Fathi Arafat

{{Short description|Palestinian physician (1933–2004)}}

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| birth_place = Cairo

| death_place = Cairo

| alma_mater = Cairo University

| occupation = Physician, founder of Palestine Red Crescent Society

| relatives = Yasser Arafat, Khadija Arafat

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Fathi Arafat ({{langx|ar|فتحي عرفات}}; January 11, 1933 – December 1, 2004) was a Palestinian physician and a founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society.{{cite web |title=ʿArafāt, Fatḥi 1933-2004 - Social Networks and Archival Context |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w67z29r0 |publisher=SNAC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122061322/https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w67z29r0 |archive-date=22 November 2020}} Born in Cairo, he studied medicine at Cairo University from 1950 until 1957 and thereafter practiced as a pediatrician in Egypt, Kuwait and Jordan.{{cite news |title=elmundo.es - Fathi Arafat, el hermano menor de Arafat |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/12/01/obituarios/1101934454.html |work=El Mundo (Spain)}} He was a younger brother of 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.{{cite news |title=Fathi, le frère de Arafat, inhumé au Caire |url=https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/488025/Fathi%2C_le_frere_de_Arafat%2C_inhume_au_Caire.html |work=L'Orient–Le Jour |date=4 December 2004 |language=fr}} He served as Chief Delegate for Palestine to the World Health Organization 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.{{cite news |title=Décès du frère cadet de Yasser Arafat |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2004/12/03/p-deces-du-frere-cadet-de-yasser-arafat-p_4303401_1819218.html |work=Le Monde |date=3 December 2004 |language=fr}}

Arafat died in Cairo on December 1, 2004, from stomach cancer, less than a month after the death of his brother Yasser.{{cite news |title=Dr Fathi Arafat - Obituaries, News - The Independent |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dr-fathi-arafat-677534.html |work=The Independent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629231701/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dr-fathi-arafat-677534.html |archive-date=29 June 2011}}