However, he added that there was no other way but to sit down and strike a deal, calling on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to enter negotiations.

Thousands of angry Hamas loyalists marched on February 24, 2008 at the funeral of a Muslim preacher who died in PNA custody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President Mahmoud Abbas.

* 2005 – Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority.

In his autobiography, From Jerusalem to Munich, first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with Sports Illustrated, Abu Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005.

Though he claims he didn't know what the money was being spent for, longtime Fatah official Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, was responsible for the financing of the Munich attack.

Abu Daoud believes that if the Israelis knew that Mahmoud Abbas was the financier of the operation, the 1993 Oslo Accords wouldn't have been achieved, during which Mahmoud Abbas was seen in photo ops at the White House.

Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

He was succeeded by Mahmoud Abbas ( also known as Abu Mazen ).

He worked hard in Kuwait, however, to establish the groundwork for Fatah's future financial support by enlisting contributions from the many wealthy Palestinians working there and other Gulf States, such as Qatar ( where he met Mahmoud Abbas in 1961 ).

In 2003, Arafat ceded his post as Prime Minister to Mahmoud Abbas amid pressures by the US.

" On 9 July, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas approved Suha Arafat's request to exhume Arafat's body to test for abnormal amounts of polonium.

On 10 November 2007, prior to the third anniversary of Arafat's death, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas unveiled a mausoleum for Arafat near his tomb in commemoration of him.

PLO Secretary-General Mahmoud Abbas was selected Chairman of the PLO, and Farouk Kaddoumi became head of Fatah.

* January 9, 2005 – Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority President.

* March 26 – Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority

** Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority President.

* President Mahmoud Abbas ( Palestinian Authority )

The site still serves as the Ramallah headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, as well the official West Bank office of Mahmoud Abbas.

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas brushes off comments by President Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah, who indicated he could dismiss the Hamas-led cabinet.

January 19: Israel transfers $ 100 million in tax revenues to cover humanitarian needs to the office of the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, as part of a plan to bolster him and keep money out of the hands of the Hamas government.

The documents themselves were signed by Mahmoud Abbas for the PLO, foreign Minister Shimon Peres for Israel, U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher for the United States and foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev for Russia.

" Both the White House and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who was also present at the meeting, denies that Bush ever made such a statement.

Mahmoud Fahmi an-Nukrashi Pasha ( 1888-28 December 1948 ) (, ) was an Egyptian political figure.

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Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati Massah (, born 22 February 1927 ) is a hardline Iranian politician, fundamentalist Shi ' i cleric and a founding member of Haghani school with close ties with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mesbah-Yazdi.

Abu Qatada al-Filistini (, ’ Abū Qatāda al-Filisṭīnī ; born 1959 / 60 ), is the conventional name of Omar Mahmoud Othman ( ‘ Umar ibn Maḥmūd ibn ‘ Uṯmān ), a Palestinian Muslim of Jordanian citizenship.

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* 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ; Nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

; Mahmoud Ali: A Muslim Indian barrister who openly hates the British.

; 1993 August 20: The Oslo Accords are signed by Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev.

* Mahmoud Abbas ' speech at UN ; A bid for a Palestinian State

In August 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad commented in a live broadcast on the state radio on rape and torture in the Iranian prisons and said ; " In some detention centers inappropriate measures have taken place for which the enemy was again responsible.

The only alleged Palestinian collaboration in this conspiracy theory involve two leading Palestinian figures from the Palestinian Fatah movement ; those are current Palestinian Authority and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas and Mohammed Dahlan the former head of Fatah in Gaza.

* Eritrea-Aster Fissehatsion ; Dawit Isaak ; Mahmoud Ahmed Sheriffo ; Petros Solomon ; Haile Woldetensae

Mahmoud Guinia ( ; also spelled Mahmoud Gania or Mahmoud Guinea ), also known as El Maallem Mahmoud Guinia (), is a Moroccan Gnawa musician.

The foreign dignitaries that had visited Istiqlal mosque are ; Bill Clinton President of United States in 1994, President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Prince Charles of United Kingdom, Li Yuanchao the vice chairman of Communist Party of China, President of Chile Sebastián Piñera, Heinz Fischer the President of Austria, Jens Stoltenberg the Prime Minister of Norway, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2012.

The four were: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ; Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority ; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ; and King Abdullah II of Jordan.

Eventually, Yasser Arafat, the man thought by many to have engineered the Intifada and to have kept it alive through four years, died in November 2004 ; January 9, 2005's Palestinian elections left Mahmoud Abbas in power.

Recent poems also reflect an interest in the Middle East: on Pieter Bruegel ’ s " Triumph of Death ", the 2002 Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, " Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth ", which she has stated came from hearing Le Trio Joubran ; in addition to a conversation with Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, and Introduction to the posthumous diary and poems of Mahmoud Darwish.

part as a room service attendant in the comedy play Hello Shalabi ; ( the original actor didn't show up, and Ahmed who was working as Soft Drinks vendor at the time, managed to get the fill-in on one night ) he managed to make an impressive comic sketch, notably impersonating the celebrated villain actor Mahmoud el-Meliguy which managed to let everyone take note of his impressive, natural performance.

Shaykh Tijani took the Khalwatiya from him and was reinitiated into it by the leading teacher in Cairo, Sidi Mahmoud al-Kurdi al-Iraqi al-Misri ( d. 1771 )— another teacher of the Fasite Sidi Abul Mawahib Abdelwahhab Tazi ( d. 1783 ; direct heir of Moulay Abd al-Aziz Dabbagh on whom Kitab al-Ibriz was written ; d. 1717 ).