Grace Shalhoub

Development of content for corporate, advertising, NGO, and individual businesses and institutions, including offline and online marketing materials, Social Media platforms and Websites.

• Appointed as part of a team of Advisors attached to the Minister’s cabinet, with a mission to provide technical assistance on issues relating to International Cooperation, in particular those subject to negotiation and ratification by the President of the Republic, in accordance with Article 52 of the Lebanese Constitution.
• The International Cooperation Unit (ICU) provided technical support, both internally and externally, on existing and prospective bilateral and mutilateral cooperation projects and partnership agreements between MOFA and NGOs. The ICU provided techinical support in strengthening and improving MOFA’s role within the international community, through partner events, donor conferences and other forms of engagement.

• Produced and presented news stories, corporate videos, and evergreen content for content aggregators, including film, TV, radio, corporate, web clients, among others.
• Content included world news, politics, entertainment, technology, and evergreen stories.
• Showreel available upon request.

• Provided commercial advisory services to international clients, in areas including, business development, tourism, heritage protection, marketing, communications and public relations.
• Led Babylon Investment Commission initiatives, as part of the 5 year strategic plan for Iraq’s Babil province.
• Worked directly with Babil province’s Governor and Municipal Council to develop relief plans and directly administer aid for Babil’s poor communities, focusing on refugees displaced from the north and other ISIS controlled regions.
• Coordinated with organizations, such as UNESCO and WMF, on initiatives including: Heritage and Cultural Diversity at Risk in Iraq and Syria, Save Babylon, Babil tourism initiatives, and museum development projects.

• Led and coordinated AmCham events aimed at nurturing and promoting bilateral business relations between the USA and Lebanon.

• Advised clients on commercial audiovisual production, screenwriting, and entertainment initiatives and projects.
• Wrote the biographical narrative feature film about famed Lebanese-American poet, artist and philosopher, Gibran Khalil Gibran.
• Partnered with producer, William Nix of Creative Projects Group in Los Angeles, on the production of the Hollywood feature motion picture based on my script, “Gibran”.
• “Gibran” accolades include:
-- A quarter-finalist at the AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship for Screenwriting in 2011
-- An official selection at:
- The European Independent Film Festival in Paris
- Toronto International Film and Video Awards (TIFVA)
- Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto
- SoCal Film Fest in Los Angeles.

• Developed marketing strategies, campaigns and budgets.
• Controlled all marketing and public relations activities.

1998 - 2000 ABOU -JAOUDE LAW OFFICES
Attorney
• Drafted contracts, customer agreements and various other legal documents.
• Prepared negotiations and mediations for arbitrat ion hearings.

1997, COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES
summers 96, 95 Legal Intern
• Performed arraignments, bail and dangerousness hearings, pre -trial conferences and bench trials in District Court and bail reviews in Superior Court.
• Conducted clien t interviews. Translated for attorney -client interviews.
• Researched case law and wrote memos for public defenders.

1994 MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE
Legislative Intern
• Researched MEGAPLEX and gambling issues for Senator Michael Creedon.
Compiled informati on for Senator's use at hearings. Observed hearings.