Tarek loubani biography

Canadian doctor and humanitarian

Tarek Loubani is a Canadian doctor. He runs the Glia Project, which seeks to provide medical supplies to impoverished locations, and developed a low-cost stethoscope in 2015.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} He serves as Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario and works in emergency rooms.^[8]

In 2013, along with filmmaker John Greyson, he was arbitrarily arrested and spent seven weeks in Egypt's Tora Prison without charges.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]} In 2018 he was shot in the leg while in the Gaza strip providing medical care during the 2018 border protests.^[17]

Early life and education

Loubani was born in Kuwait and lived in Palestine as a child.^[10] He is of Palestinian descent, the son of Dr.

Mahmoud Loubani, who works at a medical clin