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Soon after his departure from Paris, Arafat asked Suha to come and work with him in Tunisia (where the Palestinian Liberation Organization had set up a haven). Suha secretly married Arafat on 17 July 1990, when she was aged 27 and he was 61. Their only child, daughter Zahwa, was born on 24 July 1995 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Zahwa was named ...
The first film in the series focuses on the legacy of the late President of Palestine, Yasser Arafat.Featuring extensive and personal interviews with the people who knew the leader best, most notably with his wife Suha Arafat, the film chronicles Arafat's life from his birth to his mysterious death in a Paris hospital in 2004.
Yasser Arafat [a] (4 or 24 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, President of the State of Palestine from 1989 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. [3]
Fathi Arafat (1933–2004), Palestinian physician; Hisham Arafat (1964/1965–2024), Egyptian politician; Moussa Arafat (c. 1940–2005), Palestinian politician, cousin of Yasser Arafat; Raed Arafat (born 1964), Romanian physician; Suha Arafat (born 1963), widow of Yasser Arafat; Yasir Arafat (disambiguation), several people
Hundreds of PLO fighters left Lebanon by ship, followed by Arafat, who lived in exile in Tunisia for a dozen years. Last week, Qatar’s prime minister and spy chiefs from the U.S., Israel and ...
In Gaza, Sayed Mustafa Arafat Al Qudwa was a Naqeeb al-Ashraf, (equal to Archduke: the son or male-line grandson of a sovereign nobleman), of the Hashemite nobility, or the head of the Ashraf class, descendants of Islamic prophet Muhammad in the late 18th century, a post held in the family since 1000 and held in the 20th century by Yasser Arafat.
12 days before the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993, Yasser Arafat delivered a pre-recorded speech broadcast on Jordanian television. In this address, he communicated to the Palestinian people that the "Declaration of Principles," which later became known as the Oslo Accords, constituted only a component of the implementation ...
The First Arafat Government was formed in 1994, when Yasser Arafat returned to Palestine, settling in Gaza City and promoted self-governance for the Palestinian territories. [1] The government was dissolved following the 1996 Palestinian general election .