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Leila Khaled

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Palestinian refugee, former militant, and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

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Leila Khaled, born on April 9, 1944, is an author who has also used the pseudonym Xàdia Abu Gazala. Her literary output includes works such as *Zamā ūlas pah zhwandī pātī shī* and *My people shall live*.

In a separate musical context, an artist named Leila Khaled is identified as a male person from Algeria. This artist’s genres include algerian, arabic, french, north african, and raï. The name Leila Khaled is referenced by 353 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1944
Works
2

Top works

  • Zamā ūlas pah zhwandī pātī shī
  • My people shall live

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Algeria
Active from
1960-02-29
algerianarabicfrenchnorth africanraïscript-arab

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
9
Total plays
32

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Leila+Khaled">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • We must fight for one Arab nation, for unity, for freedom, for socialism. We must defeat enemy number one, America, the supplier of Hawk missiles to Israel, and we must seize our own oil resources. We must learn to emulate our Algerian brethren in order to liberate Palestine. Long live Palestine, Arab and revolutionary!
  • Who decides and defines what terrorism is? As far as I'm concerned, occupation is terrorism. My people and I have a right to fight it. I don't care what others call it. People have a right to fight those who occupy their country by all means possible including weapons. That's what it says in the UN declaration.
  • When we hijacked the planes the whole world wondered who we were. Regardless of what they thought about it, they wondered. But when we were tortured in lsraeli prisons, who heard our screams? We had to do what we did in order to get your attention. Our people suffered in Justice. No sound person accepts that! No one.
  • I'll explain why the plane was hijacked. We had to, to get attention so that the world would understand our cause. We weren't refugees who were satisfied with aid. It wasn't a natural disaster that made us refugees. We captured the planes to ask the world a question. Who are the Palestinians?

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Key facts

Born
( 1944-04-09 ) April 9, 1944 (age 82) , Haifa , Mandatory Palestine
Organization
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Known for
Pro-Palestinian militancy
Movement
Arab Nationalist Movement

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Leila Khaled (Arabic: ليلى خالد [ˈlajla ˈxaːled]; born April 9, 1944) is a Palestinian activist and former militant who is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). She is famous for her role in two plane-hijackings, and was the second woman to be involved in such an operation.

Khaled gained her prominence for her role in the TWA Flight 840 hijacking in 1969 and one of the four simultaneous Dawson's Field hijackings the following year as part of the campaign of Black September in Jordan. After being imprisoned, she was released in a prisoner exchange for civilian hostages kidnapped by other PFLP members.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leila Khaled” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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