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His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan President of the United Arab Emirates
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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashed Al Maktoum Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai
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Event Program
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Message from the President
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NDU - An Overview
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NDU Alumni Timeline
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Previous Events
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Acknowledgement
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Said Akl
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Auction Pieces
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9:00 pm The United Arab Emirates National Anthem The Lebanese National Anthem 9:05 pm Speech by NDU Alumni UAE Speech by Father Walid Moussa
President of Notre Dame University-Louaize
Speech by Dr. Francois Bassil Chairman Byblos Bank
Speech by Mr. Suheil Matar
Vice President, Public Affairs and Communication
Speech by H.E. Elias Bou Saab
Minister of Education and Higher Education of Lebanon
Master of Ceremonies Mrs Giselle Habib 9:30 pm Buffet is open 10:30 pm Auction by Zeina Khoury 11:00 pm Band playing. Dance the nigth away...
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كلمة رئيس جامعة س ّيدة اللويزة األب وليد موسى
«المسؤولية الوطنيّة»
سيدة اللويزة. في ّ 12أيار الحالي ،كان عيد جامعة ّ ّإنــه عــرس الجامعــة ،وهــو يــوم لوقفــة مــع الضميــر ،ولقفــزة نحــو األمام. فــي هــذه المناســبة ،ألقــى األب الرئيــس وليــد موســى خطابــه الوطنيــة. الســنوي تحــت عنــوان :المســؤولية ّ تحمل المسؤولية ،من خالل قوله: وهنا نسجّ ل لألب الرئيس الجرأة في ّ نحن مسؤولون ،ولو جزئي ًا ،عن الخراب والضياع واالنهيار وانتشار الفساد في لبنان... لقد تقاعسنا عن القيام بدورنا الوطني: ّ الموظــف ،أنــا الخرّيــج ...أجــل ،جميعنــا غفلنــا عــن هــذا أنــا رئيــس الجامعــة ،أنــا عميــد الكل ّيــة ،أنــا األســتاذ األكاديمــي ،أنــا الطالــب ،أنــا ـتبدت بنــا أهــواء وشــهوات ،فــإذا بنــا اليــوم ،نبحــث عــن الدولــة ،فنجــد أشــاء ،نبحــث عــن المواطنيــة ،فنجــد الــدور ،أو تقاعســنا ،أو اسـ ّ عصبيــة مذهبيــة أو طائفيــة أو مناطقيــة ،نبحــث عــن العدالــة فنجــد الظلــم ،نبحــث عــن حقــوق االنســان ،فنجــد االحتقــار واالســتخفاف واالســتهتار بــكل كرامــة ...كمــا نبحــث عــن رئيــس الجمهوريــة ،فــا نجــد إال ّ أشــباه رؤســاء ،وال رؤســاء. يمكننــا ،أيهــا األصدقــاء ،أن نختبــىء وراء أصابعنــا ،أو أن نغــرز رؤوســنا فــي الرمــال ،أو أن نقــول ،كمــا أســلفت :الحــق مــش علينــا ،الحــق علــى اآلخريــن. ـم ثــورة فــي ـد يســتدعي الثــورة .وهنــا أســتعين بصديقنــا الدكتــور فيليــب ســالم الــذي يقــول« :أهـ ّ ال ،لقــد وصلــت بنــا المأســاة الــى حـ ّ ـدد العقــل ليصبــح االنســان جديــداً»( .النهــار 16نيســان )2016 العالــم هــي التربيــة ،والتربيــة ليســت إرســال المعرفــة وحســب ،بــل هــي تجـ ّ هذه هي الثورة ،المدعوون نحن ،كجامعات ،الى القيام بها. ومــن هنــا ندائــي اليــوم ،الــى أســرة جامعتنــا ،كمــا الــى زمالئــي واخوانــي ،فــي الجامعــات اللبنانيــة كافــة :تعالــوا الــى ورشــة عمــل، أليّــام وشــهور ،يشــاركنا فيهــا جميــع أفــراد األســرة ،وال س ـ ّيما الط ـاّب ،تحــت عنــوان :إحيــاء الــروح الوطنيــة فــي لبنــان. لقد نجحنا في عملنا التربوي ،وسننجح في عملنا الوطني .ك ّلنا نسمع نداءات االستغاثة ،ك ّلنا نسمع صيحات ونتوجــع لمــرأى شــبابنا وشــاباتنا يلهثــون وراء جــواز ســفر وفيــزا ـم روائــح الفســاد، ّ الغضــب ،ك ّلنــا نشــاهد المهــازل السياســية ،ونشـ ّ وطائــرة تنقلهــم الــى عالــم آخــر. ّ وموظفيهــا، ـس بمــا يختلــج فــي صــدور أســاتذة الجامعــة أنــا راهــب ذو نــذور ،ولك ّننــي اليــوم ،اعتبــر نفســي طالبـ ًا او والــداً لطالــب ،وأُحـ ُّ وأحمــل فــي ضميــري وجــع االنســان اللبنانــي. ـب مــن أجــل وطــن يجــب أن يحيــا .وأنــا ،كمــا بــدأت، ـاء لموقــف ،بــل صرخــة حـ ّ لهــذا ،كانــت كلمتــي اليــوم ،ال رفعـ ًا لمســؤولية ،أو ا ّدعـ ً متفائــل بالغــد.
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LOGO + SMALL THANKYOU FOR NAJWA KARAM
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NOTRE DAME U N I V E R S I T Y
GALA DINNER Dubai February 6, 2015
Under the Patronage and in the Presence of
H.E. Elias Bou Saab
Minister of Education and Higher Education of Lebanon
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Notre Dame University-Louaize
LIVING UP TO THE MISSION
Since its inception in 1987, Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU) has always been committed to the fulfillment of its Mission in providing its students ‘a comprehensive quality education that fosters excellence in scholarship, lifelong learning, enlightened citizenship, human solidarity, moral integrity and belief in God.’ In this context, NDU has preserved its uniqueness of being the only Catholic institution in the Middle East, which adopts not only English as a language of instruction, but also the American model as an educational system. NDU, moreover, has long instilled into its students a set of values nurtured through the universal principles of human dignity, freedom and tolerance so that their innate leadership abilities can blossom into justice, truth and love.
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With more than 14,000 alumni to date and around 7519 students currently enrolled, NDU strives to match courageously the pace of evolution by responding to the emerging needs of its students, by responding to the future necessities of the academic structure and by meeting the imminent requirements of its fast- growing facilities. Characterized by three prominent Campuses (in Zouk Mosbeh, Deir El Kamar and Barsa), seven major Faculties (Business Administration and Economics; Engineering, Natural and Applied Sciences; Humanities; Law and Political Science; Architecture-Arts and Design; and Nursing and Health Sciences), seven leading research centers ( Center for Applied Research in Education (CARE); Lebanese Center for Societal Research (LCSR); Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC); Marian
Studies Center (MSC); Water, Energy and Environment Research Center (WEERC); Center for Digitization and Preservation(CDP), and Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (CRVP), and a group of different academic support services ( Library, Division of Computing Services, Writing Center, Translation Center, Division of Continuing Education and Health Services, etc.), NDU strives tirelessly to keep up with the current momentum of improvement to meet the various development challenges of the Third Millennium. True to the sense of service, NDU has deliberately restrained tuition costs at approximately US 4000 per semester (i.e. about 25% lower than its peer institutions) with a financial aid and scholarship ratio, comparable to none, exceeding 11.83% of the University’s annual operational budget. Furthermore, NDU has developed new programs, policies and procedures to maximize educational opportunities for 17
its students to help them become more knowledgeable of other countries and peoples, appreciative of cultural diversity, and capable of functioning as internationally competent individuals. To this end, NDU has signed agreements of cooperation with 72 universities and higher education associations worldwide, namely in the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, and the Arab World. In addition, having opened brand-new dormitories with modern facilities and conveniences, NDU is increasingly serving a new community of students belonging not only to the Lebanese Diaspora, but also to Middle Eastern and many other foreign nationals. The unique opportunity NDU offers its students promises them a favorable universal educational experience, which constitutes the guiding force towards its long-term sustainability and its remarkable academic excellence. 18
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ُدبي 2015/2/6 ســـــــهيل مطــــــــــر في لقاء الخرّيجين في ُدبي بي ،هنــــــــا ،نزهـــــــــــــــــو ونفتخــــــــــر ح ّيـــــوا ُد َّ أوفيــــاء لهــــــــــــــا هـذي اإلمارات كونــــــــــوا َ ذراعها الخير ،بعـــــــض رملهــــــــا ذهـــب دمعهــــــا ُحـــــــــــرق وبيـــــــــن لفتــــة عيـــــــــــن ُ ّ تذكـــــــروا أرزكـــــــــم ،واألهـــــــــــل ،أهلكــــــم أهل الســـــالم وأهـــــــل الطيـــــب أهلكـــــم أن تغرب الشمس ال تغرب وجوهكــــم يـــــا أصدقائي ،أنـــــــــا لبنـــــــــان أحملـــــــــــــــه يـــــــا أصدقائي ،أنـــــــــــا لبنــــــــــان أســـــــكبه فجــــــــــر الحقــــــد بعض ًا مــــــــن أحبتنا إن ّ وإن عــــــــــــــــــد ّو بغـــــى أرضــــي يمزّقهـــــــــا ً الحــــــرّ يبقـــــــــى كريمـــــــ ًا ســــــــــ ّيداً بطــــــــال جيش لبنـــــــــــان ،إذا اإلرهاب طــــــــارده غــــــــــداً علـــــــى أرضنـــــــا المجد يجمعنــا
وعــــــــــــرب بَد ُو ُهــــــــم حضـــــــــــ ُر نخـــــــل ورمــــــل ٌ ُ محمــــــــــــــد ،شـــــــــــــــــــيخها ،بـــــــــــــــــــاهلل يأتمــــــــــــــ ُر ّ وأهلهــــــــــــا ،ال تســــــــــــــــل ،فالفضـــــــل يســــــــتتر وبيـــــــــن قطـــــــــــرة جهــــــــــد لونُهــــــــــــــا الكبــــــــــــــــر ً وجامعـــــــــــــة ،تحلــــــــو بهـــــــــا ال ِفكــــــــــــــ ُر بيتـــــــــــــ ًا هدموا ،ما استباحوا األرض،ما صغروا ما ّ فـــــــــــــي ّ كل ط ّلة وجــــــــــــه ،يســــــــــطعُ القمـــــــــــ ُر
والع ُمــــــــــــــــ ُر شـــــــــــوق ًا إليكـــــم ،ونبضـــي اآل ُه ُ العطــــر خمــــــــــــــــراً وزهـــــــــــراً وشعراً ،ينتشي ُ الحــــــب يجمــــــــــــــــع مـــــــــــــــن بالحقد ينفجـــــــر ّ َ ســــــــــــــــ ُر ك َ توهــــــــــــجت وحــــــدة مثلـــــــــــــى ،وال ِ توجــــــــــــع منـــــــــــــه العقـــــــــــــــــل والفكــــــــــــر وإن ّ كـــــــــــانت لـــــــــــه وقفــــــــــة بالعــــــــــــــزّ تعتمــــــــــر والحــــــــــب واإليمـــــــــان والطهــــ ُر والصـــــدق ّ
علــــــــــى مالعبهـــــــــــا األحــــــــــــــالم تزدهـــــــــ ُر غــــــــــــداً نعــــــــــود الى باحـــــــــات جامعــــــة َ غــــــــــــــداً نعـــــــــــــود الـــــــــــى لبناننـــــا قممــــــ ًا مرفوعــــــــــة الـــــــرأس ،ال حـــــــزن وال كـــــــدر ُ القــــــــــلب والعــمـــــــــــــــــر توجـــــــــــع فيــــــــــه ـــــــن أرزه قيـــــــــــم ،ال ينحنــــــــــي أبــــــــــــداً وإن ّ َم ْ ُ صباح ،أحلـــــى الصبايــــا ،الوجهها قمـــ ُر ســـــعيد عقــــل ،و ديـــع ،هاجـــرا ،تعبــــ ًا أرض الحضـــــــــــــارة حيـــــــــث النــور ينتشر لك ّننــــــــــــا ال نمـــــــــــــــوت ،أرضنـــــــــا كـــــرم فـــــــــي أرضنــــــــــا يتالقـــــــى اهلل والبشــــــــــــــــ ُر الى اللقــــاء ،غـــــــــداً ،بيروت تجمعنـــــــا أيها األصدقاء تأكدوا أن في القلب أكثرّ ، أكتفي بما قلتّ ، نحبكم، وأننا ّ وقصر لبنان، قصرنا، ّ نعتذر منكم ،إن ّ لنعمر أرضًا هي الذهب، ولكننا معكم ،سنعود، ّ بمحبة وصدق، اعملوا هنا، ّ ال تبخلوا بعرق أو بعلم، عال. ال تقتصدوا بما حملتم من لبنان ،من قيم وخلق وثقافة وصوت ٍ كونوا إخوة مع بعضكم ،ولبعضكم، المعركة لم تنته بعد ،بين بطاقة الهوية وجواز السفر ،وتبقى الهوية هي األجمل واألشرف، وكونوا أبناء مخلصين لجامعتكم ،التي ّ تغني لكم اليوم: وازرعين بالوعر ،أرز وسنديان، ّ ملوا الزمان وقوليلهم لبنان من بعد اهلل ،يعبدوا لبنان. 20
نشيد جامعة سيّدة اللويزة تأليف :الشاعر سعيد عقل ألحان :الياس الرحباني
ب ّددي الليل ،اختالي عال يا عما ًرا من ِ لك من ماض عطر ِ شمسا في البال ضج ّ ً -1يا غد النشء ائتما علما علما بالعلى ُ ً ي ُد ُه ُم ّدت تُغري لُعبة البدع العضمى -2مع ُ كحيالء الرمش في خطى نجم نمشي كون ،طر مع ًنا ،نُرمى ُ ً باقة عند العرش م ،أنضجت الفكرا -3أ ُ ُّ شئتنا نب ًتا حرا كل ٌ وغدا ٌ كل ً أرز ٌة صيغت ُد ًر ّا ب ّددي الليل ،اختالي يا عما ًرا من عال لك من ماض عطر ِ شمسا في البال ضج ّ ً
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NDU ALUMNI TIMELINE
Our Heritage 1990-1991 1992 1996 2000
NDU celebrates its first graduating class. The Alumni Association was founded by a group of graduates, under the auspices of Fr. Boutros Tarabay, then President of NDU, now Abbot of the Maronite Order of the Holy Virgin Mary. They adopted a constitution, elected officers, and named an alumni leader (Roch-Antoine Mehanna (BBA 91). The first election of the Alumni Association took place with Michel ElMurr as president. The second mandate of the Alumni Association began with Naji Sfeir as president.
