The 2008 TIME 100 Finalists

Are They Worthy?
Yuri Kozyrev for TIME

MADEEHA HASAN ODHAIB

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AGE: 37
OCCUPATION: Seamstress, Baghdad district councilwoman
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0

PRO: Called the "Mother Teresa of Baghdad," Hassan, a secular Shi'ite, has devoted herself to tending to the displaced, especially in her home Karada district. Receiving no help from the Iraqi government, she provides something all-too-rare in Baghdad: organization.

CON: Like almost everyone who openly helps innocent Iraqis, Hassan has become a target of extremists.

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