Arafat

Arafat may refer to:

People

Given name

• Arafat Minhas (born 2005), Pakistani cricketer
• DJ Arafat (1986–2019), Ivorian DJ and singer who made music in the Coupé-Décalé genre

Surname

• Fathi Arafat (1933–2004), Palestinian physician
• Hisham Arafat (1964/1965–2024), Egyptian politician
• Moussa Arafat (c. 1940–2005), Palestinian politician, cousin of Yasser Arafat
• Raed Arafat (born 1964), Romanian physician
• Suha Arafat (born 1963), widow of Yasser Arafat
• Yasir Arafat (disambiguation), several people
• Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)

Places

• Yasser Arafat International Airport, Palestine
• Arafat, Makkah, a plain about 20 km Southeast of Mecca
• Mount Arafat, visited as part of the Hajj
• Arafat, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Arafat, Mauritania, a suburb of Nouakchott
• Arafat, Çınar, Turkey

Other uses

• Arafat (journal), a 1946–47 Pakistani periodical covering Islamic law

See also

• Day of Arafah