ISG DAMMAM HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK 2020

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the once a leopard,

team always a leopard

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grade nine
Yasin Abbas
Sahar Abdelhadi
Ahmed Abou Table
Mahmoud Ahmed

Faris Al Nasrallah
Norah Al Rumayh
Zahra Al Rumayh

Ali Al-Bakshy

Ali Al-Howaidi
Ali Albayyat
Amnah Aldabbagh
Elyas Aldar

Ali Aldushaish
Mohammad Alfuhaid

Jana Alhabib
Yamen Alhilawi

Ahmed Wael Ali
Mahdi Almatar
Yousef Almohammedali
Abdullah Alqudihy

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Meesam Arshad
Hassan Azzam
Sari Bawadi
Gabriel Barillos

Vafa Bunyatova
Dany Choumar
Ahmad Desouky
Clara Doeibis

Jana El Monzer
Jodi El Monzer
Jumana Elattar
Ahmed Elfiky

Fady Elgohary
Joudi Elhadad
Malak Elsawy
Mariam Elsawy

Youssef Elsawy
Yossef Emara
Yazid Faki Adam
Basem Farahat

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Rand Hammou
Je Hyung Han
Abubaker Homeida
Ray Hurtado

Hamzeh Jabor
Nour Jalabi
Aaryan Jatoi
Maahi Joshi

Mohamed Kamaledin
Hana Kamarudeen

Saba Khalid
Hla Khalifa

Sharla Latievarya
Fangchengwei Li

Earl Lisaba
Malak Mahfouz

Sherihan Mahmoud
Mominah Majid
Lamis Masaad
Jannah Mesbah

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Abdullah Mohammad
Mashaal Nadir
Yehia Osman
Moaaz Refai

Farah Saweries
Mohamad Sewify

Hamza Sharaf
Leen Shehada

Yassin Shehata
Zainab Soleja

Saad Syed
Ammar Tawfik Hassan

Ezra Wynne
Saad Zafar
Nayla Zubaidi

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grade ten
Lylas Abdelazim
Omar Abdelaziz
Bishoy Abdelnour
Ahmed Abouebada

Husni Abugosh
Ayisha Adus

Menna Ahmed
Zyad Ahmed

Abdullah AlMohammed
Mohammed Al-Howaidi

Pascale Al-Wadi
Jasira Alaudeen

Saeed Alhabib
Omar Alkhateeb
Fatma Alkhater
Donna Alqadoucy

Amr Alsayed
Majd Ammari
Suhaylah Ayouby
Maryam Bakr

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Bianca Balajadia
Ryan Barillos
Fathy Basha

Mohamed Batran

Disha Chaudhari
Johans Cipriano
Dianne Culala

Ricardo Diaz

Mary Ann Doeibis
Rihab Eisa
Shahd Eissa

Hania El Chafie

Kareem El Monzer
Sara Elazzazi

Mohamed Elbagir
Habiba Elbassiouny

Omar Elghonimi
Ahmed Elsayed
Youssef Estafanous

Bossy Farag

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Mohamed Farahat s
Abeer Fatima

Soumeya Feradi
Nour Ghoraba

Salem Haddadin
Ahmed Hammad
Zaynab Hammouda
Muhammad Hamza

Mohamed Harby
Amr Hassan

Yahya Hussein
Eungyeol Jo

Abdul Rehman Khalid
Abdullah Khalid
Waleed Lugod
Ahmed Malik

Lujain Mansour
Habiba Mohamed

Sena Mousa
Ahmed Nabri

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Ahmad Naji
Ziyad Nasr
Diya Patel
Zainab Radwan

Zina Refaat
Mahdi Saleh
Priscilla Samuel
Fady Saweries

Huda Shah
Georgios Soupios

Jamila Tayibu
Maya Warrak

Basim Zafar

sophomores

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grade eleven
Yassir Ahmed
Mohammed Al Abbas

Qusai Al Anoud
Abdullah Al Nasrallah

Lojien Al Tayar
Yahya Al-Mohsen
Ahmed Albayyat

Fadak AlBouri

Yasmine Alireza
Abdalla Almekawy
Anas Alqadoucy

Tala Alqerem

Huzaifa Altaf
Hala Amer
Merna Arafa
Yarub Asiri

Jouri Badawi
Mohammad Bakr

Joshua Daniel
Eltayeb Diab

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Sara El-Darawani
Iman El-Hajj

