Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the PLO, is dead at the age of 75. He died in a French military hospital in the early hours of this morning, Paris time. Arafat led Palestinians for almost forty years, ...

The nickname Yasir or Yasser means “easy-going” in Arabic. Arafat acquired it as a teenager. Arafat’s alias, Abu Ammar, was adopted in the mid 1960s. Timeline 1950s - After graduating from college, ...

Jim Lehrer discusses the personal animosity between Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon with journalists who have written extensively on the two men. Now the Middle East. It has come down to a violent ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

In this sober account, two veteran writers on the Middle East (The Transformation of Palestinian Politics) catalogue Arafat's career from his student days in Cairo through his years as the head of a ...

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Pictures of Andrew Cuomo schmoozing with then-Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in 2000 are back in ...

Arafat Wins Approval for New Cabinet; Israel Faces Political Crisis The Palestinian parliament approved Yasser Arafat's new cabinet Tuesday, dampening an internal demand that Arafat share power and ...