Mahmoud Abbas, also known by the kunya Abu Mazen, was born 15 November 1935 in Safed, then in Mandatory Palestine, and is a Palestinian politician who has served as President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005. His family fled to Syria during the 1948 Palestine war; he studied law at Damascus University and later earned a doctoral degree from what was then Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. Abbas joined Fatah in 1961 and became one of its senior leaders, serving as the first Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority from March to September 2003 before his election as president in January 2005. He has represented the Palestinian side in numerous rounds of negotiation with Israel.
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Political RoleChairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization 1 Political Role Political RolePresident of the Palestinian National Authority 1 Political RolePrime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority 1 Connections
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Exact term-start date 15 January 2005; only the year is recorded as the term start.
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Joined Fatah in 1961.
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is a Palestinian politician who has been serving as the second president of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) since 2005.
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His family fled to Syria during the 1948 Palestine war; he studied law at Damascus University and later earned a doctoral degree from what was then Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow.
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Abbas was formally sworn in as the President of the Palestinian National Authority in a ceremony held on 15 January, in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
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While there in 1961, he was recruited to become a member of Fatah, founded by Yasser Arafat and five other Palestinians in Kuwait in the late 1950s.
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