Yasser Arafat Quotes


The Arabs are looking forward to developing their region, which the long years of war had prevented from finding its true place in today's world, in an atmosphere of democracy, pluralism, and prosperity.


Citations

Arafat, Yasser. "Nobel Lecture." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 10 Dec. 1994.

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Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
  • Born: August 24, 1929
  • Died: November 11, 2004
  • Nationality: Palestinian
  • Profession: Civil Engineer

Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat (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.