Abu Sharif was one of the world's most notorious and dangerous terrorists in the 60's and 70's, acting as "minister of propaganda" for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and as a recruiter for terrorists like Carlos the Jackal. In 1972, a bomb was placed in a book and sent to him, leaving him half-blind, deaf in one ear, and almost fingerless. Finally abandoning the use of violence as a means to achieve his Palestinian nationalist aspirations, he aligned himself with Yasser Arafat, eventually becoming one of his closest advisors.
In this book, Abu Sharif, often alongside Arafat, takes us behind the scenes of all the major events in the Middle East during the last 30 years, from the secret caves in the West Bank where Arafat hid on his way to Jerusalem in 1967 to the peace negotiations in Oslo in 1993. Arafat and the Dream of Palestine combines a deeply personal account, informed by Abu Sharif's close relationship with Arafat, with a gripping, profoundly human history of Palestine.

Arafat and the Dream of Palestine: An Insider's Account

Biographies & Memoirs

Abu-Sharif, Bassam

Community & Culture

St.Martin's Press

A onetime Palestinian terrorist and a former Israeli intelligence officer tell how, together, they renounced the use of arms and violence and helped bring about the 1993 peace accord between the PLO and Israel.

The Best of Enemies: Memoirs of Bassam Abu-Sharif and Uzi Mahnaimi

Mahnaimi, Uzi

Little. Brown and Company

This is the story of two men whose lives, and those of their families, lie at the core of the Arab/Israeli conflict and the search for peace in the Middle East. Bassam Abu-Sharif, Yasser Arafat's chief lieutenant and spokesman, and Uzi Mahnaimi, a former Israeli intelligence major, met in a London restaurant in 1988. As a result of this meeting, they joined forces in the search for peace. Their stories, and those of their fathers and grandfathers, personify 100 years of war between Arab and Jew.

Tried by Fire

Little,Brown & Company

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