Catholic college graduate to compete on 'The Apprentice'

Published: 2006-02-23

ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) -- Tarek Saab does not even own a television, but the Catholic college graduate is about to appear on television screens across the nation in the fifth season of NBC's "The Apprentice," where he will compete with 17 other men and women for a chance to work for Donald Trump. The fifth season premieres Monday, Feb. 27, on NBC at 9 p.m. EST. Saab, a 27-year-old Maronite Catholic and the son of a Lebanese father and an American mother, lived in war-torn Lebanon as a child before he and his family came to the U.S. and moved into public housing projects in New Bedford, Mass. He earned a scholarship to a boarding school in Massachusetts and then studied engineering at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., where he obtained a bachelor of arts degree in 2000. A year later, he earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from The Catholic University of America in Washington. Saab now lives in Dallas and works as a global marketing manager for Texas Instruments, where he started in sales. In an interview for "The Apprentice," Saab said he has lived the American dream because he achieved a successful business career "with little guidance and without a dime" in his pocket.

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