Emile Khoury, 36, is chairman of the Young Arab Leaders’ Lebanon chapter. He is also the chairman and CEO of Virgin Megastore in Lebanon and managing director of CIEL, a major distributor of books in the Middle East. Khoury spoke with Executive about YAL initiatives in Lebanon, which include education, employment opportunities for Arab youth, leadership skills and development and entrepreneurship. E Can you talk about the initiatives the Lebanon chapter of Young Arab Leaders has undertaken recently? We have an office internship, where we [asked] universities to give us applications, and students came to do internships at our respective companies. We also have a mentors program where we work with students from Lebanese University. We chose 20 students and we paid them to take an English course at the British Council. During those courses, every student was assigned a mentor [who was] a YAL member. So the students came
