Yasser Arafat
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 24, 1929
- Died
- November 11, 2004 (aged 75)
- Birthplace
- Cairo, Egypt
Biography
Yasser Arafat (in Arabic: ياسر عرفات), born August 24, 1929 in Cairo, Egypt and died November 11, 2004 in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine, France), real name Mohamed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Quudwa al- Husseini (Arabic: محمد عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني) and also known by his nickname (kounya) of Abou Ammar, is a Palestinian activist and statesman. Leader of Fatah and then also of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat remained for several decades a controversial figure in the expression of the national aspirations of the Palestinians before appearing for Israel as a partner in discussions within the framework of the process. of Israeli-Palestinian peace in the 1990s. Yasser Arafat then represented the Palestinians in the various peace negotiations and signed the Oslo Accords in 1993. He became the first president of the new Palestinian Authority and received the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin. From 2001, after the failure of the Taba summit and the outbreak of the second intifada, he gradually lost his credit with part of his people who reproached him for the corruption of his authority. He found himself isolated on the international scene while the Israelis elected Ariel Sharon to the post of Prime Minister of Israel, leading to a hardening of the Israeli position towards the Palestinian leader, forced to no longer leave Ramallah. This isolation was only broken on the eve of his death, when he was rushed to Clamart, where he died at the age of 75. In 2012, the remains of Yasser Arafat were exhumed to study the hypothesis of death by polonium 210 poisoning. The team of Swiss experts concluded that it was poisoning, but the Russian and French teams concluded that it was death from old age. following gastroenteritis. According to the Swiss newspaper Le Temps, Yasser Arafat died of polonium poisoning in 2004, the Al-Jazeera news channel and his widow Souha said on Wednesday. They are based on the report from the Institute of Radiophysics of Lausanne, which analyzed the remains of the former Palestinian leader, who died in 2004 in Paris.
Known For
Filmography
Instadocs: The Prediction Games
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Walled Off
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Hamas System
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bridge over the Fault Line II
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Unveiling Arafat
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 4 eps
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
1979 - The Year Of The Islamist Revolution
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Munich '72
TV · as Politician (archive footage) · 2 eps
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Sigrid Kaag: van Beiroet tot Binnenhof
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Lebanon in Crisis
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Moonface: A Woman in the War
Movie · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
King Bibi
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Two Meetings and a Funeral
Movie
Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)
Movie · as Self
Dancing Arabs
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Palme
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hans van Mierlo, What I Still Dream of Writing
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Live and Become
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Saddam and the Third Reich
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Celsius 41.11
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Crossing Kalandia
Movie · as Self
Persona Non Grata
Movie · as Self
In Search of Palestine: Edward Said's Return Home
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs
TV · as Self · 6 eps
Assassinations That Changed the World
TV · 1 ep
Dispatches
TV · 1 ep
Rockin' Ronnie
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Movie · as Self
The Ship of Exile
Movie · as Self
The Palestinian
Movie · as Self
A Letter from Beirut
Movie · as Self - Chef de l'OLP
Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt
Movie · as Himself
Israel, chosen and hated
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Who Loves the Earth
Movie · as Self
We Are the Palestinian People (Newsreel #65)
Movie · as Self
World in Action
TV · 1 ep