Yasser Arafat - Wikipedia
WEBYasser Arafat [a] (4 [3] [4] or 24 [5] [6] : 269 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, [b] 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. [7]
Death of Yasser Arafat - Wikipedia
WEBYasser 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.
Mount Arafat - Wikipedia
WEBMount Arafat (Arabic: جَبَل عَرَفَات, romanized: Jabal ʿArafāt), and by its other Arabic name, Jabal ar-Raḥmah (Arabic: جَبَل ٱلرَّحْمَة, lit. 'mountain of mercy'), is a granodiorite hill about 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Mecca, in the …
Yasser Arafat | Biography, History, & Facts | Britannica
WEBApr 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.
Yasser Arafat: why he still matters - The Guardian
WEBNov 13, 2014 · 237. H ated and venerated in equal measure, Yasser Arafat dominated the Palestinian landscape, and with it, much of the Middle East’s political map for almost five decades. His death 10 years ...
Yasser Arafat – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
WEBYasser Arafat Biographical . 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 ...
A brief biography of Yasser Arafat | Britannica
WEBApr 24, 2024 · Fatah, political and military organization of Arab Palestinians, founded in the late 1950s by Yassir Arafat and Khalīl al-Wazīr (Abū Jihād) with the aim of wresting Palestine from Israeli control by waging low-intensity guerrilla warfare. In the late 1980s it began seeking a two-state solution
Yasser Arafat – Facts - NobelPrize.org
WEBNov 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 …
Yasser Arafaft: Biography, Palestinian Political Leader, Facts
WEBOct 11, 2023 · Born in Cairo in 1929, Yasser Arafat was named chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization 40 years later. From this post, he was at the forefront of years of violence, border disputes and...
Yasser Arafat - Palestinian Leader, Nobel Prize, PLO | Britannica
WEBYasser Arafat - Palestinian Leader, Nobel Prize, PLO: On October 30, 1991, following the Persian Gulf War, the Madrid Conference—a peace conference including Arab countries, Palestinians, and Israel—opened under the joint presidency of the …
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