Doctor Hourani was born in 1928 in Gaza, Palestine to Iskander Hourani, Doctor of Medicine and Olinda Negeim. His father was born in Judaidet Merjayoun, Lebanon, educated at Syrian Protestant College, now, known as American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
After First World War, Doctor 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). His mother was born, raised and educated in Jerusalem. She worked for the British government as secretary (1918-1920).
Doctor Hourani took his early education at the American Ramallah Friends Schools, Palestine and his Bachelor and Doctor of Medicine degrees at the American University of Beirut.
Immediately after graduation, Doctor Hourani came to the United States in 1953. 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, now, of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States of America, under the tutelage of the late Leandro Tocantins Doctor of Medicine, who became Doctor Hourani"s professor and mentor.
Doctor 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. He currently lives in South Carolina.
