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Biographies

Biography
Sa'id al-Karmi
1852 - 1935
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Subhi al-Khadra
1895 - 4 July 1954
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Anbara Salam Khalidi
4 August 1897 - 1986
Biography
Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari
1900 - 29 May 1980
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Bashir Barghouti
1931 - 9 September 2000
Biography
Anis Abdullah Sayigh
3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009
Biography
Ahmad Ismail Yasin
June 1936 - 22 March 2004
Biography
Samih al-Qasim
1939 - 19 August 2014

Events

Event
Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant
21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916
Event
Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans
10 June 1916
Event
British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan
21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918
Event
Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City
26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918
Event
San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates
25 April 1920
Event
French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon
14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920
Event
The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan
25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920
Event
Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan
2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921
Event
Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir
11 April 1921
Event
League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home
14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922
Event
British-French Agreement on Boundary Line Between Palestine and Lebanon and Syria
7 March 1923
Event
British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah
25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923
Event
Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey
24 July 1923
Event
Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate
20 February 1928
Event
Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine
7 July 1937
Event
London Round Table Conference Convenes
7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939
Event
Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington
September 1945 - December 1947
Event
League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN
18 April 1946
Event
Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan and Establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
25 May 1946
Event
West Bank to Be Placed under Jordanian Military Government
16 May 1948 - 24 May 1948
Event
Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference
1 October 1948
Event
Arab Responses to Formation of the All-Palestine Government
5 October 1948 - 14 October 1948
Event
Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis
30 January 1949
Event
The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis
31 January 1949
Event
Jordan's Early Measure to "Jordanize" Arab Palestinians
14 February 1949
Event
Jordan Amends the Parliamentary Election Law
13 December 1949
Event
Dissolution of the Jordanian Parliament
1 January 1950
Event
Assassination of King Abdullah
20 July 1951 - 11 August 1952
Event
Attempted Assassination of Anis Sayigh in Beirut
19 July 1972
Event
King Hussein Dies; Eldest Son Is Crowned King Abdullah II
17 February 1999
Event
Sharm al-Shaykh Summit
16 October 2000 - 18 October 2000
Event
14th Arab Summit Meets in Beirut and Adopts Saudi Peace Initiative
27 March 2002 - 28 March 2002
Event
Aqaba Summit: Bush, Abdullah, Abbas, and Sharon Meet
4 June 2003
Event
Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan
15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004
Event
19th Arab Summit Meets in Riyadh: Revival of the Arab Peace Initiative
28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007
Event
Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen
18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008
Event
Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire
4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008
Event
The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Arab Side
21 April 2009 - 28 May 2009
Event
Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks, Mediated by George Mitchell, Formally Relaunched in Washington
1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010
Event
Assassination of Muhammad Abu Mu‘ammar in Rafah
30 March 2011
Event
Assassination of Muhammad al-Dayah, Abdullah Lubbad, and Isma‘il Lubbad in Deir al-Balah
2 April 2011
Event
Assassination of Abdullah al-Talbani in Jabaliya
27 December 2011
Event
Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem
31 March 2013
Event
Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners
17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014
Event
Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?
22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015
Event
The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba
21 February 2016

Historical Media

Document
Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception
28 March 1921
Document
Arab Revolt 1936 - Royal Commission
11 January 1937

Historical Texts

Document
Statement of the Arab National Conference
13 December 1931
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan
24 April 1950
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
UNSC Resolution 1397
12 March 2002
Document
The Quartet (UN, EU, Russia, US) Communiqué on the Situation in the Occupied Territories
10 April 2002
Document
Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council
15 May 2002
Document
A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
30 April 2003
Document
Mecca Agreement
8 February 2007
Document
Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University
14 June 2009
Document
Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem
31 March 2013
Document
Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
Document
30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration
31 March 2019
Document
Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel
15 September 2020

Highlights

Highlight
Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967
The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”
Highlight
The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
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V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
Highlight
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
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UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
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Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans