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SUMMER
2011
currently living in San Francisco, his email
is: rifaatmarwan@hotmail.com»
Mustafa Shaaban
and Diana Barakeh
have been blessed with a healthy baby boy,
Faysal, on March 9, 2011.
‘97
Riad Mawass
is currently the Pharmacy
Channel Leader in IATCO (P&G Distribu-
tor). Riad and Nada Ghalayini (1997) are ex-
pecting a brother for Lana by mid July 2011.
‘98
Anna-Christina El Mokdessi (Hambar-
sounian)
studied Elementary Education at
AUB, a graduate year 2002 and then later
on moved to New York City(2003-2007)
and attended Columbia University, Teachers
College where she completed two degrees:
MA in Learning Disabilities and an EdM
in Early Childhood Special Education. She
also worked as a Special Needs preschool
teacher for 3 years in Manhattan. She
moved to Hamburg,Germany in December
2007 and worked as a freelance English and
special needs teacher. She’s been working
since August 2010 for PHORMS Ham-
burg a bilingual school in Hamburg as a
preschool teacher. She is married since May
2010 to Garo Hambarsounian ’99. He has
worked for Fresh Del Monte (between
South America and Germany since 2002).
‘99
Sary Richat
a Senior Account Manager
working at DDB Qatar.
Ali Mansour
sent the following photo of
6th B class of 99.
Garabed Hambarsounian
married
Anna-
Christina El Mokdessi ’98
. Garabed
works for Del Monte Fresh Produce as Op-
erations Manager-Outside Purchases for
Germany and Christina is an Early Child-
hood Special Needs Educator for preschool
and is currently the preschool teacher in a
bilingual classroom at Phorms Education-
Campus Hamburg.They have been living
in Hamburg, Germany for the past four
years.They hope to move back to Lebanon
in the near future and start a family there.
‘02
Christelle G. Elia
graduated from the
American University of Beirut (AUB)
in 2005. After completing her intern-
ship at St. Georges University Hospital in
Achrafieh she worked in different health
centers across the country. As part of her
commitment to inspiring people to live
well and in order to gain more expertise
and experience, Christelle left for Doha,
Qatar and made a significant contribu-
tion as a community nutritionist as well as
a clinical one. An extensive research study
at the Epidemiology and Health Depart-
ment in AUB led her to come back in 2008
to work as a field researcher and interview-
er for this project.This cumulating experi-
ence led to the birth of H&W clinic. She is
currently the owner of H&W Healthy &
Wise health and fitness space in Mtayleb
whose vision is to inspire all people to live
well whatever their circumstances in order
to lead a better and healthier life.
‘03
Maher Abdel-Sattar
moved to Califor-
nia and earned a Bachelor of Science in
Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology
from UCLA with a minor in Human
Complex Systems. He is currently com-
pleting his graduate studies at UCSF,
the highest ranked school of pharmacy
in the United States. For the past year, he
worked as a pharmacy intern at McKes-
son Specialty Care Solutions where he
helped design chemotherapy guidelines for
oncologists to use. However, he’s looking
forward to transitioning to a new position
with Genentech/Roche Pharmaceuticals as
a Managed Care Medical Communication
intern starting this June. “I miss my days as
an IC student and I am very proud of my
sister, Rana Abdel-Sattar, for her numer-
ous accomplishments and for almost being
done with her Bac examinations,” he writes.
‘04
Aya Jammal
received her BA in 2007, with
an emphasis in International Relations, a
Minor in American Studies and a year›s
worth of experience writing for Outlook
Newspaper. Next, she moved to London for
one year where she completed her Masters
Degree in International Law at the School
Of Oriental And African Studies (SOAS).
She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of U
Magazine (since May 2010).They have
released nine issues so far, as well as their
annual bridal supplement U Bridal, pub-
lished last March. “The days spent at IC
were some of the
most memorable in
my life. Luckily, I
am still very close to
my school friends,
three of whom I see
on a weekly basis if
not more often,” she
writes. “I will never
forget the adventures
we shared, from Skip Day to Prom Night;
and of course the endless hours cramming
for our IBO exams, stressing over university
applications... deciding what to do next.
We could never have done it without Mrs.
Daouk, our IBO advisor and a great mentor
to us all. I am greatly looking forward to our
10 year reunion, to find out what everyone
has been up to lately. I know that a lot
has changed in my life since our IC days
together.”
‘05
Saad Khatib
is currently residing in
Erbil, Kurdistan - Iraq. With his brother
Mohamad, they have opened a Lebanese
restaurant there recently. http://www.
hoteliermiddleeast.com/10653-new-res-
taurant-in-erbil-opens-to-rave-reviews/
‘07
Rami Dabboucy
graduated from LAU
with Distinction Honors in 2010 (GPA
3.6) and is currently an Auditor at Price-
WaterhouseCoopers, one of the Big Four
audit companies in the world. And yet
when “I was an IC student, I used to be
very lazy, I was not a hard worker, I used
to sit in the back row of my class and I
used to hate numbers,” he writes.
Correction
The toddler seen in the photo class of
1941-1942 in the Newsletter Spring
2011 is NOT Ariel Doubine’s son as
stated in the caption.