ENG - Massouda Jalal (born January 5, 1962) was the only woman candidate in the Afghan presidential election, 2004. She is a Tajik from Kabul and has a background as a pediatrician, 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. 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 ...
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cici - in poll Massouda Jalal Доктор Масуда Джалал против Хамида Карзая Мы встретились с г-жой ДЖАЛАЛ (Masooda Jalal) в ее квартире, в обычной пятиэтажной хрущевке на окраине Кабула. Дверь открыл муж. Г-н Джалал - профессор юриспруденции Кабульского университета. Потом в прихожую посмотреть на гостя выглянули дети, их трое - двое мальчишек и девочка. И только ...