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Events

Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

Ottoman Law of the Provinces: Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine

7 November 1864

Completion of the Hijaz Railway

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

Formation of the Covenant Society in Istanbul

28 October 1913

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Prelude to the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

The British Prepare for the Occupation of Palestine

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

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

13 December 1931

Arab States (Reluctantly) Prepare for Intervention in Palestine

30 April 1948 - 12 May 1948

Opening an Office of the PLO in Lebanon

23 October 1964 - 13 November 1964

Israeli-Syrian Aerial Battle

7 April 1967 - 21 April 1967

Reports on Israeli Plans Against Syria

12 May 1967 - 14 May 1967

Civil Aviation in the Conflict

23 July 1968 - 29 August 1969

Black September Hijack Operation

29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972

October War, 4th Day

October War, From the 6th to 10th Day

11 October 1973 - 14 October 1973

A PLF Operation in Nahariya

Israel Invades Along the Central Axis

6 June 1982 - 11 June 1982

The “Creeping” Cease-fire

10 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

Palestinian National Salvation Front Is Formed in Damascus

Assassination of Zafir al-Masri

2 March 1986 - 3 March 1986

2nd Visit of US Secretary George Shultz to the Region; Statement to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza

25 February 1988 - 26 February 1988

3rd Visit of US Secretary of State Shultz to the Region

3 April 1988 - 8 April 1988

A Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Opposed to Negotiations Is Formed in Damascus

16 September 1992

The Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Reject the Palestinian-Israeli Accord, Damascus

2 September 1993

George Habash Retires as S-G of PFLP

27 April 2000 - 28 April 2000

Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising

30 September 2000 - 7 October 2000

Unilateral Cease-Fire Announcement and Gaza-First Arrangements

21 June 2003 - 2 July 2003

Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah

4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003

July War: Israel's Air War Fails to Knock out Hizballah

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

A Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Damascus

23 January 2008 - 25 January 2008

Assassination of Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah in Damascus

12 February 2008

Gaza Cease-Fire Falls Apart

14 December 2008 - 21 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 19: Hamas Cease-Fire Offer

14 January 2009

Impact of Democracy Drive in the Arab World on Palestinian Official Politics

14 February 2011 - 27 April 2011

In Contrast with Islamic Jihad, Hamas Leadership Leaves Syria

17 January 2012 - 12 March 2012

Assassination Attempt of Akram al-Ajouri in Damascus

12 November 2019

Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

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

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

1941 - 5 February 2023

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Historical Texts

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

27 February 1920

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria (in Arabic)

Final Statement of the Palestinian National Conference (in Arabic)

25 January 2008

Twentieth Arab Summit: The Damascus Declaration (in Arabic)

29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008

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

9 September 2009

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

III. Late Mandate

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity