OUR MISSION
The "Pierre Sadek Foundation" was founded in November 7, 2013 with a mission to:
Safeguard the work of Pierre Sadek by gathering and organizing his vast output within a public archive.
Promote Sadek's work through exhibitions, publications and scholarly research. The principles and values of social responsibility, democracy, participation and development, at light of the morals and behaviors adopted by Pierre Sadek.
Organize an annual award under the name of "Pierre Sadek Foundation".
Initiate educational programs in collaboration with public institutions and civil society organizations for the promotion of the art of caricatures.
Safeguard the work of Pierre Sadek by gathering and organizing his vast output within a public archive.
Promote Sadek's work through exhibitions, publications and scholarly research. The principles and values of social responsibility, democracy, participation and development, at light of the morals and behaviors adopted by Pierre Sadek.
Organize an annual award under the name of "Pierre Sadek Foundation".
Initiate educational programs in collaboration with public institutions and civil society organizations for the promotion of the art of caricatures.
Members of the Pierre Sadek Foundation
Hanan Pierre Sadek
Hanan was Pierre Sadek’s wife and biggest supporter during their 50 years of marriage.
Throughout his lifetime, she worked to bring together all of Pierre’s creations.
She is a board member of two NGOs, one that cares for elderly people and one that provides schooling and education for young children.
Ghada Sadek Abela
Ghada Sadek Abela, a publicity and communication graduate from ALBA university, was the co-founder and manager of the advertisement agency “Atelier d’Art” where she held the position of creative director up until 2002.
In 1992, she contributed to the first HIV awareness campaign by working alongside the World Health Organization through her company “Atelier d’Art”. She also hosted two live television programs on LBC to raise awareness about AIDS.
She is a board member of “Enfants de Lumière”, an NGO that helps over 250 unprivileged Lebanese families since 2006.
Walid Sadek
Walid Sadek is an artist and writer living in Beirut. His early work investigates the familial legacies of the Lebanese civil war. He later began to posit, mostly in theoretical texts, ways of understanding the complexity of lingering civil strife in times of relative social and economic stability. His later written work proposes a theory for a post-war society disinclined to resume normative living. More recently, his artworks and written texts seek a poetics for a sociality governed by the logic of protracted war and search for eruptive temporalities to challenge that same protractedness.
He is associate professor in the department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut.
Omar Sadek
Omar Sadek holds a B.A. in Economics, Political Science, Communication, and Marketing from the American University of Beirut and the Lebanese American University, as well as a Master’s in Media and Communication from the London School of Economics.
He began his career at Grey Advertisement Agency before joining Future TV as head of marketing and later CEO. In 2007, he joined Impact BBDO Beirut as Development Officer, where he established a new media and political communication department. His work earned a recognition medal from the Lebanese Ministry of Interior during the 2009 elections.
Omar has taught media strategy at ALBA and won multiple advertising and communication awards, including for the “Cheyef Halak?” campaign. He was Managing Director at J. Walter Thompson, overseeing a multidisciplinary agency, and currently works with various institutions in the private and public sectors.
Ziyad Baroud
Ziyad Baroud served as minister of interior and municipalities from 2008 to 2011. It is under his leadership that the United Nations awarded the Ministry of Interior its first Public service prize in 2010.
Before he was elected, Ziyad Baroud was a member of the Lebanese National Commission on electoral law and a member of the executive board in the Lebanese section of the international transparency in 2005.
In 2013, he was nominated president of the special governmental commission for decentralization and was elected secretary general of the Lebanese association for parliamentary elections in 2014.
He is currently a member of the Lebanese Political Science Center Council at Notre-Dame de Louaizé University.
He has won several local and international prizes over the years.
Philippe Abi Akl
Philippe Abi Akl is a journalist and a member of the Lebanese Press Council.
He is the founder and director of the Press Agency Al Markazia, and the director of Al Farej printing press.
He is also a journalist at l’Orient-le-jour and in several local and international newspapers such as An-Nahar, El Safir, Semaine Arabe, Magazine and Daily Star.
He also worked at international press agencies like AFP News, Associated Press, United Press, and participated in regional and international conferences in Doha, Geneva and Lausanne. Mr. Abi Akl contributed to the editing of “Oumara El Tawaef”, a book about the Lebanese civil war.
He is vice president of the Byblos International Festival.
Ali Jaber
Ali Jaber is the Dean of the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Communication at the American University of Dubai (AUD) and Group TV Director at MBC. He founded and managed Future TV from 1992 to 2003, before being appointed by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in 2004 to revamp Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) and its satellite channels. Ali became DMI’s Managing Editor in 2006 and Dean of MBRSC in 2008. In 2011, he joined “Arabs Got Talent” as a judge and took on the role of Group TV Director at MBC.
He serves on the Dubai government’s Council for Design and Fashion, co-founded Young Arab Leaders, and was on the Advisory Board of the American University of Beirut’s School of Architecture and Design. Currently, Ali leads the Dubai School of Design initiative in collaboration with MIT and Parsons. He is also a goodwill ambassador for Sanad, a hospice organization in Lebanon.
Antoine Tadros
Antoine Tadros was a journalist at the Daily Star in Beirut. He worked as chief editor at Arab News in Jeddah until 1976. Afterwards, he was an associate in a company working alongside the Saudi Research and Marketing Society in London.
In 1981, he started working with Antoine Choueiri in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, before establishing an international advertising network for Al Hayat newspaper.
In 1993, he started working in digital publishing in Dubai.
Michel Lyan
Michel Lyan was the owner of a law office in Beirut in 1982. He was elected as member of the Bar Association Council in Beirut for the sessions of 1981, 1983 and 1997.
He was elected president of the council for a two-year mandate. He participated in several conferences and seminars on behalf of the association.
Michel Lyan participated in the acts of the Administration and Justice Committee at the Chamber of Deputies, especially when studying and ratifying the new rule of criminal procedure and other legislations, assisted by the competent committees of the Order.
He was one of the claimants to establish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
