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A Religious Component Related to Jerusalem and Other Elements Are Added to a Capitulation Granted to France

20 May 1604 - 17 April 1607

A New Ottoman Capitulation: From Gracious Protection to Extraterritorial Immunities

With the Ottoman-Russian Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji, Capitulations Turn into Bilateral Treaties

Establishment of European and American Consulates in Jerusalem

International Intervention Against Egyptian Rule in the Levant

Ottoman Firman Confirms Status Quo in Jerusalem and Bethlehem Christian Holy Places

8 February 1852

A New Ottoman Firman on Christian Holy Places Causes Confusion; Holy Places as a Trigger of the Crimean War

21 March 1852 - 4 October 1853

Founding Principles of Ottoman Reform: The Tanzimat Stage II

18 February 1856

Toward the Treaty of Paris Ending the Crimean War and Strengthening the European Influence on the Ottoman Empire

25 February 1856 - 30 March 1856

Law Granting Foreigners the Right to Own Real Estate in the Ottoman Empire., 7 Safar 1284

Ottoman Education Law Is Passed

20 September 1869

Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq

Sultan Abd al-Hamid II and the Ottoman Constitution

31 August 1876 - 19 December 1876

Treaty of Berlin Confirms the Status Quo Related to the Christian Sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem

Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe

The Ottoman Government Sets Out Principles Governing Jewish Immigration to the Empire

24 November 1881

Jerusalem Notables Oppose Jewish Immigration

France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements

2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901

Publication of The Awakening of the Arab Nation in Asiatic Turkey by Najib Azoury

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Young Turk Revolution

Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul

2 September 1908 - April 1909

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

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

Establishment of the Qahtani Society in Istanbul

Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley

March 1909 - July 1909

Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives

June 1909 - 2 November 1909

Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

The Arab Congress Meets in Paris

17 June 1913 - 24 June 1913

Outbreak of World War I

1 August 1914 - 4 August 1914

The Ottomans Abrogate the Capitulations

9 September 1914

The Ottomans Enter World War I; the Sinai-Palestine Front

1 November 1914 - 4 February 1915

The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces

23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916

The Russian Revolution; Sykes-Picot Agreement Is Published

8 March 1917 - 23 November 1917

The Fourteen Points of US President Woodrow Wilson

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

Appointment of the King-Crane Commission

20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919

The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant

10 January 1920

Palestine Civil Government and Appointment of Herbert Samuel as High Commisioner

Signing of a Franco-British Convention on Mandate Boundaries

23 December 1920

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Multilateral Talks

11 May 1992 - 13 May 1992

French-Palestinian Agreement on Status of French Institutions Under Palestinian Authority

12 December 1997 - 18 December 1997

Draft Security Council Resolution S/2000/1171

18 December 2000

Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi and its Immediate Aftermath

17 October 2001 - 25 October 2001

Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Israeli and International Reactions

27 January 2006 - 5 February 2006

International Responses to Palestinian Unity Efforts

2 February 2007 - 19 February 2007

SC Res. 1850: Expressing Support for the Annapolis Negotiations and the Quartet Principles of January 2006

16 December 2008

War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy

4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 2

15 November 2012

Israeli and International Reactions to Announcement of Palestinian Unity Government

2 June 2014 - 3 June 2014

Tony Blair Resigns as Quartet Representative; Quartet Office Redefined

27 May 2015 - 11 June 2015

France Hosts a Ministerial Meeting as First Stage of its Peace Initiative

The PLO Executive Committee Decides to Boycott the Quartet

3 July 2016 - 10 July 2016

Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings Renewed in Doha, Beirut and Moscow, with No Results

5 January 2017 - 17 January 2017

Russian Effort on Reconciliation Fails and Hamas-Fatah Relations Further Deteriorate

13 February 2019 - 17 February 2019

Israel Launches COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign but Excludes Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza

19 December 2020 - 22 December 2020

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Freih Abu Middein

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Raghib al-Nashashibi

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

George Antonius

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

1910 - 26 February 1971

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1926 - 23 January 1984

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Historical Media

Ottoman Empire - Administrative Division

Historical Texts

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

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

Palin Commission Report

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

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Peel Commission Report

Pact of the League of Arab States

Statement by the Council of the Arab League on the Anglo-American Committee's Report on Palestine

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine

UNGA Resolution 273 (III)

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11898

5 December 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

UNSC Resolution 904

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/241

UNSC Resolution 1397

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2002/1385

20 December 2002

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution 58/292

Statement by Middle East Quartet on the Palestinian Legislative Elections

30 January 2006

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

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

30 September 2015

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

Palestinian Photographers Before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

I. Ottoman Rule

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Periods

I. Ottoman Rule

Places

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Transjordan and its Evolving Connection to Palestine

1915-1954