National Advisory Board
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Faiza Zalila – Chairperson
Associate Professor of Decision Sciences
College of Business, University of Houston- Clear Lake
Houston, Texas
Nadine Ghannam
Senior Communications Lead, Global Infrastructure
International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group
Alfred Khoury
Director of Maternal/Fetal Medicine; Vice Chair of Obstetrics
INOVA Fairfax Women’s Hospital
Fairfax, Virginia
HONORARY MEMBERS
Her Majesty Queen Noor Al-Hussein of Jordan
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan’s 12th District)
Washington, D.C.
Yousif B. Ghafari
Former Ambassador to Slovenia
Dearborn, Michigan
Honorable Ray LaHood
Senior Policy Advisor
DLA Piper
Former U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary
Washington, D.C.
Patricia E. Mooradian
President
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, Michigan
Kathy Najimy
Actor, Activist
Studio City, California
Nick Rahall
Former Congressman (D-West Virginia)
Washington, D.C.
Manal Saab
Chief Executive Officer
Sorensen Gross Construction Services
Flint, Michigan
Betty H. Sams
Community Activist
Bethesda, Maryland
Tony Shalhoub
Actor, Community Activist
Los Angeles, California
George Takei
Actor, Activist
Los Angeles California
BOARD MEMBERS
Anan Ameri
Activist, Author, Founding Director of the Arab American National Museum
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Moustafa Bayoumi
Professor of English
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Brooklyn, New York
Lina Dirani
Family Dentistry of Novi
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Evon Ebeid
Managing Partner
Ebeid Investments
Bloomfield Township, Michigan
Haitham Eid
Associate Professor/Director, Master of Arts in Museum Studies Program
Southern University at New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana
Joseph Elhilow
Attorney at Law
Elhilow & Associates PC
Brooklyn, New York
Raghad Farah
Project Engineer, West Second Street Associates
President & CEO, Civilized Design
Flint, Michigan
Sandra Gibson
Principal & Managing Member
Sandra L. Gibson & Associates
Washington, D.C.
George Jalinos
Founder and President
The Galen Group, Inc.
Wyckoff, New Jersey
Ronnie Jallad
Senior Financial Advisor
Vice President
Merrill Lynch Bank of America
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Jeanette Mansour
Philanthropy Advisor
Flint, Michigan
Joe Newman
President
Focus on the Story
Washington, D.C.