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Biographies

Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali
1889 - 7 July 1973
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Sophie Halaby
26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997
Biography
Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih
1907 - 8 January 2001
Biography
Badr Lama
23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947
Biography
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Edward W. Said
1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013

Events

Event
Murison Commission of Inquiry
4 January 1934
Event
Anti-British Operation and British Retaliation in al-Bassa
6 September 1938 - 10 September 1938
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Rogers Plan
9 December 1969
Event
Timid Diplomatic Efforts
2 November 2001 - 19 November 2001
Event
With the Assassination of Abu Hanud, Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation Reaches a New Level
26 November 2001 - 15 December 2001
Event
Israeli and International Pressures for a PA Reform
7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002
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The PLO Approves the Road Map
3 May 2003 - 11 May 2003
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US Day-to-Day Involvement in Palestinian-Related Security Matters and in the Disengagement Plan
10 March 2005 - 30 June 2005
Event
War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks
10 January 2009
Event
Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a 16-Year-Old Palestinian, Is Burnt Alive by Settlers in East Jerusalem
2 July 2014
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UNHRC Res. A/HRC/RES/S-21/1: Condemning Israel's Assault on Gaza, Dispatching Commission of Inquiry
23 July 2014
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The Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip
30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018
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Annual Settler March: Israeli Forces Violently Disperse Palestinian Protesters
15 June 2021

Historical Texts

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The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
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Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA
15 December 1956
Document
Rogers Plan
9 December 1969
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Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
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Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
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Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué
15 November 1988
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Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
28 September 1995
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The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document
31 October 1995
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Wye River Memorandum
23 October 1998
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Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council
4 May 2009
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Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
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Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
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Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
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Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA
30 September 2015
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Report of the Middle East Quartet
1 July 2016
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Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019

Historical Media

Document
Burning of the Rex Cinema
2 December 1947
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Burning of the al-Aqsa Mosque
21 August 1969

Highlights

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Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
October 1973 War
A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results
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The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP
1969-present
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The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
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Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
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VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat
1966-1973
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Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
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The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
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Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps
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Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art