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Biographies

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

1885 - 19 December 1953

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1905 - 21 May 1985

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

1927 - 13 January 2005

1928 - 1 September 2020

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Events

Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Denounces MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

Establishment of the National Defense Party

2 December 1934

Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

Massive Israeli Invasion: Operation Defensive Shield

28 March 2002 - 10 May 2002

The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee Is Established

25 November 2005

Donors' Conference in Paris Supports Abbas's PA; PEGASE to Replace TIM

17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

Israeli-Palestinian “Exploratory Talks” in Amman

3 January 2012 - 25 January 2012

With the Nonrelease of Prisoners, the Palestinian Leadership Applies for Access to 19 International Conventions

A Joint Lebanese-Palestinian Civil Document Is Launched

UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid

UN SG Antonio Guterres Distances Himself from ESCWA Report; Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf Resigns

16 March 2017 - 17 March 2017

A Unified Lebanese Vision on Issues of Palestinian Refugees Living in Lebanon

US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes

7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021

Historical Texts

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission Report

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

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

MacDonald White Paper

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

Pact of the League of Arab States

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

UNGA Resolution 394 (V)

14 December 1950

UNSC Resolution 95

1 September 1951

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Protocol for the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

11 September 1965

Fourth Arab Summit: Resolutions

1 September 1967

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

UNGA Resolution 2443 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)

30 November 1970

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3237 (XXIX)

22 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel

30 November 1977

Begin's Autonomy Plan

28 December 1977

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

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

13 September 1993

Shimon Peres's Letter Concerning Reassurances on Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem

11 October 1993

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

UNGA Resolution 52/250

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

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

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

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

25 September 2009

UNGA Resolution 64/10

1 December 2009

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

Scope of Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

UNGA Resolution 73/5

16 October 2018

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

28 February 2019

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestine Communist Party

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

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

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Marka Refugee Camp

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests