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WINTER
2011
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‘76
Roni Sabri
sent in the following picture.
“Hello everybody, a real alumnae lunch
downtown with Mr Courson and
Najib
Hneine ‘76
,
Jamal Bekdache ‘76
,
Jamal
Alieh ‘76
, Roni Sabri... a great professor
and a great humanist, Mr Courson.. He
should be commended,” he writes.
‘81
Ousama Fansa,
and is now the CEO/
Board member of Roots Group, a Saudi
Based regional manufacturers and dis-
tributors of Building materials operating
in Saudi , UAE , Qatar, lebanon, Syria
and Egypt, Malaysia and China.
Ousama is married to Rana Hussami , he
has two daughters, Yasmin (AUB, Civil
engineering) and Lina who is also IC
alumni is doing Business administration
at AUB.
Ousama Lives between Jeddah and Bei-
rut. Ofansa@arabian-roots.com
Hala A. Madi-Shalhoub
, and her hus-
band Dr. Hadi Shalhoub, just finished
building a wound care center for Sebas-
tian River Medical Center.Their oldest
son Assad-Lawrence,18, graduated this
year after winning the State Champi-
onship in Football with his team, and
has since moved to Orlando to attend
UCF for his undergraduate studies.
Jad-Alexander, 16, is also playing football
and is making a name for himself in the
community as a math contender, delight-
ful member of St. Ed’s Chorus Ensemble,
and will be travelling to Ireland this
spring. “Mayssa-Rae who is now 10
(double digits baby ! lol) is a wonderful
A student at Beachland elementary,” she
writes, “who loves math, acting , and sing-
ing. She also loves animals and would like
to become a marrine biologist one day.
Go Mayssa !”
‘85
Bilal Khodr
is currently an assistant pro-
fessor at LAU at the school of medicine,
and medical director of the Emergency
department at UMCRH. He was practic-
ing medicine in the States for over 15
years.
‘87
David-Imad Ramadan
won the elections
on November 8th for a seat in Virginia’s
House of Delegates. David is the first im-
migrant to win elections to the VA House
which is the longest serving legislative
body in the Western hemisphere.
Rima Nasser
moved back to Lebanon
after 20 years in the US. She is an or-
thopedic surgeon at Rizk hospital. “I am
looking forward to seeing everyone this
year for our 25th reunion,” she writes.
‘91
Danny Abla
just won a prestigious award
for his company Pin-PAY mobile bank-
ing, the “Pin-Pay award for best inven-
tive marketing campaign in the Mobile
Global.” Danny is married
Rana Hame-
deh ‘94
.
‘93
Amer El-Rifai
is moving to settle back
in Beirut after several stations in different
countries.
He is married and was gifted with a baby
boy on March 21. “I can’t wait to see baby
Osman start going to IC,” he writes.
“Let’s gather/socialize the little kids of
same age as of now.”
Dr.
Talal Jaber
and his wife Mirna Abou
Chacra were blessed with a new brother
for their daughter Sama whom they called
Melhem. Melhem Talal Jaber was born
on October 27, 2010, in Virginia Beach
USA.
‘95
Ahmad Ghannoum
married to Raya
Ounsi on June 2, 2011.
‘98
Saad Khatib
is currently residing in Erbil,
Kurdistan - Iraq. He recently opened
a Lebanese restaurant with his brother
Mohamad Khatib ‘01
.
http://www.hoteliermiddleeast.
com/10653-new-restaurant-in-erbil-
opens-to-rave-reviews/
‘99
Hana Hamadeh
pursued her BA and
MBA in Business Administration at
AUB. She currently works as a Business
Development Specialist in the UNDP
ART GOLD Program in Beirut.This is
her second year with the UNDP. Prior to
that she was working as a project consul-
tant with the World Bank for around two
years. She recently got married this year
to
Tarek Ghandour ‘92
.The wedding
ceremony was on September 17, 2011.
Farah Dakhlallah
is working for the
International Labour Organization
Regional Office for Arab States in Beirut,
as the Regional Outreach and Advocacy