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Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Constantine Zurayk

18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

1939 - 19 August 2014

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

Historical Media

Ottoman Empire - Administrative Division

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Jaffa Road during a General Strike

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

Peel Commission Proposes Partition Map

Battle for the Roads

Projection of the Final Status Map Presented by Israel - December 2000

Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing

Escape of the Youth, Sixth Wave of Killing

Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing

Conceptual Map: The State of Israel

Conceptual Map: A Future State of Palestine

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Palin Commission Report

Franco-British Convention on Mandate Boundaries

23 December 1920

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

Pact of the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1946

The Haganah: Plan Gimmel (Plan C): Section on Countermeasures

The Grady-Morrison Plan

UNSCOP Minority Proposal: Federal State Plan

3 September 1947

UNSCOP Majority Proposal: Partition Plan

3 September 1947

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Text of Plan Dalet (Plan D): General Section

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1948

Jordan-Israel Agreement: For the Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 303

9 December 1949

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Final Statement

30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970

Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

18 January 1974

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria

PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

The Golan Heights Law

14 December 1981

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

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

7 February 1983

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 2nd Memorandum to US 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

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

UNGA Resolution ES-10/3

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

President Clinton Proposals on Israeli‑Palestinian Peace

23 December 2000

Palestinian Response to President Clinton Proposals

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Israel and the Road Map

23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2003/891

16 September 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/12

25 September 2003

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/13

27 October 2003

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/240

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

UNSC Resolution 1544

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/783

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

Statement by Middle East Quartet on the Palestinian Legislative Elections

30 January 2006

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/508

UNSC Resolution 1701

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/878

10 November 2006

UNGA Resolution ES-10/16

30 November 2006

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Joint Understanding Between Israel and the PLO Read by President Bush

27 November 2007

President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

10 January 2008

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

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

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

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

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017

6 February 2017

China’s Four-Point Proposal on Promoting the Settlement of the Palestinian Issue

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

UNGA Resolution ES-10/19

21 December 2017

UNGA Resolution ES-10/20

UNGA Resolution 73/89

6 December 2018

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

12 January 2021

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

UNGA Resolution 77/247

30 December 2022

Events

The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces

23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

British Conquest of Transjordan Is Achieved

22 September 1918 - 27 September 1918

British-French Demarcation of Line Between Palestine (Including Transjordan) and Syria (Including Lebanon)

Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published

9 November 1938

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Fighting Around Jerusalem

12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948

Operation Jevussi for the Conquest of Jerusalem

26 April 1948 - 30 April 1948

Arab Gains in Gush Etzion

3 May 1948 - 14 May 1948

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

Israel Declares Jerusalem Occupied City

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

Jordan-Israel Armistice Agreement

Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)

24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949

UNCCP Convenes the Lausanne Conference

27 April 1949 - 12 September 1949

Israeli-Jordanian Clashes

25 July 1956 - 21 August 1956

Situation on Jordanian-Israeli Lines Continues to Deteriorate; Israeli Raid on Qalqilya

4 October 1956 - 11 October 1956

Jordanian Army Tightens Control

1 October 1970 - 23 July 1971

Kilometer 101 Talks

11 November 1973

Israel Invades Along the Central Axis

6 June 1982 - 11 June 1982

The “Creeping” Cease-fire

10 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

17th Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Norwegian Secret Channel, Official Stage

20 May 1993 - 20 August 1993

Multilevel Gaza-Jericho Negotiations

12 December 1993 - 23 February 1994

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area Is Signed in Cairo

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Maps the Shape of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Solution

Israel's Position on Further Redeployment and on Palestinian Obligations

23 November 1997 - 14 January 1998

Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998

Israeli Obstacles to Wye River Implementation; First Stage Redeployment Only

30 October 1998 - 17 May 1999

Implementation of Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II)

10 September 1999 - 20 March 2000

Failure to Reach the FAPS by 13 May 2000 Target Date: Eilat Round

30 April 2000 - 8 May 2000

Israeli-Palestinian (Post-Stockholm) Back Channel

1 June 2000 - 3 June 2000

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

21 January 2001 - 27 January 2001

On the Road to Reform: First Palestinian Steps and Plans

15 May 2002 - 24 June 2002

Toward a "Road Map" to Final Status?

