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Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Mu‘in al-Madi

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

1923 - 12 May 2004

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

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

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

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

9 February 1963

Events

Appointment of the King-Crane Commission

20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Orders the Return of its Delegation from London

7 July 1922 - 31 July 1922

White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall

19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Denounces MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

October 1938 - September 1939

MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians

17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939

The Palestine Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

21st Zionist Congress Meets in Geneva

16 August 1939 - 25 August 1939

Stern Gang Calls for Alliance with Axis

Land Transfers Regulations

20 February 1940

Five-year Limit on Jewish Immigration Extended

British Recommend Partition

Labor Victory in Great Britain

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

Palestinians Declare Strike to Protest Bevin's Policy Statement of November 1945

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition

18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948

The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes the State of Israel

Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza

22 September 1948 - 2 October 1948

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

The US Recognizes the Government of Israel on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

PLO-Lebanon Cairo Agreement Regulates Palestinian Civil and Military Presence in the Country

3 November 1969

Start of Civil War in Lebanon

13 April 1975 - 2 September 1982

US Steps Back from the US-Soviet Statement on the Geneva Conference

A Probable Israeli Nuclear Test Explosion in the Ocean near South Africa

22 September 1979

Foreign Embassies Leave Jerusalem

20 August 1980 - September 1980

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo

23 September 1981 - 24 September 1981

Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo

11 November 1981 - 12 November 1981

SC Res. 508: Calling Upon all Parties to Cease Military Activities in Lebanon and across Lebanese-Israeli Border

Prisoner Exchange between Israel and the PFLP-GC

Iron Fist Policy in the Occupied Territories

29 July 1985 - 4 August 1985

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

18th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers: Restoration of Unity

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Israeli Raid on Palestinian Base South of Beirut; Ahmad Jibril Is Targeted

9 December 1988

Dial 1-202-456-1414

Andrews and Bolling Rounds of Negotiation

13 June 2000 - 17 June 2000

Israeli and Palestinian Response to the Clinton Proposals

28 December 2000 - 3 January 2001

21 January 2001 - 27 January 2001

Israel and the US Put Effective End to Peace Talks

7 February 2001 - 8 February 2001

13th Arab Summit Meets in Amman

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

US Response to the Israeli Invasion

4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002

On the Road to Reform: First Palestinian Steps and Plans

15 May 2002 - 24 June 2002

Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map

2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004

Mahmoud Abbas's First Visit to White House as PA President

The Return of Palestinian Diplomatic Representation to Lebanon

6 January 2006 - 17 August 2011

The US to Strengthen Security Forces Loyal to Abbas

14 December 2006 - 5 January 2007

The PLO Presents "the Palestine Announcement in Lebanon"

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: A Disappointing Abbas-Bush Meeting

War on Gaza, Day 10; Gaza Strip Segmented into 3 Operational Zones

War on Gaza, Day 14

War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks

10 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 17

12 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 18

13 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

Israel Approves a Major Settlement Plan in Gilo, East Jerusalem

17 November 2009

President Obama Meets Netanyahu and Pushes the Palestinians for Direct Talks with Israel

6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks, Mediated by George Mitchell, Formally Relaunched in Washington

1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010

US Makes Incredible Offer to Israel in Exchange for a Two-Month Partial Settlement Freeze

29 September 2010 - 12 December 2010

Al Jazeera Satellite TV and the Guardian Release the Palestine Papers

23 January 2011

Israeli-Palestinian “Exploratory Talks” in Amman

3 January 2012 - 25 January 2012

First Trump Administration Statement on Israeli Settlements

2 February 2017

The Israeli Knesset Passes a Law Regularizing Settlements Retroactively

6 February 2017

First Phone Contact Between Trump and Abbas

10 March 2017 - 12 March 2017

PLO President Mahmoud Abbas Meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House

Trump Signs the 6-Month Waiver Delaying the Application of the Jerusalem Embassy Act

White House Statement on Israeli Settlement Activity

Trump Peace Negotiating Team to Travel to Middle East

15 June 2018 - 24 June 2018

PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations

15 November 2018

Dissolution of the Knesset; Three Election Rounds to Form a Government in Israel

26 December 2018 - 11 December 2019

The US Recognizes the Golan Heights as Part of Israel

21 March 2019 - 25 March 2019

US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ Plan and Conference

22 June 2019 - 26 June 2019

US Officials Partake in Inauguration of Large-Scale Settler Project in East Jerusalem

Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected

10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019

Trump Administration Presents Peace Plan

28 January 2020

Inconclusive Results of Elections for the Knesset in Israel

2 March 2020 - 17 May 2020

Ceremony of Normalization between UAE and Bahrain, and Israel

15 September 2020

Leading Human Rights Groups Deem Israel an Apartheid State

12 January 2021 - 27 April 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 2

Historical Texts

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

Palin Commission Report

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

Churchill White Paper

Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Biltmore Conference Declaration

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

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

8 November 1948

Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East

Israel-U.S. Working Paper on the Resumption of the Geneva Peace Conference

Begin's Autonomy Plan

28 December 1977

Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land

UNSC Resolution 497

17 December 1981

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14832/Rev.1

19 January 1982

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

31 January 1982

UNGA Resolution ES-9/1

5 February 1982

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14943

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

UNSC Resolution 508

UNSC Resolution 509

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15185

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15255/Rev.2

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

1 September 1982

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

Twelfth Arab Summit: the Fez Initiative

9 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Cairo Declaration on the PLO and Terrorism as read by PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat

7 November 1985

The London Agreement

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1988: Concluding Statement (in Arabic)

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

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

13 December 1988

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

UNSC Resolution 1701

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Joint Understanding Between Israel and the PLO Read by President Bush

27 November 2007

The Palestine Announcement in Lebanon (in Arabic)

President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

10 January 2008

Current Palestinian/Israeli Positions: Reflecting Discussion up to January 1, 2009

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

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People

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

28 February 2019

President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel

Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

Historical Media

Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing

Escape of the Youth, Sixth Wave of Killing

Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

The Palestine Communist Party

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

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 Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Lebanon War, 1982

A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Israeli Assassination Campaign Within Palestine Borders (I)

1996 - 2004

Thematic Chronology

Israeli Assassination Campaign Within Palestine Borders (II)

2005-2019

Thematic Chronology

Egyptian-Israeli Negotiation Rounds on Palestinian Autonomy

1977 - 1982

Thematic Chronology

Lebanon War, 1982

1982 - 1983