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Biographies

Freih Abu Middein

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

1923 - 12 May 2004

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Council of the League of Nations: Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

16 September 1922

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

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

25 September 2009

Events

Limited British Advances; Stabilization of the Military Front

21 December 1917 - 21 April 1918

Jordan-Israel Armistice Agreement

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

Led by George Habash, Arab Nationalist Activists on the Way to Structure Their Movement

1 January 1951 - 30 November 1952

Escalation Across Jordanian-Israeli Lines

10 September 1956 - 26 September 1956

Assassination Attempt of Wadi Haddad in Beirut

Assassination Attempt of PLO Senior Leadership in Beirut

Wadi Haddad Dies in Berlin, East Germany

July War: Israel Attempts a Ground Offensive in Southern Lebanon

11 August 2006 - 14 August 2006

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

16 July 2017 - 23 July 2017

Israeli Supreme Court Approves Demolition of East Jerusalem Neighborhood

16 April 2019 - 17 April 2019

Mass Demolitions in Sur Bahir

Towards a Unity Intifada

23 April 2021 - 10 May 2021

Highlights

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Places

al-Batani al-Sharqi

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

al-Masmiyya al-Kabira

al-Masmiyya al-Saghira

al-Naghnaghiyya

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

'Arab al-'Arida

'Arab al-Fuqara'

'Arab al-Nufay'at

'Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri

Bayt Umm al-Mays

Daliyat al-Rawha'

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

'Iraq al-Manshiyya

Khirbat 'Iribbin

Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-Buwayra

Khirbat al-Damun

Khirbat al-Duhayriyya

Khirbat al-Lawz

Khirbat al-Manara

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khirbat al-Tannur

Khirbat al-Taqa

Khirbat al-Zababida

Khirbat al-Zawiya

Khirbat Bayt Far

Khirbat Qumbaza

Khirbat Umm Sabuna

Khirbat Zakariyya

Kirad al-Baqqara

Kirad al-Ghannama

Sarafand al-Kharab

Wadi al-Hawarith