Arafat may refer to:
People
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Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...
(1929–2004), Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)
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Fathi Arafat
Fathi Arafat ( ar, فتحي عرفات; January 11, 1933 – December 1, 2004), born in Cairo, was a Palestinian physician and a founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. He studied medicine at Cairo University f ...
(1933–2004), Palestinian physician
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Moussa Arafat (c. 1940–2005), cousin of Yasser Arafat
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Raed Arafat
Raed Arafat ( ar, رائد عرفات; , first name also spelled Rayed; born May 24, 1964) is a Syrian-born Romanian intensive care physician of Palestinian origin, specialised in anesthesiology. He founded the Mobile Emergency Service for Resus ...
(born 1964), Romanian physician
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Suha Arafat (born 1963), widow of Yasser Arafat
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Yasir Arafat (disambiguation) Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) was an Egyptian-born Palestinian leader.
Yasir Arafat may also refer to:
* Yasir Arafat (cricketer), (born 1982) Pakistani Test cricketer
* Yasir Arafat (cricketer, born 1984), Pakistani first-class cricketer
* Yasser ...
, several people
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DJ Arafat (1986–2019), an Ivorian DJ and singer who made music in the Coupé-Décalé genre
Places
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Yasser Arafat International Airport
Yasser Arafat International Airport ( ar, مطار ياسر عرفات الدولي ''Maṭār Yāsir 'Arafāt ad-Dawli'') , formerly Gaza International Airport and Dahaniya International Airport, is located in the Gaza Strip, between Rafah an ...
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Arafat, Makkah
Mount Arafat ( ar, جَبَل عَرَفَات, translit=Jabal ʿArafāt), and by its other Arabic name, (), is a granodiorite hill about southeast of Mecca, in the province of the same name in Saudi Arabia. The mountain is approximately i ...
, a plain about 20 km Southeast of Mecca
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Mount Arafat
Mount Arafat ( ar, جَبَل عَرَفَات, translit=Jabal ʿArafāt), and by its other Arabic name, (), is a granodiorite hill about southeast of Mecca, in the province of the same name in Saudi Arabia. The mountain is approximately ...
, visited as part of the ''Hajj''
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Arafat, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
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Arafat, Mauritania
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Arafat, Çınar
Other uses
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''Arafat'' (journal), a 1946–47 Pakistani periodical covering Islamic law
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Day of Arafa
The Day of Arafah ( ar, يوم عرفة, Yawm 'Arafah) is an Islamic holiday that falls on the 9th day of Dhu al-Hijjah of the lunar Islamic Calendar. It is the second day of both the Hajj pilgrimage and the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. At ...
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