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Fall-Winter2014.Pdf 22 44 52 1<None> Contextualizing Corm Relief in Site Excavating the Future AUB celebrates the art of Lebanese Relief efforts bring shelter, education, Akram Zaatari (BAR ’89) reimagines painter Georges Daoud Corm and medical aid to Syrian refugees images and reinvents cultural artifacts American University of Beirut Magazine. Fall/Winter 2014, Vol XII, No. 1 Promise. It’s the MainGate, only better! Find out about the magazine redesign on page 5. www.fsc.org The pages of the MainGate are printed on 100 percent postconsumer fiber paper and the cover is 30 percent. It is printed using web offset process with attention to clean-air operations. Lane Press gets 98 percent of its electricity from sources other than greenhouse gas-producing carbon fuel. Inks are bio-derived and low in volatile organic compounds. Please recycle this magazine. If you prefer to subscribe to the online version of the MainGate, please email maingate(at)aub.edu.lb The MainGate Fall/Winter 2014 Contents Volume XII, No. 1 Inspiration 7 Student life, the liberal arts, AUB personalities past and present East West Interlocutor 8 Speaking with Peter Heath. Discoveries 21 Research, the arts, and current events Contextualizing Corm 22 Celebrating the art of Lebanese painter Georges Daoud Corm. Wellness 33 AUBMC 2020, health, and medicine The Art of Giving Back 34 A pioneering gift to AUBMC with transformative technology. Impact 43 Regional impact, advocacy, and policy initiatives Relief in Site 44 Bringing warmth, education, and medical aid to Syrian refugees. AUB Everywhere 51 Alumni profile, class notes, WAAAUB, and chapter news Excavating the Future Akram Zaatari (BAR ’89), a filmmaker, photographer, 52 and archival artist, reimagines images and reinvents cultural artifacts. In Memoriam 68 Presidenting Like Nowhere Else situation escalated so suddenly and with faculty mentors. Having a then dissipated very quickly. I think campus like ours, where this kind of it’s kind of a model case for how things interactioncan happen, is at the very can happen here in the Middle East. heart of a liberal arts education, which is one of AUB’s great distinguishing CompARInG characteristics among universities & ConTRASTInG in the Middle East. There are some obvious differences between being president of a US REAdInG university in Lebanon versus being The most important book I’ve read president of a university in the United recently is Robert Fisk’s Pity the Nation. States, one of which is that AUB must I’d been putting it off, because of lack comply with two completely different of time, but as soon as I started reading legal systems, Lebanese and American. it I found it very hard to put down. It’s For example, we are compelled by a compelling book; it sets the stage American federal regulations to have very nicely for the cultural and policies on sexual harassment. On the political context of today’s Lebanon. other hand, sexual harassment is not recognized as a criminal offence in Lebanon. So in the past we have dismissed employees for violating AUB has a national our policies on sexual harassment significance that is in accordance with US law, but such employees can take us to court in really not matched The Dormans inside the plAnnInG Lebanon. Another difference is the College Hall bell tower. by any university in The start of this academic year was prominence with which AUB is viewed certainly a surprise in terms of planning. here in Lebanon. AUB has a national the United States. The Syrian crisis happened at a time significance that is really not matched when faculty and students were by any university in the United States. already on campus for orientation I find I’m representing a university that week, so we had to make very quick reaches every part of the population, and UnWIndInG decisions in case any kind of US military that almost everything that AUB does is There is a small, shaded gully down President Dorman on a strike against the Syrian regime took very closely followed and often below Van Dyck and the Diana Tamari surprising start to the school year, being a place. Because, in the worst case, it imitated. This places quite a burden Sabbagh Building that is still quite university president, probably would have affected AUB and on the presidency, the University, and wild, contrasting with the rest of the advice to new students, its ability to maintain its international on its faculty to set standards for the campus which is beautifully maintained. and where to get away from it all on campus. staff, faculty, and students. In thinking country, and in many ways for the I just learned recently that part of that about options for international students region as well. wadi is shored up with stones from the and faculty, we had to consider logistical College Hall building that was destroyed supplies, things like fuel and water, AdVISInG in 1991. I’ve often heard students remark and also supplies of medicines that New students need to understand that about the different feeling they get would be needed to treat chemical they are not here just to fulfill course when they walk out of the urban fabric attacks. We even had to consider what and degree requirements. A major part of Beirut onto campus. I get the same might happen if we had to evacuate of their education has to do with taking feeling when I walk down the wild glen some people from campus. In 2006 advantage of all the opportunities by the women’s dorms. It’s like a step there was a land route out through that AUB has to offer. It’s not only back into a different world, and it’s Syria. If the airport were closed, a beautiful campus, but it’s also a even quieter than the main campus. evacuation would be very challenging. campus rich with cultural events, -K.D. Those were the big questions, but thus academic conferences, club activities, far we’ve had a very normal academic and sports that are here for the taking. year. What surprised me was the way It’s very important for students to in which the threatening political engage with their peers, and interact 54 Inbox Dear AUB friends, faculty, staff, and alumni worldwide, We’re proud to welcome 2014 with a new look—and a new approach to the MainGate. Since the magazine was founded 11 years ago, the way we communicate has changed dramatically. Social media keeps us up to the minute with events that are happening half a world away. New stories Cover are posted on the AUB website every day. For one group of Syrian refugee children it was a So, do we still need a beautiful 70-page magazine in a world in which we’re bombarded with summer filled with promise data all day long? We say “yes!”— and our readers have too. thanks to AUB students working with the CCECS to Many alumni refer to the “transformative” and “life changing” AUB experience. At the MainGate, create fun activities for the we share stories and explore how we inspire. How we lead. We focus on the students, faculty, and youngsters. staff who change lives. Bring you transformative research. Spotlight community impact. Show how AUB is addressing the health needs of the region, at AUBMC and beyond. Three times a year, we bring you the big picture view of AUB, tell you why AUB still matters—and how. We believe this redesigned format does this better than before. Here are the new sections: InSpIRATIon Student life, the liberal arts, and the personalities that make AUB tick. The MainGate is published three dISCoVERIES times a year in Beirut by the American University of Beirut for Research stories from students and faculty. Discover labs on campus. 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