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The Alumni Affairs Office (AAO) was established under the leadership of Fr. Walid Moussa, President of NDU. Mr. Simon Abou Jaoude was named the first director for the Office. The AAO hosted its first activity - NDU Alumni Sports Reunion The AAO’s website was launched. Minister Ziad Baroud was the Guest of Honor of the “First Alumni Awards” event. Brigadier General Jean Kahwaji was the Guest of Honor of the “Second Alumni Awards” event. First Lady Mrs. Wafa’a Sleiman was the Guest of Honor of the “Third Alumni Awards” event. For the first time, two NDU Alumni, Mr. Johnny Antoine Ibrahim and Mrs. Annette Maalouf El Ramy, joined NDU’s Board of Trustees upon the initiative of Fr. Walid Moussa. Launching of the Alumni College. The AAO launched the fundraising program: PennyWise: Make a Difference A brandable alumni interface where alumni will access easily all features of the Community System. CEO and Chairperson of MENA Communications Group (MENACOM) and Man of the Year 2011 (ARAB-AD), Mr. Joseph Ghossoub was the Guest of Honor of the “Fourth Alumni Awards” event. Mr. Robert Watkins, UN Resident Coordinator for Lebanon, UNDP Resident representative and Deputy Special Coordinator for Lebanon was the key note speaker at the NDU PSPAD Alumni Reunion The first Alumni College workshop: Social Media: What’s in it for me? What’s in it for my company? The second Alumni College workshop: Social Responsibility : An Overview Head of Dubai Media, Incorporated, the group TV Director MBC, the Dean of communication and information studies at the Mohammed Bin Rached School of Communications at American University of Dubai (AUD), Mr. Ali Jaber was the Guest of Honor for the “Fifth Alumni Awards” event The decision to relaunch The NDU Alumni Association was taken. The work is in progress. Based on the new NDU bylaws, the AAO was placed under the Office of Public Affairs and Communications, headed by Mr. Suheil Matar, Vice President. Mrs. Joyce Chidiac Ghossain, was appointed as the Coordinator of the Office.
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As alumni members, we recognize that the lessons we learnt in our University years and our accomplishments create the foundation for future possibilities. On Saturday April 23rd, 2016, NDU Alumni Association-Montreal Chapter celebrated the launching of the association at La Sirene Restaurant - Montreal in the presence of Reverend Fr. Walid Moussa, Honourable Consul of Lebanon in Lebanon, Mr. Fady Ziadeh, his excellency, reverend bishop Paul Marwan Tabet, Mr. Souhail Matar, Vice-President for Public Affairs and Communications , Mrs. Joyce Chidiac Ghossain, Coordinator of Alumni Affairs Office, along with former members of Friends of NDU and new members of NDU Alumni Association. This Association has been established to enrich and weave bridges between Alumni associations in Montreal and Lebanon. In addition, the Association will maintain strong ties with universities in Montreal to provide support for NDU graduates seeking to pursue further studies there and in parallel to be responsive to the needs of students in Montreal who would like to visit Lebanon and have a learning experience at NDU. Our collaborations with community partners and other alumni associations will encourage resourcefulness, creative ideas, and forward-thinking.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
EVENT SPONSORS Notre Dame University like to thank all the donors and sponsors for their contribution to the success of this event. Title Sponsor: BYBLOS BANK Gold Sponsor CHOUEIRI GROUP Silver Sponsor ALPHA TOURS WESTERN UNION AMSI LOCKWOOD KIDS PUZZLE GEORGE MAKHOUL ZAFAR TAHER Bronze Sponsor MEDIAMOST BOX TECH PROMETAL RMO TECHNICAL SERVICES
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A special thank you to Mrs. Daad Ghsoub for her contribution, time and support. Many thanks to everyone who has attended this event and the people who has helped in the organization including members of the Organization Committee: Zeina Khoury Fady Boustany Robert Ohanessian Ahmad Sabra Tony Cid Elie Mattar For the efforts they have put and the dedication they have expressed to ensure the success of this event.
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TO MB O L AT L I ST 1- 2- 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8- 9- 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- 16- 17- 18- 19- 20- 21- 22-
MEA Oberoi Hotel Grand Millennium Hotel TECOM Hey VIP Radisson Blu SZR Alpha Tours Travco Lemon Tree Restaurant Roberto Cavali Junior Kid’s Puzzle Little Angels Jedoudna Restaurant Little Angels Hugo Caffe Restaurant Malecon restaurant Thai Bistro restaurant Capanna Nouva Restaurant Al Qasr restaurant Eastern Mangroves Hotel Qasar Al Sarab Hotel Tche Tche Nassima Tower Hotel Apartment 23-
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