Known For: Director of Child Development at the Beth Israel Medical Center/Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein School
Country: United States

About

Asma Jamil Sadiq works at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York as Director of Child Development. She is also the Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, and a member of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA).

Ms. Sadiq has been involved in promoting both intra-faith and inter-faith dialogue. She has actively supported many ASMA events, including “Muslim Artists response to 9/11” and the “Cordoba Bread Feast.” She has also done teaching circles for visiting students at the Masjid-al Farah and lectured on Islam and women and Sufism and Qawwali as part of a lecture series at the Madison Ave Presbyterian Church. Ms. Jalabi actively supports “Virsa Pakistan” in promoting Qawwali performances in the Tri-State area. She has given introduction lectures on Qawwali and Sufism at the Interfaith Center, Washington Square Church, and the Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium at the United Nations.

Ms. Sadiq was one of Turning Point’s initial board members; Turning Point is a community-based, not-for-profit organization that seeks to address the needs of Muslim women and children through crisis intervention, especially in the area of domestic violence. Currently, Ms. Sadiq serves on the organization’s Advisory Board. She has also helped organize a collaborative work-shop on “The Huddood Ordinance” with the ASMA Society and the women’s caucus group of the APPNA (Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America) at the annual convention in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Sadiq was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She arrived in the United States almost 22 years ago for post-graduate training in Pediatrics. She currently lives in New Jersey with her husband Hasan, son Danyal, and daughter Amra Noor Sadiq.