[2] After First World War, Dr. Iskander Hourani, serving with the Ottomans in Palestine and imprisoned by the British, he became physician and public health officer with the British Mandate Government of Palestine (1918–1948).

Dr. Hourani took his early education at the American Ramallah Friends Schools, Palestine and his BA and MD degrees at the American University of Beirut.

[3] After three year of medical residency, he took two years of Fellowship in Hematology at the Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research of Jefferson Medical College,[4] now, of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA USA, under the tutelage of the late Leandro Tocantins MD, who became Dr. Hourani's professor and mentor.

Dr. Haurani took an early retirement in 1988 to work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris on iron and later at the Royal Free Hospital in London on vitamin B12.

[5] He lived in South Carolina at the time of his death, 11 November 2014.