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Biographies

Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar
1880 - 1949
Biography
Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Subhi al-Khadra
1895 - 4 July 1954
Biography
Mustafa al-Dabbagh
1897 - 1 October 1989
Biography
Ibrahim Tuqan
1905 - 2 May 1941
Biography
Najati Sidqi
15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979
Biography
Nicola Ziadeh
1907 - 27 July 2006
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Events

Event
Law Granting Foreigners the Right to Own Real Estate in the Ottoman Empire., 7 Safar 1284
10 June 1867
Event
Completion of the Hijaz Railway
1905
Event
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Event
Railway Lines in Palestine
1914
Event
Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans
10 June 1916
Event
Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem
31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917
Event
British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan
21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918
Event
Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City
26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918
Event
The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan
25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920
Event
Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir
11 April 1921
Event
Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society
21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930
Event
Hanging of Palestinian Militants
17 June 1930
Event
Irgun Attacks Against Palestinians Intensify
July 1938 - August 1938
Event
Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism
1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945
Event
Egyptian-Israeli Armed Incidents
17 August 1956 - 11 September 1956

Historical Media

Document
Sykes-Picot Agreement
8 May 1916
Document
Haifa Railroad Station
20 September 1946

Historical Texts

Document
Sykes-Picot Agreement
16 May 1916
Document
Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission
3 July 1919
Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
Document
League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine
24 July 1922
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
Document
The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Document
Pact of the League of Arab States
22 March 1945
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
Document
Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release
1 January 1968
Document
Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt
26 March 1979
Document
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)
13 September 1993
Document
Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
12 February 2020

Highlights

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Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
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Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
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Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
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France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
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Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
The Emergence of a Working Class
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Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
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I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
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The Palestinian Flag
A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity
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Sbeineh Refugee Camp
Syria
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Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
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The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
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Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
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The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
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Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
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The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans