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‘95
Sawsan Z. Yamout
and Cory T. Overton
were married on August 11th 2012 in
Davis, California. After graduating from
AUB with a Bachelor’s degree in Biol-
ogy, obtained a Doctorate of Veterinary
Medicine from the University of Veteri-
nary Sciences in Budapest. She finished
an equine surgery residency at UC Davis
and now works as a veterinarian in Davis,
California. Cory is a wildlife biologist
(BS, MS from Colorado State University
and Oregon State University respective-
ly). He currently works with the USGS
(United States Geological Survey) and is
currently finishing a PhD in the Depart-
ment of Ecology at UC Davis.
‘96
Dr.
Marwan Refaat
joined the Ameri-
can University of Beirut Medical Center
where he cares for patients with cardio-
vascular diseases and cardiac arrhythmias
as of August 2012. Dr. Refaat was a
recipient of the International College
Scholar Award and the International Col-
lege Alumni Award (1996). He graduated
with the degree of Doctor of Medicine
with Distinction from AUB and was the
Stephen Penrose Award recipient (2003).
Dr. Refaat pursued three years of resi-
dency training in Internal Medicine at the
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard
Medical School (2004-2007), three years
of fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine
at the University of Pittsburgh Medical
Center (2007-2010) and two years of fel-
lowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology at
the University of California-San Fran-
cisco (UCSF) and was a visiting scientist
at the J David Gladstone Institute of
Cardiovascular Medicine.”
‘00
Gary Nazarian
and his wife, Micha, have
been married for over four years now.
They have a wonderful two and a half
year old daughter called Emma. A three
visited the IC preschool in Ras Beirut and
met with Mrs. Maalouf where we were
given a tour and some guidelines for the
enrollment process of Emma at IC. “I am
looking forward to giving Emma the op-
portunity to discover life through IC the
same way I have some 20 years ago.”
‘01
Loubna El Amine
earned a PhD from
the Department of Politics at Princeton
University where she completed a dis-
sertation on “The Confucian Conception
of the Political.” She is currently a Mellon
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitney Hu-
manities Center at Yale University.
‘02
KarimHajjar
joined the American
University of Beirut and graduated in
2007 with a Bachelor of Computer and
Communications Engineering
Karim began his career in in the UAE
in 2007 with DC PRO Engineering as a
control and instrumentation engineer. In
2009, Karim moved to General Electric,
Fire and Electronic security systems divi-
sion (Acquired by United Technologies
Corporation in 2010) as an application
sales engineer handling the Gulf, Middle
East and Africa. Karim returned to DC
PRO Engineering in 2011 as a Business
Development Manager covering its Dis-
trict Energy and Green Building Design
services and handling geographic areas
expanding from the gulf, through Africa
and the Far East.
Karim is currently living in Dubai, UAE.
Abdallah Bibi
announces the birth of a
healthy baby daughter, Kaylah, on Sep-
tember 10th, 2012.
AssadTahhan
and
Maria Hakim ‘02
recently married in July 2012. Assad
and Maria met at IC as classmates in
1999 and were prom dates and graduates
in 2002.They both pursued university
degrees at the American University in
Beirut graduating in 2007, Assad in
mechanical engineering and Maria in
graphic design. “Thank you IC for let-
ting us meet and helping start this great
friendship and love!”, they write.
Nader Houella
is currently working as
a Project Manager in InfoPro Research
company. He has recently published his
book entitled “Green Business Hand-
book”, which is a guide for local business-
es to go green in a feasible manner.The
book is available at all major bookstores
and is the first of its kind in the market.
‘03
Maher Abdel-Sattar
moved to Califor-
nia in 2003 and earned his Bachelor of
Updates
Sawsan Yamout
Nader Houella