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Person · Journalist; a founder and leader of the PLO
1932–2009
Born in Jaffa on 13 January 1932, he and his classmates, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod among them, formed a Palestinian student union; on 24 April 1948 his family was forced to leave for Lebanon by sea. A journalist and writer, he took part in founding and leading the PLO, directed its first bureau in an Arab country, in Lebanon, and was the spokesman of its delegation when Yasser Arafat addressed the UN General Assembly in November 1974. Elected to the PLO’s Executive Committee in 1991, he resigned from it in protest at the Oslo Accords of September 1993. He died in Beirut on 2 August 2009.
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On 13 November 1974 Yasser Arafat, chairman of the PLO, addressed the UN General Assembly on the question of Palestine, ending: “Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom-fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”
Spokesman of the PLO’s delegation to New York
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography)
article · PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies
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PersonShafiq al-Hout participated in EventArafat addresses the UN General Assembly
Role: Spokesman of the PLO’s delegation to New York
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: “Al-Hout was the spokesman of the PLO delegation that traveled to New York in November 1974 when Yasir Arafat addressed the United Nations General Assembly.”
Evidence version:palquest-shafiq-al-hout-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.
PersonShafiq al-Hout was born in PlaceJaffa
Role: Born here: 13 January 1932, Jaffa
Attributed to Institute for Palestine Studies (Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question, biography).
PalQuest · Institute for Palestine Studies · supports · section: The biography’s header: born 13 January 1932, Jaffa
Evidence version:palquest-shafiq-al-hout-biography:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.