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YAAA Reps in United States
Raja Shamas
College, Calhoun '05 from Palestinian Territories
After graduation, I moved back to Ramallah to work at the Negotiations Support Unit, an advisory group to the PLO on negotiations affairs, and negotiations-related issues. I left the NSU in December 2006 to commit my full attention to a project that seeks to establish a school for gifted Palestinian students, in the West Bank.
Diala Shamas
College, Berkeley '06 from Palestinian Territories
Born and raised in East Jerusalem and Ramallah, I relocated to the US for college. After graduation I lived in Rwanda for a year, and then went home to work in the West Bank at B'Tselem, an Israeli NGO monitoring Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. I am currently back in New Haven, as a first year law student at Yale.
Rasha Khoury
Medicine '08 from Palestinian Territories
After leaving Yale in the spring I will spend 8 weeks in South Africa learning to manage sexual health emergencies in an HIV/TB decimated society. Then back to the US for 4 years of training in women’s health after which I will return to Palestine to begin shaping my life and work in MENA.
Yusuf Samara
College, Davenport '05 from United States
After spending one year in Syria as a Fulbrighter, I'm back at Yale as a Woodbridge Fellow for two years, working on Middle East Outreach and support for international students at Yale.
Tammer Riad
College, Pierson '04 from United States
BA Economics PC 2004; founding member of ASA (2000) and Co-President (2003-2004); currently client manager for financial technology company
Catherine Halaby
College, Pierson '04 from United States
As an undergrad I served on the Arab Students Association Board for 3-4 years and helped organize the Intercollegiate Arab Students Conference in October 2003. Family in Jordan, roots in Syria, studied abroad in Morocco, traveled throughout the region both for pleasure and while with Save the Children US. Currently in CA!
Emad Abdelnaby
College, Davenport '99 from United States
Born in Alexandria, Egypt and raised in New Jersey, Emad obtained his BA from Yale (DC '99) and his MBA from NYU-Stern. He resides in NYC with his wife Sommer and works in the pharmaceutical industry.
Tammer Qaddumi
College, JE '06 from United States
Palestinian American originally from Houston, I graduated Yale in 2006. Spent a year in Damascus on a Fulbright scholarship, continuing the Yale tradition, and am now back in New York, in sunny East Harlem, working in finance for UBS. I love Tamer Hosni.
