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Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

Ottoman Law of the Provinces: Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine

7 November 1864

Establishment of Petah Tikva, the First Zionist Colony in Palestine

Completion of the Hijaz Railway

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris

Formation of the Covenant Society in Istanbul

28 October 1913

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Prelude to the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

The British Prepare for the Occupation of Palestine

Formal Entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem

11 December 1917

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

A General Palestinian Congress Meets in Damascus

27 February 1920

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa

13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

British-French Agreement on Boundary Line Between Palestine and Lebanon and Syria

British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah

25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

Pan-Islamic Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1931 - 17 December 1931

An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress

13 December 1931

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

Saudi Arabia Opens a Consulate-General in Jerusalem

5 April 1941 - 29 April 1941

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN

Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan and Establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

Arab States (Reluctantly) Prepare for Intervention in Palestine

30 April 1948 - 12 May 1948

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved

1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950

General Refugee Congress Meets in Ramallah

Israeli Raid on Syria Followed by Egyptian-Israeli Confrontation Near al-Auja

23 October 1955 - 3 November 1955

Opening an Office of the PLO in Lebanon

23 October 1964 - 13 November 1964

Israeli-Syrian Aerial Battle

7 April 1967 - 21 April 1967

Reports on Israeli Plans Against Syria

12 May 1967 - 14 May 1967

Civil Aviation in the Conflict

23 July 1968 - 29 August 1969

Black September Hijack Operation

29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972

October War, 4th Day

October War, From the 6th to 10th Day

11 October 1973 - 14 October 1973

The PLO Central Council Condemns Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem

30 November 1977

14th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

A PLF Operation in Nahariya

15th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Israel Invades Along the Central Axis

6 June 1982 - 11 June 1982

The “Creeping” Cease-fire

10 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

Palestinian National Salvation Front Is Formed in Damascus

Assassination of Zafir al-Masri

2 March 1986 - 3 March 1986

31st Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

6 December 1987 - 10 December 1987

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

The Baker Five-Point Plan

10 October 1989

Draft UNGA A/44/L.50 to Construe Designation Palestine as the State of Palestine Withdrawn Due to US Threat against UN

6 December 1989

US Letters of Assurances to Parties to Upcoming Peace Conference

15 October 1991 - 18 October 1991

4th Negotiation Round, Washington

24 February 1992 - 4 March 1992

A Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Opposed to Negotiations Is Formed in Damascus

16 September 1992

The Coalition of 10 Palestinian Organizations Reject the Palestinian-Israeli Accord, Damascus

2 September 1993

Assassination of Fathi Shiqaqi, Islamic Jihad Leader, in Malta

26 October 1995

Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem

25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998

George Habash Retires as S-G of PFLP

27 April 2000 - 28 April 2000

Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising

30 September 2000 - 7 October 2000

Unilateral Cease-Fire Announcement and Gaza-First Arrangements

21 June 2003 - 2 July 2003

Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah

4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003

Assassination of Izzeddin Sheikh Khalil in Damascus

26 September 2004

July War: Israel's Air War Fails to Knock out Hizballah

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

A Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Damascus

23 January 2008 - 25 January 2008

Assassination of Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah in Damascus

12 February 2008

20th Arab Summit Meets in Damascus

29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008

Gaza Cease-Fire Falls Apart

14 December 2008 - 21 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 19: Hamas Cease-Fire Offer

14 January 2009

Impact of Democracy Drive in the Arab World on Palestinian Official Politics

14 February 2011 - 27 April 2011

In Contrast with Islamic Jihad, Hamas Leadership Leaves Syria

17 January 2012 - 12 March 2012

Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank

11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

Palestinian Militants Build and Rebuild “Gate of Jerusalem” Tent Camp in Abu Dis

3 February 2015 - 27 March 2015

Israel Kills Samir Quntar; Hizballah Responds

19 December 2015 - 4 January 2016

PA Asks the ICC to Investigate Israeli Settlement Policies

Assassination Attempt of Akram al-Ajouri in Damascus

12 November 2019

Israeli-Imposed Restrictions and Violence at the Haram al-Sharif Compound

13 April 2021 - 10 May 2021

Biographies

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

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

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

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-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

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

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Resolutions of the General Palestinian Congress in Damascus (in Arabic)

27 February 1920

Palin Commission Report

Churchill White Paper

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

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel

30 November 1977

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

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

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

The Mitchell Report

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Mecca Agreement

8 February 2007

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Twentieth Arab Summit: The Damascus Declaration (in Arabic)

29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

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

Historical Media

British Troops with Machine Guns

Jaffa Road during a General Strike

Khalil Raad's Shop

Aftermath Outside of the New Gate

13 October 1933

Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate

British Troops Regain Control of Jerusalem's Old City

Zionist Terrorism

29 December 1947

Scenes of Destruction

Highlights

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

III. Late Mandate

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

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

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans