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Biography
Sa‘id al-Karmi
1852 - 1935
Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Freih Abu Middein
1871 - 1955
Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - August 1943
Biography
Shaykh Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Rafiq al-Tamimi
1889 - 1956
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali
1889 - 7 July 1973
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
1897 - 1973
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari
1900 - 29 May 1980
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Anwar Nuseibeh
1913 - 1986
Biography
Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil
1915 - 2007
Biography
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Biography
Siba Fahoum
1923 - 12 May 2004
Biography
Yusra al-Barbari
15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

Charts

Document
Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Figures
1914 - 1947
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Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Birth Rate
1924 - 1948
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Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Death Rate
1924 - 1948
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Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Natural Growth
1924 - 1948

Events

Event
Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant
21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916
Event
UNGA 181 (II): Palestine Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Event
Britain Recommends Date of Mandate Termination
8 December 1947
Event
Gaza's Basic Law
11 May 1955
Event
21st Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza
22 April 1996 - 24 April 1996
Event
France and Arab League Consider Resuscitating Securty Council Initiative
15 January 2015 - 29 June 2015

Historical Texts

Document
The Covenant of the League of Nations
28 June 1919
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)
10 August 1922
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
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British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report
11 November 1938
Document
MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
Document
Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference
30 September 1946
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UNGA Resolution 106 (S-1)
15 May 1947
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UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
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UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)
21 April 1961
Document
Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962
5 March 1962
Document
UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)
6 December 1971
Document
UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)
17 September 1978
Document
Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt
26 March 1979
Document
Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut
20 August 1982
Document
Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409
13 March 1984
Document
Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
Document
Yitzhaq Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
Document
The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document
31 October 1995
Document
PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy
20 January 2001
Document
The Mitchell Report
20 May 2001
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Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law
18 March 2003
Document
The Geneva Accord
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Document
UNSC Resolution 1701
11 August 2006
Document
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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HRC Resolution S-21/1
23 July 2014
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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

Highlights

Highlight
Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917
Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries
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World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
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Balfour Declaration
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
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Jerusalem
Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City
Highlight
UNRWA
From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity
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Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
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 Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
Highlight
The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
Highlight
Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
Highlight
Palestinian Embroidery
A Rich and Diverse National Heritage
Highlight
The Judaization of the Galilee
A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity
Highlight
Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
Highlight
Nablus Soap Production
The Decline of an Ancient Heritage
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
Highlight
Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance
Highlight
Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip
A Site of Continual Displacement
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
Highlight
Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps
Highlight
The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
Highlight
Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
Highlight
The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba
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Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
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Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
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II. Early Mandate
1917-1936
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III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
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IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
Highlight
V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
Highlight
The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara
2002-present

Periods

Period
III. Late Mandate