I Shall Not Hate (Abuelaish) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—February 3, 1955
• Where—Jabbalia Camp, Gaza, Palestine
• Education—M.D., Univesity of Cairo; Ob/Gyn, University of London; M.P.H., Harvard University
• Currently—lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH, is a Palestinian physician 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, and then received a diploma from the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of London.

He completed a residency in the same discipline at the Soroka Medical Center 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, Dr. Abuelaish worked as a senior researcher at the Gertner Institute at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv. He now lives with his family in Canada, where he is an associate professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. His Web site and foundation can be found at Daughters for Life. (From the publisher.)