Nadia Taysir Dabbagh
Nadia Taysir Dabbagh is an Anglo-Palestinian child psychiatrist who trained at the Tavistock in the 2000's. Dubai Health's Chief of Division for Paediatric Mental Health in the UAE, she led Dubai's first Mental Health Strategy (2017) and Palestine's first Ministry of Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Strategy, 'Every child deserves a childhood, every child deserves a future;' a Royal College of Psychiatrists and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) project (2023). She wrote Suicide in Palestine: Narratives of Despair based on 1990's fieldwork. Nadia's father and father-in-law, both born in Palestine, were ten-year-old 'Nakba' refugees. Her husband's extended family live (and die) in Gaza.
How Do We Even Talk about Palestine and Israel?: One Group’s Experience in Unspoken Territory
The world changed on 7 October 2023 when Hamas and other armed groups made incursions into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of more than 1200 people and the taking of... (more)