The position of Chairperson is a challenging one, in a university that has grown into more than 5000 students in less than 10 years to date.

Halim says "I am a firm believer that whatever happens to us, human beings, happens for a reason. We just have to be receptive of the universal energy. There's a lot that can be said about those circumstances but there is always more that cannot be described because of their intertwined complexity. The known is always much less than the unknown, and in the case of me moving back to Beirut, it surely is. Non the less, I am grateful of the circumstances that have led me to back to vibrant Beirut because it made me take another step further in my personal growth as the Chairperson of the Arts and Design Department at the American University of Science and Technology, otherwise known as AUST."

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