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	Exit Poll b Elections-Day Survey Exit Poll: Political Attitudes of Voters, Electoral Process, Criteria in Selecting ...
		Among those who voted for Samiha Khalil, 37% believed that decisio-making should be in the hands of the elected council, 19% in the hands of national council, 17% in the hands of the PNA president.
		In the case of Samiha Khalil, voters were evenly distributed between men and women aged 34 years or younger.
		There is clear relationship between voting for both candidates and voters levels of education; the percentage voting for Arafat decreases as education level increases and in the case of Samiha Khalil voting increases as the level of education increases.
	www.pcpsr.org /survey/cprspolls/96/exitb.html (1639 words)

	Khalil_Samiha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Khalil died late Friday night in Ramallah Hospital after suffering a heart attack.
		Khalil became a household name for the Palestinians in 1965 when she established
		Khalil, born in 1923 in the West Bank town of Anabta will be buried on Sunday in el-
	www.abudis.net /Khalil_Samiha.html (179 words)

	The Jerusalem Fund
		Samiha Khalil was a middle-aged woman when she became well-known.
		Samiha Khalil, by all accounts, was a very conservative woman.
		She was indeed one of the formidable women in Palestinian history, who handled all the accounts for the martyrs, their families, and their children over the years.
	www.thejerusalemfund.org /images/fortherecord.php?ID=258 (4529 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Despair of Palestinian children
		A group of girls sing in unison in a circle in the playground of the Samiha Khalil school in Ramallah.
		Tahani Lubani a teacher at the Samiha Khalil school travels for two hours in each direction through army checkpoints in order to reach her pupils.
		In the playground of the Samiha Khalil, seven-year-old Mohammed plays a boisterous game of football with his friends.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3154544.stm (720 words)

	Arab-Israeli Politics Profiles Archive 1996: Samiha Khalil, PLO Opposition
		Samiha Khalil is a very prominent woman in the West Bank.
		Khalil was born in the West Bank Village of Anabta outside of Tulkam in
		Khalil feels that education is important, and went back to
	www.la.utexas.edu /chenry/mena/roles/aip/profiles96/0063.html (495 words)

	Yasser_Arafat
		In Kuwait in 1959, with the help of friends Yahia Ghavani and Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) [3], together with a group of refugees from Gaza, Arafat founded one of the groups that became al-Fatah.
		According to journalist John Cooley, the name means "victory" and is also an acrostic taken from the initials, read backwards, of Harahkat al-Tahrir al Filistini (H-T-F, letters are reversed in FaTaH due to the negative meaning of the H-T-F root in Arabic.), meaning the Palestine Liberation Movement.
		On January 20, 1996, Arafat was elected president of the PA, with an overwhelming 88.2 percent majority (the only other candidate was Samiha Khalil) [7].
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/y/ya/yasser_arafat.html (5621 words)

	MyFreePress.com : July 7, 2002
		Every one who can read and see knows that in 1996 the elections were a fraud.
		The sole opponent was in fact, social worker Samiha Khalil, a 70 year old woman.
		It is interesting to note that although Samiha Khalil was not well known or a politician, she did get 10% of the vote.
	radio.weblogs.com /0106101/2002/07/07.html (220 words)

	The Militant - 2/5/96 -- Palestinians Elect Self-Rule Council
		The elections were organized after the Oslo agreement signed September 28 by Arafat and then Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
		Samiha Khalil, an outspoken opponent of the Oslo accord, received 9.3 percent of the vote for president.
		Arafat will administer two-thirds of the territory of the Gaza Strip and one-third of the West Bank.
	www.themilitant.com /1996/605/605_5.html (930 words)

	Election Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The elections for the Presidency of the Palestinian National Authority were also held on the same day.
		Yasser Arafat and Miss Samiha Khalil, ran for the position of the President.
		Mr.Arafat won the elections and is currently the president of the Palestinian National Authority and the Legislative Council.
	www.elections.ps /cec/english/results/results.html (136 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Campaign sends Mothers Day gifts where they’re needed most
		The Arab Women’s Solidarity Association, headed by American University of Beirut professor Samira Khoury, was the first NGO to respond to the call.
		Khoury contacted several credible Gaza-based NGOs and the Family Welfare Association, headed by Samiha Khalil, accepted the role of gift distributor.
		“Khalil is a very admirable woman, she (and her organization) hasn’t stopped adopting children, victims of house demolitions perpetrated by Israelis, since 1967,” Khoury said.
	www.lebanonwire.com /aa-lebanon/02032110DS.htm (350 words)

	Opinion: Who envies Abu Mazen? -- Middle East Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1996 the Palestinians held elections for the presidency and the parliament, monitored by international observers.
		Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, was not the only one standing; another candidate, Samiha Khalil, a respected woman, did garner almost 10 percent of the vote.
		But because of Arafat's dominant personality, the insufficient separation between the branches of government and the relentless Israeli defamation campaign against him, many people around the world did not recognize the Palestinian democracy.
	www.metimes.com /print.php?StoryID=20050117-090401-1656r (1317 words)

	Arafat to run for Palestine presidency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The council candidates will contest 82 seats in the Jan. 20 elections and whoever wins the race for "president," the top executive power, will hold the council's 83rd seat.
		Samiha Khalil, 70, head of a respected West Bank charity, and PLO head Arafat, 65, are the only candidates for the executive post.
		Arafat blasted the opposition, especially Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement, over their refusal to run.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/95/12/26/plo.html (301 words)

