# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shafiq-al-hout
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:44:08.692Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shafiq-al-hout"
name: "Shafiq al-Hout"
slug: "shafiq-al-hout"
description: "Shafiq al-Hout, also spelled Shafik al-Hut, was a Palestinian politician and writer. Born in Jaffa, he and his family fled to Beirut at the onset of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. There, al-Hout became a journalist at Al Hawadeth magazine. Using it as a platform, he founded the Palestine Liberation Front in 1961 and later became a founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964. He remained a senior member of the organization, representing it in Lebanon and the United Nations General Assembly. Initially a close aide to Yasser Arafat, al-Hout resigned from his position on the PLO Executive Committee, in protest of Arafat's signing of the Oslo Accords."
tagline: "Palestinian politician (1932-2009)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1932-01-13"
deathDate: "2009-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.32
  momentum:             8.115671641791044
  historical:           6.568289333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafik_Hout"
    title: "Shafik Hout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "شفيق الحوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafiq_al-Hout"
    title: "Shafiq al-Hout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafiq_al_Hout"
    title: "Shafiq al Hout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%82_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "شفیق الحوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafiq_al-Hout"
    title: "Shafiq al-Hout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q446826"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump