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Biographies

Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Subhi al-Khadra
1895 - 4 July 1954
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
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Nicola Ziadeh
1907 - 27 July 2006
Biography
Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
1908 - 8 April 1948
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani
1909 - 1977
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Events

Event
Establishment of the Literary Club in Istanbul
July 1909 - March 1915
Event
Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans
10 June 1916
Event
San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates
25 April 1920
Event
Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan
2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921
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Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey
24 July 1923
Event
The "International Parliamentarian Congress of Arab and Islamic Countries in Support of Palestine" Is Held in Cairo
7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938
Event
The Eastern Women's Congress in Defense of Palestine Is Held in Cairo
15 October 1938 - 18 October 1938
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London Round Table Conference Convenes
7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939
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Alexandria Protocol and the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Event
Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington
September 1945 - December 1947
Event
League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN
18 April 1946
Event
Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee
12 June 1946
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Arab League Rejects Partition Plan
8 December 1947 - 16 December 1947
Event
Palestinian Attacks
14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948
Event
Fate of Diplomatic Representations in Jerusalem
11 February 1948 - 1 May 1948
Event
Palestinian Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
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Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas
19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948
Event
Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa
24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948
Event
Arab States (Reluctantly) Prepare for Intervention in Palestine
30 April 1948 - 12 May 1948
Event
Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area
8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948
Event
Arab States Explain Reasons for Intervening in Palestine
15 May 1948
Event
Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders
15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948
Event
Third Phase of the Palestine War: Arab-Israeli War
15 May 1948 - 6 January 1949
Event
Arab Responses to Formation of the All-Palestine Government
5 October 1948 - 14 October 1948
Event
UNGA 273 (III): Admitting Israel to Membership in the UN
11 May 1949
Event
The Knesset Issues the Prevention of Infiltration Law
16 August 1954
Event
Baghdad Pact
24 February 1955
Event
Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York
15 June 1955
Event
The Arab League and Implementation of Palestinian Entity
29 May 1961 - 26 June 1961
Event
1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River
13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964
Event
1st Palestine National Council Is Held in Jerusalem: Establishment of the PLO
28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964
Event
The Council of the Arab League Adopts the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in the Arab States
11 September 1965
Event
October War, From the 6th to 10th Day
11 October 1973 - 14 October 1973
Event
Arab States Take Position Against Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem
5 December 1977
Event
11th Arab Summit Meets in Amman
25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980
Event
A Palestine Affairs Center, under the Auspices of the Arab League, Is Opened in Washington
1 April 1988 - 28 April 1994
Event
Palestinian Response to the Invasion of Kuwait
3 August 1990 - 17 January 1991
Event
US State Department Allows the PLO to Open Foreign Mission in Washington
22 June 1994
Event
The Knesset Enacts the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Temporary Order) 2003 for Banning Family Unification
31 July 2003
Event
Amid US Pressure for Direct Talks, Provocative Settlement Measures Continue
29 July 2010 - 15 August 2010
Event
Arab League Delegation in Washington Discusses the Arab Peace Initiative
29 April 2013
Event
Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds
23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013
Event
Egypt's Noncoordinated Cease-Fire Initiative Fails
14 July 2014 - 16 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20
23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014
Event
Palestinian Attacks Against Soldiers and Settlers
8 January 2017 - 26 September 2017
Event
Israel Deducts Funds from the PA’s Tax Revenue
17 February 2019 - 2 May 2019
Event
US Peace Plan – Palestinian and International Reactions
28 January 2020 - 11 February 2020
Event
Cracks in Arab Unity on Palestine
9 September 2020 - 22 September 2020

Historical Texts

Document
San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates
25 April 1920
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Document
Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
UNSC Resolution 50
29 May 1948
Document
UNGA Resolution 273 (III)
11 May 1949
Document
Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
Document
Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)
16 August 1954
Document
Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
Document
UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 11898
5 December 1975
Document
Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement
2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978
Document
Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
Document
Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut
20 August 1982
Document
Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal
2 September 1982
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895
1 August 1983
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/210
17 December 1987
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/229
2 March 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/230
23 March 1988
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 43/160
9 December 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 43/177
15 December 1988
Document
Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement
28 September 1991
Document
Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees
22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001
Document
President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East
24 June 2002
Document
President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007

Historical Media

Document
Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)
2 November 1932
Document
Arab League Warnings
June 1946

Highlights

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The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
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VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War
1973-1982
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Demography and the Palestine Question (I)
1850s-1948
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IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
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V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
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Camp David Accords, 1978-1979
Shattering the Arab Front
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France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
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Lebanon War, 1982
A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'
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Palestine Liberation Organization (I)
The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement
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Palestine Liberation Organization (II)
From the Limelight to the Backstage
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Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993
Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement
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The Palestinian Communist Movement
1948-present
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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP
1967-present
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Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
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The Palestinians in Chile
A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine
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Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967
A Never-Ending Normalization
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Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
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Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
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Palestinian Youth in Conflict
A Childhood Denied
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Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
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Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
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The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps
Perpetuating the Temporary
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VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat
1966-1973
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China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
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The European Union and the Palestine Question
From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions
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The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)
Before the Nakba
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Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Italy and the Palestine Question
From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility
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Mexico and the Palestine Question
Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor
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Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity
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Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
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The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
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Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
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Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
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The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
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The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
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The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
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The Palestinians in Sweden
Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses
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Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
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Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art