Fathi Arafat
Palestinian physician (1933–2004)
Fathi Arafat (January 11, 1933 – December 1, 2004) was a Palestinian physician and a founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. He studied medicine at Cairo University from 1950 until 1957 and thereafter practiced as a pediatrician in Cairo, Kuwait and Jordan. He was a younger brother of Palestinian president Yasser Arafat.
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edit- On behalf of myself, the secretary general and all staff members of Palestine Academy for Science and Technology, I would like to extend my deep sympathies and condolences to you and the entire American nation in these extremely difficult times. I must say we were all utterly shocked and dismayed at the terrible human loss incurred and the excruciating pain that ensues. May God ease your pain and grant you patience.
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: News Release 13 September 2001 [1]
