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Biographies

Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Izzeddin al-Qassam
1882 - 20 November 1935
Biography
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - 1 August 1943
Biography
Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Issa al-Sifri
1894 - 19 March 1949
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Ihsan al-Nimr
1905 - 21 May 1985
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Bashir Barghouti
1931 - 9 September 2000
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Ghassan Kanafani
9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Historical Texts

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Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission
3 July 1919
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Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
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Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929
12 March 1930
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Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
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Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
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MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann
13 February 1931
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The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
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Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
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Peel Commission Report
July 1937
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Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account
8 November 1948
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Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
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Rogers Plan
9 December 1969
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Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
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The Venice Declaration
13 June 1980
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Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
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Reagan Plan
1 September 1982
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Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
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Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement
14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983
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Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
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U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel
18 October 1991
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The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document
31 October 1995
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PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy
20 January 2001
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President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East
24 June 2002
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles
14 April 2004
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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 UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
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Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
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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
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Statement of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda On Opening an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine
20 December 2019
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Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates
13 August 2020

Events

Event
Founding of the Arab National Party in Jerusalem
8 November 1923
Event
Establishment of the National Defense Party
2 December 1934
Event
Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially
January 1935
Event
Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee
28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948
Event
Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference
1 October 1948
Event
Naturalization in Lebanon and the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States
3 August 1966
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Secretary Baker First Stage Diplomacy
9 March 1991 - 22 May 1991
Event
War on Gaza, Day 17
12 January 2009
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Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank
11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

Highlights

Highlight
The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
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Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
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Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
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Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
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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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Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
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Sumud
Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance
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UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
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The Second Intifada, 2000-2005
Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations
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The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP
1969-present
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Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
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Palestinian Emigration (II)
1967-present
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The Palestinian Communist Movement
1948-present
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Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
The Emergence of a Working Class
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Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
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Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
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Baqa‘a Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp
Syria
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Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
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The Village of al-Araqib
Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond
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The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
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Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993

Charts

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Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (2)
2000
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Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (1)
2000 - 2010