Ahmad Abdel Rahman (1943–2019) was a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and served in different capacities under both Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas from 1967 to 2000s.
Abdel Rahman was born in Bayt Shanna, Ramla, Mandatory Palestine, on 12 November 1943.
[2] Immediately following this incident he was arrested and detained by the Syrians and was released from Al Maza Prison in Damascus after a few weeks.
[2][3] He began to edit Falastin Al Thawra, a Fatah publication, in 1973 and served as its editor-in-chief until 1994 when it folded.
[3] Abdel Rahman was the political adviser to Yasser Arafat during the siege of the PLO's administrative center in West Bank during the Second Intifada.