Nisreen Wehbe (B.S.’00, M.B.A.’03) currently lives in Jeddah with her husband Mohamad Jaber and three-year-old son Ali. She worked in Bank Audi, Lebanon, for seven years before moving to the Gulf. She is a member of the Oman Chapter. Mehdi Chehimi (B.S.’04) joined the Kuwait branch of the Nestle company as a key accounts specialist. Fadi Hammoud (M.B.A.’04) is the country operations manager of Azadea group in Bahrain. He and his wife Farah welcomed a baby boy, Marcel, into the world on October 21, 2010. Dr. Karim Boustany (B.E.’05) earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in May 2011. He completed his doctoral project at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Spring 2010. Boustany currently works as healthcare research engineer for Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, a position that works in collaboration with Indiana University Health Arnett, where he acts as Executive Director of Healthcare Engineering. Jules Chahine (B.Pharm.’05) is the proud owner of Pharmacie Chahine, which opened in 2007. She got married in 2008 and had a baby girl named Jamie in 2009. Amani Khudr El Hage (B.A.’05) got married in June 2008 to Fouad El Shahal. She and her husband recently moved from Muscat, Oman to Tripoli. She is pregnant with twins. Zaid Abu Hamdan (B.A.’05) has been very busy in the film industry in both the U.S. and the Middle East. He recently completed two short films, one of which received accolades at the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2010 and won the Oscar Qualifying “Best of the Fest” award in its North American premiere at the Palm Springs International Shortfest in June 2011. He received an M.F.A. in Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy in Hollywood, California in 2010.
Sylvia Moujabber (B.A.’05) recently moved to Montreal, Canada, and got married to Omar El Masri on July 30, 2011. Hala Saba (B.Pharm.’05) got married in 2008 and is the happy mother of a girl and a boy. Marie Sahyoun Semaan (M.S.’05) and her husband Wissam Semaan welcomed the birth of a baby girl named Stephanie on June 20, 2011. The family currently lives in Dubai. Tamara Stepanyan (B.A.’05) is currently working on the editing of a documentary that she shot last year, called ‘May 9’. In 2009, she made a video/photo/audio installation called ‘My Beirut’ as part of Badguer I, an outdoor exhibit and film festival. She has participated in film workshops in Armenia, South Korea and Denmark. Mohamad Kheir Touliani (B.Pharm.’05) opened his own pharmacy in Corniche El Mazraa, Beirut, in 2006. Zakaria Ghalayini (B.S.’06) has recently been promoted to section head in the Financial Accounting department at Oger Emirates, one of the UAE’s leading construction companies.
Mutayyam Jamal (B.A.’07) is the author of the novel Forgotten Princesses (Amirat Manseyyat).
Rawan Ghalayini (B.A.’08) recently married her university sweetheart Nabil Al-Awartani (B.S.’09). Khaled Abdel Ghani (B.S.’08) got married to Gihan Chemali in July 2011. Bachir Hasbani (B.E.’08) is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the IEO. Tania Kallab (B.S.’08) is pursuing a Ph.D. in economics at ESSEC Business School in Paris. She is also engaged to LAU alumnus Anthony Sfeir (B.E.’04). Ayman Nabih Karanouh (B.S.’08) works at Gulf Medical Co. in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He recently married Rasha Turk (B.S.’08). Karim Muhtar (B.S.’09) is currently working as a freelance graphic and web designer. He launched his website www.karimmuhtar.com last summer. page 59
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Georgina Ibrahim (M.B.A.’03) started her own business, called Besst (Business Etiquette and Soft Skills Training), in 2009. In July 2011, she launched an audio CD titled “Heik sa7 Heik Ghalat Heik Bet2oul el Etiquette,” the first of its kind in Lebanon and the Middle East region that targets a mass audience and offers guidelines for proper behavior and preferred social and business manners.
Mona Kazzaz (M.A.’05) is an English teacher at Lycee Verdun and Lebanese University. She has three sons and hopes that LAU will have a Ph.D. program in Literature in the near future.
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Ahmad Alliek (B.S.’03) joined Fransabank SAL in April 2011 as the assistant to the Secretary General responsible for Fransabank in Syria.