Abdallah M Isa

Under the Banyan Tree

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bookbaby
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781098300081
• ISBN-10: 1098300084
• Artikelnr.: 59184156

Autorenporträt

The author, Dr. Abdallah M. isa, was born in Palestine, became a refugee in Lebanon in 1948 when Israel was established. He was the youngest of four children. After having three daughters, his Moslem parents, were desperate to have a son who will carry the family name after their death . They pleaded with God to grant them a son and vowed, should they have a son, they will have him baptized in the Orthodox church. Well, God listened to their request and Abdallah was born. Three months after his birth, his parents fulfilled their vow and had him baptised at the Orthodox church. The birth name that was given to him at birth, was Wasif (describer). This name did not appear to fit him as he had the crybaby syndrome that kept with him for a year. Since there no doctors or medical facilities at the time, the only potential help was through a psychic. The Psychic told his parents that his continuous crying is due to his name that must be changed to make him stop crying. He suggested the name Abdallah which they accepted. They deleted the name Wasif and replaced with Abdallah. Abdallah's mother died when he was eighteen months old and his father died six months later. Although his parents left him and his sisters chunks of properties with olive and almond trees to live well, as he and his sisters were supposed to be well to do, many a night they went to bed hungry because a relative, uncle Mohamad, who took it upon himself to take care of the orphans usurped the properties and denied them the basic needs for survival.As refugees in Lebanon, Abdallah and two of his surviving sisters were abandoned by uncle Mohamad who was supposed to take care of them. A distant relative of their father, Mrs. Miri al-Hajj, who was born in Palestine and married a Lebanese gentlemen, found them in the city of Tyre in south Lebanon. She insisted that they come live with her family in Beirut. She said, you will sleep where my children sleep and eat what my children eat.The al-Hajj family had Abdallah enrolled in a private boarding elementary school after which he was enrolled in another private boarding high school. He graduated with the high school diploma in 1953.After working for two years teaching English in a night school, Abdallah decided to enroll at the American University of Beirut. After graduating with a BS degree in Agriculture and working in Kuwait for a year and a half, he decided to come to the United States to further his education. He was accepted at the University of California at Berkeley to study medical science and later the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco.Graduating as a doctor from the University of California, Abdallah joined the faculty of a medical school in Nashville, TN in 1969. The medical school and its affiliated hospital, with patients with different types of cancer offered Abdallah the opportunity to establish a cancer research laboratory through which his scientific career jumped to a new highs. His work on cancer led to the publication of several original scientific papers in peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Immunology, the Treansplation journal and the Journal of Cancer Research. He has presented his work on cancer at several scientific meetings in the United States, London Germany, Paris and Switzerland, Beirut and Baghdad. Of course, as a refugee in Lebanon, he was a de facto stateless person with no country to claim him as its own citizen. He was determined to have his children not to be be stateless as he is. His three daughters were born in the United States, thus they are bona fide citizens of the country. He sought and was honored to be granted the citizenship of the greatest country on earth, the United States of America.