2015 Annual Haflah

On March 21st AAAEA Illinois chapter hosted the 2015 Haflah at the Belvedere Chateau.The program started with opening comments from Issam Rayyan, the AAAEA-IL Activity Chair, leading to other thankful remarks by Anas Alkhatib, IL Chapter President, and Rabih Najib,National President.

Along with the presence of AAAEA presidents from neighboring chapters, haflah_2015_postRabih Najib joined the Illinois Chapter at the Haflah enjoying the company of all members and nonmembers present at the event. Rabih welcomed and thanked everyone for taking their and for showing their support by buying tickets to join in the event and also asked everyone to enjoy their time by connecting with other people or by dancing with the music.

Lots of recognition was given to different student and young professional members who volunteered at different AAAEA-IL events and showed their support to the chapter. Some of the volunteers are the following:

IT Student volunteers: Abed Arnaout, Batool Al-Rifai, Faisal Abu-Jabal, Ragheed Basrawi

Engineering Week Volunteers: Hedaia Ahmad, Mohamed Esily, Mouna Abdulrazzak, Batool Al-Rifai.

Big Brother Big Sister Volunteers: Ahmad Issa, Rami Asfahani, Mustapha Al-Obaidi, Fadi Al-Shareef

Before dinner was served, everyone enjoyed a nice one round of fast Bingo that resulted in at least two people winning simple gifts. Following the bingo game (still before dinner) then multiple rounds after dinner, and during the 15mins break from dancing, lots of raffle prizes were handed away to the people present the event. At the end of the day, everyone enjoyed their time especially dancing the Dabki by music from DJ Firas. A lot of people won prizes including a 40” LCD TV from donated by Orland Advanced Dentistry Dr. Sawsan Asfour and the event was a good fun and exciting success.

- A. Rami Asfahani AAAEA-IL Membership Chair