Founded Solh Design Workshop in 2003 and is active at the capacity of Principal and Chief Architect . Omar received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Architecture from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and has been professionally employed by and Khatib and Alami in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1995-1996) and SNFP Norman Foster KFF JV (1996-1999) and later with Hillier (2000-2001) in Princeton, New Jersey, USA and Gensler (2001-2002) of New York, USA. SDW LLC is a Limited Liability Company based in Princeton, New Jersey and New York City, New York USA and currently has operations in Beirut, Lebanon, Dubai, UAE and Toronto, Canada.