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Yara Khoury international electronic games producer
16-8-2017
L’Orient Le Jour in its issue of August 11 highlighted the profile of French-Lebanese electronic games innovator Yara Khoury who now manages her own business. Khoury was born in Lebanon in 1986 and immigrated with her family to France two years later. At the age of 15, Khoury discovered her passion for electronic games and decided to hit the road to realize her aspiration. Khoury enrolled in the school of business in Nantes, France and got her training at the Lyon branch of the renowned American video game company, Electronic Arts Inc. EA, L’Orient Le Jour wrote. Khoury’s ambition brought her to the US to continue her higher studies at the University of Cincinnati and train at Visceral Games. In 2011, the newspaper went on to say, Khoury who was busy developing most famous e-games in the world realized that she wants to kick off her own enterprise in the field. Khoury, to recall, teamed up with the American video game programmer, Amy Hennig, for a Star Wars project. In 2016, she set up her company with the support of the US venture capital firms, Benchmark and Silicon Valley. The first electronic game of the startup will reportedly be named ‘SOS’ and published by the end of 2017. (L’Orient Le Jour, August 11, 2017)
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