Peter E. Pormann in Professor of Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester. Recent publications include two special double issues The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic ‘Aphorisms’ (Oriens, co-edited with Kamran I. Karimullah; 2017), and Medical Traditions (Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, co-edited with Leigh Chipman, Miri Schefer-Mossensohn; 2017–18) and two edited books: La construction de la médecine arabe médiévale (with Pauline Koetschet, 2016); and Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam (with Peter Adamson; 2017). His Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates is forthcoming in 2018.
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To mark the launch of “1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine & Healthcare From Muslim Civilisation,” a new multi-author book Editor Prof. Peter Pormann, with a foreword by Sir Magdi Yacoub, the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC) in partnership with Healthcare Development Holding Company (HDH), held a special event and reception that was hosted at The Royal Society
One of the main features of the book launch was the panel discussion, which included Professor Peter E. Pormann, Dr Aarathi Prasad, Professor Peter Frankopan and Bettany Hughes talking on matters related to medicine and healthcare in Muslim Civilisation. New Paragraph
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is also Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He is Scaliger Visiting Professor at Leiden University. He works on the history of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia/Iran, Central Asia and beyond, and on relations between Christianity and Islam.
Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster, who has devoted the last 25 years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her speciality is ancient and mediaeval history and culture. A Scholar at the University of Oxford, she has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and lectured at Cornell, Bristol, UCL, Maastricht, Utrecht and Liverpool and Manchester. She is a Tutor for the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education and a Research Fellow of King’s College London. In 2017 she joined New College of the Humanities as Visiting Professor.
Ian Fenn, has been Headteacher since 2001, of Burnage Media Arts College, a boys school with a catchment area of inner city Manchester. He has wide experience of teaching and headship of schools. Apart from school improvement, Ian's main interest is in developing social inclusion and strategies to prevent extremist violence. Ian’s role at FSTC is as the lead member of the National Curriculum enrichment team. He is director of CE4CE, the educational subsidiary of FSTC.
Dr. Wael Kaawach completed Bachelor of Medical Biology with First Class Honors followed by his Medical Degree at The University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
Dr. Kaawach then finished his residency and fellowship at the Harvard University Orthopaedic Surgery Program. After which he joined The Harvard Medical School Faculty as an Instructor and Consultant in Orthopaedic Surgery, and later appointed as the Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Boston VA Healthcare System. He earned a Commendation Award from the US Department of Veteran Affairs and has multiple publications in peer reviewed journals.
Dr. Tarek Ali Fadaak, a city planner, licensed pilot, and a staff member at King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi-Arabia. Former Chairman of Jeddah City Council, and currently a member of the Saudi Shura Council. He is also a former Fellow of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Dr. Ahmed Abo Khatwa is an Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant. Currently, He works in Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. He has joined the NHS in 1999. Subsequently, he achieved Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in Otolaryngology FRCSI (OTO) in 2000. As well as, the Inter-Collegiate Fellowship of ENT and Head & Neck Surgery FRCS (ORL-HNS) in 2008.
The Al Firdaus Ensemble's
performance durring the 1001 Cures book launch at the Royal Society, where they demonstrated a typical, classical Andalusian musical piece as well as a 'Celtic' themed piece, praising the Prophet Muhammed: