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Yasser Arafat
Cairo, Egypt
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…
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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.
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2026
Instadocs: The Prediction Games
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Bridge over the Fault Line II
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Walled Off
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
The Hamas System
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Unveiling Arafat
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2022
Munich '72
TV show Politician (archive footage)
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2022
Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
1979 - The Year Of The Islamist Revolution
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2021
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
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2021
Sigrid Kaag: van Beiroet tot Binnenhof
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Lebanon in Crisis
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
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2019
Moonface: A Woman in the War
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
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2018
King Bibi
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2017
- 2016
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2014
Dancing Arabs
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2012
Palme
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
12.Août.2002
Movie Consulting Accountant
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2006
Hans van Mierlo, What I Still Dream of Writing
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2005
Saddam and the Third Reich
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2005
Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace
TV show Self
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2005
Live and Become
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2004
Celsius 41.11
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2003
Persona Non Grata
Movie Self
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2003
Crossing Kalandia
Movie Self
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1998
The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs
TV show Self
- 1996
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1987
Dispatches
TV show
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1986
Rockin' Ronnie
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1984
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Movie Self
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1982
The Ship of Exile
Movie Self
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1978
A Letter from Beirut
Movie Self - Chef de l'OLP
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1977
The Palestinian
Movie Self
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1977
Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt
Movie Himself
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1976
Israel, chosen and hated
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1974
Who Loves the Earth
Movie Self
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1973
We Are the Palestinian People (Newsreel #65)
Movie Self
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1963
World in Action
TV show
