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Arafat

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Ar⋅a⋅fat

  [ar-uh-fat, ahr-uh-faht]
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–noun
Ya⋅sir [yah-ser, -sir, yas-er] , 1929–2004, Palestinian leader: head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

ʿA⋅ra⋅fat

  [ahr-uh-fat, ar-uh-fat]
–noun
a hill 15 mi. (24 km) southeast of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia: site of Muslim pilgrimages.
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Ar·a·fat   (ār'ə-fāt', är'ə-fät')   
Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization who in 1996 was elected the first president of the Palestinian Authority, the newly formed Palestinian self-rule government. He shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
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