Yasser Arafat dies in Paris

Arafat dies at the Percy military hospital outside Paris after weeks of declining health. His death ends 35 years of Fatah leadership and ushers in Mahmoud Abbas as PA president after a January 2005 election.

Referenced entities

Parties

Fatah

Politicians

Mahmoud Abbas head-of-state

Sources

www.bbc.co.uk — BBC, 11 Nov 2004
www.nytimes.com — NYT obituary, 11 Nov 2004

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Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Yasser Arafat dies in Paris [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/22511cdb-bf72-4bb4-a85a-ed36b058b4b5

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Yasser Arafat dies in Paris." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/22511cdb-bf72-4bb4-a85a-ed36b058b4b5.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-event-22511cdb-bf72-4bb4-a85a-ed36b058b4b5,
  title     = {{Yasser Arafat dies in Paris}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/22511cdb-bf72-4bb4-a85a-ed36b058b4b5},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {Event date: 2004-11-11. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2004-11-11. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.