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Biographies
Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
George Antonius
1891 - 1942
Biography
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Sophie Halaby
26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997
Biography
Fadwa Tuqan
1917 - 12 December 2003
Biography
Hisham Sharabi
1927 - 13 January 2005
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009
Biography
Edward W. Said
1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019
Biography
Leila Khaled
9 April 1944
Events
Event
World War I, the Ottomans Enter the War
1 August 1914 - February 1915
Event
UNRWA Signs Agreement with Jordan as Refugee Host Country
14 March 1951 - 20 August 1951
Event
Military Order No. 321 Concerning Land Law (Acquisition for Public Purposes)
28 March 1969
Event
Failed Attempt to Open a PLO Information Office in Washington
19 November 1976
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Baghdad
28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990
Event
A "Reconstruction Hudna" in Gaza?
2 March 2015 - 14 April 2015
Historical Texts
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine
24 July 1922
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
Document
British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report
11 November 1938
Document
MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
Document
Biltmore Conference Declaration
11 May 1942
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
Document
Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties
28 June 1948
Document
Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement
3 April 1949
Document
Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
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
UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)
26 January 1952
Document
Protocol for the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States
11 September 1965
Document
Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
Document
Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset
20 November 1977
Document
Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority
16 January 1980
Document
Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué
15 November 1988
Document
Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker
12 March 1991
Document
U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel
18 October 1991
Document
Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference
31 October 1991
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/2
25 April 1997
Document
Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip
5 October 1999
Document
The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)
27 January 2001
Document
Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
Document
Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements
18 November 2019
Document
Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
12 February 2020
Document
B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
12 January 2021
Historical Media
Document
Hostage Taking by the Irgun
July 1947
Highlights
Highlight
The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
Highlight
Nablus Soap Production
The Decline of an Ancient Heritage
Highlight
Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps
Perpetuating the Temporary
Highlight
Baqa‘a Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp
Syria
Highlight
Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Sbeineh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Rashidiyya Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988
Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood
Highlight
Dera‘a Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question
Solidarity of the Colonized
Highlight
The Palestinians in Sweden
Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses
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