Inspiring Women Winter 2017

GETTING TO KNOW JUDITH
If we looked in your purse what
three things would we find that
would tell us something about
you? First of all you would find
my ever-present camera with
which I photograph people,
sights, flowers and landscapes
that I later put into oils. Then you
would find a small notebook
and a pen with which I make
notes on what I have seen
and felt as well as lists of things
to do.
Where is the most beautiful
place in the world you have
been? Granada, Spain and
Andalusia. They look like what
Lebanon could be if its
inhabitants cared more about
preserving its natural beauty.
If you were moving back to your home
country, what would you miss most about your
host country? My home country is the United
States of America. I would most miss the
energy and hospitality of the Lebanese
people and, of course, my old stone home in
the mountains of Lebanon.
What personal motto do you live by and how
does it affect what you do/don’t do? My
“White Roses on the Patio”
“Mountain in Spring”
motto has always been to be the best I could
be at anything I undertook, whether it be
equitation (I was US champion at age 16) in
academia my book (Hezbollah: The Changing
Face of Terrorism) was published in 2004 by I.
B. Taurus of London, or as an artist. I am still
striving to paint the irrefutable masterpiece.
If you could meet one famous or influential
woman, alive or dead, who would it be and
why? Marie Curie for
the scientific side of me
and Georgia O’Keefe,
the American artist, for
the artistic side. I would
talk to Curie about how
ambition and success in
a man’s world gave her
enduring fame, (and
what that meant to
her) and what her
actual discovery meant
to her. With O’Keefe, I
would also be intrigued
to ask her about her
ability to dominate a
man’s world with her
vivid art and to feature
the New Mexico desert,
much as I, in a very
humble way, feel I
feature my surroundings
in my paintings.
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