Jamal Khoshoggi was a Saudi Arabian journalist, dissident, author, columnist for The Washington Post, and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbulon 2 October 2018
Bengali movie actor Soumitra Chhatterjee, globally applauded for his work with Satyajit Ray and many other legends of Bengali cinema died in Kolkata on November 15, 2020.
The 85-year-old thespian was admitted in a city hospital on Oct 6, after he tested positive for Covid-19.
Palestinianveteran negotiator Saeb Erekat died on November 10, 2020 of coronavirus complications at age 65.
Saeb Erekat was a long-time architect of plans to end the conflict with Israel through the creation of an independent Palestinian state, a goal he would not live to see achieved.
Mahmud Abbas is the current president of Palestine.
Palestinianveteran negotiator Saeb Erekat died on November 10, 2020 of coronavirus complications at age 65.
Saeb Erekat was a long-time architect of plans to end the conflict with Israel through the creation of an independent Palestinian state, a goal he would not live to see achieved.
Mahmud Abbas is the current president of Palestine.
Veteran journalist Robert Fisk, one of the best-known Middle East correspondents who spent his career reporting from the troubled region and won accolades for challenging mainstream narratives, has died after a short illness on November 2, 2020. He was 74.
Former Kirkuk governor Najmeddin Karim, who was forced to quit for organizing a referendum in defiance of Iraq’s federal government and wanted for corruption, died on October 31, 2020.
Lee Kun-Hee, the ailing Samsung Electronics chairman who transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics died on October 25, 2020.
