MEPI-TL Capstone Presentation Day 2022: Innovative community development projects drive hope for Arab countries

MEPI-TL Capstone Presentation Day 2022: Innovative community development projects drive hope for Arab countries

NNA - With students back on campus, colorful poster presentations returned to the Adnan Kassar School of Business lobby showcasing students’ visionary ideas to develop their home communities – an LAU tradition that is the Middle East Partnership Initiative Tomorrow’s Leader’s Program (MEPI-TL) Capstone Project Presentation Day. 

 

Coming from all over the Arab World, 27 MEPI-TL Undergraduate scholars enthusiastically pitched their ideas to their peers, faculty, staff and jury members. They could hardly contain their excitement as some projects had been over a year in the making, despite the pandemic and ensuing travel restrictions to their home countries. 

 

In his address, Associate Professor of Computer Science and MEPI-TL Capstone Project Coordinator Ramzi Haraty offered some background on the purpose of the capstone project endeavor. “We try to instill in our students an eye for the outside world, which holds a lot of challenges,” he said. “As future leaders, [the students] need to look at these challenges and be empathetic, sympathetic and systematic in arriving at the solutions,” he added.

 

Dr. Haraty also heartily thanked the students’ faculty advisors Professor Azzam Mourad, former Assistant Professor Berna Rahi, Associate Professor Jordan Ludders Srour, Assistant Professor Moustafa Haj Youssef and Associate Professor Hussein Hassan. 

 

MEPI Coordinator at the US Embassy David Lewis commended the students’ “courage and foresight to see a problem and present