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Biographies

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1868 - October 1930

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Events

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 October 1929

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

Hope Simpson Report Is Published

22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

Establishment of the National Bloc Party

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

UNRWA Signs Agreement with Jordan as Refugee Host Country

14 March 1951 - 20 August 1951

The US and Jordan River Waters

25 June 1954 - 6 July 1954

US Withdraws Aswan Funding

Appointment of Special Representative of the UNCCP

Proposals Announced by Joseph Johnson, Special Representative of the UNCCP

Israeli and Arab Responses to Joseph Johnson's Proposals

5 October 1962 - 17 October 1962

Israel Prepares for War with US Consent

2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967

June War, 6th Day

US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Principles for Peace in the Middle East

First Communiqué of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

14 December 1987

US-PLO Official Meeting Takes Place in Carthage, Tunisia

Assassination of Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) and Hayel Abdel Hamid (Abu al-Hol)

14 January 1991

Assassination of Mas'ud Ayyad in Jabaliya

13 February 2001

Assassination of Salah al-Din Darwaza in Nablus

Assassination of Salah Shehadeh in Gaza City

Aftermath of Salah Shehadeh's Assassination

22 July 2002 - 14 August 2002

Assassination of Mahmud Salah in Bethlehem

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

In Spite of Israeli Raids, Palestinian Military Resistance Remains High in Gaza

2 May 2004 - 13 May 2004

Widening Philadelphi (Salahuddin) Route: Operation Rainbow

16 May 2004 - 24 May 2004

Disengagement: Evacuation of Troops; The Case of Gaza-Egypt Border

15 August 2005 - 12 September 2005

Disengagement: Israeli-Egyptian Protocol on Gaza-Egypt Border

1 September 2005 - 12 September 2005

Disengagement: The Case of Gaza-Egypt Crossing in Rafah

7 September 2005 - 17 September 2005

Assassination of Mahmoud Arqan in Rafah

7 December 2005

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

The Mavi Marmara Incident

30 May 2010 - 5 June 2010

John Kerry Conducts Shuttle Diplomacy for Resumption of Negotiations

4 March 2013 - 8 May 2013

Arab League Delegation in Washington Discusses the Arab Peace Initiative

Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds

23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013

Terms of Talk Resumption as Sponsored by Kerry

Launch of Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Direct Negotiations in Washington

29 July 2013 - 30 July 2013

Israeli-Palestinian Direct Talks Take Place in Jerusalem

14 August 2013 - 2 September 2013

Israeli-Palestinian Talks Accelerate for Nothing

25 September 2013 - 23 October 2013

Israel's Settlement Expansion Disrupts the Palestinian Negotiation Team

31 October 2013 - 13 November 2013

Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement

14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014

Abbas Meeting with Kerry in Paris Ends in Total Failure

19 February 2014 - 21 February 2014

Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners

17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Settlement Announcement in the Midst of a Crisis Regarding the Negotiations

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20

23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: The Intermittent Cease-Fires (Phase III)

31 July 2014 - 26 August 2014

The PLO Strives for a Security Council Resolution Specifying a Timetable for Ending the Occupation

26 September 2014 - 28 November 2014

Palestinian Leadership Debates End of Security Coordination with Israel

10 December 2014 - 14 December 2014

Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

Israel Outlaws the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement

16 November 2015 - 28 November 2015

The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba

21 February 2016

Palestinians Thwart the Setting Up of Cameras at Haram al-Sharif

18 March 2016 - 18 April 2016

Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

28 December 2016

PA Issues Building Permits in Area C

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

The Murison Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

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

Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut

7 February 1983

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas to End Palestinian Division

12 October 2017

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

Historical Media

Arab Higher Committee Members

Highlights

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks

The Algerians of Palestine

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations

2013 - 2014