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A file photograph showing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat gesturing during a meeting with Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery (not pictured) in Arafat’s office in Ramallah Saturday 10 April 2004. (EPA)

Arafat assassination confirmed, says widow

by Ma'ad Fayad | Nov 8, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—In exclusive comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, the widow of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat revealed that her husband had asked her to discover what had sickened him prior to his death. Suha Arafat said: “Abu Ammar [Yasser Arafat] told me,...

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Director of Lausanne University Hospital’s forenics centre Patrice Magnin (R) and Director of its Institute of Radiation Physics Francis Bochud (C) hold a news conference in Lausanne November 7, 2013. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)

Swiss lab: Arafat ingested deadly polonium

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 7, 2013 | Middle East

Lausanne, Associated Press—Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ingested lethal radioactive polonium before his death nine years ago, and it could not have been by accident, Swiss scientists said Thursday. The Swiss lab examined Arafat’s remains and his underclothes...

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A file photograph showing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat gesturing during a meeting with Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery (not pictured) in Arafat’s office in Ramallah Saturday 10 April 2004. (EPA)

Controversy over death of Yasser Arafat continues

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 15, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Controversy continues to surround the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, after a British medical journal confirmed claims by Swiss scientists that traces of radioactive substance polonium-210 were discovered on his clothes and...

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A picture taken on September 13, 1993 shows US President Bill Clinton (C) standing between PLO leader Yasser Arafat (R) as he shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzahk Rabin after signing a historic agreement on Palestinian autonomy in the occupied territories. (AFP”)

Opinion: The Oslo Accords and Historical Revisionism

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 18, 2013 | Opinion

The majority of those who have written about the Oslo Accords—whose 20th anniversary went largely unacknowledged last week—are of the view that the agreement is dead, but not yet buried. They are justified in their view that the agreement has been dead for a long...