Majdi Ashour |

Majdi Ashour

Majdi Ashour is a Medical Officer at the UN Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees, a PhD candidate in International Public Health Policy, and an alumni of the University of Minnesota and ITM. He was also a New voice for Global Health at the World Health Summit in Berlin in 2013.

Blogs

Away from tallying the injured and mourning the killed: The Peril of ignoring public health services in Gaza

The incidents around the perimeters of the Gaza fence, which separates the area from Israel, have led to more than 12,000 Palestinians being injured, and a further 110 unarmed people dying. Reactions have ranged from outrage to blaming the Palestinians for their victimhood, echoing the old and well-known statement of the late Israeli Prime Minis...

Applying Resilience to health system research: beyond a personal journey in the Gaza Strip

Every time when the despair reaches its peak in the Gaza strip, we are confronted by the western media, international expatriates and researchers praising our ability to withstand our conditions. They point to our Resilience in the face of the inhuman circumstances in which we are submersed. They describe our experience as the Epitome of Resilie...

We have gone through it (hopefully)

Although the situation in Gaza is still very shaky, Majdi Ashour hopes the worst is over, writing from the Gaza strip. He does so from the bottom of his heart and gives us in this way some idea on what his people in Gaza have endured in recent weeks. While doing so, he uses metaphors and archangels from ancient literature, finds some inspirati...