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Biographies

Biography
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi
1871 - 1942
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Wasif Jawhariyyeh
1897 - 1973
Biography
Zulaykha al-Shihabi
1903 - 13 May 1992
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Ismail Shammout
2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006
Biography
Ezzedine Kalak
1936 - 3 August 1978
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019
Biography
Leila Khaled
9 April 1944
Biography
Abd al-Aziz Rantisi
1947 - 17 April 2004
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Historical Texts

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Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
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Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein
25 October 1915
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Sykes-Picot Agreement
16 May 1916
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Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
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Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
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The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)
10 August 1922
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Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
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The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
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Proposed New Constitution for Palestine
22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935
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Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
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Peel Commission Report
July 1937
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Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
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London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
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MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
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Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
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The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
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Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
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UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
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UNSC Resolution 61
4 November 1948
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UNSC Resolution 62
16 November 1948
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Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
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Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement
23 March 1949
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Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement
3 April 1949
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Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement
20 July 1949
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Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
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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
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UNSC Resolution 95
1 September 1951
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Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release
1 January 1968
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Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
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The Koenig Memorandum
1 March 1976
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Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)
17 September 1978
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Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
28 January 1980
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President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin
31 August 1982
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Reagan Plan
1 September 1982
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Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
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Secretary of State George Shultz: A Statement for Palestinians
26 February 1988
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Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)
13 September 1993
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Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area
4 May 1994
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Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
28 September 1995
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Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
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PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement
1 January 2001
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The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
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Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law
18 March 2003
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The Geneva Accord
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
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President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon
14 April 2004
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Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal
1 March 2005
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President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007
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Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry
30 January 2008
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Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council
4 May 2009
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President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World
4 June 2009
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President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy
19 May 2011
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Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration
17 December 2014
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Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
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Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process
18 January 2016
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Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
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UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid
15 March 2017
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Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
17 April 2017
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Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon
20 July 2017
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B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
12 January 2021

Events

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Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul
2 September 1908 - April 1909
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Establishment of the Literary Club in Istanbul
July 1909 - March 1915
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Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall
23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928
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First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense
29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948
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Plan Dalet Finalized by the Haganah
10 March 1948
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Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive
10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948
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Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road
3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948
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Third Phase of the Palestine War: Arab-Israeli War
15 May 1948 - 6 January 1949
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Israel's Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordinance
16 September 1948
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Israel Conducts its First Population Census
8 November 1948 - 1 February 1949
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Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"
January 1949 - December 1956
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Palestine Arab Refugee Office (PARO) Is Opened in New York
25 June 1955 - 15 January 1962
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Israeli-Lebanese Negotiations
28 December 1982
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7th Negotiation Round, Washington
21 October 1992 - 20 November 1992
Event
The Tragedy of the Palestinians in Libya
9 August 1995 - 13 January 1999
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Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Maps the Shape of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Solution
5 October 1995
Event
Clinton's Letter of Assurance to Arafat as a "Compensation" for Not Declaring a State
26 April 1999
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Assassination of Jamil Jadallah Qawasmeh in Hebron
31 October 2001
Event
July War: A Balance Sheet
14 August 2006
Event
The US Tries to Launch Israeli-Palestinian Talks Through Letters of Guarantee
16 December 2009 - 4 January 2010
Event
Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners
17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014
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Abbas Sets Three Conditions for Extension of Negotiations
22 April 2014
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First Trump Administration Statement on Israeli Settlements
2 February 2017
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UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid
15 March 2017
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The May 2021 Gaza War
10 May 2021 - 21 May 2021

Historical Media

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Arab League Warnings
June 1946

Highlights

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The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
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Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
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Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity
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The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
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Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
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VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War
1973-1982
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VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival
1982-1987
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XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?
2017-
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Sumud
Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance
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Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
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IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
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The Judaization of the Galilee
A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity
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The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
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Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
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The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
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Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993
Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement
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The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
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Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
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I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
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1956 War
The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression
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Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
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Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp
Syria
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The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
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Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
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China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
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Balata Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation
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Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
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Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
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Mexico and the Palestine Question
Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor
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The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
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Spain and the Palestine Question
Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel
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The Village of al-Araqib
Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond
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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 Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
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The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
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Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
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The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
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The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
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The Palestinians in Sweden
Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses
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The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948
The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station
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Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Periods

Period
XIII. A Growingly Intractable Deadlock

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology
Israeli Assassination Campaign Beyond Palestine Borders
1970 - present

Charts

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Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (2)
2000
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Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (1)
2000 - 2010