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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

1875 - 9 February 1949

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Historical Texts

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

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates

Palin Commission Report

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine

Basic Law of the PLO

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)

17 September 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

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

7 February 1983

Draft of UNSC Resolution 15895

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

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

13 September 1993

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups

16 January 2009

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

25 September 2009

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

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

12 January 2021

Events

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

British-French Agreement on Boundary Line Between Palestine and Lebanon and Syria

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

Israel Carries out an Intelligence Operation in Syria and the First Airline Hijacking in the History of the Conflict

8 December 1954 - 14 December 1954

Britain and France Join the War

31 October 1956

June War, 4th Day

Tension in Hebron

1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983

Clashes in the Occupied Territories

9 February 1987 - 18 February 1987

Timid Diplomatic Efforts

2 November 2001 - 19 November 2001

Gaza: Military Confrontation Continues and Siege is Tightened

26 March 2008 - 15 May 2008

War on Gaza: US-Israel MOU on Arms Smuggling into Gaza

16 January 2009

Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries

17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011

Battir Landscape Is Inscribed in the World Heritage List

Abbas Signs 22 Treaties as a Response to Trump's Move on Jerusalem

18 December 2017

Leading Human Rights Groups Deem Israel an Apartheid State

12 January 2021 - 27 April 2021

Highlights

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Algerians of Palestine