Bilal Nadeem

Bilal Nadeem is a second-year medical student at Yale and a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at Stanford. His doctoral work examines the afterlives of war and displacement among Muslim refugees in Jordan. By learning from people gravely wounded by the conflicts of the past two decades in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza, Bilal hopes to trace how injury and dispossession are registered within the Islamic tradition. In particular, he asks how concepts of the body, suffering, death, hospitality, obligation, and “the good” hold up, or come apart, when both patients and their Muslim clinicians are forced to reckon with devastation on this scale.

A Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Bilal previously coordinated the Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop in the Medical Humanities and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford. At Yale, he is a co-student leader at the Yale Center for Asylum Medicine, a Downs Fellow, and a Fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy. He completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard before earning an MPhil in Health, Medicine, and Society at the University of Cambridge and an M.A. in sociocultural anthropology from Stanford.