Rami Daher is currently a visiting associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut. Before that, Daher taught at Jordan University of Science and Technology since 1996 and has been practicing architecture and heritage management through a private consultancy in Amman, Jordan. Daher had attended the University of Jordan (undergraduate), the University of Minnesota (M. Arch), Texas AandM University (Ph. D), and the University of California, Berkeley (Post-Doc) between 1983 and 2001. Daher had published on issues related to politics and dynamics of place and heritage conservation, tourism, and urban regeneration and had conducted research in places like Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Daher is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Heritage Conservation at Texas AandM University. Daher was awarded several research grants from places like the Social Science Research Council and Fulbright.

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David Standen

A experienced business developer and corporate entrepreneur, David¹s career is characterized by communication, collaboration and cultural integration. A former stage actor of many years, David is also known for his unique speaking style and his seminars on ICT in Management Education, Leadership, Entrepreneurship and creating value in what has been coined as the ³High-Concept² Economy in which we currently operate. In addition to his role at OSB, David is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at IE Business School in Madrid.

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Victor Araman

Victor Araman is currently an assistant professor at AUB Olayan School of Business. Professor Araman is coming from Stern, NYU where he was an Assistant professor since August 2002. His primary research area is stochastic modeling of economical systems with an emphasis on dynamic pricing and capacity management as well as response-time management. Before joining NYU Stern, Dr.
Araman worked with Altera Corporation in San Jose and Mckinsey and Co. in Paris.
He also consulted for many companies in the Silicon Valley area.
Dr. Araman received his Engineering degree from Ecole centrale (Nantes/Paris), and his Master of Sciences and his Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Stanford University.

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Waleed Hazbun

Waleed Hazbun is Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (on leave) and will serve as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration for the Spring and Fall terms of 2007 where he will teach international relations theory and international political economy. After graduating from Princeton University in 1990 he went on to complete a PhD from MIT in 2002. He will soon finish a manuscript on the international political economy of tourism development in the Middle East entitled "Itineraries of Globalization" based on research in Tunisia and Jordan. During his time teaching at AUB he will begin a new project addressing political, economic, and cultural relations between the US and the Middle East since 1945. His father would likely suggest his most important honor is that he is the son of an AUB graduate (BE 1959) who was once editor of the Outlook.

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Ralph Pedersen

Ralph K. Pedersen, Ph.D.
rkpedersen@yahoo.com
Visit: http://www.wedigboats.org

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Robert Rice

Dr. Bob Rice comes to AUB from California Polytechnic State University i n San Luis Obispo, California where he is the Professor of Integrated Pest Management.  He earned his bachelors degree at the University of Georgia and his Masters and Ph.D. from Michigan State University.  With interests in small scale farming systems, international development and sustainability in agricultural systems he has worked extensively in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa including two years at AUB  during the 1980s and is the author of six internationally published textbooks on horticultural science.   He is currently a Fulbright scholar with the mission of teaching horticulture using a "learn by doing" and critical thinking philosophy at AUB both at the Beirut campus and at the University farm in the Bekaa.   He is accompanied by his son, Tad, who will be studying at AUB and by his life partner, Mark. In his private life, he enjoys, athletics, cycling, gardening and travel.

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Julia Kent

Julia Kent is an Assistant Professor in the English Department (Literature division). She completed her Ph.D. in nineteenth-century British literature at Johns Hopkins University in June of 2006 and was a Visiting Lecturer in the English Department at Johns Hopkins in the Fall of 2006. Her research interests include the ideas of nation and culture in Victorian literature, the history of the novel, and literary theory. Prof. Kent is also interested in the relationship between English and French novel traditions, a topic she researched between 1997 and 1999 while holding a fellowship at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Currently she is developing her dissertation, English Cultures, French Nowheres: Cross-Channel Revisions of the Victorian Novel, into a book about Victorian novelists' relationships to French novelistic forms.

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Friedmann Brock

Friedemann Brock is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics since February 2007.   He was working and teaching at the Universities of Leipzig and Cologne (Germany), Missouri-Columbia (U.S.A.) and Santiago (Chile). His research field is in non-linear partial differential equations. You might visit his website on:

http://www.friedemann-brock.com
 

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Lama Moussawi

Lama Moussawi is currently an Assistant Professor at the Olayan School of Business. Professor Moussawi received her Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from the American University of Beirut. In 2001, she joined the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), completed her MBA in 2002, and her PhD degree in Management Science in December 2006 at UTD. Her research interests include cargo revenue management and stochastic inventory problems.

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Henri Rico Franses

Henri (Rico) Franses is currently Associate Professor in the recently established Department of Fine Arts and Art History.  He obtained a BA in Philosophy from McGill University in Montreal, an MA in Art History from the same university, and a Ph.D in Art History from the Courtauld Institute or Art, London.  He specializes in Byzantine art history, but also works in the field of psychoanalytic theory and its application to the arts.  He has published on a diverse array of subjects, from medieval color theory to contemporary monuments and memorials.  A native of South Africa, he has also lived and taught in Spain, Australia, and the USA. 

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