Twenty-year-old Al Assaad graduated from Cornell University’s Qatar branch last year aged 20 becoming the youngest ever Arab doctor. From a young age she excelled in her education, graduating from high school aged 12. Aged 13 she was noticed by Lebanon’s education minister who helped her secure a medical scholarship in Qatar. She is now in the US for a residency in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio but dreams of returning to the Middle East to work as a doctor in Lebanon, providing medical aid in the refugee camps she would visit as a child.