Arab American Community Mourns Loss of Activist and Daughter at Memorial Service

posted on: Jul 29, 2009

Mohamad A. Habhab of Dearborn Heights and his daughter were remembered at a memorial service on Saturday, July 25 at the Islamic Center of America, 19500 Ford Road, Dearborn.

Habhab, 43 and his three-year old daughter Yasmeena, were killed in an automobile accident while vacationing in Lebanon. His wife Llama and children Adeeb and Aya who were also passangers, survived the accident.

Habhab immigrated to the U.S. in 1986 and studied engineering at Wayne State University and Lawrence Technological University. He was a senior engineer at Chrysler.

“His work was a tribute to his success as a community activist in the Arab American community,” said Turkia Awada Mullin, Wayne County Director of Economic Development and a founder of the AAYP-Arab American Young Professionals, of which Habhab was an active member at its inception. “As a mentor to youth, he was a role model and exerted a fine example of community leadership in the Arab American community,” added Mullin.

Habhab and his daughter were laid to rest in their native village of Kfarhouna, Lebanon.