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Farouk Kaddoumi was born near Qalqilyah, later his family moved to Haifa and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War moved to Nablus. For three years in the early 1950s he worked in Saudi Arabia for Arab-American Petroleum Company (ARAMCO). In 1954 he moved to Egypt and while studying economy and politology at the Cairo University, he joined the Baath party.

In 1960 he joined Fatah in the United Arab Emirates. In 1965-66 he worked for the ministry of health of Kuwait but in 1966 was expelled from the country for anti-governmental activities connected with the PLO. By 1969 he became one of key figures in the PLO and after 1973 he headed its political department in Damascus, SyriaThe Syrian Arab Republic is a country in Southwest Asia, bordering (from south to north) on Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. The border with Israel is subject to dispute, pending the resolution of outstanding conflicts over possession of the Gola.

In 1976, Arafat and Kaddoumi met with Meir Vilner and Toufiq Toubi , heads of the Israeli Communist Party , known as Maki party and from which Hadash party eventually sprung up. This meeting led to a close cooperation.

Kaddoumi participated in the activities of Said al-Muraghi (Abu Musa) group, including 1983 mutiny attempt against Yassir Arafat, but switched sides and was assigned to Central Committee of Fatah.

A representative of the "Tunisian guard", Kaddoumi is known for his hardline views. In 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. he sharply criticized the signing of the Oslo accords with IsraelThis article discusses the State of Israel. For other meanings of Israel see Israel (disambiguation). The State of Israel Medinat Yisrael in Hebrew, Daulat Israil in Arabic) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. and refused to work in the Palestinian Authority. Nevertheless, Arafat appointed him a director of Palestinian Economic Council for Reconstruction and Development (PECDAR), a body whose members are mostly in the territories, and whose meetings he does not attend.

Upon Arafat's death, Farouk Kaddoumi inherited duties as chairman of the PLO central committee and of the Fatah movement. Kaddoumi said he was open to peace negotiations with Israel, but also ready to pursue armed struggle if they failed. "Resistance is the path to arriving at a political settlement," Farouk Kaddoumi told Hizbollah's al-Manar TV station on November 12, 2004 ([1]).