Yâsir 'Arafât

Jean-François Legrain (1)

1 GREMMO - Groupe de recherches et d'études sur la méditerranée et le moyen orient

Yāsir ʿArafāt (Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raʾūf ʿArafāt al-Qudwa), also known as Abū ʿAmmār (1929-2004), was the iconic figure of the Palestinian nationalist movement from 1969 until his death. He was a founder of the militant Fatḥ movement (1959) and was elected president of the Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee (PLOEC) in 1969, an office he held for the rest of his life. He came to endorse a two-state solution and in 1994 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mots clés: Yasir Arafat; PLO; Palestine

Mots clés: conflit israélo-arabe; Yasser Arafat; Organisation de Libération de la Palestine

Domaines: Histoire; Science politique

Jean-François Legrain. Yâsir 'Arafât. Kate Fleet; Gudrun Krämer; Denis Matringe; John Nawas; Everett Rowson. Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Koninklijke Brill NV, 2006, 9789004161658. ⟨halshs-00120975⟩