Marwa Ali EL Sherbini
Marwa Ali EL Sherbini:Marwa Ali El-Sherbini was an Egyptian pharmacist and the mother of a young child. She was killed during a hearing at a court of law in Dresden, Germany, by a man against whom she had testified after being insulted for wearing an Islamic headscar.
Early life:
El-Sherbini was born in 1977, the daughter of chemists Ali El-Sherbini and Laila Shams from Alexandria. In 1995 she graduated from the El Nasr Girls’ College, where she also acted as a student speaker. She was a member of the Egyptian national handball team from 1992 to 1999. From 2000 to 2005 she studied pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Alexandria University, obtaining a bachelor’s degree
Moving to Germany and life in Dresden:
In 2005, El-Sherbini moved with her husband to Bremen in Germany. In 2008, the couple and their two-year-old son moved to Dresden, where her husband Elwi Ali-Okaz, a lecturer at Minufiya University, obtained a doctoral research position at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. At the same time, El-Sherbini worked at the University Hospital Dresden and at a local pharmacy, as a part of an accreditation scheme to practice pharmacy in Germany[3].
Together with others, El-Sherbini founded an association (Eingetragener Verein) with the aim to establish an Islamic cultural and education centre in Dresden[3] [4].
At the time of her death El-Sherbini was three months pregnant with her second child. More Info
