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1859 - 21 July 1921

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

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

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

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

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

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

1917 - 12 December 2003

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

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

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

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Events

France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements

2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901

Establishment of the Rawdat al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyya al-'Uthmaniyya al-Islamiyya in Jerusalem

Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul

2 September 1908 - April 1909

Establishment of al-Madrasa al-Dusturiyya, Jerusalem

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

Arab Delegations Put Forward Constitutional Proposals to the London Round Table Conference on Palestine

30 September 1946

Led by George Habash, Arab Nationalist Activists on the Way to Structure Their Movement

1 January 1951 - 30 November 1952

The Knesset Adopts the Law of State Education

Escalation Across Jordanian-Israeli Lines

10 September 1956 - 26 September 1956

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in South Lebanon and Jordan Valley

22 May 1970 - 29 May 1970

Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel

Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

9 December 1987

One-Month Closure of Academic Institutions in the West Bank

2 February 1988

The Intifada and the Israeli Response in Another Stage in the Confrontation

11 March 1988 - 29 March 1988

Tougher Israeli Measures Against the Intifada

17 January 1989

Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories

17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000

With the Assassination of Abu Hanud, Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation Reaches a New Level

26 November 2001 - 15 December 2001

SC Res. 1435: Concern over Reoccupation of Arafat's Headquarters in Ramallah and Call for Israeli Withdrawal

24 September 2002

Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan

2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004

To Delink the West Bank from the Gaza Cease-Fire, Israel Escalates in the West Bank

7 July 2008 - 15 July 2008

War on Gaza, Day 7

War on Gaza, Day 8: End of Phase 1; Balance Sheet

War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties

War on Gaza: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Related to UN Premises

Israel's Temporary and Partial Settlement Freeze

25 November 2009

Amid US Pressure for Direct Talks, Provocative Settlement Measures Continue

29 July 2010 - 15 August 2010

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: A Balance Sheet

22 November 2012

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 9 and 10

16 July 2014 - 17 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20

23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 21-24

28 July 2014 - 31 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 26-28: Fighting Continues

2 August 2014 - 4 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools

Comprehensive Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine

26 June 2015 - 2 January 2016

A Day of Escalation in the West Bank

Palestinians in Israel Express their Concern and Solidarity with the Palestinian Outburst

5 October 2015 - 28 November 2015

Palestinian Teachers Go on Strike in the West Bank

7 February 2016 - 12 March 2016

With Trump as President, Huge Settlement Growth in 2017

31 December 2017

Israeli Harassment and Mass Arrests in Issawiyya

1 June 2019 - 1 September 2019

COVID-19 Hits Palestine

5 March 2020 - 31 December 2020

COVID-19 Continues to Severely Impact Daily Life in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

1 January 2021 - 31 December 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 2

The General Strike of the Unity Intifada

Historical Media

The Constitutional School

Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing

Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

The Mitchell Report

Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

UNSC Resolution 1435

24 September 2002

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

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

25 September 2009

Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration

17 December 2014

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

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

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

28 February 2019

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Marka Refugee Camp

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art