Samir El-Hassanein
Sara Elbadry

Ahmed Farahat
Hadi Farhat
Taif Ghalayini

Mohamad Hachouche

Ziad Hamama
Leen Hammou
Safiyyah Hasan
Karim Hashem

Maysoon Hussein
Muhammad Ibrahim

Agnes Ipe
Malak Kamaleldin

Waleed Khalid
Sulaim Khan

Ahmed Khanfar
Ahmed Maharem

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Sabeeh Mahmood
Abdul Raafay Majid

Shady Malak
Werdah Malik

Youssef Mandour
Bertrand Mendez
Ahmed Yahia Mohamed
Yasmeen Mohammed

Youssef Mostafa
Bilal Mustafa
Zaineb Nabri
Zenab Nasr

Adham Nassar
Fathima Nawaz
Julean Palpallatoc
Wildan Prakoso

Afrah Rahman
Ahmed Ramadan

Lina Reslan
Rida Salih

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Warda Shah
Gana Sharafeldn
Amany Shehata

Aryan Shelke

Ahmed Sherif
Michail Soupios

Rose Sous
Karim Tamim

Zainab Tayibu
Ara Wildan
Lama Yassin

Harshvardhan Yeole

Logeena Youssef
Laila Zaki Ali
Danai Zami

juniors

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SarahAbdelaziz

High school was over in a blink of an
eye and here we are graduating.
After many years of waiting for this
moment it saddens me that I’m leav-
ing the place I’ve called home for
13 years. My heart will always have a
special place for ISG Dammam and
everyone in it (especially the glo up).
Also, yes I do talk.

CLINOMANIAC

twenty 20

Mou afAabdelhadi

What a time to be alive

PeterAbdelmalek

To friends, to family, to teachers, to peers
and many other great people I met
throughout my high school experience.
Every single one of you has contrib-
uted to make me the man I am today.
All my friends who have stood with me
through thick and thin. All of these faces
will be forever engraved into my memory.
From singing in the car together to the
memories we made on the beach day
and the Bahrain trip, I can’t forget any
of you. The teachers that have guided
us through the dark tunnel to the light,
and helped us up when we were down,
you don’t know much it means to us.
I love you all.

ELANTRA

twenty 20

MoazElbassiouny

All our dreams can come true if we have
the courage to pursue them. Teach
me knowledge and good judgment,
for I trust your commands. A big thank
you to my friends, family, and teachers
for making me who I am today. Thanks
for all of the memories. Having friends
in each grade, I was really a KING. My
best memory in high school was get-
ting the last place in Saicak, since I re-
ally had fun that day and I wasn’t pres-
sured. Senior trip was the time in which
I had so much fun and I enjoyed it.
Beace

KING

SalmaHamama

Never would I have imagined
that I’d be quite sad about rad-
uating from school, but here I am.
Although at times it didn’t feel like
it, this school has been nothing
but a blessing. Here is to always
procrastinating every assignment I
do and to the countless breakdowns
that AP bio and physics gave me.
Shout to my favorite peo-
ple, the glo up!! And no, I am
not related to Zeina Mohamed.

PROCASTINATOR

twenty 20

Abdulrahman

Abduljabar

It’s been real. It’s been fun. But it
hasn’t been real fun.

BA

FaroukAbdul-Rahim

I would like to thank my family and friends
for being by my side when I needed
them. Honestly, if I learned one thing
in high school, it’s to focus only on the
important things and ignore every-
thing else. I am thankful for the people
around me and I will miss all the mem-
ories that highschool gave me and
the valuable lessons it has taught me,
not only academically but also in life.

