Arafat may refer to:

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Arafat Minhas Arafat Minhas (Urdu: ; born 2 January 2005) is a Pakistani cricketer who plays for the Pakistan national cricket team, Pakistan cricket team and Karachi Kings. Minhas bowls Left-arm orthodox spin, left arm orthodox . Early career Minhas was b ...

(born 2005), Pakistani cricketer *

DJ Arafat Ange Didier Houon (26 January 1986 – 12 August 2019), known professionally as DJ Arafat and various other stage names, was an Ivorian disc jockey and singer who made music in the Coupé-Décalé genre. The word "coupé-décalé" came from a ...

(1986–2019), Ivorian DJ and singer who made music in the Coupé-Décalé genre

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Fathi Arafat Fathi Arafat (; January 11, 1933 – December 1, 2004) was a Palestinian physician and a founder and long-term chairman of the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Born in Cairo, he studied medicine at Cairo University from 1950 until 1957 and th ...

(1933–2004), Palestinian physician * Hisham Arafat (1964/1965–2024), Egyptian politician *

Moussa Arafat Moussa Arafat al-Qudwa (; died 7 September 2005) was one of the founders of Fatah and a leading official in the Fatah Revolutionary Council. He was a cousin of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Career Moussa Arafat was chief of military intell ...

(c. 1940–2005), Palestinian politician, cousin of Yasser Arafat *

Raed Arafat Raed Arafat (; , first name also spelled Rayed; born May 24, 1964) is a Syrian-born Romanian Intensive care medicine, intensive care physician of Palestinians, Palestinian origin, specialised in anesthesiology. He founded the SMURD, Mobile Emer ...

(born 1964), Romanian physician *

Suha Arafat Suha Arafat (; born Suha Daoud Tawil () on 17 July 1963) is the widow of former Palestinian National Authority president Yasser Arafat. Early life and education Suha was born in Jerusalem on 17 July 1963 into an affluent Roman Catholic family wh ...

(born 1963), widow of Yasser Arafat * Yasir Arafat (disambiguation), several people *

Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (4 or 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), also popularly known by his Kunya (Arabic), kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader. He was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from 1969 to 2004, Presid ...

(1929–2004), Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) * Arafat Family Palestinian Family with roots from -

Gaza Gaza may refer to: Places Palestine * Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea ** Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip ** Gaza Governorate, a governorate in the Gaza Strip Mandatory Palestine * Gaza Sub ...

Nablus Nablus ( ; , ) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian city in the West Bank, located approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 156,906. Located between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a ...

and later presence in

Amman Amman ( , ; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant ...

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

Places

Yasser Arafat International Airport Yasser Arafat International Airport ( ''Maṭār Yāsir 'Arafāt ad-Dawli'') was an airport in the Gaza Strip. It was located between Rafah and Dahaniya, close to the Egyptian border. The facility was built as a result of the Oslo Accords an ...

, Palestine *

Arafat, Makkah Mount Arafat (, or ) is a granodiorite hill about southeast of Mecca, in the province of the same name in Saudi Arabia. It is approximately in height, with its highest point sitting at an elevation of . The Prophet Muhammad, before becoming ...

, a plain about 20 km Southeast of Mecca *

Mount Arafat Mount Arafat (, or ) is a granodiorite hill about southeast of Mecca, in the Makkah Province, province of the same name in Saudi Arabia. It is approximately in height, with its highest point sitting at an elevation of . The Prophet Muhammad, ...

, visited as part of the ''Hajj'' *

Arafat, Iran Arafat (, also Romanized as ‘Arafāt) is a village in Baba Jik Rural District, in the Central District of Chaldoran County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, ...

, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran *

Arafat, Mauritania Arafat is a suburb of Nouakchott and urban commune in western Mauritania Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Maghreb, Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, W ...

, a suburb of Nouakchott *

Arafat, Çınar Arafat is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çınar, Diyarbakır Province Diyarbakır Province (; ; ) is a province and metropolitan municipality in southeastern Turkey. Its area is 15,101 km2, and its population is 1,8 ...

, Turkey

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* ''Arafat'' (journal), a 1946–47 Pakistani periodical covering Islamic law

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