Leila Shahid (born in Beirut in 1949). Studied anthropology at the American University of Beirut. After studying in Beirut, Leila worked in the Palestinian refugee camps until 1974 when she began her doctorate in anthropology in Paris.
Leila Shahid is the first woman ambassador of Palestine; Shahid was the official representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Ireland from 1989, in Netherlands (1990), then the PA in France where she had taken office in Paris in 1993 for 13 years.
Shahid is, since 2006, the General Delegate of Palestine to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg.
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