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1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Jurji Habib Hanania

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

1939 - 19 August 2014

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

Historical Media

Young Turks Revolution

Events

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress

13 December 1931

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

British to Terminate Palestine Mandate

26 September 1947

West Bank to Be Placed under Jordanian Military Government

16 May 1948 - 24 May 1948

Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference

Arab Responses to Formation of the All-Palestine Government

5 October 1948 - 14 October 1948

Assassination of King Abdullah

20 July 1951 - 11 August 1952

The US and Jordan River Waters

25 June 1954 - 6 July 1954

US Withdraws Aswan Funding

Appointment of Special Representative of the UNCCP

Proposals Announced by Joseph Johnson, Special Representative of the UNCCP

Israeli and Arab Responses to Joseph Johnson's Proposals

5 October 1962 - 17 October 1962

Israel Prepares for War with US Consent

2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967

June War, 6th Day

9 December 1969

19 June 1970 - 7 August 1970

Last Stage of Israeli Withdrawal from the Sinai

Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

9 December 1987

Jordan Severs Ties with the West Bank

28 July 1988 - 4 August 1988

19th Palestine National Council Meets in Algiers and Proclaims the Palestinian State

12 November 1988 - 15 November 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Israeli Settlement Activities Amid Attempts to Resume Talks

10 September 1997 - 6 November 1997

US Position on Further Redeployment and Palestinian Obligations

5 December 1997 - 3 September 1998

Wye River Plantation Meeting; Memorandum Signed

15 October 1998 - 23 October 1998

Orient House, Jerusalem and PLO Foreign Relations

1 March 1999 - 11 May 1999

With Barak as Prime Minister, Negotiations on Wye Implementation Resume

11 July 1999 - 3 September 1999

Revival and Failure of Syrian-Israeli Talks

7 December 1999 - 26 March 2000

Failure to Reach a FAPS by 13 February 2000 Target Date

8 December 1999 - 6 February 2000

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

The Knesset Passes the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law

Israeli Army Refocuses on Gaza Strip

19 August 2002 - 7 October 2002

The US War Against Iraq; Security Developments in the West Bank and Gaza

17 March 2003 - 9 April 2003

Abbas and Sharon Meet in Jerusalem

17 May 2003 - 29 May 2003

Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain

23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005

After a Massive Stroke, Sharon Is Replaced by Ehud Olmert as Acting PM

Olmert's Separation Plan

5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006

Olmert's Kadima Party Wins the Knesset Elections

28 March 2006 - 4 May 2006

Olmert's Convergence Plan Put Aside; Settlement Activity Resumes

18 August 2006 - 21 September 2006

Gaza Escalation Followed by a Negotiated Cease-Fire

20 November 2006 - 26 November 2006

The US Revisits the Road Map

14 January 2007 - 15 January 2007

International Responses to Palestinian Unity Efforts

2 February 2007 - 19 February 2007

After the July War: Winograd Commission Interim Report

Abbas-Olmert Meetings to Reach Understandings Before the International Conference

6 August 2007 - 10 September 2007

Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference

20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Bad Start

12 December 2007 - 27 December 2007

Israeli Supreme Court Endorses Economic Sanction Against Gaza

30 January 2008

Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans

9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status to Nowhere

27 May 2008 - 30 August 2008

Political Crisis in Israel

30 July 2008 - 10 February 2009

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy

4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009

War on Gaza: Israel Announces a Unilateral Cease-Fire

17 January 2009

The Deceptive Settlement Freeze

26 November 2009 - 5 January 2010

The Knesset Passes the Citizenship Law (Amendment No. 10) Conditioning Citizenship on Loyalty

Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners

17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Settlement Announcement in the Midst of a Crisis Regarding the Negotiations

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

Battir Landscape Is Inscribed in the World Heritage List

The 2014 Gaza War: The Intermittent Cease-Fires (Phase III)

31 July 2014 - 26 August 2014

Palestinian Leadership Debates End of Security Coordination with Israel

10 December 2014 - 14 December 2014

Palestinians in the West Bank Boycott Israeli Dairy and Processed Food Products

9 February 2015 - 2 March 2015

Settlement Construction

23 July 2015 - 17 November 2015

Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba

21 February 2016

Palestinians Thwart the Setting Up of Cameras at Haram al-Sharif

18 March 2016 - 18 April 2016

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

28 December 2016

Palestinians and International Partners Fight Against Israel’s Planned Demolition of Khan al-Ahmar

15 February 2017 - 21 October 2018

PLO President Mahmoud Abbas Meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House

Amendment by the Knesset of Its Code of Ethics to Allow Restricting Palestinian Members' Travel Abroad

22 January 2018 - 13 March 2018

Israeli Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Settler Organization’s Claim to Three Buildings in the Old City of Jerusalem

Mass Demolitions in Sur Bahir

Israeli Supreme Court Greenlights Withholding Palestinian Corpses

9 September 2019

Israel Announces Plans to Double Settler Population in Hebron

1 December 2019

Historical Texts

Resolutions of the General Palestinian Congress in Damascus (in Arabic)

