Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004

عرافات، ياسر، 1929-2004

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: 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)