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Acre under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani Challenges Direct Ottoman Rule

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine

19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

First Palestine Truce, Israeli Reinforcements and Destruction of Palestinian Villages

11 June 1948 - 8 July 1948

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

Palestinians in Israel Stage a General Strike to Protest the Kafr Qasim Massacre

Palestinians in Israel Demonstrate

21 September 1961

Gaza Red Crescent Society Is Established

A General Congress to Defend Arab Lands Meets in Nazareth

18 October 1975

Solidarity of Israel's Palestinians with the Intifada

21 December 1987

Start of Gaza-Jericho Negotiations, Taba

13 October 1993 - 8 December 1993

Failure to Reach the FAPS by 13 May 2000 Target Date: Eilat Round

30 April 2000 - 8 May 2000

Start of the Second Intifada

29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

With the Assassination of Abu Hanud, Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation Reaches a New Level

26 November 2001 - 15 December 2001

Assassination of Nabil Sa'eedi and Rabah Zaqqout in Gaza City

20 September 2004

New Palestinian Cabinet under Ahmad Qurai'

24 February 2005

Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 7

20 November 2012

Hamas and Fatah Exchange Reconciliation Gestures

22 November 2012 - 7 February 2013

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

Palestinians in Israel Express their Concern and Solidarity with the Palestinian Outburst

5 October 2015 - 28 November 2015

Israel Outlaws the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement

16 November 2015 - 28 November 2015

Fatah Seventh General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

4 December 2016

Palestinian Popular Response to Israel's Measures over the Haram al-Sharif

16 July 2017 - 23 July 2017

Abbas Signs 22 Treaties as a Response to Trump's Move on Jerusalem

18 December 2017

Qatar's Assistance to Gaza

9 October 2018 - 8 November 2018

PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations

15 November 2018

Beirut Port Explosion

4 August 2020 - 7 August 2020

Gilbo Prison Escape

6 September 2021 - 21 May 2022

Biographies

1865 - 3 March 1948

1875 - 9 February 1949

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

1907 - 27 July 2006

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1939 - 19 August 2014

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Historical Texts

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

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

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account

8 November 1948

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

18 January 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

The Regional Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Statement On the Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

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

7 February 1983

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

Highlights

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places