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1860 - 13 April 1930

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1868 - October 1930

1878 - 29 June 1950

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Mu‘in al-Madi

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

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

1917 - 12 December 2003

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1936 - 3 August 1978

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Events

Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition

8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901

Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris

Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine

Amin al-Husseini Elected Mufti of Jerusalem

Regulation Concerning the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council

20 December 1921 - 9 January 1922

Founding of the Arab National Party in Jerusalem

8 November 1923

Islamic Conference in Defense of al-Buraq and Muslim Holy Places in Jerusalem

1 November 1928

White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall

19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928

Pan-Islamic Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1931 - 17 December 1931

Challenging the Pan-Islamic Congress, a Conference of the Palestinian Islamic Nation Is Convened

11 December 1931

Establishment of the National Defense Party

2 December 1934

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party

Establishment of the Reform Party

First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

19 April 1936 - 23 July 1937

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan

8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy

November 1938 - May 1939

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza

22 September 1948 - 2 October 1948

Assassination of Bashir Gemayel and Israeli Occupation of Beirut

14 September 1982 - 16 September 1982

Assassination of Abu Hasan Qasim, Hamdi Sultan al-Tamimi and Marwan Kayyali in Limassol

14 February 1988

Historical Media

Third Palestinian National Congress, Haifa

14 December 1920

The first Arab delegation in London to protest the Balfour Declaration

Army music in front of the Fast Hotel

Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

Pan-Islamic Congress, 1931

16 December 1931

Arab Higher Committee Members

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

London Conference

Historical Texts

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

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

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

7 February 1983

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

III. Late Mandate

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

The Bosnians of Palestine

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Places