M
Mahmoud Abbas
President of the State of Palestine
- Nationality:
- Palestinian
- Category:
- Politician
Biography
Mahmoud Abbas is the President of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority since 2005. Leader of the Fatah political party and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). A central figure in Palestinian politics for decades, Abbas has been at the forefront of peace negotiations and international diplomacy seeking Palestinian statehood. Born in Safed, British Mandate Palestine in 1935, he fled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and settled in Syria, where he studied law. He co-founded Fatah with Yasser Arafat in the late 1950s and played a key role in the Oslo Accords negotiations of the 1990s.