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Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

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

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1942 - 6 August 2019

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Historical Texts

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

Palin Commission Report

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

The Murison Commission Report

Proposed New Constitution for Palestine

22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

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

The Grady-Morrison Plan

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account

8 November 1948

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

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

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Basic Law of the PLO

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)

10 December 1969

UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)

8 December 1970

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)

The Koenig Memorandum

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut

7 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Palestinian Parties and Factions Code of Conduct during the Legislative Electoral Process

17 October 2005

Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups

16 January 2009

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

25 September 2009

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Scope of Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017

6 February 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution 73/5

16 October 2018

Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

12 February 2020

HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

Events

The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant

10 January 1920

Regulation Concerning the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council

20 December 1921 - 9 January 1922

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

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

A Lebanese Decree, Implicitly Applicable to Palestinian Refugees, Regulates Work of Foreigners

18 September 1964

UNGA 2443 (XXIII): Establishing Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights in Occupied Territories

19 December 1968

A Palestine Information Office (PIO) Is Opened in Washington

9th Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad and Condemns the Camp David Accords

5 November 1978

Israeli Measures Against Palestinian Universities

2 November 1983 - 30 July 1984

13th Arab Summit Meets in Amman

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

Annual Zionist General Council (WZO) Meets in Jerusalem

The Lebanese Minister of Labor Removes some Restrictions on the Work of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

7 June 2005 - 14 December 2005

Fayyad's Emergency Government Becomes a de facto Regular Government

5 July 2007 - 14 July 2007

Knesset Passes Law to Deduct Funds from the PA Tax Revenue

2 July 2018 - 3 July 2018

Settlement Construction in 2018 Remains High

31 December 2018

US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes

7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021

Annual Settler March: Israeli Forces Violently Disperse Palestinian Protesters

Foreign Ministers of the US, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, and Israel Meet in Sde Boker: The Negev Forum

27 March 2022 - 27 June 2022

Israeli Settlers and Forces Attack Palestinians During Annual Flag Day March

Historical Media

Land in Jewish Possession (1944)

31 December 1944

Illegal Immigration (I)

Illegal Immigration (II)

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Highlights

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinian Communist Movement

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Talbieh Refugee Camp

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

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

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s 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

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

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