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Hamra, Revisited KMC Comes Online Big Ads, Big Ideas Rediscovering a neighborhood in transition AUBMC health care expands dramatically Advertising CEO Raja Trad (BA ’78) knows why the with its first fully affiliated hospital “Keep Walking Lebanon” campaign just clicked

American University of Beirut Magazine. Spring/Summer 2015, Vol XIII, No. 3 Transitions YOUR GIFT MEANS EVEN MORE NOW!

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The son of two teachers, Charbel Sebaaly grew up in a home in Mayassa in the Metn that stressed the importance of getting a good education. It was his parents who urged him to apply to AUB where he is now a third-year student majoring in chemical engineering. A recipient of the Abdul Ghani Hammour Scholarship, Charbel says that he loves being at AUB and is taking full advantage of its rich campus life. A member of the Chemical Engineering Student Society and Engineers Without Borders, Charbel also participated in International Biodiversity Day at AUB (IBDAA) in April, an annual event organized by the Nature Conservation Center. The theme this year was “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.” Charbel and several classmates developed a project using techniques that they learned in a chemistry class to build an in strument made of recycled materials that can measure the concentration of oxygenated hemoglobin in blood, a critical measure of health and cellular metabolism.

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

Acting President Makhlouf Haddadin 8 Stalwart and indefatigable: Dr. Makhlouf Haddadin spends the summer at the helm

Discoveries 17 Research, the arts, and current events

Hamra, Revisited 18 At the intersection of history and change

Wellness 29 AUBMC 2020, health, and medicine

KMC Comes Online 30 AUBMC partners with Keserwan Medical Center to bring the highest quality health care to an underserved region

Impact 37 Regional impact, advocacy, and policy initiatives

Calculating the Cost of Climate Change in Lebanon 41 Inaction is not an option

AUB Everywhere 45 Alumni profile, class notes, WAAAUB, and chapter news

Big Ads, Big Ideas: An industry guru 46 Raja Trad (BA ’78) knows what makes us tick

In Memoriam 66 Presidenting

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2 1 & 2. Dinner to honor President Peter F. Dorman, launch of 150 for 150 Scholarship Initiative, The Temple of Dendur, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Sackler Wing, New York, New York. March 19, 2015

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3, 4 & 5. President Peter F. Dorman and Provost Ahmad Dallal Farewell Reception for Faculty and Staff Green Oval June 11, 2015

A host of farewell events took place this spring to thank President Peter Dorman and Provost Ahmad Dallal. More WAAAUB events on page 51. 32

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Some time ago, I read in The MainGate that the Pink Ladies (Ladies in Pink) volunteers didn't know how they received their name or when they were founded. I can clear up the mystery.

Solving the mystery: In January 1956, our family arrived in Beirut where How the “Ladies in Pink” got its name my husband assumed the position of Director of Esso (Exxon). By autumn I was a member of the Woman’s Hospital Auxiliary and a volunteer at the Coffee Shop at the old hospital, AUH.

I attended a meeting of the Auxiliary where Robert Najaimy, a newly arrived Lebanese American faculty member, gave a talk. He described the plight of lonely, young patients left at the hospital when their parents returned to their home countries. With four small children of our own, I was moved by his story and was galvanized into action. My experience in the Red Cross Volunteer Nurse’s Aide Corps during World War II, while a student at UCLA, provided me with Ann Kerr, Kay O'Sullivan and children at AUH the background I needed to form a volunteer c.1957 service. My Lebanese and American friends joined me and we named ourselves the Pink Ladies, inspired by the Grey Ladies Corps, which volunteered. By then the new hospital across the volunteered at military and veterans hospitals. street was almost finished and another volunteer, Within a week I had four pink smocks completed Nicole Backenstoss, and I mapped out the various by my dressmaker and received permission from floors before the doctors moved in as it was her Dr. Zellwege r, the Swiss doctor in charge of idea to extend the Pink Ladies to all the medical Pediatrics, to allow us to interact with the young departments. While our family was in Libya and patients. Eva Malek, the president of the Woman’s Rhode Island for a few years, Nicole successfully Auxiliary, let us use toys collected from the annual enlarge d the scope of the Pink Ladies. Toy Tea. When we returned to Lebanon, our family had I formed a daily morning and afternoon team grown to seven children. I entered the University of women volunteers to distribute toys and to as a student to finish my BA degree with the Class entertain the children in the pediatric ward. The of 1967 and continued towards a master’s degree first volunteers were Marion Azoury, wife of (unfinished) while volunteering once a week as a Dr. Brahiz Azoury; Mary Eddy, wife of Colonel Pink Lady until we left for Holland in 1972. Bill Eddy; Helen Tabet, wife of Maurice Tabet and Anne Smith, the owner of Smiths’ Market; This June marked my 90th birthday and I am sure and myself. Dr. Zellweger allowed me to convert I am the eldest member of our Class. My memoir, a sunny storage room into a play area for the Rose-Colored Glasses, that includes this story, was ambulatory children, while Mrs. Chami let us published this year in addition to Weavers, a borrow the magazine trolleys of her library collection of my poetry, which was published last volunteers so we could distribute toys to children year. who could not leave their beds. Katherine (Kay) O’Sullivan (BA ’67) I believe it was the next year that Ann Kerr, wife of Houston, Texas Malcolm Kerr, then a professor at AUB, Inspiration

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

Published & Produced Exhibits: 6 Christine Kettaneh (BA ’03), a visual artist working in Lebanon and the UK wins the prestigious Arte Laguna Prize; Cornelia Kraft brings performance art to Lebanon; AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery features an exhibition on Lebanon’s postmodern art scene; Shamira Nicolas (BA ’66, MA ’72) wins the numbers game.

Written Word: Zaki Nassif’s creative process; how ancient astronomy and psychoactive plants, influenced the development religion in the Middle East and Europe; the impact of World War I on Arab lands; a Western witness of momentous events; evocative poetry from a writer and musician.

Acting President 8 Makhlouf Haddadin – A brilliant and beloved professor leads the way.

The Center for Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) connects language By the Books 10 to culture with an intensive summer Arabic language program.

Fadia Homeidan could probably run a major corporation, but, luckily for us, Face to Face 11 she manages tens of millions of dollars in grants and contracts for AUB.

Tag Tour 12 Students give us the buzz on beehives.

Lebanese Walls 14 Graffiti as contemporary art.

Jane Elizabeth Van Zandt cofounded AUB’s nursing school, and she was just Legends & Legacies 16 what the doctor ordered. Inspiration

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Christine Kettaneh (BA ’03), a visual artist working in Lebanon and the UK, has been awarded the prestigious Arte Laguna Prize, an international art prize based in Venice. “Beirute, with a Mayo Blessing” features text by Kettaneh laser-engraved on Arabic bread. The installation exhibits a startling juxtaposition of soft ephemeral material and stark laser technology. The jury cited Kettaneh’s ability to make connections “between elements of her personal context with a conceptual artistic vocabulary.” The result is “food for thought.” Kettaneh also received the Artist in Gallery prize.

Mute Movements (2015, AUB Press) AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery “434” by Shamira Nicolas is an art book that documents the September 17, 2015 - January 6, 2016 (BA ’66, MA ’72) is on display at emergence of a performance art (Kan ya ma Kan) There was and there the 65th Rochester-Finger Lakes scene in Lebanon under the was not, 1988-98 by artist Jayce Salloum. Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, direction of Cornelia Krafft, artist, Rochester, New York from July 26 choreographer, and former AUB This exhibit examines Lebanon’s through September 13. It was one assistant professor (2009-14). The postmodern art scene from the end of of 68 works by 46 artists selected book illustrates the collective work the civil war to the first years of the from 920 entries by 330 artists. of students and artists (ages 19 to 25) post-war era. exploring their everyday challenges and concerns through the medium of performance. 76

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Min Awraq Zaki Nassif (From Zaki Nassif’s Papers) (2014, AUB Press) reveals 1. MIn AWRAq Nassif’s creative process through handwritten notes, drawings, and documents ZAKI nASSIf that illuminate his extensive musical heritage and lifelong interest in Lebanese (fROM ZAKI folklore. The book is in Arabic. Materials were edited by Nabil Nassif, George nASSIf’S PAPeRS) Geha, Maher Jarrar, Samir Al Sayegh, Giselle Hebbo, Dalal Nasif, Akram Al Rayess and Roula Hassoun. Proceeds support AUB’s Zaki Nassif Music Program.

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2. PLAntS, StARS, Plants, Stars, and the Origins of Religion: with the decipherment of the Phaistos And tHe ORIGInS Of disk (2014, Mill City Press) by Mary Kilbourne Matossian, PhD (MA ’52) explores ReLIGIOn: WItH tHe the connection between ancient astronomy, the cultivation of psychoactive deCIPHeRMent Of plants, and the development of religion in the Middle East and Europe, covering tHe PHAIStOS dISK the period from prehistory to the fall of the Roman Empire.

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A Land of Aching Hearts: the Middle East in the Great War (2014, Harvard University Press) by Leila Tarazi Fawaz (BA ’67, MA ’68). This book traverses 3. A LAnd Of ACHInG ethnic, class, and national borders to recover the personal stories of the civilians HeARtS: tHe and soldiers who endured the cataclysmic events of the Great War and the end of MIddLe eASt In 400 years of Ottoman rule over Arab lands. Fawaz is the Issam M. Fares Professor tHe GReAt WAR of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University and founding director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies.

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William Yale: Witness to Partition in the Middle East, WWI-WWII (2015, Rimal Publications) by Janice Terry (MA ’66). William Yale was born into the 4. WILLIAM YALe: Anglo-American power elite of the late 19th century. After graduating from Yale WItneSS tO University (founded by one of his forebears), he joined Standard Oil Company PARtItIOn In tHe and was sent to Palestine where he met Lawrence of Arabia, Chaim Weizmann, MIddLe eASt, as well as prominent Palestinian and Turkish politicians. Terry is a professor WWI-WWII emerita of Eastern Michigan University and an adjunct professor at Marietta College, Ohio.

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Memories and Cities (2015, Dar Nelson) This collection of poems in English and French by writer and musician Arminée H. Choukassizian (MA ’66) chronicles a 5. MeMORIeS finely observed and peripatetic life. The first Lebanese woman to graduate from And CItIeS AUB with a master’s degree in English literature, and the daughter of Aznive Serkijian, one of three female doctors to graduate from AUB in 1936, Choukassizian distills a love of words and music into evocative poems.

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Dr. Makhlouf Haddadin, a longtime professor Measure a man of organic chemistry and the University’s acting president from July 1 to August 31, 2015, celebrated a birthday and 50 years at AUB in the company of by the knowledge an adoring group of current and former students and faculty last March at Le Maillon in the Achrafieh neighborhood of Beirut. At AUB, and he gives, not the far beyond our campus, Haddadin is loved and revered for his accomplishments and his credit he seeks character. A humble man, Haddadin prefers the laboratory and the classroom to the spotlight, though it is difficult to keep the spotlight off of his accomplishments. He is the co-discover of two chemical reactions: the Davis-Beirut Reaction, along with Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California Dav is Mark J. Kurth, and the Beirut Reaction, along with late AUB Professor Costas Issidorides, a professor of Haddadin’s and a man to whom he says he owes much of his success. Indeed Issidorides and Haddadin’s joint discovery of the Beirut Reaction resulted in 45 patents in 25 countries, as well as significant royalties accrued to the University from the pharmaceutical industry.

To get a clearer picture of the researcher and innovator, MainGate turned to some of his former students, each of whom recalled with deep and abiding affection the man they credit for much of their professional and personal growth. They spoke of his humor, his dedication to his craft, and his ability to give technical subjects life by connecting them with literature, the humanities, and stories from his own life. 98

Below are some excerpts of former researcher in Organic Chemistry at the insight as for what works for a student. students’ recollections of their time University of Pennsylvania He will get you one way or the other. He with Dr. Haddadin: always puts people at ease and he’s “He will never be just a former teacher also quite funny.” “I was a research assistant in his lab. for me. I still get advice from him, on – Reem Renno (MD ’98), ophthalmologist He was the best boss I ever had. He is a career level, on a personal level. He at Houston Methodist Willowbrook so patient. If it wasn’t for him, I would went out of his way to visit me in my Hospital never have gotten a PhD in the United home to convince my parents that I States. He pushed me. He said, ‘Don’t should get a PhD in the States. My mom “When you go to the class, you don’t stop at a master’s, go get a PhD.’ I called said, ‘what if he went to the States and know what to expect. He might talk him when I had some troubles in the things worked out perfectly for him?’ about poetry or history. He makes the United States and he was always there He looked at me and told me that this class interesting. There is always for me, helping me not just with is the first time that a mom is worried something more to what we’re learning. chemistry, but with personal matters. that her son will succeed. The stories he shares with us about his He told me not to avoid taking action life, his work as a chemist. He makes out of fear. I got my PhD and ended up I also remember during my master’s chemistry easy to digest, it’s linked to meeting my husband while doing it. program, he was my adviser. Before real life examples and you remember the defense, he said prepare and if you better. The excitement on his face when he have any questions come and ask me. talks about chemistry is contagious. I did the prep. You would assume that When I took his class, he was VP I remember when he figured out the he is o n your side because he is your for Academic Affairs. Usually rearrangement of a reaction and he adviser and not challenge you in front administrators don’t teach, but he did. was just so excited. He still works of other committee members. With this In 1997, he used to come from his office there in the lab, still has a bench.” in mind, I went to the presentation. and teach us, like a normal person, – Claudia El Nachef, former research Other committee members asked me but with such love and passion. assistant at AUB, PhD in Organic relatively challenging questions. Chemistry from the University of Florida Haddadin said, ‘now it’s my turn,’ and In 1995, there was a big strike. He was he starts bombarding me with really in Marquand House and students were “The first time I met Haddadin was in tough questions. Afterwards, I said, just sitting in West Hall. There is just a 2004, when I was a junior at AUB. I took ‘I thought we were on the same team.’ wall between West Hall and Marquand his class and that’s why I’m currently And he said, ‘I cannot sacrifice organic House. He heard students talking about earning a PhD. It’s his teaching style, chemistry for friendship.’” the administration with some false the examples he gives from his life – Khaled Ghattass (PhD ’13), managing information. He went to West Hall and his research. He made me want director at Ergomed Saudi Company and told the students what was really to be in the lab. He’s calm, always happening in the administration. Then approachable. He gives good advice. “I took a tutorial with him and that he left. He showed the evidence and he He’s the o ne who encouraged me to get marked me tremendously. He humbles left. That gesture tells you about his my PhD in the United States. I still talk all of us, for being where he is now, personality. He is not confrontational to him and get advice from him.” and remaining so active in science and for confrontation’s sake, but will not – Mirna Khatib (MS ’08), postdoctoral the community. His modesty marked hide.” me and his ability to simplify subjects – Bilal Kaafarani, associate professor, and cater to different students learning Department of Chemistry, American methods. He has a piercing level of University of Beirut ­­­

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By the Nu bers Rankings

The 2015 QS rankings are out! Students worldwide rely on these rankings when deciding which university to attend.

AUB Faculty of Medicine (FM) ranking in the OtHeR US MedICAL fACULtIeS tHAt RAnK neAR Arab World #1 AUB fM InCLUde:

AUB Faculty of Medicine worldwide ranking out of University of South Florida’s Morsani world’s top 800 universities (thousands of universities College of Medicine 244 around the globe did not qualify for a ranking). 251 Loyola University of Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine 263 LOCAL COMPetItIOn: Tulane University’s School of Medicine 274 AUB’s nearest Arab competitor was the Faculty of Medicine at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt 302 Wake Forest University’s School of Medicine 298

By the Books Course: MEST 382 Intermediate Lebanese Colloquial Arabic

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Students will learn about Lebanese This course is interactive in nature, Rima Kanawati received a bachelor’s culture and improve their Lebanese developing students' language skills in Arabic Literature from Beirut Arab colloquial Arabic skills through engaging through a full range of writing, reading, University and a master’s in Arabic in the following tasks: narrating in the speaking, and listening activities. Class Language and Literature from AUB. She present and the past in details; dealing time centers on weekly lessons that is currently pursuing a PhD in Arabic more effectively with complicated develop students' ability to discuss topics Language and Literature at the American situations; listening to authentic such as travel, tourism, economics, and University of Beirut and her research topic programs; discussing topics of personal social issues in the dialect. Toward that focuses on the development of teaching and public interest. Lebanese films, songs, end, students analyze dialogues, study Arabic as a second language through and other audiovisual materials will also colloquial grammar, and prepare skits utilization of recent technological and be used. Students who wish to apply for and reports to present to the class. communication advancements. Since this course must have already studied On Wednesdays, students take a 2011, she has worked at CAMES as an Modern Standard Arabic for at least two break from the classroom and conduct instructor of Arabic as a second language semesters. A Skype interview is required interviews with native Lebanese speakers and teaches in the CAMES summer for all applicants at a personal or in the surrounding area. On Fridays the Arabic program. communal level. class takes trips to various locations around Beirut. 1110 Face to Face driving Research

More of AUB’s life’s blood as a research institution flows through Dr. Fadia Homeidan than perhaps any other person on campus. Dr. Homeidan is director of the Office of Grants and Contracts (OGC), which is responsible for helping professors apply for funding from foundations and other institutions, and navigating complicated funding package stipulations. “We help them solicit money for research, scholarships, and programs. We maintain relationships with funding agencies, and we try to cut through red tape,” explains Homeidan.

Increasingly, OGC also looks for potential commercial interest: she and her staff file for patents on behalf of professors with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and other patent offices abroad. AUB has some financial benefit from the commercialization of any patents.

Homeidan’ s nine person team serves the entire faculty, administering roughly 300 active grants at any one time. “Our customers are the faculty members and we want to make sure they are served well and are satisfied, and that compliance issues related to their funding are taken care of,” says Homeidan.

