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Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1859 - 21 July 1921

Jurji Habib Hanania

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Mu‘in al-Madi

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

1894 - 19 March 1949

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1936 - 29 August 1987

1942 - 6 August 2019

Historical Media

The Constitutional School

Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception

Old City of Jerusalem from the Church of the Savior

Events

Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law

Appointment of the King-Crane Commission

20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919

Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Orders the Return of its Delegation from London

7 July 1922 - 31 July 1922

British Recommend Partition

Labor Victory in Great Britain

Egypt Blocks Greek Freighter

Hunger Strike of Palestinian Women in Jerusalem

26 January 1969 - 28 January 1969

Yasir Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, and then Cairo

16 September 1983 - 22 December 1983

31st Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

6 December 1987 - 10 December 1987

Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel

30 December 1993

The Holy See and Israel Sign an Agreement Complementing their 1993 Fundamental Agreement

10 November 1997

Vatican-PLO Agreement

15 February 2000

Invasion of Bethlehem: The Siege of the Church of the Nativity

1 April 2002 - 10 May 2002

Invasion of Nablus: Fierce Resistance

3 April 2002 - 21 April 2002

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Parties and Factions Sign a Code of Conduct

17 October 2005

36th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

15 June 2010 - 17 June 2010

Comprehensive Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine

26 June 2015 - 2 January 2016

Church of the Holy Sepulchre Temporarily Closes in Protest

25 February 2018 - 28 February 2018

Israeli Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Settler Organization’s Claim to Three Buildings in the Old City of Jerusalem

Historical Texts

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

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

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

Churchill White Paper

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Peel Commission Report

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

Biltmore Conference Declaration

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization

15 February 2000

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Palestinian Parties and Factions Code of Conduct during the Legislative Electoral Process

17 October 2005

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

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

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance