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Ghada Karmi

غادة كرمي

1939 CE · 1358 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Palestinian physician and writer (born 1939 in Jerusalem). Exiled with her family in 1948, she qualified in medicine at Bristol, took a doctorate in the history of Arabic medicine, and became a leading Palestinian voice in Britain; her memoir In Search of Fatima (2002) is a classic account of the Nakba generation.

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Roles: Physician · writer · academic
Region: Levant & Iraq · al-Andalus & Europe
Identifiers: Wikidata
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Life in time

The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: A. K. Fazlul Huq · Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Hilmi II · Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari

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Physician (tabib) · Also held · Undated

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Born in: Jerusalem

People and things also explored

Masjid Al-Aqsa· al-Haram al-Sharif (the Temple Mount esplanade)· Dome of the Rock· Mosque of Omar· The Western Wall (Buraq Wall)· Arson at al-Aqsa Mosque (1969)· Al-Sakhawi's Syrian rihla: Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem, c. 873· Atsiz ibn Uwaq's campaign against Syria

Sources

Ghada Karmi — English Wikipedia
Ghada Karmi — Arabic Wikipedia
Ghada Karmi — Wikidata

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islam.museum contributors. “Ghada Karmi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ghada-karmi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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