Top Ten List: Muslims Who Save Lives
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5. Jomana Qaddour, Arlington, Va.
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Jomana, 29, is an attorney with a foreign policy think tank in Washington, D.C. where she provides policy analysis on the Middle East.
Together with her father, in 2011, she co-founded Syria Relief & Development, a non-profit dedicated to providing humanitarian relief and medical aid to those suffering in Syria and surrounding countries. Equipped with a U.S. law degree, she serves as a legal adviser to the group on a pro bono basis.
Jomana has volunteered abroad to alleviate the suffering of others too, helping out at refugee camps along the Syrian-Jordanian border, and schools set up by UNICEF.
4. Faris Khan, London, England
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Faris, 30, works for Save the Children, a humanitarian agency. Stationed at its global office in London, he develops programs to help distribute aid, facilitate education and protect women and children. Right now, he is in Amman, Jordan, on a short-term assignment assisting Syrians at the world’s fourth largest refugee camp in Za’atri. His seventh year as a relief worker, Faris has undertaken similar efforts in Kenya, Nepal and Pakistan.
3. Zillhuma (Huma) Hasan, Clifton, N.J.
Huma Hasan, 47, serves as Executive Director of WAFA House, a NJ domestic violence shelter where Muslim women can escape abusive homes safely, confidentially and without judgment. It respects the religious and cultural needs of its clients while addressing their legal, socio-economic and immigration situations.
When the group is tight on funds, Huma gives to victims from her own pocket quietly. She works weekends and does not turn anyone away. Moreover, Huma does all of this with compassion, patience and genuine caring.
2. Dr. Hoda Eltomi, Boston, Mass.
Hoda, 31, is a physician whose medical practice is affiliated with Harvard, the faculty of which she will soon be joining. She shares the following life-saving experience:
“On a cold winter night, when I was a resident, a young beautiful pregnant lady was rushed into our triage area by EMS. Within minutes, she started to appear very sick. It became evident quickly that she is losing her baby and needed surgery, blood and blood products urgently.
She had developed DIC — a condition that requires blood products in order to prevent massive bleeding and death. I will never forget the urgent feeling of literally hundreds of thoughts rushing through my head simultaneously and the tens of phone calls I made in the hour that followed, in order to get the blood to our mall community hospital.
I ran up and down the hospital, and finally got the products from a distant blood bank in about an hour, meanwhile she got sicker and sicker. I quickly hung them on the pole and started squeezing them so they would get into her body fast enough.
I was silently praying to God for her recovery, as blood was oozing from every pore of her body. I kept remembering the verse from the Quran that says ‘And whoever saves one life- it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.’
Then the surgery was over. Her death felt so close, but she survived. In an immense and unique moment of mixed emotions (anxiety, relief, sorrow), it seemed like each member of our team - despite our different backgrounds- had recognized a humbling yet overwhelming appreciation of human life.”
1. Dr. Sarah Kureshi, Washington, D.C.
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With degrees from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic, Sarah, 34, presently works at Unity Health Care where she provides primary care to a multicultural, urban under-served population. She teaches courses on Global Health and Human Rights at Georgetown.
Sarah feels passionately about community health particularly where it intersects with gender-based violence, human rights and empowerment. She has worked with immigrant populations and trauma survivors including human trafficking victims in New Delhi and the Somali refugee community in Minnesota.
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