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Acre under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani Challenges Direct Ottoman Rule

Acre Under Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar

Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine

February 1799 - May 1799

Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

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

7 November 1864

Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine

Nine Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1890s

Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907

Six Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1908 and 1910

Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

Elections Held for Fourth Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

18 April 1912 - 5 August 1912

Railway Lines in Palestine

Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine

Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine

19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine

Hanging of Palestinian Militants

Anti-British Operation and British Retaliation in al-Bassa

6 September 1938 - 10 September 1938

British Military Officers Replace Civilian Commissioners

Continuation of Zionist-British Confrontation

16 April 1947 - 26 April 1947

Irgun Kidnaps and Murders Two British Sergeants

11 July 1947 - 31 July 1947

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

First Palestine Truce, Israeli Reinforcements and Destruction of Palestinian Villages

11 June 1948 - 8 July 1948

Palestinians in Israel Stage a General Strike to Protest the Kafr Qasim Massacre

Start of the Second Intifada

29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre

8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008

Biographies

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

1907 - 27 July 2006

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

1939 - 19 August 2014

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Historical Texts

1st Palestinian National Congress: Report to Paris Peace Conference (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)

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 5th Palestinian National Congress on Boycotting the Legislative Council Elections (in Arabic)

1 September 1922

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

The Palestinian Arab Reform Party: Objectives (in Arabic)

Arab Summit Resolutions, Anshas (in Arabic)

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: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 May 1964 - 2 June 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

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

20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966

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

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

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1990: Statement (in Arabic)

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

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

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

PLO Central Council, Statement (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

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)

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

10 October 2009

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)

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

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

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, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)

28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018

Ismail Haniyeh: Hamas's Vision for Advancing the Palestinian Cause (in Arabic)

3 November 2021

Historical Media

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

Highlights

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

I. Ottoman Rule

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station