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Biographies

1875 - 9 February 1949

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

1910 - 26 February 1971

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

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

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

1928 - 1 September 2020

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Events

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

British Conquest of Transjordan Is Achieved

22 September 1918 - 27 September 1918

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah

25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923

Powerful Earthquake in Palestine and Transjordan

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Arab States (Reluctantly) Prepare for Intervention in Palestine

30 April 1948 - 12 May 1948

Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

Status of Jordanian Jerusalem Municipality Enhanced Symbolically

16 December 1959

Jordanian-Palestinian Clashes

11 February 1970

1st Extraordinary Session of the Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

27 August 1970 - 28 August 1970

PFLP Hijack Operations

6 September 1970 - 12 September 1970

Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

King Hussein Proposes a "United Arab Kingdom"

11th Arab Summit Meets in Amman

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

PLO and Jordan Agree on Idea of Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation

9 October 1982 - 10 November 1982

Failed Attempt of Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination

31 March 1983 - 8 April 1983

Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination for Peace Talks

26 February 1984 - 1 March 1984

Fatah-Democratic Alliance Precarious Reconciliation

27 June 1984 - 2 September 1984

17th Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

11 February 1985 - 22 February 1985

Breakdown of Jordanian-Palestinian Coordination

25 January 1986 - 1 April 1986

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Amman

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

Resumption of Diplomatic Activity

30 January 1988 - 10 February 1988

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

Attempted Assassination of Khalid Mishal in Amman; Ahmad Yasin Released

25 September 1997 - 1 October 1997

Setting Up Israeli-Palestinian Back Channel

1 December 1999 - 5 May 2000

Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising

30 September 2000 - 7 October 2000

13th Arab Summit Meets in Amman

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

The Geneva "Private" Initiative

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

Israeli-Palestinian “Exploratory Talks” in Amman

3 January 2012 - 25 January 2012

Fatah and Hamas Sign an Agreement on an Implementation Timetable in Cairo

John Kerry Conducts Shuttle Diplomacy for Resumption of Negotiations

4 March 2013 - 8 May 2013

Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds

23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013

Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

28th Arab Summit Meets at the Dead Sea

Two Jordanians Killed at Israeli Embassy in Amman

23 July 2017 - 24 July 2017

The Arab League Jerusalem Committee Meets to Discuss Trump's Jerusalem Announcement

Formation of the Munich Group

15 February 2020 - 24 September 2020

Historical Texts

Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan

Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

11 February 1985

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

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

25 September 2009

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Twenty-Eighth Arab Summit: The Amman Declaration (in Arabic)

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Egypt and Jordan (The Munich Group)

11 January 2021

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Marka Refugee Camp

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art