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American Syrian-born psychiatrist

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  • [Elohim sasona]
  • A god who hates

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Born
( 1958-06-14 ) 14 June 1958 (age 67) , Baniyas , Syria
Alma mater
University of Aleppo
Occupation
Psychiatrist
Known for
Criticism of Islam
Notable work
A God Who Hates (2009)

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Dr. Wafa Sultan was born in Syria in 1957, in the small city of Banias on the Mediterranean coast. She graduated from Aleppo University medical school in 1981, and practiced medicine in Syria until emigrating to the U.S. in 1989 with her husband and three children. Since 9/11, Syrian-American thinker and writer Dr. Wafa Sultan has become known for her participation in Middle East political debate. Her essays, have been widely circulated, and she has made a number of notable television appearances on Al-Jazeera, CNN, and FOX News. Her name appears often in Arabic-language newspapers and websites. Dr. Sultan sees her mission as exposing and fighting radical Islam and defending human rights in the Islamic world. In May 2006, Dr. Sultan was named one of Time magazine's "€œ100 People Who Shape Our World." All Authors Abbas, Hani Abbink, Jon Abdelmassih, Mary Abdulkader, Diliman Abrams, Elliott Adams, J. Christian Adamson, Göran AfshinJam, Nazanin Agema, Marie-Fleur Ahadi, Mina Akel, Pierre Al-Alawi, Irfan al-Baghdadi, Ahmad al-Haidari, Nabil al-Huwaider, Wajeha Al-Saied, Najat Al-Tamimi, Aymenn Jawad Ali, Ayaan Hirsi Alrabaa, Sami AlSaied, Najat Alyami, Ali Amarilyo, Eli Amichai, Avner Amin, Mohammad Apfel, Steve Aridor, Dan Armanious, Michael Arya, Shayan Ash, Andrew Assadollahi, Shabnam Assaf, Daoud Assaf, Maryam Aswany, Ahmed El Ataurehman, Saman Austin, Rahat John Avni, Benny Bacon, Josephine Badawi, Raif Bader, Hani Bahrami, Hamid Bai, Mina Baker, Alan Balkany, Julien Ballabon, Jeff Ballool, Sulafa Bar, Shmuel Barak, Amit Baran, Zeyno Bard, Mitchell Bardají, Rafael L. Bargisi, Amr Baum, Peter Bawer, Bruce Bayefsky, Anne Beck, Edward S. Bejjani, Elias Bekdil, Burak Belien, Paul Benjamin, Lubna Thomas Beres, Louis René Berk, Jamie Berko, Anat Berlau, John Berlinski, Claire Bernard, Michelle D. Bhattacharya, S.K. Blank, Stephen Blum, Ruthie Bolton, John R. Boms, Nir Bonazzi, Elio Boroujerdi, Hussein Bosma, Martin Bostom, Andrew Bottum, Joseph Boulifi, Tharwa Bradley-Farrell, Shea Brooks, Madeline Brown, David Bryen, Shoshana Bryen, Stephen Bulut, Uzay Bunikowski, Dawid Bustle, Sebastian Butrick, Richard Cagaptay, Soner Calvo, Michel Canlorbe, Grégoire Carlqvist, Ingrid Carmon, Yigal Carr, Myra Caschetta, A.J. Castellion, Sebastien Cathcart, Will Center, Thomas More Law Chang, Gordon G. Charai, Ahmed China, Human Rights in Choudhury, Salah Uddin Shoaib Chraibi, Amel Chtatou, Mohamed Cindemir , Kasim CLAAS-UK Clay, Aidan Cogen, Marc Cohen, Ben Cohen, Efraim Cohesion, The Centre for Social Colen, Alexandra Colombo, Valentina Cotler, Irwin Coughlin, Con Craig, Alan Cravatts, Richard L. Crawford, Charles Curtis, Michael Daifallah, Adam Daoud, Kamel Dardashti, Ephraim Darwish, Nonie Day, Martin J. Day, Peter Demian, Saba E. Demir, Omer Deng, Simon Deptula, David A. Dershowitz, Alan Dershowitz, Alan M. Destexhe, Alain Dias, Timon Diker, Dan Dinerman, Taylor DiPuccio, William Doiny, Ezequiel Dolat, Ardeshir Douglass-Williams, Christine Draiman, David Durie, Mark Duriqi, Visar Dweik, Mahmoud Eastman, Elizabeth Eastman, John Editors, The Ekeroth, Kent Eldad, Arieh Ellis, Robert Elsawaf, Hassan Emerson, Steven Epstein, Robert Ervin, Manda Zand Esman, Abigail R. Factor, Mallory Farahat, Cynthia Fares, Saher Farouk, Amin Farrell, Chris Feith, Douglas J. Feldman, Oleksandr Fernandez, Alberto M. Fiallo, Fabio Rafael Finch, Michael Fishman, Joel Fix, Barbara Press Fjordman Flatow, Stephen M. Forum, Members of the Standing Committee of the Free Russia Frank, Stefan Franklin, Lawrence A. Frantzman, Seth J. Fraser, Ronnie Freitas, Tiago S. Fund, John Furedi, Frank Gabra, Maher Gabriel, Masha Gaffney, Frank J. Ganis, Alia Al Garrison, Shea Gasparino, Charles Gedalyahu, Tzvi Ben George, Amir Gerstenfeld, Manfred Ghadry, Farid Ghoshal, Debalina Gillespie, Gill Gleis, Joshua Glick, Caroline Godefridi, Drieu Goel, Sima Göktaş, Kemal Golbert, J. P. Gold, Dore Goldman, David P. Goldstein, Brooke Gorka, Katherine Cornell Gorka, Sebastian L. v. Goswami,

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
Syria
Place of birth
Baniyas
Occupation
essayist
Languages spoken
Arabic
Religion
atheism
Field of work
psychiatry
Movement
ر
Official website
www.annaqed.com
Image
Wafa Sultan at CFI WIS-May 19 2012.JPG
Residence
Los Angeles
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date of birth
1958-07-14
name in native language
وفاء سلطان
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Encyclopedic overview

Wafa Sultan (Arabic: وفاء سلطان; born June 14, 1958) is a Syrian-American medical doctor, writer, and critic of Islam. In 2006, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Early life

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