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Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

Jurji Habib Hanania

Freih Abu Middein

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1882 - 22 April 1942

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Events

Establishment of the Qahtani Society in Istanbul

Establishment of the Literary Club in Istanbul

July 1909 - March 1915

Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law

The Arab Congress Meets in Paris

17 June 1913 - 24 June 1913

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Deadly Zionist Anti-British Attacks

28 February 1947 - 1 March 1947

Palestinian Writers in Occupied Territories Affirm Commitment to Palestine Cause

New Threshold Crossed with Suicide Bombing and Warplanes

18 May 2001 - 4 June 2001

Israel Closes Orient House and Other Jerusalem Institutions

To Delink the West Bank from the Gaza Cease-Fire, Israel Escalates in the West Bank

7 July 2008 - 15 July 2008

A Lebanese Government Readiness to Facilitate Licensing of Palestinian Associations

Israel Prevents Palestine Cup Final

3 July 2019 - 25 September 2019

Historical Texts

Letter from Palestinian Associations and Clubs to the Syrian Congress Presidency (in Arabic)

Palin Commission Report

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Proposed New Constitution for Palestine

22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

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

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Marka Refugee Camp

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art