Qanta A. Ahmed

Qanta Ahmed
Born United Kingdom
Nationality British
Occupation Physician, Author and Women's rights Activist

Medical career

Field Sleep disorders
Institutions State University of New York

Qanta A. Ahmed is a Muslim British physician specializing in sleep disorders. She is also an author and a newspaper columnist.

Biography

Qanta Ahmed is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants to Britain. She graduated from the University of Nottingham. She currently resides in Manhattan. After teaching medicine in Saudi Arabia for a year, she published a book about her experiences. In June 2013, she visited Israel, speaking at universities and research institutes around the country.[1]

Academic career

Ahmed is associate professor of medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook.[2][3]

She also practices sleep disorders medicine in Garden City at the Winthrop University Sleep Disorders Center[4] Qanta Ahmed holds an Honorary Professorship at the School of Public Health at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland.

Literary and journalism career

Ahmed is the author of In the Land of Invisible Women, an account of her experiences as a physician in Saudi Arabia.[5][6][7][8][9]

She has published opinion pieces in major newspapers.[10][11][12]

In 2012, she was invited to be a regular contributor to Pakistan's English Daily, The Express Tribune.[3]

Awards and recognition

Ahmed is the first Muslim woman and first physician to be selected as a 2010 Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellow in Science and Religion at the University of Cambridge, England. In November 2010, she was recognized by NY MOVES Magazine as a 2010 Power Woman. Ahmed also serves as a member of the board of directors for the non-profit foundation Women's Voices Now which sponsors Voices from the Muslim World, a short-film festival.

Views on Israel

Ahmed is accused by her critics of being a "Zionist in Muslim guise". She is firmly opposed to the boycott against Israel, saying that the boycott movement attempts to vilify Israel.[1] Ahmed is opposed to the occupation of the Palestinian Territories, but admits that she doesn't know how Israel can relinquish control over a region hosting "a virulent Jihadist ideology" and leaders calling for Israel's destruction.[1] In 2010, Qanta wrote, "Call me an Accidental Zionist, if you must, but Eretz Yisrael is a vital shelter, an only shelter, from lethal, genocidal anti-Semitism... If we care for wider humanity at all, we must all be 'accidental' Zionists and want for the Jews, for the Israelis, what each Muslim already has for themselves: a future, a nation and a faith, secured."[13]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "The many faces of Dr. Qanta Ahmed", Haaretz.
  2. ↑ Ahmed, Qanta A. (2011-01-07). "Fulfilling Our Duty as Muslim-Americans". wsj.com (Wall Street Journal). Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  3. 1 2 Ahmed, Qanta. "Qanta Ahmed, MD". Huffington Post (Huffingtonpost). Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  4. ↑ Sleep Medicine Specialist, Winthrop University Hospital.
  5. ↑ "Books: 'In the Land of Invisible Women'". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 2008-09-04.
  6. ↑ The Daily Times, Pakistan, Aug 23, 2008, p. 7.
  7. ↑ "Pierce the Veil", The Weekly Standard
  8. ↑ "Female doctor writes of life in Saudi Arabia", Monsters and Critics.
  9. ↑ "Historial fiction helps Hingham woman appreciate her own era". The Boston Globe. 2010-09-17.
  10. ↑ Ahmed, Qanta A. (2012-02-29). "Islam & the NYPD". New York Post.
  11. ↑ "France's burqa ban: A brave step that we Muslims should welcome", Christian Science Monitor, Apr 20, 2001.
  12. ↑ "Britain's radical Muslims warn U.S". CNN. 2002-09-11.
  13. ↑ Ahmed, Qanta A (November 27, 2010), "Adventures of an Accidental Zionist: Encounters with the Anxiety of Jewish Extinction", The Huffington Post.
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