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Yasser Arafat....
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Yasser Arafat was born Rahman Abdul Rauf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husayni on
August 24, 1929. Although he was raised in Cairo, Egypt, he always
considered himself a Palestinian. In the late 1940s while a student in
Egypt, he became an ardent Arab nationalist and adopted the name Yasser. Arafat
lived a good period in Gaza strip, a task he
continued to perform during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. After the war,
Arafat entered Cairo University where he received a degree in engineering
in 1955.
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During his student days. After his graduation from the
university, Arafat was commissioned as a lieutenant in the
Egyptian army. He
saw some combat at Port Said and Abu Kabir during the
Suez war of October
29-November 6, 1956. In the mid-1960's, Arafat emerged as the chief military
and political leader of the Palestinian homeland movement. |
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From his residence in Kuwait where he ran a successful
engineering concern, he published the major nationalist organ, Our
Palestine, and established Al Fatah, an acronym for the Movement for the
Liberation of Palestine. |
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In 1967, after the Arab defeat in the
Six-Day War, he
became the chairman of the Palestian Liberation Organization (PLO). He was
a great Leader fighting for the Palestinian
independent state. Had a big role and great work among the Palestinian
People. He had residences in Gaza and Tunis,
where the PLO has its headquarters. |
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