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Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

Uprising Against Egyptian Rule in Palestine

April 1834 - August 1834

Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907

Creation of Underground Bar Giora Group

29 September 1907

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

Establishment of the Istiqlal Party

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York

6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942

Arab National Fund Reestablished

Pledge to Buy US Armament for the Haganah

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas

19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948

Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

Israel Declares Jerusalem Occupied City

UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem

17 September 1948

Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas

21 October 1948

Israel Strengthens Its Political Control over Jerusalem; Military Government Dissolved

20 December 1948 - 17 February 1949

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

Elections in Israel

25 January 1949 - 14 February 1949

Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)

24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949

Israel's Measures to Make Jerusalem Its Capital

23 January 1950 - 13 July 1953

Israeli Law of Return

Israel and the Lavon Affair

July 1954 - 17 February 1955

With Mounting Tension In and Around Gaza, a Turning Point for Egypt and Opportunities for Israel

3 April 1955 - 27 September 1955

David Ben-Gurion Replaces Moshe Sharett as Prime Minister

3 November 1955

Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez

Israel Addresses the Future of Sinai

7 November 1956 - 8 November 1956

Israel Addresses the Future of Gaza

10 November 1956 - 3 February 1957

25th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem

27 December 1960 - 11 January 1961

Ahmed Bouchiki Assassinated in Lillehammer

Assassination Attempt of PLO Senior Leadership in Beirut

Ali Hassan Salameh Is Killed in Beirut

22 January 1979

Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Aziz Brigheeth and Samir Toukan in Cyprus

15 December 1979

Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

2 June 1980 - 3 June 1980

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

First Communiqué of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

14 December 1987

Setting Up Israeli-Palestinian Back Channel

1 December 1999 - 5 May 2000

The Stockholm Back Channel - 1st Session

12 May 2000 - 15 May 2000

Andrews and Bolling Rounds of Negotiation

13 June 2000 - 17 June 2000

The PA Releases First Batch of New Textbooks

2 September 2000

Ariel Sharon at al-Haram al-Sharif

28 September 2000

Assassination of Ibrahim Bani Odeh in Nablus

23 November 2000

Assassination Attempt of Raed Karmi in Tulkarm

6 September 2001

Establishment of al-Mubadara, the Palestinian National Initiative

Assassination of Ibrahim Makadama in Gaza City

Assassination of Hamdi Hassan Kalakh in Khan Yunis

Assassination of Ibrahim al-Na'nish in Tulkarm Refugee Camp

28 October 2003

Assassination of Trad Jamal, Ibrahim Dayri, and Ammar Hassan near Deir al-Balah

Assassination of Hassan Madhun and Fawzi Abu Qara’ in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

1 November 2005

Assassination of Hassan Asfour and Rami Hannoun East of Jabaliya Refugee Camp

6 February 2006

Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, Mohammed Abdul Hadi, Mohammad Abu al-Husain, Hassan Abu al-Husain, Huthaifa Shubair, and Mohammed Sami Hamdan in Khan Yunis

Assassination of Ziad Malaisha and Ibrahim Abed in Kafr Dan

Assassination of Khaled Atallah and Ibrahim Atallah in Gaza City

Assassination of Ibrahim Abu Olba in Beit Lahiya

Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries

17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011

Assassination of Ahmad Shaykh Khalil, Muhammad Ashur, Bassem Abu al-Ata, Hassan al-Khadari, and Abd al-Karim Shatat in Rafah

29 October 2011

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

Warsaw Conference on the Middle East Initiated by the US

13 February 2019 - 14 February 2019

Creeping Normalization

19 May 2020 - 25 June 2020

Beirut Port Explosion

4 August 2020 - 7 August 2020

Annual Settler March: Israeli Forces Violently Disperse Palestinian Protesters

Israeli Settlers Incite Against Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah

12 February 2022 - 24 February 2022

Further Israeli Restrictions on Who Can Travel In and Out of the West Bank

20 February 2022 - 30 April 2022

Israeli Settlers and Forces Attack Palestinians During Annual Flag Day March

Assassination of Ibrahim Nabulsi in Nablus

Lion’s Den Group Emerges with Israeli Collective Punishment Against Residents of Nablus

2 September 2022 - 3 November 2022

Netanyahu Forms Radical Right-Wing Israeli Government

29 December 2022

Biographies

1859 - 21 July 1921

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

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

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

1917 - 12 December 2003

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1925 - 10 April 1973

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1934 - 14 September 2021

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

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

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Palin Commission Report

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1946

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

Israel: Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance No. 29 of 1948

16 September 1948

Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

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

12 September 1950

Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

UNSC Resolution 904

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

President Clinton Proposals on Israeli‑Palestinian Peace

23 December 2000

The Mitchell Report

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

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

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

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

28 February 2019

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

Historical Media

The first Arab delegation in London to protest the Balfour Declaration

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

The Palestinian Islamic Nation Conference Party

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

III. Late Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

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

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Great March of Return

Peaceful Demonstrations, Bloody Crackdown

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Ras al-Ahmar

'Arab al-Zubayd

Daliyat al-Rawha'

'Iraq al-Manshiyya