Native Trees of Lebanon and Neighboring Countries

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LebanonPostcard presents the book: Native Trees of Lebanon and Neighboring Countries – A Guidebook for Professionals and Amateurs – Elsa Sattout – Hala Zahreddine – NDU Press – Hardcover book, 23.5×22 cm, 322 pages

ELSA SATTOUT, PHD

Elsa Sattout, an assistant professor at NDU, is a PhD holder in Agricultural Botany from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. She is a practical botanist and an interdisciplinary professional with more than 15 years of experience in Eastern Mediterranean ecosystems. She pursued her undergraduate studies in Agriculture Engineering at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon, and followed her post-graduate studies in Natural Products-Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity at the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agriculture Studies (ICAMAS) in Greece. A conservationist, scholar, teacher, and nature lover familiar with eastern Mediterranean forests, she built up her expertise since 1998 on their ecology, conservation, ethnobotanical, and socio-economic values within the context of her studies and involvement in national and international projects. During
her PhD studies, she worked with leading taxonomists and conservationists at the University of Reading and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, natural resources managers, and environmental economists. She published articles in peer reviewed journals, authored chapters in various books, and referenced national and regional documents.

HALA ZAHREDDINE, PHD

Hala Zahreddine was born in Beirut, Lebanon. She graduated from the American University of Beirut (AUB) with a BSc in Agriculture and a Diploma of Agricultural Engineering and an MSc in Plant Sciences. She obtained her PhD in Horticulture and Crop Sciences from the Ohio State University in the United States of America. A horticulturist and a skilled researcher familiar with the ecological understanding and cultivation practices of Lebanese native plants, she has worked for more than five years on the distribution and sexual / asexual propagation techniques of selected perennial plants and woody trees native to Lebanon. She has taught courses in biotechnology, plant propagation techniques, and landscape woody plant identification at the Ohio State University. She has worked with arborists, nursery producers, botanists, and academic institutions. She serves on peer review teams for scientific journals and currently lives with her family in the United States.

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