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Soon after his departure from Paris, Arafat asked Suha to come and work with him in Tunisia (where the Palestine 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]
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; Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National ...
Abbas is the First Lady of Palestine. [1] She has served as Palestine's first lady since her husband was elected president in 2005. She represented the State of Palestine at the second conference of the Arab Women Organization, a Jordanian women's rights organization, held in the United Arab Emirates in 2008.
Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) Palestine "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East." [94] Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995) Israel : Shimon Peres (1923–2016) Israel 1995 Joseph Rotblat (1908–2005) Poland "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms ...
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
The 1994 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East". [31] [32]