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Events

Ottoman Conquest of the Levant

24 August 1516 - 12 January 1517

Greek Orthodox Backlash against Provision on Jerusalem's Holy Sites in Capitulation of 1604

Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law

Five-year Limit on Jewish Immigration Extended

Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

With the Nonrelease of Prisoners, the Palestinian Leadership Applies for Access to 19 International Conventions

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

Biographies

1865 - 3 March 1948

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

1893 - 27 April 1940

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Statement by the Council of the Arab League on the Anglo-American Committee's Report on Palestine

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

Historical Media

Land in Jewish Possession (1944)

31 December 1944

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

Palestinian Photographers Before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

III. Late Mandate

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Places

al-Batani al-Gharbi

al-Batani al-Sharqi

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

al-Masmiyya al-Kabira

al-Masmiyya al-Saghira

al-Naghnaghiyya

al-Ras al-Ahmar

al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya

al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya

al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya

al-Shawka al-Tahta

al-Shaykh Muwannis

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta

al-Zuq al-Fawqani

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

'Arab al-'Arida

'Arab al-Bawati

'Arab al-Nufay'at

'Arab al-Samniyya

'Arab al-Shamalina

'Arab al-Zubayd

'Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri

Balad al-Shaykh

Khirbat Bayt Lid

Bayt Umm al-Mays

Daliyat al-Rawha'

Dayr Abu Salama

Ghabat Kafr Sur

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

Ijlil al-Shamaliyya

'Iraq al-Manshiyya

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Khirbat 'Iribbin

Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-Burj

Khirbat al-Buwayra

Khirbat al-Damun

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya

Khirbat al-Lawz

Khirbat al-Zababida

Khirbat Bayt Far

Khirbat Ism Allah

Khirbat Umm Burj

Khirbat Zakariyya

Khiyam al-Walid

Kirad al-Baqqara

Kirad al-Ghannama

Sarafand al-Kharab

Sarafand al-'Amar

Wadi al-Hawarith