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Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1868 - October 1930

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

1938 - 16 December 2020

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

Historical Texts

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission Report

British-French Demarcation of Line Between Syria and Palestine

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

31st Arab Summit: Algiers Declaration (in French)

2 November 2022

Events

Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives

June 1909 - 2 November 1909

Formation of the Moderate Liberal Party and the Entente Libérale Party in Istanbul

30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911

First Major Debate on Zionism in Ottoman Parliament

March 1911 - May 1911

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

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

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

Establishment of the National Bloc Party

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Zionist Attacks

15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948

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 Sa'ad Arabid in Gaza City

Assassination of Mahmud Salah in Bethlehem

Assassination of Majed Sa'di in Jenin

Assassination of Nabil Sa'eedi and Rabah Zaqqout in Gaza City

20 September 2004

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

Israel Outlaws the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement

16 November 2015 - 28 November 2015

After Threats of Annexation, Normalization Reignites Palestinian Reconciliation Talks

3 September 2020 - 24 September 2020

PA Issues Building Permits in Area C

Palestinian Reconciliation Comes again to a Standstill

1 October 2020 - 17 November 2020

Bennett-Lapid Government Takes Office in Israel

Salah Hammouri is Placed in Administrative Detention Before Being Deported from Palestine to France

10 March 2022 - 18 December 2022

Historical Media

Arab Higher Committee Members

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi