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Zainab Ibrahim Al-Muhib (February 11, 1928 - 1975) is a Palestinian doctor , considered the first Palestinian woman to practice medicine.
Its origins
She was born in the Hosh Al-Shuwish area in the occupied city of Jerusalem . Her father is the Lebanese journalist Ibrahim Al-Moheb , who decided to live in Palestine with his wife, Wasfiyya Al-Moheb, of Circassian origin. Zainab grew up in an understanding home that supported women and their ambitions, and her father was able, despite his poor financial conditions, to enroll her in a private school. Through that school, I met the daughter of Mishri Bey Rizkallah, the Egyptian Consul in Palestine , and Zainab, who loved drawing, was able to attract the attention of the Egyptian Consul, until he asked her to draw a painting of King Farouk , and sent it to him. The king rewarded her with a sum of money after he liked the picture.
Her studies
After completing high school in 1941, Zainab decided to send a letter of thanks to King Farouk for the amount of money he had sent, but she attached a number of words to the letter: “I want a gift for my people, which is to study medicine so that I can treat poor people like me.” Newspapers published Zainab's letter at the time, and King Farouk issued a royal decree teaching her medicine, making her the first Palestinian girl to study medicine. Zainab received her studies in human medicine and surgery at King Fouad University in Cairo ( Cairo University today). She completed her studies in 1951 and subsequently obtained a practicing certificate from Cairo , according to which she joined the Supreme Syndicate of Physicians there.
Her fame extended to later becoming the princesses' doctor, before she became the private physician to Queen Zein, the mother of the late Jordanian King Hussein bin Talal .
Her death
Al-Muhib died in the city of Jericho in 1975, making her the first Palestinian female doctor.
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