His influence will endure
The grave illness of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has given rise to frenzied speculation about what will happen after his departure from the political scene, and much critical analysis of his legacy.
Born Muhammad Abd al-Ra'uf al-Arafat al-Qudwa in 1929, Yasser Arafat first became active in Palestinian politics while an engineering student in Cairo in the early 1950s, where he headed the Union of Palestinian Students at Fu'ad I University. In ...