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Biographies

Biography
Hafiz al-Sa’id
1843 - 1916
Biography
Sa'id al-Karmi
1852 - 1935
Biography
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Subhi al-Khadra
1895 - 4 July 1954
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 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
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud
1913 - 13 July 1948
Biography
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Biography
Yusra al-Barbari
15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009
Biography
Samiha Khalil
20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999
Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Hisham Sharabi
1927 - 13 January 2005
Biography
Issam Abd al-Hadi
1928 - 8 August 2013
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Ghassan Kanafani
9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972
Biography
Ahmad Ismail Yasin
June 1936 - 22 March 2004
Biography
Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)
14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001
Biography
Samih al-Qasim
1939 - 19 August 2014
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946
Biography
Yahya al-Sinwar
19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

Historical Texts

Document
Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi
19 March 1899
Document
Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
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Statement of the Arab National Conference
13 December 1931
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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
Document
Land Transfers Regulations, 1940
20 February 1940
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Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
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Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
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Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
17 January 1997
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Wye River Memorandum
23 October 1998
Document
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles
14 April 2004
Document
Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council
27 March 2006
Document
31st Arab Summit: Algiers Declaration (in French)
2 November 2022

Events

Event
Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine
17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912
Event
Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives
June 1909 - 2 November 1909
Event
Formation of the Moderate Liberal Party and the Entente Libérale Party in Istanbul
30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911
Event
First Major Debate on Zionism in Ottoman Parliament
March 1911 - May 1911
Event
Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo
December 1912
Event
Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine
14 May 1914
Event
Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant
21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916
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1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919
Event
Zionist Attacks
15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948
Event
Assassination of Sa'ad Arabid in Gaza City
8 April 2003
Event
Assassination of Majed Sa'di in Jenin
16 June 2004
Event
Assassination of Nabil Sa'eedi and Rabah Zaqqout in Gaza City
20 September 2004
Event
After Threats of Annexation, Normalization Reignites Palestinian Reconciliation Talks
3 September 2020 - 24 September 2020
Event
Palestinian Reconciliation Comes again to a Standstill
1 October 2020 - 17 November 2020
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Bennett-Lapid Government Takes Office in Israel
13 June 2021

Highlights

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The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
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Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
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Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
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The Judaization of the Galilee
A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity
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The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
1987–present
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Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival
1982-1987
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IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
1987-1993
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Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
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Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
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The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
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Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993
Curating the National Identity
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The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
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The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)
1957-1990
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V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War
1950-1966
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The May 2021 Gaza War
Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes
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Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993

Places

Place
Abu Kishk
Place
al-Farradiyya
Place
Ghabbatiyya
Place
al-Jura
Place
al-Mazar
Place
Dayr 'Amr
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Fara
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Fardisya
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al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
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al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
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Jarisha
Place
Kafr Saba
Place
Khirbat Sa'sa'
Place
Kuwaykat
Place
Sa'sa'
Place
Sabalan
Place
Saliha
Place
Taytaba
Place
al-Zib