As a child he was greatly affected by a visit from Yasser Arafat in 1976 to the camp and later he devoted many of his verses to Arafat.
وكان الطفل قد تأثر كثيرا بزيارت من ياسر عرفات عام 1976 إلى المخيم، ثم كرس العديد من كتاباته لعرفات.