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‘81

Hala A. Madi-Shalhoub in 2020 founded AVS, Advanced Vascular solutions, in Sebastian, Florida, with two other partners, one provider, and six employees. This year, they acquired another practice in Melbourne, and she remained on as General Director with one partner and 36 employees. Her medical practice has one mission: To put Care and Health back into HealthCare. We serve our patients and community on an accessible campus for most of their needs. She is very proud to have been a woman founder to a company thriving with women leaders in the administrative sector part of healthcare.

Hani Riman is still working on his own nursery, the green ranches in Ain Zhalta. He is also supervising agriculture projects and doing feasibility studies for new ones.

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Gabriel Katul has been named a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Katul is a Distinguished Professor of Hydrology and Micrometeorology at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. Being a fellow of the NAE is a high honor, and Katul’s work in ecohydrology and research has significantly influenced studies on climate change and habitats.

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Walid Houry is a professor at the University of Toronto. His group works on protein homeostasis and is also interested in developing novel compounds as new anticancers or antibiotics.

He was recently elected as Vice President of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences: https://csmb-scbm.ca/ about-us/csmb-committees/executive-committee/ lightsource.ca/public/news/2022-23-q4-jan-march/ attacking-cancer-cells-from-the-inside-out.php

His team’s work on the development of novel anticancers was recently featured in text and video: https://www.

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Mirna Hamady has been living in Dubai for around 8 years now. She is the co-founder and creative director of Kashida, a boutique design studio creating bespoke home accessories, furniture and gifts with contemporary Arabic calligraphy. Kashida has sold to notable platforms in the region such as Bloomingdale’s, Crate and Barrel, Ounass, Williams Sonoma among others. Her time in Lebanon influenced her appreciation for homegrown design, craft making and artisanal workshops. She spends her time between Dubai and Lebanon seeking balance between work and family life.

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Tamara Ghassan Kaaki graduated in 2007 and left for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Structural Engineering and then a Master’s degree. She moved to Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 2014 to work in the Oil and Gas Industry, where she also met her ex-husband and got married. She worked for the construction team of a design-build firm where she was part of a team designing and constructing part of a facility in the Canadian Oil Sands in Northern Alberta. With the oil recession in 2016, she got laid off from her job, so she was looking for other opportunities, In the meantime, she worked for a non-profit organization and pursued a certification in Construction Management. She was mainly facilitating the needs of Syrian refugees that had just come to Canada and she predominantly worked with kids and women. In 2019, she joined an engineering consulting firm and worked as a project coordinator and project controller on Infrastructure and Environmental Services Projects. She worked on projects that involved the public sector and managed scope, budget, and schedule. She loves bridge