Intro to Iman Ayad

This was taken year with Ayad's roommates.

Iman Hesham Ayad is currently a Freshman at Concordia University. She was on March 16, 2000 in Oregon. She grew up in Beaverton her whole life and has lived in the same house for 13 years. She lives with her Mom, Araceli F Ayad and her older sister Nabila. Her other sister, Elia, lives in an apartment with her husband Aaron and her 2 and a half year-old son Oliver. Her dad passed away when she was thirteen. Her mom is Mexican and her dad was Egyptian, so she got the best of both worlds by growing up in two different cultures. As she grew older she gained and lost a lot of friends and has finally found a couple of good ones to stick by. Her best friend Christian is 17 and is currently doing online school for college. He’s her rock, she tells him everything. Lily is another close friend and is 17 as well but is now a Senior in high school. She’s very kind and very down to earth.

This is Iman in Egypt in 2017.

Ayad’s mother’s side of the family is very musically talented so growing up music took a very big place in her life. Her uncle’s, when they were in Mexico, formed a band together and would play at venues. Her sister, Nabila, is also musically inclined and is a singer. In Fact she has a song out that she wrote the lyrics too and sang in and her friend produced and she is currently writing another one. In Ayad’s elementary school days, she was interested in learning the piano and so she taught herself a few songs but the more life happened the less she was interested in learning the piano.

When she was 12 her school offered a band program and she decided to play the drums, which surprisingly she was very good at. After a year, she decided to drop band and stopped playing instruments altogether. Since music was always around her, music is very important to her to this day. She mostly listens to music that is more on the Alternative side or just very calming and chill music. Some of her favorite artists are Laurel, Bastille, Matt Maeson, and Little Mix.

This was taken at the Red Sea with Ayad's family.  On the left is her sister Nabila and her mom Araceli.

She continued to stay in the arts through theater. In Elementary school she was in two plays, School House Rocks and Seussical the Musical. In middle school she was only in one which was about Greek Mythology. In high school she was in two. The first one was The Election and the last one she did was called Curtains.

Iman Ayad was always interested in helping people ever since a young age and decided to spend her time in High School volunteering as much as she could. She did simple things like being a camp counselor and reading to elementary school kids. No matter how mundane the projects were as long as she was helping in some way she was happy.

This was back in 2017 and Iman Ayad meet her favorite author.

Growing up Ayad wasn’t a big reader but then one day her sixth grade teacher read her class The Hunger Games and she fell in love with books. Some of her favorites include The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, and The Daughter of Smoke and Bone series by Laini Taylor. Where books didn’t take place when she was younger, TV and movies did. Growing up her father was a huge Will Smith fan, so all of the movies and shows that she would watch would have Will Smith star in them. Her favorite movies are any in the Men in Black series, Phantom of the Opera, and any Disney movie. Some of her favorite shows are Kim Possible, Revenge, and Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Something that is very important to Iman Ayad is her love for Will Smith. Naturally since her father was a huge fan she became one herself as well. She is so enamored with Will Smith that when she was 13 she wrote a letter to him and two years later she received one back and has had it hung up ever since.

This was Ayad's cast for her latest show Curtains.

As stated before, Ms. Ayad has always has had a passion for helping people, so she decided to become a Psychologist and wants to specialize in Trauma Psychology, with children specifically.  Her dream is to have her own practice and to have her own Foster home or become a Foster parent and to have so many Foster children that it might as well be a Foster home. But for now she just wants to do well in school and finish strong. Or to at least finish.