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  1. Bassam Abu Sharif

    Bassam Abu Sharif

    Palestinian militant

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  1. Bassam Abu Sharif (Arabic: بسام أبو شريف; born August 9, 1946 in Jerusalem) is a former senior adviser to Yasser Arafat and leading cadre of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He was previously a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

  2. Bassem Abu Sharif (بسّام أبو شريف) was a senior advisor to Yasser Arafat and an early proponent of a two-state solution (despite criticising the Oslo Accords). He is a founding member Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the PLO ‘s Palestinian National Council .

  3. Palestinian political leader, born in Jerusalem. In 1948, at the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Bassam Abu Sharif became a refugee in Jordan. After secondary studies in Amman, he traveled to Lebanon to study chemistry at the American University of Beirut.

  4. Bassam Abu Sharif was a senior advisor to the late Yasser Arafat and was one of the main initiators of the Oslo peace process of 1993. He is the Author of “Best of enemies, Arafat and the...

  5. On the ground, P.F.L.P. spokesman Bassam Abu-Sharif discovered how difficult it might be to bring the Palestinian struggle to the world's attention. One American he questioned thought the...

  6. Abu Sharif was born in the Old City of Jerusalem on 9 August 1946. His parents were upper-middle-class Sunni Muslims and had been residing in Jordan since 1943 due to the fact that his father was working at the Arab Bank. He graduated from a secondary school in Irbid, Jordan.

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