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Events

Alliance Between Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani and Mamluk Leader Ali Bey al-Kabeer: To Conquer Palestine and Syrian Territory

November 1770 - June 1771

Palestine Under Zahir al-Umar: Locus of Intra-Mamluk Rivalry

June 1771 - June 1773

Palestine Under Zahir al-Umar: Locus of Renewed Ambition by Mamluk Muhammad Bey Abu al-Zahab

September 1773 - 11 June 1775

Acre Under Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar

Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine

February 1799 - May 1799

Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

Uprising Against Egyptian Rule in Palestine

April 1834 - August 1834

International Intervention Against Egyptian Rule in the Levant

Jerusalem Representation in the First and Second Ottoman Parliaments

19 March 1877 - 14 February 1878

Herzl Correspondence with Jerusalem Mayor

Establishment of the Qahtani Society in Istanbul

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

Formation of the Covenant Society in Istanbul

28 October 1913

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Establishment of the Arab Bank in Jerusalem

21 May 1930 - 14 July 1930

Establishment of the Arab National Fund

September 1932 - 8 August 1935

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Arab National Fund Reestablished

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

Transjordan and Great Britain Agree on Jordanian Military Intervention in Palestine

7 February 1948

Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi Is Appointed Military Governor of Jerusalem

Responses to Bernadotte's Plan

2 July 1948 - 5 July 1948

Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza

22 September 1948 - 2 October 1948

Death of Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi; Ahmad al-Shuqairi as Palestine Delegate to the Arab League

29 June 1963 - 19 September 1963

Black September Hijack Operation

Ahmed Bouchiki Assassinated in Lillehammer

Ali Hassan Salameh Is Killed in Beirut

22 January 1979

Assassination of Caricaturist Naji al-Ali

22 July 1987 - 29 August 1987

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa), PFLP Deputy Secretary-General Returns to Palestine

30 September 1999

George Habash Retires as S-G of PFLP

27 April 2000 - 28 April 2000

Assassination attempt of Abd al-Karim Owais in Jenin

Assassination of Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa) in al-Bireh

Fallout of the Assassination of Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

28 August 2001 - 10 September 2001

Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi and its Immediate Aftermath

17 October 2001 - 25 October 2001

Assassination of Ali Ajuri and Murad Marshud in Jaba‘

Assassination Attempt of Muhammad Abu Nusayra in Khan Yunis

27 September 2004

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Registered Party Slates

18 December 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections Results: Hamas's Victory

26 January 2006 - 29 January 2006

Assassination of Aed al-Bashiti and Ali al-Nashar in Rafah

5 September 2006

Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen

18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries

17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011

Assassination of Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin

11 May 2022 - 15 November 2022

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

1860 - 13 April 1930

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1868 - October 1930

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Constantine Zurayk

18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

1926 - 23 January 1984

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Texts

Ottoman Firman on Christian Holy Places in Jerusalem and Bethlehem

8 February 1852

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates

Palin Commission Report

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1946

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Council of the Arab League: Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1948

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

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

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

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

28 February 2019

Framework for Cooperation between UNRWA and the USA, 2021-2022

Historical Media

Yusuf Diya-uddin Pasha al-Khalidi

Young Turks Revolution

Jemal Pasha Reviews His Troops

The first Arab delegation in London to protest the Balfour Declaration

Arab Higher Committee Members

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Arab League Warnings

Grand Serai in Ruins

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Lebanon War, 1982

A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Photographers Before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Brazil and the Palestine Question

Competing Solidarities, Fluctuating Policies

Places