Qatar honored the pharmacist and Iraqi expatriate businesswoman in the Netherlands, Nada Fadel Al-Rubaie, among 40 Arab scientists whose pictures were raised in the streets of the capital, Doha, under the title "Migratory Birds", coinciding with the matches of the 2021 Arab World Cup.
Al-Rubaie defied her difficult circumstances and an arduous asylum journey that led her family from Iraq during the rule of the late President Saddam Hussein to Syria, and then to Cyprus, and she resisted all that by excelling in the scientific and professional fields by obtaining a bachelor's degree in scientific research and a master's in pharmacy, and winning the Business Woman Award. Dutch and two patent certificates.
Until the mid-nineties, Al-Rubaie was finishing her studies in Syria until her father, the writer Fadel Al-Rubaie, was subjected to harassment, which forced him to seek refuge in the Netherlands.
Nada and her family lived in one room in an asylum center for 6 months, but with her perseverance she was able, within months, to master the Dutch language and obtain a high school diploma with distinction.
This is, in short, the path she has taken up to being a pharmacist, businesswoman and a well-known personality in the field of volunteer work.
The family moved to another asylum center in the quiet Dutch city of Ida, and everyone had a room. In record time, the Iraqi girl succeeded in the Faculty of Pharmacy at Utrecht University and completed her studies with distinction.
Al-Rubaie was able to create a successful chain of pharmacies, and it has become an exemplary way in managing the pharmaceutical work (communication sites)
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In 2010, she established her own company, and one of her tasks is educational activities in various Dutch cities, then she moved to the field of business through partnerships in 3 pharmacies in Rotterdam.
The most important feature of her company is the interest in the cultural environment, as it hires people according to the identity of the region's residents, and if it has a foreign majority, it resorts to employees who speak the native language of the immigrants.
In addition, she devised a simple system that enables the patient to know when to take his medication through icons of the sun, sunset, sunrise and the moon drawn on the medicine bag, which ensures the patient's independence and not dependence on others.
Within a few years, she was able to create a successful chain of pharmacies out of a collapsed group of pharmacies that owed millions of euros, and she had an exemplary way of managing the pharmaceutical business.
Her work did not depend on her personal success. Rather, she engaged in voluntary work to serve refugees, whether by securing work for them, even as trainees, or completing their studies.