World leaders and Palestinian representatives gathered in Cairo Friday morning for Yasser Arafat's military funeral service. The funeral came hours before chaotic scenes in the West Bank town of ...
The nickname Yasir or Yasser means “easy-going” in Arabic. Arafat acquired it as a teenager. Arafat’s alias, Abu Ammar, was adopted in the mid 1960s. 1950s – After graduating from college ...