Magda Iskander is a social entrepreneur in

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

. Raised in a village in Egypt, she wanted to study music as a child. She found herself on the path of medicine instead, and was intrigued by radiology, which she studied in the

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. In 1984, she discovered that ultrasound was not available in Egypt, and began establishing training centers in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

. She is the founder of Care with Love, an organization that trains recruits to provide quality health care and assistance for the elderly and other homebound. She was elected an Ashoka: Innovators for the Public Fellow in 2003.Ashoka Fellows

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Social Innovation Conversations, June 6, 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Iskander, Magda Living people Ashoka Egypt Fellows Year of birth missing (living people)