As Arafat began to develop friendships with Palestinian refugees (some of whom he knew from his Cairo days), he and the others gradually founded the group that became known as Fatah. The exact date for the establishment of Fatah is unknown. In 1959, the group's existence was attested to in the pages of a Palestinian nationalist magazine, "Filastununa Nida al-Hayat" (Our Palestine, The Call of Life), which was written and edited by Abu Jihad.Zeev Schiff, Raphael Rothstein (1972). "Fedayeen; Guerillas Against Israel". McKay, p.58; Schiff and Rothstein claim Fatah was founded in 1959. Salah Khalaf and Khalil al-Wazir state Fatah's first formal meeting was in October 1959. See Anat N. Kurz (2005) "Fatah and the Politics of Violence: The Institutionalization of a Popular Struggle". Brighton, Portland: Sussex Academic Press (Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies), pp. 29–30</ref> FaTaH is a reverse acronym of the Arabic name "Harakat al-Tahrir al-Watani al-Filastini" which translates into "The Palestinian National Liberation Movement". "Fatah" is also a word that was used in early Islamic times to refer to "conquest."