Tarek Loubani

Tarek Loubani is a Canadian doctor and humanitarian. He runs the Glia Project, which seeks to provide medical supplies to impoverished locations, and invented a low-cost stethoscope in 2015. He serves as an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario and works in emergency rooms.
In 2013, along with filmmaker John Greyson, he was arbitrarily arrested and spent seven weeks in Egypt's Tora Prison without charges.

Loubani was born in Kuwait and lived in Palestine as a child. He is the son of Mahmoud Loubani, who works at a medical clinic in New Brunswick. When he was nine years old, his family immigrated to Bathurst, New Brunswick as refugees. He attended high school in Bathurst before studying medicine at Dalhousie University and the University of Western Ontario.

Loubani began serving as an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario in 2010.

In 2015, Loubani designed a low-cost stethoscope which could be made for $2.50 using a 3D printer. He runs the Glia Project, which seeks to provide medical supplies to impoverished areas and has created designs for 3D printable surgical tools such as needle drivers and pulse oximeters.

On August 15, 2013, Loubani and Greyson arrived in Egypt, intending to travel to Gaza. On August 16, they were arrested and detained in Tora Prison, where they spent weeks without charges and were subjected to physical violence and harsh conditions.