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Soufi-Ahdab ‘87
and
Wissam Yafi ‘87
and their families for
a day at Mr. Jefferson’s Capitol, the Virginia General Assembly,
Richmond, Virginia, USA. Delegate Ramadan would like to invite
all IC-DC Chapter members and their families to visit him in
Richmond next year during the yearly General Assembly 2015
Session.
‘89
Ziad Zakharia
is now back in Beirut as board advisor after
being in USA and Dubai. A testament to the legacy of IC, the
enrollment of his daughter as a 3rd generation student drove
his decision to move back. He looks forward to reconnect with
classmates this summer in their 25-year reunion.
‘91
Lamice Joujou
is the owner of Dent De Lait Nursery and Pre-
School, Mazitou Production House, FRIZZY Edutainment center
and My Doll & Me. In February 2014, Lamice has been nomi-
nated for a Wonder Woman award by Women in Toys associ-
ation-WIT. Moreover, Lamice is now the Lebanon chapter chair
for WIT. Lamice is taking part now along with 150 women from
around 50 countries in the Cherie Blaire foundation for women,
mentoring program. Lately, Lamice has been selected by the
Vital Voices Global Partnership, along with 70 other business
women leaders in the Middle-East, Africa, Latin America and
the Caribbean to take part in the Vital Voices’ GROW fellowship
program (VV Grow). Lamice is a mother of three children, the
eldest graduating this year from IC.
‘97
Michel el Azar
is currently the Strategic Partnership Manager
at Ubanquity Systems, an Irish company that provides bank-
ing technology. He got married to Hala Haddad on December
28, 2012 at the St. George Orthodox church, Rmeil. Hala is an
English Language and Literature instructor.
‘98
Dania Khaled Ghandour
opened two stores in fashion indus-
try, one in Jeddah and one in Beirut. They are called Cream and
they sell local and international designs. She has two daughters,
Lila and Alia Traboulsi who attend IC.
’02
Farouha Jabak
has been living in Dubai for three years now,
and has worked and visited many schools. “Believe me wher-
ever I go my appreciation and pride to be an IC graduate!,”
he writes. “I have a daughter now, Thalia (19 months old) and
expecting again hopefully October 2014. Can’t wait to bring
back my kids to Lebanon and enroll them in the best school in
the whole world!”
‘03
Maher Abdel-Sattar
(Dr) graduated on March 30 2014, with a
doctorate degree in Pharmacy (PharmD) from the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF), the highest ranked School of
Pharmacy in the United States. Next, Maher will be moving to
Florida to complete a 2-year fellowship with AmerisourceBergen
(Xcenda) providing consulting services to pharmaceutical com-
panies. He will also continue his education by concurrently earn-
ing a Master of Science degree in Applied Pharmacoeconomics
from the University of Florida (UF) over the next two years.
‘05
Balsam Khodr
has begun her fourth year of employment at
Phoenicia InterContinental Hotel, Beirut. This May, Balsam was
promoted to hold the position of Talent Resourcing Coordinator
in charge of Recruitment for both Phoenicia InterContinental
and InerContinental Le Vendôme Hotels.
‘08
Ramzi Naja
is moving to Boston this summer to pursue a
Masters in Architecture at Harvard University. He graduated
from LAU with distinction in 2013 winning the Torch leadership
award. Ramzi works on several projects involving public space
and Beirut’s urban history while also practicing architecture.
Check out his projects and get in touch at www.ramzinaja.com.
‘09
Mira Assaf
just received the presti-
gious MIT School of Finance Achieve-
ment Award. The Class of 2014 Master
of Finance (MFin) Achievement Award
recipients are selected for their “sig-
nificant impact on their classmates, the
MFin program, and the broader MIT
Sloan community.”
‘13
Elie Boutros
just finished his first year of Architecture school in
Cornell University in New York (B.Arch class of 2018). He was
also part of CUSD (Cornell University Sustainable Design) which
brings students from multiple disciplines together to create sus-
tainable structures, that would be potentially built, using a re-
search-based approach. He was on the tech team of the Beebe
Lake redevelopment project. The project was working on a new
building for the Cornell Outdoor Education department and
redeveloping the site. “It has been such an amazing experience.
I was the only architecture student on my team,” he writes,
“and worked with six other engineering students to make the
building as energy efficient as possible. The Project will hopefully
get built in the near future! I feel very fortunate to have grown
up at IC with such great people and inspiring friends.”