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Jurji Habib Hanania

1875 - 9 February 1949

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1927 - 13 January 2005

1929 - 2 June 2016

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Texts

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

The Hope Simpson Report

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Report of the British - International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall

1 December 1930

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

US Recognition of the State of Israel

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine

Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account

8 November 1948

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407

Basic Law of the PLO

Protocol for the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

11 September 1965

Exchange of Letters Between Israel and UNRWA

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese Authorities and the Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations

3 November 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

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

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

18 January 1974

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)

17 September 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14832/Rev.1

19 January 1982

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409

The London Agreement

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

Israeli Cabinet Decision on the Five-Point Plan of Secretary Baker

5 November 1989

President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East

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

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

Palestinian Parties and Factions Code of Conduct during the Legislative Electoral Process

17 October 2005

Agreement on Movement and Access In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

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

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Palestinian Prime Minister's Letter to Secretary of State on No Longer Accepting US Assistance

26 December 2018

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

28 February 2019

President Donald Trump: Proclamation on Recognizing the Golan Heights as Part of the State of Israel

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements

18 November 2019

Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates

Abraham Accords: Declaration of Peace, Cooperation, and Constructive Diplomatic and Friendly Relations, Announced by the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain

15 September 2020

Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel

15 September 2020

Events

Proclamations No. 75 and No. 76 on Immovable Property

18 November 1918

Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall

23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928

The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes the State of Israel

West Bank to Be Placed under Jordanian Military Government

16 May 1948 - 24 May 1948

First Arab-Israeli Armistice Talks Commence Under UN Supervision in Rhodes

12 January 1949

Pressures and Assurances to Israel on Gulf of Aqaba and Gaza

20 February 1957 - 1 March 1957

The Intifada and the Israeli Response in Another Stage in the Confrontation

11 March 1988 - 29 March 1988

Jordan Severs Ties with the West Bank

28 July 1988 - 4 August 1988

The Madrid Peace Conference

30 October 1991 - 2 November 1991

2nd Negotiation Round, Washington

10 December 1991 - 18 December 1991

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

US State Department Allows the PLO to Open Foreign Mission in Washington

Tunnel Opened by Israel in Old City, Jerusalem; Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

24 September 1996 - 28 September 1996

With Barak as Prime Minister, Negotiations on Wye Implementation Resume

11 July 1999 - 3 September 1999

Assassination of Omar Saadeh and Taha al-Aruj in Bethlehem

Conference on the 4th Geneva Convention Affirms Responsibility of all Contracting Parties in Ensuring its Respect

5 December 2001

Palestinian Legislative Election Results: Initial Israeli and International Reactions

27 January 2006 - 5 February 2006

Israel's Ramat Shlomo Constructions' Plan During Joe Biden's Visit

8 March 2010 - 11 March 2010

Abbas and Mishal Sign the Doha Declaration and Then Agree on its Suspension

5 February 2012 - 23 February 2012

Tension Escalates at Haram al-Sharif

2 August 2015 - 28 September 2015

Sanctions Against 3 Palestinian Knesset Members

4 February 2016 - 8 February 2016

Palestinians Thwart the Setting Up of Cameras at Haram al-Sharif

18 March 2016 - 18 April 2016

Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif

26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016

Palestinians Protest Israel's Killing of Basel al-Araj and Palestinian-Israeli Security Coordination

6 March 2017 - 28 March 2017

As Israel Backtracks on Its Measures Concerning the Haram al-Sharif, Palestinian Pressure Continues and Succeeds

24 July 2017 - 4 August 2017

Israel Prevents Palestine Cup Final

3 July 2019 - 25 September 2019

EU Anti-Palestinian Clause

Historical Media

Highlights

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Marka Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (1)

2015 - 2048

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (2)

2015 - 2048

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Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (3)

2015 - 2048