Arafat and Abbas: Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed by Menachem Klein
English | November 1st, 2019 | ISBN: 0190087587 | 256 pages | EPUB | 0.72 MB
This landmark volume presents vivid and intimate portraits of Palestinian Presidents Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, revealing the impact these different personalities have had on the struggle for national self-determination. Arafat and Abbas lived in Palestine as young children. Uprooted by the 1948 war, they returned in 1994 to serve as the first and second presidents of the Palestinian Authority, the establishment of which has been the Palestine Liberation Organization's greatest step towards self-determination for the Palestinian nation.