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Sections

About

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Biographies

1882 - 22 April 1942

1885 - 19 December 1953

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

1925 - 10 April 1973

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Events

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Small Fraction of 1967 War Refugees to Return to the West Bank

14 August 1967 - 19 October 1967

Assassination of Palestinian Leaders Kamal Nasser, Kamal Adwan, and Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar in Beirut

Assassination of Iyad Qadas and Iyad Najjar in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

8 December 2005

Assassination of Muhammad Najjar in Khan Yunis

11 January 2011

Historical Texts

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Highlights

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity