• After primary school she went to study at Sannia school in Cairo
  Cairo
  Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
  
   and after to the College of Teachers...
• At the end of the second year in college she was sent to London in 1922 to study in mathematics
  Mathematics
  Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
  
  , with Zeinab Kamel Hassan they considered to be the first to study in England
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
  .
• She went to study medicine
  Medicine
  Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  
   with other five Egyptian students.
• She qualified as a doctor in 1930 and returned to Egypt
  Egypt
  Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
  
   to work in Kitchener hospital in Cairo to become the first female Egyptian doctor ever.
• She opened a private clinic specialize in obstetric and gynaecology
  Gynaecology
  Gynaecology or gynecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system . Literally, outside medicine, it means "the science of women"...
  
  , and she carried her surgical procedures at the Coptic hospital in Cairo.
• she continued to work till she reached 70 years old
• she retired and turned to writing and translating stories for children.

See also

• List of Copts
• Lists of Egyptians
• Coptic Medical Society U K

External links

• Pioneer Coptic Doctors Arabic