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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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. 6 Nov 2013. While the veteran leader long served as a symbol of ...

  3. Apr 30, 1999 · 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.

  4. Yasser Arafat. Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), wearing the keffiyeh, 1996. 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.

  5. Nobel Peace laureate Yasser Arafat, who was the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), died...

  6. 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. Role: Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO; President of the Palestinian National Authority. Prize motivation: “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”.

  7. The results of a nine-month investigation into what killed the late Palestinian leader. Al Jazeera has spent nine months investigating the cause of Yasser Arafat's death, which after more than seven years still had not been positively identified. The material presented here includes the late Palestinian leader's medical file from the final ...

  8. Nobel committee regrets peace prize for Peres (Norway Today 8-Apr-2001)_. Editorial on 1994 Peace Prize. Yasser Arafat actually won the Nobel Peace Prize (submitted by Nicky) Yasser Arafat – Nobel Lecture (submitted by Hendry Izaac Elim) Yasser Arafat (submitted by Zvonko) Yasser Arafat. Petition for an apology.

  9. Apr 30, 1999 · Yasser Arafat (left), Shimon Peres (center), and Yitzhak Rabin with their Nobel Prizes for Peace, 1994. The provisions of the Declaration of Principles were enacted on May 4, 1995, by a pact signed by Arafat and Rabin in Cairo. Several months later, in September 1995, Rabin, Arafat, and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres —all newly named ...

  10. Oct 11, 2023 · Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian political leader, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and first President of the Palestinian National Authority.