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Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

1902 - 27 August 1984

1905 - 2 May 1941

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

1929 - 2 June 2016

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1942 - 6 August 2019

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Events

Seven Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1880s

Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907

Establishment of the Rawdat al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyya al-'Uthmaniyya al-Islamiyya in Jerusalem

Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer

Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives

June 1909 - 2 November 1909

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

Arab Liberation Army Organized

1 January 1948 - 10 January 1948

Palestinian Attacks

14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948

Contingents of ALA Volunteers

21 January 1948 - 28 January 1948

British Break Arab Attacks

6 February 1948 - 10 February 1948

Fawzi al-Qawuqji Enters Palestine

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

Constantine Zurayk Publishes Ma'na al-Nakba (The Meaning of the Nakba) in Beirut

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

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel

Ma'moun Meraish Is Assassinated in Athens

President Bush's Letters to M.E. Leaders on Proposed Peace Conference

1 June 1991 - 14 July 1991

Norwegian Secret Channel, Exploratory Stage

20 January 1993 - 9 May 1993

Start of Israel-PLO Economic Talks in Paris

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Maps the Shape of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Solution

Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit

11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000

Assassination of Mahmoud Abu Hanud near Nablus

23 November 2001

Assassination of Ala Ahmad Sabbagh and Imad Nasharti in Jenin Refugee Camp

26 November 2002

Assassination of Nader Jarawish and Ala Ayyad in Bethlehem

Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan

12 January 2004 - 2 February 2004

Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan

2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004

Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map

2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004

Major Construction Plan in Ma'ale Adumim

21 March 2005 - 6 April 2005

Olmert's Separation Plan

5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006

Haniyeh Proposes a Long-term Cease-fire and Peace

Olmert's Convergence Plan Put Aside; Settlement Activity Resumes

18 August 2006 - 21 September 2006

Attempted Assassination of Khalil al-Hayya in Gaza City

Nablus Remains a Hot Spot

15 December 2007 - 5 January 2008

Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans

9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

War on Gaza, Day 8: End of Phase 1; Balance Sheet

Israel Approves Settlement Expansion

2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011

Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest

27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011

Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion

12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011

Surge in Settlement Expansion

30 November 2012 - 10 February 2013

Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank

11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

Israel Once Again Links the Second-Stage Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion

29 October 2013 - 3 November 2013

Kerry Draws Up a Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

17 February 2014

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

Israel Races for Settlement Activities with an Eye on Trump

22 January 2017 - 1 February 2017

Opening of the “Apartheid Road”

10 January 2019

Meetings Resume between PA and Israeli Ministers; Palestinians Added to Population Registry

29 August 2021 - 28 December 2021

Historical Texts

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

The Hope Simpson Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)

Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

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

7 February 1983

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

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

6 February 2017

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

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

28 February 2019

Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

12 February 2020

Historical Media

Fawzi al-Qawuqji

Arab Liberation Army (ALA) Members

Highlights

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Marka (Hittin) Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

al-Masmiyya al-Saghira

al-Naghnaghiyya

'Arab al-Zubayd

Bayt Umm al-Mays

Daliyat al-Rawha'

Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-Jawfa

Khirbat al-Kasayir

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khirbat al-Tannur

Khiyam al-Walid

Kirad al-Baqqara

Kirad al-Ghannama

Mansurat al-Khayt

Wadi al-Hawarith

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta