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Women's contribution to public life : Ambassador Birgitta at TEDxElRamlWomen

372 views · Published 6 February 2013 · 18:15 · Indexed 28 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · News & Politics

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Ambassador Birgitta Holst Alani 
Ambassador Birgitta Holst Alani started her career within the Swedish Foreign Service in 1982. Before that she had spent about seven years in Baghdad working as a linguist researching on an Iraqi dialect of Arabic. She also worked as a lecturer at Baghdad University during the years 1975-77. Her work brought her to assignments at the Swedish Embassies in Egypt and Jordan and the United Nations in Iraq. She served at the Swedish Embassy in Cairo in 1985-89 and before returning to Egypt in 2010 Ambassador Holst Alani was seconded to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) working with issues related to the reconstruction and development of Iraq and as a senior reconciliation expert. In 2010 Ambassador Holst Alani was appointed Director of the Swedish Institute in Alexandria which is a dialogue institute within the Swedish Foreign Service which organizes meetings on a variety of topics between Europeans and people from the Middle East and North Africa. In addition to her work as an academic and a diplomat for many years in the Middle East and North Africa, her command of the Arabic language has helped her to acquire genuine knowledge and understanding of Arab and Muslim thinking and traditions in the MENA region.

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