DEBONAIR

twenty 20

Jasmin
Abu-Sapeitan

I’ve been in this school for the past 14 years of my life
and i wouldn’t change a thing of it. I want to thank my
teachers for always tolerating my foulness and helping me
out through this journey. Yes, I was absent for almost half of
the year but I definitely will miss every single thing about
this school. I would like to thank all my friends for helping me
out through all this. 3 friends above all Moudy, Deenz and
Soso. 3 that had my back no matter what. They played a
huge role and greatly impacted who I am today. I want
to thank them for always being there for me. They made
the years pass easier and when they left the school I truly
understood how much they meant to me. Moudy, my favor-
ite tutor, although you go crazy at times when you teach
me and I drive you insane, but I wouldn’t have passed
those years without you, I’m so sorry for letting you do my
homeworks and essays (this isn’t for the teachers to see,
oops). From Merihan to Alaa, Ahlam, Lara, Abdoo, Moaz
and all of the rest that i don’t need to be mentioning be-
cause, that’s a long list and you know who you are, you all
have my heart. Although we’ve been through rough patch-
es but, I wouldn’t be who i am today without any of you
and for that I just want to say I love you all way too much.
So, thank you ISG Dammam, teachers and friends for all
that you’ve done for me. I hope the years ahead of you
will be as kind as you have been to me, “P.S. I Love You”.

HA AA

FajarAdeel

I always imagined my senior
year ending with us all hug-
ging and saying goodbye in
the end. But instead we’re all
quarantined and realizing that
Netflix is overrated. Goodbye
senior year. I demand a refund.

YAAAR

twenty 20

Zarah

Ahmed

“Please upload your yearbook paragraphs by the
end of this lesson.” Woah, hold on… we’re at that
step already? Um, alright, so what do I want to say to
anyone reading? Honestly, I have no idea, but I guess
I have to start somewhere. Well then, here goes noth-
ing. I’ll start off with a genuine thank you - a big, fat,
enormous, emotionally-charged, heartfelt, thank you
to my family. The fact that I’ve made it so far as to hear,
“You’ll be writing your yearbook paragraphs today,”
is only to show that I’m lucky to have a persistent sup-
port system that’s always rooting for me and always
pushing me forward. I’ll also like to thank all my teach-
ers and classmates for welcoming me into this school
and adding to the experience of high school. As we
all know, it’s almost impossible to come out of these 4
years without conflicts, drama, negative feelings, but
it’s equally impossible to come out without making
some of the best memories and having the craziest
laughs. Here’s to closing the high-school chapter, and
entering a new phase with full power and elation.

OBSERVANT

LeenaAhmad

This year has been very, VERY unex-
pected. I was sure I was gonna die. If
school wasn’t gonna kill me it would’ve
been either from climate change,
WW3 almost being a thing or Coro-
navirus. Having a chance of dying
when so close to graduating is an ex-
perience I think everyone should feel.
It makes you realize the importance
of life and how you should’ve been
cherishing your last memories as a se-
nior. Istg if there’s a plaque next year
then good luck 2021 batch, hope
you guys never have to use zoom.

PARADOX

twenty 20

Abbas
Al-Howaidi
Does anyone even read these? I could say
anything I want. Gossip, drama. Okay, for real
now, let’s take it from the beginning: School.
13 long years of my life. 17,000 hours I spent
wishing I was at home. You could take al-
most 4 trips to mars in 17,000 hours. I don’t
want to go to Mars, though. I want to stay
in school. These years have prepared and
educated me to be let out into the real
world and to experience new things. I’ve
made lifelong friends, learnt lessons the hard
way, and have been set up to face obsta-
cles and rough patches bound to come my
way in the future. ISG Dammam has been my
home for as long as I can remember, and I’ve
been treated so well here. The school feels
like a family. I’ll truly miss these 13 years, but
it’s time to move on to the next phase of life.

CURLY

ShehabAl-Sareh

Look at the word under my pic.

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twenty 20

AbdullatifAbassi

Throughout the twelve years I have spent in
schools I’ve had many ups and downs, some
good memories and some that were bad. I
believe that school days are the best days of
any person’s life. I have developed many friend-
ships through all the schools that I have been
in, some of those friendships were so good that
I now consider a part of the family. I also had
a good relationship with most of my teach-
ers and I want to thank them all so much since
they have played a major part in helping me
graduate and developing new skills. In the end,
all the teachers can be seen as older siblings
or parents. Lastly, I sure want to thank my family
who have worked so hard for me to be where
I am right now and they also always believed
in me and made me work harder and always
supported me through my school career. I have
never imagined myself graduating and go-
ing to a university so I am proud of what I did.

ASHGAR

NawafAlabdullah

I was going through this high school stuff CLOUTY
for a solid four years, and it finally reached
an end. Lots of memories were made in
the process. Yea it was a struggle to get
through all of that, but it is what it is ¯\_(
ツ)_/¯. Some of you might think that this is
the start of your own life, but it’s only an
end of a chapter and the beginning of
another. Among everything, it was capa
who left a forever lasting impact on me
and made my life a whole lot better thank
you for everything. Rather than looking
back at the good and the bad that hap-
pened in the past, I’m looking forward to
what the future holds for me. All that work
and time I’ve spent, which is maybe 11
seconds, better not be a waste. Heres to
us seniors and to everyone reading this.
Beace ∞

twenty 20

Adel
Alaudeen

Time flew by so quickly without any of us
noticing. It feels as if a year ago I was in
eighth grade. I just wanted to mostly thank
my parents for supporting me all these
years and for helping me become the man
I am today. I would want to also thank my
teachers for encouraging and motivating
me to do many great things. My friends are
definitely going to be missed too. All the joy
I’ve had with them will always keep a smile
on my face. Saying bye isn’t the hard part,
it’s what we leave behind that’s tough.

REALISTIC

Leanne A A
AlHabib

High school has been a journey, and a bumpy one
at that. I can’t imagine what life would be like after
this is all over. I truly can’t believe that the time has
come, the time for me to leave this stage of my life
and move on to the next one. Through all the hard
times, and obstacles I fought to get through, high
school will always be a time close to my heart. No
matter how many tears were shed, or the number
of sleepless nights I’ve had, I wouldn’t change any-
thing about my high school journey. I am beyond
grateful for the constant encouragement and sup-
port of my parents, and I wish there was a way for
me to pay them back. On top of all of that, I really
appreciate those who stuck by me through thick
and thin, and didn’t leave me through it all. I ap-
preciate the teachers who didn’t give up on me,
and made me believe that I can do it, until I really
could. I am really glad for the new friendships that
I made, and for the unforgettable memories we all
had together. Thank you to those who handled my
mental breakdowns, obnoxious laughter, and ger-
maphobic ways. Thank you guys for making my high
school years memorable, and I LOVE YOU BROSS!

twenty 20

AhlamAlHanbali

I would like to thank my parents for choos-
ing the right place for me and granting me
the opportunity to retain ISG Dammam as
my second home for 14 years. Although it
sounds a lot, I truly can’t believe that this
much has already passed. I can describe
my experience in ISG Dammam by conclud-
ing that it was a rich journey. The unforget-
table memories that I made in school will be
forever taken with me and stored in my heart.
These memories and experiences have all
piled up to create the person I am today.
I’m so blessed to have a family that provid-
ed me with endless support ever since and I
honestly don’t think that I’ll be the person I am
today without them. Senior year has been
the best yet hardest year of High School. It’s
sad thinking about leaving my friends and
memories behind and starting a new chap-
ter soon. However, I am thankful for all the
good times I had with the good people!

MOM

HadeelAlMohammedali

HOPE

twenty 20

Zaina
AlRahal

Getting out of high school the way i went
in, 5’1. Im glad to say that my height is the
only thing that stayed the same throughout
this journey as i have become a better and
wiser person. It for sure wasn’t easy getting
to where i am now without all the tough ex-
periences and the amount of faces people
have shown me but i am also grateful to all
those who stuck by me even when i acted
stubborn and hard to deal with. so shout out
to the real ones ya’ll know yourselves, and
to my precious family and teachers thank
you for being the best support system there
is. To whoever is reading this, the greatest
lesson i learned is that in the end all you
truly got is yourself, so keep your head up
high and thrive to the best version of yourself.

