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Biographies

Biography
Nakhla Zurayq
1859 - 21 July 1921
Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Jurji Habib Hanania
1864 - 1920
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi
1871 - 1942
Biography
Khalil Baidas
1875 - 9 February 1949
Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - 1 August 1943
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
George Antonius
1891 - 1942
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
1897 - 1973
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
1904 - 17 December 1990
Biography
Sophie Halaby
26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997
Biography
Badr Lama
23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Samiha Khalil
20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009
Biography
Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)
10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978
Biography
Tawfiq Ibrahim
- 1966

Events

Event
Establishment of al-Madrasa al-Dusturiyya, Jerusalem
1909
Event
Establishment of the Literary Club in Istanbul
July 1909 - March 1915
Event
Establishment of the Reform Party
18 June 1935
Event
Establishment of the Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA) in New York
25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950
Event
Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington
September 1945 - December 1947
Event
Bloody Israeli Attack on the Gaza Strip
28 February 1955
Event
Fatah Is Founded
September 1957
Event
Fatah Opens Its First Office in Algeria
23 September 1963
Event
Yasir Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir Confer with Premier Chou-En-Lai in China
17 March 1964
Event
Assassination Attempt of PLO Senior Leadership in Beirut
1 October 1975
Event
Ma'moun Meraish Is Assassinated in Athens
20 August 1983
Event
Deportation of Marwan Barghouti and Khalil Achour
14 May 1987
Event
Assassination of Khalil al-Wazir in Tunis
16 April 1988
Event
Palestinian Presidential and Legislative Elections
20 January 1996
Event
Assassination of Khalil Marshud in Balata Refugee Camp
14 June 2004
Event
Assassination of Izzeddin Sheikh Khalil in Damascus
26 September 2004
Event
Assassination of Imad Yahia Khalil Bader and Saqer Awni Saqer in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp
9 October 2004
Event
Assassination of Muhammad Shaykh Khalil and Nasr Barhum in Gaza City
25 September 2005
Event
Assassination of Sameh Saleh Farwana in Gaza City
20 May 2007
Event
Assassination of Ahmad Shaykh Khalil, Muhammad Ashur, Bassem Abu al-Ata, Hassan al-Khadari, and Abd al-Karim Shatat in Rafah
29 October 2011
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 6
15 May 2021

Historical Media

Document
The Constitutional School
1909
Document
Khalil Raad's Shop
1930s

Historical Texts

Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on the Occasion of the Entry of the Arab Armies in Palestine
15 May 1948
Document
Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine
1 October 1948
Document
UNSC Resolution 465
1 March 1980
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895
1 August 1983
Document
Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
Document
Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
17 January 1997
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019

Highlights

Highlight
The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
Highlight
Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
Highlight
IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
1987-1993
Highlight
The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948
The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station
Highlight
Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)
1957-1990
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V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
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Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
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The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)
1990-present
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
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Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993