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Alumni News
was warmly welcomed by his brother Ah-
mad (3.5 yrs) and sister Naheda (6 yrs).
Mohammad is working as a project man-
ager at SHAIRCO industrial group in the
field of fiberglass and composites. His
wife, Amal Sinno, is working as the PYP
coordinator at Jeddah Knowledge School.
“I really miss the nice old days at IC and
all my friends there,” he writes.
Chadie Bazzi ’92
graduated and con-
tinued his studies in LAU where he got
his BS in biology and continued his
maters in business administration. Now
he’s back in Africa to take care of family
business.
Amira Alwan – Najjar ’92
is a Con-
sultant at Rasd – Amrop Hever Group, an
Executive Search Consulting Firm. She
is married to Mazen Najjar and has with
two children: Yasmeen and Omar.
Zeina El Abed ‘92
and Rachid Abdel
Wahab were married in August 2005,
their daughter Aya is 2 years old. Zeina
got her Bachelor in Graphic Design from
AUB, then an MA in Visual Culture from
Middlesex University, London. She is
currently running her freelance design
studio (ZOA) and teaching graphic de-
sign courses as well. Zeina and Rachid
are looking forward to enroll Aya at IC as
soon as she’s three!
Rola Gebara Baydoun ’93
received
her BA in Public Administration from
AUB in 1997 and Masters in Public
Health in 1999.
Dr. Talal H. Jaber ‘93
received his Ph.D
in international law from the University
of Montpellier in France. He got married
to Mirna Abou Chacra on December
23rd, 2006; and they were blessed with the
birth of a baby girl Sama, who was born in
Virginia USA on February 9th, 2008. The
couple live in Beirut were Dr. Jaber works
as an attorney and a professor of business
law at both AUB & LAU.
Samih Al Mawass ‘94
and Danya Idriss
celebrated their son’s (Mohammad) first
birthday in Brussels, Belgium. Mohammad
was born on the 16th of March 2007 in
Lausanne, Switzerland, where Samih was
pursuing an MBA degree from IMD (In-
ternational Institute for Management De-
velopment). After graduation in November
2007, Samih joined Abbott Vascular Inter-
national as EMEA Product Manager for
cardiac therapies based in Brussels.
Sawsan Yamout ‘94
joined AUB
where she obtained her BSc Biology
April 1997.
She then joined the Faculty of Veteri-
nary Sciences at the University of Szent
Istvan. Budapest, Hungary where she got
her DVM (Doctor in Veterinary Medi-
cine) with honors, November 2002.
Later, Sawsan enrolled in a one year
program at the Faculty of Veterinary
Sciences, University of Liege where she
obtained a Diplome des Etudes Comple-
mentaire (DEC) with honors- Equine
emphasis. June 2004.
She later joined the Veterinary College,
University of Guelph, Ontario Canada
having completed a year of Internship in
Large Animal Internal Medicine in June
2005 and a candidate for a degree of
MSc. in the Clinical Studies.
Presently, Sawsan has just completed
the first out of three years of residency
specialization in Equine Surgery at the
University of California, Davis.
“It was during my IC classes of Experi-
mental Science in 1994 that all the Vet
talk started and some people thought
I was crazy!!!” she writes. “There was
even a comment “Al-wayloo lakom ya
hayaawanat, under my IC Torch picture.”
That was fourteen years ago. Sawsan can
now be contacted at her present e-mail
address syamout@ucdavis.edu.
Raed Adlouni ’95
is currently working
for Hewlett-Packard (HP) in Dubai. He
has been in Dubai for the past five years.
Fadi Mirza ’95
graduated fromThe
American University of Beirut with a
medical degree in 2002.
He completed a residency in Obstetrics
and Gynecology from Tufts University in
Boston in 2007 and is currently pursuing
subspecialty training in Maternal-Fetal
Medicine at Columbia University in New
York. He is married to Lama El Dana
since 2004 with one son, Jad, born in
February 2007.
Diala Aschkar ‘95
has been living in
Paris since four and a half years. She is
married to Arnaud Martin since May
2006. They have a web and graphics agen-
cy. They launched a fashion online maga-
zine which is a new concept on the web
and were chosen by Apple as one of the
best sites for iphones and ipods. (http://
www.flip-zone.com. They also present
Lebanese and international designers.
Mohammad Saadeh ‘96
and
Rana Al-Assah ‘97
have been blessed
with a baby girl, Lynne. Lynne was born
on 03-03-08 in Beirut, Lebanon. The
family is now in Abu Dhabi where Mo-
hammad works as Marketing and Events
Manager at Manazel Real Estate Com-
pany and Rana works as Assistant Profes-
sor of Cancer Genetics & Director of Ac-
creditation at Abu Dhabi University. The
family may be contacted at mdsaadeh@
manazel-re.ae.