Children hold up a portrait of Yasser Arafat at his departure. August 30, 1982. (Credit: Ibrahim Tawil/Archives L'Orient-Le Jour)
As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas visits Lebanon to discuss disarming the Palestinian refugee camps, we invite you to reread this article, originally published on April 10, 2025.Alwaleed Yahia was born in 1987 in the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Syria. His father was Iraqi and his mother Palestinian, but his parents met in Lebanon. Like many from a generation of Arabs for whom the Palestinian cause was central, his father joined the fedayeen in Jordan in 1967. After the 1970-71 Jordanian Civil War, known as Black September, Yahia’s father and the fedayeen were expelled to Lebanon.Yahia’s mother was a refugee from the Tell al-Zaatar camp, then located in the northeastern part of Beirut. She and her family were forced to leave in August 1976 when Christian militias backed by Syria besieged the area. First they fled to the Mar...
As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas visits Lebanon to discuss disarming the Palestinian refugee camps, we invite you to reread this article, originally published on April 10, 2025.Alwaleed Yahia was born in 1987 in the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Syria. His father was Iraqi and his mother Palestinian, but his parents met in Lebanon. Like many from a generation of Arabs for whom the Palestinian cause was central, his father joined the fedayeen in Jordan in 1967. After the 1970-71 Jordanian Civil War, known as Black September, Yahia’s father and the fedayeen were expelled to Lebanon.Yahia’s mother was a refugee from the Tell al-Zaatar camp, then located in the northeastern part of Beirut. She and her family were forced to leave in August 1976 when Christian militias backed by Syria besieged the area. First they fled to the...
