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Biographies

Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Nakhla Zurayq
1859 - 21 July 1921
Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi
1871 - 1942
Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar
1880 - 1949
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Abd al-Hamid Shuman
1888 - 9 September 1974
Biography
Rafiq al-Tamimi
1889 - 1957
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Subhi al-Khadra
1895 - 4 July 1954
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
1904 - 17 December 1990
Biography
Najati Sidqi
15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979
Biography
Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
1908 - 8 April 1948
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Anwar Nuseibeh
1913 - 1986
Biography
Hind al-Husseini
25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994
Biography
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
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
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001
Biography
May Sayegh
1941 - 5 February 2023
Biography
François Abou Salem
16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011
Biography
Ismail Haniyeh
1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

Event
Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine
14 May 1914
Event
Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front
21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918
Event
Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes
2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920
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Palin Commission of Inquiry
12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920
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3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa
13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920
Event
The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London
2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922
Event
Establishment of the Arab National Fund
September 1932 - 8 August 1935
Event
General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine
8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933
Event
Death of Musa Kazim Husseini
26 March 1934
Event
Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Event
Alexandria Protocol and the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Event
Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington
September 1945 - December 1947
Event
Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine
22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946
Event
Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference
1 October 1948
Event
Musa Alami Publishes 'Ibrat Filastin (The Lesson of Palestine)
March 1949
Event
Israeli Operation in Jordan
28 January 1953
Event
Fatah Is Founded
September 1957
Event
Israel Deports Four Palestinians from Gaza to South Lebanon
18 May 1991
Event
Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen
18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008
Event
Hamas's Heavy-Handed Control of a Salafi Group in Gaza
22 July 2009 - 15 August 2009
Event
Egypt's Noncoordinated Cease-Fire Initiative Fails
14 July 2014 - 16 July 2014
Event
Ziad Abu Ain Dies After Being Struck by Israeli Soldiers During a Peaceful Demonstration
10 December 2014 - 11 December 2014
Event
Palestinian Attacks Against Soldiers and Settlers
8 January 2017 - 26 September 2017

Historical Media

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British Troops with Machine Guns
1920
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Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London
April 1930
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Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate
27 March 1934
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London Conference
February 1939

Historical Texts

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Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Report “to Determine the Rights and Claims of Moslems and Jews in Connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem”
1 December 1930
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Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931
19 May 1931
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The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
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Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
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London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
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Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
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Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement
15 March 1972
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Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780
14 April 1988
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Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
28 September 1995
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Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council
15 May 2002
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Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019

Highlights

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Jerusalem
Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City
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The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
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The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
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VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival
1982-1987
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The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)
1957-1990
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Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
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The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
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Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse
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Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation
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Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
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Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
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Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
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Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993