Yasser Arafat, also popularly known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, President of Palestine from 1989 to 2004 and President of the Palestinian Authority (PNA) from 1994 to 2004. Ideologically an Arab nationalist and a socialist, Arafat was a founding member of the Fatah political party, which he led from 1959 until 2004. The Nobel Peace Prize 1994, announced October 14, 1994. Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin, “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”. Yasser Arafat: born 1929, Cairo, Egypt. Shimon Peres: born 1923, Vishneva, Poland (now Belarus). Yitzhak Rabin: born 1922, Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel). Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).