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Biographies

Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi
1871 - 1942
Biography
Freih Abu Middein
1871 - 1955
Biography
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
George Antonius
1891 - 1942
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Mustafa al-Dabbagh
1897 - 1 October 1989
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Najati Sidqi
15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Hind al-Husseini
25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994
Biography
Emile Touma
16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Bashir Barghouti
1931 - 9 September 2000
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Events

Event
Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front
21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918
Event
Establishment of the Reform Party
18 June 1935
Event
Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road
3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948
Event
Massacre in Deir Yasin
9 April 1948 - 11 April 1948
Event
George Hanna Publishes Tareeq al-Khalas (Path of Deliverance)
November 1948
Event
Basic Law for the Gaza Strip
25 February 1958 - 15 March 1958
Event
A General Congress to Defend Arab Lands Meets in Nazareth
18 October 1975
Event
Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation
1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976
Event
A PLF Operation in Nahariya
22 April 1979
Event
Israel Invades Along the Central Axis
6 June 1982 - 11 June 1982
Event
Palestinians Hijack an Israeli Bus Toward Gaza
12 April 1984
Event
Grave Escalation from Both Sides
9 January 2002 - 21 February 2002
Event
Assassination of Muhannad Abu Halaweh and Fawzi Murrar in Ramallah
5 March 2002
Event
Israeli Army Refocuses on Gaza Strip
19 August 2002 - 7 October 2002
Event
Assassination of Nidal Fathi Farhat, Mufid Awad al-Bil, Akram Fahmi Naser, Muhammad Salmi, Ayman Mahanna, and Iyad Faraj Sheldan in Gaza City
16 February 2003
Event
Assassination of Trad Jamal, Ibrahim Dayri, and Ammar Hassan near Deir al-Balah
3 March 2004
Event
Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Plan
15 April 2004 - 29 April 2004
Event
Israel Launches Operation Eastern Step
8 January 2005 - 17 January 2005
Event
Assassination of Shadi Suhail Muhanna and Muhammad Ahmad Kandeel in Jabaliya Refugee Camp
27 October 2005
Event
Palestinian Legislative Elections: At the Polls
25 January 2006
Event
Israeli Operations Resume
3 February 2006 - 11 February 2006
Event
New Israeli Pattern of Battering Gaza
11 July 2006 - 15 August 2006
Event
Assassination of Mubarak Hasanat in Deir al-Balah
23 October 2007
Event
Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire
4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 1, Start of Phase 1
27 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties
6 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 14
9 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 17
12 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 18
13 January 2009
Event
Gaza Tenuous Cease-Fire
27 January 2009 - 12 February 2009
Event
Assassination of Muhammad al-Dayah, Abdullah Lubbad, and Isma‘il Lubbad in Deir al-Balah
2 April 2011
Event
Assassination of Khaled al-Shaer in Deir al-Balah
16 November 2012
Event
Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a 16-Year-Old Palestinian, Is Burnt Alive by Settlers in East Jerusalem
2 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3
10 July 2014
Event
Gaza-Israel Exchange of Fire after Assassination of Baha Abu al-Ata
12 November 2019 - 15 November 2019
Event
PA Announces Legislative, Presidential and PNC Elections, Later Postpones
15 January 2021 - 29 April 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 2
11 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5
14 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 8
17 May 2021

Historical Texts

Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account
8 November 1948
Document
Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
Document
Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement
3 April 1949
Document
Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre
14 June 1949
Document
Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area
4 May 1994
Document
Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council
15 May 2002
Document
Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA
30 September 2015

Highlights

Highlight
The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967
Incubators of Resistance
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
Highlight
Lebanon War, 1982
A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'
Highlight
Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956
Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens
Highlight
Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
Highlight
Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (II)
Pathfinders (1955-1965)
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
Highlight
The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
Highlight
Fawwar Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp
Syria
Highlight
Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Sbeineh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Rashidiyya Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
Highlight
The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
Highlight
Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Places

Place
Bayt Shanna
Place
Deir Yasin
Place
Kirad al-Ghannama