27 February 1920

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria (in Arabic)

Letter from Palestinian Associations and Clubs to the Syrian Congress Presidency (in Arabic)

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 4th Palestinian National Congress Rejecting the British Mandate (in Arabic)

Arab Executive Committee's Response to High Commissioner's Offer to Form an Arab Agency Similar to the Jewish Agency in Palestine (in Arabic)

12 October 1923

Statement of the Arab National Conference (in Arabic)

13 December 1931

Communiqué: Formation of the Arab Independence Party; the Party Bylaws (in Arabic)

National Fund: Establishment of Company to Save the Lands of Palestine (in Arabic)

11 October 1932

National Defense Party: Objectives (in Arabic)

2 December 1934

The Palestine Arab Party: Bylaws and Internal Regulations (in Arabic)

Establishment of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration (in Arabic)

Provisional Bylaws of All-Palestine Government (in Arabic)

Resolutions of the Jericho Conference on Palestinian-Jordanian Unity (in Arabic)

1 December 1948

Law Promulgating the Basic Law for the Area under the Supervision of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine No. 255 of 1955 (in Arabic)

25 February 1958

Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)

5 November 1963

Palestine National Council, 1st Session: List of Members (in Arabic)

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Palestine National Council, 1st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Second Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)

5 September 1964 - 11 September 1964

President Bourguiba's Speech on the Palestine Question (in Arabic)

Bylaws of the Executive Committee of the PLO (in Arabic)

Palestine National Council, 2nd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965

Third Arab Summit: Political Statement (in Arabic)

13 September 1965 - 18 September 1965

Palestine National Council, 3rd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966

Palestinian Popular Congress, Statement (in Arabic)

6 April 1972 - 10 April 1972

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Statement (in Arabic)

12 January 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)

28 November 1973

Statement of the General Congress to Defend Arab Lands in Israel (in Arabic)

18 October 1975

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement (in Arabic)

18 February 1985

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1988: Concluding Statement (in Arabic)

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

Hamas’s Memorandum on Restructuring the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1990: Statement (in Arabic)

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

Palestine National Council, 21st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996

List of Transitional Issues Not Implemented by the Israeli Side, According to the PA Negotiations Affairs Department (in Arabic)

9 February 2000

Reorganization of Lebanon’s Department for Refugee Affairs (in Arabic)

14 October 2000

Thirteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

Fifteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

Sixteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

22 May 2004 - 23 May 2004

Seventeenth Arab Summit: The Algiers Declaration (in Arabic)

22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005

List of Jobs and Professions Restricted to Lebanese Citizens (in Arabic)

14 December 2005

Eighteenth Arab Summit: The Khartoum Declaration (in Arabic)

28 March 2006 - 29 March 2006

Nineteenth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007

Statement of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (in Arabic)

PLO Central Council, Statement (in Arabic)

The Palestine Announcement in Lebanon (in Arabic)

Final Statement of the Palestinian National Conference (in Arabic)

25 January 2008

Yemen's Initiative for the Resumption of Palestinian Internal Dialogue (in Arabic)

Twentieth Arab Summit: The Damascus Declaration (in Arabic)

29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008

Twenty-First Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)

Egypt's View on Ending Palestinian Division (in Arabic)

9 September 2009

Agreement on Palestinian National Conciliation (Draft) (in Arabic)

10 October 2009

Twenty-Second Arab Summit: The Sirte Declaration (in Arabic)

Implementation Mechanisms of the Palestinian National Conciliation Agreement: Minutes of Palestinian Factions' Meeting (in Arabic)

20 December 2011

The Doha Declaration on Palestinian Reconciliation (in Arabic)

6 February 2012

Twenty-Third Arab Summit: The Baghdad Declaration

Twenty-Fourth Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)

26 March 2013 - 27 March 2013

Twenty-Fifth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Statement Issued after a PLO-Hamas Meeting to End Division and Implement the National Reconciliation Agreement (in Arabic)

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

Twenty-Sixth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 March 2015 - 29 March 2015

Statement of the PLO Executive Committee on the Report of the Quartet (in Arabic)

Twenty-Seventh Arab Summit: The Nouakchott Declaration (in Arabic)

Fatah's 7th General Conference: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016

Statement of the Preparatory Committee for the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

11 January 2017

Closing Statement of the Popular Conference for the Palestinians Abroad (in Arabic)

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

Twenty-Eighth Arab Summit: The Amman Declaration (in Arabic)

Statement Issued Following the Meeting of the Palestinian National Action Factions (in Arabic)

21 November 2017 - 22 November 2017

Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (in Arabic)

13 December 2017

PLO Central Council, 28th Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

15 January 2018

Palestine National Council, 23rd Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

30 April 2018 - 4 May 2018

PLO Central Council, 29th Session: Resolutions (in Arabic)

15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018

PLO Central Council, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)

28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Balata Refugee Camp

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests