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Landscape architecture: a people-centric Student activism at AUB Bahia Shehab (BFA ’99) a street approach to outdoor space design artist draws from the past to challenge the present

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Dania Zeineddine, architecture major and USAID University Scholarship Program (USP) scholar, thinks city buildings should fit together and serve a purpose. “I like contemporary architecture that goes with the time and the context,” she says. Function, more than aesthetics, she believes, should be the focus in architecture. Her philosophy resonates with how she came to the field. “I love math and geometry and thought architecture would be an extension of those disciplines.” Thanks to the USP program, she has the chance to realize her architectural vision. As member of the USP class of 2014, she was granted a five-year scholarship, which allowed her to enter the architecture program; she is the only USP scholar at AUB in that program. Dania, like all USP students, must fulfill a volunteering requirement. “I’m an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). I handle emergency situations during the night shift, take patients to the hospital.” She works two days a week during the school year and more often during the summer. She plans to earn her master’s in urban planning after graduation. “The program has been tremendously helpful. I have so much support and never feel alone.”

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

Vice President of Advancement Imad Baalbaki 8 steers the University’s 150th Campaign

Discoveries 15 Research, the arts, and current events

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Wellness 23 AUBMC 2020, health, and medicine

Young and troubled: a look at Lebanon’s mentally 28 suffering teens

AUB’s 150 th 31 The Third 50 years Anniversary

Impact 39 Regional impact, advocacy, and policy initiatives

40 REP supports higher education in the region

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

Street artist Bahia Shehab (BFA ’99) mines ancient 48 Arabic for modern tools of protest Letter from the president

Views from Campus

Dear fellow alumni and friends of AUB, like no other, highlighted the University’s role pinnacle last year when the Board of Trustees as an epicenter of humanity, of service and of agreed to restore academic tenure to the Greetings and a very warm welcome to this courage. Faculty members, students and staff University, more than 30 years after it had been third special edition of MainGate celebrating risked life and limb to educate, learn, and heal. frozen during the war. AUB’s sesquicentennial. Our anniversary Doctors, nurses and staff collaborated to take specials have been distributed over three 50- care of the sickest and most seriously wounded This year of anniversary events, which the year blocs: the founding of the college and the members of a devastating war that would cost whole AUB community has entered into with pioneering early years (1866-1916), the golden the lives of one out of every 20 people living in such enthusiasm, has been a superb example age which etched the cultural, political Lebanon. The University showed itself an of the spirit of AUB. In the midst of the freedoms and academic excellence that have island of tolerance, of commitment, of shared humanitarian storms shaking our region, become our hallmark (1916-66), and now, liberal and secular values. there was no guarantee that celebrating AUB’s with this edition, the age of resilience and foundation 150 years ago would capture the resurgence (1966-2016). The Third Fifty As the University took hesitant steps towards imaginations of so many so strongly. Optimism cemented the University’s capacity for phoenix- post-war recovery, it benefited from the for our future, as a servant of this region, as the like rebirth out of the flames of conflict. Yes, widespread engagement of its alumni in the creator of transformative knowledge and AUB missed out on a decade-and-a-half of drive to rebuild College Hall, disgracefully educational excellence, has been rekindled progress because of the civil war. Yes, our bombed to rubble in 1991. As Lebanon during a packed #AUB150 calendar. Thank competitors were able to open up the gap recovered, so too did AUB, with faculty and you to everyone who has made it such a great between us in terms of research and student recruitment accelerating. From 1998 success, and thank you even more for the scholarship, especially in the sciences. Nor until 2008, John Waterbury, the 14th President, work you will do to help us fortify our purpose, were Arab universities waiting respectfully for led a revitalization of the research mission of reinvigorate our mission, and recalibrate AUB to regain its regional ascendancy, AUB, with many accomplishments, including our vision for future accomplishment. especially among the GCC states with their the expansion of student enrollment and the sights set on academic superiority funded with successful recruitment of a wave of increasingly With respect and admiration, petrodollars. Indeed, the civil war didn’t just distinguished young and senior faculty. AUB Fadlo R. Khuri hamper AUB’s development through the 1970s climbed up the international rankings and was and 1980s—it could have closed us down. But on its way once more to becoming a major we didn’t only survive. This period, perhaps knowledge center. That process reached a new Inbox

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This feels like an important moment for AUB. As we emerge from a splendidly celebrated 150th anniversary year, hinging into a major fundraising campaign to ensure our relevance and Cover Medical faculty and staff march purpose for decades to come, while we embark on bold new strategic plans for academic from AUBMC to Government research, education and the campus, it also feels like an immensely exciting time to be here. House in response to the I hope this edition of MainGate captures some of the dynamism that so many on campus are kidnappings of Dr. Munir Shammaa and Joseph Salameh feeling. With everything going on at the moment, I am certain that we will be bringing you ever in December 1985. more exciting stories of positively disruptive changes in coming editions!

One development that has been a long time coming has been the appointment this year of the first woman as dean of our oldest and largest school, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. We meet her in Inspiration and hear her plans to boost liberal education at AUB. Inspiring female role models abound within these pages. One of the watchwords of our current strategic reappraisal is sustainability, which leans heavily towards equality—or to cite the UN sustainable development goals towards “eliminating gender disparities in education and ensuring equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities.” In that vein I would like to draw your attention to the pioneering work of our Title IX Office and efforts to raise awareness about discrimination and harassment in the Back Cover classroom and workplace. See our article in Impact for the whole story. Map provided by a project led by Maria Abunnasr on AUB’s It being the Last Fifty of our series, I’m eager to be able to share in our Anniversary section impact on the streets of stories that most of you as alumni will have witnessed first-hand. For the war generation of Beirut. faculty, staff and students, not everything will make comfortable reading; but the sheer grit Executive Editor you showed to keep AUB up and running is worth celebrating and we do so here. Martin Asser Responsible Director Nabil Dajani Martin Asser , Executive Editor Managing Editor Sally Kaya Najjar Features Editor Eric Eyges Alumni Editor Errata: Spring/Summer 2016, Vol XIV, No. 3, Inbox, pg. 3: Caption for map of AUB’s impact on the streets of Beirut (back outside Barbara Rosica cover) incorrectly lists the project leader’s name as Maria Mansour. Her name is Maria Abunnasr; Scenes of AUB, pg. 33: Photo #19 Errata is from the late 1980s, not the 1960s; AUB Values, pg. 35: Lower left photo of agriculture students is from the mid-1960s, not the Contributing Writers mid-1950s; Finding Warmth in a Cold Climate, pgs. 44-45: Sara Atie’s surname is misspelled as Sara Atieh throughout the article. Firas Haidar Her degree is incorrectly listed as BA ’12 instead of BBA ’12. Laudy Issa Rami Khouri Copyeditor Sierra Prasada Art Direction and Design AUB FAFS FHS IFI REP Communication Design SAL American University Faculty of Agricultural Faculty of Issam Fares Institute Regional www.cd-sal.com of Beirut and Food Sciences Health Sciences for Public Policy and External Programs Abbr. International Affairs Photography AUBMC FAS FM SPC Hasan Nisr American University of Faculty of Arts Faculty of Medicine LAU Syrian Protestant College Jean Pierre Tarabay Beirut Medical Center and Sciences Lebanese American HSON WAAAUB University University Libraries, Archives Common CCECS FEA Rafic Hariri School Worldwide Alumni and Special Collections abbreviations Center for Civic Faculty of of Nursing OSB Association of AUB American University of Beirut found in the Engagement and Engineering Suliman S. Olayan Office of Communications MainGate (MG): Community Service and Architecture School of Business PO Box 11–0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020 Beirut, Lebanon Tel: 961-1-353228 ACID FREE New York Office 3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 8 th Floor The pages of the MainGate are printed on uncoated paper, made with 100 percent bleached pulp E.C.F. manufactured from trees, whose New York, NY 10017–2303 producers comply with methods and policies to guarantee the sustainable management of forests. The product is acid free, with alkaline Tel: 212-583-7600 reserve, guaranteeing long life according to ISO 9706. It is printed using an offset process with attention to clean-air operations. The [email protected] Package Air Handling Unit (PAHU) is operational at Dots’ production facility that includes a state-of-the-art water filtration system. www.aub.edu.lb/maingate All Dots waste paper is recycled. Printing Please recycle this magazine. If you prefer to subscribe to the online version of the MainGate , please email [email protected] 53 dots (Dar El Kotob) Our Cover Girl: Then and Now

We have identified the student featured Lawahiz emigrated to the United on the cover of the 2016 Spring/Summer States and worked at Bell Telephone issue of MainGate ! Lawahiz Sadaka Laboratories in New Jersey. After Eckhart (BA ’56), recently honored by receiving a master’s degree in math at the WAAAUB North Carolina Chapter Stevens Institute of Technology as part (see WAAAUB Around the Globe), of that institution’s first class of female appears to be as vibrant today as she graduate students, she worked with was at her AUB graduation. Raised in stored program switching systems in El Munsif, Lawahiz attended AUB on New Jersey and Illinois. In 1967, she a four-year teaching fellowship. She married Barry Eckhart, a Canadian, majored in mathematics and was part and moved to Ottawa where she of one of the first freshman classes to worked at the Canadian Government’s include women. With her degree in Communications Research Center as a mathematics and a teaching certificate, systems analyst. Lawahiz retired in 1972

Lawahiz receives her BA in mathematics in 1956 she taught physics and math at the to raise two sons, then returned to work from Dr. Constantine Zurayk American School for Girls. In 1959, with IBM in Raleigh, North Carolina.

University News AUB recently welcomed a new board member to its Board of Trustees

A descendent of William Earl Dodge, number of finance, real estate, and Sr., the founding member of AUB’s biotechnology enterprises. Board original Board of Trustees, William affiliations include co-chairman of the Dodge Rueckert joins a long list of Board of Trustees of Teachers College, Dodge family members who have Columbia University, and chairman of served as trustees of AUB throughout the Executive Committee of its 150-year history. He is the president International House, a diverse of the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, residential community founded by John one of the University’s most significant D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Cleveland H. and enduring benefactors. Rueckert Dodge to foster goodwill and also serves as president of Oyster leadership. Rueckert is a graduate of Management Group, LLC, an the University of New Hampshire investment partnership specializing in (BA ’77). community banking in Southport, Connecticut, and he is active in a Inspiration

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

Landscape architecture 6 A people-centric approach to outdoor space design

New Leadership 8 Imad Baalbaki advances AUB into the next 150 years

Published & Produced 9 Mashrou’ Proletkult, inclusive artwork at AUB Art Galleries

Face to Face 10 Cynthia Myntti leaves behind a model for university-community interaction

Skateboarding 11 The cement “surf’s up!” at AUB around town

Faculty\Staff news 12 Nadia Maria El Cheikh discusses the value of a liberal arts education Inspiration

Landscape: Improving Lives and Opening Spaces

It’s no secret that the layouts of timeless Makhzoumi fears the fate of the new Arab cities like Beirut, Baghdad, and parks will be that of many Beiruti Damascus have been shaped, to a great skyscrapers, which sit empty and extent, by the tastes and requirements unused, mocking the passerby who of their former colonial powers in the might dare to dream of more judicious early 20th century. Today, Lebanese planning decisions. As a remedy, she developers, with their propensity for proposes landscape architecture, an skyscrapers and wide highways, build oft-misunderstood discipline. to American models, such that downtown Beirut today looks more like Rami Zurayk, professor and chair at the Houston, Texas than the ancient Department of Landscape Design and Mediterranean port city it once Ecosystem Management, defines exemplified. landscape architecture at its best as “the art and science of designing and This trend extends to the countryside. managing outdoor environments to “In the south of Lebanon, in the achieve ecological, environmental, villages, they want to establish parks, social, cultural, and aesthetic goals, though people live in nature already,” while protecting nature and heritage says Jala Makhzoumi, professor of and creating healthy and meaningful landscape architecture at AUB. “The places.” park is not being created to improve people’s lives but to make the village seem modern.” A practicing landscape architect, Makhzoumi has worked on Erbil’s Green Belt and the Damascus Master Plan 2030, meant to develop the city’s gardens and other public spaces. 6 7

It’s not just about making the old-fashioned “The idea of the conference was to show that the contemporary, but considering the ramifications scope of landscape architecture is broad,” she of design from different angles. “A culturally says. “It’s far more than beautification. It’s nature “The park is not sensitive landscape architect would look at the conservation, human rights, post-war way people are using a landscape, for example displacement, and environmental and ecological being created to Beirut’s Corniche,” Makhzoumi says. “They are sustainability.” improve people’s strolling with their kids, fishing, swimming, lives but to make smoking argileh, lounging about. A landscape So how are landscape architects attending to architect would design to these uses, rather than Beirut these days? One example is a project called the village seem concern themselves with fancy paving or Liaison Douce. “This is a very interesting project modern.” minimalist design that prioritizes the aesthetics.” supported by Ile-de-France, in conjunction with the Beirut Municipality,” Makhzoumi says. “It In emphasizing local wisdom over foreign aims to create a soft mobility route [for walkers imitation in all things developmental, landscape and bikers] that extends from Martyrs’ Square architecture figures into a broader movement, through Damascus Road to Badaro and the Horsh which has several champions among AUB faculty, pine forest. The idea is to prioritize pedestrian including Islamic Architecture Professor Salma movement between these areas.” Damluji (see: MainGate, Winter 2016). Zurayk says that landscape architecture is on the The first person to formally call himself a rise in Lebanon in response to demand. “Fifty landscape architect was Frederick Law Olmsted, years ago came the interior decorator, who’s now creator (with his mentor and partner Calvert Vaux) a staple of construction process. Today it’s the of New York’s Central Park, though the term had landscape architect, who’s doing outdoors what been used more loosely in England a century interior decorators do indoors.” earlier. Meanwhile, Assistant Professor of Landscape As the practice became formalized, Makhzoumi Architecture Maria Gabriella Trovato has explains, little battles over professional titles considered how the discipline might be applied to ensued, and they tell us something about the the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon. “There’s little complexity of the field. In the UK, the Royal research on landscape planning in refugee camps, Institute of British Landscape Architects changed which could support and host displaced its name to the Landscape Institute after some communities by maximizing security, minimizing argued that geographers, horticulturalists, and disease, and promoting the relationships between scientists all contribute to landscape people and their hosts.” development. In France, architects insisted on the term landscape engineer to distinguish The key, whether looking at refugee issues or themselves. At AUB, which follows American urban planning ones, is to maintain a holistic, naming conventions, the title of landscape people-centric approach to outdoor design. “In architect is used. our eagerness to modernize and westernize, we have lost sight of local traditions,” Makhzoumi To promote the practice of landscape architecture says. “We have incredible traditions for managing in Lebanon, Makhzoumi helped establish the land, natural resources, and climate-efficient Lebanese Landscape Association (LELA) in May landscaping in the Middle East. We hope to survey 2015, which has been recognized as the National and document and revive these traditions. The Chapter of the International Federation of challenge, really, is to create a body of local Landscape Architects (IFLA). She co-organized knowledge.” LELA’s first annual conference in June at AUB. Inspiration

Advancing AUB Imad Baalbaki, PhD, a teacher at heart with a mind to ensure AUB’s place in the 21 st century In early 2017, AUB will launch a massive Beirut, then transitioned through capital campaign to ensure that the assistant to associate vice president University and Medical Center can of Development, where his leadership continue to trailblaze into the next 150 in the Campaign for Excellence from years. At the helm of this Herculean 2002-07 was seen as a significant effort is the University’s new vice reason for its record-breaking success. president for Advancement, Dr. Imad In announcing Baalbaki’s appointment Baalbaki (BBA ’85, MBA ’87), whose to vice president of Advancement last strong ties to AUB were forged as a July, President Fadlo Khuri commented, student in business administration. “As AUB approaches the launch of a After completing a doctoral program new capital campaign over the next in marketing at Georgia Institute of few months, it is the ideal moment for Technology in 1993, Baalbaki returned Dr. Baalbaki, who enjoys my complete to Lebanon and paid the campus a visit. trust, to step up and spearhead He intended only to see his old fundraising, alumni, and advancement professors but found himself quickly efforts, with the full confidence of pressed into professorial service. “I’ve everyone he has worked with—our always had a passion for teaching,” trustees, administrators, faculty, staff, he says. “Even in high school at students, alumni, friends and International College I found that by supporters.” helping other students, I enriched my own learning experience.” Like some of Looking ahead to the demands of a his compatriots, Baalbaki had to let go much larger capital campaign, Baalbaki the reins of a family business in order radiates confidence and conviction. His to answer the call of his alma mater. excitement about recent gifts reflects the depth of his commitment to AUB Baalbaki and AUB quickly proved a as he describes the potential impact good fit. He served as assistant of funds from generous donors for the professor at the School of Business University and the communities it and Management from 1993-2001 and serves. Specific campaign goals will as its director from 1997-2000, while be formally announced in early 2017, helping to establish the Olayan School as a comprehensive Academic Strategic of Business as one of its founding Plan and a Campus Master Plan are faculty members. Perhaps best known concluded. “Campaign goals will in academic circles as the co-author of build on AUB’s role in the region and the Arab world editions of two leading enhance every aspect of the institution textbooks on marketing, Baalbaki from life-changing educational seemed destined for a successful career opportunities to life-saving healthcare,” in academia. President John Waterbury Baalbaki says. had other ideas. He wanted to put Baalbaki’s marketing expertise to use As he looks to ensure that AUB will at AUB’s Office of Development in 2001 leave its mark on a new century, as the University prepared to launch a Baalbaki continues to find inspiration major fundraising campaign. The in the classroom. “For me, the president clinched the deal when he touchstone is teaching,” he says. “I still told Baalbaki that he would still be teach. In order to accomplish the macro able to teach. objectives of our great University, I have to stay viscerally connected to the micro Baalbaki moved from director of the relationship of teacher and student. School of Business to director of That’s what it’s all about, right?” Development and External Affairs, 8 9

Published & Produced

Art

MAshroU’ ProletkUlt Mashrou’ Proletkult is an art the event the opportunity to exhibit and a one-day congress deliver a speech on a relevant Exhibition and All-Artist-Congress that took place on September 17. topic of his or her choosing. AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery Artists were invited to display Mashrou’ Proletkult is not a September 6, 2016 – January 14, 2017 their work at AUB. The curated exhibition, but the fruit All-Artist-Congress offered every of collective work carried out by artist present or represented at the Mashrou’ Proletkult Working Committee. There is no curator, no jury, and no prize; all decisions were made collectively by the Mashrou’ Proletkult Working Committee. The name “Proletkult” is inspired by the revolutionary cultural politics established in the Soviet Russia after the October revolution of 1917, with the goal of encouraging mass participation in the making of a new progressive art and culture.

The 2016 winners of the President’s Service AUB signed a memorandum of understanding IN CASE YOU Excellence Award are Nibal Safah, Rabab Abi with the Council and Foundation for the Lindau Shakra, Jiryis Fares, and Asma Shihab. Nobel Laureate Meetings, an international MISSED IT. forum of scientific exchange between Nobel AUB’s rank in the QS World University Rankings Laureates, leading scientists, undergraduates, for the year 2016/2017 leapt from 268 to 228. PhD students, and post-doc researchers of The 40-step move was the biggest jump of any different generations, cultures, and disciplines. university among the top 250 institutions. With this partnership, young scientists from Lebanon will get the unique opportunity to Dean Nadia El Cheikh, Dean Nahla Hwalla, and participate through AUB in the Lindau Meetings. Interim Associate Provost Hala Muhtasib have been honored as women leaders in Lebanese universities and research pioneers at a ceremony held by the Lebanese Parliament.

More online Inspiration

Before Cynthia Myntti (MA ’74) left AUB Huda Zurayk of the Faculty of Health in the summer of 2016, her office was Sciences (FHS). “As a visiting faculty located on Bliss Street, appropriately member, I taught social sciences in where the campus meets the public health and helped with Face to Face neighborhood. A decade earlier, fundraising for research,” she says. Cynthia had first begun work as “We successfully raised our first large Neighborhood Champion the founding director of AUB’s grant from the Wellcome Trust in those Neighborhood Initiative (NI), which days, and now, as they say, the rest is mobilizes faculty, staff, and students (FHS) history.” for the good of Ras Beirut ... such as the University for Seniors. It has since The war had changed Beirut and AUB: become a model for universities in the “The aromas of Arabic coffee had region, like the American University vanished from the streets. It had a in Cairo (AUC), which started a different pace. The famous cafés neighborhood initiative of its own. trottoirs had been replaced by international chains. And AUB had A “provincial girl from the American become less connected to Ras Beirut. Midwest,” as she describes herself, Indeed, restitching those connections Cynthia developed a lifelong interest in to Ras Beirut became the Neighborhood the Arab region and its neighborhoods Initiative’s fundamental challenge.” in her undergraduate years thanks to a To raise concerns about gentrification friendship with a fellow student from and urban decay, NI hosted conferences Palestine. “After graduating, I knew I and sponsored research examining had to be in the Middle East.” construction regulations, congestion levels, and noise. NI also conducted “In the early ’70s, AUB was a thrilling a well-being survey of Ras Beirut’s place,” she says. “It was truly residents, getting at living conditions, international. Memorable professors demographic trends, threats, and such as Walid Khalidi inspired me. And wellsprings of health. then of course there was all the student activism. I came to AUB because I Cynthia’s departure came just as one wanted to learn Arabic and do field NI project, first begun in 2010 with research—not only library research— AUB’s Center for Civic Engagement and for my thesis.” Her thesis examines the Community Service and the Beirut roles of women in five Beiruti families. Municipality, was about to take off. Cynthia sat with rich and poor, in grand “Beirut is now a very unfriendly city French-inspired salons and crowded for pedestrians,” she says. “Through one-room apartments, gaining an a highly participatory process, we intimate understanding of city life. redesigned Jeanne d’Arc Street to be a model pedestrian-friendly street for After earning her master’s in Beirut. The design includes a widened anthropology in 1974, Cynthia sidewalk, flat crossings, protections embarked on a PhD at the London from obstructions, improved lighting, School of Economics. Her fieldwork shade from trees, benches. Construction took her to a village near Taiz in the should start soon, and when it’s all Yemeni highlands: “They were proud done, I hope we’ll have and immensely hospitable people and a grand street party to celebrate.” thought it totally natural for a young American to come and learn how to Now based in London, Cynthia reflects cook, grow crops, raise children, and on her last ten years at AUB. “One of treat illnesses, the latter being the my great satisfactions was facilitating focus of my research.” the work of superb, dedicated faculty, and making connections among people After years working for the Ford concerned about the same issues,” Foundation in Cairo and Jakarta and she says. “In this next phase, I will teaching in the US and UK, Cynthia definitely stay involved with the issues returned to Beirut in 1998 to work with I care about. And I have too many AUB’s first woman academic dean, friends to vanish completely!” 10 11

Student News Freedom on four small wheels

Skateboarding is to some what The event transcended generations, “Skateboarding is a way to just breathing is to others. What began in as action sports fans and practitioners free your mind and body.” 1950s California as an alternative to between the ages of seven and 77— Other AUB skaters who share surfing when waves were hard to come poetic but true—gathered for a rare Saad’s outlook also find by quickly grew to become a rich and workshop and show on BMX (off-road comfort in the sound of celebrated subculture in the west. biking), rollerblading, parkour (also wheels rolling across known as freerunning), and asphalt and the soft In Lebanon, however, skateboarding skateboarding. The availability of a pop of a board lifting has largely remained an underground skating ramp proved magnetic, all the into the air. lifestyle for a small number of more so considering that local skating dedicated skaters. parks, such as 360 Skatepark, rarely last “Even when you’re for long. not trying to kickflip Virtually nonexistent in the country down a flight of prior to the turn of this century, That said, the lack of designated eight stairs and skateboarding experienced a sudden skating spaces doesn’t pose much of an hoping you won’t boom during the early 2000s and obstacle for avid skaters. Seeking snap an arm or a inspired a number of local aficionados, alternatives to a campus that doesn’t leg,” Habib said, a jump which can be attributed to the allow students to cross it on anything increasing availability of equipment in with wheels, the AUB skaters often visit local shops as well as the growing the Ain El-Mreisseh corniche, which popularity of the sport on an offers a wide, flat surface for beginners international level. and freestylers to practice on, as well as the bustling Hamra district, which Just as it absorbs all other trends, the forms an open canvas for veteran street diverse student body at AUB has, in the skaters. skateboarder’s lingo, carved its way into the country’s skateboarding In line with the global trend, the most community, consisting of a few common place to skateboard in Beirut thousand other local skaters. is on its streets. The cityscape doubles “It’s still not that popular of a culture as a massive urban playground that in Lebanon, but we skaters come in all provides a mounting series of shapes and sizes,” said Andrew Habib, obstacles—from stairs and rails to a mechanical engineering senior and benches and sidewalks—for skaters one of a handful of skaters at AUB. to conquer.

Local skaters have adapted In that endeavor, skaters often get international skating norms when it creative, learning and executing a comes to the way they dress and ride. seemingly endless number of tricks. The “Rastafarians,” known for their Mastering the Ollie, snapping the tail long hair and indisputably natural of the skateboard while sliding the style, carve their corners smoothly, as front-foot forward, paves the way for opposed to their more aggressive, jeans- other variations of aerial and grinding wearing counterparts, the “punk tricks, such as the kickflip and the “just cruising around and enjoying the rockers.” Whereas, the “techy nerds” darkslide. ride and scenery is very satisfying.” focus on technicalities, often delivering calculated and highly-accurate tricks at “There’s an immense sense -Laudy Issa and Firas Haidar, Editor-in- the expense of style. of freedom involved in being on a Chief and Editor-at-Large, Outlook AUB moving board and controlling its Diverse practitioners came out to velocity and tricking out,” said Jean- participate at a skateboarding event Marc Saad, a third-year electrical and hosted by the Institut Français Du computer engineering student at AUB. Liban on Saturday, October 1. Inspiration

Strengthening the Core

AUB’s founders favored a liberal arts Incoming freshman must take required major in the humanities. “The student curriculum and the Faculty of Arts and English, humanities, math, and natural ended up majoring in a professional Sciences (FAS) is the University’s oldest science courses regardless of major. school,” she says. faculty. FAS hosted the first class of students inside a rented home in 1866. We need to recapture, El Cheikh says, El Cheikh points to AUB’s Civilization There, founder Daniel Bliss taught “the value of what a liberal education Sequence Program as exemplifying the philosophy and ethics, alongside a provides and can provide in the new power of the liberal arts. “It’s a great handful of instructors in English, Latin, creative economy.” She sees a link books course that starts with Gilgamesh Arabic, French, mathematics, and between employers’ demands and the and Oedipus Rex and ends with the astronomy. Teaching faculty aimed to critical thinking skills honed in liberal contemporary novel,” she says. “It used mold the whole person, making college arts programs. “This is the age of to be a requirement, a unifying student education more holistic than economic. content creation,” she says. experience across faculties. Many “Communication skills, creativity, alumni will tell you that these were Today the reverse is true, which FAS’s writing skills—these are all important to their most interesting and valuable incoming dean, history professor Nadia business nowadays.” courses at AUB.” El Cheikh, believes might explain the relatively low enrollment in some Matching students with careers, El Cheikh also intends to focus energy majors. El Cheikh comes to her new role however, may be more challenging in on advancing research at FAS. She says as a scholar of the Abbasid Caliphate the liberal arts than in more technical she’s confident that President Khuri’s and Byzantium, with a focus on women fields. To that end, El Cheikh wants to ongoing initiative to reinstate tenure and gender during those periods. She improve FAS’s career advisory service: will help to attract stellar faculty. She is earned her leadership stripes this past “We need to better assist students with attentive to funding challenges that year as associate interim provost and career exploration and planning and have afflicted the basic sciences and took the reins at FAS this fall. FAS prepare [them] to make a difference in humanities, especially acute, since remains a core faculty at the institution. their communities by increasing their researchers lack access to major US participation in civic engagement.” funding institutions.

El Cheikh calls attention to a Strengthening connections between complementary need to educate FAS and other faculties, including those students and parents on the value of outside AUB, is also a major goal, she liberal arts degrees. She tells the story says. “I have already initiated of a student whose father threatened to discussions on that matter with rescind tuition funds if his son chose to European and US universities.” 12 13

By the Nu bers

There are 70 active student clubs. Based on enrollment figures from AY 2015/16, the Top 25 student clubs are:

AUB RED Cross Club 393 IEEE Club (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 261 Music Club 246 UNICEF Club 217 International Affairs Club 191 Secular Club 180 AUB Clubs Day , September 2016 Astronomy Club 161 Consulting Club 111 Insight Club 153 Latino/Latin Dance Club 110 TEDx Club 151 Investment Management Club 109 Dabkeh Club 140 AUB Plus (The Tech Club) 100 Cooking Club 139 Drama Club 100 Hip Hop Club 122 organic Chemistry Club 100 USP Club (University Scholarship Program) 121 Latino/Salsa Dance Club 99 H.o.P.E. Club (Help Others 118 Other student clubs, ordered from most to least number of participants: Rotaract (Rotary Club Progress in Exercise) affiliated), Cineclub (film), IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of the Students for Cultural of the South 116 Technical Experience), Aiesec (Activating the leadership potential of young people), Toastmaster, Dorms, Archery, Palestinian Culture, Students for Sustainable Energy for All, Communications, Live AUB Robotics Club 113 Love AUB, Net Impact, Lebanese Mission, Japanese Culture, Citizen, Women's Rights, 180 Degrees Consulting, Martial Arts, Social, Uchange, Freedom, Red OAK, Syrian Cultural, Football, Lebanese- Gaming Club 113 Armenian Heritage, African, Civic Welfare League, Junior Chamber International, Jump-Start, MMKN Camping and Hiking Club (Momkin, community building), Chess, AUB Dot Net, Chebab Loubnan, Korean, RHS (Rawdah High 111 School Alumni), Scouts, Jordanian Cultural, Lebanese Heritage, Youth, Lebanese Food Bank, Crossroads, Entrepreneurship, Gender and Sexuality, Arab Innovation-AIN (Arab Innovation Network), Iraqi Culture. By the Books For details, go to: www.aub.edu.lb/sao/activities/org/clubs/Pages/index.aspx Course: Intro to Engineering

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The course is designed such that each module Students attend lectures and use interactive Naseem Daher is assistant professor with a joint familiarizes first-year students with different learning devices to answer questions posed by appointment in the Electrical and Computer engineering and architectural disciplines— instructors. They attend laboratory sessions Engineering Department and the Mechanical architecture, civil, mechanical, electrical, that introduce them to graphical computer Engineering Department. He focuses on control chemical, and industrial engineering—as well programming languages, sensors and systems and robotics. Naseem received as professional ethics and design, with a final actuators, digital microprocessors, embedded bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical module showcasing multidisciplinary projects systems, and robotics. In the last component of engineering from Lawrence Technological and interaction between disciplines. The aim the course, students work in teams to complete University in Michigan and a PhD from Purdue is to encourage innovative thinking and a two design projects. Students design sumo University. His research interests include: multidisciplinary perspective. Lectures cover robots for competition. The robots are modeling and control of dynamic systems, problem solving, design thinking, invention constructed out of LEGO pieces, sensors, and advanced control theory and applications, and innovation processes, environmental and an embedded controller. Students also design virtual sensing and sensor fusion, mechatronics civic responsibility, and aesthetics and and build a small-scale bridge model spanning and robotics, automotive active safety systems, performance metrics. Projects are a key a river. Designs are judged by load-to-weight alternative automotive powertrains, and efficient component of the course and are ratio, originality, aesthetics, and finishing. fluid power actuation technologies. He is the multidisciplinary in nature. recipient of several awards and scholarships and author of numerous journal articles. 14 Inspiration

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AUBMC’s surgical skills lab teaches surgical 1. Chief resident in urology at the Department 4. Residents use this box in pattern cutting skills outside of a stressful operating room of Surgery 5. Residents use this box to train in environment; they use laparoscopic box 2. The LapSim, a virtual reality surgery extracorporeal and intracorporeal suturing trainers and virtual reality simulators to simulator practice cutting, suturing, and handling 3. The three machines in the background are tissues. trainer boxes used to teach the technical and psychomotor skills and dexterity needed for basic laparoscopic surgery Discoveries Research, the arts, and current events

Renalda El-Samra (BE ’92, ME ’94, expected PhD ’16) predicts climate R+D 16 change in Lebanon

Seen/Scene 17 Unearthing Lebanon’s heritage; 50 years of archaeology at AUB

Pursuits Cancer’s commonalities among Mediterranean countries. Learning 18 how young people think about sex

IFI Infographic 20 Syrian babies face an unnavigable road to refugee status

Under Discussion 21 The Anthony Shadid Archive at Jafet Library

AUB Spaces 22 A sunny forecast for sustainable energy; solar panels come to campus Discoveries R+D Renalda El-Samra Research focus: properly calibrated to predict regional (BE ’92, ME ’94, My research focus is on climate change. atmospheric evolution in Lebanon. expected PhD ’16) I’ve run a regional climate change model for Lebanon and the eastern Biggest discovery to date: Mediterranean basin. To do this, I take I’ve generated detailed climatic data from the High Resolution predictions for Lebanon from now until Atmospheric Model (HiRAM), a model 2050, with data shown at a scale of 3km for global climate change which is run instead of 50-100km. According to the from Princeton University’s Geophysical model, between now and then, Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and input it temperatures will rise by 20%, into the Weather Research and precipitation will fall by 30%, and the Forecasting (WRF) Model, which is a yield of the corn crop [without any regional numerical weather prediction intervention] will fall by 40%. system developed principally by the National Center for Atmospheric Implications for research: Research and a number of other Climate change has many implications institutions in the United States. for crop yields, for example. If you’re planting in May, the May in the future The global model looks at the world at a will be different than May now. Farmers scale of 50-100km, meaning that will plant earlier to avoid higher variations in climate are only described temperature, but the precipitation will between areas of that size. Nor does it be less, so they will need to irrigate differentiate between coastlines and more. We need to start planning for mountains or types of land use. It’s increasing water demand in agriculture. good for the big picture of earth, therefore, but not for looking at what How I got here: will happen to individual locales. I graduated in 1992 from AUB with a bachelor’s in civil engineering and I wrote a script for the Linux computer earned a master’s in environmental and operating system to convert HiRAM water resources engineering in 1994. I data to WRF data. The regional model worked for some consultancies in extracts from the basic conditions Lebanon, Dubai, and Qatar. Then, six generated by the global model to years ago, I decided to go for a PhD. I generate more nuanced predictions. had this dream of a doctorate since I HiRAM, for example, cannot see clouds, was a master’s student, but, you know, but the WRF can. I can input humidity, you graduate and you want to work. wind, and temperature data (along with other kinds of data) into the WRF from What I’ll remember most about AUB: HiRAM and simulate the local climate. AUB has a special place in my heart. I I test WRF’s predictions by checking to feel at home on campus and I am very see whether variables—like grateful to have had the chance to work temperature, precipitation, and wind— on this topic and broaden my horizons. correlate according to observed weather I have had opportunities to present in patterns for the region. Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, and the United States. The climate is extremely chaotic and mathematically difficult to represent. Best moment of my day: But we have equations that show I’m an early riser. The best moment of correlations and represent patterns, my day is when I open my eyes in the with which we can make certain morning and thank God that I get to predictions. Equations in the WRF, such seize the day. Also driving, when there’s as the equations for clouds, must be no traffic. 16 17

Tell el Ghassil Seen/Scene A Civilizational Mosaic

Earthen-colored ceramic jugs of Syrian College Hall’s founding animals, 17 buckets in total, putting a irregular shape; Byzantine mosaic documents, sifted from the rumble morbid accent on the first complete floors; arrowheads of blue and grey of College Hall following the 1991 Phoenician temple unearthed in stone; finely-patterned, three-footed bombing. She sees the Museum as Lebanon. vases with large mouths; busts of having “played an important role in forward-looking Phoenicians in the archaeological research of the At AUB’s AREC center in the Beqa’a, region.” It has also played a role in below the agricultural soil, Badre and uncovering Lebanon’s ancient history. fellow archaeologist D.C. Baramki uncovered jars sheltering the bodies of The idea of Phoenician historical dead infants and the remains of several identity is strong in Lebanon and this adults inside tombs from the Middle exhibit makes clear that the country’s Bronze Age (1800 - 1650 BC). Temples capital once belonged to that fabled from the Iron Age (9 th - 8 th century BC) past. As the exhibit showed, north of contained incense burners, jugs, and Martyrs’ Square, the Ancient Tell of beads. Beirut site yielded evidence of Phoenician Beirut. From fortifying Together, these civilizational ruins— walls, gateways, and glacis (sloping Stone Age, Phoenician, Roman, fortifications) of chunky stone Byzantine, Arab, Mamluk, Ottoman— Excavations inside Saint George Cathedral underneath the Square, Badre found form a cosmopolitan composite of evidence of the city’s continuous epochs echoing Lebanon’s own cultural occupation dating back to the diversity. Badre lobbied the Ministry of headdress; busts of worried-looking, Phoenician era (1500 BC – 539 BC). Culture to preserve the sites of these bearded Greeks; crosses of iron with civilizations: the mosaic floors beneath swooping curves and hollow centers; Badre discovered the remains of four Annahar are now displayed in the lobby crude balance beams of metal, wood, distinct civilizations—Early Hellenistic, of the newspaper’s offices and the site and rope; necklaces of looping white Hellenistic, Byzantine, and Late of Phoenician Beirut was approved for stone and seashell—the founding, acid- Byzantine—beneath the Annahar preservation in 1996. free documents of the Syrian Protestant newspaper building, also in Martyrs’ College (SPC). Square. And beneath the Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral emerged These and other artifacts, dating from mosaic floors patterned in the style of the 3 rd millennium BC to 1866, sat the early Byzantine church. behind the glass at AUB’s Archaeological Museum this past Outside the capital, below the city of summer for an exhibition titled Tyre, Badre found a rectangular-shaped “Excavating the Past. Fifty Years of Phoenician Temple sporting a Archaeology at AUB.” monolithic slab for an altar. A continuous frieze of Egyptian gorges Archaeologist and Museum Director wraps horizontally across the temple’s Leila Badre has led many excavations Façade, mirroring the temples of City Gate (1700 BC) over the past half century, including the Eshmoun and Amrit. A kiln flanking incidental one that uncovered the the altar collects the bones of sacrificial Discoveries Pursuits

The Pediatric Oncology East and Mediterranean oncology fellows, nurses, and support staff from Tackling Child Cancer Group (POEM) has just received a $200,000 grant POEM member countries at AUBMC. It will in the Middle East and from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in New support the establishment of a cancer database Southeast Asia York. POEM, established in 2013, is a cooperative for the POEM region that will store demographic of healthcare professionals from the East and tumor-related data drawn from the 77 Mediterranean region working on pediatric pediatric cancer centers in 22 countries registered oncology issues. These countries face a common with POEM. It will also support workshops and set of challenges specific to their geographies and working groups that look at diagnosis, treatment, levels of development in terms of accessibility of and psychosocial challenges for specific care, cost, types of infection rate and response, childhood cancers such as leukemia, brain and specific genetic features of the local tumors, and lymphoma. populations and their cancers. The grant will Hassan El Solh fund training for pediatric hematology and Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Children’s Cancer Center

The Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Phase II (2013-2015) oversaw the establishment A Foundation of Project (YSRHP), funded by the Ford Foundation, of the Network of Arab Scholars on Sexuality and Sexual Health aims to promote the sexual health and wellbeing Sexual Health (NASSS), a regional network of of youth in Lebanon and the Arab region within a scholars from different countries in the Arab public health framework. The first phase of the Region working on sexuality and sexual health. project (2010-2012) successfully engaged local and Phase III (2016-2019) centers on expanding NASSS regional stakeholders in several training, to investigate time trends and explore the research, advocacy, and educational activities. interplay of youth sexuality and wellbeing. In 2010, the first online sexuality survey assessed sexual practices, perceptions, and attitudes among a sample of university students in Lilian Ghandour Lebanon. The findings were published in several Assistant Professor peer-reviewed journal articles. Phase I also of Public Health helped train a large number of school health counselors on sexuality and sexual health. Faysal El Kak

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Match ’em up! “What is the most thought-provoking book/film/article/podcast you’ve come across in the past six-months?”

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The Office of Strategic Health Initiatives signed Fourth-year architecture students Yasmine Arkadan IN CASE a memorandum of understanding with the and Yasmine Atoui split this year’s $15,000 Fawzi Azar Municipal Council of Beirut to cooperate in award for outstanding achievement in the field of YOU establishing the “Beirut: Healthy City 2022” vision. architectural design. This year’s theme was “a MISSED IT. community for seniors” with a proposed site in the AUB’s Center for Civic Engagement and Community Abadieh municipality in Mount Lebanon. Service (CCECS) won first place in the 2016 MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship in recognition of its In late October, the Office of Student Affairs and AUB leadership in developing a culture of service Sports held a three-day international tournament, within the AUB community through outreach and with AUB’s sibling institutions, the American volunteerism, community development projects, Universities of Cairo and Dubai, and the American service-learning initiatives, and university scholarship College of Greece, and seven Lebanese universities, programs. CCECS is actively addressing the refugee in ten different sports, involving hundreds of athletes crisis in Lebanon through student-based projects. engaged in highly competitive, but sporting contests.

A master jury has selected the Issam Fares Institute Dr. Huda Abu-Saad Huijer (BS ’71), director of the for Public Policy and International Affairs from 348 Hariri School of Nursing, has been honored by not one, nominated projects as one of this year’s winners of the but two, international professional organizations this prestigious 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture . year for her work in nursing research and palliative care (the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Over ten productive years, Drs. Saouma Boujaoude and Honorary Membership of the Council of the and Rima Karami and their colleagues in the International Association for the Study of Pain). AUB Department of Education have transformed trustee Dr. Huda Zoghbi (BS ’76) has scooped not only educational practices and strengthened governance the first Nemmers Prize in Medical Science to be structures with more than 40 schools across the Arab awarded, but also a Shaw Prize for Medicine—known world through the Tamam program. The latest schools as the Nobel of the East—for her groundbreaking to join this growing family are in Palestine and Sudan, research on the developmental disorder Rett in addition to existing partners in Egypt, Jordan, KSA, syndrome. Dr. Rose-Mary Boustany (BS ’75, MD ’79) Lebanon, Oman and Qatar. discovered a new method that uses Galactosylceramide to treat CLN3, a deadly neurodegenerative disease affecting children. Discoveries

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When people lack the legal recognition that Statelessness Step 1 citizenship confers and are termed stateless, they lose access to Place of fundamental state Birth Registration protections, such as Delivery Challenges policing, public of Refugees from Syria • Proof of marriage education, and

98% • Hospital fees emergency medicine. obtained birth • Possible ID confiscaon War, discrimination, noficaon • Delivery without conflict, and doctor/midwife administrative obstacles are chiefly to blame. For children born in Lebanon to Syrian refugees, the administrative obstacles are particularly onerous. As this infographic shows, mounting administrative impediments mean that Step 2 only two percent of Syrian parents will see Mukhtar* Challenges 1. Birth noficaon their children officially • Valid residency permit 2. Identy document recognized as Syrian • Inconsistencies in 3. A fee up to LBP 30,000 refugees by the 68% required Lebanese government. documents and fees obtained birth documents and fees In other words, 98% of • Re cerficate • Refugees lack clear children born to Syrian informaon refugees remain stateless. #AUB4Refugees

Challenges 1. Birth cerficate Step 3 Step 4 • Step required within 2. Identy document Consequence of one year of birth 3. Fees up to LBP 6,000 the Challenges: one year of birth Nofous** • Refugees lack clear

informaon • Re 2% • Lack of valid residency registered at 20% permit completed the foreigners' registraon register

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*Mukhtar: local leader Recommendations: ** Nofous: local government registry office • Ministry of Health to develop clear administrative procedures among providers and hospitals regarding documents required to issue a birth notification. • Ministry of Interior to facilitate the process of birth registration among Nofous. Documents Residency visa should not be required. needed • Humanitarian actors should continue to provide accurate and specific information on birth registration and provide legal assistance.

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Under Discussion Anthony Shadid’s Living Legacy at AUB

When New York Times correspondent Shadid spent most of his 20-year-long Anthony Shadid died tragically during career reporting on the Middle East, a visit to northern Syria in February while based in Cairo, Beirut, and 2012, journalism lost one of its brightest Baghdad. Widely respected, he received stars. A new project at the University a half a dozen major writing awards,

New university course seeks to keep a light shining on his including two Pulitzer Prizes and a based on late prize- foreign correspondence. Polk Award. winning author's personal papers In the United States this autumn, Khouri is interviewing dozens of Shadid's colleagues and analyzing “We hope the work we do on this hundreds of his articles, as well as his collection will encourage other noted three books. A research assistant will writers and journalists in the Middle simultaneously inventory Shadid’s East to also deposit their personal collected papers at AUB. libraries at AUB, so that we can develop greater expertise and insights into the The analysis will lay the groundwork best journalistic and other writings for future initiatives and prepare about our region.” Khouri to write curricula for and teach a semester-long course this spring: “Narrative News Reporting and Writing, and the Legacy of Anthony Shadid.” Khouri says students can gain new appreciation for the narrative reporting genre by taking a closer look A joint venture of the AUB Libraries at the places Shadid went, the people Archives and Special Collections he interviewed, the information he Department and the Media Studies filtered from readings—all the choices Program, the project begins with an that contributed to his judgments about analysis of Shadid’s collected personal what to cover in the field. AUB will then papers and library, on loan to AUB by offer a six-week summer workshop on his widow Nada Bakri Shadid. campus and coordinate two- or three- week satellite courses at several “The personal library of Anthony's universities in the Middle East and papers is a treasure trove of insights the United States. into how he planned, reported, and wrote his stories, and it is very The project also aims to develop ways important to capture the elements of his for AUB Libraries to open their archival journalism techniques for others to collections to the international benefit from—and also to admire,” says community. AUB Media Studies project director Rami G. Khouri, AUB Program Director May Farah says this senior fellow and adjunct professor of project, via additional seminars and journalism. “The two distinct elements workshops, will promote greater that set Anthony's work apart from learning and teaching links between others writing about the Middle East AUB and journalism/communications were his narrative style of writing that departments around the world. captured the characters and emotions of people in the region, and his ability Ms. Kaoukab Chebaro, head of the to touch the deeper issues that mattered archives and special collections to the region and to the world.” section of AUB Libraries says, 22 Discoveries

March With Us Towards a Solar Future “If we can get 3,000 commitments of $500, we On top of the Bechtel Building, in lower campus, will hit our 13% renewables target. At 13% next to Greenfield, you’ll find AUB’s first 288 solar renewables, we would see energy cost savings panels, each a collection of photovoltaic silicon of between $400,000 and $500,000 per year, cells sheathed in protective glass. The roof of the equivalent to a $12 million endowment,” says adjacent CCC-Scientific Research Building (SRB) Mohammed Khaled JouJou, assistant to the dean has an additional 186 panels. Thanks to roughly for laboratories and facilities at the Faculty of 300 sunny days that Lebanon gets each year, Engineering and Architecture. AUB these panels, combined, will generate around one percent of AUB’s annual energy needs; they are Be a Bronze Donor expected to save the University around $42,000 For a 500 USD donation, name a photovoltaic Spaces and to lower its carbon footprint by 140 tons panel (along with its mounting cabling and annually. inverters).

In line with the 2015 United Nations Climate Be a Silver Donor Change Conference (COP 21), AUB ultimately Become a silver done by sponsoring a larger aims to generate 13% of its power from renewable number of panels, which will then receive, as sources, the same target Lebanon has set itself per your choice, the name of your family, your for 2020. graduating class, or your company.

Cedro, a joint venture between the UNDP and Be a Gold Donor the Central Bank of Lebanon, covered 50% of the Become a gold donor when you sponsor a full panel installation’s $98,000 cost. The rest of these roof. Each roof installation has its own budget initial funds came from alumni and friends. And and different sizes are available to suit different a mix of AUB staff, students, and outside experts budgets. collaborated on the installation. The on-grid panel system requires less maintenance than a Your support will be recognized by: battery-powered, off-grid one, and is hooked into 1- A nameplate on the side of the solar panel AUB’s servers, which display daily production 2- A naming on the digital map displayed in the levels on a closed network. entrance of the building supporting your panel To make a donation, contact contact Associate Vice 3- Acknowledgement on AUB’s special website President of Development We’d like to let our readers know that they can showing the system’s daily performance and Alumni Relations contribute to AUB’s march towards a more Salma Dannawi Oueida: sustainable future by donating for the Help AUB lead Lebanon towards a more [email protected] acquisition of more solar panels. sustainable future. Wellness AUBMC 2020, health, and medicine

Lebanon’s Lifeblood 24 The AUB Blood Bank

AUBMC’s Cleft and Craniofacial Program and the War Injuries Program AUBMC News 25 perform more than surgery

Check up Marilyn Karam (BS ’05, MD ’09), a doctor who knows how to stimulate 26 the body’s immune system

Filling a Healthcare Gap 28 Mental illness in Lebanon’s adolescent population

Sahtein 30 Layali Loubnan, a creamy dessert from the alumni cookbook Abundance Wellness

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Stop by AUBMC to donate between whole blood to a year for plasma and Ministry of Public Health’s Blood 7:30 am to 10:30 pm every day of the cryoprecipitated AHF. “The need for Transfusion Committee and helps set week! blood and blood components is standards for blood transfusions constant,” says Dr. Elizabeth Baz, the around the country. Every year, the number of patients blood bank’s director. “Annually, we passing through AUBMC’s doors rises. have approximately 10,000 whole blood The blood bank runs weekly blood and Since last year, emergency room visits donations and 2,000 platelet donations, platelet drives as well as awareness have grown by nine percent, surgeries but securing donors is a daily struggle. campaigns. “We ask patients to help by by three percent, and outpatient A trauma patient requiring massive requesting that their friends and family clinical visits by seven percent. This transfusion and/or urgent O-negative members donate,” Baz says. Anyone translates into a greater need for blood red blood cell transfusions is nearly a who would like to donate blood or and a place to store it. Hence, AUBMC’s weekly occurrence and can consume platelets can do so on a walk-in basis blood bank. the inventory.” from 7:30 am to 10:30 pm every day of the week, with hours extended in cases A mix of beds, scales, tubes, and vials, In line with AUBMC’s 2020 vision, of emergency. the blood bank sits on the third floor of several innovations have transformed AUBMC’s main building. Blood banks the blood bank. “We recently hold more than vats or vials of blood. introduced automation,” Dr. Baz says. They store blood products, each with “This is a platform that performs the its own medical purpose. These include pre-transfusion tests, including blood whole blood for trauma and surgery; grouping and antibody screening. red cells for any kind of blood loss, Research shows that automated pre- anemia, or blood disorders; platelets transfusion testing results in fewer for cancer and organ transplants; errors, and we have zero tolerance for blood plasma for burn victims; and error.” cryoprecipitated antihemophilic factor (AHF), a plasma derivative, for Lebanon lacks a centralized blood hemophilia and Von Willebrand bank, and AUBMC’s is the country’s disease. largest and most active. Critical infrastructure by default, it becomes the Each blood product has a different go-to destination for major trauma in shelf life, ranging from 21 days for times of desperate need. Baz sits on the 24 25

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Emotional AUBMC Video Inspires at ASHA Conference

AUBMC is as much a humanitarian Next we meet Alaa, also Syrian, who lost organization as it is a medical one. Many much of her lower jaw in an explosion. of its programs bring advanced care to “I couldn’t dare look at my face in the the region’s neediest and most mirror,” she says. “I don’t know how to vulnerable. Two of its programs, the Cleft express all the sadness and sorrow I felt and Craniofacial Program and the War in my heart. I was the most beautiful girl Injuries Program, were celebrated at the among my friends. I was envied for my 2016 Annual Partners Conference at beauty.” Alaa is one of around 50 cases USAID’s Office of American Schools and treated monthly in the war injuries Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) in Washington, program. “Now I can look at myself in DC, thanks to a video produced by the the mirror again. I couldn’t do that media team at AUBMC that tells the before. Now I can go out and face people. stories of Yumna and Alaa and their They don’t pity me the same way remarkable recoveries. anymore.”

In the first half of the video, we meet It was the poignancy and raw honesty of Yumna, a blue-eyed, cleft-lipped baby, these accounts that captivated audiences who presented a challenge to her at the conference. ASHA has supported mother, Sarah Mansour, a Syrian refugee. and continues to support AUBMC and its “I rejected her,” Mansour says. “I was at work in treating patients like Yumna and once frightened by and concerned for Alaa, who, thanks to a remarkable her.” Yumna underwent successful medical staff, were able to get their lives reconstructive surgery, one of more than back. The video can be viewed on the 150 pro-bono cleft lip surgeries AUBMC YouTube channel. performed annually at AUBMC. Mansour recalls her joy on seeing the cleft lip repaired: “When she woke up and was breastfed I became so happy.”

Plans for the Halim and Aida Daniel Academic and Clinical Center Move Forward

This past summer, AUBMC welcomed a state-of-the-art facility under team of experienced nurses, logistics construction at the intersection of experts, workplace specialists, analysts, Maamari and Abdul Aziz Streets. It’s the and coaches from healthcare first facility in Lebanon and the region to architecture firm NBBJ to assist in the put patient care, education, and research development of the Halim and Aida under one roof and it figures into the Daniel Academic and Clinical Center 2020 vision. The building is expected to (ACC). The ACC building is a 14-story be complete in 2017. Wellness

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Q. What is immunotherapy? Yet there’s no real standardized way only three other board-certified A. Immunotherapy is a way to build up of labelling these vials, and this is a allergists in the whole country. I a temporary desensitization or problem because patients move and started here last September and have tolerance. It’s the best cure for hay students move. Each university since had to establish a clinic from fever and used for lots of other hospital, for example, has its own nothing. I didn’t have an up-and- indications as well. It’s kind of like student health services unit where running clinic until November. It Dr. Marilyn Karam reprogramming your immune system students take their vials and some of took two months. Starting a new (BS ’05, MD ’09) Instructor of so that it doesn’t act the way it does them are transfers that come from a practice and being the only allergist Clinical Medicine, around things that cause allergies, center with a different labeling at AUBMC has been difficult but not subspecialty like a customized medication for scheme. So nurses must contact the too bad. I’ve had to create everything Allergy and Clinical each patient. initial prescribing physician, and from scratch. Immunology that can be a big hassle. Department of Internal Medicine Most patients with nasal allergies We now provide most of the services will go through skin testings so they When I was at the University of an allergy clinic should provide, can figure out what they’re allergic Michigan, I checked how many such as skin testing, oral challenges, to. If their skin testing is positive, physicians follow labelling and desensitization. It’s challenging, let’s say they’re allergic to cats and guidelines created by expert though, because I have to get skin dogs, first we tell them to avoid their allergists; only 21% were correctly testing materials. These testing triggers. Then we recommend labeled. This was the case at many products all come from the States. treatment, nasal steroids and Big 10 universities in the US. It’s a [The clinic’s] doing great and there’s antihistamines, then national problem. a lot of demand. These patients have immunotherapy for patients who existed for a long time but until now don’t want or don’t respond to We team members at Michigan other specialties had taken care of medications. surveyed allergists through the their treatment. I’m really happy American Academy of Asthma, with what we accomplished so far. Q. So how does it work? Allergy, and Clinical Immunology’s Two months is a short time to build a A. Let’s say, for example, you’re allergic database. We wanted to figure out clinic. We’re aiming at establishing to cats and dogs and choose why they’re not following the an allergy center at AUB; this will immunotherapy. First, we’ll put the guidelines. They said they were mean more allergists, essentially a proteins you’re allergic to in a vial, following their own labelling one-stop shop, to get all testing and then we’ll start injecting you with conventions, but it was very age scans in one place. successively greater concentrations dependent. Older physicians of those proteins. We ask patients to followed the conventions much less, Q. What kinds of allergy problems wait around the office for 30 minutes with a decrease of four percent for have you come across in Lebanon? after each injection. The idea is to each year in practice. A. We see, in Lebanon, a lot of patients condition their immune responses to with hives, like rashes, which we these allergens; allergic reactions are Q. Tell us about your experience treat with antihistamines and other simply overactive immune responses. being back at AUBMC and some medications or, as a last resort, of your goals. monthly injections of a monoclonal Q. What has your research A. I’m happy to be back because I feel antibody. focused on? I’m giving back to my community A. Each patient has their own extract. especially because my specialty is In Lebanon, there’s not a lot of food Patient vials, which contain protein needed. I want to raise awareness allergies, whereas I saw a lot in the concentrations, are labelled with an about allergies and United States during training. Our expiration date, concentration level, immunodeficiencies and to establish culture doesn’t take the same and patient’s date of birth—it’s all this specialization at AUB. I’m the precautions with allergies. Parents very specific to the patient. center’s only allergist and there are are more liberal with what they feed 26 27

their infants. This might explain lower food allergy rates. According to another hypothesis, not mine, having infections is good for your immune system. In other words, it’s good to be clean but not too clean.

Q. How much does immunotherapy cost? A. Immunotherapy costs around $100 per month in Lebanon, more in the States. Unfortunately, most Lebanese insurance plans don’t cover allergy treatments. Testing costs between $200 and $300 at AUBMC; in the States, it’s around $1,100, but insurance covers it.

Q. What about immunodeficiencies? What are they and how do you treat them? A. Patients with immunodeficiencies can’t fight off infections well and may have recurring infections. We try to figure out what’s not working as far as the immune system is concerned. We would supplement antibodies to do that for them. There are a lot of different types of immunodeficiencies.

There’s a small part of the Lebanese society where consanguinity [e.g. marrying a cousin] is still culturally accepted; this raises the risks of immunodeficiency. There are a lot primary immunodeficiencies, ones people are born with. There’s a lot of common variable immunodeficiency, which starts in a person’s thirties or forties and results in recurrent sinus and lung infections. It’s a condition where you don’t have enough antibodies to fight off infections. If untreated, it can lower life expectancy. Wellness

Challenging Mental Illness

Assessing the scale of mental illness in Lebanon and drawing the public’s attention to it remain significant challenges. Fortunately, a team of researchers at AUB has made inroads “... 26% of into a lack of in-country data, adolescents in Beirut quantifying psychiatric disorders suffer from some among a particularly vulnerable demographic, adolescents. form of mental illness. Anxiety and According to “Psychiatric disorders among adolescents from Lebanon: ADHD were most prevalence, correlates, and treatment prevalent at 13% gap,” published this May in Social and 10% Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , 26% of adolescents in respectively.” Beirut suffer from some form of mental illness. Anxiety and ADHD were most prevalent at 13% and 10% respectively.

The study is the first to scientifically estimate the number of Lebanese adolescents experiencing mental illness. “When I moved back to Lebanon from the US in 2009, I was interested in researching depression in Lebanese adolescents, but there was this major gap in the literature, no prevalence studies,” explains AUB psychiatry professor and lead author Fadi T. Maalouf.

To fill that gap, Maalouf partnered with Public Health Professor Lilian Ghandour and several researchers at AUB to launch a large-scale population 28 29

survey of 11-to 17-year-old Arabic- Lebanese adolescents spoke, for There are also financial challenges. speaking adolescents living in Beirut. instance, of kidnapping fears. Insurance doesn’t cover psychological They discovered, among other things, or psychiatric treatment, and it’s the challenge of conducting such Among the roughly one-in-four expensive, averaging between $50 surveys in Beirut. First they had to adolescents diagnosed with at least and $150 a visit. segment the city into manageable one psychiatric disorder, 31% had two chunks representative of its distinct distinct diagnoses and 15% had three To improve awareness and treatment, socioeconomic groups, for which the or more; seven percent had mood a team that consists of AUBMC’s Abu- team hired a private research firm. Then disorders and five percent had a Haidar Neuroscience Institute and they deployed some 22 surveyors across disruptive behavior disorder. Boys concerned parents have a launched the city to interview adolescents and showed a slightly higher incidence of the FOCUS Fund to train primary care their parents or legal guardians using psychiatric disorders than girls, yet physicians in identifying mental illness, Arabic versions of the DAWBA girls showed higher rates of emotional, and teachers and parents supporting (Development and Well-Being mood, and anxiety disorders. suffering children. The Fund aims to Assessment), which consists of an make mental health care more assortment of questions aimed at School and family life emerged as accessible and to help families become diagnosing adolescents, according to additional factors. Adolescents with more resourceful. “The group has been the DSM-IV and the ICD-10. psychiatric disorders were three times very active,” Maalouf says, “in raising more likely to be from families in which awareness among parents, teachers and A total of 22 surveyors approached biological parents were divorced, professionals and in raising funds to about 9,000 households. Of those 3,500 separated, or deceased rather than cover the treatment of the households were deemed ineligible and married. Having a family history of underserved.” another 4,500 were listed as being of mental illness, having repeated a unknown eligibility, usually because no school grade, and having bullied or one was home or the resident declined been a bullying victim were all to discuss their living situation. correlated with increased mental “Sometimes a concierge wouldn’t let us illness risk. in,” Maalouf says. “There were lots of “Among adolescents security challenges to establishing the Perhaps the study’s most crucial experiencing mental eligibility.” This left 1,004 households, finding was the size of the treatment illness in Beirut, only but only 510 participated fully, gap. Among adolescents experiencing completing all necessary interviews. mental illness in Beirut, only six six percent are percent are currently receiving currently receiving In terms of anxiety, Beirut falls between treatment, compared with between the Gulf and Gaza. Comparative levels 40 and 50% in the United States and treatment, of anxiety reported for Oman and the Western Europe. The stigma compared with UAE were 5.6% and 1.6% respectively surrounding mental illness and the and 21% in Gaza, which suggests the dearth of practitioners—Lebanon has between 40 and 50% influence of socio-political stability 75 practicing psychiatrists—deter in the United States on mental health: while Gaza has Lebanese from seeking treatment and and Western experienced continued strife and also lead to an uptick in physical hardship, the UAE has been stable ailments. “Because it’s more acceptable Europe. ” for the past few decades. to have a physical illness, our kids with anxiety disorders tend to have somatic There was also evidence of symptoms,” Maalouf says. “Stomach environmental factors shaping aches are common.” manifestations of anxiety. Anxious 30 Wellness

Sahtein Layali Loubnan Nader Taha (BS ’05), Kamel Taha (BEN ’09), and Hani Taha (BEN ’14) Beirut

INGREDIENTS: HEALTHY TIPS: For a lighter dessert, use low-fat (1% fat) milk • 180 g (1 cup) fine semolina instead of whole milk; use half the butter for Send your recipe submissions to • 1 L (4 cups) fresh milk both the bottom and topping; and to serve, use a [email protected] • ½ tsp ground mastic tsp of honey instead of a tbsp of syrup. • 2 tbsp rose water • 3 tbsp orange blossom water Using whole milk: Serving Size: 1; Calories (kcal)

“This dish looks royal, yet • 40 g (1.4 oz) unsalted butter, divided 443; Fat (g): 20; Saturated Fat (g): 8; Protein (g): it’s an easy, delicious • 100 g (1 cup) ground stone bread (ka’ak) 14; Carbohydrates (g): 54; Fiber (g): 3; Sodium dessert to prepare at home. (mg): 229 Its flavor is elevated by the toasty crumbled ka’ak, GARNISH ( oPtIonAl ): delicate rose water, and Using 1% fat milk: Serving Size: 1; Calories (kcal) fragrant orange blossom water from Lebanon’s • 40 g (1/6 cup) orange blossom jam 414; Fat (g): 16; Saturated Fat (g): 5; Protein (g): coastal citrus trees. We • 90 g (1/2 cup) freshly ground pistachios 15; Carbohydrates (g): 55; Fiber (g): 3; Sodium reminisce about how great it smelled when our • Sugar syrup (water) (mg): 236 grandma used to distill her own orange blossom water every spring.” PREPARATIoN: GooD FoR YoU? An expert weighs in... Nader Taha (BS ’05), Kamel Taha (BEN ’09), and Hani Taha (BEN ’14) Preheat oven to 180° C (350° F) Marie Claire Chamieh , Marie Clare Chamieh, In a large bowl, whisk semolina, milk, and PhD, LD – Lecturer and Practicum Coordinator, ground mastic until the semolina is almost FAFS dissolved in the mixture. In a large saucepan, bring the mixture to a gentle boil on high heat Although it is calorie dense, Layali Lubnan while stirring constantly. Lower the heat and dessert provides a fair amount of quality protein simmer for 20-25 minutes or until the mixture and good fats such as linoleic and oleic fatty thickens. Keep stirring throughout; otherwise, acids. Linoleic fatty acids are essential and play it will lump or burn. Turn off the heat and stir in a major role in growth, reproduction and skin rosewater and orange blossom water. Using half integrity. Oleic fatty acids reduce the risk of heart the butter, grease a glass baking dish about 15 cm disease, stroke and some cancers. With milk as X 30 cm (≈6” X 12”) if rectangular, 25 cm (≈10”) if its main ingredient, Layali Loubnan is a good A recipe from the WAAAUB circular. Spread half the ground ka’ak evenly on source of Vitamin D, calcium and phosphorus; Cookbook, ABUNDANCE: the bottom. Gently pour the pudding over the elements that work together to sustain the Mediterranean Cuisine: Recipes by Alumni and ground ka’ak in the baking pan and smooth the strength of bone and teeth. It is also rich in Friends of the American surface with a spatula. Evenly spread the Vitamin B12 (riboflavin), which is known to aid University of Beirut. Proceeds from net sales remaining ground ka’ak on top. Cut the leftover the body in releasing energy. To get the benefits support AUB Student butter into small chunks and distribute evenly of the essential fats, the pistachio garnish is Scholarships. over the ground ka’ak. Bake for 30 minutes. If recommended, however with a small twist: Available at: the top surface is not golden-brown and crispy, substitute the sugar syrup with honey and USA/Canada: Amazon.com switch oven to broil and broil on upper rack for profit from its antibacterial, antioxidant and Lebanon: Malik’s Bookstores 5 minutes. memory-enhancing effect. You may also go all Rest of world: Malik’s the way for the lighter version of Layali Lubnan online May be served hot or chilled, typically garnished with less calories, saturated fats and cholesterol. For more information, with freshly ground pistachios, orange blossom visit: alumni.aub.edu.lb/WAAAUB jam, and sugar syrup to taste. Cookbook AUB’s 150 th Anniversary (1966-2016)

Timeline 1966-2016 AUB resilience and resurgence

Scenes of AUB 32 Campus life during the last 50 years (1966-2016)

Legacy Families 34 A historic 150th anniversary legacy ceremony

AUB Values 36 Turmoil and transformation

Dean of Students Talal Nizameddin reflects on AUB’s Student Activism 38 rich history of student protests Anniversary Scenes of AUB

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19 1. FEA wins the Big Game, 2016 2. Nurses, 1960s 3. The mighty Banyon 4. A concert in Assembly 18 Hall 5. Getting to class at the Olayan School of Business 6. Student elections 7. Student volunteers spruce up the streets 8. Quiet Please! 9. AUB doctors –the best! 10. FEA dance, 1974 11. FEA (orange) cat 12. Main Gate and College Hall, 2011 13. The Milk Bar, 1960s 20 21 14. Reem Acra’s first fashion show. Outdoors festivities, 1982 15. Bellbottoms in 1974 16. Bench thinking 17. The Green Oval and Ada Dodge Hall, 1999 18. Coeds studying, 1979 19. A marching band for Commencement, 2014 20. Women’s track, 2010 21. Recent FEA grads 1966 - 2016

The Third 50 Years

• AUB students • Major student establish protests take Speaker’s Corner place over 10- for open-air percent tuition public speaking, hike and debate, and political and discussion on social issues as campus Lebanon drifts toward civil war • AUB introduces • The tragic a PhD in killings of FEA biochemistry and Dean Raymond awards its first PhD Ghosn and in Arabic history; Student Dean formerly only Robert Najemy medical doctorates occur on had been awarded campus • AUB Medical • AUB establishes • Faculty of Center the Center for Engineering (former Arab and renamed Faculty American Middle Eastern The Big Game, 1973 of Engineering University Studies and Architecture Hospital or (CAMES) AUH) is • Though football inaugurated (soccer) had long been a tradition at AUB, the “Big • AUB’s Office Game” as an of Regional annual Football External game is held for Programs the first time (REP) is established

1966 1969 1970 1971-74 1972 1975 1976 197 • AUB closes the • Malcolm Kerr, • John Waterbury, School of 9th AUB president 14th president (1997- Pharmacy (1982-84), is 2008), becomes the assassinated first AUB president • AUB establishes outside his office to reside in Beirut the first family in College Hall following the 14-year medicine on January 18 US State Department program in the ban on travel to Arab world Lebanon

• AUB closes after • AUB appoints first a series of female academic kidnappings dean, Huda Zurayk, occur within the Dean of FHS AUB community

• College Hall is bombed on November 8, 1991

President Fadlo Khuri lays flowers at the Malcolm Kerr Memorial on January 18, 2016 CAMES brochure

• The AUB Outdoors festival is established as a sanctuary from the rages of war • College Hall is reopened, having • The President’s been reconstructed Club is in the style of the 1982 Outdoors poster established as original building an independent fundraising • AUB student • AUB establishes entity to help newspaper the Center for • AUB starts the improve the • AUBMC treats Outlook Advanced Off-Campus lives of students 23,000 war relaunches, Mathematical Program casualities having Sciences (CAMS) during a 13- suspended month period publication in 1974

79 1980 1981 1984 1986 1988-89 1991 1997 1998 1999 200 • AUB resumes • The newly the awarding renovated AUB of honorary Archaeological doctorates, Museum opens which had been suspended in • AUB establishes 1969 the Center for Civic • The Debs Center Engagement opens as a and Community state-of-the-art Service (CCECS) • The summer office and AUBMC 2020, Halim The Debs Center conference and Aida Daniel Arabic program is New York City • The Charles launched as part facility located Hostler Student Academic and Clinical of AUB’s Center for near the United Center is Center, to house centers Arab and Middle Nations in New inaugurated of excellence, Eastern Studies York City educational centers, (CAMS) • AUB dedicates outpatient clinics and Naef K. Basile same-day surgery • AUB’s business Cancer Institute, program • The Worldwide school becomes a an adult cancer Alumni separate faculty in care and research Association of 2000 and, three facility the American years later, is University of named the • AUB becomes a Beirut Suliman S. Olayan smoke-free (WAAAUB) is • AUB introduces School of Business campus established several new PhD programs • AUB launches • Trustee HE Rafic Campaign for Hariri is • AUBMC establishes Excellence with assassinated the Mamdouha El- a goal to raise Sayed Bobst Breast $140 million by Unit 2007; the total raised was $171 • AUB dedicates Dar million Al-Handasah, the Shair and Partners The Cedar Revolution - • The Children’s Architecture Building Cancer Center of Student Protest 2005 • The School of Nursing, Cover of End of Lebanon opens • AUB establishes the at AUBMC established in Campaign Report , Munib and Angela 1905, is named the 2007 Masri Institute of • Prince Alwaleed • AUB secures Rafic Hariri School accreditation Energy and Natural of Nursing Bin Talal Bin Resources Abdulaziz from the Commission • The Suliman S. Alsaud Center • AUB opens the Abu for American on Higher Olayan School of Education of Haidar Neuroscience Business gets a Studies and Institute Research the Middle new building (CASAR) is States established Association of Colleges and Schools

0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2 • The Board of • AUB inaugurates • Fadlo R. Khuri, Trustees approves the new home of 16th president, AUBMC 2020, led by the Issam Fares becomes the first EVP Mohamed H. Institute, Lebanese- Sayegh (MD ’84) designed by American former student president of AUB Zaha Hadid • Board of Trustees votes to reinstate tenure after a 30-year hiatus

• Commemorative Coins and • The AUB Art • AUBMC Stamp for Gallery is inaugurates the AUB’s 150th inaugurated Wassef and Souad Anniversary with the first Sawwaf Building, major public for University exhibition of Health Services the influential and Family Lebanese artist Medicine Khalil Saleeby (1870-1928) • Students protest tutition hikes • The Khalil Saleeby, estalbishment • AUB announces L'Angelique, 1921, of the Farouk K. the largest gift in Oil on Canvas Jabre Center for its history, a Arabic and donation of $32 Islamic Science million for AUBMC • AUB establishes and Philosophy 2020 from Jamal the Samih is announced Daniel and The Darwazah Center Levant Foundation for Innovation • The Asfari Management and Institute for • Ray R. Irani Oxy Entrepreneurship Civil Society Engineering and Citizenship Complex is • AUBMC opens the is established inaugurated first Multiple • Dar Group Sclerosis Center in • The first Special • AUB Libraries joins donates the region Kids Clinic in US libraries in Lebanon opens creating a digital resources for a library of over new campus 100,000 Arabic master plan, volumes including a design of the new AUBMC and a comprehensive Academic Strategic Plan

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Legacy Families

A Historic Legacy Family Ceremony

A historic 150 th Anniversary Legacy Ceremony was held entitlement in order to do good for those in greater on September 14 in Assembly Hall. Seventeen families need. . . . Your educational experience here will not only with alumni from three or more generations were have made you difference-makers in the realms of recognized. The families represented included: medicine, engineering, business, the media, or myriad Alameddine, Challah, Fahoum-El Hassan, Ghantous, other professions, but will have taught you to become Ghantous-Kawar, Hamiyeh, Hannun, Jebejian, Kayyali, ethical, humane, environmentally responsible, global Kronfol, Kurani, Rubeiz, Shadid, Soussou, Takieddine, citizens.” Nassour-Ghaleb, and Ekmekjian-Arsenian. To open the ceremony, President Khuri spoke about the core AUB value of service: “In my view service is the surrender of 34 35

AUB Couples

From AUB’s third 50 years

Abdul Elkadri (BS’00,MD’04)and Jana Faour (BBA’01) “Wemetwhenwewerepartofclub activitiesatAUB.Abdulwasheadofthe Velma Ekmekji (BA’73)and usheringcommittee,andIwasontheAUB Samir Hermez (BEN’74) folkdancefestivalcommittee.Weworked “FirstpicturewastakenattheannualAUB togetheronthefestivalin2000andhave EngineeringBallin1971,theotherin2014. Mary Maral Mouradian (BS’78,MD’82) beentogethereversince.” Jana WemetinJafetLibrarywhileIhadmy and Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut (BS’76,MD’80) Math201bookopeninfrontofme.Agood “Wemetinmedicalschool,duringclinical reasonforanengineertoapproachafirst- rotationsin1980,andweremarriedtwo yearstatisticsstudent—don'tyouthinkso? yearslater.AUBclearlyshapedourlives :)” Velma andcareers,forwhichwearegrateful.We bothworkatRutgersUniversityatthe RobertWoodJohnsonMedicalSchool. MaryisWilliamDowLovettprofessorof neurologyanddirector,Centerfor NeurodegenerativeandNeuroimmunologic Diseases.Iamprofessorandchairman, DepartmentofNeurology,andpresident, AmericasCommitteeforTreatmentand ResearchinMultipleSclerosis(ACTRIMS).” Suhayl

Ameen Jaber (BEN’12,MEN’14)and Al-Zahra’a Majed (BS’15) “Despiteourdifferencesandopposite personalities,wechosetoloveeachother Professor(andBeirutMayor) andbetogether.WhenAmeenwasinhis Bilal Hamad ,PhD(BEN’76)and senioryearinEngineering,Iwasinmy Ruba Awad (BA’88) Rania Mehwi (BEN’99)and sophomoreyearinMedicalLaboratory “Oncampuswemetin1987,andon Karim Alayli (BEN’99) Sciences(2010).Wemetthroughsome campusweplannedourfuture.Alove “Wemetinacomputerand commonfriends.Ourfriendshipwas story,andahappyandproudfamilywith communicationsengineeringclass.Icame fluctuatinguntilwegottogetherinMay fourAUBboys:Omar,Ahmad,Karim,and fromTripoliandwaslivingintheNew 2012.Oneyearlater,wegotengaged.AUB Nadim.” Ruba and Bilal Women’sResidence,andKarimisfrom willalwaysstayourspecialplaceandhome Beirut.Wegotengagedrightafter wherewesharedlotsofloveandmemories. graduationin1999andgotmarriedin Forthat,wearegrateful.” 2001.WeliveinDubai.” Rania Al-Zahra’a Anniversary

150 Years of AUB Values

Resilience and Transformation

Inanerathatmightreasonablyhavebeendefinedbycivilwarhardships,atrocities,andregionalinstability,theAUB communitymovedforwardwithunflinchingoptimism,determinedtostaystrongandgrow.Inthefaceofkidnappingsand killings;theassassinationsofdeansRaymondGhosnandRobertNajemyin1976andAUBPresidentMalcolmKerrin1984;and thebombingoftheschool’siconicCollegeHallin1991,AUBperseveredinitsdutyofserviceuntilitcouldthriveonceagain. TheresponsetotheseterribleeventsrevealedjusthowdeeptheUniversity’srootsgoandtestifiedtotheessentialintegrityof itsmissionasasanctuaryoflearningandhealing.

The Assassination of Malcolm H. Kerr: January 18, 1984

“TheUniversitywasMalcolm’slife.Andhegavethis particularuniversityinBeirutanewlife.Notwilling tobeacaretaker,hewouldrebuild,andrenew,and refresh...Fromprofessortopresident,hewould havethecampusapeaceful,openplace,nota garrison.Hewouldhavenewteachers,not bodyguards.Hewouldhaveitaplaceoflearning andnotofburning.”

Board of Trustees Chairman Najeeb E. Halaby Memorial Service, January 29, 1984 Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton, New Jersey

“ItwouldbedifficulttonameanyotherAmerican whowasbetterlikedintheMiddleEastorwho betterunderstoodtheforcesthataretearingit apart.MalcolmKerrwasascholaronthe intellectualhistoryoftheIslamicworld,an informedobserverofitspoliticalstruggles,anda popularteacherandadministrator.Atthesame time,hewasapotent,vulnerablesymbolofthe AmericanpresenceinLebanonandoftheprospect forapeacefulendtothetumultuousviolencethere.”

Malcolm Kerr AUB Newsletter Winter 1984 The Hartford Courant January 20, 1984 36 37

The Bombing of College Hall, November 8, 1991

“Theviolationofourcampuson November8 th succeededinslowing down,toadegree,ourencouraging processofrecovery,butitsimpactwas counteredbyaremarkableoutpouring ofsupportfortheUniversityfromall overtheworld.Tragedywasturned intoaresurgentresolvetopreserve AUBandthefreedomsitsymbolizes... CollegeHallwillberebuilt!AUBwill goon!”

Statementby President Frederic Herter

College Hall destruction, 1991 College Hall Reconstruction, 1997 Campus Yearbook1991-92

The Inauguration of the New College Hall June 22, 1999

“Wesalutethiseveningallthose greatandsmall,whocontributedto thereconstruction...[CollegeHall] isabeacontoallBeirut.”

President John Waterbury 38 Anniversary

Timeline of Student Protests

1969 Speakers’ Corner established, re- establishment of Student Council (suspended in 1954), campus rally to The Coming of Age of protest Lebanese army attempts to curb fedayeen movement in Student Activism at AUB southern Lebanon

by Talal Nizameddin, PhD Dean of Student Affairs

1971 Strike against 10% tuition, occupation Tuitionincreasesandpoliticalcauses andnearcollapseoftheLebanese continuedtoofferthebesteducation of buildings, and createtherichtapestryofAUB’s state.Militiasruledthestreets; thatitcouldunderthecircumstances, dissolution of studentprotests.Inthe1950sand’60s, ideologicalconflictwasreplacedwith anditprovidedthehighestquality Student Council thestrugglebetweenNasseritepan- mindlessthugviolence;andtheIsraeli medicalcareintheregionforthe ArabismandLebanesenationalists invasionofLebanonledtoBeirut casualtiesofwar. 1972 Student Council servedasakindofproxyconflictfor becomingthefirstoccupiedArab reestablished in theideologicaldifferencesbetween capitalbeyondPalestine.Inevitably, AUBstudentsliveinaverydifferent March SovietsocialismandUScapitalism. AUBstudentsbecameembroiledin worldtoday.Atfirstglancestudentlife Inthe1970s,demonstrationscentered thesecataclysmicevents,evenassome mayappearasmoreofanabstract 1973 Outbreak of the October War, the onPalestiniancausesandthe fledtothesafetyofmorestablelives post-modernmosaicwithoutanyreal fourth Arab-Israeli encroachinginfluenceofthePLO. abroad. shapeorformthanasatapestrywith war Themantraof“Novoicelouderthan discernablethreads.However,adeeper the[Palestinian]struggle[willbe Whileit’struethatthesewerepainful lookrevealssomethingelse:young 1974 41-day strike. tolerated]”( La sawt fawk al ma’raka ) times,it’salsotruethattheyweredays mindsthatarestreet-wiseandglobally Students occupy posedagenuinethreattoAUB’svalues ofthunderandglorywithmanyheroic awarewithamaturitygainedfromthe buildings, accuse Administration of ofintellectualdiversity,tolerance,and deeds.Thereweredefiantburstsof bitterexperienceofbreakdown.AUB imperialist views, freedomofexpression. creativity,intellectualdiscourseand, studentshaveauniqueoutlookonlife, and rebel against equallyimportant,adeterminationto anacuteawarenessofindividual 10% tuition hike. 61 Inthe1980s,thingsheatedupasthe enjoylife—toliveittothefullest.And agencyandgroupdynamics. students arrested. Lebanesecivilwarledtothedivision somehow,throughallthis,AUB Student Council, InamovingaccountbyMohammad Outlook , and Campus Mattar,aprominentstudentactivist yearbook suspended duringtheheightoftheturmoilin theMiddleEastinthe1970s,helists lessonslearnedfrompastexperience. 1981 New system of Student Oneofthoselessonsis“thatweneed Representative notheroes…Whatweneedisdecent Committees and leadership:responsible,accountable University Student andanswerable…[Weneedpeople Faculty Committee who]toilsilentlyforalifetimeto introduced improvetheirlivesandthatoftheir familiesandimmediatecommunities. 1997 Outlook resumes publication Thosearetherealheroes.”Thereisno betterwaytodescribeAUBstudents, 2005 Students peacefully whosecomingofageismarkedby demonstrate for the forcefulandresponsibleactionfor Cedar Revolution on thegreatergood.“Participate,engage, March 14 makebetter”hasalwaysbeenthe unspokencredoofAUBstudents.For 2010 Students protest overacenturytheyhaveorganized tuition increases. committees,clubs,petitions,and Financial aid programs demonstrations.AUBstudentsmove strengthened and theworldforward,havingbeen low interest student endowedwithtworemarkablyprecious loan programs commodities—avoiceandthecourage initiated Campus Yearbook, 1972, Vol. 10, pg. 53 oftheirconvictions.

2014 Students protest tuition increases Impact

Regional impact, advocacy, and policy initiatives

AUBMC rolls out Epic, an advanced electronic health records system Better records 40 used at the world’s top hospitals

Supporting Education AUB’s Office of Regional and External Programs develops the region’s in the Region 41 universities and institutions

AUB Forward 42 A legacy of lasting impact

Promoting a culture of gender equality, inclusiveness, and personal safety Title IX 44 at AUB and beyond

Trustee Emeritus, Amb. Frank Wisner leads AUB’s reconstituted Global Advisers 46 International Advisory Council Impact

In keeping pace with top-tier academic than 200 AUBMC physicians, nurses, medical centers, AUBMC will deploy, and staff. Better over the next two years, an electronic health records system designed by “It’s like banking,” he says. “Ten years Epic, the leading American provider. ago everyone had to see a teller. Now Electronic health records (EHR), as everyone uses online banking. EHR has Records the name indicates, are a digitized, become the standard.” centralized version of the patient notes that doctors and nurses have The benefits of this new standard are historically taken by hand. many. Data streams, including information on patient medications, “It’s like banking... Ten The move to EHR is part of a larger will flow through a central hub and be overhaul of the Medical Center’s IT accessible to staff across laboratories years ago everyone had infrastructure. Epic is also working with and departments. to see a teller. Now AUBMC to build an integrated health everyone uses online information system (HIS) that includes The biggest convenience for patients is financial and scheduling features. Epic's MyChart: a free app accessible banking. EHR has via smartphone or computer. It allows become the standard. ” This shift has been years in the making. patients to schedule appointments, Dr. Ghazi Zaatari, professor and chair at refill prescriptions, check lab results, the Department of Pathology and and send messages and photos directly Laboratory Medicine and associate to their care providers. dean for Faculty Affairs, and Dr. Nadim Cortas, former vice president for As Zaatari points out, EHR will also Medical Affairs and dean of the Faculty solve patient privacy concerns and of Medicine and the Medical Center, ensure compliance with US law HIPAA began exploring EHR solutions in 2000, (Health Insurance Portability and when digital health records were still a Accountability Act). “I think this is a new concept in the United States. The welcome and long overdue change,” procurement team initially chose a Zaatari says. “It’s important to have a promising and affordable American- unified system, and it’s cumbersome to Egyptian EHR vendor, but it went keep moving charts and medical bankrupt, so AUBMC’s IT team went on records between a growing number of to develop a custom platform in-house. buildings.”

Now, in light of the AUBMC 2020 vision and the need to keep pace with mushrooming accreditation requirements, AUBMC has joined academic medical centers that include UCLA Medical Center, Mayo Clinic, and Johns Hopkins Medical Center in seeking to upgrade services via Epic. “We thought we needed to catch up,” says Dr. Ghassan Hamadeh, professor and chair at AUBMC’s Department of Family Medicine. “There’ve been many changes to HIS. Health data is now pushed through wireless systems and is available on cell phones.” Hamadeh helped lead the search for an HIS solutions provider, an effort that included gathering input from more 40 41

Architectural renderings of the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University where REP consultants helped design curricula for the teaching diploma program. Supporting Education in the Region

Higher education in the Middle East is profit higher education institution in Affairs functions at Princess Nourah booming. Dozens of universities have Sudan, host to 7,000 female students. bint Abdulrahman University, the opened across the region in recent “We’ve had major impact in improving largest women’s university in the years aimed at addressing a youth quality at Ahfad,” Diab says. “We’ve world. “We have been behind the bulge and a correspondingly huge evaluated academic programs and establishment of a national Saudi demand for higher education. That introduced new ones. We also initiative requiring public school story has been told. Less well known restructured administrative and teachers to hold a teaching diploma,” is the role played by AUB’s Office of academic support units such as says Director of Institutional Consulting Regional External Programs (REP) Physical Plant, Admissions and Sami Gheriafi. “So we helped PNU in offsetting a rush for growth and Registrar’s offices; trained staff in develop the concept and put together maintaining high administrative and many areas; and developed business the necessary regulatory forms for the academic standards. AUB’s consulting processes namely in human Ministry of Education’s approval of and entrepreneurial arm, REP tackles resources and finance. We have these programs.” a variety of health, education, and helped them market themselves economic-related projects. in Africa and beyond. We’re now Yet REP faces challenges in pursuing helping them introduce all sorts of its work, some of them security-related, activities and student competitions as in the case of Libya and Iraq. at the university.” Universities in both countries have “We’ve evaluated requested aid, but REP officials have programs and introduced At Qatar University in Doha, REP been unable to address those requests consultants contributed to a curricular due to travel restrictions. Nevertheless, new ones. We also overhaul at the College of Art and REP has implemented around 1,000 restructured Sciences and the College of Education: projects in 30 countries in the region administrative and they designed curricula; helped and beyond over the past four decades. integrate arts and science courses; academic support units created short, modular courses to be Competition is intense with a concerted such as Physical Plant, co-taught with AUB faculty; rearranged push by big-name American and Admissions and and wrote policies for the Student European universities to expand in Activities Office; and assisted in the region and capture swathes of an Registrar’s offices... ” developing human resources and education market valued at around recruiting functions across the $128 billion and expected to nearly university. double in size by 2020. NYU, Carnegie- Mellon, and others have opened Hassan Diab, Vice President for “They wanted to create a professional campuses in the Gulf. Whereas, Regional External Programs, says the development program for secondary Gheriafi says of AUB, “We are from office has supported the operations of school teachers,” says Professor of the region and for the region.” universities in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Science Education Saouma Boujaoude. the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman, as “We instructed them in student- Ultimately, Diab feels the region is well well as institutions in Lebanon. It helps centered teaching methodology for served by institutions like REP, which that REP can muster a total personnel science; the inquiry method where are familiar with the languages and force of 21 staff and management, 25 the student inquires and the teacher cultures and are sensitive to the instructors, roughly 200 consultants, facilitates.” Boujaoude also helped region’s needs in ways newcomers 2,200 student volunteers, and 1,300 establish the College of Education at perhaps aren’t. And then there’s the professional development trainees. Dhofar University in the far south-west cost. American and European of Oman. universities charge large fees for In Omdurman, Sudan, REP personnel consultations that only certain wealthy are working with Ahfad University for REP has supported women’s education states can afford. “AUB has a much Women, now celebrating its 50th in Saudi Arabia, training faculty more financially sustainable model,” anniversary as the only private, not-for- members, and establishing Student Diab says. Impact

AUB Forward— A Legacy of Lasting Impact

Maan Z. Madina (1926-2013)

In 2015, AUB received an extraordinary earning a doctorate in political science upon his retirement in 1998. Although commitment that will benefit countless from the University of Chicago in 1957, he lived most of his life abroad, Madina students for years to come. Marilyn he was appointed assistant professor cherished memories of his time at AUB. Jenkins-Madina, PhD, the widow of in the Department of Middle East and When he passed away on January 28, distinguished alumnus Maan Z. Asian Languages and Cultures at 2013, Dr. Jenkins-Madina sought to Madina, promised to bequeath funds Columbia University. Subsequently memorialize him in perpetuity by to AUB to endow a full-year scholarship creating endowments in his name. for undergraduate study and a full-year fellowship for graduate study. The Maan Madina’s memorial service was endowments will be named for “Maan was well held on September 30, 2013, at St. Professor Madina as a perpetual, known for his Paul’s Chapel of Columbia University. life-affirming tribute to a truly Luminaries from the worlds of remarkable man. graciousness, his gift academia and the arts spoke of his for enjoying life, his remarkable intellect, charm, and wide- A native of Damascus, Maan Madina ranging interests. All agreed that his was a student at International College superb taste. And greatest gift might well have been an from 1939-44, and at AUB from 1944-47. then, of course, there exceptional ability to discern works of His experience as a young student art from a number of different cultures, introduced him to a rich academic was his formidable including his own. The Madina community and a world of intellectual intellect and Collection of Islamic Art has formed freedom that transformed his life. In extraordinary eye, part of The Los Angeles County 1949, Madina earned a master’s degree Museum of Art since 2002, and in political science at the University of all reflected in his additional important objects from Chicago and immediately began his daily life... ” Islamic and other cultures were work on a doctorate in that field. While donated over many years, beginning pursuing the latter degree, he served in 1982, to other major American at AUB as an instructor and research museums including The Metropolitan assistant in public administration from serving in that department both as Museum of Art. Madina shared his love 1954-55 and as co-chairman of the associate professor and professor, of beautiful objects with his beloved College Orientation Program, a his distinguished academic career at and devoted wife, Dr. Marilyn Jenkins- freshman adviser, and an instructor in Columbia lasted for four decades, from Madina, curator emerita of Islamic Art general education from 1955-56. Upon 1958-97. He became professor emeritus at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 42 43

–Following are excerpts from some of the spending time with them. It enriched every You can help further AUB’s eulogies from the 2013 memorial service: experience we shared, whether in exotic mission through a number of locales like Ouarzazate on the edge of the charitable gift and estate “… I am speaking on behalf of many colleagues Sahara, a village on the banks of the planning strategies that can at the Metropolitan Museum [of Art] on whom Euphrates, the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, a benefit you and at the same time build AUB’s endowment. Maan made a profound and unforgettable forgotten castle in the Czech Republic, or on Planned gifts, such as bequests, impression… I wanted to include the voices of the banks of the Delaware in Lambertville…” charitable gift trusts and some of those who knew Maan best. I was estates, and charitable life struck by how effusive these friends were i n John G. Fritzinger, Jr. income plans are a good way their descriptions of him. One said, ‘He was one Family Friend to help ensure AUB’s future. of the most elegant and charming human beings I ever met in my life.’ Another: ‘Maan The purpose of an endowment was a gentleman—emphasis on gentle.’ They “I asked Hussein to describe his brother, and I fund is to financially sustain the used words like courtly, charismatic, wonderful will end with his words: ‘Maan was our Agha. mission and work of an institution such as AUB. The conversationalist, kindly, interested in each God gave him everything. He gave him beauty, principal of the endowment is person. . . . Maan was well known for his a special personality, knowledge, and kept intact and only the annual graciousness, his gift for enjoying life, his independence. He lived his life his way, amidst earnings, typically income and superb taste. And then, of course, there was the things he loved—his antiquities and a portion of the capital growth, his formidable intellect and extraordinary eye, beauty. He was and always will be our Agha.’” are used to fund current needs. all reflected in his daily life… Beginning in AUB maintains endowment 1982, departments throughout the Nadine G. Shubailat funds for scholarships and Metropolitan benefited from Maan’s Grandniece prizes, fellowships, chairs and eclecticism and discernment.” academic programming so that it can carry on its important mission of research, healthcare, Emily K. Rafferty *Positions held at the time of the memorial and educating the students of President, The Metropolitan service. Lebanon, the Middle East and Museum of Art* beyond, for years to come. Bequests, charitable trusts, and life income plans from generous “Authentic old oak furniture has great alumni and friends are a character. No wonder Maan was drawn to it. I significant source of financial remember shortly after Maan died calling Lyn support for the University. You to tell her how deeply sorry I was for her loss can make a Planned Gift to the and how much I liked and admired Maan. She University of cash, securities, real estate, or other property spoke to me as Maan would have, quietly and through your will, codicil, trust calmly, focused on my sadness, not hers. instrument, or other estate During that conversation she told me what one vehicle. You can also designate of Maan’s friends had said to her of his AUB as the beneficiary of: all or passing: “a giant oak has fallen.” Not much part of the remainder of your more needs to be said about a man of such estate or trust after the character, wisdom, and sensitivity for the art payment of estate-related and the people who filled his life…” expenses or other bequests or following the death of a spouse or other primary beneficiaries; Peter M. Kenny or, your retirement plan or life Ruth Bigelow Wriston Curator of American insurance policy. There are Decorative Arts many benefits in making a gift The Metropolitan Museum of Art* to our endowment through a beneficiary designation.

“Maan’s qualities—the patience and kindness, For more information on the quiet understanding, his interest in a great Planned Giving, please range of subjects, and his willingness to be contact: interested in still more—always made it a Ms. Sujatha Vempaty Associate Director pleasure to be with him. He was a wonderful of Development friend. His supportive and devoted relationship The Debs Center, AUB with Lyn added to the immense pleasure I had New York Office Telephone: 212.583.7672 Email: [email protected] Impact

Making Title IX Count

Gender equality is integral to AUB’s According to AUB’s first Title IX the Equity & Title IX Policy Working history. The University admitted women Coordinator Trudi Hodges, appointed in Group will share recommendations, to study liberal arts, medicine, 2014, the University has been working with the president by the end of 2016 dentistry, and pharmacy in the 1920s, on these issues since around 2000 when that aim to further improve AUB’s before Princeton, Yale, and Columbia. policies were first developed. A 2003 engagement efforts A third-party online In 1938, Angela Jurdak Khoury became court ruling extended the jurisdiction of reporting platform, provided by the first female instructor, and since Title IX to programs and activities of EthicsPoint and utilized by major then, women have advanced to ever- federally funded schools and universities in the US, will be launched higher levels in the faculties and universities that take place outside the in the coming weeks as an additional administration. territorial United States. Over the past 15 reporting channel for discrimination years, successive task forces have and harassment incidents. Campaigns At AUB, the initial push toward gender reviewed and updated AUB’s policies equity was from the outside, with cues and procedures to promote gender taken from prominent families who equality on campus and address wanted their sons and daughters to discrimination in all its forms, Most importantly, receive an AUB education. including sexual harassment and sexual assault. AUB is committed to Today, equity and diversity are living compliance with Title IX values reinforced by a progressive President Fadlo R. Khuri has taken internal policy and external legal decisive steps to provide resources and of the Education framework. Most importantly, AUB is new programming related to Title IX. In Amendments of 1972, a committed to compliance with Title IX the fall of 2015, the University US law that prohibits of the Education Amendments of 1972, a mandated that all managers and US law that prohibits sex-based supervisors receive discrimination and sex-based discrimination in schools and harassment awareness training. More discrimination in universities that receive federal than 300 AUB employees have received funding. The law covers all forms of sex- this training in person, and efforts are schools and universities based discrimination, including now being extended to provide similar that receive federal employment decisions and sexual training in Arabic for non-managerial harassment, and protects all genders, staff. Complementary online education funding. including transgender individuals and initiated and supported by the Office of others. the President will be introduced for students, faculty, and staff in the to raise awareness are underway in Beyond Title IX, AUB’s non- coming months. Orientation sessions close collaboration with the student- discrimination policy provides on harassment and discrimination for supported Knowledge is Power (KIP) protections for students, faculty, and new students, faculty, and staff have Program on gender and sexuality, staff against discrimination and been ongoing since 2007. directed by OSB Associate Dean harassment based on race, color, Charlotte Karam. President Khuri is also religion, national origin, political Chaired by Dr. Brigitte Khoury, promoting the implementation of a affiliation, disabilities, and other associate professor and clinical network of trained deputy Title IX characteristics. psychologist at the department of officers in faculties and key units to Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, encourage greater reporting and 44 45

campus-wide participation. would try to discredit it and reduce its In collaboration with Dr. Brigitte importance by saying, ‘Who is this little Khoury, the Title IX office is planning a “...as we expand outreach 19-year-old that’s coming to complain climate survey to assess students’ activities, in particular to about me?’ The fact that we can give a experiences of sexual misconduct on voice to these women is a breakthrough campus and their perceptions of the students; as we extend our in our society.” University’s response. Campus climate training to online surveys are increasingly the norm at courses; and as we embed According to a recent World Bank report universities in the US; the Department on the status of women, 14 of 19 of Education’s Office for Civil Rights awareness campaigns countries in the MENA region now have includes a climate survey as a standard within the broader some form of legislation to address requirement for universities resolving communications strategy, sexual harassment; Lebanon is not one Title IX complaints. of them. 1 “You have one article in the we anticipate that more labor code (applicable to non-academic “This will be the first such survey in the students and employees staff) that forbids discrimination Middle East,” Hodges said. “My sense is will feel comfortable to between men and women in that when we finally do get a employment, but there is no comprehensive set of results for report,” Hodges said. enforceable legal framework for civil students, as well as for faculty and staff rights; religion-based personal status in a subsequent survey, it may be laws are discriminatory against women; sobering.” Findings will be used to and there is no specific law that that a framework for addressing advance campus conversations addresses sexual harassment,” Hodges harassment exists. Many said they were surrounding sexual and gender-based said. reluctant to come forward for various misconduct; to inform training, reasons, including fear of retaliation, prevention, and outreach activities; and Inspired by AUB’s experience and confidentiality concerns, and to enhance AUB’s overall institutional policies, Lebanese MP Ghassan uncertainty regarding the process for response to sex-based discrimination. Moukheiber worked with members of responding to complaints. AUB faculty to draft legislation to Both Hodges and Dr. Khoury have address sexual harassment in the “Gradually, as we expand outreach considerable insight into incidents of Lebanese labor law, an initiative stalled activities, in particular to students; as harassment on campus as both have by the extended parliamentary we extend our training to online served extensively on presidential impasse. Legislation would reinforce courses; and as we embed awareness panels formed to evaluate complaints. the legitimacy of AUB’s position, affirm campaigns within the broader Hodges noted that AUB’s panel process the seriousness of discriminatory communications strategy, we anticipate is heavily dependent on faculty and conduct, and offer recourse to external that more students and employees will staff service as volunteers, work that is mechanisms in Lebanon for resolving feel comfortable to report,” Hodges essential yet relatively “hidden.” complaints. For AUB, the absence of said. legislation poses a practical constraint At AUB, sexual harassment reports as sanctions must be consistent with a Dr. Brigitte Khoury points to Lebanon’s appear to be low relative to the size and fairly employee-centric labor code. culture of patriarchy as an obstacle. context of the University, possibly due “We are introducing something to student and employee lack of “We are really just beginning to build completely new,” she said. “The fact awareness of rights and resources. the Title IX program,” Hodges says, that women are given the opportunity Underreporting is known to be a major “which is an opportunity to be to step forward and complain against challenge for all universities, and AUB responsive and sensitive to our very powerful men about their is no exception. In focus groups with community in its design.” harassing behaviors is very Hodges, students expressed surprise empowering to the women. The men

1. “Women, Business and the Law (2016)” http://wbl.worldbank.org/~/media/WBG/WBL/Documents/Reports/2016/Women-Business-and-the-Law-2016.pdf 46 Impact

AUB’s International Advisory Committee Gets Set to Convene

Launched by former board chair Dr. group includes leaders in education, opinion.” When it meets annually in Richard Debs in 1992, AUB’s finance, business, diplomacy, public the fall, the council aims to offer expert International Advisory Council (IAC) service, media, and philanthropy. “The guidance to the University and help brings together “a prominent group of philosophy of the appointments,” says AUB excel in its commitment to the people who can advise the University Wisner, “was to make sure we were traditions of tolerance, academic on the conduct of its affairs,” in the diverse in terms of regional creativity, and intellectual freedom. words of IAC Chair Amb. Frank Wisner, representation and gender diversity, to who helped recruit IAC’s members. The give the president a good mix of outside

Here is a list of current members:

• Philip S. Khoury, PhD, Chairman of • Ryan Crocker • Yo-Yo Ma the Board of Trustees • Jacques de Saussure • Thomas Q. Morris, MD • Fadlo R. Khuri, MD, President, AUB • Richard A. Debs, PhD • Ronaldo Mouchawar • Frank Wisner, Chair, IAC • Farouk El-Baz, PhD • Vali Nasr, PhD • Reem Acra • Charles Elachi, PhD • Emily Rafferty • Scott Anderson • Vartan Gregorian, PhD • George R. Salem • Mohammad AlGergawi • Badr Jafar • Raymond Sawaya, MD • Abdlatif Al-Hamad • M. Farooq Kathwari • Peter Sellars • William J. Burns, PhD • Zalmay Khalilzad, PhD • Donna E. Shalala, PhD AUB Everywhere

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

Bahia Shehab (BFA ‘99) A street artist draws from Arabic calligraphy’s past to challenge 48 modern forms of oppression

Rouba Mhaissen, PhD (BA ’09) takes a stand on the Syrian StandingOUTstanding 50 Refugee crisis

WAAAUB Events & 51 The North American Regional Summit, a reunion for all classes Announcements

WAAAUB Around 52 150th Anniversary Galas and Gatherings the Globe

Class Notes 54 FEA Class of 1966, the Shihabuddin Family

Published & Produced 60 Written Word: Scholars and Poets AUB Everywhere

Alumni Profile An Unlikely Street Artist

Bahia Shehab (BFA ’99) is an artist, The resulting historical repository kissing, dancing, singing. It was designer, and art historian with a revealed a connection between depth amazing. Like nothing I’ve ever seen Janus-like bent, looking to the Arabic of artistry and economic development: before.” language’s rich past for the means to more developed civilizations produced protest modern day social conditions. more elaborate artwork. “The aesthetic But nine months into the revolution, For breathing new life into Arabic high point was between the 11th and after the mood had darkened, she saw calligraphy so it can evolve to meet 14th centuries and a bit in the 15th, a body being dragged through the new demands and for being a then it declined,” Shehab says. “The streets and stacked on top of another “transnational female role model for shapes of the letters became more corpse. She decided to take a stand. younger generations,” Shehab will be basic.” The many examples of “ ’” she’d awarded a Prince Claus prize at a collected took on new meaning when ceremony in December. In 2011, the Arab Spring swept through she sprayed renditions of them onto Cairo. Like most Egyptians, Shehab felt Cairo’s walls: “No to military rule, no to The origins of her current artistic both appalled and elated: “I was at emergency law, no to stripping the persona—“street artist”—can be traced home watching TV and crying, feeling people, no to blinding heroes, no to to 2010, when she created the terrible for people being shot. On the burning books, no to violence, no to installation “A Thousand Times NO” for night Mubarak stepped down, I took stealing the revolution, no to a new an exhibit at Munich’s Haus der Kunst my daughters to Tahrir Square with pharaoh.” museum that commemorated 100 years their grandmother. People were of Islamic art in Europe. She seized the When doing graffiti in Cairo became too occasion to rebuke what she saw as a dangerous—authorities began host of global afflictions, including “the whitewashing walls and arresting Iraq war, Palestine, global warming.” artists—she took her message She culled a thousand varieties of the “I was at home elsewhere, to Istanbul, Vancouver, New coiled Arabic script for “no” (“ ’”) from watching TV and York, New Orleans, and other cities, mosques, monuments, tombs, and crying, feeling where local artists welcomed her with manuscripts from Spain to ready-made walls and structures she Kefalonia, Greece: terrible for the “Those who have no Afghanistan, Iran, China and the could tag with “nos” and, more land have no sea” - Chinese border, then ordered them people. ” recently, with the poetry of Mahmoud Mahmoud Darwish (Design date: August, chronologically. Darwish. “It was really interesting to 2016) see the work of 1970s New York street artists next to mine,” she says. 48 49

over 10,000 digital fonts, have more tools than Arab ones; there are around “Fonts, she says, carry 500 Arabic digital fonts. an emotional She faults Arab governments to some message. Latin script degree, insofar as they fail to educate designers, with over young people in calligraphy and to 10,000 digital fonts, encourage innovation. Until the 1960s, have more tools than calligraphy was mandatory in many Arab high schools. Other countries, like Arab ones. ” China and Japan, have carried forward Tokyo, Japan: "On this earth there are things worth a deliberate effort to promote living for" (Design date: June, 2016) calligraphy among youth. end, several of her students’ projects Before she adopted street art, Shehab Shehab believes that the antiquated involve redesigning Arabic educational says, she worked as a designer in fonts used in textbooks retard the textbook fonts for legibility and Dubai. She was one of AUB’s first learning process to a degree. To that corporate identities for governmental graphic design students in the 1990s, institutions. when the program was in its infancy, and she studied under Architecture As for her current long-term project, and Design Chair Leila Musfy and Shehab is creating a historical renowned calligrapher Samir Sayegh, encyclopedia of Arabic calligraphy. The both of whom recall an unusual talent push to reconnect with and reappraise and passion in their pupil. Arabic’s visual heritage must be seen, she says, in light of globalization. “We She first came to Cairo in 2003, must ask ourselves . . . what is our completing her master’s at the culture? What are we bringing to the American University of Cairo (AUC) and global table?” focusing on Fatimid epigraphy on Cairene monuments, which eventually Cairo, Egypt: “You can crush the led her to “A Thousand Times NO.” She flowers but you can't delay was also invited to create a graphic spring.” - Pablo Neruda (Design “She believes the date: 2012) design major at AUC, for which she antiquated fonts used developed 25 courses, including many previously unseen in the region, such in textbooks retard as “A History of Advertising in the Arab the learning process World.” to a degree. ”

Through her immersion in design and typography, Shehab has come to notice certain conditions endemic to the Arab world that challenge the emergence of varied typographical innovations occurring more readily elsewhere. Fonts, she says, carry an emotional message. Latin script designers, with AUB Everywhere

StandingOUTstanding Global Thinker

Rouba Mhaissen, PhD (BA ’09) is an remember the ocean is formed of economist, activist, and development many tiny drops of water. Every small practitioner, focused on the MENA effort counts. region, forced migration, and the Syrian • AUB (BA ’09), London refugee crisis. She is the founder and Q. What are some of the lessons School of Economics director of Sawa for Development and you’ve learned about integration, (MS ’11), School of Aid (Lebanon), which seeks to partner as you’ve worked with refugee Oriental and African with Syrian refugees to raise their living Studies (PhD ’15) in populations? Gender and Economic standards, and of the Sawa Foundation A. The most important lesson I learned Development, (UK), supporting and integrating through my work is that we are all Singularity University refugees in Europe. much more similar than we think. (Executive Program ’16; Whether you are a professor, Global Solutions billionaire, migrant worker, or war Program ’16) Q. What in your AUB education • WAAAUB Distinguished inspired or helped prepare you for refugee—at the core, we all want the Alumni Award, 2016 your current work? same things. We all want to lead a • Marsh Award for A. From an academic perspective, AUB dignified life with those we love. We Innovation in played a formative role in laying out all care about family. Motherhood is Peacemaking and the infrastructure to my future the same. Friendship bonds are the Peacekeeping awarded by the UK’s Foreign and studies and research. However, as an same. Fears are the same. We must Commonwealth Office, ecosystem, it also inspired my path remember this every time we tend 2016 and introduced me to those who towards “othering” and every time • Teaching, Guest share similar aspirations and we hear a hate-inciting speech. Teaching, Lecturing and dreams. The networks and Research at: SOAS, London School of relationships I developed were Q. Your NGo Sawa has over 30 Economics, Princeton, instrumental as a support system partners. Do you ever feel that UNDP, Lund University, and a community that I carry with administrative and fundraising International Center for me wherever I go. responsibilities are keeping you Transitional Justice, among others from what you love most—helping • Founder and CEO: Sawa Q. If you could point to one thing that people on the ground? for Development and galvanized your activism, what A. The Sawa family has grown beyond Aid (Lebanon), a non- would that be? my imagination! I am blessed with an profit organization that A. It is a combination of my love for outstanding team, and a big network supports Syrian people and my renunciation of of supporters and friends who are all refugees • Founder and CEO: Sawa injustice. Ever since I was young, I ambassadors of Sawa and share Foundation (UK), always prayed that God would use these daunting responsibilities. And supporting and me as a tool for good in this life, a when the work gets overwhelming, integrating forced prism through which light enters and all it takes is a visit to the field, a migrants in Middle East propagates. But it is only when the conversation with the families we are and Europe • Founder of Cero Uno first 40 Syrian families moved into humbled to serve, to regain hope and (USA), creating a Lebanon in 2011 that I knew it was passion and to remember that our community of givers my calling to do something, and so I work is all about the people. And founded Sawa (which translates as that we are ready to do anything to “together” in English). Sometimes, I support them. feel like my contribution is too small. And I am sure it is. But then I 50 51 WAAAUB Events and Announcements

2016 North American Regional Summit

The 2016 North American Regional Summit (NARS) took 1. Kudos to the NARS16 place October 7 - 9 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Planning team Summit was a great success, with alumni attending from which consisted of across North America. Events included forums on officers of the entrepreneurship and healthcare, recognition of alumni WAAAUB celebrating their 25th, 50th, and 50+ anniversary, a gala Philadelphia/ reception, dinner and dancing, stellar entertainment, and Delaware Valley bus and boat tours. Alumni Chapter: Samir Akruk, MD, PhD (BS ’65, MS ’67), 1 president; Asma Ghannam (BS Nursing ’82), vice- president; Ghada Bistanji (BS ’91, MS ’99), secretary; Hanan Shoujaa- Saab (BS ’82, MPH ’84), treasurer; Nasri S. Kawar, PhD (BS ’56, MS ’59), former president; Mona Al-Mukaddam (BS ’01, MD ’05), member-at-large; Historic All-Class Reunion Aref Aref, PhD (BS ’61, MS ’63), 2 Held on Campus member-at-large; Maarouf Hoteit (BS ’96, MD ’00), In recognition of AUB’s 150th anniversary, Reunion 2016 (July member-at-large; 8 - 10) welcomed alumni from across all graduation years to Suzan Juraydini (BS ’84), member- a weekend filled with celebrations, including an honoring at-large; Joseph ceremony, an alumni party on the Oval, an arts fair, and a Saba (BS ’11), memorable evening at the Music Hall. member-at-large; For details and photos, visit: and Jacques Abboud, www.aub.edu.lb/news/2016/Pages/alumni-reunion.aspx PhD (ME ’09), member-at-large. This year, in addition to the 25th- and 50th-reunion-year The team and an army of volunteers honorees, a special new category recognized 50+ senior worked tirelessly to alumni with commemorative medals. Remarks and make this alumni reminiscences delivered by Yasser Shaib (BS ’91, MD ’95), summit and 150th Ghassan Saab (BEN ’66), and Talal Abou Ghazaleh , PhD celebration truly (BBA ’60) set the mood for this historic occasion. 2016 memorable. WAAAUB Distinguished Alumni awards went to Ghassan 2. L to R: Samir Abou (BS ’88, MD ’92), Abou Alfa Talal Abou Ghazaleh, PhD Samra, Abdel Hadi (BBA ’60), and Rouba Mhaissen, PhD (BA ’09). Chapter Mhaissen accepting President Samir Abou Samra (BEN ’68) accepted this year’s for his daughter Outstanding Chapter award for The Mount Lebanon Rouba Mhaissen, HE Chapter. Talal Abou Ghazaleh, and Ghassan Abou- Alfa AUB Everywhere WAAAUB Around the Globe For event details and photos, visit the alumni website: alumni.aub.edu.lb

150 th Festivities, North America

United States Baltimore Houston

GALA GALA Country Club Hilton Houston of Maryland Post Oak Towson, MD Houston, TX 1 October 16 September

Houston Gala Host Committee

Los Angeles Northeast Ohio

GALA GALA The Pacific Club 150 th celebration, Newport Beach, CA Masquerade Ball 17 September The Cleveland Racquet Club Event organizers (L to Pepperpike, OH R) Bana Hilal (BA ’72) 29 October and Dilara El-Assad (BS ’78, MS ’80) with President Khuri (center)

North Carolina

150 TH HoNoRING RECEPTIoN Page-Walker Arts & History Center – Cary, NC 10 September

Honorees: Andre Kayrallah accepting for Moise Kayrallah (BA ’81), Mrs. Mona Mikati accepting for Mohamad A. Mikati (BS ’76, MD ’80), Nadia Najla Malouf (BS ’59, MD ’63), Bisharah Libbus (BS ’67, MS ’71), Amal Abu-Shakra (BS ’79), Aref Asad Abdul-Baki (BS ’56), Lawahiz Sadaka Eckhart (BA ’56), Soumaya Khuri (BS ’60), and Raja Khalifah (BS ’62), with Raghid Bitar (BS ’98, MD ’02), Chapter President

Also honored: Samia Khalaf Sullivan (former student)

Alumni speaker: Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, PhD (BS ’91, MA ’95) 52 53

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LAYLA AND CULTURAL EVENT MAJNUN CoMMEMoRATING PoET JAWDAT R. Reception and HAYDAR Performance benefitting Residence Chapter Fund for Potomac, MD Needy Patients at 16 October AUBMC Ann Arbor, MI 15 October

New York New York

New York chapter CoMEDY members welcomed SHoW WITH President Khuri to NEMR a reception hosted by local Consul Gramercy General and Theatre alumnus Majdi New York, NY Ramadan (BA ’93) 3 November at his residence New York, NY 20 September

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four continents and served 16 governments on three continents educationally. [[email protected]] 1940s 1950s

Dale Branum (Junior Year Abroad student, 1955-56) writes: “I am so proud “It was a pivotal year of my life! I of our alma especially enjoyed my classes with Dr. mater, ‘AUB in Charles Malik: two semesters on Plato’s thee we glory, Republic , two semesters of ancient Near make us true and East history with Professor Dimitri Baramki, and a wonderful course for an brave.’ I am 94 English major focused on C.H.O. Scaife’s years old, but I Shakespeare’s Classical Allusions. still vividly Weekends I usually spent visiting remember the ancient sites near Beirut. At Christmas I Zuhayr Annab (PHCH ’48) “I graduated Raja Tewfik Nasr (BBA ’50), who went to Cairo and took the night train to AUB campus. I from International College in 1942 and earned an MA and an EdD at the Luxor with my JYA friends and some always tell my moved to AUB and graduated from the University of Michigan, has just been Mideast classmates. I managed to spend children and School of Pharmacy in 1948. I am so granted emeritus status as professor of an extra week in Cairo visiting the grandchildren proud of our alma mater, ‘AUB in thee education at Marymount University in Sphinx and early tombs, and I took a that the years I we glory, make us true and brave.’ I am Arlington, Virginia where he taught horse and donkey trip to Saqqara. I was 94 years old but I still vividly remember graduate courses in education and blessed with wonderful new friends spent there were the AUB campus. I always tell my linguistics for 26 years. The recipient of from all over the Middle East. The boys the best years of children and grandchildren that the the Medal of Education (first class) from were like big brothers to me, teaching my life.” years I spent there were the best years of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, me to haggle in the souks, and my life. President Bayard Dodge was at HE Mr. Salim Al Hoss, the Medal of enlightening me and my colleagues Zuhayr Annab my graduation ceremony in 1948—his Education (first class) from His Majesty, about the tragedy of Palestine. I only (PHCH ’48) last year at AUB. I still remember his the late King Hussein of Jordan, and the wish I could come to campus to words at the Chapel during the Sunday Gold Medal of Congress from the celebrate AUB’s 150th anniversary.” morning service. He was a great man, International Biographical Association very modest and so kind.” of Cambridge, England, Raja has [[email protected]] published 45 articles and 60 books in the fields of education and English and Michel Basrawi (BS ’57) A graduate of Arabic linguistics. He intends to remain the School of Agriculture, Michel spent active by teaching part-time, offering a very successful career with the volunteer services in his community, German chemical company BASF before and giving talks as a public speaker in his retirement in 1994. He introduced the United States. At one time, Raja was chemical fertilizers in Iraq (1958-68), director of the Center for English was a director of a local company, and Language Research and Teaching at MENA regional marketing manager of AUB and professor of education and crop protection products stationed in linguistics at Beirut University College Beirut (1969-75). Moving from the (now LAU). He has trained teachers of technical and commercial aspects of English and Arabic in 21 countries on crop production to marketing, his 54 55

success in West Africa led to his Class Correspondents Antoine Haddad (BS ’67, MS ’69, relocation to Germany to handle Far FEA Class of 1966 MS ’76) earned his graduate degrees East countries. He says that AUB Riad Mourtada in rural sociology and agricultural provided a good basis for his career and Malek Mahmassani economics. He is now retired and living taught him to work hard and continue in Beirut. His entire career was with the learning. He hopes to visit Beirut and United Nations Economic and Social the School of Agriculture someday soon. As part of AUB’s 150th Anniversary Commission for Western Asia, mainly in [[email protected]] celebrations, our FEA Class of ’66 the areas of social development and attended the Reunion honoring social policies including rural ceremony at Assembly Hall, where community development. 50th anniversary graduates received Wassim Abou Hamzeh (BBA ’57) commemorative medals from President closed his travel agency Top Travel Khuri. and is now a travel adviser with Beirut Express. [[email protected]] Additionally, the class celebrated two events/reunions: • Ghassan and Manal Saab hosted a dinner held in Beirut at the Vendôme 1970s Fuad M. Kronfol (BS ’57, MA ’70) is Hotel. The dinner was attended by retired and has been living with his wife over 40 graduates with their spouses Nadia in Montreal, Canada, since 1995. from all over the world, in addition Professionally, he was a management to some faculty members. and personnel consultant for WHO, UNAIDS, IAEA, and UNICEF. He maintains contact with UNICEF through the Retiree Reunion process, having hosted a reunion in 2008. Fuad’s main hobby is philately through membership in a number of stamp clubs. He also enjoys travelling and tennis and keeps abreast of alumni affairs through Bassel F. El-Rayes (BS ’72, MD ’96) is WAAAUB, as well as International associate director of clinical research College and Brummana High School. at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, a professor • Fadlo and Justine Touma hosted a trip and vice chair for clinical research in the and lunch in Kab Elias, Beqa’a at their Department of Hematology and Medical Domaine de Chouchane. The event Oncology at Emory University School of was attended by the same group of Medicine, the chief clinical research FEA class of ’66 alumni in addition to scientist responsible for coordinating Dr. Makram Suidan, faculty members, and providing high-level direction to the 1960s the president of the FEA chapter, the clinical cancer research programs and president of WAAAUB and the director clinical cancer trials across the Emory of Development Office. It was marked campuses, and director of Winship’s by a hiking trip through the grape GI Program. He was recently selected to vineyards, plus the traditional hold the newly endowed John Kauffman Tarboush Parade. Family Professorship for Pancreatic Cancer Research. His clinical research focuses on drug development and multidisciplinary approaches to patients with early stage or advanced GI cancer. Board certified in hematology and medical oncology. Bassel completed his Pervaiz Vandal (BEN ’64) Pervaiz internal medicine residency training at Vandal and Associates, Pakistan, was Wayne State University in Detroit, recently awarded the prestigious Robert Michigan, before joining Emory’s Matthew Award of the Commonwealth hematology oncology fellowship Architects Association (CAA) in The FEA Class of ’66 has established a program at the Karmanos Cancer recognition of innovative contributions new endowed scholarship. It is now Institute. to the development of architecture. funded at $100,000 and will continue to be supported by members of the FEA Class of 1966. AUB Everywhere

Yusuf Hannun (BS ’77, MD ’81, DHL ’14) Mahmoud Sabbagh (BS ’77) writes, “A is now the director of the Stony Brook member of the last School of Pharmacy Cancer Center, Long Island, New York. class, I currently live in Jordan and He also leads a research laboratory manage our family pharmaceutical and focused on studying the roles of medical business with my eldest bioactive lipids, especially in cancer. brother. I have been married since 1993 He and his wife Lina Obeid (MD ’83) to my lovely wife, who is Swiss and of have triplets: Reem, Marya, and Awni, Iraqi origin. I am still in contact with all pursuing PhD studies in the United some of my classmates in Lebanon and States. The recipient of an honorary see them whenever we visit Beirut.” doctorate from AUB in 2014, Yusuf [[email protected]] remembers fondly the ‘tumultuous’ years at AUB, and the many deep Bana Hilal (BA ’72) The Foundation for friendships that evolved “After graduating Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) invited over nine years. [[email protected]] from AUB, Bana to speak along with New York I continued my Mayor Bill De Blasio, Russell Simmons, and other luminaries at the launch of a search for campaign entitled Muslims Speaking Saydeh Nassar (BA ’77, MS ’82) writes, 1980s knowledge and Out. She is a previous honoree of FFEU. “With my bachelor’s degree in political earned a PhD in [[email protected]] science and public administration Irma Khanjian (BA ’81) and Carla Maria environmental (PSPA) and a master’s in hospital Khanjian (BA ’82, MA ’86) are sisters administration, I worked as an who are proud economics graduates, science and administrator at AUBMC for 12 years and and owners of La Peau Skincare, a engineering. . . .” Afram Melki (BS ’74, MS ’75) Afram later moved on to assume executive luxury skincare company based in earned his degrees in agriculture and positions in other healthcare centers in Geneva, Switzerland, and Montreal, Faten Nazzal Beirut and Amman, Jordan. I met my Canada. Their credo is, “In today’s (BEN ’82, MEN ’87) food technology. Now retired after a career in academia and with husband, Camille Nassar (BS ’72, MS ’74, competitive marketplace it is possible to multinational companies, he writes: PhD ’76) when I was a student at AUB. succeed all alone without the millions “I read with a great interest the notes of We lived with our family on the AUB spent on advertising campaigns, Dr. Nasri Kawar in the Spring/Summer campus at Faculty 1 for 17 years. I am without any external financing, and issue about the first class of agriculture. currently the chief executive officer at without a large team. It is possible to Dr. Kawar was my undergraduate Oasis de Vie, a 157-bed continuum of succeed if you share an unparalleled adviser with whom I also took care facility in Beirut. AUB gave me passion, if you believe in yourselves and undergraduate seminar. Dr. Nicolas abundant experiences that contributed if you are not afraid of sleepless nights.” Atallah gave us the irrigation course tremendously to my professional They are grateful to have learned all of during our stay on the farm. Dr. Raja achievements and to the person I am this at AUB! Tannous was my graduate adviser today. I am proud to have been [www.LaPeauSkincare.com] whom I continued to meet many times acculturated in the AUB community after graduation. These great teachers over so many years of my life. God bless are only a small sample of the many our AUB on its 150th anniversary and for exceptional professors who contributed many more centennial years to come.” to our education and development. [[email protected]] University education is not merely a one-way transfer of knowledge but the means for intellectual exchange, freedom, and growth. AUB is where all Kamal Saad (BS ’77, MS ’79) With a BS of this happens. Thank you AUB for the in agriculture and an MS in soils and abundance.” [email protected] irrigation, Kamal established SAM Engineering & Trade Company, one of the top private companies in Amman, Jordan. The company specializes in Basim Dubaybo (BS ’77, MD ’81), a sales and services of electromechanical Faten Nazzal (BEN ’82, MEN ‘87) writes, pulmonologist, was presented with a equipment, and has more than 50 “After graduating from AUB, I continued National President Award from the employees. Kamal has three children— my search for knowledge and earned a Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) all AUB graduates: Randa (BS ’08, MD PhD in environmental science and in Dearborn, Michigan. He was honored ’12), David (BBA ’12) and Rami (BA ’11). engineering from Rice University, for his services as the current president [[email protected]] Houston, Texas. Currently I am a of the National Arab American Medical principal at Dar Al-Handasah (Shair and Association. Partners), based in Beirut. I manage water and wastewater treatment projects as well as major infrastructure 56 57

projects for new development in the Jamilah Borjac (BS ’85, MS ’87) department, academic adviser, research Gulf (UAE, Qatar), Angola and Nigeria.” graduated with a master’s degree in supervisor, and coordinator of master’s [[email protected]] biochemistry and then worked for three degree programs. She writes, “I'm proud years at Beirut Arab University (BAU) of being an AUB graduate and often say teaching organic and analytical that I am what I am now because of Bassem I. Razzouk (BS ’83, MD ’87) is chemistry labs in the Pharmacy AUB!” currently medical director of Children’s Department before earning a doctorate Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at in biochemistry from Tulane University Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital, in the United States in 1997. Returning St Vincent Health, in Indianapolis, to Lebanon, she worked at Lebanese “I’m so proud of Indiana. He and his wife Jacqueline American University (LAU) for seven being an AUB Farah have four children: Lamya (16), years on a part-time basis; at BAU, in graduate and Ralph (14), and twin girls Carla and AUB’s FAFS, where she taught basic Nour (11). biochemistry to nutrition and often say that I am agriculture students; and then at what I am now Lebanese International University (LIU) because of AUB.” Hanan Itani Ramadan (BS ’84, MPH for seven years as full-time faculty ’87) writes, “After graduating with a where she worked on developing the master’s degree in healthcare biochemistry curriculum. Finally, in Rula Yazigy, PhD (BA ’85, MA ’87) administration, I worked for two years 2012 she moved to BAU where she is in one of the private hospitals in Beirut full-time faculty in the Department of osman Adra (BEN ’87) is a professional before moving to AUB in 1989 as an Biological and Environmental Sciences. mechanical engineer working in Tripoli assistant director for Purchasing. In [[email protected]] since 1992. Since 2003, he has also been 2002, I was promoted to the position of a part-time lecturer at Balamand director of Purchasing, and currently I University where he teaches building am the director of Procurement and services courses to architecture and Contracts Administration at AUB. I am interior design students. Osman owns married to Majed Ramadan and have Intercool, a leading MEP/HVAC two children who are both AUB contracting company in North Lebanon. graduates.” ([email protected]) Gearing his business towards energy efficiency and renewable energy Educated at AUB (EE&RE), Osman established Intercool Energy Services Company with branches Lina Shihabuddin (BS ’85, MD ’89) in Lebanon and UAE. He became the writes, “I was reflecting on family days first Certified Energy Manager in in Lebanon and at AUB. I think of our Lebanon by the Association of Energy family as an example of where an AUB Engineers. As an active member of the education can get one. Here is a photo Lebanon Green Building Council, he of us with my mother at my house in Nevart (Najarian) Tahmazian (BS ’85, recently organized Green Week 2016 a New Jersey.” MA ’88) The Carnegie Foundation for highly successful event which attracted the Advancement of Teaching and the more than 200 engineers and Council for Advancement and Support engineering students. Osman is married of Education awarded Nevart the 2015 and has five children; two are graduates Maryland Professor of the Year award. (one in engineering and one in internal She teaches chemistry at Montgomery architecture), one son who is an College in Rockville, Maryland. Also, in undergraduate, and two school-age 2015 she received the Local Section daughters. On the day of his 50th Outreach Volunteer of the Year Award birthday last December, Osman became from the American Chemical Society. a grandfather to a cute little boy. [[email protected]]

From L to R: Lamiah Shihabuddin Rula Yazigy , PhD (BA ’85, MA ’87) (BS computer science ’91, MBA business ’95) With degrees in English and education (BBA ’87) works in senior manager at BLOM bank in Lebanon; Lamya Abbas Bou Diab Shihabuddin (BS medical laboratory ’87, MS (TEFL), Rula went on to earn a doctorate Qatar at BLOM Bank, Qatar LLC. The neurosciences ’89) senior director and cluster in applied linguistics from the bank was licensed by the Qatar head of rare neurologic diseases at Sanofi in University of Leicester, England, in 1991. Financial Centre Authority in 2008 and Massachusetts; Lina Shihabuddin (BS chemistry ’85, MD ’89) chief medical officer Behavioral She is now an assistant professor at is regulated by the Qatar Financial Health Network, RWJBarnabas Health in New Lebanese University. She has held Regulatory Authority. Abbas is an Jersey; Bashir Shihabuddin (BS biology ’89, MD several positions throughout her career executive manager and head of the ’93) professor of neurology at University of Arkansas; Bashar Shihabuddin (BS biology ’01, in academia, including: head of Compliance and Anti-Money MD ’05) assistant professor of Pediatric Laundering Department. AUB Everywhere

published two children's books, My Nicole Maftoum (BS ’07) graduated Grandfather’s Masbaha and Stomp the with a degree in nutrition and dietetics. Ground: Build a Home . Susan lives with She is a nutrition speaker, media her husband and two children in personality, blogger, food service Richmond, Virginia. dietician, school dietician, foodie, and [[email protected]] home cook who helps people who have 1990s a complicated relationship with food. Nicole increases people’s awareness about eating healthy foods and Fouad Abd-El-Khalick (BS ’91, MA ’95) exercising through many channels: at was named dean of the University of her clinic, with her weekly television North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of and radio shows, through her published Education, one of Carolina’s oldest recipes in newspapers, and on her professional schools. Abd-El-Khalick social media channels (EAT like Nicole) serves as co-editor of the Journal of 2000s and blog: www.eatlikenicole.com Research in Science Teaching and serves [[email protected]] on the executive board of the National Association for Research in Science Alia Alameddine (BS ’04), MS ’07) Teaching. earned degrees in agriculture and soil science. She and her husband Omar El Mohamad Sobh (BBA ’07) lives in Jaroudi (BEN ’02, MBA ’08) have a Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He writes, Mohammad I Baydoun (BS ’94, MS ’97) daughter and a son. They currently live “Since graduation I've kept busy, works at Solidere in Beirut as a in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where Alia becoming a senior manager with department manager caring for the works as an assistant academic director PricewaterhouseCooper's deals operation and maintenance of Beirut at King Khaled International Schools. department and undertaking social Central District Landscape. [[email protected]] impact projects as part of the World [[email protected]] hi Ari Kassardjian (BS ’05, MS ’07) writes, Economic Forum's Global Shapers h “After finishing my PhD in molecular Community. Hard at work on other biophysics from Florida State University ideas as well that will hopefully Fadia Sidani (BS ’94) works at Beirut in 2012, I pursued an MD at Tulane come to fruition soon! Arab University in IT Management as University in New Orleans, Louisiana. [[email protected]] head of systems. She is married and has Last March, I was accepted into a three children. [[email protected]] residency position in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.”

Janah Abou Khzam (BEN ’97) A civil engineering graduate, Janah is now a major in the Judicial Police force. Asma Arabi, MD (MS ’07) is currently [[email protected]] an associate professor of medicine at AUB (Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism) and the assistant director Wissam Halabi (BS ’95, MS ’97) writes, of the Calcium Metabolism and WAAAUB is your “I’ve been working with a leading Osteoporosis Program at AUBMC. animal health company for the past 13 [[email protected]] alumni association! years, currently managing Middle East and North Africa markets and proud to Election 2017 kicks off on Mira El Masri El-oud (MS ’07) after be supporting my companies’ cause February 1 . around Food Security. I’m based in Abu graduating, Mira worked at the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) in Dhabi, have been married to my wife, Keep an eye out for emails and Lebanon for five years as an assistant Roula, for 14 years and have two announcements to nominate Unit Head and then Unit Head of the children, Sharelle and Alessandro.” your fellow alumni to the wet chemistry lab. She married, moved [[email protected]] leadership of WAAAUB! to Canada, and was accepted into the Chemists’ Order of Quebec (headquartered in Montreal). Mira Susan Daniel Fayad (BA ’97, TD ’98) has a young daughter named Lynn. is the career coach for J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Virginia. She has also 58 59

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Byzantium in Early Islamic Syria by Nadia El-Cheikh and Shaun O’Sullivan (eds.) (AUB Press, 2011) This publication chronicles the proceedings of a 2007 conference 1. BYZANTIUM IN organized by the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies (CAMES) at the American EARLY ISLAMIC SYRIA University of Beirut and the Center for Antiochene Studies at the University of Balamand. It is divided into two parts comprising two respective chronological eras, reflecting the intention of the conference to pursue a dual and comparative focus with the hope of throwing fresh light on both eras–the early Islamic period, from the Islamic conquests of Syria until the fall of the Umayyad dynasty (632–750) and the 1 period of Byzantine reconquest of Syria (969–1084).

Naturalization Policies, Education and Citizenship: Multicultural and Multi-Nation 2. NATURALIZATIoN PoLICIES, Societies in International Perspective by Dina Kiwan (ed.) (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) EDUCATIoN AND CITIZENSHIP: This book examines constructions of “national” citizenship in the context of MULTICULTURAL AND perceived internal division, including devolution, multiculturalism, ethno-religious MULTI-NATIoN SoCIETIES IN conflict, post-conflict and refugees, discussing a wide range of countries such as INTERNATIoNAL PERSPECTIVE Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the UK, Ukraine, Canada, and Palestinians in Lebanon. 2

Local Governments and Public Goods: Assessing Decentralization in the Arab World 3. LoCAL GoVERNMENTS by Mona Harb and Sami Atallah (eds.) (Ras Beirut: The Lebanese Center for Policy AND PUBLIC Studies, 2015). This book documents and assesses past and current decentralization GooDS: ASSESSING policies and initiatives in five Arab states. While the tools and processes by which DECENTRALIZATIoN decentralization is carried out vary, the stated goals of these efforts are to create a IN THE ARAB WoRLD more democratic system of governance and more effective urban management. Countries across the Arab world have been engaged in a range of decentralization efforts. Country-specific case studies are authored by Ali Bouabid and Aziz Iraki for 3 Morocco, Sami Yassine Turki and Eric Verdeil for Tunisia, Myriam Ababsa for Jordan, Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj for Yemen, and Mona Harb and Sami Atallah for Lebanon.

Jawdat R. Haydar: The Voice from Baalbek by John Munro (Antoine, 2016) provides an accessible introduction to Haydar’s poetry with an account of the making of 4. JAWDAT R. HAYDAR: both the poet and the man. Munro (AUB professor 1966-90 and author of A Mutual THE VoICE FRoM Concern: The Story of the American University of Beirut ) leads us through a BAALBEK comprehensive reading of the historical events and major literary trends that influenced the work of Jawdat Haydar (1905-2006). Analyzing Haydar’s poetry in the context of the Mahjar poets, Munro provides an original exploration of issues of cultural identity, adoption of the English language, and the complexity of the 4 exile’s experience. 60 61

In Memoriam

Farhat Jacob Ziadeh (BA ’37) was born in academic associations and boards, Ziadeh’s Alumni Ramallah, Palestine, and passed away on many honors include the Center for Arabic June 8 at the age of 99 in Seattle, Washington. Study Abroad lifetime achievement award; He earned an LLB from the University of the Middle East Studies Association London in 1940 and was admitted to Lincoln’s Mentoring Award; and election as an Inn, London, becoming a Barrister-at-Law in honorary MESA fellow; a Festschrift, Islamic 1946. Ziadeh served as a magistrate for the Law and Jurisprudence: Studies in Honor of Government of Palestine before embarking on Farhat J. Ziadeh ; and The Farhat J. Ziadeh a distinguished career as a professor and Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic scholar in the field of Islamic law. He was a Studies at the University of Washington. A professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at renowned scholar, Ziadeh published many Princeton University for 18 years. In 1966, highly esteemed books and articles, and he Ziadeh was asked to establish and head the was an inspiring professor for legions of Farhat Jacob Ziadeh Near Eastern Languages and Civilization students spanning decades. He is survived by (BA ’37) Department as well as the Middle East Center his beloved wife Suad Ziadeh; daughters at the Henry M. Jackson School of Shireen Abed, Susan Ziadeh (MA ’78), International Studies at the University of Rhonda Salem, Deena Ayyub, and Reema Washington in Seattle, Washington. Serving Ziadeh; 12 grandchildren; and one in leadership positions on numerous great-grandchild.

Jacob T. Thaddeus (BA ’45, MD ’50) was born MEMA Organizing Committee, and a member in 1923 and passed away on July 21 in Beirut, of the Medical Committee of the Lebanese Lebanon. After graduating with distinction Family Planning Association. While in from medical school, he joined the medical school, Thaddeus was among the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co. and worked in its founders of the Medical Students’ Society, health facilities as medical director in Beirut and he originated the very popular MSS and Saudi Arabia. In 1972 he joined the Variety Shows. As a member of the Student School of Public Health as a lecturer and Council in the early 1950s, he was appointed as director of Ambulatory Services at the chairman of the Publication Committee of American Univeristy Hospital. In 1976, when the student paper Outlook . After graduation the AUB Services Corporation (forerunner of Thaddeus was closely involved with the AUB Regional External Programs) was Alumni Association in several capacities, established, Thaddeus went with an AUB most notably as chairman of the Publication team to Bahrain to implement a management Committee of Al-Kulliyah , the alumni Jacob T. Thaddeus periodical. He was married to the late Wadad assistance project at the Bahrain Ministry (BA ’45, MD ’50) Notices for of Health and, later, he became involved in Samaha, and is survived by a daughter In Memoriam may be sent to health consultancy projects in a number Sereen Brown (BA ’79), a son David (BEN ’81), [email protected] of Gulf States. He was a member of the and three grandchildren. [this IM tribute Lebanese Order of Physicians, the Board was written by najwa shaheen haffar of the Lebanese Hospital for Mental and (BA ’51), a close family friend.] Nervous Diseases, twice chairman of the In Memoriam

Alumni Munir AbuHaidar (BA ’49) was born in philanthropy. The eponymous AbuHaidar Hammana, Lebanon and died at his home in Neuroscience Center which opened at AUBMC Millbrook, New York on October 4. A pioneer in 2007, is the result of his great generosity, in air freight aviation, AbuHaidar was also on vision, and dedication to making lives better. the leading edge of business practices The center was the first comprehensive providing employees with health insurance neurological treatment center in the Arab and education benefits, and placing an world. The strong bonds between the emphasis on the training and employment of AbuHaidar family and AUB include Munir’s women. In 1975, his company, Trans father Ibrahim (MD 1904), and his brothers Mediterranean Airways (TMA), was one of the George (BA ’42, MA ’47), Fuad (BBA ’42), and largest air freight airlines in the world with Najib (MD ’48). He is survived by Susan routes to the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and AbuHaidar, his loving wife of 52 years, and his the United States. The second largest five children, Ramzi, Nadim, Lamia, Sumaya Munir AbuHaidar employer in Lebanon with over 5,000 and Walid, and eight grandchildren. (BA ’49) employees, TMA could not sustain the If you would like to make a memorial contribution to extreme hardships of Lebanon’s civil war, and the AHNI, please contact Sujatha Vempaty at AbuHaidar sold the airline. He moved his [email protected] or (212) 583-7672. family to Millbrook, New York and focused on

Mubadda Tawfic Suidan (BEN ’57, MEN ’66) project, both in Abu Dhabi. He moved his was born in Haifa, Palestine, in 1934 and family to Atlanta, Georgia in 1982, but passed away on July 12, 2016 in Atlanta, continued to work on projects in the Middle Georgia. He completed doctoral studies in civil East. A kind, pragmatic, and witty man, engineering at the University of Illinois at he was known for his passion for animals, Urbana-Champaign. A talented structural quality education, and Palestinian causes. engineer and designer, he established his own Suidan is survived by his wife Aida (née engineering firm in Beirut and the UAE which El-Khazen) (BS ’58, MD ’62); siblings Maleeha Mubadda Tawfic Suidan produced a wide array of private and public (BA ’70) and Makram (BEN ’71; Dean AUB (BEN ’57, MEN ’66) sector works, notably the Zayed Sports City FEA, 2011-16); and three children Toufic, Stadium and the Zirku Island Development Ziad, and Tala.

Fahd El Hamawi (MS ’71) of Amman, Jordan, Sudan, Dar-Al-Handasah in Aden, Yemen, and was born in 1937 and died suddenly from a as a member of the AUB Technical Team at the stroke on May 29. At AUB he was a respected, Ministry of Agriculture and Water in Riyadh, popular, and active student, who belonged to Saudi Arabia. He is survived by two brothers several student clubs. El Hamawi served with Munther and Hisham and the extended El the UN International Labor Organization in Hamawi family. Fahd El Hamawi (MS ’71)

A pioneer in anesthesiology in Lebanon and of his achievements, particularly his Friends the region, Anis Baraka was born in Fayoum, contributions during the Lebanese Civil War, Egypt, in 1930 and passed away on June 30. Dr. Baraka received several honors, including Educated at Cairo University, where he earned an honorary fellowship from the Royal College a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery of Anesthetists. Upon learning of his death, in 1953, and at the University of Liverpool President Khuri commented, “He was a where he was a research fellow, Baraka genuine leader in the medical field, not only in completed a residency in anesthesiology at the Lebanon but in the Arab world and beyond, a National Heart Hospital, London. He began his gentle man always willing to help others and association with AUB in 1965 and quickly able to manage the most complicated of cases advanced from instructor to professor with grace, with humility, and with great skill… (emeritus as of 2008) to chairperson of the The great Dr. Baraka will be mourned by all Department of Anesthesiology, a post he held who knew him at AUB.” He is survived by his Anis Baraka for nearly 30 years. Baraka served in leadership wife Aziza, his daughter Huda, and sons positions at the World Federation of Societies Hesham, Tarek, and Khaled. of Anesthesiologists and the Arab Board of Anesthesia and Intensive Care. In recognition 62 63

Thomas M. Sutherland was born in Falkirk, as a professor emeritus, and in 2014, he and Friends Scotland, in 1931 and passed away in Fort his wife Jean Ann (née Murray) were awarded Collins, Colorado on July 22. With degrees in the CSU Founders Day Medal in recognition of agriculture from Glasgow University (BS ’53), their service to the University, the community, Reading University (post-graduate diploma the arts, and higher education worldwide. The ’54), and Iowa State University (MS ’56, PhD couple co-authored the memoir, At Your Own ’58), Sutherland embarked on a highly Risk: An American Chronicle of Crisis and successful career as a professor of animal Captivity in the Middle East . Dr. Sutherland's science at Colorado State University (CSU). other awards include the Distinguished In 1983, he accepted an invitation to serve as Teacher Award from the American Society Thomas M. Sutherland Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food of Animal Science and CSU’s Harris T. Guard Sciences at AUB. In 1985 he was taken hostage Distinguished Service Award for Teaching. and held captive for more than six years. In addition to his wife Joan, Sutherland is Following his release in November 1991, survived by three daughters, Kit, Joan, and Sutherland was hailed as a hero for his Ann; seven grandchildren; and three courage and magnanimity. He returned to CSU great-grandchildren.

Ritchie D. Thomas passed away at the age of City College, Sacramento, California; and as a 85 on May 24. He was director of AUB’s Jafet university librarian at Wright State University, Library from 1967-76. He received a bachelor’s Dayton, Ohio. The author and editor of degree from Whitman College in Washington several scholarly books and articles, he was State and a master’s degree in library science an amateur deltiologist (postcard collector) from the Catholic University of America in and collected unusual and old objects. Washington, DC. Thomas also served as a Thomas is preceded in death by wife Grace, librarian with the New York Times , and survived by daughters Kathryn, Martha and Laura; a son Andrew; and eight Washington, DC, Bureau; as city librarian at Ritchie D. Thomas Woodland Public Library, Woodland, grandchildren. California; as college librarian at Sacramento

Notices for Ahmed H. Zewail , an Egyptian-American The Zewail City of Science and Technology in In Memoriam may be sent to who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 Cairo, Egypt, opened its doors to students in [email protected] for his pioneering work in femtochemistry, 2013. Dr. Zewail was a member of the National died on August 2. He was the first Arab Nobel Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of laureate in any of the sciences. Born in academies in other countries, including Damanhur, Egypt, on February 26, 1946, Britain, Russia, France, and China. He was an Zewail completed bachelor’s and master’s author or co-author of 600 scientific papers. degrees at Alexandria University, and a A recipient of the Order of the Grand Collar of doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. the Nile, Zewail received a Doctor of Humane He then taught at The California Institute of Letters from AUB in 2005. He served on US Technology in Pasadena, California for four President Obama’s Council of Advisers on Ahmed H. Zewail decades. In 2000, Zewail embarked on a Science and Technology from 2009-13, and lifelong dream to establish an independent, as the US science envoy to the Middle East. cutting-edge research institution in the Zewail is survived by his wife, Dema Faham, Middle East in order to help restore the region and four children: Maha, Amani, Nabeel, to its historical place as a center of learning. and Hani. In Memoriam

We Remember

Sulayman Mufarrij MD ’31 Apostolos Anastassiou BS ’59 Sari Tawfik Tamimi BBA ’80 Robert Jebejian MD ’34 Michel H. Rizk BEN ’59 George Mitri Barbur BA ’82, MA ’84 Anissah Rawdah BA ’36 Issam Adel Mahir BEN ’60 Ali Husayni BBA ’82 Mai Sa'adeh BA ’36 MD ’40 Emile Ibrahim Shihadah BBC ’62 Hadia Darwish BS ’83 Ephronia M. Zanian DIPLM ’38 Mussa Nehme BS ’63, MS ’69 Said Hutayt BS ’84, MPH ’90 Joseph Aziz Sabri BA ’41, MD ’46 Turki Mahmoud Said BS ’63, MS ’67 Nader Toufic Kassem BS ’86, MD ’90 William Elisha MD ’45 Kenneth Ciano BA ’64 Imad Farouk Shaaban BS ’90 Duad M. Abdul-Baki BA ’46, BS ’47 Ramzi Kteily BA ’64 Ribal Ezzeddine BA ’91 Lily Azuri BS ’46, MS ’48 Maurice Dabaghi BA ’65 Toufic Akhras BS ’96 Jibrayil Rifka BA ’46, MD ’50 Jack Philip Hajj BS ’65 Abdul Wahab Itani BEN ’03 Hranoush Ketchedjian DIPLM ’47 Laurence Dulli BS ’65 Samah Sraj BBA ’15 Hisham Nafi Sibai BA ’47, MD ’51 Roger E Selwan BAR ’65 Abdul Badi Ariss BBA ’49 Bassam Alamuddin BA ’67 Karim Imad El Choufi Student Muhammad Ali Kurdi BS ’52 Elias S Awad BEN ’69 Yollande Badr Friend Zouheir Barraj BA ’52 Suhayl Kalash BS ’69, MD ’73 Samuel Bunker Friend Antoine Toufic Safar BBA ’53 Saif E Binali BEN ’70 Emile Ibrahim Chaoul Friend Issam S. Aliyah BBC ’54 Fahd Anis Sarkis BEN ’71 Bonnie Issidorides Friend Ibrahim Farid Durr BS ’54 Adib Bayoud BEN ’72 Abdo Imbrahim Jeffy Friend Emile H Rizk BBA ’54 Khaled Fouad Najjar BS ’72 Farouk Jurdi Friend Munir Jiha BS ’54 Mahmoud Dallal BEN ’73 Amb. Robert V. Keeley Friend Angele Hasserdjian DIPLM ’55 Isa N. Kawar BEN ’73 James Sullivan Friend Desphina Demitriou BA ’56 Sher Lakhani BS ’73 James C. Thomas Friend Jack Damyani BBA ’57 Rene G. Antun BBA ’75 Harry H. Hall MA ’57 Tamer Mukalled BEN ’76 Movses Abadjian BA ’58 Camelia Bishara BBA ’79 Samir Naaman Zeinoun BEN ’58 Ziad Saleh Machnouk BBA ’79 64 65

The AUB Assembly Hall Garden Pavilion sponsored by the President’s Club in honor of AUB’s 150 years of unity through diversity

The pavilion understands time through its own physical fragments, embodying time’s continuous framework within Installation: its historical context. The gesture has neither a beginning nor an end. It has neither a front nor a back. It is as “genus: nation continuous as time. A white canvas warps between the existing features of the gender status” site and creates organic pockets where people can gather and view the exhibition. This temporary structure depicts a very neutral and minimal aesthetic, in contrast to the old architecture of the campus, giving a contemporary feel for AUB’s 150th anniversary.

More Online www.ghaithjad.com/index/#/_aub-pavillion/ More photos, Mahmoud Merjan

An exhibition by architects Ghaith Abi Ghanem (BAR ’12) and Jad Melki (BAR ’12) of GHAITH&JAD (17 May - 01 October, 2016)

Graphic designer: Christian Moussa www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD70quGhiNc Exhibition photos: Mahmoud Merjan Short video, Christian Moussa Collect all three 150 th editions for a full map of Beirut featuring streets named after figures from AUB’s history.

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