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Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004


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    • Abū ʻAmmār, 1929-2004
    • ʻArafāt, Yāsir ʻAbd al-Raʼūf, 1929-2004
    • Arafat, Yasser Abdurraouf, 1929-2004
    • Arafat, 1929-2004
    • Arafat, Yassir, 1929-2004
    • ʻArafāt, Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raʼūf, 1929-2004
    • Arafat, Jassir, 1929-2004
    • Arafat, Jasser, 1929-2004
    • Alafate, 1929-2004
    • Arafat, Mohammed Abdel-Raouf, 1929-2004
    • ערפאת, יאסר
    • ערפת, יאסיר, 1929-2004
    • ערפת, יאסר
    • عرافات، ياسر، 1929-2004
    • عرفات، ياسر
    • عرفات، ياسر، 1929-
    • عرفات، ياسر، 1929-2004
    • ياسر، عرفات
    • Arafat, I︠A︡sir, 1929-2004
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    • found: Kiernan, T. Arafat ... c1976.
    • found: Hart, A. Arafat, terrorist or peacemaker?, 1984.
    • found: Stefoff, R. Yassir Arafat, c1988.
    • found: Jawharī, Sh. ʻArafāt wa-al-qadar, 1992:p. 163 (Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raʼūf ʻArafāt)
    • found: Internet movie database, Jan. 30, 2006(sometimes credited as ... Jassir Arafat)
    • found: Jasser Arafat, 2005.
    • found: Feng huang nie pan zhong de Alafate, 2004.
    • found: Wikipedia WWW site, May 10, 2006(Yasser Arafat; b. Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, Aug. 4 or 24, 1929, Cairo; d. Nov. 11, 2004, Clamart, near Paris; also known as Abu ʻAmmar; co-founder and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1969-2004; president of the Palestinian National Authority, 1993-2004)
    • found: Chelovek s tysi︠a︡chʹi︠u︡ lit︠s︡, I︠A︡sir Arafat, 2009:t.p. (I︠A︡sir Arafat)
    • found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Arafat, Yasir; Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Ra'uf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husayni; political figure, government official (foreign), Palestinian leader; born 24 August 1929 in Cairo, Egypt; studied civil engineering at the Egyptian University, Cairo (1950-1956); chair of the General Union of Palestinian Students; founded a clandestine group called Fatah (1959); launched Fatah's first military operation (1965); took control of PLO (1968-1969); led the PLO to accept political negotiation with the aim of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza (1988); led the PLO to accept the canonical document Announcement of the Palestinian Independent State; renounced terror and accepted Security Council Resolution 242 (November 1967) (1988); accepted Oslo Agreement (1993); the effort to broaden the Oslo process under the brokerage of President Bill Clinton failed at Camp David (2000) and Taba (2001); he lost control and was besieged by Israel in his compound in Ramallah for over two years, secluded and frustrated; died 11 November 2004 in Paris, France)
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