arafat, yasir

A biography of Yasser Arafat, exploring his background, discussing his leadership of the PLO, and investigating claims that the dictator has, since the 1970s, been involved in a secret dialogue with the U.S. without the knowledge of the Palestinian people.

A biography of the Nobel Prize winner and president of the Palestinian National Authority, which governs the areas of the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

Examines the life and leadership skills of Palestinian National Authority president Yasser Arafat, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.

Arafat was at the center of Middle East politics for forty years and the Palestinian movement was almost entirely his creation.

A biography of the man who since 1969 has been chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a group working to establish an Arab state in what was once Palestine and is now mostly in Israel.

White House advisor Jon Bennett arrives in the Middle East in hopes of closing an Arab-Israeli peace deal which would require the historic enemies to work together to tap into a newly discovered tract of oil and natural gas deep beneath the Mediterranean--a venture the U.S. has promised to underwrite for billions of dollars, but there are those who do not want to see the plan succeed.

A biography of PLO chairman Yasir Arafat that combines the story of his life with that of the Arab-Israeli battle over Palestine.

Offers a brief introduction to the life of Yasser Arafat, focusing on his involvement in the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.