Yasir Arafat : a political biography / Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubin, Barry M.

Contributor:

Rubin, Judith Colp.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004.

Arafat, Yasir.

Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah--Presidents--Biography.

Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah.

Palestinian Arabs--Biography.

Palestinian Arabs.

Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government--20th century.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Yasir Arafat stands as one of the most resilient, recognizable and controversial political figures of modern times. The object of unrelenting suspicion, steady admiration and endless speculation, Arafat has occupied the center stage of Middle East politics for almost four decades. Yasir Arafat is the most comprehensive political biography of this remarkable man. Forged in a tumultuous era of competing traditionalism, radicalism, Arab nationalism, and Islamist forces, the Palestinian movement was almost entirely Arafat's creation, and he became its leader at an early age. Arafat took it through

Contents:

Contents; PROLOGUE: In the Bunker, 2002; Photo pages; Afterword: The Final Flight; Notes; Glossary; Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-029275-X

1-280-84542-2

9786610845422

0-19-534618-1

1-4294-2074-X

OCLC:

476259924