"This will be the definitive biography of Yasser Arafat for many years." â€”Rashid Khalidi
"Alan Hart has written the best informed, most detailed account of Arafat that I have seen." â€”Michael C. Hudson
"I have written the book as a good and true friend of the Palestinians and the Jews. Together in peace and partnership the two peoples, who come from the same melting pot, could change and develop the region for the better and, by doing so, give hope and inspiration to the whole world." â€”Alan Hart, from the Introduction
"There is much important material here on the Palestinians, the PLO, political machinations, strong beliefs... Very informed... Hart has done a service in creating this vivid picture." â€”The Book Reader
"This is, however, more than a sympathetic, semi-authorized biography. It constitutes a detailed running history of the PLO and the course of inter-Arab relations and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the mid-1960s to the present.... it has inestimable value in telling how Arafat and his colleagues saw [these events]... " â€”Foreign Affairs

Arafat, a political biography

Alan Hart

Indiana University Press

This is a detailed account of Arafat's struggle for survival and justice for his people. It is written in full co-operation with Arafat himself and other top PLO leaders. The highlight of the book is a lengthy account, mainly in Arafat's own words, of the inside story of the events which led up to the historic handshake, of the historic moment itself, and of the aftermath. The author's special relationship with Arafat goes back to 1979 when he was trusted to be the link man in a secret and exploratory dialogue between Arafat and certain Israeli leaders, whose principal was Shimon Peres. This book has grown out of the author's biography of Arafat, first published in 1984. The earlier material is revised, with revealing new insights added, and the story is updated to the present. It is a most dramatic and exciting book which, if offered as a work of fiction, would probably have been rejected on the grounds that the tale it has to tell was too incredible to be true.

Arafat

Biographies & Memoirs

Pan/Macmillan

A political biography of the influential & charismatic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, one of the key figures in contemporary Middle Eastern politics, & a blow-by-blow history of the P.L.O. & its policies. The book is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Arafat & the top leadership of the P.L.O., including two P.L.O. women leaders who have now spoken out for the first Inam Arafat (Yasser Arafats eldest sister) & Intissar Wazir (Abu Jihads widow). Contains a great deal of extremely valuable primary material of great interest for any serious student of modern Palestinian nationalism. The definitive biography of Arafat.

Arafat, terrorist or peacemaker?

Leaders & Notable People

Sidgwick Jackson Ltd

A political biography of the influential & charismatic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, one of the key figures in contemporary Middle Eastern politics, & a blow-by-blow history of the P.L.O. & its policies. The book is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Arafat & the top leadership of the P.L.O., including two P.L.O. women leaders who have now spoken out for the first time: Inam Arafat (Yasser Arafat s eldest sister) & Intissar Wazir (Abu Jihad s widow). Contains a great deal of extremely valuable primary material of great interest for any serious student of modern Palestinian nationalism. The definitive biography of Arafat.

Arafat: A Political Biography

Historical

Managing Operations

Bob Johnson

Routledge

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