LIU Brooklyn pharmacy student receives Women’s Forum award
Raising four children is difficult enough for most women. Doing so while obtaining an education is harder. And overcoming cultural expectations about the role of women is a whole other level of difficulty.
But LIU Pharmacy student Lilian Almaghrabi of Flatbush has taken on just that challenge — and it has paid off. The Syrian-Jewish immigrant with children aged 16, 13, 10 and 8 was recently selected as a 2012 Women’s Forum Education Fund Fellow, with a $10,000 scholarship award.
The Women’s Forum is an organization that honors mature women who strive to complete an undergraduate education after a hiatus in their academic lives.
Almaghrabi, 36, is one of 12 women to be honored his year by the Women’s Forum, which cited her “superior qualifications, accomplishments and commitment to education after overcoming many of life’s adversities.”