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Biographies
Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
George Antonius
1891 - 1942
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Issa al-Sifri
1894 - 19 March 1949
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946
Events
Event
Balfour Declaration Is Made
2 November 1917
Event
House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine
20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922
Event
Anti-Balfour Demonstrations in Palestine
25 March 1925 - 1 April 1925
Event
John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development
2 May 1930
Event
White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published
20 October 1930
Event
MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann
13 February 1931
Event
First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937
Event
Appointment of the Peel Commission
18 May 1936
Event
Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Event
General Strike Called Off; Consent to Appear before the Peel Commission
11 October 1936
Event
Peel Commission Investigates the Cause of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
11 November 1936 - 24 January 1937
Event
Avner Defense Plan
June 1937
Event
Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine
7 July 1937
Event
Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Event
Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
23 July 1937 - September 1938
Event
20th Zionist Congress Meets in Zürich
3 August 1937 - 16 August 1937
Event
Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan
8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937
Event
Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission
4 January 1938
Event
Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee
21 March 1938
Event
Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
October 1938 - September 1939
Event
Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published
9 November 1938
Event
Stern Gang Assassinates Lord Moyne in Cairo
6 November 1944
Event
Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement
5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946
Event
100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017
Historical Texts
Document
Balfour Declaration
2 November 1917
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report
11 November 1938
Document
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Document
Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
Document
Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset
20 November 1977
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué
15 November 1988
Document
Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
Document
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Document
President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel
25 March 2019
Historical Media
Document
Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)
2 November 1932
Document
Lord Peel in Front of King David Hotel
November 1936
Document
Peel Commission and Partition
11 November 1936
Document
Arab Revolt 1936 - Royal Commission
11 January 1937
Document
Arab Revolt 1936 - Arab Higher Committee
12 January 1937
Document
Peel Commission Proposes Partition Map
7 July 1937
Document
London Conference
February 1939
Highlights
Highlight
The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
Highlight
III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
Highlight
France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
Highlight
The Judaization of the Galilee
A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
Highlight
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Resolution 242, 22 November 1967
Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement
Highlight
The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)
Before the Nakba
Highlight
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
Highlight
UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
Highlight
The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question
Solidarity of the Colonized
Highlight
Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
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