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Jerusalem was the family home of his mother, Zahwa Abul Saud, who died from a kidney ailment in 1933, when Arafat was four years of age. Arafat's first visit to Jerusalem came when his father, unable to raise seven children alone, sent Yasser and his brother Fathi to their mother's family in the Mughrabi Quarter of the Old City. They lived ...
Feb 4, 2019 · Zahwa Abul Saud. Birthdate: estimated between 1864 and 1924. Death: 1933. Immediate Family: Wife of Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini. Mother of Inam al-Qudwa al-Husseini; Private; Private; Private; Private and 2 others.
- estimated between 1864 and 1924
- February 4, 2019
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- Eliyahu Neiman
- Abu Ammar: Yasser Arafat
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posted on: Aug 13, 2021 By: Ahmed Abu Sultan/Arab America Contributing Writer Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat, otherwise known as Yasser Arafat, was a Palestinian leader. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority from 1994 to 2004. Ideologically, he...
Arafat was born in Cairo, Egypt. Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, Arafat’s father, a Palestinian from Gaza City. In contrast, his grandmother was Egyptian from his father’s side. Arafat’s father battled in the Egyptian courts for 25 years to claim family land in Egypt as part of his inheritance but was unsuccessful. He worked as a textile merchant...
In 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser agreed to allow the United Nations Emergency Force to establish itself in the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip, following the purpose of the expulsion of all guerrilla or forces there. Arafat, in 1957, applied for a visa to Kuwait and was approved. There he encountered two Palestinian friends: Salah Khal...
In the early 1990s, Arafat and leading Fatah officials engaged the Israeli government in a series of covert talks and negotiations that led to the 1993 Oslo Accords. The agreement called for the implementation of Palestinian independent rule in portions of the West Bank and Gaza Strip over five years, in addition to an immediate halt to and gradual...
Feb 25, 2019 · Yasser was born in Cairo, Egypt. He was birthed into a family in which his father; Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Hussein, was a Palestinian from Gaza city; and his mother, Zahwa Abul Saud was from a Jerusalem-based family. His mother had died when he was four years of age.
His mother, Zahwa Abu Saud - known as Umm Jamal - had traveled to Jerusalem from Cairo to give birth among her family, in keeping with the tradition of the time and because she felt lonely in Egypt. The child's mother named him "Yasser" according to an agreement she had with her cousin to call both their newborns Yasser - the same Yasser Abu ...
Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, popularly known as Yasser Arafat, was born on 24 August 1929 most probably in Cairo. Some also claim that he was born in his maternal uncle’s house in Jerusalem where his mother, Zahwa Abul Saud, used to go for child-birth.
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His mother, Zahwa Abul Saud, was from a Jerusalem-based family. She died from a kidney ailment in 1933, when Arafat was four years of age. Arafat's first visit to Jerusalem came when his father, unable to raise seven children alone, sent him and his brother Fathi to their mother's family in the Moroccan Quarter of the Old City.
