Witness - Last days of Yasser Arafat - Sherine Salama

By late 2003, Yasser Arafat, the iconic Palestinian leader, had been effectively imprisoned in his Ramallah compound for almost a year. To Sherine Salama, an Australian journalist, this represented a challenge and she set herself the task of making a definitive documentary about the Palestinian leader - but it would not prove easy. It took her over a year of filming in and around Yasser Arafat's compound before she finally managed to persuade Arafat's aides to arrange an interview. It would be the last interview Arafat ever gave. A month later he was dead. The Last Days of Yasser Arafat tells the final chapter in the story of one of the most controversial public figures of recent times.

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News & Politics

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• Al Jazeera
• Witness
• Rageh Omaar
• Yasser Arafat
• Ramallah
• Sherine Salama
• PLO
• Palestine
• Israel
• Arafat death