Ebook {Epub PDF} Arafat: From Defender to Dictator by Said K. Aburish

 · ARAFAT, FROM DEFENDER TO DICTATOR. By Said K. Aburish. pages. $ Bloomsbury. Reviewed by John K. Cooley. SAID K. ABURISH is both gentle and condemnatory with the Palestinian leader Yasser Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. From the beginning, Aburish asserts QUOTE without doubt UNQUOTE that Arafat's birthplace, long shrouded in mystery, is Cairo, and that, notwithstanding the time he spent among Palestinians, Arafat still speaks Arabic like an Egyptian, to the point where QUOTE West Bankers did not like his Egyptian accent and ways and found them www.doorway.ruE The book is full of other anecdotes of Arafat's /5(12). Arafat: From Defender to Dictator. In this meticulously researched and iconoclastic work, Said Aburish, the internationally respected Palestinian political analyst and writer, turns the popular western perception of Yasser Arafat upside-down. Far from being the benign heroic freedom fighter who has kept the hopes of his displaced people alive /5.

Arafat: From Defender to Dictator [Aburish, Said K.] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Arafat: From Defender to Dictator. As a reader of Said K. Aburish's "Arafat: From Defender to Dictator" (St. Martin's Press, pages, $) will discover, because that's the city where he was born and reared and where he lived. out of 5 stars Arafat: From Defender to Dictator. Reviewed in the United States on August 5, Aburish, a Palestinian journalist living in London, has Yasir Arafat's number. He shows how the leader of the Palestinians is in many ways an Egyptian (having been born and reared in that country, living there until the age of 28, and still.

Well, as a reader of Saïd Aburish's Arafat: From Defender to Dictator knows, because that's the city where he was born and reared in and where he lived until the age of In fact, we learn, Mr. Arafat's first political affiliation was an Egyptian student organization closed to Palestinians and he fought against Israel in for an Egyptian group. Arafat: From Defender to Dictator by Said K. Aburish (, Paperback). In this meticulously researched and iconoclastic work, the internationally respected Palestinian analyst and writer Said K. Aburish turns the current Western perception of Arafat upside-down and presents a re-examination of the leader's life. ARAFAT, FROM DEFENDER TO DICTATOR. By Said K. Aburish. pages. $ Bloomsbury. Reviewed by John K. Cooley. SAID K. ABURISH is both gentle and condemnatory with the Palestinian leader Yasser.