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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

1893 - 27 April 1940

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

1910 - 26 February 1971

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

1917 - 12 December 2003

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

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

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1936 - 3 August 1978

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Events

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

8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901

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

Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

The Egyptian Revolution of 1952

24 February 1955

Egyptian-Czech Arms Deal

27 September 1955

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

London Conference on Suez

16 August 1956 - 23 August 1956

Britain, France, and Israel Sign the Protocol of Sèvres

22 October 1956 - 24 October 1956

Civil War in Lebanon

May 1958 - October 1958

Iraq and a "Palestinian Republic"

15 December 1959

1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Egypt Reacts to Israeli Threats Against Syria

15 May 1967 - 22 May 1967

Israel Prepares for War with US Consent

2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967

June War, 5th Day

PLO-Lebanon Cairo Agreement Regulates Palestinian Civil and Military Presence in the Country

3 November 1969

Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

Abdel Nasser Dies of a Sudden Heart Attack; Anwar al-Sadat Succeeds Him

28 September 1970

Assassination of Palestinian Leaders Kamal Nasser, Kamal Adwan, and Muhammad Youssef al-Najjar in Beirut

Assassination of Bashir Gemayel and Israeli Occupation of Beirut

14 September 1982 - 16 September 1982

New Palestinian Cabinet Under Ahmad Qurai'

24 February 2005

Formation of the Hamas-Led Cabinet

19 March 2006 - 28 March 2006

Major Arrest Raid Against Hamas-Affiliated PA Officials

29 June 2006 - 19 August 2006

Israel Escalates Attacks in Gaza and the West Bank

3 April 2007 - 29 May 2007

Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009

PA Announces Legislative, Presidential and PNC Elections, Later Postpones

15 January 2021 - 29 April 2021

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

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel

30 November 1977

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

7 February 1983

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

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

28 February 2019

Highlights

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

III. Late Mandate

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

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

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

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

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya

al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya

'Iraq al-Manshiyya