- Tarek Fatah
Tarek Fatah (born November 20, 1949) is a secular Muslim Canadian political activist, writer and TV host. Founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, Fatah's advocacy for a separation of religion and state, opposition to Sharia law, and what he calls a "progressive" form of Islam has met with considerable controversy from other Canadian Muslim groups, such as the Canadian Islamic Congress. Fatah is the author of "Chasing a Mirage: The Islamic State or a State of Islam", …
- Rebwar Fatah
Dr. Rebwar Fatah is a contemporary Kurdish writer and journalist. He is the director, editor and founding member of the Kurdish news and commentary web site KurdishMedia.com ,,. He is one of the influential Kurdish advocates in the Diaspora. His ideas and proposals have been influential in the understanding of the Middle East, in particular Kurdistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey and equally important in influencing the West’s foreign policy on the Middle East.
- Natasha Fatah
Natasha Fatah is a Canadian journalist, based in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently a producer at CBC Radio One's national current affairs radio show "As It Happens", Toronto beat reporter for their Ontario regional weekend morning show "Fresh Air", and author of the column "Minority Report" in cbc.ca's Viewpoint section.
- Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, popularly known as Yasser Arafat, was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1968-2004) and President of the Palestinian National Authority (1993-2004). In 1994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize together with, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres, for the negotiation of the 1993 Oslo Peace Accord. Arafat was a controversial and controlling figure throughout his lengthy career.
- Ismail Haniyeh
Ismail Haniyeh ; born January 1963) is a senior political leader of Hamas and former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. In the wake of Hamas' military seizure of control of the Gaza Strip, he was dismissed from office on June 14, 2007 by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas; however, …
- Salam Fayyad
Dr. Salam Fayyad (b. 1952) is a Palestinian politician, who, on June 15, 2007, was appointed the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. His appointment, justified by President Mahmoud Abbas on the basis of "national emergency", was not confirmed by the Palestinian Legislative Council. Until that date, Fayyad had been the Finance Minister of the Palestinian National Authority in the Fatah interim government from 2002.
- Marwan Barghouti
Marwan Bin Khatib Barghouti is a Palestinian leader from the West Bank and a leader of the Fatah movement. He is considered to be the leader of Fatah's 'young guard', and is renowned for his unparalleled grassroots popularity and pragmaticism with regards to making peace with the state of Israel. He is currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail for murder and attempted murder. During prisoner negotiations at the end of 2006, Hamas demanded his release, …
- Mohammed Dahlan
Mohammed Dahlan, also known by the kunya or "nom de guerre" Abu Fadi (b.1961), is a Palestinian politician, the leader of Fatah in Gaza. Dahlan was born in 1961 in Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza to a refugee family from Hamama. In 1981 he helped found the Gaza branch of the Fatah Youth Movement Fatah Shabiba; in the following years he was imprisoned in Israeli jails on several occasions for his involvement in resistance against Israel.
- Amira Hass
Amira Hass ; born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper "Ha'aretz". She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors (Bergen-Belsen), Hass was born in Jerusalem.
- Khaled Abu Toameh
Khaled Abu Toameh is an Israeli Arab Muslim journalist, documentarian and the West Bank and Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and U.S. News and World Report. He is also the Palestinian affairs producer for NBC News since 1988. His articles are published in numerous publications such as "The Sunday Times", "Daily Express" and the "New Republic". Khaled Abu Toameh was previously a senior writer for The Jerusalem Report, …
- Ahmed Qurei
Ahmed Ali Mohammed Qurei, also known by his Arabic "Kunya" Abu Alaa (أبو علاء) (born March 26, 1937) is a former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. First appointed to the position in October 2003, he tendered his resignation on January 26 2006, following the defeat of the Fatah party in the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006, …
- Abu Nidal
Abu Nidal (May 1937 Jaffa, British mandate - August 16, 2002 Bagdad, Iraq by assasination), born Sabri Khalil al-Banna, (Arabic: صبري خليل البنا) was a Palestinian leader, a militant mercenary, and the founder of "Fatah - the Revolutionary Council" ("Fatah al-Majles al-Thawry"), more commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). At the height of his power in the 1970s and 1980s, Abu Nidal, …
- Mustafa Barghouti
Mustafa Barghouti (Arabic مصطفى البرغوثي also transcribed Mustafa Barghouthi, Mustafa Al Barghuthi, Dr Barghuthi; born 1954) is a Palestinian democracy activist. He was a candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian National Authority in 2005, finishing a distant second to Mahmoud Abbas. Barghouti was born in Jerusalem.
