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Yasser Arafat (4 or 24: 269 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004 and president of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. Ideologically an Arab nationalist and a socialist, Arafat was a founding member of the Fatah ...
Yasser Arafat, November 2004, shortly before his death. Yasser Arafat, who was the President of the Palestinian National Authority and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, died unexpectedly on 11 November 2004, 75 years of age, after a short period of illness.The cause of his death has since been debated, and several different theories concerning it have been suggested.
Yasser Arafat was the first president of the Palestinian Authority (1996–2004), chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), and leader of Fatah. In 1993 he led the PLO to a historic peace agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Israeli government.
M ohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Hussaeini was born on 24 August 1929 in Cairo**, his father a textile merchant who was a Palestinian with some Egyptian ancestry, his mother from an old Palestinian family in Jerusalem.She died when Yasir, as he was called, was five years old, and he was sent to live with his maternal uncle in Jerusalem, the capital of the British Mandate of Palestine.
Nov 6, 2013 · Profile: Yasser Arafat. The life and times of one of the Middle East’s most iconic personalities, whose cause of death had l
Yasser Arafat, also spelled Yāsir ʿArafāt orig. Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raʾūf al-Qudwah al-Ḥusaynī, (born August 1929—died Nov. 11, 2004, Paris, France), Palestinian leader.The date and place of his birth are disputed. A birth certificate registered in Cairo, Egypt, gives Aug. 24, 1929; some sources support his claim to have been born in Jerusalem on Aug. 4, 1929, while other sources say ...
Nov 11, 2004 · Yasser Arafat The Nobel Peace Prize 1994 . Born: 24 August 1929, Cairo, Egypt . Died: 11 November 2004, Paris, France . Residence at the time of the award: Palestine
The Nobel Peace Prize 1994 was awarded jointly to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East"
Nov 11, 2004 · He claimed to have been born in Jerusalem but his Egyptian accent always revealed his Cairo upbringing. The young Arafat is thought to have adopted the name Yasser - and its epithet "Abu Ammar" - while studying at university in Egypt, to honour an Arab victim of the British mandate in Palestine.
A Pistol and an Olive Branch In 1974, Yasser Arafat addressed the UN General Assembly. He said he was holding an olive branch for peace in one hand and a freedom fighter's pistol in the other.
