About The Event

Many thanks to our sponsors:
• AM Bank (Corporate Headline Sponsor)
• Christie’s - Middle East Airlines - The Wood Art (In-Kind Sponsors)
• Interaudi Bank - Capelli Sport (Silvers Sponsors)
• Loeb & Loeb - NOK Foundation (Bronze Sponsors)

Honoree Lea Baroudi ’s bio

Lea Baroudi is a Lebanese citizen working to foster cultural and religious pluralism through peace-building activities that focus on art, culture and human rights. She is a founding Member and Director of MARCH, a Lebanese non-profit organization that seeks to strengthen civil rights, engender tolerance, foster diversity and social stability, and promote equality in Lebanon. Under her leadership, MARCH lobbied for laws to lift censorship and mobilized public support for freedom of expression.

A certified professional mediator, Ms. Baroudi specializes in inter-faith and sectarian mediation and has initiated and worked actively on peace-building projects that use art, culture and economic development to resolve conflict and counter radicalization among youth in Lebanon.

In 2016, she was granted the Reagan-Fascell Fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy during which she researched ways to develop unconventional methods in peace building and conflict resolution. She was recently awarded an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty the Queen for services to peace building and civic rights in Lebanon.

Singer Bouchra Hachem’s bio

Lebanese singer and producer Bouchra Hachem was born into a musical and artistic family who nurtured her love for the arts and music.

In 2012, Bouchra joined Ziad Rahbani’s musical team. In 2014, she earned a Bachelor degree in Audio from SAE Institute in Sydney, Australia with a specialization in Music Production. She writes, records, engineers and produces her own music under the name “NAMASH”.

Bouchra recently moved to New York where she sings world Jazz and performs with multiple choirs.