Benoit massouda jalal biography
Massouda Jalal, distinguished physician, the former minister of women's affairs and the first woman to run for president of Afghanistan.
Massouda Jalal, the first woman candidate for the post of head of state in the history of Afghanistan..
Jalal, Massouda, Dr.
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Massouda Jalal (born January 5, 1962) was the only woman candidate in the Afghan presidential election of 2004. She is from Kabul and has a background as a paediatrician, teacher at Kabul University, and a UN World Food Programme worker.
Born in Gul Bahar in Kapisa Province, one of seven children, Jalal moved to Kabul to attend high school.
Browse scholar profiles and rankings from over 30 million scholars and 50 thousand institutions.She later attended Kabul University, where she was a member of the faculty until 1996, when the Taliban government had her removed. Jalal, a psychiatrist and pediatrician, also worked at several Kabul hospitals and, after her removal from the university faculty, as a United Nations employee within the World Food Programme.
Her husband is a law instructor at Kabul University; they have three children.
Although she was uninvolved in politics during the Taliban regine, Jalal emerged after the fall of the Talib