Shafiq al-Hout, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shafiq al-Hout

Palestinian politician

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1932

Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Date of Death: 02-Aug-2009

Profession: writer, politician, diplomat, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Shafiq al-Hout also spelled Shafik al-Hut (Arabic: ???? ??????; 13 January 1932 – 2 August 2009) was a Palestinian politician and writer.
Born in Jaffa, he and his family fled to Beirut at the onset of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
There, al-Hout became a journalist at al-Hawadth newspaper.
Using it as a platform, he founded the Palestine Liberation Front in 1961 and later became a founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964.
He remained a senior member of the organization, representing it in Lebanon and the United Nations General Assembly.
Initially a close aid to Yasser Arafat, al-Hout resigned from his position on the PLO Executive Committee, in protest of Arafat's signing of the Oslo Accords.