Founding chair who institutionalized the PLO under Arab League backing

Ahmad Shukeiri

Ahmad Shukeiri was a Palestinian diplomat and political leader who served as the first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) upon its founding in 1964. Supported by the Arab League, he was instrumental in drafting the Palestinian National Charter and establishing the administrative and diplomatic framework of the organization. Shukeiri represented the Palestinian cause in international forums, including the United Nations, advocating for the restoration of Palestinian rights. Following the catastrophic defeat of Arab states in the 1967 Six-Day War, he resigned from his leadership post, paving the way for guerrilla organizations to assume control of the national movement.

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Year	Ahmad Shukeiri
1908	Birth of Ahmad Shukeiri (Period: 1908 (Some sources state January 1), Location: Tibnin (present-day southern Lebanon)) Birth and Childhood in Tebnine (Period: 1908–1916, Location: Tebnine, Tulkarm, Acre)
1924	Secondary Education in Jerusalem (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 16 years old, Period: 1924–1926, Location: Jerusalem)
1926	Enrollment and Expulsion at American University of Beirut (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 18 years old, Period: 1926–1927, Location: Beirut, Lebanon)
1927	1927 Beirut Student Demonstration and Expulsion (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 19 years old, Period: May 1927, Location: Beirut, Lebanon)
1928	Legal Studies and Practice in Jerusalem (Age: 20 years old, Period: 1928–1933, Location: Jerusalem, Acre)
1930	Participation in Independence Party (Istiqlal Party, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1930s, Location: British Mandate for Palestine)
1933	Marriage (Ahmad Shukeiri, Naseeba al-Sadi, Age: 25 years old, Period: Circa 1933, Location: Details Unknown)
1936	1948 Palestine War (Age: 28 years old, Period: 1936–1939, Location: British Mandate for Palestine)
1939	World War II (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Iran) Exile to Cairo and Return to Palestine (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1939–1940, Location: Cairo, Egypt, and Palestine)
1945	Establishment of Arab Information Office in Washington (Age: 37 years old, Period: 1945, Location: Washington D.C., United States)
1946	Participation in Arab Higher Committee (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1946, Location: Palestine, Egypt, etc.)
1947	First Arab-Israeli War (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1947–1949, Location: Palestine, Jerusalem, Lydda, Ramle, etc.) Nakba (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 39 years old, Period: 1947–1949, especially 1948, Location: Palestine, Lebanon, etc.)
1949	Participation in UN as Part of Syrian Delegation (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1949–1950, Location: UN, New York, United States)
1951	Appointment as Assistant Secretary-General of Arab League (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 43 years old, Period: 1951–1957, Location: Cairo, Egypt)
1957	Appointment as Saudi Arabian Ambassador to UN (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 49 years old, Period: 1957–1962, Location: UN, New York, United States)
1963	Participation in Arab League as Palestinian Representative (Age: 55 years old, Period: 1963–1964, Location: Cairo, Egypt, and Arab Countries)
1964	Drafting of Palestinian National Charter (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1964, Location: Arab Countries, Jerusalem) Formation of Palestine Liberation Army (Age: 56 years old, Period: 1964–1967, Location: Arab Countries and surrounding Palestine region) Establishment of PLO and Assumption of First Chairmanship (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 56 years old, Period: May 28 – June 2, 1964, Location: East Jerusalem)
1965	Internal PLO Power Struggles over Leadership (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1965–1967, Location: Palestine, Arab Countries)
1967	Third Arab-Israeli War (Age: 59 years old, Period: June 5–10, 1967, Location: Egypt, Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights) Resignation as PLO Chairman (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 59 years old, Period: December 1967, Location: Middle East, Cairo, Egypt, etc.)
1968	Authoring of Memoirs and Political Writings (Age: 60 years old, Period: 1968–1979, Location: Cairo, Tunisia, Lebanon, etc.)
1978	Opposition to Camp David Accords and Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty (Age: 70 years old, Period: 1978–1979, Location: Camp David, United States, Egypt, Israel) Relocation to Tunisia (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 70 years old, Period: 1978–1979, Location: Cairo, Egypt, and Tunisia)
1980	Death of Ahmad Shukeiri (Age: 72 years old, Period: February 25 or 26, 1980 (Varies by source), Location: Amman, Jordan) Death in Amman (Ahmad Shukeiri, Age: 72 years old, Period: February 25 or 26, 1980, Location: Amman, Jordan)

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Establishment of Israel	Golda Meir David Ben-Gurion Chaim Weizmann Moshe Dayan Yitzhak Rabin Menachem Begin Shimon Peres Levi Eshkol Ariel Sharon Farouk I Gamal Abdel Nasser Anwar Sadat
Palestinian national movement	Yasser Arafat George Habash Nayef Hawatmeh Khalil al-Wazir Abu Iyad Edward Said Hanan Ashrawi Leila Khaled Mahmoud Abbas Ahmad Shukeiri
Iranian Revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini Ali Khamenei Abolhassan Banisadr Mehdi Bazargan Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Mohammad Beheshti Ali Shariati Sayyid Qutb Hassan al-Banna Mustafa Barzani

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