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Biographies

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1865 - 3 March 1948

Freih Abu Middein

1880 - 16 June 1946

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 21 May 1985

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1923 - 12 May 2004

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920

Establishment of the Zionist Revisionist Movement

Arab Youth Congress Meets in Jaffa

Establishment of the National Bloc Party

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party

Led by George Habash, Arab Nationalist Activists on the Way to Structure Their Movement

1 January 1951 - 30 November 1952

Kahan Report on the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

7 February 1983 - 10 February 1983

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

Disengagement: Evacuation of Settlers

8 August 2005 - 22 August 2005

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre

8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008

Impact of the Democracy Drive in the Arab World on Palestinian Popular Politics

2 February 2011 - 15 March 2011

A Lebanese Government Readiness to Facilitate Licensing of Palestinian Associations

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

Palestinians in the West Bank Boycott Israeli Dairy and Processed Food Products

9 February 2015 - 2 March 2015

With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

A Day of Escalation in the West Bank

The General Strike of the Unity Intifada

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

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

Charter of the Arab Youth Congress

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

The Koenig Memorandum

Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut

7 February 1983

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

The Mitchell Report

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

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

Historical Media

Arab Higher Committee Members

Escape of the Youth, Sixth Wave of Killing

Highlights

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

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

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry