Open AccessDr. Edma Abouchdid, 1909-1992
Author(s) -
Najla T. Akrawi
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1020
Subject(s) - foundation (evidence) , principal (computer security) , field (mathematics) , sociology , graduate students , medical education , psychology , mathematics education , library science , pedagogy , history , medicine , archaeology , mathematics , computer science , pure mathematics , operating system
Edma Abouchdid was only fifteen when, in 1923, she decided to pursue a medical career. The principal of the American School for Girls (ASG), an American woman from the Presbyterian Mission was astounded for since the foundation of that school in 1834, no graduate had ever aspired for higher education, let alone in a co-educational field.