Ar·a·fat ( r  -ft , är-fät), Yasir also Yasser Originally Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat (As Qudwa al-Hussaeini). 1929-2004. Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization who in 1996 was elected the first president of the Palestinian Authority, the newly formed Palestinian self-rule government. He shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. |
Arafat [ˈærəfæt]
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(Placename) a hill in W Saudi Arabia, near Mecca: a sacred site of Islam, visited by pilgrims performing the hajj Also called Jabal ar Rahm
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(Biographies / Arafat, Yasser (1929 M, Palestinian, POLITICS: statesman) Yasser (ˈjæsə). born 1929, Palestinian leader; cofounder of Al Fatah (1956), leader from 1968 of the Palestine Liberation Organization, president of the Palestinian National Authority from 1996: signed a peace agreement with Israel (1993); Nobel peace prize 1994 with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin
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| Noun | 1. |  Arafat - Palestinian statesman who was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1929-2004) |
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