Dr. Soraya Orady - Chair

Dr. Soraya Orady has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Orady has held several faculty, research, and consulting positions. Since 1988, she has been the general manager of her own international business.

Dr. Orady has a long record of volunteer work with the Muslim Community of Ann Arbor, Michigan, having been a member of the Board of Directors of the full time Islamic school and principal of Sunday school, and a member of the community outreach committee.

Dr. Orady has given numerous presentations and public speeches about Islam and Muslim culture during the last 12 years. Her audiences have included teachers, social workers, physicians and hospital staff, university students, public school students, church members, senior citizens, and members of community centers.

Nabila Ahmed Mezran -Vice-Chair

Nabila Mezran, who received her Degree in Education From the University of Tripoli, Libya, taught in the Bi-lingual (English/Arabic) program in the Ann Arbor, Michigan school system where she is currently a substitute teacher. She is the author of many articles published in Arabic newspapers and magazines as well as an Arabic cookbook. Ms. Mezran was a founding member of the Al Bayan School in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she teaches Arabic, Quran, and Islamic Studies.

Always active in social welfare and community activities, Ms. Mezran has received numerous honors for her participation in cultural and social welfare activities in both Libya and the United States and has a demonstrated ability to work with the larger community. In 1973, she established the Committee for Social Studies in Libya. She has been a member of the Libyan Women's Union since 1986, serving as secretary of the organization in 1988.

Her community activities, focused especially on women and children, have included organizing many youth activities, establishing adult education classes for women at her local masjid, and providing family counseling services, Islamic advising services, Islamic funeral preparation services. She is the Vice-president of her local PTO and, for the past 15 years, has coordinated a women's swimming program held at local public school swimming pools. She is a frequent guest lecturer at local schools

Katherine (Trinka) Robinson

Katherine (Trinka) Robinson is a certified nurse midwife and physician assistant who has been providing health care to women for more than 25 years. She has a Masters’ degree from the University of Michigan in parent-child nursing. She is currently employed by Henry Ford Health System where she has opened a women’s health clinic that serves the large Arab immigrant community in Dearborn, Michigan.

While at the University of Michigan, she co-founded the Muslim Health Association, which works with the hospital administration to train clinical and administrative staff to provide more culturally competent care to the growing Muslim population. She also completed a qualitative study of Muslim women’s attitudes, practices and health care needs regarding religious fasting during pregnancy. She has presented results of this research to nursing and midwifery conferences in Amman, Jordan, California and Michigan.

Ms. Robinson has given numerous lectures on the care of Muslim patients to nurses, midwives, and medical students. She has also spoken at several interfaith activities including a September 11th memorial, a mosque open house, a synagogue, and several panels on comparative religion.

Asmaa Mostafa

Ms. Mostafa has a Bsc in Accounting from Ein Shams University, Cairo, Egypt and worked as an accountant and budget administrator for four years. She is currently a teacher in a Montessori school. She has also been a teacher of Arabic and Islamic Studies.

Ms. Mostafa has always been a social activist and a bridge builder, active in many social welfare and community service activities in her community in Toledo, Ohio, including Girl Scouts, leadership training, abatement of violence and drug use, multi-cultural education, and other programs to promote social peace

Elizabeth Lindsey - Secretary

Ms. Lindsey earned a B.S. in Sociology and an M.A. in Guidance and Counseling from Eastern Michigan University. From 1990-1999, she was a guest lecturer in the Health Ed. Department at E.M.U, teaching classes in Rape and Assault Prevention. She has been a counselor since 1977, as both a volunteer and a professional. For the past 15 years, she has been providing counseling, primarily to women, on issues of sexual violence. She coordinated the federally funded volunteer services of the Sexual Assault Crisis Center program for the Washtenaw County Health Department.

Fadia Abaza, M.D.

Dr. Abaza completed her medical degree at Damascus Medical University. She received certifications/diplomas in childhood diseases from the University of Dublin, UK and from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dublin, UK. She is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. Dr. Abaza is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In addition to her full time practice in pediatrics, Dr. Abaza is very active in community service. She is the President of the Toledo Chapter of the Islamic Medical Association of North America and Treasurer of the Toledo chapter of the Arab-American Medical Association.