A political biography of the influential & charismatic Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, one of the key figures in contemporary Middle Eastern politics, & a blow-by-blow history of the P.L.O. & its policies. The book is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Arafat & the top leadership of the P.L.O., including two P.L.O. women leaders who have now spoken out for the first time: Inam Arafat (Yasser Arafat s eldest sister) & Intissar Wazir (Abu Jihad s widow). Contains a great deal of extremely valuable primary material of great interest for any serious student of modern Palestinian nationalism. The definitive biography of Arafat.