Gaza Doctor's Elusive Quest for Peace Amid Personal Tragedy
BOOKS Gaza Doctor’s Elusive Quest for Peace Amid Personal Tragedy MARY KORR RIMJ MANAGING EDITOR PROVIDENCE – Within the misery of the Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Izzeldin Abuelaish dreamed of one day becoming a doctor. “I never tast- ed childhood. Life was a misery, surrounded by war, fighting to & COMPANY WALKER survive,” the author and infertility I SHALL NOT HATE BROWN UNIVERSITY specialist said at a recent talk at Brown A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road IZZELDIN ABUELAISH, MD, MPH University. to Peace and Human Dignity About the author As the eldest of nine children, he was by Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH Published by Walker & Company, Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH, was the responsible for helping to support the NY (2011, 224 pgs.) first Palestinian physician to work in an family, and worked as a laborer before Formats: Print, audio, ebook Israeli hospital, at the Sheba Medical and after school. One day in the eighth Center in Tel Aviv. He earned his medical grade, while walking the four miles to degree in Cairo, Egypt, and then received work, he fell and couldn’t get up. “All medicine in Egypt. “For me, medicine a diploma from the Institute of Obstetrics the walking back and forth was hard on became the human face to save lives. and Gynecology at the University of Lon- my arthritic legs,” he said. I desperately wanted to save lives in don. He completed an ob-gyn residency He was admitted to a hospital in Gaza Gaza.” He chose to subspecialize in ob- at Soroka Hospital in Israel, and earned City.
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