when Anas was twelve years old, taking him to Gaza, Palestine, to donate a sum of money to a Palestinian orphanage and meeting Yasser Arafat, the then Palestinian leader. This was the watershed moment when a young Anas decided that he wanted to go into politics.

Anas Sarwar (born 14 March 1983) is a Scottish Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party since 2021. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow region since 2016, having been Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Central from 2010 to 2015.

Yasser Arafat [a] (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, [b] was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, President of the State of Palestine from 1989 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian Authority (PNA) from 1994 to ...

Nov 10, 2021 · Seventeen years since his death, Yasser Arafat - born in 1929 as Mohammed Al-Qudwa Al-Husseini - continues to be a controversial character, mirroring the discrepancies, successes, and failures of the Palestinian national liberation movement.

Yasser Arafat was the man who wanted too much. He equipped his people with a sense of victimhood, a rhetoric of hate, and a cult of violence that ultimately put his objectives beyond reach. Often a master of maneuver to international acclaim, Arafat’s doing, and his undoing, proved to be his penchant for terrorism.

Nov 11, 2004 · For decades Yasser Arafat was the embodiment of the Palestinian cause. To his supporters he was the only man capable of keeping Palestinian hopes alive and at the forefront of global...

Feb 4, 2025 · Yasser Arafat, born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1929, was a pivotal figure in the Palestinian liberation movement. He rose to prominence as the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969, advocating for the establishment of a free Palestinian state.

Nov 17, 2024 · Watch the moment an Israeli bulldozer destroyed a memorial to former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat in Tulkarem.

Nov 13, 2012 · Eight years on from his death, former Arab leader Yasser Arafat is still held in high regard by the vast majority of Palestinians. Graffiti images of Arafat, who for decades led the Palestinian...

Yasser Arafat, a central figure in Palestinian history, stood atop the scene in the struggle for statehood. He led the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and his fame would only have been improved if Israel had assassinated him in another of its targeted hits.