	Arab Film Distribution: Home Page - Films, Videos, and DVDs from the Arab World, Middle East, and North Africa
		She tells about fighting the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon in the 1990s and of her imprisonment in the Khiam detention facility, which was run by Israel’s auxiliary militia, the South Lebanon Army.
		Director Chamoun also explores the pioneering contributions of other Palestinian women, such as activist Samiha Khalil, also known as Um Khalil, who spoke out against the Balfour Declaration and the British occupation of Palestine at an international women’s demonstration in 1936, when she was just thirteen years old.
		She founded the welfare organization Inaash al-Usra in her garage in 1965 and ran for president against Yasser Arafat in 1996, earning twelve percent of the vote.
	www.arabfilm.com /item.html?itemID=384 (264 words)

	Learn more about Yasser Arafat in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1994, Arafat moved to the Palestinian Authority (PA) - the provisional entity created by the Oslo Accords.
		On January 20, 1996, Arafat was elected president of the PA, with an overwhelming 87% majority (the only other candidate being Samiha Khalil).
		Considering allegations that most of the opposition movements did not participate in the elections, and numerous incompatibilities of the elections with the democratic principle, many have claimed the elections to be fabricated.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /y/ya/yasser_arafat.html (2506 words)

	Arab-Israeli Politics Bibliography Archive 1996: Sources on Samiha Khalil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This article gave little specifics on Samiha Khalil, but gave good
		question of why Samiha Khalil was given so little coverage in the media.
		This was probable the most informative article about Samiha Khalil.
	www.la.utexas.edu /chenry/mena/bibs/aip/bibs96/0043.html (201 words)

	CNN NEWSROOM Guide for January 16, 1996
		Identify and discuss the single greatest impediment to her success.
		----------------- EDITOR'S NOTE: TODAY'S NEWS TERMS ---------------- Samiha Khalil Hanan Ashwari Yasser Arafat Intifada disempower *** ** * January 16, 1996 (4) * * * * * * * * * * * * ****** STUDENT HANDOUT: A WOMAN'S PLACE DIRECTIONS: Samiha Khalil's** bid for political office is unusual in her culture.
		Using media and on-line resources, research the status of women in Moslem cultures.
	learning.turner.com /newsroom/archive/0196/NR011696.html (1310 words)

	CNN - Arafat heading for landslide victory - Jan. 20, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		With 60 percent of the votes counted, Arafat was said to have secured more than 85 percent of the votes, and was well on his way to becoming the first president of the Palestinian Authority.
		His sole opponent, social worker Samiha Khalil, had picked up 10 percent of the votes.
		Counting was still on, and a final tally was expected Sunday.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9601/palestine_elex/01-20/arafat_wins (208 words)

	Daily Alert - May 9, 2002
		Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, writing recently in the New York Times, referred to Yasser Arafat as the democratically elected leader of the Palestinians.
		On January 21, 1996, Arafat was elected President of the Palestinian Authority with 88 percent of the vote, defeating Samiha Khalil, a 72-year-old grandmother.
		What is less known is that Arafat's term of office expired three years ago, and he has never stood for reelection.
	www.dailyalert.org /archive/2002-05/2002-05-09.html (933 words)

	Readings of Interest
		Seventy-five percent of eligible voters participated, despite the call by opposition groups for a boycott.
		Arafat received more than 70 percent of the vote, with about 22 percent casting blank ballots and only 8 percent voting for his rival, Samiha Khalil.
		Fatah won 77 percent of the seats in the new Palestinian Legislative
	www.chicagopeacenow.org /wws-divided.html (991 words)

	Yasser Arafat
		On July 1, 1994, Arafat arrived in Gaza and assumed control over the Palestinian Authority (PA) — the provisional entity created by the Oslo Accords.
		On January 20, 1996, Arafat was elected president of the PA (he is also known by the Arabic word ra’is or “head”), with an overwhelming 83% majority (the only other candidate was Samiha Khalil).
		Though he was to serve for only three years, no other presidential elections have ever been held.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/arafat.html (4778 words)

	CNN - Arafat takes overwhelming victory - Jan. 21, 1996
		Thousands of Palestinians voted in the state's historic first election.
		With 85 percent of the ballots counted, the central election committee said Arafat had garnered 90 percent of the votes for president of the Palestinian Council, compared with under 10 percent for his only challenger, Samiha Khalil.
		The rest of the votes were invalid; final results were to be in by Sunday afternoon.
	www2.cnn.com /WORLD/9601/palestine_elex/01-21/2pm (663 words)

	Arabic Media Internet Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yasser Arafat won 83% of the votes of Palestinians living in the West Bank (including Jerusalem) and Gaza.
		At the time, I took my daughter to the voting booth and informed her that I was planning to vote for a woman Arafat's rival, Samiha Khalil.
		My preference for a different kind of a Palestinian leader was increased the following year, when I was arrested by the Palestinian police, for seven days after the television station that I established, Al Quds Educational Television, broadcast live sessions of the Palestinian Legislative Council dealing with corruption in the Palestinian Authority.
	www.amin.org /eng/daoud_kuttab/2003/sept16.html (957 words)

	HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		With military trumpeters and condolences from Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, Palestinian activist Samiha Khalil, who promoted a mix of nationalism and women's self-sufficiency in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, was laid to rest in an al-Bireh cemetery yesterday.
		While unknown to most Israelis, Khalil was renowned among Palestinians for founding and heading the Inash el- Usrah welfare society, which trained thousands of Palestinian women in sewing, typing, cooking, and other skills.
		This material is published under license from the publisher through ProQuest Information and Learning Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:20640694&... (145 words)

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