Arafat and the Dream of Palestine: An Insider's Account

Abu Sharif was one of the worlds most notorious and dangerous terrorists in the 60s and 70s acting as minister of propaganda for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and as a recruiter for terrorists like Carlos the Jackal. In 1972 a bomb was placed in a book and sent to him leaving him half-blind deaf in one ear and almost fingerless. Finally abandoning the use of violence as a means to achieve his Palestinian nationalist aspirations he aligned himself with Yasser Arafat eventually becoming one of his closest advisors.. In this book Abu Sharif often alongside Arafat takes us behind the scenes of all the major events in the Middle East during the last 30 years from the secret caves in the West Bank where Arafat hid on his way to Jerusalem in 1967 to the peace negotiations in Oslo in 1993. Arafat and the Dream of Palestine combines a deeply personal account informed by Abu Sharifs close relationship with Arafat with a gripping profoundly human history of Palestine.