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Also Known As	Muḥammad ʿAbd ar-Raʾūf al-Qudwah al-Ḥusaynī • Yāsir ʿArafāt
Born	August 24, 1929? • Cairo? • Egypt
Died	November 11, 2004 • Paris • France
Founder	Fatah
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1994)
Role In	two-state solution

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