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Mohammad Riad Hussain Ismat, writer and diplomat
14May By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Mohammad Riad Hussain Ismat, writer and diplomat

  Mohammad Riad Hussain Ismat ‑ a Syrian writer, critic and theatre director – died on 13 May 2020. Ismat served as Minister of Culture of Syria from 3 October 2010 to 23 June 2012.   Ismat studied English literature at the Damascus University and graduated in 1968. In 2000, he became Rector of the Academy of Dramatic Arts, after years of teaching. In 2003, Ismat became Director General of Syrian State Radio and Television, then held the post of Syrian Vice-Minister of Culture. In 2005, he was appointed Ambassador to Pakistan and in 2010, Syrian Ambassador to Qatar. In October 2010, Ismat was appointed as Minister of Culture, serving in that post until 23 June 2012. From 2013 to 2014 he served as Buffett Center Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University.   Ismat has directed more than...
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Dr KM Ismail Hussain, ‘2-rupee doctor’
14Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
India, Medics, Profiles

Dr KM Ismail Hussain, ‘2-rupee doctor’

Dr KM Ismail Hussain succumbed to coronavirus on April 14 Dr KM Ismail Hussain, who was popularly known as ‘2-rupee doctor’ succumbed to coronavirus on April 14, reported The Siasat Daily. Dr Ismail,76, had stopped going to work at his hospital in Kurnool a few weeks ago because of illness. Only after his death it was revealed from his test results that he died of COVID-19. He had been working in a COVID-19 red-zone, reported Siasat’s Rasia Hashmi. According to his friend Shafath Ahmed Khan, he had always been so accessible and popular, that patients who were used to going to him started queuing up outside his house. He would never refuse to see a patient for any reason. So after a week, out of compulsion, he went back to work at the hospital. Shafath, who is an advocate based...
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Tahsin Khrisat, General Practitioner
23Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Italy, Profiles

Tahsin Khrisat, General Practitioner

Dr. Tahsin Khrisat, 66, of Brescia, Italy, died on March 22, 2020 of Covid-19. He was as an Emergency Room physician. The Palestinian from Jordan worked in Brescia, one of the worst-hit cities in the region of Lombardy. “He had lost his wife a few years ago, and suffered because of that,” Federica Maestri, Khrisat’s former colleague, told Al Jazeera. She said the pain of the epidemic, “instead of closing him in, opened him to a new form of sensibility and empathy towards others.” He was kind, compassionate, funny and, as an ER doctor, loved sharing stories about his childhood in Amman during rare breaks in long night shifts. He later opened his own private clinic. “Almost every day, Tahsin would send good morning or encouragement messages to his friends and patients, to remind them o...
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