A highly-trained chemist, gastrointestinal researcher, and former professor of physiology at AUB, Dr. Homeidan first arrived at AUB in 1978 to complete her master’s in organic chemistry. She then traveled to the United States to work at Cornell University and the the State University of New York at Stony Brook as an assistant professor of physiology, before returning to AUB with her husband, Dr. Marwan El Sabban, a professor in AUB’s Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology, and Physiology. “We came back when our kids were younger just to try it, and it worked out,” says Homeidan.

“After being a professor at AUB, I moved to OGC in 2004. There was a call for a director and I applied. For me, it’s just another challenge,” she adds. “We used to manage just a couple million in grants, now we manage over $80 million.”

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It has never been used over the equipment for beekeeping, used past 15 years, since there has to smoke the bees upon colony never been a case of a true inspection to calm them down. It 01 allergic reaction. uses natural agents for burning, such as pine needles or dry tree 03 leaves to generate thick, white An alcohol squeeze-bottle, used smoke from incomplete for disinfecting the sting site on combustion. skin, or for disinfecting other implements when needed. 07 A beehive (or hive), modern Every year beekeepers harvest honey from 04 housing for the European honeycombs made by local bee colonies at the A hornet (wasp) nest (one of the honeybee, Apis mellifera, that was Honeybee Lab next to Pilot Plant in lower campus major predators of honeybees, initially introduced in 1851 by and sell it at AUB’s annual Honey Day event in the spring. Proceeds from the sale support the lab, where especially in an environment like Langstroth as the movable-frame bees have been buzzing around for the past 15 years. AUB’s–hot and humid in the hive, based on the Bee Space summer) that was discovered in concept. one of the empty hives. 01 A student is checking a hornet 05 queen (a bee enemy) looking for A beekeeper’s tool (or hive tool), a nesting space. used for the manipulation of wax-comb frames inside the 02 beehive; it’s one of the three An Api-kit, a First Aid kit basic pieces of equipment for containing shots of Epinephrine beekeeping. It works as a lever. (Antihistamine) for treatment of allergy to bee stings, obtained 06 from and renewed by AUBMC. A smoker, another basic piece of 07 Tag Tour 06

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Broader The Rape: Horizons A More Nuanced Look at an Old through Sport Conflict

AUB student athletes competed successfully at several international sports festivals this year that took them to different corners of Europe, providing both a competitive outlet and a cultural education.

In March, five AUB teams traveled to Agia Paraskevi, Greece where they competed against teams from eight other universities on the fields and courts at the American College of Greece. AUB men’s soccer, women’s basketball, and men’s volleyball all won first place, while men’s basketball went home empty-handed.

Meanwhile, on the other side of Europe, AUB’s Breaking from theatrical horrible acts of violence, swimming, tennis, and futsal teams squared off against tradition and delving into the leaving them haunted, shell- Serbian, Croatian, and Spanish opponents in April in most sordid corners of the shocked versions of their Valencia, Spain, with the swim team overcoming the human psyche, the Assaf and former selves. Dalal, a field and coming in first place. Myers’ theater group, Palestinian accused of supported by students from crimes against the State of “The competition was really tough,” says AUB senior AUB and LAU, brought the Israel is forced to watch in and competitive swimmer Laura Fallaha, who came in late Saadallah Wannous’s horror as Ishaq’s Shin Bet first in the swim relay and third in the breaststroke. harrowing play “The Rape” to colleagues rape his wife, Fallaha, a former AUB athlete of the year who has been life at LAU’s Irwin Theater with Ishaq being a reluctant running and swimming since she was a child, relishes this past March. Unlike many participant in the violence. both the competition and the chance to experience other plays addressing the The experience leaves both exotic locales. “Valencia is a university town, so apart Israeli-Palestinian conflict, men irreparably damaged. from the competition, the experience of travelling around “The Rape” eschews the Slowly, over the course of the the city is very enriching. There was a Spanish folk dance narrative most common to play and Dalal and Ishaq’s parade during the awards’ ceremony.” Since arriving at the Arab World of monolithic respective psychological AUB, she has had the opportunity to travel as an athlete Israeli oppressor versus noble breakdowns, we become to Turkey, Belgium, Serbia, Rome, and now Spain, an Palestinian resistor, moving exposed to the brainwashing itinerary that even globetrotting adults would envy. instead to explore the stunted on both sides of the Green humanity of both sides. Line that makes such For her next trip, Fallaha will head to the World inhumane acts acceptable, University Games in Gwangju City, South Korea where “It’s more than just a pro- even pleasing. she will compete against many of the best athletes in Palestinian propaganda the world in her age group. “The only thing I have in my piece because it explores “We wanted to give the head is that I need to win. My training gives me Israeli consciousness,” says audience a view of how confidence. I know I’ve worked hard and the crowd AUB student Lynn Hodeib, Israelis imbibe these racist gives me a rush,” she says. who served as the play’s ideas about Palestinians and production manager and also how it affects the two sides,” Graduating with a bachelor’s in architecture in May, played violin as part of the says Hodeib. Fallaha plans to continue training and competing in production’s music triathlons and marathons in and around Lebanon once ensemble. It appears that the she enters the “real world.” Yet she feels the coming production, was successful, heartache of leaving AUB’s athletic community behind: “The Rape” tells the story of as the play has drawn “The staff, the coaches, the athletes, we are all one two men, Dalal and Ishaq, positive reviews from big family. I will come back and visit, but it won’t be and their families as they Lebanese critics and the same.” perform and submit to theatergoers. Inspiration

“I have always been interested in art intent on giving Lebanese graffiti its explored and contextualized, like a and subcultures that try to resist or due. “Lebanese Walls is my tribute to Picasso painting. There are interviews subvert state power,” says Amar Lebanese graffiti artists, my attempt at with artists, like Ali Rafaei from Tripoli Shabandar, explaining why she created creating a visual memory of the street who paints evocative portraits on the a website showcasing Lebanese street art that’s part of the subversive walls near his home. art from different parts of the country. conversations taking place in Shabandar (BA ’14), a recent AUB Lebanon.” Shabandar also addresses the legality graduate in English literature and of graffiti, a gray area, and the growing current graduate student at the Her site, Lebanesewalls.com, push by business to exploit it, like hip- University of London’s School of approaches Lebanese graffiti as hop, for commercial gain in a collection Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), is contemporary art that deserves to be of essays posted on the site. “Graffiti Lebanese Walls 1514

worldwide is being co-opted by capitalists due to its potential to ‘attract youth,’” says Shabandar mockingly. The website Shabandar’s fascination with graffiti has Lebanesewalls.com, its roots in the political stencils of Civil approaches War-era Beirut, which were mostly depictions of leaders. Though powerfully Lebanese graffiti as influenced by these designs, her interest contemporary art in the medium waned through that deserves to adolescence, only to be rekindled during a trip to Cairo by the street art of the be explored and January 25 Revolution, an experience that contextualized. drove her to, in her words, “unwrap the conversations taking place on the walls of Beirut.” Unsurprisingly, these conversations occur in several languages, namely Arabic, English, and French.

Though she still maintains the site from afar, Shabandar admits she has not been able to add many new images since starting graduate school at SOAS. “Being abroad this year has made it very difficult to document emerging street art, to catch it before it’s painted over. Lebanese authorities still have not deemed street art illegal. Artists are still challenging public perceptions through minor acts of resistance, and they will be doing so for a very long time.” 16 Inspiration

The co-founder and first director of AUB’s nursing school, Jane Elizabeth Van Zandt was born in Plainville, New Jersey to a large, prominent, and wealthy New York City family. Her father, Thaddeus Avery Van Zandt, married twice: first to Sara Angeline Van Beuren, with whom he had three children, and then to Mary Kennedy Van Zandt. Thaddeus and Mary had seven children: Mary, Estelle, Edward, Ernest, Elsie, Jane, and Grace.

Jane graduated in 1902 from the Margaret Fahnestock Training School for Nurses at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. She likely first learned of the Syrian Protestant College from William E. Dodge (who was one of six people to sign SPC’s Certificate of Incorporation on April 14, 1863) or Morris K. Jesup (who was chairman of the SPC Board of Trustees from 1896 to 1907). In addition to playing critical roles in establishing SPC, both men were also members of the Corporation of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital. It was actually William E. Dodge’s son, SPC founder David S. Dodge1, however, who recruited Jane to establish and lead what would be the first nursing school in the Middle East. By all accounts, she was an exceptionally good choice. In add ition to being an experienced nurse with expertise in infant and child nutrition, Jane was also a skilled administrator and an Legends & Legacies inspiring leader who was widely loved and respected. Less than a month after she was offered the position, Jane left New York on the Slavonia, which stopped in Naples and Alexandria before docking in Beirut on April 25, 1905. She Jane Elizabeth wasted no time and opened the nursing school just a month later, on May 30, 1905.

Van Zandt As director of the nursing school, Jane worked particularly closely with Mary Bliss Dale2 who was superintendent of the hospital from 1905 to 1923. One of Jane’s biggest challenges was recruiting students for what many young women–and their families–considered to be a menial occupation. Thanks in large part to her persistent efforts, the nursing school was soon attracting students from as far away as Russia. Among the faculty that Jane managed to recruit to teach at the nursing school was her sister Elsie, who was also a graduate of the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. Elsie spent three years at SPC (1910-13) and later worked at Robert College in Istanbul. The founding director of the nursing school built Jane stepped down as director of AUB’s nursing school in a program that would 1932, but remained as an adviser until 1941 when she retired attract students from as to the United States, first to New Jersey and later to Florida. far away as Russia. She returned to Beirut briefly in 1955 as an honored participant in the nursing school’s 50th anniversary celebration. Jane died in St. Petersburg, Florida on April 28, 1974 at the age of 99.

-SL, BR

1 See MainGate, winter 2011, Legends and Legacies. 2 See MainGate, summer 2013, Legends and Legacies. Discoveries Research, the arts, and current events

Hamra, Revisited Rediscovered photos from the 1950s and ’60s document a changing 18 cityscape.

Transgender, Transformative 20 The evolving practices and politics of gender in Lebanon.

From innovation to preservation, AUB students brainstorm on biodiversity The Green Dream 23 and environmental initiatives.

Director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship Fateh S. Azzam Under Discussion 26 is building better ways to link academia to activism.

Christiane Zoghbi (BEN ’06, PhD expected 2015) is working on sleeker models R+D 27 to predict the flow of groundwater.

AUB Spaces Horticulture instructor Monika Fabian is transforming the greenhouse to the 28 eco-unit. Discoveries

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2015 Hamra, Revisited

“Have you been to the new Beirut, for its part, has a couple of The only researchers to mea ningfully restaurant/bar/cafe on societies focused on capturing its trace Hamra’s history have been Danish Hamra Street?” So begin countless history. The Association for the physical geographer Per Kongstad and conversations around campus, as the Protection of Old Sights and Traditional renowned AUB professor and neighborhood perpetually reinvents Architecture concerns itself with the sociologist, Samir Khalaf. Together they itself. Whether or not you remember city’s old buildings, particularly in published Hamra of Beirut: A Case of Hamra Street before the Roadster Diner Ashrafieh, where a smattering of Rapid Urbanization in 1971, which broke was a landmark, a new online photo historic buildings still stands. down Hamra’s development, from the repository of this vibrant Beirut Meanwhile, the Arab Image Foundation mid-19th century until the 1960s, into neighborhood during a powerfully houses photographs of the entire Arab four architectural periods: the transformative period of its history, the World, that includes major Arab farmhouse era, the suburban two-story early 1950s through th e 1960s, captures capitals like Beirut. But no organization home, the walk-up, and the high-rise. the imagination. It was during this has taken the time to chronicle Hamra, period that Hamra definitely diverged a neighborhood closely linked with the The treasure trove of material they from its bucolic, pastoral origins, growth of the American University of collected during the study, which becoming a skyscraper-dominated, Beirut. included hundreds of photographs of cultural and economic destination for Hamra during the 1960s, was largely city residents and tourists alike. lost, as only a small fraction of the 1918

photos made it to print. Now thanks to Brøndgaard, and Cardoso have digitized the efforts of three Danish graduate some 420 forgotten photos of the students studying geoinformatics at neighborhood, with more still to come. A new online photo Aalborg University, these photos are being brought back to life. “There are a lot of gaps when it comes repository of Hamra to the social geography of the Middle during a powerfully The students, Elise Thing, Marie East,” says Thing, “and these photos Brøndgaard, and Bruno Correia de help fill one of those gaps. Kongstad transformative Freitas Cardoso, stumbled upon the and Khalaf’s work is one of very few period of its history, work of Kongstad by chance. “A friend studies done on this area.” that we were studying with, someone the early 1950s who knew Kongstad, came to us and The students are donating the photos to through the 1960s, showed us all this material that had just AUB. An interactive portion of the captures the been lying around, unpublished,” says archive that includes photos and time Thing. “The book that came of the stamped digital maps of Hamra from imagination. study, Hamra of Beirut, was quite small different eras is available at: and included only 10 photos, but http://arcg.is/1dWkhSI. hundreds were taken.” So far Thing, Discoveries Pursuits

Predicting epileptic I’m working on a project sponsored by a company Currently, we can predict with roughly 70% Seizures called NeuroPro. Our aim is to develop algorithms accuracy if EEG data changes signal an imminent that predict whether or not someone with seizure. We can also predict with the same level of epilepsy is on the verge of having a seizure. accuracy whether or not the brain will continue to NeuroPro plans to make use of our algorithms function normally and remain seizure-free. We are in a wearable headset–which they have already looking to boost our accuracy levels and expand developed–that seizure sufferers can wear. our pool of test subjects before these algorithms become part of a commercially available device. The device works by monitoring the level of electrical activity in the wearer’s brain. The brain The project is at its midpoint. We are through one draws a certain amount of electricity for normal year of a scheduled two years and are in regular functioning at any given moment, but that consultation with NeuroPro. Unlike other Zaher Dawy changes right before a seizure. For us to get better grant-funded research projects, there is a real at predicting seizures, we need to develop a better push for a commercially viable solution here, Associate Professor Electrical and Computer understanding of those baseline electricity levels, something with patent potential. Engineering Department as well as the extent to which those levels spike.

I study the economics and technical feasibility of it is more than sufficient for applications that do taking recycled construction waste and using it in not require high strength concrete. Also, using Recycling Construction the construction of new buildings. In Lebanon, recycled concrete saves money, because it is Waste waste materials from construction sites are being cheap. However, developers’ profit margins are so dumped illegally in quarries and valleys, and high, especially on some of the big projects by the seashore. In California, the municipal around Beirut, that the economics are not government mandates that contractors draw a attractive enough to force a switch. certain percentage of their construction materials from recycled construction waste; this refers I hope, through my research, to be able to prove primarily to concrete made from debris and the efficacy and environmental benefits of using other waste that accrues at construction sites. recycled concrete and other construction Lebanon’s Ministry of Environment does not materials. I want the Order of Engineers and mandate similar practices here in Lebanon. Architects to adopt standards calling for the use of recycled materials in construction in Lebanon. One of the big obstacles to more widespread use Once that happens, the relevant Lebanese Issam Srour of recycled concrete at construction sites is the ministries can follow suit and promulgate the Assistant Professor fear that it is unsound. Developers do not trust appropriate policies. Engineering Management the material, even though there is evidence that Program 2120

Transgender, Transformative Government red tape and few treatment options confront transgender individuals in Lebanon.

LGBT, which stands for Lesbian, Gay, at AUBMC Dr. Faysal El Kak spoke at Because getting a sex change is so Bisexual, and Transgender, has been the seminar of current and future involved, expensive, and permanent, the catchall term for everyone that’s treatment options for Lebanon’s many people with gender identity not heterosexual for some time now. transgender community. disorder (GIS) opt out of the procedure, Originally called the “gay community,” settling instead for hormone treatment. the initialism LGB appeared in the In Lebanon, changing genders requires “The surgery is very detailed and United States in the 1980s, as many government approval. “Before you can expensive,” says El Kak. “Some felt the word “gay” did not accurately get a sex-change, you need official regret it.” capture the community’s diversity. The papers from a psychiatrist and other “T” wasn’t added until 1988 and didn’t doctors,” says El Kak. A transgender At present, no hospital in Lebanon, become part of the mainstream lexicon person can’t just go t o the doctor and including AUBMC, offers transgender- until the 1990s. More recently, some ask for reassignment surgery. Rather, related services. Lebanese doctors are activists and media outlets have added that person needs a professional capable of performing the treatments, a “Q,” for queer or questioning, and an medical opinion compelling enough but they don’t advertise that fact. Only “I,” for intersex, which refers to people to persuade a judge to draft a legal a handful of medical centers in the whose genetic makeup straddles both opinion authorizing reassignment world, namely in Canada and the sides of the male-female divide. surgery. Netherlands, openly advertise transgender-related services. Yet despite the lengthening acronym, the non-heterosexual community But that doesn’t mean a student remains far from monolithic. Though “Instead of suffering from GIS needs to travel they may unite as sexual minorities for highlighting one abroad for treatment. Estimates of political activism, the experiences of GIS’s prevalence among the general someone who is gay or bisexual differ controversial issue, population vary widely, between one vastly from those of someone who is like transgender, we transgender person per 170 people to transgender. Lebanon, for example, is one per 30,000. Transgender students considered by some to be among the are coming together that need help can speak to El Kak: more gay-friendly countries in region; to push the whole “I myself would follow the case for gay rights activists have been agitating a student and we would consult with for the repeal of Article 543, which movement forward.” different medical professionals and prohibits “sexual intercourse contrary if there’s a strong case based on to the order of nature,” and has been international guidelines, we would used to prosecute homosexuality in the help that case.” c ountry. Meanwhile, NGOs like Proud One of the reasons that government Lebanon have marshalled the support has to get involved is because changing El Kak and other activists continue of Lebanese celebrities to push for one’s sex also means changing the to advocate for recognition and equality on social media. But is census. In Lebanon, you’re either a better treatment of the entire LGBTQI Lebanon equally progressive when it man or a woman. “The government community, but realize transgender comes to transgender rights? has a binary mind. They don’t recognize rights may be a harder sell among a third gender,” says El Kak. Most certain constituencies than gay On March 4, AUB held a seminar countries view gender this way, but rights. “Instead of highlighting one entitled, “The Journey from Gender several, including Nepal, India, controversial issue, like transge nder, Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria,” which Germany, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, we are coming together to push the shed light on important research into among others, have begun issuing whole movement forward. If we keep the transgender experience. Senior national identity cards that list things moving based on evidence, lecturer of health promotion and “undetermined,” “non-specific,” science and needs, there will be community health at AUB’s Faculty of or “hijra,” which refers to India’s change.” Health Sciences and Ob/Gyn specialist transgender community. Discoveries

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take the plunge! farrah Berrou (BS ’09) commented on the AUB Beach facebook page (yes, the beach has a facebook page !), “even though there’s no tram or red roofs, part of me likes to think that future generations will share photos like this in forty years.” from the looks of these photos, her dreams will come true.

www.facebook.com/ Match the photo and the date, and see you at the beach next summer (June – October)! pages/Aub-Beach/ A 1940s, On the rocks D 2015, The Launching Pad B 1990, The Corniche E 1960s, Beginner sunbathing C 1902, Cooling off while working out F 1999, Reeling it in

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The Green Dream IBdAA’s annual competition rewards projects that aim to make our lives a little better, one green step at a time.

How can I tell if the olive oil I buy at the supermarket is pure? Though this has all been going on since 2007, the culture of How can I tell if the meat is spoiled? How can I make the competition has changed over the years. No longer just a nutritious food less expensive? These were just some of the potential resumé buil der, IBDAA now carries a certain questions asked, and creatively answered, by the winners of prestige, and with that comes a gravitational pull that draws this year’s IBDAA competition. in new competitors from all over campus, and even holds on IBDAA: The International to old ones. For the first time, former IBDAA competitors, like Biodiversity Day at AUB is an annual event Inspired by the United Nations-sanctioned International Yara Beaini, are helping to coordinate and advertise the organized by the Nature Biodiversity Day, the annual IBDAA competition pushes event. “My role in IBDAA this year was mainly logistics. But Conservation Center students to propose novel ways to make the world a little even as a participant last year, I was surprised at the day of (NCC) that gives undergraduate students greener. It is both a catalyst for green innovation within the the event by how big it was,” says Beaini. the opportunity to AUB student community and a powerful learning experience. participate in a full- “IBDAA is really about teaching execution,” says AUB This year’s cohort was particularly strong. A total of 215 fledged poster forum. chemistry professor Najat Saliba, who oversees the program. students divided into teams of three or four presented 60 The projects tackle nature, its conservation, projects, of which five were awarded first place honors, its challenges, and/or its Teams compete in one of five categories: Arts and and another five, second place. MainGate caught up use, from a variety of Humanities, Business Plan, Product Development, Research, with four winners and one runner-up, who presented viewpoints. and Renewable Resources and Improved Energy Efficiency. their projects. Then, after a semester’s worth of work, they pitch their final products to panels of potential investors and professors who judge projects according to creativity, research quality, impact, team spirit, and presentation. Discoveries

Our project looks at the detectable chemical changes in meat as it decomposes. There is an enzyme that decomposes along with the meat that gives off hydrogen peroxide. We created a device that detects the amount of hydrogen peroxide in meat; higher levels indicate greater decomposition. The device uses a piece of paper with dye on it; when you place the paper on the meat, it reacts with the hydrogen peroxide and changes color. If there’s no hydrogen peroxide—in fresh meat there is a negligible amount—then the dye does not change co lor.

We are still in the prototype phase, but we hope, in the long run, to bring this product to grocery stores. Both grocers and customers can use it to check meat quality. The only issue we have now is that our dye reacts and changes color when exposed to air, so we are trying to find a dye that doesn’t do that. Fortunately, we still have several years to work on this project.

By: Rida Farhat (BS, expected ’18), Sama Hajjdib (BS, expected ’18), Louay Ali Hassan (BS, expected ’18)

Meat or Fetid: An Analysis of What Leads to Meat Decomposition Research

We built a hydroponic (meaning it doesn’t use soil) planter, which we call the “Green Box.” The Green Box is a dirt-free planter that uses clay pellets and a fortified water solution that plants can draw nutrients from. It is also customized for apartment life and serves different household functions; there is a key holder on the side of planter, for example.

Many apartment dwellers avoid buying house plants because dealing with soil can be messy. Our project addresses that issue. Our initial prototype costs $40 to build. We hope to build more planters and commercialize the project, as well as develop an app that tells users when they need to add water to the Green Box.

By: Yasmina El Khoury (BArch, expected ’16), Tina El Chaer (BArch, expected ’16), Natalie Estephan (BArch, expected ’16), Aya Ita ni (BArch, expected ’16)

Green Box Arts and Humanities

Our team created a spectrometer made of inexpensive materials that can determine the purity of olive oil. It costs about $20 to make and it’s extremely accurate. To determine purity, we shine a laser that emits at 405nm on a test tube, which holds an olive oil sample. In front of the tube, we have an LDR (light dependent resistance) measuring device that records light resistance . If the sample is pure, it will re-emit light at 670nm, otherwise, if it’s mixed with lower quality oils, it will re-emit lower on the spectrum, between 450 and 500nm. The higher it emits on the spectrum, the lower the resistance.

More than 70% of olive oil on the market is not pure. If merchants want to maintain the quality of their olive oil, they can use this instrument to determine opti mal storage time. And if they want to make sure they are buying high quality olive oil, they can use it for that as well.

By: Ali Shouman (BS, expected ’16), Muhammed Abou Daher (BE, expected ’17), Omar Al Daouk (BE, expected ‘16), Fatima Al Mousawi (BE, expected ’17)

Olive Oil Purity Product Development

IBDAA Award Winner IBDAA Award Nominee 2524

Quinward Foods aims to become the first company in Lebanon and the Middle East to locally produce high-quality quinoa seeds. The name “Quinward Foods” came from combining the word “quinoa” and the suffix “-ward,” which indicates a direction. Quinward Foods will produce, harvest and process quinoa, while maintaining a pesticide and herbicide-free environment. We plan to arrange contracts with farmers in the Beqa’a region, an optimal area for quinoa production, and to train them in quinoa planting. We will process the yielded seeds, pack them, and deliver them to supermarkets, grocery shops and restaurants around Lebanon.

Quinward Foods is part of a movement to expand the Lebanese agricultural sector. There are no farmers growing quinoa in Lebanon. But Lebanese imports of quinoa are growing at a rate of 20% annually. Quinoa is a rotation crop with wheat, so it fits into farmers’ production cycles smoothly. Right now, quinoa costs $10 per 500 grams in Lebanon. We can get that figure down to $4.

By: Abdullah Bacha (BS ’15), Aya Gizi (BS ’15), Elise El Habre (BS ’15)

Quinward Foods Business Plan

We conducted an environmental impact assessment for the coming Beirut Marina and East Marina Yacht Club. We broke down impact into three categories: occupational health, socioeconomic, and environmental. We then created an impact identification matrix that shows how construction activities, like dredging, wastewater disposal, and gas emittance from chimneys, would affect metrics for each of these categories.

The data is based on other environmental impact assessments and consultations with academics. To assess impact, we considere d duration, timing, expense, reversibility, magnitude, and uncertainty.

Finally, we came up with mitigation measures. We suggested using excavation equipment that would minimize sediment. We also recommended that developers comply with WHO standards regarding air pollution and environmental testing. We showed the project to Solidere, which is constructing the marina. They could not give us direct feedback , but they did encourage us.

By: Sara Kaddoura (BS, expected ’16), Sara Harb (BS, expected ’16), Hassan Zantout (BS, expected ’16) Environmental Impact Assessment of the East Marina Beach and Yacht Club Research

AUB Trustee Gabriel Rebeiz (BEN ’82) and AUB signed a two-year Memorandum of IN CASE YOU AUB Professor Nader El-Bizri (BAR ’89) have Understanding with the United Nations been awarded the 2014 Kuwait Prize. Rebeiz Development Programme (UNDP) to promote MISSED IT. won for applied sciences. He is the Wireless exchange of expertise, knowledge and research, Communications Industry Endowed Chair and to provide student internship opportunities professor of Electrical and Computing in various topics. Engineering at University of California, San Diego. El-Bizri won for Arabic and Islamic In its 14th edition, the 2015 City Debates heritage. He is chair of the Civilization focused on gentrification as an aspect of urban Studies Program at AUB. change, attracting local and international scholars who convened at AUB last March for Last April, AUB signed an agreement with a three-day conference. Commissariat à L'Énergie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), a French FHS was awarded nearly $1 million in government-funded research organization. scholarships for graduate students to help Research will focus on the field of magnetic combat the infectious diseases of poverty. fusion, which an innovative way to produce Hosted by the WHO in Geneva, the Special energy. Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) is a global health initiative. Discoveries

Under Discussion: Citizenship in the Arab World

Fateh S. Azzam At the Asfari Institute, we are looking at what it means to be a citizen in different parts of the Arab World, the Director, Asfari social contract citizens enter into with their Institute for Civil government, and citizens’ civic rights and duties. Society and Citizenship What we’re not doing is juxtaposing notions of Arab and Western citizenship. This is about understanding the concept of citizenship in the modern nation-state as it exists globally. Political syste ms are supposed to guarantee and respect the dignity of citizens, who, in turn, must be participants, not just recipients.

We want to be a bridge between activists and policymakers, but we do not want to be prescriptive. Rather, we will serve as a forum for the exploration and analysis of actionable ideas, a repository that civil society activists can draw from when organizing, messaging, and framing the debate among their own constituencies. To accomplish this, we are in the process of building a network of academics across the Middle East and North Africa region who are studying issues related to citizenship.

This spring, we hosted a discussion of Palestinians’ right to work in Lebanon that brought together academics and civil society organizations. Our hope is that these organizations, like the Palestinian Human Rights Organization, picked up actionable concepts at the conference that they can implement on the ground. Last winter, we held the inaugural annual conference under the headline “Exploring an Agenda for Active Citizenship.” Academics addressed issues ranging from the activist/monarch relationship in Morocco to civil society actors’ role in mediation and peacemaking in conflict-ridden Syria.

Think about microfinance, which originated at the activist level with Grameen Bank. Here is a brilliant, culturally significant idea that changed the lives of millions before becoming a formal branch of academic study. Our goal is to drive the flow of ideas in the other direction, from the academic network we create to the activists, who can then rely on our work to push for change where it matters. 2726 R+D

Research focus: My research focuses on modelling the flow of groundwater through Karst aquifers, which are essentially large underground drainage systems; caves underneath the earth. These caves collect rainwater that passes through Christiane Zoghbi underground conduits–pipes surrounded by PhD, Environmental soil–before filtering out through springs. I’m and Water Resources developing a model that analyzes the storage and Engineering, transmission capacity of these aquifers, with an expected 2015 eye towards predicting how long their different springs will be active and how active they will be based on their internal characteristics and the amount of local rainfall.

Biggest discovery to date: Right now, the models most researchers use are huge. I call them dinosaur models. They require a ton of inputs. I’ve been able to get the same predictive capacity from a much smaller, leaner model that I’ve developed. It requires fewer inputs and generates results in seconds, rather than hours. This is important, because time is money in the modelling world.

Implications for research: If you can predict when springs will run and for how long, you can maximize the amount of water you draw from them. For a farmer or a municipality, storing spring water before a spring dries up can mean the difference between no crop and a second harvest; a thirsty city or one with kids playing in fountains.

So far, I’ve only been able to create models for springs in Europe and the US as officials in those two regions collect data on springs. Lebanon has not yet invested in spring data collection, which can be costly, and even dangerous, since you have to go into underground caves.

How I got here: I got my bachelor’s in civil engineering from AUB and my master’s in engineering from MIT. I then worked for an engineering consulting firm in New York City before deciding to pursue my PhD.

What I’ll remember most about AUB: I will remember my “thinking bench,” which overlooks the tennis courts. I will also miss the AUB cats who relentlessly tried to steal my lunch.

Best moment of the day: The afternoon coffee breaks with friends; going to the cafeteria, Caribou Coffee; also, when I make a breakthrough in my research. 28 Discoveries

Greenhouse Area, department of Landscape design and ecosystem Management, faculty of Agricultural and food Sciences

AUB has a long agricultural tradition, and de facto greenhouse manager. touched in the last 30 years, so now is the stretching back to 1914 when faculty began The Departments of Agriculture and time. We are going to put native trees and training students in soil management, Landscape Architecture make the most use shrubs around it. We are also creating a animal husbandry, and vegetable and fruit- of the area. Horticulture students each get new open air classroom,” she explains. agriculture. The University has a 100-hectare their own plot to manage, while the corner “We are trying to change the area to call it farm in the Beqa’a, modern agricultural lot is used for plant identification so that an eco-unit. We want a full agricultural cycle equipment, and a display section for botany young children ages 5-8, many from happening, from composting to plant growth. in its Natural History Museum. So it’s only International College (IC) or the American We are also trying to showcase the green roof fitting that AUB has a greenhouse as well. Community School (ACS), can visit and learn plants, to showcase the whole area really.” Tucked away next to the stairs near the Bobst to identify roses, firs, junipers, and other Chemistry building, the AUB greenhouse plants and flowers. Meanwhile, just a few consists of several plots used for research steps away, Professors Yousef Abou Jawdeh and teaching, as well as display. The number and Isam Bashour study virus resistant of plants fluctuates, but usually numbers in plants and fertilization on their respective the thousands. “Last week, I had between plots. 10,000 and 15,000 plants. This week, it’s down to 4,000, since so many of the plants Fabian, who began working at the were sold during the most recent fair,” says greenhouse in 2009, is in the process of Monika Fabian, an instructor in horticulture renovating the area. “The area hasn’t been AUB Spaces Wellness AUBMC 2020, health, and medicine

KMC Comes Online AUBMC’s first fully affiliated hospital brings state-of-the art facilities 30 and services to one of Lebanon’s neediest populations.

The Children’s Heart Centers celebrates 20 years of excellence in pediatric AUBMC News cardiology disease with thanks to the strong support of the Braveheart Fund; the 32 Department of Surgery received its third consecutive performance award from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program; Magnet reaccreditation: AUBMC is the first medical center in the region to receive Magnet recognition twice.

Last April, the Middle East Medical Assembly (MEMA) paid tribute A Doctor’s Inflamed Interest 33 to one of AUB’s most renowned medical researchers, nephrologist Dr. Kamal Badr (BS ’76, MD ’80).

Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and professor Dr. Ziad Nahas Check Up 34 discusses mental health and treatment obstacles: stigma and finances.

AUB Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Zaher Dawy, PhD Sahtein 36 (BEN ’98) shares a recipe for Foul Mudammas (Ful Medames) that is delicious and nutritious. Wellness KMC Comes Online

When AUBMC’s Dr. Elie Hobeika, a KMC’s significance comes as a provider In terms of services, KMC is a general, clinical assistant professor at the of the high quality healthcare to around tertiary care hospital with state-of-the- Department of Obstetrics and 1.5 million impoverished Lebanese art facilities; this includes all manner of Gynecology, heads out to meet the first living in the north of the country, many basic services and surgeries. Extremely patient of the morning, he’ll be far away of whom would otherwise not have specialized care requiring high-tech from the din of Bliss, Clemanceau and access to medical treatment. It meets equipment is left to AUBMC: “There Abdulaziz Streets. Recruited to AUBMC the same US accreditation standards as are some services that it doesn’t make in 2014, he’s one of the first physicians AUBMC, which includes standards for sense to duplicate, financially,” says to work primarily out of Keserwan patient care, surgery, record-keeping, Hachach. This includes procedures Medical Center (KMC), AUBMC’s first and staff credentials. “We have had such as PET scans, bone marrow fully affiliated hospital, which came partnerships with other hospitals for transplants, and pediatric open heart online last spring. Hobeika, along with some time,” says Hachach, “but this surgery. Patients requiring such eight other AUMBC faculty, practices as is the first full affiliation.” services will be referred to AUBMC. a clinician at KMC 80% of the time and provides academic support to residents Under a standard hospital partnership Providing for the country’s neediest is at AUBMC the other 20%. agreement, AUBMC may loan out its built into KMC’s insurance policy. The clinicians to a partner hospital, but it hospital’s budget allows for it to accept In January 2015, the clinic served its won’t take responsibility for that 60% of its patients from the publicly first patient, and in March, the first hospital’s general quality of care. In insured pool—namely those on army, doctors at the hospital performed this case, however, AUBMC has its Ministry of Health, or internal security inaugural surgery procedures. “We’re name at stake. That’s why it’s providing doing a slow opening to get things fine- KMC with some of its best clinicians tuned,” says Noha Hachach, the and enforcing rigorous hiring administrative director of AUBMC standards. Beyond the eight full-time affiliations and executive administrator faculty spending the majority of their for clinical affairs. “We have a lot of time at KMC, another 40 AUBMC moving target dates. Things keep physicians are doing rotations at the evolving, but I think we can be fully hospital. In addition, AUBMC and KMC operational by very soon.” administrators are working together to hire physicians for KMC directly. 3130

forces plans—along with another 40% Hobeika, who describes himself Though KMC represents a great leap from private plans. At AUBMC, only as a “guinea pig” for the KMC forward for AUB’s medical community, 25% of the patient pool can be administration, feels confident that for the AUBMC administration led by publicly-insured. the facility’s location outside of traffic- Raja N. Khuri Dean of the Faculty of snarled Beirut will make accessing Medicine and Vice President of Medical Fortunately, KMC has managed to KMC much easier than getting to Affairs Dr. Mohammed Sayegh, it’s only attract many high quality physicians, AUBMC. “It’s in between Tripoli and the beginning. The aim over the next a number of whom have come back Beirut, so people can avoid the traffic decade is to expand AUB’s medical from overseas to serve. The new of Beirut,” says Hobeika. reach throughout Lebanon. AUBMC medical center is giving many and a non-profit partner have just physicians who wanted to return to But the physical distance won’t stop agreed to open the Medrar Medical Lebanon a prestigious, high-quality doctors at AUBMC and KMC from Center in the south of Lebanon, a move facility in which to practice their art. sharing critical information about that will bring yet another new patient patients, or from taking advantage of constituency into the AUB family. Hobeika was one of the first doctors each other’s expertise. “We’re going to repatriate and join the staff at KMC. to be working off a shared hospital “I was in the States, in California, and server,” says Hachach. “Imaging data I decided to return to Lebanon to work can be shared. We are also in the long out of AUBMC and KMC, but mainly and expensive process of moving to KMC,” says Hobeika. “It’s really electronic medical records for all appealing to me to be a part of this patients,” she adds. project to expand quality care.” Wellness AUBMC News

A Celebration of excellence and Philanthropy

AUBMC’s Children’s Heart Center, of child heart disease cases in the established in 1995, is celebrating its Lebanon. 20th anniversary this year. Established as a small unit inside AUBMC’s Yet what really sets the center apart Department of Cardiology, the heart is its commitment to serving all sick center, led by Dr. Fadi Bitar, has grown children through the Braveheart Fund, into Lebanon’s premier pediatric which raises money to cover the cost cardiology center, both in terms of of care for the sickest and neediest. quality and quantity. The Center “I would say 70% of our patient load is provides state-of-the-art care for either fully or partially supported by the children with heart disease, as well as Fund,” says Bitar. As of 2015, the Fund a training prog ram for those studying has raised millions of dollars that has pediatric cardiology. It is also the been used to treat and save the lives of country’s most prolific pediatric more than 2,700 children. cardiology center, treating 75-80%

Getting Surgery Right

AUBMC’s Department of Surgery ACS NSQIP is a surgical audit program. received its third consecutive Medical professionals from the performance award from the American organization assist hospital enrollees College of Surgeons National Surgical in collecting data on surgical outcomes Quality Improvement Program (ACS and reporting it to ACS NSQIP; ACS NSQIP) for 2014, having already NSQIP then compares enrollees’ data. received the award for 2012 and 2013. Though many NSQIP participants are The award recognizes the extent to large, prestigious US-based medical which AUBMC’s surgeons performing institutions, AUBMC still managed to high-risk surgical procedures achieve distinguish itself in this competitive “meritorious” outcomes. field, outperforming 90% of the other hospitals in the program to earn the award.

the Region’s Best nurses

AUBMC received Magnet recognition became the first medical center in the from the American Nurses region to receive Magnet recognition Credentialing Center’s Magnet twice. Recognition Program. This voluntary credentialing program for hospitals “It is a wonderful tribute” said Ms. recognizes excellence in nursing and Iman Al Kouatly, director of nursing at is the highest honor an organization AUBMC. “Our Magnet redesignation is can receive for professional nursing a testament to our commitment to practice. excellence. We are proud of our positive practice environment for nurses. It is After a rigorous auditing process through hard work and collaboration AUBMC became the first medical center that we have sustained this honor for in the Middle East to earn Magnet the highest quality of care.” recognition in 2009, and in 2014, it 3332

A Doctor’s Inflamed Interest This past April, the Middle East Medical school. And finally, after four years at Assembly (MEMA) paid tribute to one LAU, he returned to AUB to work under of AUB’s most renowned medical Dean Mohamed Sayegh as associate researchers, Dr. Kamal Badr. Badr is dean for medical education and best known in the medical world for director of the Vascular his research on kidney function. His Medicine Program. research focused on determining how inflammation injury in the kidney led The constant throughout Badr’s long to kidney dysfunction. He soon and illustrious career has been his discovered inflammatory and anti- commitment and gratitude towards inflammatory properties of different AUB. His speech at MEMA was titled compounds in kidneys, a paradigm “Why I Love AUB” and chronicled in later found to be generalizable to other about 3,000 words why the institution areas in the body. means so much to him. Among the more poignant reasons for his Badr didn’t initially intend to become a appreciation is the fact that he was nephrologist (a kidney doctor). He was born at AUBMC. “I would literally not supposed to be neurologist, but was exist had it not been for AUB,” he jokes. drawn to the kidney while studying “I was born at AUB at the hands of medicine at AUB. “I had a patient with Dr. Rae, whose picture still hangs in the a kidney injury. As I was treating this library of the Department of Obstetrics patient, I began to wonder why some and Gynecology.” people, particularly young people, with kidney inflammation and injury recover “AUB is the setting where all of my and some don’t,” says Badr. friendships that mattered were made,” says Badr. Through AUB’s alumni Determined to fulfill his intellectual association, Badr met his wife, Dr. Lina calling, Badr wrote to Dr. Barry Brenner, Kurdahi. “When I first saw her, I said to one of the world’s top kidney specialists myself, will the wonders of AUB never at the time and former director of the cease? Meeting Lina and joining our Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s renal lives as husband and wife was indeed division; he asked if he could work with the greatest gift of all that AUB has Brenner to answer his burning bestowed upon me.” questions about the kidney. Brenner agreed, and the rest, as they say, Though his professional is history. accomplishments are many, Badr, a humble man with quiet strength, Apart from his remarkable career as a is quick to remind students, and any clinical researcher, for which he was who would seek his counsel, that acknowledged with an appointment to family trumps career any day of the the American Association of Physicians, week. Speaking to the medical doctor Badr went on to become an effective, class of 2010, he exclaimed: “I urge you and in some cases, transformative to pay close attention as of now to those administrator in medical academia. In aspects of your life other than your July 2000, then dean of AUB’s Faculty of career, on which, I am convinced, your Medicine Dr. Nadim Cortas appointed true happiness will ultimately depend. Badr chairman of the Department of The most precious rewards of your life Internal Medicine. He later left this will not come from your career. They position after seven years to become will come from the love of the founding dean of the Lebanese your family.” American University’s new medical Wellness

Check Up: Breaking Down Barriers to Mental Health Treatment exploring new treatments and fighting the stigma of a common enemy.

q. What are some of the obstacles rates of use for anti-anxiety drugs, q. What are some examples of brain people seeking mental health like Xanax and Valium. In fact, the stimulation technology that are treatment in Lebanon face? government has implemented a rule being used at the department? A. There are two main obstacles that in the wake of abuse whereby A. One of them is transcranial magnetic come to mind immediately: finances pharmacists cannot distribute these stimulation, a noninvasive way of Dr. Ziad Nahas, and stigma. Being able to pay for drugs without prescriptions. A lot of stimulating the brain utilizing a very professor and treatment is a big issue, since private patients self-medicate with them, powerful magnet that can activate chairman of the Department of insurance companies don’t cover in but that creates more problems than neurons; it is used to treat Psychiatry, has led or out-patient treatment of it solves, and doesn’t actually get to depression and does not necessitate the expansion of psychiatric disorders. the root of the anxiety. that patients be anesthetized, as they the department are when undergoing electro- since 2011. Then there is the substantial amount q. What’s the most commonly convulsive therapy. This technique of stigma associated with mental prescribed drug? was only recently approved by the illness; it’s something we are trying A. Certain antidepressant drugs are FDA in 2008; however, I have been quite hard to analyze, understand, very prevalent. involved in its development since the and combat. People who have mid-1990s. In Lebanon, we go either openly disclosed their illness risk q. Are they generics or brand names? by Lebanese or European approval being ostracized or labelled. I mean, A. Lebanese seem to prefer brand name systems. The Department here at stigma is still an issue in the United drugs, though both are used. AUB has one of the only devices States, so you can imagine how it is capable of performing this therapy. in the Middle East. Tell someone you q. You’re a psychiatrist. does that have an anxiety disorder and they mean you incline towards q. Could the average Lebanese afford think you’re crazy, like flailing about pharmaceuticals rather than this treatment? and talking to yourself in the street therapy in order to treat mental A. The cost equals about a course of crazy. That is a very big problem. It’s illness? ECT (electroconvulsive therapy), so why many patients seek treatment A. No, not necessarily. There is a it is not cost prohibitive. The other through primary physicians or particular residency training cutting-edge treatment we offer, neurologists, rather than mental program that will prepare you to vagus nerve stimulation, is more health professionals. be a pharmacologist, as well as a expensive and involved. It stimulates psychotherapist. There are the vagus nerve and involves surgery. q. Are certain types of mental interventional psychiatrists using A type of pacemaker is installed in illnesses more common to Lebanon brain stimulation techniques. There the patient that provides consistent than to other areas? are also a handful of new stimulation of that nerve. This A. The prevalence for depression and technologies that try to stimulate treatment, originally approved for anxiety in Lebanon is not that far off brain cells. We are working on that. epilepsy, was only quite recently from what has been reported in Specifically, there is a circuit approved for treatment-resistant Western countries, a little bit less involved in mood that we want to depression. actually. The most recent study I can activate. recall looking at the numbers for was in 2006.

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q. Have you performed a vagus nerve depends on each patient’s particular in Lebanon, which has been going stimulation procedure for assessment, clinical severity, and on for the last two years. We’ve taken depression yet? how the patient presents him or out TV spots, billboard ads, etc. And Check Up: A. Three weeks ago we did the first herself. in the ads, we have patients with vagus nerve stimulation for mental illnesses speaking about depression at AUBMC. It takes at q. Has the way you practice their illness. least six months before patients see psychiatry and treat mental Breaking Down Barriers to Mental Health Treatment improvement, so we don’t know the health changed over the years? Ultimately though, the fight against result yet. A. With time, you gain experience. You stigma will be a long battle. We come to see the patient as a function need to chip away at the problem q. What about therapy? When is it of his entire lifestyle. You look at the consistently and to co llaborate with used instead of psychiatry? whole picture–job, family life, and institutions. At the end of the day in A. The decision regarding treatment such. You try to bring a multi-layered Lebanon, there are just way too few methods is a personal one that approach to treatment because being psychiatrists. There are probably 75 follows a discussion between the simplistic is not advantageous. psychiatrists in the entire country. clinician and the patient. Sometimes The 2006 study I referred to earlier pharmaceuticals are needed to q. do you ever find people have noted that only 10% of people with address particularly severe somatic symptoms with a psychic mental illness symptoms seek conditions. Other times therapy is origin? treatment. sufficient. The statistics tell us that A. Actually, it’s quite common in some combination of the two is most Lebanese culture, and in q. How does one go about making at successful in the long-run, but it Mediterranean culture more broadly, appointment to get treatment at to express stress and emotional the department? problems through somatic A. Patients may call +961 1 350 000 complaints, like difficulty breathing and ask for “psych iatry outpatient or upset stomach. This is also clinics.” common to the Hispanic population in the United States. q. What can a new patient expect when starting therapy? q. What’s next? A. Depending on the patient's needs A. We are in the process of finalizing a and the initial evaluation, they could large study aimed at combating the be directed to a psychiatrist or a stigma around mental illness. We psychologist, begin medication also have a patient advocacy arm therapy, brain stimulation therapy designed to reduce stigma. Right and or psychotherapy. Most often, a now, we’re in the throes of the largest variety of treatments are chosen to mental health awareness campaign optimize recovery. 36 Wellness

Sahtein foul Mudammas (ful Medames) with Walnut Mustard Sauce Zaher dawy, PhD (BEN ’98) AUB Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

InGRedIentS: GOOd fOR YOU?

• 2 cups cooked fava beans and ½ cup cooked Marie Claire Chamieh, PhD, LD - Lecturer and Send your recipe chickpeas (equivalent to net weight of around Practicum Coordinator, FAFS, weighs in: submissions to [email protected] 500 g or 2 (15 oz.) cans fava beans mixed with ½ cup chickpeas) Foul Mudammas is a popular Middle Eastern • 2 coarsely chopped medium size tomatoes dish made from fava beans and chickpeas. It is a • 2 coarsely chopped pickled cucumber good source of healthy antioxidants, vitamins, • ¼ cup coarsely chopped walnuts (10 walnuts) minerals, plant sterols, and fiber. The recipe is • ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley loaded with nutrients, low in saturated fat, has no • ¼ cup chopped fresh red radish and green cholesterol, and contains a high concentration of onions thiamin, folate, vitamin B-6, iron, and potassium. • 2 tbsp yellow mustard Folate is an important vitamin required for • 3 tbsp lemon juice (1 lemon) healthy pregnancy as it may help prevent • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil neural-tube defects in the newborn baby. • 1 tbsp cumin • ½ tsp salt All these nutrients together contribute to a better digestive system, cardiovascular health, and can PRePARAtIOn: improve overall immunity.

Mix the cooked/canned beans, cover with water, One cup of foul mudammas with chickpeas bring to a boil, and keep on very low heat for at (280g) contains 390 calories. It consists of a fair least 10 minutes. Chop the vegetables, pickles, amount of favorable fats (23.9g), and is rich in and walnuts and place in separate bowls. complex carbohydrates (33g), protein (13g) and Prepare the sauce by mixing the mustard, lemon fiber (10.3g). In addition, it delivers nutrient juice, oil, cumin, salt, and walnuts. Drain the dense ingredients, such as walnut and olive beans and put in a glass or stainless steel bowl. oil, which are important sources of essential Mix the beans with the sauce. Add the chopped fats known as monounsaturated and tomatoes, pickles, onions, and radish, then mix polyunsaturated fatty acids. Walnuts are all together. Garnish with handful of finely also recognized for their high omega-3 fatty chopped parsley, arugula leaves, and walnuts. acids content. Serve hot and enjoy with Lebanese pita bread! Not only will a serving of foul mudammas give you energy, it can also improve your health!

IN CASE Last May, AUBMC's Academic and Clinical Physiology Professor Rihab Nasr recently won Center was shortlisted for an Informa Building the first Franco-Lebanese prize for scientific YOU Healthcare Middle East Award at Best Hospital excellence for research and innovation in the MISSED IT. of the Future. The award recognizes regional field of health. leaders in hospital design, structure and build. Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan (BS ’79, MD ’83) MPH, AUB Trustee Dr. Michael Collins was Director of the Calcium Metabolism and recognized by MassBio’s Economic Osteoporosis Program at AUBMC was selected Development Advisory Group for his by the Endocrine Society’s Laureate Awards contributions to the life sciences. He is senior Committee to receive the 2016 International vice president for the life sciences for the Excellence in Endocrinology Award. entire University of Massachusetts’ system, and chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Impact

Regional impact, advocacy, and policy initiatives

Up and Up, Down Under 38 Lebanese ex-pats in Australia, a compatible combo.

Climate Change 41 Calculating the devastating costs of ongoing climate change in Lebanon.

Cultivating Senior Moments 42 The resounding success of University for Seniors.

Making Mar Mikhael As another neighborhood gentrifies, AUB’s urban studies professors explore 44 ways to support communities being torn apart by aggressive development. Impact Up and Up, Down Under

“Lebanon is no stranger to migration,” Australia’s initial reception wasn’t as Biodiversity Day, but for these ex-pats— Alice Crabtree writes in her 2012 master’s warm as it might have been. Australian most of whom left Lebanon during the thesis, after having made her way from policies put Lebanese in the “non-white” Civil War, the AUB experience still has a Adelaide, Australia, to AUB via Aleppo category, classifying them as “Turks” place in their hearts. As former AUB and the Australian National University. and limiting their numbers and student Khaled Chahine (math and “For centuries Lebanese have been citizenship opportunities. This “White engineering), who left in 1990 before circulating the globe in search of work, Australia Policy” was gradually completing his degree, put it: “AUB wealth and fulfillment,”1 she writes, dismantled after World War II. shaped my character. It leaves a mark going on to examine the impact of on you. You meet all sorts of people Australian-Lebanese expatriate voting Today, Australians of Lebanese origin from all parts of Lebanon, people from on Lebanese politics. play significant roles in Australian public different sects who did things together. life. Political figures have included It broadens your horizons.” Lebanese migrants have been making leaders such as Marie Bashir, governor their way to Australia since the last half of New South Wales, and Steve Bracks, For Fay Andary (BA economics, ’83), of the nineteenth century, with the former Premier of Victoria. In business, it was the professors who made the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Those Ahmed Fahour serves as CEO of the difference. “I remember them all very who traveled “down under” were initially Australia Post newspaper and Jacques well,” she says. “They were quite Maronite and Greek Catholic, but now Nasser is the former CEO of Ford Motors. passionate about what they taught. include increasing numbers of Muslims, Noted artists include internationally I especially remember my cultural both Shia and Sunni. recognized poet Wadih Sa’adeh, while studies classes where we learned about Sabrina Houssami was nominated Miss ancient philosophy and religions, all More than 200,000 Australians trace World Australia in 2006, going on to win the way up to the modern day. It’s their heritage back to Lebanon, out of the Miss Asia Pacific crown in that same excellent that they taught us these nearly 23 million citizens. Almost 80,000 year. things. It wasn’t just information—it of these were actually born in Lebanon, opened your mind.” many of whom left the country during “Lebanese Australians migrants may its 15-year civil war. The largest not be able to step over to the AUB Charles Farah (BE electrical concentration of Lebanese Australians campus to sit in the shade of the pines engineering, ’78) says, “I liked the large can be found in Sydney, where almost on a lunch break, attend an evening campus. We were all together. I took three-quarters of Lebanon’s emigrants lecture at the Issam Fares Institute, or courses with students from Arts and and their descendants live. check out the exhibits at International Sciences. There was the beach, the

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sports. It was excellent. I loved it. see directly what we were learning in emigrated felt strongly that there had to Especially the first two years.” Farah’s the classroom. To learn about UNIFIL, be a better way to live than what they first two years were the years before the we just went to the border. To learn were experiencing during the Civil War, war began. about the Palestinian situation, we often leaving Lebanon as soon as they went to Shatila.” earned their degrees. But making the Chahine, whose entire AUB career took move from Lebanon to Australia place during the war, recalls, “It was sometimes involved a lot of zigs and not at its best because of the war, but it zags. was still amazing. I went on to study at two other uni’s [sic], [ultimately earning It wasn’t just a For Farah, there was a stint in Iraq, a a PhD in Australia], but this was the return to Lebanon, a few years in Saudi place that shaped me.” comfortable Arabia, and a bit more time in Lebanon, college space. It before he bit the bullet and moved with Majid Hmeidan (MS animal production, felt like we were his wife to Australia in 1989. ’76) remembers doing his master’s Hmeidan went to work in Jordan, then defense in a shelter. “The shells were part of the to Saudi Arabia, then to Iraq before flying overhead, down to the Hamman world. moving down under with his wife in al Askari. There were three of us who 1994. lived in the lab, ate in the lab, cooked in the lab. That was our safe haven.” Andary had good reason to keep Australia in her sights, since her great- Such complex recollections are shared Truscott—whose father served as grandfather had arrived there in 1898, by Australians Marilyn Truscott (MA Australian ambassador and, along with and her father had emigrated from archaeology, ’75) and Alice Crabtree her mother and sister, studied at AUB— Lebanon in the early 1950s. The family (MA Middle East studies, ’12), both of fondly recalls her AUB experience: “We had moved back and forth, however, whom came to study at AUB, one before went on digs in the Beqa’a and took and Fay was born in Beirut before the and the other after the Civil War. cover when Israeli jets flew overhead. It family settled for a while in Kuwait, wasn’t just a comfortable college space. where her father had opened The Gift “I was surprised to find all the different It felt like we were part of the world.” Corner, a well-known gift shop that, nationalities,” Crabtree says. “I could However much they loved AUB, Andary explains, “was very build my own curriculum, and could however, the young Lebanese who successful—Fairouz shopped there, Impact

and prominent politicians, emirs. Everyone had to soon, he moved to Australia as soon as his visa stop by the store.” Andary graduated from high came through. school in the UK, studied at AUB, married, then went to Saudi Arabia until 1989, when she and her “They don’t give you a long time to decide whether Lebanese husband moved to Australia. to use the visa or not, so as soon as I got it, I left,” he says. “I guess I feel more Australian than Diana Saad’s (BA ancient history and archaeology, Lebanese. I’m a very proud Arab, but I’ve spent ’78) family itinerary makes your head spin. Her more than half my life here. I love Lebanon, but grandfather left Broumana for Argentina in 1900, the last time I visited my family, we met in Dubai, then went to the Philippines, then to Australia, where my sister lives.” where her grandfather and mother were born. Charles Farah (BEN ’78) Saad’s mother was sent back to Lebanon to find Saad has similar feelings. “I see myself as settled,” a suitable husband. Once married, the new family she explains. “I call Australia home. I’m still went to Liberia to run a family business, but Lebanese. I still cook Lebanese food. I like many Saad’s mother returned to raise their children things about Lebanon. And I still have AUB friends in Beirut, where Diana studied at IC and then in Lebanon. But I get involved in Australia’s entered AUB in 1973. When the civil war started, politics, so actually, I’m both.” the family moved back to Liberia, then Saad got a scholars hip to study in Germany. Farah says, “We feel connected to other Lebanese. And we stayed in contact with AUB gradu ates. “I went to Germany,” she explains, “but then I still feel that connection. But that doesn’t change the airport opened in Beirut. I was very homesick. the fact that we feel really integrated here.” I missed the chaos, the friends. I missed AUB.” So she returned and continued her studies. To Andary, the fact that she already had family in Australia was very important. “Because we Majid Hmeidan (MS ’76) After graduating, she worked in Lebanon for a had extended family, we had a lot of support while, then in Australia, back to Lebanon, to when we moved to Adelaide…. I’m an Australian Cyprus “when they started kidnapping foreigners” of Lebanese heritage now. Lebanon is still very until 1987, when she got a job with Agence France strong inside me. There’s a good and a bad to Pre sse in Hong Kong. She returned to Lebanon, everything.” and finally moved to Australia in 1991, where she married “a real Australian, sixth or seventh Most ech o Andary’s sentiments about her move: generation, of Scottish heritage,” in 1995. “Australia is a peaceful and beautiful country…. There are so many opportunities to learn and However and whenever they arrived, these AUB grow. Social justice is the norm.” Many have taken graduates seem pleased with their situation. their children to Lebanon to spend time with While they all still feel a connection with and family. Most of the children share feelings like affection for Lebanon, they are glad they those Chahine says his twenty-one year-old son Fay Andary relocated. has. “He has a sense of being Lebanese,” he says. (BA ’83) “He’s proud of his Arab heritage.” Chahine’s trip to Australia was dir ect. After deciding that the civil war wasn’t going to end -N.B.

IN CASE AUB’s Kamel Mrowa Award in Media Studies on certification taught by subject matter YOU was given to Maya Majzoub for her graduation experts and seasoned practitioners. project, the documentary Fallen Television an MISSED IT. analysis of the social and cultural impact of FHS has lau nched a new center. The Lebanese television Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center will provide policy-makers with high quality, evidence- AUB’s Continuing Education Center will based scientific research to help them offer a Postgraduate Diploma in Project produce more effective and relevant health- Management (PMD). This is a practical hands- related policies. 4140

Calculating the Cost of Climate Change in Lebanon

Climate change in Lebanon is no longer a novel concerning. Changes in temperature and issue. Over the past several years, newspapers precipitation caused by climate change would, and members of the Lebanese government have if left unchecked, cost the Lebanese economy declared climate change a potentially cataclysmic $2.75 billion, or 7.22% of the country’s 2010 GDP. force that, if unchecked, threatens to break the Agriculture would experience a permanent decline back of Lebanon in a way civil strife never could. in output of roughly $70 million by 2030, and Yet until now, the exact nature of the threat has resulting inflation would cause the average been difficult to q uantify, especially in the short- Lebanese to lose about $336 worth of consumable term, which has made it harder for politicians to goods based on current prices. agree on anti-climate change policies and to sell those policies to the Lebanese public. Fortunately, But perhaps most dire are the potential researchers at the Issam Fares Institute for Public implications for regional inequality. Lebanon’s Policy and International Affairs (IFI) have taken regions, already vastly unequal in terms of the time to extract policy implications from the economic development, could become more so, latest body of research at AUB. leading to greater political instability. Nabatieh, According to a along with the southern and northern swaths of Climate change, if unmitigated, will cost Lebanon the country, is expected to be hit the hardest, with new IFI policy billions of dollars and result in greater regional agricultural output dropping nearly 10% by 2030, brief, climate inequality over the next 15 years. This is according while Mount Lebanon and Beqa'a would suffer change, if to a new IFI policy brief based on a study entitled about half as much. “Climate Change in Lebanon: Higher-order unmitigated, Regional Impacts” by AUB professor Nadim To counteract these trends, IFI recommends the will cost Farajalla and his colleagues at Nereus Lab Lebanese government adopt a national climate Lebanon billions University of San Paolo, which represents the latest change strategy and that the MOA lay out in in climate change research to come out of AUB. greater detail specific action plans for achieving of dollars and food security, fighting poverty, lowering costs, result in greater In preparing t he study, Farajalla and his increasing production, and making sure the colleagues fed data from the Lebanese Ministry country’s regions develop equally, all while taking regional of Agriculture (MOA) and other sources into an into account more fully climate change’s effects on inequality over econometric model to determine the correlation the sector. The brief suggests the Ministry’s the next 15 between changes in climate variables, such as regional officers train farmers on best practices temperature and precipitation, and the yield for when it comes to food production. It also advises years. five main crop types: cereals, fruit trees, olives, the MOA to work more closely with the Ministry industrial crops, and vegetables; measuring the of Trade in order to strike a balance between food extent to which, for example, an uptick in drought imports and exports in a way that works against conditions leads to a corresponding downturn in climate change and food insecurity. Should no cereals production. action be taken, Lebanon’s ability to produce food for its citizens will continue to take a hit and all Though IFI didn’t report much on micro-level Lebanese will feel it in their wallets. findings, the macro-level picture they paint is Impact

Cultivating Senior Moments AUB’s University for Seniors expands beyond expectations.

For most of AUB’s 150 year history, the faces of students lining the walls outside Main Gate have been young, in their late teens or early twenties. People assume anyone of greater vintage to be If you’re interested in becoming a member a professor or administrator. Yet with an of the UfS, check out ever-growing population of older their website here: Lebanese taking classes at AUB through www.aub.edu.lb/rep/ cec/uni_seniors/ the University for Seniors (UfS) Pages/main.aspx. program, an independent program under AUB’s Continuing Education Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Cent er (CEC), chances are that the aub.universityfor greying shock of hair may just as well seniors belong to a student.

Maram Koubeissy, a 78-year-old former journalist and banker, crosses the campus threshold every day, an experience that once felt odd, but has since become ordinary. “In the beginning, the younger students looked at us strangely. They thought we were teachers or something. Now they know we’re with UfS and it’s normal,” says Koubeissy.

For Koubeissy, who lives by herself in an apartment about 15 minutes walking distance from campus, UfS has filled an emotional void. “I no longer feel the emptiness. I don’t feel alone anymore. interest beyond the walls of AUB, has aging, to explore whether there was I meet classmates that share my grown from 61 to over 1,300. anything that AUB could do for our interests. I learn about new subjects, older neighbors.” like technology,” she says. Cynthia Myntti, a professor of public health at AUB and UfS cofounder, along Myntti and Sibai sought the best route She also touts the program’s effects on with fellow AUB public health professor to address the aspirations of older her physical health, adding, “I had high Abla Sibai, realized that Beirut was ripe neighbors to remain engaged and blood pressure and now it’s average. I for an institution like UfS during her active. “As it turns out, my own parents feel happy and I walk around the first year as head of AUB’s are active in a university for seniors-like campus with total security.” Neighborhood Initi ative, which focuses program in the US, and we studied this on using the University’s resources to experience carefully. Would it work Since its launch in spring 2010, UfS has improve the campus’s surrounding here? In 2008, Abla and I led an been on a tear, attracting the 50 and neighborhoods. extensive feasibility study, and the older crowd to campus and breathing resounding response was ‘yes.’” says new life into a community longing for “Over and over we heard people say Myntti. an intellectual and social outlet. The that they were concerned about the statistics, kept by UfS coordinator Maya well-being of older neighbors, often The UfS was created in response to Abi Chahine speak for themselves: over with family members abroad and the needs and aspirations of older the last five years, UfS members have limited opportunities for intellectual neighbors, but its members now grown from 50 t o 240 per term. stimulation,” says Myntti. “I consulted include many more than the Ras Beirut Furthermore, the number of subscribers Professor Abla Sibai, an AUB faculty vanguard. According to Abi Chahine, to UfS’s mailing list, a solid indicator of member and renowned authority on some UfS members drive two plus hours 4342

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the UfS was created in response to the needs and aspirations of older neighbors, but its members now include many more than the original, educated vanguard from Ras Beirut.

to attend classes at UfS. Myntti adds: of the Greeks until now, about how healthier late life outcomes, describing “We are reaching a much broader pool Alzheimer ’s causes the brain to the program as a pioneering, innovative from other locations, the Arabophone deteriorate. It opens our minds,” public health intervention: “When I and Francophone communities, and a says Barakat. hear words such as ‘your program is wider age range, our oldest member is life changing,’ or the ‘UfS has become 88! The challenge will be to continue Another key to UfS’s success is its our reason for being,’ I appreciate the to expand and diversify membership, emphasis on what Myntti terms “peer- program’s success and its impact on while maintaining the quality of the learning,” which means seniors are the lives of our members.” offerings and the friendly intimacy of themselves active facilitators of the the program as it is now.” learning process, all as volunteers. As with any new program, financial Dr. Hassan Ramadan, a 55-year-old sustainability is a challenge. “We are Indeed, learning for the pleasure of urologist, lectures at UfS after work. launching a fundraising campaign to learning is attractive to many seniors. “I taught a course ‘Places of Inspiration help sustain the UfS for many years to Mohammad Zuhair Barakat, an on the Mediterranean,’” says Hassan, come. Ideally, we will have funds to 81-year-old retired engineer lives with add ing, “I don’t talk about what I do, create an endowment, the proceeds of his wife, Hasna, in Ras Beirut, while I talk about what I like.” which would cover the operating costs his daughter lives with her family in ove r and above what we have from Saudi Arabia. Together Mohammad The program’s great success stems from membership fees and support from and Hasna attend UfS lectures on a its ability to meet the needs of the older AUB,” says Myntti. wide variety of topics. “We listen to and population in a way other community analyze music–opera, classical, Arabic. organizations can’t. Sibai cites studies We learned about history, from the time showing that “engaged aging” leads to 44 Impact

Making Mar Mikhael Gentrification’s surge has many residents asking themselves: should I stay or should I go?

Belleville, Paris; Vila Madalena, Sao who has managed a shoe repair on Some owners are so fabulously wealthy Paulo; Williamsburg, Brooklyn; Mar Main Street for the better part of a that they tolerate low-rent commercial Mikhael, Beirut, all formerly working- century and pays $108 in monthly rent, spaces, while others are biding their class neighborhoods of cosmopolitan is ready for a landlord payout. “I don’t time for the right buyer, like a major cities granted a new lease on life by plan on relocating if I get evicted, I am developer they can partner with. The field workshop young, trendy, creative types. old. It’s time for the younger generation was sponsored by Journalists often describe these folk to take over the place,” he says. As AUB Urban Planning and Studies the Issam Fares as “hipsters,” akin to marauding Professor Mona Fawaz explains, Institute’s Social Justice and the City bohemians. Their scouts move Another man in his 40s, who owns a residential building owners can only Program, cultural stealthily into new “undiscovered” framing and print shop, as well as the bypass rent caps by erecting new consultancy firm corners of the city before signaling to building it’s in, also says he’s ready to buildings. “This incentivizes property GAIA-Heritage, and conducted under the their peers that the coast is clear, at move on, but only for the right price. “If owners whose assets have not brought supervision of AUB which point, a tsunami of tight, I could get a good deal, it would change in returns for decades to team up with Urban Studies and carefully-ripped jeans adorned with the my life and I would accept it.” Right a developer and move ahead with a Politics Professor Mona Harb. trinkets of yesteryear pushes out the now, he’s asking for $2 million. replacement project.” neighborhood’s old guard. Well-heeled developers follow suit and The underlying goal behind the gentrification ensues. workshop is to show the extent to which developers manipulate This is the well-worn narrative, A tsunami of tight, municipal regulators, creating a “Wild repeated ad nauseam in the media. West” real estate environment where And for the most part, it holds true, carefully-ripped jeans capital is given free rein to destroy especially for Mar Mikhael, the Beirut pushes out the and rebuild. Scant attention is paid neighborhood sandwiched between neighborhood's old to projects’ effects on existing Borj Hammoud and Gemmayze. Yet neighborhoods. “One can safely argue behind that narrative are human guard. Well-heeled that [municipal] policies encourage stories, revealing the complex, double- developers follow suit real estate speculation,” says Krijnen. edged character of gentrification. and gentrification Ultimately, Fawaz and her students Seeking to capture some of those ensues. hope to push the development stories, members of AUB’s urban paradigm in Beirut away from pure planning community conducted a capitalism towards something more field workshop in the neighborhood. in line with “Value Capture,” which AUB urban policy graduate students involves reinvesting capital gains back Yara Hamadeh, Yara Najem, and Retailers must also contend with the into the community: “When the price Daria El Samad, led by Ghent changing consumption patterns of the of an apartment increases in a University political science graduate neighborhood’s new clientele. One neighborhood, it does so because of the student Marieke Krijnen, questioned man, a butcher in his 40s, says he is community’s assets, not the sellers,” shopkeepers, owners, and residents, being forced to leave not because the Fawaz explains. “The increase needs to illustrating an array of circumstances rent is high, but because he has no be invested back in the community, to and motivations guiding the more clients. The area’s new residents, upgrade its housing, help its main neighborhood into its next phase he says, don’t buy meat at butcher dwellers stay in place, and protect the of urban life. shops, but at malls. last vestiges of class mixing in the city. Workshops like ours help move the dial The surveyors found that not every Many shopkeepers, like Abu Chabkheh, in the right direction.” tenant or owner wanted to stay put. who pays about $500 in monthly rent, One longtime shopkeeper, a cobbler are keen to gauge owners’ intentions. AUB Everywhere

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

“What’s the big idea?” No one can answer that better than advertising Alumni Profile CEO Raja Trad (BA ’78). He’s been at the center of what moves us for 46 more than three decades.

StandingOUTstanding Rana Ghandour Salhab (BS ’83, MBA ’85) on the rewards of tapping 48 untapped human potential.

Leila Tai (BA ’65) The fine art of jewelry design–drawing inspiration from The Reveal 49 the riches of the region.

WAAAUB Events and The new WAAAUB president, Wafa Saab (EMBA ’07); WAAAUB election 50 results; new chapter presidents; more presidential farewells; WAAAUB Announcements European Regional Gathering; Reunion; Distinguished alumni.

WAAAUB Around 54­­ Iftars, picnics, gala dinners, cultural events–WAAAUB Chapters gather the Globe around the globe.

Hearing from Class Correspondents: Munther H. Salameh (Class of 65); Class Notes 58 Nami Darghouth (Class of 1970); Samir Traboulsi, PhD (Class of 1973); Rihad Ouri (Class of 1980) and Faten Masri (Class of 1995) AUB Everywhere

Alumni Profile Big Ads, Big Ideas What makes a great ad? How is the Creativity. “The idea in this case was Trad’s journey to advertising guru advertising landscape changing? What that we [the Lebanese people] remain began shortly after he left AUB. “I does it take to climb to the top of the positive. Nothing will stop us from analyzed the different industries I was advertising world? These are some of being hopeful and believing in the interested in. I always wanted to build the questions that come to mind as I go future.” a career rather than find a job,” says back and forth with the administrative Trad. After graduating with a degree offices at Leo Burnett MENA looking to Beyond the big picture thinking and in public administration in 1978 from secure an interview with the division’s inspirational mantras, Trad remains AUB, Trad came to fork in the road. CEO, Raja Trad (BA ’78). Trad oversees intensely practical, especially when “I had to choose between sales and 800 employees in 12 offices based in 10 it comes to project execution and the advertising. And since I admire countries, leading the advertising need to adapt to an ever-changing creativity, I chose advertising.” Six efforts of one of the world’s largest media landscape. One of the main months into his first advertising job, such agencies in a region stretching reasons the Johnnie Walker ad was he knew he had found his passion. So from Morocco to the UAE. so successful, he says, is because it when an account director position was pushed through as many media opened up at Leo Burnett, he decided When I finally make contact with him channels as possible, including to go for it, slowly climbing the over the phone, I feel the full force of television, Facebook, Twitter, etc. ladder to become CEO of one of the his personality. He has a sort of “You need a 360 degree approach. The conglomerate’s fastest growing and authoritative quality about him. His Johnnie Walker campaign was really most diverse regions. answers are sharp, polished, and integrated.” Indeed that campaign direct, sprinkled with the kinds of generated significant social media buzz Among his clients, Trad now counts empowering aphorisms business and brought attention to the creative multinational companies, like Johnnie leaders are prone to. Success in life, he team at Leo Burnett’s Beirut office. Walker, P&G, and Philip Morris, as affirms, is simply a matter of personal well as many regional and local willpower. Every great ad campaign Trad is quick to highlight the clients, and oversees ad campaigns starts with a great “big idea,” which transformative impact social media that reach millions, all of which must, in turn, “connect with people’s has had on the ad world. “People are requires navigating the thin and hearts and minds.” in control. It’s no longer a one-way sometimes blurry line between edgy conversation. People can choose to and offensive. “We do not want to Though cliché in some circles, these support or reject everything you put offend people. It will work against us. phrases have served Trad well. For him, out there. And ultimately, if people But being conservative won’t get you they are not simple slogans, but deeply don’t interact with your content, it’s anywhere. Sometimes you need to held beliefs. Expounding on the “big a waste.” The benefit of this break rules, and you can do that as idea” of steadfastness led Trad’s Beirut transformation, in Trad’s opinion, long as you don’t offend people’s team to the award winning Johnnie is the opportunity for immediate deeply-held values. As long as you Walker ad, featuring a lone flame feedback. No longer must a client do that, you can be as creative as that continues to burn in the face of wait for sales reports months after you want.” weather-related onslaughts: the flame, a campaign’s deployment to find Trad explains, symbolizes the Lebanese out whether it flopped or succeeded. Managing a division that targets such people, and the weather, the many Instead, Trad and his clients receive diverse constituencies, from young trials they have overcome. The ad, instant feedback on social media, Moroccan men to elderly Emirati entitled “Keep Walking Lebanon,” went monitoring day-by-day, hour-by-hour, women, and everything in between, on to win a bronze at this year’s Cannes how campaigns are being received. requires both acute cultural sensitivity Lions International Festival of and flexibility. “Each campaign is 4746

“I owe a lot to AUB. It’s a launching pad, but ultimately, success comes from personal will.”

based on a different human insight. provision calling for the creation of an Making an ad for Saudi Arabia alumni representative to the board. is different than making one for During his three year tenure as a Lebanon. The big idea in each case trustee, he pushed for the creation of must be culturally relevant.” a standalone communications degree, something the University still lacks. And then there is the challenge of “They need one because it opens doors managing people. Leo Burnett’s Dubai into a huge market.” office alone has workers from 37 different countries, which is why Trad Yet while he sees unfulfilled potential, and the division’s top brass promote a Trad remains relentlessly optimistic company culture in sync with the rest about AUB and grateful for his “hugely of the conglomerate’s offices in places enriching” experience there. “I will like New York and Chicago, a culture always remember my years at AUB. I that puts performance above all and met my wife, Suzane, there, and we’re eschews cronyism. “We don’t look at still growing stronger after 36 years.” the nationality. We care about the In 2014, the WAAAUB Dubai & input. Either you have talent or you Northern Emirates chapter, of which don’t. Either you can contribute or Trad is the honorary president, raised you can’t.” $1 million for student financial aid. “There are so many eligible students Developing the next generation of ad an d we want to equip them with what talent is of great interest to Trad and he they need to attend AUB. I owe a lot believes AUB can become a powerful to AUB. It’s a launching pad, but engine for that development with a ultimately, success comes from little push. Trad was elected to AUB’s personal will.” board of trustees in 2007 by fellow alumni in the wake a new WAAAUB -E.E. AUB Everywhere

StandingOUTstanding

Finding human potential in a resource rich region

Rana Ghandour Salhab (BS ’83, MBA ’85) talent and communications partner at deloitte Middle east

q. What are some of the unique Studies show that millennials features of talent development want to work for organizations in the Middle east? with a purpose and are just as A. In both the public and private interested in how a business sectors, the paradox of high develops its people and how it youth unemployment and acute contributes to society as they shortages of qualified talent is a are in products and profits. strategic challenge. Companies are struggling to fill talent gaps, raise My very first job was working the bar on talent development, as a research assistant on a joint address escalating turnover costs, project between AUB and the and, with one of the youngest Lebanese Ministry of Health populations in the world, attract and Public Affairs. The objective an d retain a new generation of was to provide information workers. Additionally, leadership systems solutions tor the majo development and succession governmental hospitals in planning are a priority for family Lebanon. Working on that businesses, an important sector project, I gained real insight in the region. Gulf countries that has stayed with me to this must prioritize creating adequate day about the type of problems knowledge and talent resources to our communities face. make their economies less reliant on expatriate labor and provide q. Where does your passion for career opportunities for their empowering women come from? nationals. Companies in the region A. Women represent a largely are beginning to address these untapped talent pool. The Middle challenges with better HR and East region has the lowest talent strategies built on focused female workforce globally. It is solutions to local problems and important to remember that the not on imported cookie cutter advancement of women in any approaches. sector should not only be addressed as a matter of fairness, q. You seem to be one of the more because there is also a strong visible faces of corporate business case for having more responsibility in the Middle east. women on leadership platforms. A. It’s my personal mission to Diverse and balanced teams place CR at the top of Deloitte’s improve an organization’s bottom corporate agenda and to foster a line, and having more women in sense of responsibility toward our the workforce makes the region communities in all our employees. more globally competitive.

Salhab oversees Deloitte’s Corporate Social Responsibility Program in the Middle East. Deloitte was recognized as the “Best CSR Integrated Organization, 2015” at the Levant CSR Summit held in Lebanon last April. 4948 The Reveal Leila Tai is the Leila Tai (BA ’65) (student name, recipient of: Chahrouri) is an award-winning • The Dazzle Diva Award from the designer, artist and draftsman. After Women’s receiving her bachelor’s degree in art Jewelry education from AUB, she earned an MA Association with a specialty in metal work and (2014) • The American jewelry at the University of Wisconsin. Jewelry Design In New York she developed her talent for Council Award jewelry design and rendering while (2009) studying with Donald Claflin, a top • The DeBeers Diamonds designer at Tiffany & Co. and Bulgari. At Today Award the esteemed Kulicke-Stark school, Leila (2002) mastered cloisonné, plique-a-jour enameling—an intricate process using was a daily exercise. Arthur Frick was transparent enamels suggestive of chairman of the Department of Fine and stained glass, and the ancient art of Performing Arts. He told us, “The East is granulation. about the ‘why’ and the West is about the ‘what’.” His wife Fay taught a course in jewelry making, where I learned the centrifuge casting process. Deciding to cast a found object that would burn out in the mold, I chose a dead beetle I had found on campus. When I broke the mold after the injection of molten silver, there was my silver beetle, whole with his very thin hairy legs. I could not believe the She writes: AUB was a wonderful minute details that were preserved. It experience for me. The University was like magic. Arthur encouraged encompassed Eastern and Western me to study with his own teacher, cultures. Thinking East and West Arthur Vierthaler, at the University of Wisconsin. I spent my two years there learning more technique, and making good friends. They insisted I visit New York before going home. While exploring the city, I saw exquisite jewelry displayed in a window at a gallery on Madison Av enue. I walked in. Ed Weiner, the owner, asked if he could help me. I said I had just gotten my degree in jewelry. To my surprise, he invited me to work for him for six months. I found out only later that he was a well-known art jeweler. This was the beginning of my professional life. And though I later returned to New York to pursue my career, my inspiration remains rooted in Lebanon and AUB.

Foliage bracelet, 18k gold plique a jour opalescent and transparent enamels - clasp tips ruby cabochons. AUB Everywhere

WAAAUB Events and Announcements

Mrs. Saab is the CEO and a board member of WAAAUB Tinol Paints International Co., sal, a family Recently owned business founded in 1956. She is Elected president of the WAAAUB EMBA Chapter, VP of the International School of Choueifat AA President (SABIS), board member of AMIDEAST, BIA (LAU Board of International Advisors), CIH 2015 Recipients (Civic Influence Hub), Beiteddine Festival, Baalbeck Festival, and the Lebanese Red of the WAAAUB Cross. Saab received her underg raduate Distinguished Wafa Saab (EMBA ’07) degree from the Lebanese American succeeds Dr. Nabil University in 1991 with a BA in human Alumni Award: Dajani who served as WAAAUB president from development. 2011 to 2015. Nasri Kawar Upon learning of her election, Saab stated, (BS ’56, MS ’59) “I fully appreciate the responsibility and the importance of strengthening and promoting this remarkable association. As president, I look forward to expanding the huge potential for growth of this powerful network.”

Haya Imam, Jordan (BBA ’99) RECENTLY ELECTED WAAAUB BOD Ricardo Karam, Lebanon (BS ’91) Sana Tannoury Karam, USA (MA ’10) Newly elected members of the Board of Directors: Ghassoub Kawar, Jordan (BS ’72) Randa Bdeir, Lebanon (BBA ’79, MBA ’93) Rana Ahmad Hajjeh El-Kebbi Fadi A. Makki, Lebanon (BA ’89) (BS ’84, MD ’88) Hiba Bitar, Lebanon (BEN ’99, MEN ’05) Mariam Mohanna, Lebanon (BEN ’99) John Richard Childress, UK (former student 1968-69) Hind Moussa, USA (BS ’99, MD ’03) World-renowned infectious Irene Cordahi, North America (BEN ’05) Wafa Saab, Lebanon (EMBA ’07) disease specialist Amer Daouk, France (BA ’85) Loutfi Echhade, Saudi Arabia (BBA ’73) Complete results of the 2015 WAAAUB elections, including Marwan Hayek, Bahrain (BA ’72, MS ’74) Council and Standing Committee members can be found at: www.aub.edu.lb/alumni/about/Pages/alumni-leadership.aspx

WAAAUB Recently Elected Chapter Presidents Salwa Siniora Baassiri (BA ’67) Michigan Health Sciences New England Manal Assi (BS ’91, MD ’95) Darine Najem (BS ’01, MPH ’03) Akl Fahed (BS ’06, MD ’10) Economist, humanitarian, and activist for social change

To learn more about their exceptional records of achievement, visit www.waaaub.org.

Nursing Ottawa Southern Florida/Miami Northern California For further information, please contact: Samar Noureddine (BS ’83) Elias Abou Hamad (BBA ’77) Saleh Yasin (BS ’75) Johnny Touma (MS ’06) [email protected] | Tel: +961 1 738009 5150 Presidential Farewell 1. London, May 14 Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington High Street

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With receptions, dinners, speeches, and gifts, several chapters bid farewell to President Peter F. Dorman last spring. In Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, New York, and London alumni gathered to offer appreciation for seven 3. Houston, March 11 4 years of dedicated leadership. Colombe D’Or 4. New York, March 10 Century Association

3 5. Los Angeles, March 12 Home of Trustee Emerita Ann Kerr-Adams

6. Boston, March 7 The Castle at Boston University

7. Toronto, March 8 Gardiner Museum (photo not available)

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SPRInG 2015 GALA dInneR GAtHeRInG La Cigale The Beach at Doha City The Wave, Oman Center, Qatar 4/10/2015 3/27/2015

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CeLeBRAtInG feA CLASS Of 2015 WAAAUB Clubhouse, Mary Dodge Hall 5/21/2015 Mounir Dana (BEN '09) Treasurer, Germany; Elie Touma (BEN '82) President, Germany; Christina Bilalian (BS '06) Vice President, UK; Talal Farah (BA '63, MA '70) President, UK

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Class Notes

completely penniless with no financial 1965, Class or emotional support. But Providence Correspondent smiled upon him, in that having lost his Munther H. Salameh (BS ’65) first home in Palestine, he was given another at AUB. Overcoming hardships 1940s Additional notes from the Class of seemed only to prepare Fuad for success. 1965 during its 50th Reunion year: After becoming chief resident in Internal It’s easy to submit farid S. Haddad (BA ’41, MD ’48) is Medicine at AUH, he finished his a class note and working on his two-volume book: residency training at AUB and was soon share your news! Complete Authentic Healthy Lebanese granted a prestigious Rockefeller Email: [email protected] Cooking: The Diet of Tomorrow, which Foundation fellowship in the US. He or submit a class note will be published before the end of 2015. then returned to AUB to continue his AND update your research and clinical work in information with AUB by logging on to the dermatology. Dr. Farah quickly rose to online community at both national and international alumniconnections.com prominence, publishing over 80 papers /aub/ in peer-reviewed journals, as well as a number of book chapters. His work 1950s established him as a world authority on Leishmaniasis, a disease caused by Sossy der Khatchadourian-Balian protozoan parasites, and it put AUB on (BS ’65, MPH ’78) worked as a pediatric MainGate received a tribute to the the map in immunology. nurse at AUH for a year and then patriarch of the Farah family. An edited began teaching maternal and child version is printed here. The full text can health nursing at the School of be found online. Nursing. In 1969, she married AUBMC’s chief engineer Ara A. Balian (BEN ’63) and they had three children: Armen (BA ’93), who teaches in the Executive MBA program at OSB; Arax s (BS ’95, MPH ’01), who has a doctorate 1960 in nursing; and Alec who earned his Adnan dakkuri, PhD (BS ’62) Having degrees, including an MBA, at LAU. As served on the AUB faculty from 1968-75, her children grew more independent, Adnan joined Ferris State University in Sossy obtained her MPH, continued Michigan in 1976, where he is currently a teaching, and pursued research professor of pharmaceutics at the interests in premature babies, College of Pharmacy. Adnan is the 2014 breastfeeding and violence against dr. fuad S. farah (BA ’50, MD ’54). In recipient of Ferris State’s Academic women. She garnered many awards 1947, at the age of 17, Fuad Farah arrived Scholar Award. along the way: the Florence Nightingale in Lebanon from Palestine, an extremely Award upon graduation, a Mother of handsome young man full of youth, the Year Award (2001), a Best Teacher vigor, hope, and a burning ambition to Award (2003), an award for Dedicated study medicine. At the time, he thought Services and Commitment to the he would have the financial backing of Faculty of Medicine and AUBMC (2011), his father, a well-to-do business man. and the Nursing Pillar Award (2012) Share your news with the Class of 1965. But this was not to be, and soon events Email: [email protected] or from the Order of Nurses in Lebanon. in that part of the world left Fuad [email protected] 5958

With the sobriquet “Mama Sossy” (see World Conference on Women. She in the baccalaureate and master’s MainGate “Reflections,” Spring 2010, helped establish and directed the degree programs at California State Vol. VIII, No. 3), Sossy retired in October Centre for Women at ESCWA until her University, Dominguez Hills. She writes, 2009. She enjoys travelling, visiting retirement from the United Nations “I live in beautiful Claremont, her four grandchildren in the United after 35 years. She has been posted in California, about 30 miles east of Los States, participating in community Beirut, Baghdad, and Amman. Going Angeles. It reminds me o f the beauty of organizations, raising public awareness back to school after 20 years, Fatima Lebanon. I am deeply grateful for the for health and education issues, received a master’s degree (her second) wonderful education that AUB provided reading, writing, lecturing, publishing in International Economics, an M. Phil me.” in Armenian daily papers, doing radio in political economy, and (after interviews, and keeping in touch with retirement) a PhD in political science her former students. Her life-long zeal from Columbia University, New York, for learning has taken her back to the where she was also a visiting scholar najla Mikail Rafraf (DIPLM ’65) After AUB campus, where she is a student at at the Institute for Research on Women earning her nursing diploma, Najla got the University for Seniors. and Gender. Currently a freelance married and had two daughters and a consultant on women and gender son. From 1966-94, she worked as head “I live in issues in the Arab region, Fatima is nurse in various hospitals in Tripoli, widely published. She is a member of Lebanon. Now retired, Najla also taught beautiful M. Said Hammami (BA ’65) writes, “I the American Political Science in the clinical nursing program at Claremont, spent 43 years working in the financial Association and of the Lebanese Lebanese University and participated in California, sector starting as a research fellow at Association of Women Researchers, a collaborative program between Al about 30 the Central Bank of Jordan in 1965 and Bahithat. Ziad Kassem (BA ’65, MA Huda Nursing School and Fanshawe miles east of leaving as a department manager in ’69), Fatima’s late husband, held a PhD College in Canada to update nursing Los Angeles. 1980. I went on to become CEO of an in economics from Université de Lyon. practices. Her devotion to her career It reminds me investment bank (1980-83); a financial He also worked with the UN-ESCWA for inspired one of her daughters to follow consultant (1983-88), and then CEO of 28 years until he passed away on the in to her footsteps and become a of the beauty another investment corporation (1988- tennis courts in Amman in March 1997. qualified nurse with a master’s degree of Lebanon. 96). Finally, I became CEO of a financial Their three children are Hana, who who teaches at Lebanese University. I am deeply guarantee and export credit insurance graduated from the Rhode Island grateful for corporation from (1996-2008) before School of Design in architecture and is the wonderful retiring from fulltime employment. now director of design at KPF in New education During this period I have contributed to York; May, a graduate of Brown Hadia H. Ramadan (BA ’65) graduated the development of the financial system University in art semiotics and with a degree in Arabic literature, and that AUB in Jordan by introducing many new international affairs who makes married Dr. A. G. Helmy who was head provided me.” instruments and innovations—some documentary films and teaches; and of the press corps for the Ministry of successful and some less so. My present Ramzi, a graduate of Columbia Law Foreign Affairs in Kuwait. Hadia taught Noura Kassis position is chairman of the SEC. As the School who now directs and teaches Arabic for 22 years in Kuwait while (BS ’65) main technical arm of the Jordan clinical law at CUNY Law. Their two earning a master’s degree with Securities Commission, I am required grandchildr en are Yasmeen and Ferris. distinction in Arabic Studies from AUC, to utilize the skills I’ve acquired and a PhD in Arabic with honors from throughout a long career in financial Helwan University in Cairo. She then development and innovation.” taught Arabic literature part-time at noura Kassis (BS ’65) Following LAU for 14 years. Hadia has two sons: graduation, Noura earned a master’s Tarek, a cardiologist and professor at degree in nursing at the University of Cincinnati University, and Ahmed, who fatima Sbaity Kassem (BBA ’65, MA California, Los Angeles, and started holds a doctorate in electrical ’70) taught accounting, commercial law, teaching in the Associate Degree engineering, and is a professor of and business arithmetic at the National Nursing Program at Mt. San Antonio electrical engineering at University of College of Choueifat. She then joined College, where she has been for the past Florida. Hadia reports that she has five the United Nations Economic and 47 years. Currently a professor, she has smart grandsons. The oldest, Ahmed Social Office in Beirut (UNESOB), the also held the positions of assistant Helmy, is an award winning scientist at predecessor of the Economic and Social director and director of the program. age 13. With support from the Epilepsy Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). In 1983, Noura re ceived her doctorate Foundation, he recently designed Originally, Fatima was a researcher in in education with a specialty in Seizario, a life-saving mobile app to international trade and regional curriculum development from Nova help detect falls and seizures. Seizario cooperation, but she shifted to Arab University. She also teaches at the is being developed for Android and women’s issues and served as regional University of Phoenix, and for the past iOS/iPhone. Visit Seizario.co m to learn coordinator for the 1995 Beijing Fourth 27 years, she has been adjunct faculty more! AUB Everywhere 60s to 70s

eRRAtUM We regret that the middle name of Maggie Marashlian Saab (Nursing Diploma ’65) was erroneously listed in the winter 2015 issue of MainGate. 1970s

Sami A. Sanjad (BS ’61, MD ’65) 1970, Class Following a residency in pediatrics at AUBMC, Sami did fellowships at Johns Correspondent Hopkins, University of Florida, and Nami Darghouth (BEN '70) Baylor College of Medicine. In 1971, he Kameel Hawa (BA ’68) has received a joined AUB for five years as assistant second prestigious Typographic Nami collected the following news professor of pediatrics, before becoming Excellence Certificate from the New from the Class of 1970: a pediatric nephrologist at Baylor College York-based Type Directors Club (TDC). of Medicine. Married to Maha Abulhosn This award recognizes his typeface farid Asfour (BE ’70) Farid has in 1985, Sami moved to Riyadh, KSA Mohtaraf. Kameel founded his graphic worked for Consolidated Contractors where their son Walid was born. He design house, also named Al-Mohtaraf, Company (CCC) for the past 44 years. spent many productive years at the King three decades ago. He has locations in During his career with CCC, he has Faisal Specialist Hospital treating rare Jeddah, KSA, and in Beirut. His award- lived in the United Arab Emirates and diseases, one of which is named for him winning typeface will be featured in Greece. Farid’s son is a civil engineer (Sanjad-Sakati Syndrome). In 1998, he TDC61, an exhibition that will start in who graduated from Tufts University rejoined AUB as a professor of pediatrics York City, and then tour cities in the in 2000. His daughter has a master’s and nephrology. He was appointed United States, Canada, China, England, degree in education from Harvard assistant dean for student affairs in France, Germany, Japan, Poland, University. Farid has four 2000 and served as acting chair of the Russia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, grandchildren. Pediatrics Department from 2008-11. Thailand, and Vietnam. Having published extensively, Sami is still actively involved in teaching medical students and residents, and Wadad Bahouth (BS ’70) Following in performing clinical research. graduation, Wadad worked at AUBMC as a medical research assistant in immunology and oncology until 1975. She then married Anis Issa, moved to Mary Soussou nauwelaers (BA ’65) Abu Dhabi, and had two children; writes, “After earning a master’s degree Halah and Nader. In 1986, the family in Sociological Studies at The University immigrated to Melbourne, Australia, of Sussex, UK and immigrating to the where they’ve lived ever since. After Unite d States, I held several interesting her husband passed away in 2012, jobs. The most challenging was working Wadad began on a new career path in with United Nations Peace Keeping the visual arts. She had long had a Operations from Cambodia to Sudan, passion for portrait painting and pencil Liberia to Kosovo, and Western Sahara dikran Katsikian (BA ’68 MA ’70) With value drawing. When she returned to to East Timor–not to mention Croatia, his degrees in psychology, Dikran her hobby, she was reminded of all Mozambique and Chad. Thanks to our embarked on a marketing career at the art electives, auditing and night international, multicultural university, I Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benkiser, courses she had taken while studying was able to adapt to all circumstances. I and Bristol Meyers in Gre ece, Europe and working at AUB. had friends before joining AUB, and I and the Middle East before joining R.J. made more there. I have kept them all.” Reynolds Tobacco in Geneva and Egypt Mary lives in New York and in the South as general manager. Since 1993, he has Share your news with the Class of 1970. of France. [[email protected]] been a partner with AMROP, a leading Email: [email protected] or [email protected] international executive search firm that recruits top-level talent for international and Greek companies. [[email protected]] 6160

tarek Kettaneh (BEN ’70) After Michel e. Kuzur (BS ’70, MD ’75) graduating from AUB, Tarek earned a Michel did his residency in internal maste r’s degree at MIT, and an MBA at medicine at University of Massachusetts Harvard. He worked for 12 years for a Medical School, and Memorial Hospital multinational family group in the in Worcester, Massachusetts. He MENA region and in the United States specialized in haematology and before returning to Lebanon in the late medical oncology at Vanderbilt 1990s. After running a private equity University in Nashville, Tennessee, fund for 3 years, Tarek became a senior where he has lived since 1977. A partner lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Venture at Tennessee Oncology, his practice Georges Karawani (BEN ’70, MEN ’72) Capital, and Family Business, and the participates in clinical trials through worked at Atlas Copco in Lebanon from director of MBA programs at the Olayan Sara Cannon Cancer Institute. Michel is 1973-76. He then moved to Canada School of Business. He is married with married with two children. He says he where he worked for Imperial Oil from three teenage boys. has very fond memories of AUB and is 1976-2006 and Olco/TransMontaigne grateful for the quality education he from 2006-12. Since 2012, Georges has received there. He’s not retired yet, but served as interim director for Quebec he’s getting close! operations at Parkland Fuel Corporation, and as president of Consultation Energy & Biodiesel, Inc. Married for 36 years to his wife Nadia, Gerard Malhame (BA ’70, MS ’95) the couple has tw o sons (both born in With his degrees in economics and Montreal, and both engineers), one agricultural economics, Gerald grandchild, and another one on the worked at Banque de la Méditerranée in way. Georges’ interests include family Lebanon, Bank of America in Canada, life, work, the biodiesel field, gym, and Citibank in Lebanon, Société Générale occasional travel. in Cyprus, and Sogelease in Lebanon, respectively. From 2006-10, he served as Ayham Khleif (BA ’70), With his head of corporate banking for degree in political studies and public Fransabank, and he currently heads the administration, Ayham went to Howard Lebanese Leasing Company for University, in Washington DC, and Fransabank Group. Married to najla received a master's degree in City and (Misk) Malhame (BS ’74), the couple Urban Planning in 1973. He has worked has two daughters, Caroline and as a marketing and advertising Nathalie, both in their 30s and both executive with Intermarkets, SAL, McGill University graduates; and a 4 Kuwait; as a director of the Pepsi Cola year-old granddaughter. Gerard’s two International Management Institute brothers are professors: Roland (BEN of PepsiCo serving Europe, the Middle ’76) and Raymond (BA ’73). Gerard’s East, Africa and Southeast Asia; as interests are work, hiking, reading, senior vice president of operations for being a Rotarian, and taking care of nabil Kereknawi (BS ’70, MS ’74) With Rock Creek Corporation, Washington his granddaughter. his degrees in biochemistry and food DC, and as an investment consultant technology and nutrition, Nabil has for the Capital Trust Group, a private worked in food and pharmaceutical equity group serving the United States, product development and production in Europe and the Middle East. Married to Shahron Williams van Rooij (MA ’70) Lebanon, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Aida Aburdene, the couple has two is associate professor in the Instructional Canada, and Algeria. He currently daughters, Samar (an MBA) and Aroub Design and Technology program at works with Shaqab Abela Catering (a PhD in epidemiology), and three George Mason University. She holds a Services Company in Qatar, as general grandchildren. During his ca reer, PhD in instructional technology with a manager for the Al Manal Food Factory, Ayham lived in the United States, minor in software information systems and as a consultant for the State of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Cyprus, from George Mason, a doctorate in Qatar. Nabil’s home base is in Montreal, and the United Kingdom. Retired since quantitative methods from the Graduate Canada. Married with two sons, one 2013, he currently enjoys the good life in Center of the City University of New living in Montreal and the other in Washington, DC. York, a master’s degree in political Dubai, Nabil has one granddaughter, science from AUB, and a bachelor’s who is 3 years old. degree in romance languages from AUB Everywhere 70s to 80s

City College, New York. Prior to joining Innovation Management in 2007; the MENA leader of the Family Business George Mason, Shahron worked for 10 P&G Alumni Innovation award in 2014; Center of Excellence. Prior to joining years as director of product marketing at and serving as an honorary professor at EY, he was a senior audit partner at Datatel, Inc., in Fairfax, Virginia. As Tsinghua University in China. He now Andersen. His many professional a Certified Distance Education lives in Las Vegas. certifications include: US Certified Professional credentialed by Texas A&M Public Accountant (CPA), Certified University, she is a frequent speaker on Randa Salameh Samara (BA ’68, MA Management Accountant (CMA), the development of web-based ’70) Randa graduated with degrees in Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), and education and is widely published. psychology and education. Retired Certified Information Systems Auditor Shahron also holds a Project since 2013, she lives in Jacksonville, (CISA). Loutfi recently madey ke Management Professional credential Florida, but has lived in many places, presentations on best practices in from the Project Management Institute, including Minnesota, Georgia, and New resolving conflicts in family Inc. York, where she was raised. Randa has businesses to the Chamber of two children and enjoys time with her Commerce in the Eastern Province in four grandchildren. She likes to travel Saudi Arabia and the Bahrain Family Mohammad tahseen Salim Sabbagh and spend time with friends. She would Business Association. He was recently (BS ’70, MS ’73) Mohammad is CEO of love to hear from former classmates. elected to WAAAUB's Board of Sabbagh Drugstore in Amman, Jordan, [cell phone: +1-904-923-2590] Directors, and has served on the where he has lived since graduating Nominating Committee of the Riyadh from AUB. He has three grandchildren. Chapter since 2007. Loutfi and his wife Sheikha have three children, Basil (BA ’07), dena (BA ’09) and 1973, Class Leila (BA ’12). Both Basil and Dena Correspondent are US CPAs and work for EY. Samir Traboulsi (BEN ’73, [[email protected]] MEN ’75, MBA ’80)

In June, Dr. Traboulsi was made a Philip G. farah, PhD (BA ’73) is fellow of the Chartered Institute of now an economist at the GAO (US Building Engineers, a prestig ious Government Accountability Office, trade organization based in London, an independent nonpartisan agency England. This most senior grade of that works for Congress). One of his membership is awarded to individuals recent assignments has been to study nabil Sakkab (BS ’70) with a PhD in who have demonstrated significant green building guidelines and chemistry from Illinois Institute of responsibility, sustained achievement practices in US government agencies. Technology in 1973 and post graduate and professionalism in their careers. [[email protected]] studies at Texas A&M University in 1974, Nabil joined Procter & Gamble (P & G) Samir collected the following news from in Cincinnati, Ohio and spent 33 years the Class of 1973. working with the company in the United Mohammad Asef Sohi Gardezi States, Europe and Asia, retiring in 2007 (BS ’73) is a graduate of the Faculty as a senior VP of Corporate Research of Agricultural and Food Sciences, and Development. Passionate about who majored in agronomy. He lives creating transformative changes that in Kabul, Afghanistan. In 1988, impact sustainability, Nabil is active as Mohammad received a master’s degree a director on the boards of major in horticulture from Kabul University. multinational companies and biotech His work history includes the Afghan start-ups. He is a devoted husband of 44 Fertilizer Company, the Academy of years to wife Billie J. Sakkab, a father to Sciences of Afghanistan, and the a brilliant lawyer son Nabil Y. Sakkab. International Committee of the Red Jr., and a Disney Immagineer daughter Cross. Asef is retired. He remains close Stephanie Sakkab Colvin, and to his AUB Afghani classmate s, the grandparent to three grandchildren. present president of Afghanistan, Nabil’s honors include: the Industrial Loutfi echhade (BA ’73) is a senior dr. M. Ashraf Ghani Ahmad Zai Research Institute (IRI) award for R&D partner with Ernst & Young (EY) where (BA ’73, MA ’77) and dr. Zalmay leadership in 2007; the IRI Maurice he has served in several leadership Khalilzad (BA ’72, MA ’74), formerly Holland Award for best paper on positions, includi ng his current one as US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq 62 63

and the United Nations. Kuwait and other places in the Middle academic and professional journals, he [[email protected]] East. Now promoting patented is a member of the editorial boards of technology in precast concrete, Kassis several refereed journals in the United helps investors build their production States and the UK. Claims, a leading lines and advises them on how to risk management journal, ranked one Rafic Ghazzaoui (BBA ’73) Currently, design and construct buildings with of Dr. Nader’s books, The Manager’s Rafic is the chairman and CEO of the Locrete Building System. Concise Guide to Risk among the “top 10 Gazzaoui Group, a Lebanese (www.locrete.com) His wife Suheir (BA risk management books.” Jihad lives in holding company specialized in ’72, MA ’78) lives with him in Kuwait. Dubai with his wife, Lucie, and their electromechanical, water/wastewater Their older son Sari Kassis is married three children, Lina, Mark and Ronnie. and automation products operating and living in Beirut, and their younger [[email protected]] in Lebanon and the region. He started son lives in London with his wife and his career by developing his family’s three children. business into a large scale [[email protected]] shareholding company that represents edward touma (BA ’73) retired after global brands in Lebanon, the Gulf, 34 years working for Japan Tobacco and MENA. Rafic is a board member International in Geneva, Switzerland. of the Metropolitan Club in Beirut, He lives in Geneva with his wife, sons and of the Peaks Resort and MENA Walid and Ramzi, and two grandsons. Capital Holding Co., and is involved [[email protected]] with the NGO, Entrepreneurial Development Foundation. A staunch supporter of AUB, Rafic will always be committed to his alma mater’s vision, mission, causes and i nitiatives. He and his wife Constantina Colombo have two daughters and one son. [[email protected]; [email protected]] douglas Magrath (MA ’73) is currently teaching English as a second language 1980s (ESL) at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. He has Hani K. Hunaidi (BA ’73) worked with recently published articles on ESL 1980, Class Consolidated Contractors Company as a methodology in TESOL’s MultiBriefs Correspondent project accountant until 1978 when he series. Hi s daughter is married with Rihab Ouri (BBA ’80) decided to get an MBA with a two children.

Share your news with concentration in forensic accounting at the Class of 1973. Email: Portland State University in Oregon. He [email protected] then worked with Touche Ross & Co., Jihad S. nader (BBA ’73, MBA ’76) is or [email protected] and three of the big ei ght auditing provost and chief academic officer, and firms. In 1984 he received his Certified professor of finance at the American Public Accountant certification, and University in Dubai (AUD). He earned became an investment banker with a doctorate at University of Toronto. Jordan Securities Company in Amman, Jihad has held high level academic and Jordan where he headed many of the administrative positions at leading bank’s subsidiary investments. In 1992, universities including AUD, AUB, Hani became the founding chairman of University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier the holding company Mediterranean University, Concordia University, and Industries, a chemical and industrial the Emirates Institute for Banking and Rihab Ouri (BBA ’80) will be the Class gasses concern. He is currently busy Financial Studies. He has worked in the Correspondent for Class of 1980 which with his new interest exploring private sector as an officer at Citibank. celebrated its 35th Reunion in July. su stainable energy sources. A sought after consultant, Jihad is She writes, “I have been highly active [[email protected]] known for his research on financial in the Social Committee of the Middle institutions and markets, corporate East Medical Association (MEMA). finance, pension plan design and Annually, AUBMC hosts an liability valuation, real estate lease international medical conference fahim (Abdallah) Kassis (BAR ’73) has valuation, banking education, and followed by a fundraising gala dinner spent most of his professional life in other topics. Widely published in to help needy medical students. AUB Everywhere 80s to 90s

Getting sponsorships and donations 18 years of experience in audiology, from all over the globe for this noble to open her own hearing center, Audico cause, and preparing for this dinner Hearing Center, in Mazraa, Beirut. She occupies my time for the majority of the has three children. year. Class of 1980, please send me an s [[email protected]] update for MainGate’s class notes!” 1990

Bassam Kassab (BEN ’93, MEN ’95) Share your news with the Class of 1980. Email: In addition to his full-time civil [email protected] or [email protected] engineering job, and teaching graduate level classes in water resources engineering at San Jose State University, California, Bassam dedicates his free time to filmmaking. He has written three original screenplays in Spanish (his fourth language) that were produced by Zarco Films. His feature filmSin Visa (Without a Visa, 2015) was released in Jad Ayoub (BS ’95) After graduating theaters in April 2015. Bassam is also a with a degree in physics, Jad worked in songwriter. Lebanese artist Mike Massy management positions in the medical composed and sang three of Bassam’s field for American and European songs in Arabic (“O Mother!”), Spanish companies. Since 2010, he has been (“Yo Canto”), and English (“Farewell”). the general manager for Bioscientia [[email protected]] Healthcare Group in the Middle East and Africa, and he is the representative of GHP (German Healthcare Rana (Zayn) Zeine (BS ’83, MD ’87) 1995, Class Partnership) for the Middle East and (pictured far left) was recently promoted Africa as well. Jad is always seeking from assistant to associate professor at Correspondent new business opportunities and the Saint James School of Medicine, a Faten Masri (BS ’95, TD ’96, educational challenges. During the school founded by Human Resources MA ’05) last few years, he has gotten an MBA Development Services, Inc. of Park from ESCP Europe, and a business Ridge, Illinois. In August 2014, Dr. Zeine innovation certificate from the delivered two conference presentations McCombs School of Business at the at Oxford University’s Said Business University of Texas. He writes that he School, and published three papers in would be glad to reconnect with AUB her field of higher education.e Sh friends and hear their latest news. Jad teaches pathology at the Saint James and his wife, who is a lawyer, have campus on the Eastern Caribbean island three children. [[email protected]] of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Bassam Chahine (BS ’93, MPH ’95) Simon Khalaf (BEN ’88) was appointed After earning her BS in physics Faten With his degrees in nursing and health a senior vice president of Yahoo. He worked as a physics lab instructor in service s administration, Bassam will oversee many of the company’s the AUB Physics Department for five started out in hospital administration consumer-facing products, including the years. She also worked in a highly in a challenging military environment Yahoo home page, its portals devoted to reputable hearing center as a managing Secours Populaire Libanais, themes like sports and movies, and technician conducting hearing tests a 100-bed NGO hospital in South related Yahoo apps. and fitting hearing aids. In 2000, she Lebanon. He then opened Hiram became certified by the National Board Hospital, a 200-bed private hospital. for Certification in Hearing Instrument In 1998, Bassam joined Nabatieh Sciences, an organizati on located in Governmental Hospital as part of the Michigan, United States. After getting commissioning and management team married, Faten traveled globally with for the first governmental hospital in her husband who works for an Lebanon with full administrative and international company. Once they financial autonomy as a public settled down, she earned an MBA organization. In 2000, he went to from LAU in 2012 and decided, after Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where he 64 65

transformed a diagnostic and and chemistry from LAU. Nada worked daily international news as well as ambulatory surgery center into a major in the physiology department of AUBMC MENA economic, political and business 500-bed tertiary hospital. For the past 15 from 1990-98, and taught at private news; analyzing economic reports; years, he has served as chief operating schools in Lebanon from 1998 to 2009. translating specialized texts; writing officer of this specialized medical center In addition to teaching part-time at two features and opinion articles; and hospital, while working to expand East Midland universities, Nada has conducting interviews with top Arab health services across the Kingdom. been running her own tutoring agency and international executives; and Bassam has two children. since 2009, tutoring (in person or appraising website design layout and online) biology and chemistry at the content. Lena formerly worked as an secondary school and university levels. economics and business editor for She also preps students for their exams Al Hayat newspaper. She enjoys hiking Share your news with the Class of 1995. Email: Omar Hamoui (BS ’91, MD ’95) is an in the summer. Nada writes, “I am in the Lebanese mountains. [email protected] American Board certified cardiologist. proud to be a graduate of two great [[email protected]] or [email protected] He is director of invasive cardiology at Lebanese Universities. This training Clem enceau Medical Center (CMC). enabled me to teach the very Omar trained in the United States at challenging British curriculum. I am Indiana University, where he also taking onli ne courses for a joint worked as an assistant professor of master’s-doctoral degree in genetics. medicine. He founded the cardiology Please visit my website.” division at CMC hospital. Omar is [www.tutoringscience.co.uk] married with three kids.

Samer Harb (BS ’95, MS ’97) With his degrees in nutrition, dietetics and food technology, and his many years of ARE YOU GETTING experience in the food industry in THE LATEST NEWS? Lebanon, Kuwait and KSA, Samer joined Saadeddin Group in Saudi Arabia in 2013 as group general AUB needs your email manager for production. Based in address! Are you getting the Riyadh, he runs five factories located in latest news from your dear KSA, Kuwait, and Bahrain. He is also alma mater? Do you know responsible for the company’s research what your alumni association and development. Saadeddine Group Hadi n. Skouri (BS ’94, MD ’98) FESC, is up to? has approximately 130 retail shops in FACP, FACC, FHFA. After completing an the three countries. Samer and his internal medicine residency and a lovely wife Mona Osta, an LAU cardiology fellowship at AUBMC, Hadi If you answered “NO ” to these computer science graduate, have two did fellowships in interventional questions, it ’s because we children: Omar, age 6; an d Farah, age 5. cardiology and heart failure at the don’t have a current email [[email protected]] Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, address for you! followed by fellowships in advanced heart failu re and heart transplantation Most AUB news gets sent at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2007, he joined AUBMC where to alumni around the world he is currently an assistant professor of through email. Clinical Medicine. Since 2009, Hadi has been chairman of the Heart Failure So. . . Stay in touch and up Working Group at the Lebanese Society to date! of Cardiology. Send us your email address tod ay! [email protected] Lena Rahbany (BA ’95) is currently a front-page content editor at Zawya, the nada Loutfy-Baker (former student, MENA business intelligence web portal, 1992-95) lives with her British husband and a member of Th omson Reuters. She in East Midland, England. Her degree is has more than 18 years of experience in in secondary and higher education economic, business, and political science, and she holds a BS in biology journalism. Her work covers editing In Memoriam

In Memoriam

Ambassador Joseph Shadid (BA ’39) was autobiography Between Politics and Alumni born in 1913 in Jdeidat, Merjeyoun and passed Diplomacy (in Arabic), and in 1981, he away in Beirut on February 6 at the age of 101. co-founded The Circle of Retired Lebanese His diplomatic career started in 1944 when he Ambassadors which now issues La Revue was appointed first secretary to the first Diplomatique, a quarterly publication in Lebanese Embassy in London headed Arabic, French and English. The Shadid by President Camille Chamoun. Shadid’s family has a distinguished history at AUB, postings then took him to Liberia, Australia, starting with Ambassador Shadid’s Ambassador New Zealand and South Africa where he was grandfather Asaad Rahhal (MD 1883) and Joseph Shadid in charge of Lebanese missions in those father Najib Shadid (MD 1896). Among (BA ’39) countries. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs S hadid’s many honors are: Commander of in Beirut, he headed various departments, the Order of National Cedars, Lebanon (2007), including the Arab, the African, the the Grand Cordon of Austria (1978), and The Economic, and the United Nations Star of Africa, Liberia (1953). Shadid is Observation Group. In 1966, Shadid was predeceased by his wife Salma Iskandar appointed ambassador to Turkey, and in Hourani, whose father was Iskandar Hourani 1971, ambassador to Austria until 1978. After (MD 1913). He is survived by four daughters retirement, he returned to Beirut where he (Leila, Rima, Mona, Nadia), nine served as adviser to the Institute of Palestine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Studies. In 20 01, Shadid published an

Sami nichola Masri (BA ’52) passed away on comes from an AUB legacy family with claims February 12. He was a professor of chemistry to being the first and only family whose and biology in Amman, Jordan; and in members are all, exclusively, AUB graduates Ramallah, Palestine, and later worked in from the period 1866-1966. He is survived quality control at the Jordanian Ministry of by Asma, his wife of 55 years, two brothers, Health. Masri taught many of the ministers Nadeem (BS ’55) and George (BA ’57); two and prime ministers in Jordan, and received daughters, Reem and Rula; a son Osama, several awards for excellence in teaching. He and six grandchildren. Sami nichola Masri (BA ’52)

Samih darwazah (BS ’54, DHL ’14) was born For the next decade he rose steadily through in Nablus in 1930, and passed away on May 15 the ranks at Eli Lilly, before returning to in London. An entrepreneur, business leader, Jordan to create Hikma, where he put into politician and philanthropist, Darwazah practice principles learned at his merchant was honorary life president of Hikma father’s knees: honest business dealings, Pharmaceuticals, a company he founded in hard work, and concern for the well-being 1978 with a vision to market high quality, of others. With the help of his children who affordable medicine. After working as a had joined the firm, Hikma grew from a small Notices for In Memoriam pharmacist in Jordan and Kuwait, Darwazah factory into the largest regional supplier of may be sent to won a Fulbright Scholarship, which to ok pharmaceuticals in the Middle East and Samih darwazah [email protected] him to the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in North Africa region before establishing (BS ’54, dHL ’14) Missouri where he earned a master’s degree. successful operations in Europe and the 66 67

United States. Darwazah was founder of the University of Science and Technology, and Alumni Jordanian Trade Association and served at the AUB, Darwazah also received AUB’s highest levels of the Jordanian government. Distinguished Alumnus Award. In 2011, He was a Senator, a Minister of Energy and his children honored him by establishing Mineral Resources, and a member of the The Samih Darwazah Center for Innovation King’s Advisory Council. Ernst & Young Management and Entrepreneurship at the named him Middle East Entrepreneur of the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business. Year in 2007. In 2009, he established a school Darwazah never ceased to express his for disadvantaged girls in the v illage of Al gratitude for the education he received at Shobak. The recipient of five honorary AUB where he met the love of his life, Samira doctorates awarded by the St. Louis College Hasan Fadli (BA ’51), who survives him, along of Pharmacy, the Lebanese American with four children: May, AUB Trustee Said, University, Birzeit University, Jordan Mazen, and Hana.

dr. Lamia Haddad Khairallah (BS ’56, MS in 1998, Khairallah enjoyed cooking ’58) Born in Palestine, Khairallah passed Lebanese food for friends and family, away on January 5, 2014 at the age of 77 in traveling internationally, sampling exotic Storrs, Connecticut. She graduated with foods, spending time with her family, and honors from AUB, and received a PhD from volunteering in the community—most Boston University. Her career included significantly with the Storrs area peace various academic research positions at groups. Predeceased by her husband University of Wisconsin, Madison and Dr. Edward Khairallah (BA ’56), Khairallah University of Connecticut, Storrs, where is survived by her sister Lydia Tannous Lamia Haddad Khairallah she spent 27 productive years in the Electron (BA ’56, MA ’64), her daughter Randa (BS ’56, MS ’58) Microscopy Lab in the Department of Khairallah-Gaalswijk, her son John Physiology and Neurobiology. After retiring Khairallah, and two grandchildren.

Rabih Hassan (BS ’94, BEN ’98) writes that firms. Hass an’s residential and commercial his father, Kamel Wadih Hassan (BEN ’61, projects also included the Diwan and Hariri MEN ’79) passed away fifteen years ago on palaces, the Nakheel Village, and the April 9, 2000 at the age of 63. He was a Mekka/Meddina complex. He was a lecturer mechanical engineer whose four in mechanical engineering at AUB. In decades-long career involved supervisory addition to Rabih, xMr. Hassan is survived by work on large scale public and private sector his devoted wife Haifa Hafez Abdulmalak, works for AUBMC, Associated Consulting and a daughter, Roula Hassan (BBA ’91, and Engineering (ACE), Spectrum Engineering MBA ’03). Kamel Hassan Consultants and other major consulting (Ben ’61, Men ’79)

Muhammad Wasi naz (BS ’62, MS ’64). and proud member of the town of Fort Erie, Born in Shahabad, India and raised in Gojra, he was involved in many civic activities and Pakistan, Naz passed away suddenly in social clubs, and he served as acting Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 15 at president of the Islamic Society of Niagara the age of 75. While a student at AUB, he Peninsula. Naz also enjoyed sharing his was an active member of the Dance Club. passion for ham radio operations. He is Employed for over 35 years with Patheon, survived by his wife Aurora, his son Waseem, Inc., a pharmaceutical company in Fort Erie, and family members in Pakistan, the United Muhammad Wasi naz Ontario, Canada, Naz retired from there as a Kingdom, the Philippines, the United States, (BS ’62, MS ’64) senior quality assurance manager. An active and Canada.

Friends dr. Jon Barton thornberry died on January American University of Cairo. He was deeply 8. Dr. Thornberry was a lecturer in the interested in the Middle East; his research Management, Marketing and and publications on Business Ethics and Jon Barton thornberry Entrepreneurship program at the Suliman S. Management concentrated on the region. Olayan School of Business (OSB). He joined Dr. Thornberry is survived by his wife Barbara the AUB faculty in 2005 after teaching at the Abu-Ghazaleh and the Abu-Ghazaleh family. In Memoriam

david Armstrong West was born in Beirut in addressed diverse subjects including avian Friends 1933 and died on April 2 in Blacksburg, hybridization, pupal co lor polymorphism in Virginia. The grandson of Robert Haldane swallowtail butterflies, Batesian mimicry in West (1862-1906), for whom West Hall is butterflies and the work of 19th century named, and the son of William A. West, a German naturalist Fritz Müller in Brazil. In professor of chemistry at AUB from 1923-59, 2003, West published a biography of Müller, West maintained strong ties to the University A Naturalist in Brazil, and he recently throughout his life. He and his family last completed a second book that traces the visited campus when West Hall was restored development of Müller’s ideas and in 2003. West earned a BA in zoology in 1955, connection with Charles Darwin and other and a PhD in vertebrate zoology, ecology and European and American scientists. He david Armstrong West genetics from Cornell University in 1959. From tempered a passion for research with a love of 1960-62 he completed a fellowship at classical music. West is survived by his wife Liverpool University with Philip Sheppard. of 57 years, Lindsay Lattimore Butte, a sister, He joined the Biology Department at Virginia Elisabeth FitzHugh, a brother, Allen; two Tech in 1962, retiring from there in 1998. sons, Peter and Roger, a daughter, Susan West West’s research, and that of his students, Marmagas, and five grandchildren.

Our late father, Shahrokh Mokhtari, endowment is to honor our father’s Our (BEN ’66) was a most exceptional man. legacy—his lifelong interest in helping He was the ultimate teacher. Even the people, his passion for education, and his simplest question on a subject was a love for AUB. For many years before he Legacy teachable moment for him. Our family moved his professional life to the private wanted to establish the Dr. Shahrokh sector, he was an educator who taught Mokhtari Memorial Endowed Scholarship graduate courses. He always said AUB fund because of our father’s great love shaped his life. It was where he met the and passion for AUB and his abiding love of his life, Suzy Koumashian, and respect for education. He did his where he learned not just the rudiments undergraduate studies in engineering at of a profession, but the altruistic values AUB and received his PhD in the United of citizenship and service that are at the States. He hardly ever spoke about his heart of this endowment. college experiences in the US, but he talked incessantly about his years in Andre Mokhtari and nahid Mokhtari Beirut at AUB. The main reason for this Silahian

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edward Jurji BA ’28 Madge Sabi Salibi BA ’55 Abdallah Ashtal BBA ’66 Pensee Rubayz-Souaisse BA ’31 Saleh Al Zubi MA ’56 Muhammad n. BS ’76 nar Hajj Ali BA ’35 fawaz najia BA ’57, Karkanawi MA ’62 BS ’81 Avedis S. donabedian BA ’40, MD ’44 Muhammad Shams BA ’59 BS ’84, Shawki Halim dammus BA ’41 nabeel Wafa tawfic Lina fayez Kanj dajani MD ’88 dorothy nichan Salibian BS ’43 Jafar Ibrahim tukan BAR ’60 Zahra Khatib BBA ’87 fadlo Bu Haydar BA ’48, MD ’52 Cheikh Akram Sami eid BEN ’63 Raja Oueis BEN ’09 Ghaleb Zaki Barakat BBA ’49 Hector Badran BA ’64 Ghazaheh Omeirat BEN ’11 Shafik Said Mudad Cert ’49 Gabril Barudi BBA ’64 Majed Camille Zahr BBA ’13 Munah Adel Sulh BA ’51, MA ’53 edward Alfred diab BA ’64 Jalil Arayed BA ’54 Rachid Rafic Jallad BA ’64 nicole Assaf Student Ronald Metz MA ’54 Cheikh nagib Y. BEN ’65 taan Mohtar Former Munir Sulayman Salibi BA ’54 Germanos Faculty 6968 About Bliss Hall

Daniel Bliss himself designed and supervised the construction of this heritage building on upper campus. It was built to accommodate the Preparatory Department that had been established to prepare young men for admission to the Syrian Protestant College. Daniel Bliss Hall was completed in May 1900, just one year after the first foundations were laid. This turned out to be a bigger job than anyone expecte d: “In many places deep trenches were dug before satisfactory rock bottom could be found.”

Many of the materials used to construct the building were shipped from the United States including the doors, windows, locks, iron beams, and Georgia pine. The stone and very distinctive roof tiles, however, were bought locally. Daniel Bliss Hall was paid for by members of the Dodge family and Morris K. Jesup, chairman of the Board of Trustees. It cost $30,457 to build.

At one time Daniel Bliss Hall housed dormitories, a gymnasium, a 400-seat assembly room, and an organ. Today it is home to several FAS departments including the departments of mathematics and computer science. Return Address

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