Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat

Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( ARR-ə-fat, also US: AR-ə-FAHT; Arabic: محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني‎‎; Arabic: ياسر عرفات‎, romanized: Yāsir ʿArafāt) or by his kunya Abu Ammar (Arabic: أبو عمار‎, romanized: 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. Arafat was born to Palestinian parents in Cairo, Egypt, where he spent most of his youth and studied at the University of King Fuad I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yasser Arafat has received more than 5,018,523 page views. His biography is available in 112 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 109 in 2019). Yasser Arafat is the 112th most popular politician (down from 93rd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Egypt and the 4th most popular Egyptian Politician.

Yasser Arafat was the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the first president of the Palestinian National Authority. He was born in 1929 in Cairo, Egypt, and died in 2004 in Paris, France. He became famous for being a leader in the Palestinian Liberation Organization and for being the first president of the Palestinian National Authority.