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Biographies

Biography
Jurji Habib Hanania
1864 - 1920
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih
1907 - 8 January 2001
Biography
Anis Abdullah Sayigh
3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009
Biography
Edward W. Said
1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Events

Event
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Event
Formal Entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem
11 December 1917
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International Zionist Conference Meets in London
July 1920
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Palestine Gendarmerie Is Established
1 July 1921 - 24 April 1922
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British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah
25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923
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Outbreak of World War II
1 September 1939
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Jordanian Parliamentary Elections; Formal Unification of the Two Banks
11 April 1950 - 24 April 1950
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Great Britain Announces Formal Recognition of Extended Kingdom of Jordan and de jure Recognition of Israel Simultaneously
27 April 1950
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King Hussein’s Formal Accession to the Throne
2 May 1953
Event
Egypt and Syria Unite and Form the United Arab Republic
1 February 1958 - 28 September 1961
Event
President Sadat Suggests Partial Israeli Withdrawal from Suez Canal
4 February 1971
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Failed Attempt to Open a PLO Information Office in Washington
19 November 1976
Event
Committee Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo
14 July 1980 - 15 July 1980
Event
Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Cairo
23 September 1981 - 24 September 1981
Event
Israeli Knesset Votes to Apply Israeli Law in the Golan Heights
14 December 1981
Event
UNGA 42/229: Calling Host Country to Abide by Agreement (on PLO Mission), Requesting ICJ Opinion
2 March 1988
Event
Israel's "Peace Initiative"
14 May 1989
Event
The Beilin-Abu Mazen Document
31 October 1995
Event
Ceremonious Start of Permanent Status Negotiations, Taba
5 May 1996 - 7 May 1996
Event
The PA Releases First Batch of New Textbooks
2 September 2000
Event
Israeli and Palestinian Response to the Clinton Proposals
28 December 2000 - 3 January 2001
Event
Israel and the US Put Effective End to Peace Talks
7 February 2001 - 8 February 2001
Event
Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal for a Cease-Fire and a Resumption of Talks
16 April 2001 - 27 April 2001
Event
US formally Presents Israel and the PA with the Road Map
30 April 2003
Event
The PLO Approves the Road Map
3 May 2003 - 11 May 2003
Event
Abbas and Sharon Meet in Jerusalem
17 May 2003 - 29 May 2003
Event
Israeli Cabinet Ambiguously Endorses Sharon's Disengagement Plan
6 June 2004
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The Quartet Expresses "Concern" over Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa Expansion
17 December 2007
Event
Political Crisis in Israel
30 July 2008 - 10 February 2009
Event
War on Gaza: Israel Announces a Unilateral Cease-Fire
17 January 2009
Event
US Resolve on Settlement Freeze Peters Out
19 August 2009 - 22 September 2009
Event
Egypt's Efforts for Palestinian Reconciliation Fail Once More
9 September 2009 - 25 October 2009
Event
The Goldstone Report and Palestinian Erratic Decision-Making
29 September 2009 - 16 October 2009
Event
The Arab League and the PLO Endorse Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks
3 March 2010 - 7 March 2010
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With the Arab League Blessing, Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks Are Launched
22 April 2010 - 20 May 2010
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Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks, Mediated by George Mitchell, Formally Relaunched in Washington
1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010
Event
Despite US, European, and Arab Pressure, Abbas Submits a Request for Full UN Membership
12 September 2011 - 23 September 2011
Event
The Quartet Proposes a Vague Timetable for the Resumption of Negotiations
23 September 2011 - 14 December 2011
Event
Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest
27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011
Event
France Plans to Resume its Peace Initiative
29 January 2016 - 16 February 2016
Event
To Satisfy Israel, France Backpedals on an Important Component of its Peace Initiative
9 March 2016 - 23 May 2016
Event
Palestinians and International Partners Fight Against Israel’s Planned Demolition of Khan al-Ahmar
15 February 2017 - 21 October 2018
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First Phone Contact Between Trump and Abbas
10 March 2017 - 12 March 2017
Event
Despite a Good Start, the Egypt-Sponsored Fatah-Hamas Agreement Finally Fails
1 November 2017 - 10 December 2017
Event
Colombia Recognizes the State of Palestine
3 August 2018
Event
The US Consulate General in Jerusalem Is Merged in US Embassy in the City
4 March 2019
Event
The US Recognizes the Golan Heights as Part of Israel
21 March 2019 - 25 March 2019
Event
International and Palestinian Responses to Israel’s Annexation Plans
18 May 2020 - 23 June 2020
Event
UAE and Bahrain Announce Normalization with Israel
13 August 2020 - 11 September 2020
Event
Sudan to Normalize Ties with Israel in Exchange for US Incentives
25 August 2020 - 23 September 2021
Event
President Trump Announces Kosovo Will Normalize Relations with Israel
4 September 2020 - 7 September 2020
Event
Ceremony of Normalization between UAE and Bahrain, and Israel
15 September 2020
Event
ICC Rules that it has Jurisdiction in Occupied Palestinian Territories; Investigation Announced
5 February 2021 - 2 April 2021

Historical Texts

Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Churchill White Paper
3 June 1922
Document
Shaw Commission Report
12 March 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
Report of the British - International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall
1 December 1930
Document
Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931
19 May 1931
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Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
Document
Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)
16 September 1948
Document
UNGA Resolution 194 (III)
11 December 1948
Document
UNGA Resolution 303
9 December 1949
Document
Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
14 March 1951
Document
Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
Document
Joint US-USSR Communiqué on Reconvening the Geneva Conference on the Middle East
1 October 1977
Document
UNSC Resolution 465
1 March 1980
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/229
2 March 1988
Document
Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
28 September 1995
Document
Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
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UNSC Resolution 1073
28 September 1996
Document
PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement
1 January 2001
Document
The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)
27 January 2001
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
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Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
12 March 2002
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A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
30 April 2003
Document
The Geneva Accord
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
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Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal
1 March 2005
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Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council
4 May 2009
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Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
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Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
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Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA
30 September 2015
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Report of the Middle East Quartet
1 July 2016
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Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon
20 July 2017
Document
Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan
7 September 2017
Document
B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
12 January 2021

Highlights

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World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
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Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
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UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
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Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993
Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement
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Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967
The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”
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UNRWA
From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity
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Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity
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Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
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Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
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Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
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Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank
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The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
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Palestinian Women in the Labor Market
A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism
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Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
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The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
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Palestinian Informal Justice
Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism
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Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
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The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
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The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
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V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War
1950-1966
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VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement
1966-1973
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IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
1987-1993
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X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure
1993-2000
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XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted
2006-2017
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The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara
2002-present
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Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians
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UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
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Italy and the Palestine Question
From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility
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Baqa‘a Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity
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Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
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Mexico and the Palestine Question
Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor
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Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
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The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
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The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question
Solidarity of the Colonized
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The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel
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Palestinians in El Salvador
A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora
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The Second Intifada, 2000-2005
Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Places

Place
al-Birwa
Place
al-Muharraqa
Place
al-Nuqayb
Place
Barrat Qisarya
Place
Bayt Nabala
Place
Deir Yasin
Place
Kafr 'Ana
Place
Ma'lul
Place
Qadas

Historical Media

Document
Palestine: A Homeland Denied
1979