The extraordinary story of a Palestinian doctor who, despite witnessing the death of three of his daughters in the Israeli incursion into Gaza in January 2009, continued his medical and humanitarian work aimed at bringing the people of the region together in peace.
Izzeldin Abuelaish, is a Palestinian doctor and infertility expert
who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza
Strip. He received a scholarship to study medicine in Cairo, Egypt,
and then received a diploma from the Institute of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology, University of London. He completed a residency in the
same discipline at Soroka hospital in Israel, followed by a
subspecialty in fetal medicine in Italy and Belgium. He then
undertook a masters in public health at Harvard University. Before
his three daughters were killed in January 2009 during the Israeli
incursion into Gaza, Dr Abuelaish worked as a researcher at the
Gerner Institute at the Sheba hospital in Tel Aviv. He now lives
with his family in Toronto, where he is an associate professor at
the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of
Toronto.
His website and foundation can be found at www.daughtersforlife.com
'This story is a necessary lesson against hatred and revenge.'
*Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate*
'In this book, Doctor Abuelaish has expressed a remarkable
commitment to forgiveness and reconciliation that describes the
foundation for a permanent peace in the Holy Land.'
*President Jimmy Carter*
‘A remarkable study of compassion, and of daily life in the Gaza
Strip'
*Sunday Times*
If there is to be peace in the Middle East, it will come through
men and women of his giant moral stature and epic capacity for
forgiveness. I urge everybody to read this wonderful book.'
*Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph*
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