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in Human Complex Systems. He then
took over a year off to work as a program
director for an outdoor science education
camp where he had the chance to teach
over 3000 5th and 6th grade students.
After that experience, he got accepted to
the UCSF School of Pharmacy in San
Francisco, which is the highest ranked
school of pharmacy in the US. His expe-
rience at UCSF has been very rewarding
and he looks forward to graduating from
there with a PharmD degree in May
2014. “I will always miss my days at IC,”
he writes, “and I look forward to visit-
ing the campus again on my next trip to
Lebanon.”
Bilal Khreiss
started his career in Ernst
& Young and is currently an Assistant
Manager at Pricewaterhouse Coopers
(Kuwait Office) and a Global MBA
candidate at IE Business School. He
is simultaneously establishing his own
boutique consulting firm that provides
audit and consulting services to medium
sized firms.
‘04
Mohammad El Habbal
graduated from
the American University of Beirut in
2008 with a Bachelors degree in Electri-
cal and Computer Engineering. He is
now serving as a construction manager
for several government and private sector
projects at a leading contracting company
in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. At
the end of this year, he will move to the
United States to begin an MBA degree
followed by a one-year construction man-
agement program.
‘05
Sabine Bachian
will be working from
the CNN office in Paris as of June 2012
after spending a year working for CNN in
Singapore. She got married to Stephane
Petrossian this April and has now settled
in Paris.
Balsam Khodr
graduated from AUB
in 2009 with a Bachelor in Business
Administration. She has been working at
the Phoenicia InterContinental Hotel in
Beirut since April 2010, where she was
promoted twice and now holds the posi-
tion of Human Resources Senior Super-
visor for the Talent Resourcing Section.
Tarek Najdi
and
Carla Antar
got married
in July 2011. Tarek finished his under-
graduate studies in Mechanical Engi-
neering from the American University of
Beirut (AUB) in 2009. He continued his
graduate studies in Engineering Man-
agement at the University of Southern
California (USC) and graduated in 2010.
Carla finished both her undergraduate
(in 2008) and graduate studies (in 2011)
from the American University of Beirut
(AUB). Her undergraduate degree is in
Political Studies and her graduate degree
is in Public Administration (emphasis
Human Resource Management).
Carla worked in Haigazian University as
a student recruiter on a project funded by
USAID for one year before she moved
with Tarek to Algeria after getting
married. Tarek is currently working in a
family-owned electromechanical company
in Algeria. “Being classmates for several
years, our memories of IC never fade,”
they write.
Sara Barazi
graduated from AUB in 2010
and has established Optimal Solutions,
which offers all IT solutions for busi-
nesses. www.optimalsolutions.it
Mirna Hamady ‘05 co-founded Kashida
along with her partner Elie Abou Jamra,
two years after graduating with a BFA
in Graphic Design from AUB. Kashida
is a furniture & product design company
creating functional pieces based on Arabic
typography.The Lebanese-based brand
offers unique pieces designed by the co-
founders and executed by local artisans.
The past year, Kashida won a spot as one
of five Entrepreneurship Challenge win-
ners at Tasmeem Doha 2011 and ranked
3rd out of 503 at the Maurice Fadel Prize
for best business plan, which was pub-
lished in Communication Arts Typogra-
phy Annual. View the designs or order a
custom product at www.kashidadesign.
com<http://www.kashidadesign.com/
‘08
Hani Haidar
sent in this picture. “I’m on
the left, Sami Eid is in the middle, and the
guy on the right is Ziad Naous,” he writes.
Rayan Beydoun
recently graduated from
Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and will
soon be attending Boston University’s
School of Management for a masters
degree. He would be very happy to get in
touch with IC alumni in the Boston area.
He can be reached at rayan.beydoun@
gmail.com<mailto:rayan.beydoun@gmail.
com
‘11
Hussein Charara
is currently studying
Economics and Political Science at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, “all thanks to my success at
IC,” he writes. “IC! I LOVE YOU, and
I miss every single detail of my IC years,
especially the last 2 IB years.”
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