AAEAA Meeting

Dear EAS Engineers

We had this message from Lila Ghemri, PhD; Education Committee Director of AAEAA-Texas

Dear EAS Officer,

My name is Lila Ghemri. I am the Education Committee director for the Arab American Engineers and Architects Association in Texas-AAEAA-TX

The Arab American Engineers and Architects Association, is a non-profit, no religious organization, dedicated to the empowerment and growth of Arab American professionals through education and community work. The Arab American Engineers and Architects Association also helps young Arab engineers find jobs and grow professionally through free seminars and workshops.

We would like to invite you and your members, in Engineering, Computer Science or Architecture fields to join us for the General Assembly meeting on Saturday May 10^th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in the Atlantic Room, the University Student Center at the University of Houston Central.

For more information please visit: http://www.tx.aaaea.org/

Please spread the word.

Lila Ghemri, PhD
Education Committee Director
AAEAA-Texas

EAS GRADUATES

Please see below a list of EAS graduates this year.

CONGRATULATIONS !!

Please check your name and degree for accuracy, and let us know if there is any errors.

Please also note that the celebration is meant for the member families and individuals (if above 18 years). To be included in this celebration, you need to have paid the membership fees by May 24th.

Also Graduating Kindergartners

Unintentionally, kindergartners we dropped from the list of graduates to be celebrated in our next meeting.

Please send us information on your graduating students, including kindergartners.

EAS Next Meeting/Graduation Party

We could not get a reservation in a park this month; therefore, EAS next meeting and the Graduation party will be held at Dimmassi's on the I-10 @ Kirkwood. It will be on Saturday, May 24^th, 6:00-9:00 PM. Please pay when entering the restaurant.

EAS Graduation Party

Dear EAS Members,

EAS is planning to have its annual graduation party next month (May). Please, let us know if you have a family member who is graduating this year from one school grade to the next; i.e., graduating from fifth, eighth or twelfth grade, or finishing college or a graduate degree.

Please provide the following information on graduating students: name, grade, and any honors.

Please send the information to aeltaher@hotmail.com or to aeltaher@sbcglobal.net.

Best Wishes,

Change of EAS Email Address

EAS Members,

Due to a security breach to the Society's email account, egyptianamericansociety@yahoo.com, we have discontinued working with that account. Until an alternative account is established, please continue sending your emails to any of the board members' personal emails (e.g., aeltaher@hotmail.com) or by using the "comment" feature in this blog.

If you receive any information that you suspect on the Society or any member of it, please verify the information with our blog (http://easathouston.blogspot.com/) or contact any of the Society’s board members. If you have sent us any email recently, please resend it again at the email address above. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have causes, and thanks you for your support. We will keep you informed about the situations and of the new account information soon.

EAS Board

EAS Next Meeting

Dear members and friends of the EAS,

The next Egyptian American Society meeting will take place on April 19^th, 6:00 to 9:00 PM, at Cafe Layal. The cafe is located at Richmond Avenue @ Unity Drive and serves mixed grills and a variety of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean foods. We ask each person to please pay for themselves as he/she walk into the restaurant.

In this month's meeting, we are honored to host H.E. Ambassador Al-Husseiny Abdel-Wahab, Egyptian Consul General in Houston, who will talk to us about the current investment climate in Egypt and the impact of recent tax reforms. Following the presentation, we will have a question and answer session.

Please plan on being there.