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Biographies

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

1875 - 9 February 1949

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 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

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Law Promulgating the Basic Law for the Area under the Supervision of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine No. 255 of 1955 (in Arabic)

25 February 1958

Basic Law of the PLO

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

The Koenig Memorandum

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

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

7 February 1983

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

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

25 September 2009

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

Highlights

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Israeli Military

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

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Fawwar Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

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

Events

Birzeit University Is Closed

14 November 1980

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

Tension in Hebron

1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983

Israeli Measures Against Palestinian Universities

2 November 1983 - 30 July 1984

Palestinians in the Occupied Territories Oppose Reactivating the Jordanian Parliament

23 January 1984

Israeli Repression in the Occupied Territories

4 December 1986 - 11 December 1986

Clashes in the Occupied Territories

9 February 1987 - 18 February 1987

Israel Deports Five Palestinians

Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories

17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000

Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries

17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011