Michel Zouein

“Basically I have a very nice memory that goes back to 2007,  when I used to work in the Jeddah office.

I was an art director back then, and I was asked to develop an ad., a newspaper ad., for Mr. Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan who was visiting Saudi Arabia.  So, I did my best, obviously. 

And Mr. Mohammad Jameel saw the ad. in the newspaper, and asked who who developed this ad?  And then, one day, I see a person coming into our office asking “who’s Michel Zouein?” and then I was, “should I worry or not worry?”   And then I receive a nice gift with a personalized message, handwritten personalized message from Mr. Mohammad Jameel thanking me about the wonderful ad. – and it was a nice advertising book.  So, that was a really nice gesture – even though we are thousands of employees at Abdul Latif Jameel, I felt like I’m a family member and it’s very custom-made or tailor-made for me specifically, for doing this job.

So, that was a nice gesture.  And this is what I like in Abdul Latif Jameel, is that, we are so many, but you feel that we are really a close family, and whenever you do something you are recognized for this and maybe part of the recognition is that I’m one of the people who have the privilege to talk about this story in the 75th year anniversary.”

 

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