Mohamed Abdel-Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa al-Husseini was born on 24 August 1929 in Cairo, father a textile merchant who was a Palestinian with some Egyptian ancestry, his mother from an old Palestinian family in Jerusalem .She died when Yasir, as he was called was five years old and he sent to live with his maternal uncle in Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine, then under British rule, which the Palestinians were opposing He has revealed little about his childhood, but one of his