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Asaf Duraković (born 16 May 1940) is a Bosnian physician and expert in nuclear medicine and depleted uranium. He is also known for his poetry and verse.
Biography
Duraković was born and raised in Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He attended the University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia where he earned both master's and doctoral degrees. During this time he worked at the Ruđer Bošković Institute. Afterwards, he had completed his post-doctoral work at Oxford University. In 1968 he immigrated to Canada, where he attended McMaster University in Hamilton. He worked at the University of Toronto, the University of Washington, and University Of Rochester (UofR). He has been associated with the Croatian Literary Journal. Duraković is the one of the co-founders of Bosnian Islamic Centre in Etobicoke, Toronto. Construction was over on 23 June 1973. Its mosque is the oldest in Toronto. The minaret is Ottoman-style and it is the oldest minaret in Ontario.
In 1990, Duraković was one of the founders of the Croatian Muslim Democratic Party, formed in Zagreb.
Dr. Duraković, a former U.S. army Colonel, was Chief of the Nuclear Sciences Division of the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, and worked at the VA hospital in Wilmington, DE; he's been fired and blacklisted for refusing to discontinue his work on (medical problems of army Veterans caused by) DU and other kinds of WDU (Weapons Derived Uranium). To continue his work, he founded and is Medical Research Director of the Toronto-based Uranium Medical Research Centre. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of and contributor to the Croatian Medical Journal.
Duraković also founded the World Life Institute, an international non-profit humanitarian organization based in Orleans County, New York.
Works
Poetry
- Dark Sea-Weeds
- Smoke and Mist
- Paths of Ahasver
Politics
- From Bleiburg to Muslim Nation (Od Bleiburga do muslimanske nacije, 1972)
- Status of Muslim People in Croatian National Community (Mjesto muslimana u hrvatskoj narodnoj zajednici, 1973)
References
- Croatian Medical Journal, March 1999 (Volume 40, Number 3) During the communist regime in Croatia, where he lived at the time, he spoke about Croatia's need for freedom throughout the world. During the war in Croatia, he put all of his efforts in helping defend Croatia. His poetry, however, has been entirely devoted to his native Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has been an associate of the Croatian Literary Journal before and after the Croatian Spring Movement in 1971. He wrote several essays and books on Croatia's freedom...}}
- Dr Bill Deagle Talks To Robert Felix of IceAgeNow.Com & Dr Asaf Duraković about the unfolding events related to the crisis in Japan
Dr Duraković is a Bosnian biomedical physician and expert in nuclear medicine and depleted uranium.
- Croatian mosque and Hadži Kerim Reis. H.A.
- Asaf Duraković, MD, PhD
- BH raja.ca - Toronto: "Hrvatska" džamija slavi 35 godina postojanja!, bhraja.com, 24 June 2008
- The Quantitative Analysis of Uranium Isotopes in the Urine of Civilians in Jalaabad, Afghanistan Asaf Duraković, San Diego, HPS, 2003
- DemocracyNow! - Dr. Asaf Duraković Gives a Rare Interview About Depleted Uranium in Iraq, 30 January 2003
- ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed: Duraković A
- http://www.worldlifeinstitute.org/