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Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

1905 - 21 May 1985

1907 - 27 July 2006

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

1925 - 10 April 1973

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1929 - 2 June 2016

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

Pact of the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

UNSC Resolution 95

1 September 1951

UNSC Resolution 111

19 January 1956

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

The Regional Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Statement On the Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/229

UNGA Resolution 42/230

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

The Knesset Law Concerning the Implementation of the Agreement on Gaza and Jericho Areas (Restrictions of Activity) 1994

26 December 1994

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

UNGA Resolution 52/250

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

Statement by Middle East Quartet on the Palestinian Legislative Elections

30 January 2006

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

UNGA Resolution ES-18

23 January 2009

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

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

25 September 2009

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration

17 December 2014

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2014/916

30 December 2014

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

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

30 September 2015

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel

15 September 2020

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

Events

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

Killing of Avraham Stern

Stern Gang Assassinates Lord Moyne in Cairo

6 November 1944

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks

24 November 1945 - 19 January 1946

Stern Gang Letter Bombs Against Officials in London

Zionist Attacks

15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948

Massacre in Deir Yasin

9 April 1948 - 11 April 1948

UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem

17 September 1948

Republic of China Recognizes Israel; People’s Republic Revokes Recognition of Israel

1 March 1949 - 9 January 1950

Official Name of Jordan as an Issue

With Mounting Tension In and Around Gaza, a Turning Point for Egypt and Opportunities for Israel

3 April 1955 - 27 September 1955

Soviet Union Threatens Intervention

5 November 1956

Yasir Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir Confer with Premier Chou-En-Lai in China

The PLO Opens a Permanent Observer Mission to the UN

25 February 1975

Scission within Fatah

18 May 1983 - 15 September 1983

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

3 August 1983 - 7 August 1983

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

Palestinian National Salvation Front Is Formed in Damascus

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Undermining the Talks and Preparing for their Failure: The Settlers and the Israeli Army

15 July 2000 - 8 August 2000

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms Responsibility of all Contracting Parties in Ensuring its Respect

5 December 2001

Mahmoud Abbas's First Visit to White House as PA President

War on Gaza: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Related to UN Premises

Sensing an Insurmountable Deadlock, Abbas Sends a Letter to Netanyahu

Surge in Settlement Expansion

30 November 2012 - 10 February 2013

Rami Hamdallah Forms New Palestinian Government

2 June 2013 - 6 June 2013

Tension Mounts Over Haram al-Sharif Following Israeli Provocations

4 February 2014 - 26 February 2014

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

Israeli Elections: Likud's Victory and Strengthening of Arab Representation

17 March 2015 - 19 March 2015

The 2014 Gaza War: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools

Settlers Set Fire to Two Palestinian Family Homes in Duma, West Bank

31 July 2015 - 9 August 2015

Towards a Unity Intifada

23 April 2021 - 10 May 2021

Historical Media

Grand Serai in Ruins

Highlights

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Marka Refugee Camp

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

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

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans