Editing Yasser Arafat (section)

===Birth and childhood===
Arafat was born in [[Cairo]], Egypt,<ref name="Birth">Not certain; Disputed; Most sources including Tony Walker, [[Andrew Gowers]], [[Alan Hart (writer)|Alan Hart]] and [[Said K. Aburish]] indicate Cairo as Arafat's place of birth, but others list his birthplace as Jerusalem as well as Gaza. See [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/arafat-bio.html Nobel Prize Biography] and [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/890161.stm BBC Obituary] for more information. Some believe also that the Jerusalem birthplace might have been a little known rumor created by the KGB (see [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/arafat.html Jewish Vitual Library]).</ref> on 4<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kumaraswamy |first=P. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKXvCSc93zEC&q=Arafat%25201929%2520%25224%2520august%2522&pg=PA26 |title=The A to Z of the Arab-Israeli Conflict |date=24 July 2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7015-4 |page=26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=17 March 2016 |title=Yasser Arafat Mausoleum |url=http://www.alluringworld.com/yasser-arafat-mausoleum/ |access-date=5 September 2019 |website=Alluring World}}</ref> or 24 August 1929.<ref>{{harvnb|Hart|1989|page=[https://archive.org/details/arafatpoliticalb00hart/page/67 67]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Dunn |first=Michael |title=Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa: A–C |date=2004 |publisher=Macmillan Reference |isbn=978-0-02-865769-1 |editor1-last=Mattar |editor1-first=Philip |volume=1 |place=Detroit |pages=269–272 |chapter=Arafat, Yasir |quote=Arafat and his family have always insisted that he was born 4 August 1929. in his mother's family home in Jerusalem. Nevertheless, an Egyptian birth registration exists, suggesting that he was born in Egypt on 24 August 1929... |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofmo00phil_0/page/268/mode/1up |chapter-url-access=registration}}</ref>{{rp|269}} His father, Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini, was a Palestinian from [[Gaza City]], whose mother, Yasser's paternal grandmother, was [[Egypt]]ian. Arafat's father battled in the Egyptian courts for 25 years to claim family land in Egypt as part of his inheritance but was unsuccessful.<ref>{{cite book| title=Yasser Arafat| publisher=Rosen Publishing Group| year=2003| first=Bernadette |last=Brexel| page=12}}</ref> He worked as a textile merchant in Cairo's religiously mixed [[El-Sakakini|Sakakini District]]. Arafat was the second-youngest of seven children and was, along with his younger brother [[Fathi Arafat|Fathi]], the only offspring born in Cairo. [[Jerusalem]] was the family home of his mother, Zahwa Abul Saud, who died from a kidney ailment in 1933, when Arafat was four years of age.<ref name="The Making of a Palestinian">{{harvnb|Aburish|1998||pages=[https://archive.org/details/arafatfromdefend0001abur/page/7 7–32]}}</ref>

Arafat's first visit to Jerusalem came when his father, unable to raise seven children alone, sent Yasser and his brother Fathi to their mother's family in the [[Mughrabi Quarter]] of the [[Old City of Jerusalem|Old City]]. They lived there with their uncle Salim Abul Saud for four years. In 1937, their father recalled them to be taken care of by their older sister, Inam. Arafat had a deteriorating relationship with his father; when he died in 1952, Arafat did not attend the funeral, nor did he visit his father's grave upon his return to Gaza. Arafat's sister Inam stated in an interview with Arafat's biographer, British historian Alan Hart, that Arafat was heavily beaten by his father for going to the Jewish quarter in Cairo and attending religious services. When she asked Arafat why he would not stop going, he responded by saying that he wanted to study Jewish mentality.<ref name="The Making of a Palestinian"/>