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Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Jurji Habib Hanania

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

1926 - 23 January 1984

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Events

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

Transjordan and Great Britain Agree on Jordanian Military Intervention in Palestine

7 February 1948

Fatah Is Founded

Israel's Strike Against Syria

31 January 1960 - 15 February 1960

Highlights

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War