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Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), wearing the keffiyeh, 1996.
Yasser Arafat studied civil engineering at King Fuʾād University (now known as Cairo University) in Egypt. He began his studies there in 1949 and graduated with an engineering degree in July 1956.1