7sleepersmusicFormer Ambassador for #Palestine #LeilaShahid has passed. "Leila Shahid was not only the best of us, she was the very best of us" -- Mouin Rabbani. She was also the great-great-granddaughter of #Bahaullah, the founder of the #BahaiFaith, although she was not a member of the faith. So long and God bless. 🙏 🇵🇸 🕊️ #Bahai https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-leila-shahid-plo-dies-c00b8a0dd4eb49c1fe93950c5e4323c1
Leila Shahid, first female Palestinian ambassador, dies at 76
Leila Shahid, the first female Palestinian diplomat, who held prominent posts in Europe during some of the most tumultuous years of the Mideast conflict, has died in France at the age of 76. The Palestine Liberation Organization posted her to Ireland in 1989, making her the first female Palestinian ambassador. From 1993 until 2005, she served as the Palestinian envoy to France. Her tenure coincided with the height of the peace process and the outbreak of the second Palestinian uprising, or intifada, in 2000. She was with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his final days before he died in a French military hospital in 2004.