Halima Alaiyan

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Halima Alaiyan (* 1948 in Ibdis / Palestine , Gaza Strip ) is a multiple award-winning German specialist in orthopedics in Berlin . After the establishment of the state of Israel and the subsequent First Middle East War, she and her parents and siblings had to flee from their destroyed homeland to Egypt as a baby . She later came to Germany, where she studied medicine and was certified as a specialist. She acquired additional qualifications in pediatric orthopedics , chiropractic therapy , acupuncture , sports medicine , social medicine , sonography , physical therapy and rehabilitation medicine . Alaiyan founded the Talat Alaiyan charitable foundation in 2003 , named after her late son.

Life

After fleeing Palestine, Halima Alaiyan first grew up in exile in Egypt in Cairo . At the age of 16 she was married to her cousin Ahmed and moved with him to Saudi Arabia . Both of them worked in school and became parents of two children. When her husband went to Germany in 1965 to study medicine, he sent his wife and children to live with his parents in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip . Her son Talat was born there, who suffered from the blood disease thalassemia major . A year later, her husband brought her to Germany, but the children had to stay in the Gaza Strip. Alaiyan fought for two years to get her children to come to Germany. When their marriage ended in divorce, she lost custody of her daughters; her son Talat died in early 1989.

Before Alaiyan began studying medicine, she trained as a medical-technical assistant in Homburg from 1967 to 1970 . This profession she practiced five years over long before the German 1975 High School at the preparatory college of Saarland University could take. In 1981 she completed her medical degree and began her specialist training in surgery and then in orthopedics . In 1987 she became a senior physician at the Orthopedic University Clinic in Homburg . She also took over the management of the Center for Scoliosis in Furpach and became the deputy of the chief physician Heinz Mittelmeier . In 1994, Alaiyan opened a specialist orthopedic practice in Saarbrücken.

In 2003, Alaiyan established the Talat Alaiyan Foundation named after her son. She organizes meetings for German, Israeli and Palestinian young people and tries to enliven the idea of reconciliation . In 2008 Alaiyan was appointed "Saarland Ambassador" by the then Saarland Prime Minister Peter Müller .

In 2009 she moved her practice to Berlin . In the same year she received the Federal Cross of Merit . The FDP honored her in November 2010 with the " Citizen's Prize Liberta ".

Awards

  • 2008: Appointment as ambassador of the Saarland
  • 2009: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2010: Citizen Prize Liberta of the FDP

Fonts

  • Expulsion from Paradise - my long flight from Palestine . Marion von Schröder Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 9783547710281 .
  • A Constant Longing - Memoirs of a Palestinian Women . L'ALEPH Verlag, 2014, ISBN 9789187751073 .
  • Sabrah - My life in several worlds . L'ALEPH Verlag, 2015, ISBN 9789176370797 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Youth work: Mediator of hope and confidence. Weekly magazine Forum, January 19, 2018, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Speech by Christian Lindner on the occasion of the award of the "Liberta" 2010 to Dr. Halima Alaiyan. (PDF) November 10, 2010, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Honored Citizens. The daily mirror of November 12, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Alaiyan, Halima
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Ibdis, Gaza Strip