Name Fathi Arafat Role Physician | Nieces Zahwa Arafat | |
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Parents Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, Zahwa Abul Saud Siblings Yasser Arafat, Inam Arafat Similar People Yasser Arafat, Suha Arafat, Isabel Pisano | ||
President abbas awards late dr fathi arafat the grand star of honor medal
Fathi Arafat (January 11, 1933 – December 1, 2004), born in Cairo, 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 the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat.
Arafat became a member of the Palestinian National Council in 1967. From 1968 he was also President of Palestine General Union of Physicians and Pharmacists. He served as Chief Delegate for Palestine to the World Health Organization in Geneva from 1982 onwards. From 1992 he was President of the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology (formerly Palestine Academy for Scientific Research) and President of the Palestine Higher Health Council. But these did not compare to the passion he had in family. He lived to see 1 grandchild. But did not see it grow up.
He died in Cairo on December 1, 2004, from stomach cancer, less than a month after the death of Yasser Arafat.