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Officer. Prior to that, she was the Public
Information Officer at the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees in Syria, after
working as a journalist in the UK for six
years, primarily with Reuters Television.
She graduated from Universite Saint Jo-
seph with the BA in Audiovisual Studies
in 2004, the London School of Econom-
ics with an MSc in Media and Commu-
nications in 2005, and the University of
Cambridge with an MSt in International
Relations in 2009.
Cynthia Ghorayeb
recently opened an
educational consultancy in Manara along
with
SarahTaher ‘99
.
‘00
Sami Matraji
is currently based in Lon-
don, UK and work as Corporate Finance
Manger with QIB (UK) plc. He got
married in 2008 and has a little daughter,
Haya, who is 2 and a half years old.
‘03
Maher Abdel Sattar
earned a degree in
Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biol-
ogy from UCLA along with a minor in
Human Complex Systems in 2007. Since
then, he has decided to pursue pharmacy
as a career and is currently completing his
graduate-level education at the highest
ranked school of pharmacy in the US, the
University of California San Francisco
(UCSF). Maher is especially interested
in the Managed Care aspect of pharmacy
and has completed internships in com-
panies including McKesson and Genen-
tech/Roche in the past few years. Maher
misses his days at IC and looks forward to
visiting the campus again, hopefully after
his graduation from pharmacy school.
‘04
Marylana Saadeh
sent in the following
picture and news of her photographed
friends are listed below left to right:
Daniel Cherfan
is completing his second
year of medical school at Royal College of
Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland.
Adil Yunis
is completing his second year
of medical school at Boston University,
Boston, USA.
Marylana Saadeh
is completing her sec-
ond year of law school at Boston Univer-
sity School of Law in Boston, USA.
Michelle Chahine ‘05
is completing her
Masters in International Affairs at Co-
lumbia University in New York, USA.
Kareem Salman ‘05
works at Cisco Sys-
tems, Inc. in North Carolina, USA.
Sabine Bachian ‘05
works at CNN and is
currently living in Singapore.
Nadim Sinno ‘05
works at Disney Pixar
in San Francisco, USA.
‘05
Mirna Hamady
graduated with a BFA
in Graphic Design from AUB and went
on to co-found Kashida along with her
partner Elie Abou Jamra. 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 TasmeemDoha 2011, and ranked
3rd out of 503 at the Maurice Fadel Prize
for best business plan. View the designs
or order a custom product at www.kashi-
dadesign.com.
‘09
Mira Abdel-Sattar
attended Glen-
dale Community College in California
(GCC) after graduating from IC. She
recently got accepted to UCLA and will
be transferring there this fall to complete
a major in Physiological Sciences and a
minor in Human Complex Systems. “Be-
ing an IC student made me a competent
student and prepared me well for college”
she writes. “I took advantage of my time
in college to join several campus organi-
zations including the student government
where I was elected to serve as the repre-
«Dear Class of 2002,
The last 10 years have gone by very
quickly since we graduated from IC.
10 years ago we were fighting for the
«hollandeh» sandwich with Shawki
& his crew at the cafeteria during our
recess break, worrying about Univer-
sity applications and majors, planning
our Miss Torch, Prom& graduation
nights out but most importantly hav-
ing fun.
Join us next summer in 2012 for an
evening event to reminisce on the
good days and reunite with our child-
hood friends. Please visit & join our
Facebook page to stay updated with
the plans http://www.facebook.com/
groups/ICclass2002gathering/or
email us at ic02reunion@gmail.com
Looking forward to seeing you all next
summer.»
Best regards,
Tarek Darwish ‘02
sentative at large of the finance commit-
tee.” She later became a Supplemental
Instructions leader and held regular
review sessions that helped other college
students prepare for their freshman biol-
ogy course. She also received the Dean’s
Honor Award at GCC for superior
academic achievement and a scholar-
ship recognition award from UCLA in
recognition of high achievement and
outstanding promise. “All of this would
not have been possible if it weren›t for
my great academic and personal experi-
ence at IC that I will forever be grateful
for,” she writes.
‘10
Maya Fawaz
is currently pursuing his
BA in Political Science and Interna-
tional affairs at the Lebanese American
University. She worked with the United
Nations Developing Programme and is
planning to take her internship in one of
the United Nations institutions, where
she is planning to pursue her career. “IC
gave us beautiful memories, for we spent
our best days there, And had the MOST
AMAZING teachers one could ever
have!!!” she writes.