Maronite Catholic Speaker Tarek Saab to visit Our Lady of Lebanon

Written by Faridi Ferris
3/17/2008

Catholic speaker Tarek Saab, former reality TV star from NBC's The Apprentice 5 and the President of T. Saab Media, will be a guest speaker at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Parish in Lewisville, TX on Sunday, May 18th, 2008. Saab, a well known Catholic speaker, and the author of Gut Check: Confronting Love, Work and Manhood In Your Twenties, is a Maronite Catholic. He and his family lived in war-torn Lebanon when Saab was an infant.

Tarek Saab is perhaps the most-well known Maronite Catholic in the United States. His appearance on NBC's The Apprentice solidified his stature as an icon in the Lebanese community from Lebanon to Australia to Canada. Newspapers in Beirut, even amidst the ongoing turmoil in the country, found time to follow his pursuit of the Donald Trump's coveted position.

Saab's new book, Gut Check, released on March 1st, 2008, has already become a huge hit with readers, receiving five star reviews from sites like Amazon.com. His speaking tour will next take him through Boston and New Hampshire before returning to his home state of Texas.

Our Lady of Lebanon
719 University Place
Lewisville, TX 75067

Book Description

You’re fired!

Only a few years into a career marked by dazzling early success, Tarek Saab’s life took a dramatic turn with his selection for Donald Trump’s reality show Coming-to-America , The Apprentice. Viewers soon noticed something unusual about Tarek. Throughout the chaos and pressure—including several boardroom showdowns with Trump—Tarek displayed a forgotten kind of manhood. In a new book, he shares his hard-won insights into love, work, and manhood and their source in a faith that is ever old, ever new.

The biggest problem by far facing men in their twenties is the crisis of manhood. Offering a completely new take on the so-called “quarter-life crisis,” Tarek describes his reluctant confrontation with career, relationships, and spiritual disillusionment and reveals the surprising truths he learned about what it means to be a man.

A distinctly modern-day Confessions, Gut Check is the wry and candid self-examination of a man whose life, despite its extraordinary twists, is full of lessons for ordinary young men. Tarek’s captivating tale reveals a young man with many talents and temptations whose saving grace is a relentless pursuit of truth and the daring to be counter-cultural. Gritty, comic, utterly believable—Gut Check is not the usual Christian fairy tale.

Gut Check is a manual for manhood lived the hard way. It is a book for men who never read and for men who think they have read it all. If you think you know what you really want, are you ready for a gut check?