WHITE

MohammadAlSharif

First of all, I would like to acknowl-
edge that this past year has
been the toughest year in high-
school. I would not necessarily
recommend having senior year
festivities as they are extremely
time-consuming and distracting
from classes. Overall, I did not
have an enjoyable senior expe-
rience.

twenty 20

OmaArmmar

Those 4 years passed by too slow, I
can’t tell you they were good years
because they weren’t, just tiring and
stressful not more. But, you can never
move forward without saying good-
bye to the past. I’ll never forget these
great years with all of you! They were
good years because I learned from
the bad times and was humbled by
the good. Thank you for all of the
great life lessons. A big thank you to
my family and friends for making me
who I am today. Always stay who you
are and say what you feel, because
those who mind don’t matter and
those who matter don’t mind. And
now the ACTUAL hard work starts.

BARED

IsraArshad BEGHAIRAT

क्तु ा. Just because this finna go over everybody’s
head.

While we’re at it,
Shoutout to my Day 1’s who turned into a never
again lmao.

Shoutout Bamboo kitchen and my baby girl Jasmin
for always looking after me like I was her own child
& always cleaning my mess up. I love you. Here’s to
the endless laughters and nights we spent at mine.
Shoutout to Jasmin’s papa (who I met like twice) but
always packed extra food for me. Ly Olaño family.
Shoutout to Baig for always keeping me laughing
and still managing to make me mad at the same
time, and always pulling through. I gotchuuu homie
y u stressing broski. I luh u. Here’s to the blazes in the
6, and to the endless laughter and nights.
Shoutout to Alaa who may be 5’0 but still man-
aged to scare the crap out of me. CRACKHEAD.
HUGE shoutout to all y’all losers who made me re-
alise how much better I am than u. Smd.
K bye thanq

twenty 20

SuhaBabar

Facing an empty page, I ponder what I shall
write about. Reality is, I haven’t a clue on
what I should say. Should I write about the
rivers of absolute nothingness that stream
through my mind? Should I make a mean-
ingless paragraph speaking of my expe-
rience over the years, how happy I am to
graduate, clustered with obvious artificial
emotion? Well, I am grateful for my experi-
ences in High School, but I would be lying if
I said that my heart doesn’t become over-
whelmed with relief and absolute joy when I
think about all of this being over. A song that
beautifully frames the thoughts I have when I
think of my fellow peers is “Make Them Suffer”
by Cannibal Corpse. It is the embodiment
of emotion and is an absolute work of art.

METAL

MuhammadAliBaig

These past four years have
been filled with highs and lows.
Mostly highs.

Best regards,
Baig

CEO of Biggg sarookh
CEO of gas money
CEO of 1455

MISH

twenty 20

ShaheerBalouch

These 4 years have been the
best years of my life, and I will
miss them. The friends, classmates,
and teachers all made these
years memorable, and i am glad
that I got to spend my time here.

NOCTURNAL

SherouqBatran

Honestly highschool was really easy.
It was like eating a snack, except the
snack was on fire, my hands were on
fire, and everything was on fire, be-
cause we’re in hell. Thank you to the
teachers who gave too much work,
SAT, the annoying people, and a
very special thank you to Coronavi-
rus, I don’t know what the year would
have been like without you guys. On
a more serious note though, high-
school is something I’m never going
to forget, the good and the bad.

A AA

twenty 20

MuhammadBilal

Romeu, Romeu, por que você é Romeu?
Talvez a mais incompreendida de todas as
citações de Shakepeare, essa linha apareça
muito cedo na cena da varanda. Julieta não
está perguntando onde Romeu está. Ela está
perguntando por que ele tem que ser Romeu,
um Montague. Uma rosa com outro nome chei-
raria tão doce ... Essa afirmação filosófica é
proferida por Juliet enquanto ela tenta chegar
a um acordo com o fato de que o homem que
ela ama faz parte do clã rival mais odiado de
sua família. Mas suave, que luz através da jane-
la se quebra? Romeu fala essas famosas pala-
vras assim que vê Julieta sozinha na varanda,
emoldurada na forma da janela de seu quarto.
Partição é tão doce e armagurado... Quando
os amantes finalmente se despedem, é depois
de várias despedidas e retornos. É muito tarde
e eles fizeram planos secretos para se casar.

HOLLOW

SherineBou Saada

14 years, since my petite and miniature foot SA A
landed on the International Schools Group
Dammam ground. I can’t believe how long I
have gone. In a couple of months, my diplo-
ma will be handed to me and my name will
be called out and asked to walk the aisle. I
have imagined this moment for as long as I can
imagine. But, a pulley is holding back. That pul-
ley is the memories that I heavily cherish. Every
tear shed, every laugh echoed in the hallways,
every smile on our faces will be remembered
for eternity. The last four years of my high school
have been like a roller coaster, the greatest
lessons came from outside the classroom. Bud-
dies, friends, colleagues, teachers, vice princi-
pals, staff, whoever is present. We are all just
one substantial family. My beginning will start
now but the memories I have built are the ones
that will keep me going further.
Cheers to a future, with ISG Dammam in our
hearts!

twenty 20

HassanButt

UNFAZED Well, the time has come. I never really thought
this day would come, but it’s here. I came to
this school when I was in kindergarten and
am now in my final year of high school. I don’t
really know how to feel about the school,
whether I like it or not, but the school has
turned me into the person I am today. I’m very
grateful that this school has taught me things
other schools wouldn’t. I met some great peo-
ple along the way as years went by who I
wish to see in university or at least in the near
future. It’s been a great run. I had my ups and
downs in this school but I will always remember
the impact it had on me nonetheless. Wheth-
er it’s learning from my mistakes or achieving
a goal, I will forever remember being a part
of the ISG Dammam family. I would always
imagine the day I throw my hat in the air and
walk down that graduation ramp, well now
that imagination will soon become a reality.

Jamil
Doeibis

School was a good experience
that taught me a lot about life and
prepared me to the outside world
a little bit more . Simple as that.

VROOM

twenty 20

Hiba

8:00 pm, June 5 2020 we are done! We threw
our caps and walked down the aisle waving
goodbye to our school days and passing
through a portal leading us to the next chapter
of our life. High school has been a couple of
rough years that taught me how to find the real
me. I had my best friend by my side that helped
me throughout the last 2 years of my high school
life, Zeina Marar and my amazing teacher, Mrs.
Maya. I want to thank all the people that made
my high school years the happiest journey and
didn’t leave me alone. Our batch wasn’t perfect,
but we had each other’s backs. I would like to
end this paragraph by saying that I’ll miss this
school and the most wonderful friends I made
during my high school years and the batch.
“It’s time to open up a new chapter in life, and to
explore a larger center.” ~ Lillian Russel

VIVACIOUS

AminEl-Ferik POTENT

When it comes to things like these, one is truly
speechless at any attempt of summarizing what
happened this year. This year above all other
years just seemed to go way faster, which ulti-
mately just makes me miss this school and the
people I’ve grown to love in it more and more.
It just seems too sad that this year is coming
to an end but that’s just life, everything has
to come to an end...But to every end a new
beginning and that’s exactly what everyone
needs and yearns for. Which is why this year
above all was the most memorable for me, I will
continue to make the most of this year and the
years to come filling them abnormally with as
many memories as a person can possibly han-
dle. We as Isg Dammam leopards will continue
to remember each other even through our final
moments and will continue to fight fiercely for
what we believe in, as any leopard would.

twenty 20

MalakElAzzazi

Shout out to the glow ub squad who never
glowed up

LOUD

Marwan
ElHabrouk

I would like to quote this from the day we COMPETITIVE
were taking our cap and gown pictures
for the yearbook, at the time we were just
joking and messing around but we never
thought it will be this real: “Let’s enjoy wear-
ing the cap and gown now, we will never
wear them again”. This was months before
the virus outbreak, yet here we are, sitting
at home, with no motivation to work or study,
losing hope of getting a graduation to hon-
or the last 12 years of hard work in our lives.
To sum this whole journey up, I was just try-
ing to say: “I Spent 113,880 Hours Of My
Life For A Paper And A Handshake”, but
now I fear that these two will also be online.
Seniors to be: “Don’t worry, it’s just
the beginning” -Mrs. Tasneem Khan

Finally,
Farewell Leopards
EL SHABAB OUT

twenty 20

Mo afa
ElSayed

When I first came to this school, in grade 9, I
was really stressed. New life, new people, new
environment. I’ve been here for 4 years, but all
the memories that I created in this place, made
me feel that I’ve been here for 15 years. Hon-
estly, I can’t describe how my life changed and
how stressed I was, because these 4 years can
determine my future. It was a battle between my
grades and my future. Some might think my life
changed in a bad way, but actually this school
had taught me how to be responsible and think
about everything I do. It also taught me how to
choose my friends wisely and understand peo-
ple deeply from their way of talking and actions.
Shoutout to Peter, Shehab, Marwan, Mohannad,
Radwan, and Mansour for always being my side
and for all the masayeb we’ve done together.
Thank you guys for everything. Shoutout to IYWL.

SHABA7

Ahmad
ElSayed

Thank you to the ones who stood by my
side, not when I was at my best, but when
I stooped down to my lowest. Thank you
to my teachers, my peers, and mainly,
my family. In particular, I wish to thank
my mother and father who supported
me and provided for me throughout my
whole life and in specific peculiar dis-
crete particulation, I believe I owe my
life to my mother, who nurtured me from
infancy and taught me the manners and
skills that I don’t really require to live, but
the ones that shaped me into a re-
spectful and considerate human being.

AHMED

twenty 20

ZeinaElSheikh

I may have only been in this school for 3
years, but I’ve grown to love it like home.
The most important lesson I learned is to
cherish every moment, because you’ll be
graduating before you know it. Time flies
by very fast, and it’s honestly heartbreak-
ing that I already have to say goodbye
to this school. High school is one of the
best times of our lives, so never take it for
granted. Shout out to the glow up, and
remember: whatever happens in the
Quran memorization hall stays in the qu-
ran memorization hall.

SPONTANEOUS

Jasmine
Farahat

This year was weird because it passed KINDHEARTED
by fast but the weeks were never-end-
ing. This is my eighth year in ISG Dam-
mam. I would say that it was a really
stressful but interesting experience. I
still remember when I first came to this
school and how scared I was that
they wouldn’t even accept me but
here I am right now, a senior, about
to graduate. My friends and fami-
ly helped a lot to get me where I am
right now and I hope one day I can
do something for them in return. Uni-
versity sounds like a scary experience
that I’m not ready for but who knows
what might happen. Hopefully a year
from now I will be able to answer that.

twenty 20

Ghazal
Ftouni

When I first came to this school, in grade 9, I
was really stressed. New life, new people, new
environment. I’ve been here for 4 years, but all
the memories that I created in this place, made
me feel that I’ve been here for 15 years. Hon-
estly, I can’t describe how my life changed and
how stressed I was, because these 4 years can
determine my future. It was a battle between my
grades and my future. Some might think my life
changed in a bad way, but actually this school
had taught me how to be responsible and think
about everything I do. It also taught me how to
choose my friends wisely and understand peo-
ple deeply from their way of talking and actions.
Shoutout to Peter, Shehab, Marwan, Mohannad,
Radwan, and Mansour for always being my side
and for all the masayeb we’ve done together.
Thank you guys for everything. Shoutout to IYWL.

FRANK

EliasHajjar JESUS

12 years, 12 years in this school. I’ve seen
it go through so many changes, as I’ve
changed with it. All those years meant so
much to me, and it’s thanks to this school.
Without ISG Dammam, I wouldn’t be the
man I am today and wouldn’t have made
the friends I have today. Shout out to the
teachers, without their teaching and pass-
ing me, I wouldn’t be able to have a future.
Shout out to my friends, certain individuals
who made this year mean a lot to me. Shout
out to my family, without their love and guid-
ance, I would be so lost. I also want to men-
tion to anyone reading this that’s younger
than me, savor and enjoy the moments you
have now, in this school, because one day
it’ll all go away and you’ll be out into the
real world. With all that’s said though, I’m
ready to leave this place and start my life.
Beace.

twenty 20

HaniHnussein

I’m not going to write a cliche paragraph
which includes “it seems only yesterday
that…’’ or “I’m stepping into the next
phase of my life” because if you want that,
you can always turn the page. So shout
out to my parents for always guiding and
loving me through all the dumb things I
have done, my friends for making me do
the dumb things, google for teaching us
the dumb things, and of course slader
for doing my homework when I was busy
with the dumb things. Can’t believe I did
13 years of school, that’s crazy! Yay me.
Here’s to more years of university. Also
Collegeboard is a selfish organization
designed to make money.

BROWN