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Interview with Ms Fatima Gailani, President of the Afghan Red Crescent Society*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2007

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Abstract

Fatima Gailani has been serving as the president of the Afghan Red Crescent Society since 2004. She is the daughter of Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani, the leader of the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan who fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. After graduating from Malalai High School in Kabul, Ms Gailani obtained a BA and subsequently an MA in Persian Literature and Sufism in 1978 from the National University of Iran. She also earned an MA in Islamic Studies from the Muslim College in London in 1994. She lived in exile during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and acted as spokesperson in London for the Afghan Mujahideen. She attended the Bonne Conference on Afghanistan in 2001. After her return to Afghanistan she was chosen as a delegate to the Emergency Loya Jirga – Grand Council – of June 2002 and was appointed as a constitution drafting and ratifying commissioner. Ms Gailani is the author of two books (Mosques of London and a biography of Mohammed Mosa Shafi).

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Humanitarian Actors
Information
International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 89 , Issue 865: Humanitarian Actors , March 2007 , pp. 7 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2007

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* The interview was conducted on 7 March 2007 by Franz Rauchenstein, deputy head of the ICRC delegation in Kabul.