Fathi Arafat (Arabic: فتحي عرفات; January 11, 1933 – December 1, 2004), born in Cairo, was a Palestinian physician and a founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. He studied medicine at Cairo University from 1950 until 1957 and thereafter practiced as a pediatrician in Cairo, Kuwait and Jordan. He was a younger brother of Palestinian president Yasser Arafat. He died in Cairo on December 1, 2004, from stomach cancer, less than a month after the death of Yasser Arafat.