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Events

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

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

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 the Second Intifada

29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000

US Attempts at Easing Tension, but Confrontation Spikes

4 October 2000 - 12 October 2000

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

Gilbo Prison Escape

6 September 2021 - 21 May 2022

Biographies

1865 - 3 March 1948

Freih Abu Middein

1875 - 9 February 1949

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

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

1902 - 27 August 1984

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

1939 - 19 August 2014

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Historical Texts

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

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

The Koenig Memorandum

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017

6 February 2017

Highlights

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

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

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

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

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

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

Balata Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) 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

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

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance