Alumni Updates

Updates

‘60

Rafic Kazan fondly remembers Mr. Dumont Directeur, Mr Anavi Physique, Mr Doubine Philosophie; all wonderful educators from his time at IC.

Spiro Araman: After leaving IC Section Secondaire, in the fall of 1960, Spiro Araman went to AST Perth Scotland to study Aircraft Maintenance and returned in February 1963 to start his professional life at MEA where he stayed till 1976, working respectively in Aircraft Overhaul, Inspection, Systems and Performance and Technical Supplies. In May 1976, he emigrated to Brazil where he had to learn Portuguese. The knowledge of French helped him a lot. Then in early 1977, he started working with Embraer at their Customer Support Dept. He was supporting their aircrafts around the world. This went on till 1982, when he joined Pratt and Whitney Customer Support and later migrated to support their PW Canadian products. This involved a lot of traveling. From 1992 onwards as PWC Regional Manager based in Brazil, he managed their Support Network in South America, and Caribbean till retirement in 2000. Today at 81 years of age, he currently lives in S.J. dos Campos and remembers the good days spent at IC. He shared with us a picture of him and his wife, Tania, who has been his inséparable since 1971.

‘64

Antoine Sacy: After 50 years of professional career, Antoin Sacy has decided to devote his time to humanitarian activities. He has done so mainly through a sponsorship of the Lycee Saint Nicolas in Ain El Mir in South Lebanon which has received 250 students, and is now considered as the school of Excellence in the Saida/ Jezzine area. Also included is a social office for the help of people in need that was opened in the school. He has been working on these projects through the SACY Foundation, which he presides in. At the personal level, rehabilitation of Khan SACY in the old city of Saida, which goes back to the period of the Crusaders and the Mamaleek and is now open to the public seven days a week from 9.00 AM to 18H00, with guides available for the visit. Also a lot of time is devoted to the restoration of Kasr SACY above the Khan which has been in the Family since 1796. A visit to the old city of Saida is a must.

‘74

Majd Patou Fathallah has been living and working in Italy as a sculptor for the past 14 years.

This is his website: www.majdsculpture.com

Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is a Kuwaiti diplomat and was recently appointed as the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait. He previously served as ambassador of Kuwait to the United States of America from June 2001 until May 2022. He is married to Lebaneseborn former journalist Sheikha Rima al-Sabah, whom he met in 1983 when both were students in Beirut. They married in 1988 and have four sons.

‘80

Hani Riman has left his work at Najjar for agriculture at the beginning of 2021. Now he is helping his son in his agriculture company, The Green Ranches. They have all kinds of plants plus all kinds of agricultural equipment, fertilizers and pesticides. A 10 percent discount is given to all AUB and IC graduates. As he stated earlier, his daughter has a wedding planner company, The Blue Roses. He says he is missing all our old friends and is ready for any advice on his number, 03706254.

‘84

Khalil Shalabi lives in Austin Texas, and is looking forward to a Christmas visit from his brother Hani, who lives and works in Hong Kong and is an IC class of ’90.

‘98

Updates

growth, corporate success, strategic thinking as well as building a personal brand (through thought leadership and conference presentations) – all of which were achieved by working for great companies and with great talents.

Over the past few years, Hussein has worked with the likes of WPP and Publicis overseeing some of their largest regional clients (such as STC, Vodafone, Nokia, Visa and HSBC) and was fortunate enough to be recognized as a high potential leader by WPP being awarded the renowned ‘WPP Young High Potential Leaders’ Award from Sir Martin Sorrell himself, as well as receiving regional awards from the likes of Gulf Marketing Review, which identified him as one of the 40 top marketing professionals in the region, being voted by the Huffington Post as among the 10 people changing the marcomm landscape in the MENA region, voted as being among the top 200 CX leaders globally to watch in 2021 & 2022, BTX Top Executive Award 2021, BIZZNXT AWARDS 2022, & lately CX Professional of the year 2022.

Hussein also sits on the Advisory Board of CMO Council Middle East, CXPA Middle East Regional Leadership Council, and was an Advisory Director with The Customer Institute for 3 years in a row.

Since working on the agency side, Hussein has transitioned to client side & worked with some fantastic brands, that are crossing the digital and experience divide, in senior leadership roles.

Hussein’s core expertise lies in the Digital Marketing and Tech space, evolving over the years from a pure player marketeer. Starting his career with some of the worlds’ greatest communication companies, prior to joining Deloitte Digital as a Partner for the Advertising, Marketing, CX, & Commerce market offering, Hussein was the GM for Digital & CX Transformation with Nissan Motor Co. for Africa, Middle East, India, Turkey, and Oceania overseeing some of the most dramatic customer transformations the company has had to go through in recent times. His contribution to the organization was recognized by senior leadership and lead him to winning the AMIEO Chairperson Nissan Way Award in July 2021.

Hussein currently resides with his lovely wife in Dubai and will be immigrating to Canada (Toronto) in 2023.

‘11

Lynn Khalife is so thrilled to share that she has finally launched her dream business “A Partir de Soie” which is an online clothing store. It is located in the UAE. However, she provides international shipping, online payments through the website, cash on delivery, return/exchange policy and more! She has been working on this for about 2 years and was finally able to launch in March 2022. The name of the business has a lot of meaning to her, as it actually holds a double meaning. She has attached the “About Us” to give you a little brief! She has already started dealing with many influencers and havehas other big plans ahead! Please feel to check herpage on Instagram : @apartirdesoie

Website: www.apartirdesoieshop.com

She says “thank you for everything IC!”

‘20

Tiffany Saade was featured in last year’s newsletter for her passionate speech at Stanford University on the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon. Since then, she has been doing outstanding work and becoming a young leader today. She has been confirmed as a Global Shaper under the World Economic Forum. In her Instagram post announcing the news, she shares that she is so honored to represent Lebanon in this incredible international community of young leaders.