a gregarious and outgoing personality. Because Hassan Ibrahim master’s degree in journalism from Ohio State of the high quality of education in Bahrain, Al Husseini University and worked in Lebanon, Iran, his chil dren attended high school there (BA ’67, MA ’69) Libya, and the United States before settling in before continuing their college education in Saudi Arabia where he worked in television the United States. He is survived by his wife broadcasting and in corporate planning at Soheir Al Idrisi, daughters Sahar and Dina, Aramco. son Ibrahim, and brothers Dr. Sadad Al Notices for In Memoriam Husseini (BS ’68) and his wife Suad Bassam may be sent to Al Husseini (BA ’69), Dr. Moujahed Al [email protected] Husseini, and Ihsan Al Husseini.

Hind Sarkis (BA ’00) The AUB community is hardships and challenges of the civil war saddened by the loss of one of its esteemed years. Her meticulous attention to detail, former colleagues on June 30. Born in her dedication and loyalty to AUB, and her Kaftoun, Koura, North Lebanon in 1946, expansive warmth and generosity are fondly Ms. Sarkis worked at AUB for over 40 years, remembered by all who knew her. She is beginning in 1967 as a clinical assistant at predeceased by her brother Hanna Elias AUBMC, and retiring in 2010 as an executive Sarkis (BS ’75, MS ’77), and survived by her officer in the Office of Development. She sister Oumeima Sarkis Mandali, and by many Hind Sarkis rarely missed a day of work, even during the loving cousins, nieces, and nephews. (BA ’00) In Memoriam

Frank A. Regier, a former AUB faculty He was rescued two months later, at which Friends member, died in Albany, California, on time he returned to the United States. He April 5 after a long illness. He was 86. worked as an engineer for NASA in Cleveland, Professor Regier was born in Montgomery, Ohio, where he participated in the design of West Virginia; an early interest in radio and the Advanced Communications Technology antennas eventually led him to pursue Satellite (ACTS), which was launched into graduate studies in engineering at UC orbit in 1993. He is survived by his wife Berkeley and Yale. He joined the AUB Mary Hanania Reg ier, formerly professor electrical engineering department in 1957 and of statistics at AUB; his sister Virginia Frank A. Regier remained there until 1984. In Fe bruary 1984, Paczesniak; his sons Terry and Chris; and he was kidnapped in Beirut during the four grandchildren. Lebanese civil war and held as a hostage.

Ignatius Zakka was born in 1933 and passed His Holiness Patriarch Iwas was known for away on March 21. He was the 122nd reigning his involvement in ecumenical dialogue. He Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All was a president of the World Council of the East and, as such, supreme head of the Churches and an observer at the Second Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. Also Vatican Council. At the time of his election as known by his traditional episcopal name, patriarch, Iwas was archbishop of Baghdad Ignatius Zakka Severios, he was enthroned as patriarch on and Basra. As patriarch, he established a September 14, 1980 in St. George’s Patriarchal monastic seminary, met wit h Pope John Paul Cathedral in Damascus. He succeeded II during his trip to Syria in 2001, and Ignatius Ya`qub III. As is traditional for the installed numerous metropolitans, including head of the church, Severios adopted the Baselios Thomas I as Catholicos of India. He name Ignatius. celebrated his Silver Jubilee in 2005. In 2010, His Holiness established an endowed scholarship for Syrian Orthodox students at AUB.

My late father, Anis A. Bibi, grew up in succeed. He approached life with Our Jaffa, Palestine. He spent two years at AUB humility, compassion, and respect for before completing his BA and MA in others, especially those less fortunate. economics at Cambridge University in the I established the Anis Bibi Scholarship Legacy early 1930s. In 1948 the family left 22 years ago to thank him for guiding me Palestine leaving most everything behind. towards giving and promoting education. My father stressed repeatedly that it was his education that enabled him to Muwaffak Anis Bibi (BBA ’77)

We Remember

Angel Melikian Nursing DIPLM ’45 Suad S. Rayyis BS ’60, MA ’69 Talal Ali Shamel BBA ’70 Joseph Khalil Ghosn BA ’47 Touma T. Arida BA ’61 yusuf Raja Dumani BA ’75 Ara Israbian BS ’53 Jacques Sawaya BA ’61 Jad Said Hassan BA ’78 Kamal Fouad Daouk BS ’56, MS ’58 Adil Issa Masri BA ’65, MA ’69 Ismail Mohamed Ismail BA ’90 Khalil Botrous Haddad BA ’56 Hassan Ibrahim Mustafa Jassim Boodai Friend Hussayni BA ’67, MA ’69 Ibrahim Abdel Hamid Mitchell Kurker Friend Abu Ayyash BEN ’59 6968

About Nicely Hall

Built in 1960, Nicely Hall was designed by Samir Khairallah and American architect Ernest J. Kump, Jr. who was developing a master plan for AUB at the time. Khairallah, who established Samir Khairallah & Partners (SKP) in 1960, had met Kump, Jr. while studying in the United States. He earned a degree in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley in 1959. One of the first attempts on campus to incorporate local architectural traditions in a modern building, Nicely Hall was strongly criticized by some for “architectural fakeness.”

Dedicated on April 26, 1965, Nicely Hall is named for trustee James M. Nicely who was VP and treasurer of the Ford Foundation and a generous supporter of AUB for many years. James Nicely was also the son of John W. Nicely, who joined SPC as a professor of English in 1896. Built as a classroom building for the humanities and social sciences, Nicely Hall also contains faculty offices. Return Address

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