Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini ( ARR-ə-fat, AR-ə-FAHT; Arabic: محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني; 4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات, Yāsir ʿArafāt) or by his kunya Abu Ammar (Arabic: أبو عمار, ʾAbū ʿAmmār), 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, he was a founding member of the Fatah political party, which he led from 1959 until 2004.
| Full name at birth | Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini
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| Claim to fame | Met in secret with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Norway, culminating in the Oslo Peace Accords
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| Date of birth | 24 August 1929
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| Place of birth | Cairo, Egypt
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| Date of death | 11 November 2004
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| Age | 75 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Paris, France
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| Cause of death | Cerebral Haemorrhage
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| Resting place | Arafat's compound, Ramallah, Palestine
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- Arafat's full name was Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. Mohammed Abdel Rahman was his first name, Abdel Raouf was his father's name and Arafat his grandfather's...
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13 Sep 1993Age: 64The Oslo Accords were subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington, D.C., in the presence of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and U.S. President Bill Clinton
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10 Nov 2007Age: 75
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