13 August 2002 - 5 November 2002

Israeli Army Refocuses on Gaza Strip

19 August 2002 - 7 October 2002

US formally Presents Israel and the PA with the Road Map

Heightened Violence Despite Diplomacy

1 May 2003 - 29 June 2003

The PLO Approves the Road Map

3 May 2003 - 11 May 2003

With US Blessing, Ambivalent Israeli Acceptance of the "Steps Set out in the Road Map"

4 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

Abbas and Sharon Meet in Jerusalem

17 May 2003 - 29 May 2003

Mahmoud Abbas Resigns as Prime Minister

6 September 2003

Violence Abates to a Moderate Level

1 November 2003 - 17 December 2003

Sharon's Speech on Unilateral Disengagement Plan

18 December 2003

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

16th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis; Rejection of Israel's Disengagement Plan

22 May 2004 - 23 May 2004

An Egyptian Security Plan for the PA

24 May 2004 - 6 July 2004

Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map

2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004

London Meeting on Supporting the Palestinian Authority

17th Arab Summit Meets in Algiers

22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005

Mahmoud Abbas's First Visit to White House as PA President

Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Israeli and International Reactions

27 January 2006 - 5 February 2006

Assassination of Hassan Asfour and Rami Hannoun East of Jabaliya Refugee Camp

6 February 2006

Hizballah Fighters Capture Israeli Soldiers

July War: Israel Launches an Air War Against Hizballah

July War: Israel's Air War Fails to Knock out Hizballah

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

July War: Israel Attempts a Ground Offensive in Southern Lebanon

11 August 2006 - 14 August 2006

July War: A Balance Sheet

The US Revisits the Road Map

14 January 2007 - 15 January 2007

Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference

20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

The Annapolis Conference Opens a New Round of Palestinian-Israeli Talks

27 November 2007

Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa

4 December 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Bad Start

12 December 2007 - 27 December 2007

The Quartet Expresses "Concern" over Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa Expansion

17 December 2007

Bush's Statement on Palestinian Statehood, Jerusalem

10 January 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status Resume: Refugees and Territory Stumbling Blocks

24 March 2008 - 4 May 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

SC Res. 1850: Expressing Support for the Annapolis Negotiations and the Quartet Principles of January 2006

16 December 2008

The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Arab Side

21 April 2009 - 28 May 2009

The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Israeli Side: The Settlements Issue

18 May 2009 - 1 June 2009

The Deceptive Settlement Freeze

26 November 2009 - 5 January 2010

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Held in Sharm al-Shaykh and Jerusalem

14 September 2010 - 15 September 2010

Al Jazeera Satellite TV and the Guardian Release the Palestine Papers

23 January 2011

Israeli-Palestinian “Exploratory Talks” in Amman

3 January 2012 - 25 January 2012

Israeli-Palestinian Direct Talks Take Place in Jerusalem

14 August 2013 - 2 September 2013

Palestinian Car Ramming: A New Palestinian Weapon?

6 March 2015 - 14 May 2015

A Day of Escalation in the West Bank

China's New Four-Point Proposal for Settlement of Palestinian Question

PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations

15 November 2018

Opening of the “Apartheid Road”

10 January 2019

Israeli PM Netanyahu Pledges to Annex Parts of the West Bank if Reelected

10 September 2019 - 6 December 2019

Trump Administration Presents Peace Plan

28 January 2020

US Peace Plan – Israeli Reaction

29 January 2020 - 9 February 2020

Highlights

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Marka (Hittin) Refugee Camp

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Zarqa Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Aida Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

al-Batani al-Gharbi

al-Batani al-Sharqi

al-Masmiyya al-Saghira

al-Ras al-Ahmar

al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya

al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya

al-Shawka al-Tahta

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'

al-Zuq al-Fawqani

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

'Arab al-'Arida

'Arab al-Bawati

'Arab al-Fuqara'

'Arab al-Samniyya

'Arab al-Shamalina

Khirbat Bayt Lid

Bayt Umm al-Mays

Bayyarat Hannun

Daliyat al-Rawha'

Dayr Abu Salama

Ghabat Kafr Sur

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

Khirbat al-Damun

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya

Khirbat al-Kasayir

Khirbat al-Lawz

Khirbat al-Majdal

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khirbat al-Tannur

Khirbat al-Zababida

Khirbat Bayt Far

Khirbat Ism Allah

Khirbat Qumbaza

Khirbat Zakariyya

Khiyam al-Walid

Mansurat al-Khayt

Sarafand al-Kharab

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta