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Events

Event
The Territory Under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani's Control: Economic and Social Dimension
1768
Event
1st Zionist Congress in Basel Calls for a Jewish Home in Palestine
29 August 1897 - 31 August 1897
Event
Balfour Declaration Is Made
2 November 1917
Event
1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919
Event
1st British Census of Palestine
23 October 1922
Event
Anti-Balfour Demonstrations in Palestine
25 March 1925 - 1 April 1925
Event
1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
26 October 1929
Event
London Round Table Conference Convenes
7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939
Event
Formation of a British-Arab Committee on Hussein-McMahon Correspondence at the London Round Table Conference
15 February 1939 - 16 March 1939
Event
MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians
17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939
Event
21st Zionist Congress Meets in Geneva
16 August 1939 - 25 August 1939
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Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)
24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949
Event
1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River
13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964
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1st Palestine National Council Is Held in Jerusalem: Establishment of the PLO
28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964
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June War, 1st Day
5 June 1967
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1st Extraordinary Session of the Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman
27 August 1970 - 28 August 1970
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28th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
18 January 1972 - 28 January 1972
Event
October War, 1st Day
6 October 1973
Event
1st Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Beersheba
25 May 1979
Event
Encirclement of Beirut
11 June 1982 - 20 June 1982
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1st Visit of US Secretary George Shultz to the Region
17 October 1987 - 18 October 1987
Event
31st Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
6 December 1987 - 10 December 1987
Event
The Baker Five-Point Plan
10 October 1989
Event
US Voices Dissatisfaction with Israel
23 February 1990 - 3 March 1990
Event
Dial 1-202-456-1414
13 June 1990
Event
Secretary Baker First Stage Diplomacy
9 March 1991 - 14 May 1991
Event
Secretary Baker Second Stage Diplomacy
21 July 1991 - 13 October 1991
Event
US-Soviet Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference
18 October 1991
Event
1st Negotiation Round, Madrid
3 November 1991
Event
6th Negotiation Round, 1st Stage, Washington
24 August 1992 - 3 September 1992
Event
21st Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza
22 April 1996 - 24 April 1996
Event
Implementation of Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II)
10 September 1999 - 20 March 2000
Event
The Stockholm Back Channel - 1st Session
12 May 2000 - 15 May 2000
Event
Losses During the 1st Year of the Second Intifada
28 September 2001
Event
James Wolfensohn Appointed to Follow Economic-Related Disengagement Matters
14 April 2005 - 20 June 2005
Event
Disengagement: The Case of Gaza-Egypt Crossing in Rafah
7 September 2005 - 17 September 2005
Event
Post Disengagement: Agreement on Movement and Access
15 November 2005
Event
Tony Blair Appointed Quartet Special Representative
27 June 2007
Event
21st Arab Summit Meets in Doha
30 March 2009
Event
For the Third Time, Israel Links the Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion
6 January 2014 - 22 January 2014
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Tension and Hostilities Mount Across Gaza
14 June 2014 - 2 July 2014
Event
The UN Human Rights Council Decides to Establish a Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities
24 March 2016
Event
100-Year Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
1 November 2017 - 2 November 2017
Event
PLO Central Council Holds, in Ramallah, its First Meeting in 4 Years
6 February 2022 - 9 February 2022
Event
Palestinian Reunification Conference in Algiers
11 October 2022 - 13 October 2022
Event
31st Arab Summit Meets in Algiers
1 November 2022 - 2 November 2022

Biographies

Biography
Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi
1842 - 1906
Biography
Khalil Baidas
1875 - 9 February 1949
Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali
1889 - 7 July 1973
Biography
Issa al-Sifri
1894 - 19 March 1949
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
1897 - 1973
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Biography
Ibrahim Tuqan
1905 - 2 May 1941
Biography
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023
Biography
Issam Abd al-Hadi
1928 - 8 August 2013
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Edward W. Said
1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003
Biography
Ezzedine Kalak
1936 - 3 August 1978
Biography
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946
Biography
Leila Shahid
13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

Historical Texts

Document
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Document
Balfour Declaration
2 November 1917
Document
1st Palestinian National Congress: Report to Paris Peace Conference (in Arabic)
February 1919
Document
1st Palestinian National Congress: Petition to Paris Peace Conference (in Arabic)
3 February 1919
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
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 Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)
10 August 1922
Document
Council of the League of Nations: Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home
16 September 1922
Document
Shaw Commission Report
12 March 1930
Document
The Hope Simpson Report
22 August 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report
9 November 1938
Document
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
14 May 1948
Document
UNSC Resolution 53
7 July 1948
Document
Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine
1 October 1948
Document
UNSC Resolution 62
16 November 1948
Document
Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
Document
Israel Law of Return and its Amendments
5 July 1950
Document
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
14 March 1951
Document
Palestine National Council, 1st Session: List of Members (in Arabic)
28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964
Document
Palestine National Council, 1st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)
28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964
Document
UNSC Resolution 237
14 June 1967
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/210
17 December 1987
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UNSC Resolution 608
14 January 1988
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UNGA Resolution 42/229
2 March 1988
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UNGA Resolution 42/230
23 March 1988
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UNGA Resolution 43/160
9 December 1988
Document
Secretary of State James Baker's: Five Points Framework for an Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue
10 October 1989
Document
Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 1st Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker
12 March 1991
Document
Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 2nd Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker
9 April 1991
Document
Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 4th Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker
26 April 1991
Document
U.S.-Soviet Letter of Invitation to Peace Talks in Madrid
18 October 1991
Document
UNSC Resolution 799
18 December 1992
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UNSC Resolution 904
18 March 1994
Document
The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document
31 October 1995
Document
Palestine National Council, 21st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)
22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
Statement by Middle East Quartet on the Palestinian Legislative Elections
30 January 2006
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/17
24 January 2007
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Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering
1 November 2017
Document
Framework for Cooperation between UNRWA and the USA, 2021-2022
14 July 2021
Document
PLO Central Council, 31st Session: Resolutions (in Arabic)
9 February 2022
Document
31st Arab Summit: Algiers Declaration (in French)
2 November 2022

Historical Media

Document
London Conference
February 1939
Document
Old City of Jerusalem from the Church of the Savior
n.d.

Highlights

Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968
A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers Before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
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Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
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The Village of al-Araqib
Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond
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Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank
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Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
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The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
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The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
Highlight
The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
Highlight
IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
1987-1993
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
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The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
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Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993
Curating the National Identity
Highlight
The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917
Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest
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Japan and the Palestine Question
A Policy still Subordinate to the US
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Places

Place
al-Faluja
Place
al-Lajjun
Place
al-Tabigha
Place
al-Tira
Place
'Ayn Karim
Place
Bayt Dajan
Place
Saffuriyya
Place
al-Khalasa