- Jibril Rajoub
Jibril Rajoub served as the National Security Advisor during the Arafat administration. He is a member of Fatah.
- Abu Jihad
Khalil Al-Wazir (October 10, 1935-April 16, 1988), better known by the "kunya" "Abu Jihad" (Arabic: "father of the struggle") and "Al-Wazir" ("the top minister"), was a founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (which later formed the dominant part of the PLO), and later a top aide to Yassir Arafat and a guerrilla leader. Al-Wazir played an important role in the 1970-71 Black September clashes in Jordan, …
- Farouk Kaddoumi
Farouk al-Kaddoumi (Alternative spelling, Faruq al-Qaddumi, also known as Abu al-Lutf, born in 1931. Secretary-general of Fatah's central committee and PLO's political department in Tunisia.
- Abu Samhadana
Jamal Abu Samhadana, from Rafah in the Gaza Strip, was the founder of the Popular Resistance Committees (which have been held responsible for firing missiles into Israel), a former Fatah and Tanzim member, and number two on Israel's list of wanted terrorists. On 20 April, 2006 he was appointed by Said Seyam, Interior Minister in the Palestinian Authority's new Hamas-led government, as director general of the police forces in the Interior Ministry.
- Moussa Arafat
Major General Moussa Arafat al-Qidwi was a cousin of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Some reports describe Yasser Arafat as his nephew. In July 2004, Arafat was appointed head of the Palestinian Public Security Service in the Gaza Strip.
- Faisal Husseini
Faisal Abdel Qader Al-Husseini (July 17, 1940 - May 31, 2001) was a Palestinian politician who was considered a possible future leader of the Palestinian people. Husseini was born in Baghdad son of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, commander of local Arab forces during the siege of 1948 and grand-nephew of the Haj Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He studied in Cairo, Baghdad, and Damascus.
- Hani al Hassan
Abu Tarek, Abu-l-Hasan was a Fatah leader. He was born in 1939, in Haifa. He spent time as a refugee in Yarmuk camp, near Damascus, where he organised an Islamist slate, Shabab al-Aqsa, to compete in student elections. He joined the Muslim Brotherhood in early 1950s. He went on to study engineering in the late 50-60s in West Germany (Darmstadt & Munich), where he worked through the Union of Palestinian Students in Europe, …
- Zakaria Zubeidi
Zakaria Zubeidi or Zakariyah Zubeidi (b. 1976) is the current Jenin chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. Under his leadership, the Jenin section has built strong ties with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and distanced itself from Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah party. Zubeidi is currently one of Israel's most wanted, and ranks amongst the most popular militia leaders in Jenin.
- Rawhi Fattuh
Rawhi Fattuh (روحي فتوح, also transliterated as Rauhi Fattouh is the former Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council and was the interim President of the Palestinian Authority, following the death of Yasser Arafat on November 11, 2004 until January 15 2005. Under Palestinian law, he was to hold the post for 60 days until an election is held. The elections were held and won by Mahmoud Abbas, who was sworn in on January 15, …
- Salah Khalaf
Salah Khalaf (Arabic ص&;#1604;اح خ&;#1604;ف), also known as Abu Iyad (Arabic أ&;#1576;و إ&;#1610;اد) (born 1933 - January 14, 1991) was deputy chief and head of intelligence for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the second most senior official of Fatah after Yasser Arafat. He was assassinated in Tunis in 1991 by an Abu Nidal operative.
- Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Sirhan was a Muslim Palestinian responsible for a November 10, 2002 attack on the Israeli Kibbutz Metzer in which he killed five Israeli civilians. He was reportedly a member of Tanzim, which is the armed wing of al-Fatah. A year after the event, Sirhan was killed by YAMAM during a house demolition.
- Wafa Idris
Wafa Idris was the first female suicide bomber in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the time of her death, Idris was a 28 year old, divorced Red Crescent paramedic. She lived in the Am'ari Refugee Camp in Ramallah. Idris detonated a 22-pound bomb in Jerusalem that killed her, an 81 year old Israeli man and injured more than 100 others. The attack probably took place on 27 January, 2002 although it was not reported in the press until 28 January 2002 (The Daily Telegraph, …
- Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury is a prominent Arab-Israeli lawyer. His office specializes in land law and also offers all other legal services. He has represented several Palestinian politicians in Israeli courts. He is also the father and son of victims of terrorism. Elias Khoury lives and works in Jerusalem. Elias' son, George Khoury, was murdered on March 19 2004 while jogging in the neighborhood of French Hill in Jerusalem.
- Andreas Baader
Andreas Bernd Baader was one of the first leaders of the German organization Red Army Faction, also commonly known as "the Baader-Meinhof group". Born in Munich, Baader was a high school dropout and criminal before his RAF involvement. He was one of the few members of the RAF movement who did not attend a university.
- Mohammed Shabir
Mohammed Shabir (sometimes written "Mohammed Shbeir", "Mohammed Shubair" or "Mohammed Shubeir") is the Prime Minister-in-waiting for the next Palestinian unity government. On November 13, 2006 senior Hamas officials in Syria announced that Hamas and Fatah had agreed on him. Shabir, 60, is originally from the Gaza town of Khan Younis and received his doctorate in microbiology from Marshall University.
- George Khoury
George Elias Khoury was an Israeli victim of Palestinian violence who was murdered on March 19 2004, while jogging in the neighborhood of French Hill in Jerusalem. He was a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the military branch of the Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for his death. After it became clear that the he was in fact an Arab Israeli - and not a Jewish Israeli - Fatah apologized, …
- Qadura Fares
Qadura Fares is a Palestinian Authority minister. He is a close friend, aide and adviser to senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, and a member of the Legislative Council, the parliament of the Palestinian Authority. Fares is regarded as one of the principal architects of Fatah's 'young guard' movement, who briefly formed the al-Mustaqbal or "Future" list (2005) before joining with Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) to form a united Fatah list for the upcoming elections.
- Sakher Habash
Sakher Habash is a Palestinian leader of the Fatah movement. Habash was born in Beit Dajan, near Jaffa, in 1939. He became a refugee in the Nakba of 1948, ending up first in Ramallah, then in Balata Refugee Camp near Nablus. He studied Geology and Water Resources at Cairo’s Ein Shams University from 1958. He turned to Palestinian national movement in the early 1960s and joined Fatah in 1962, when he became responsible for recruitment.
- Nayef Rajoub
Nayef Rajoub was born in 1958. He is the Religious Affairs Minister of the Hamas led Palestinian Authority cabinet and beekeeper. He has been arrested five times by Israel and once by his brother Jibril Rajoub in 1996 during a crackdown on Hamas members by Palestinian Preventive Security led by Jibril. Nayef however was released after only a day. Nayef and his brother parted politically years ago, …
- Intisar Al-Wazir
Intisar Mustafa Mahmud al-Wazir (b. 1941/42) is a Palestinian politician. She was born in Gaza and studied in Damascus. She is the widow of Khalil al-Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, an assassinated Palestinian leader. She was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 1996, and became minister for social affairs in the Palestinian Authority. She was re-elected in 2006 as no. 3 on the Fatah list.
- Craig Winn
Craig Winn is an American author and former businessman. He has self-published six books, including several on terrorism and Islam. His latest book is called "Yada Yahweh". Each of his books have been made available for free on the internet. After the events of September 11th, Winn began a research project with colleague Kevin Power to "uncover the roots of terrorism". They visited 120 countries and interviewed members of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, …
- Ismail Fatah al Turk
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- Ken Power
Ken Power is an American author who co-authored 4 books with Craig Winn. After the events of September 11th, Power began a research project with colleague Craig Winn to "unconver the roots of terrorism". They visited 120 countries and interviewed members of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Force 17, the Palestinian Authority, the Knesset, IDF, and US generals, as well as Israeli secret service agents in the Mossad and Shin Bet.
- Fuad Kokaly
Fuad Kokaly is a Palestinian who was born in Beit Sahour, in the West Bank. He was arrested and imprisoned several times by Israel. He was the mayor of Beit Sahour for many years. He is currently the head of the Fatah party in Bethlehem. He is now a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
- Yahya Skaf
Yahya Skaf, also spelled Yehia Skaff, from the Akkar district of Lebanon, is a person claimed to have been arrested by Israel on 11 March 1978 for participation in the Coastal Road massacre. He has never been tried and Israel has denied his existence. It's claimed by the Khiam Center that his family and some released detainees have borne witness to his imprisonment..
- Janet Mikhail
Janet Mikhail sometimes known as Janet Khouri is the mayor of Ramallah in the West Bank. She is the first woman to hold this post. She was head teacher of the girls' school in Ramallah for 20 years, now retired. She is also a Roman Catholic. She was chosen as mayor on 29 December 2005 by the newly elected 15-person city council.
- Abu Youssef Sharqieh
Abu Youssef Sharqieh is the leader of Jund al-Sham and former Fatah official. Abu Youssef Sharqieh is called "Prince of the Sharia". He is said to rarely leave his home but has established himself as an important figure in the area of Ain al-Hilweh, Lebanon. Jund Ash Sham claims that Sharqieh was tortured in the Palestinian camp of Nahr al-Bared.