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Biographies
Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
Zulaykha al-Shihabi
1903 - 13 May 1992
Biography
Sophie Halaby
26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997
Biography
Nicola Ziadeh
1907 - 27 July 2006
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Biography
Samira Abu Ghazaleh
1928 - 12 January 2017
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Bashir Barghouti
1931 - 9 September 2000
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Ghassan Kanafani
9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972
Biography
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
1937
Biography
Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah
12 October 1943
Biography
Leila Khaled
9 April 1944
Biography
Ismail Haniyeh
1962 - 31 July 2024
Events
Event
1st Zionist Congress in Basel Calls for a Jewish Home in Palestine
29 August 1897 - 31 August 1897
Event
2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898
Event
3rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
15 August 1899 - 18 August 1899
Event
5th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
26 December 1901 - 30 December 1901
Event
Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company
7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903
Event
6th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
23 August 1903 - 28 August 1903
Event
7th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
27 July 1905 - 2 August 1905
Event
Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa
December 1908
Event
10th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
9 August 1911 - 15 August 1911
Event
Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
Event
Founding of the Haganah, the Jewish Paramilitary Organization
June 1920
Event
15th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
30 August 1927 - 11 September 1927
Event
17th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
30 June 1931 - 15 July 1931
Event
Establishment of the National Defense Party
2 December 1934
Event
Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party
27 March 1935
Event
The US Congress Endorses the Biltmore Program
17 December 1945 - 19 December 1945
Event
22nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
9 December 1946 - 24 December 1946
Event
23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951
Event
UNGA 513 (VI): UNRWA to Carry Refugee Relief and Reintegration for 3 Years
26 January 1952
Event
27th Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
9 June 1968 - 19 June 1968
Event
28th Zionist Congress Meets in Jerusalem
18 January 1972 - 28 January 1972
Event
Shaykh Ahmad Yasin's Islamic Center Is Established in Gaza
7 September 1973
Event
12th Palestine National Council, Cairo: A New Political Program
1 June 1974 - 8 June 1974
Event
Palestinian Rejection Front
10 October 1974
Event
UNGA 3376 (XXX): Establishing a Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
10 November 1975
Event
13th Palestine National Council Meets in Cairo
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
Event
Municipalities in the West Bank and Gaza Affirm the PLO Program in a Message to the US and USSR
8 August 1977
Event
14th Palestine National Council Is Held in Damascus
15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979
Event
The Palestinians' 14 Demands
14 January 1988
Event
Secretary Baker First Stage Diplomacy
9 March 1991 - 22 May 1991
Event
20th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers
23 September 1991 - 28 September 1991
Event
The Madrid Peace Conference
30 October 1991 - 2 November 1991
Event
Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty Signed near Aqaba
26 October 1994
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza
27 April 1999 - 29 April 1999
Event
Draft SC Res. S/2002/1385 Demanding Israel's Compliance with 4th Geneva Convention Vetoed by US
20 December 2002
Event
Annual Zionist General Council (WZO) Meets in Jerusalem
18 June 2004
Event
Pressure on Palestinians; Gaza on the Brink of a Humanitarian Crisis
1 March 2006 - 25 April 2006
Event
Formation of the Hamas-Led Cabinet
19 March 2006 - 28 March 2006
Event
The Prisoners' Initiative: National Conciliation Document
10 May 2006 - 13 May 2006
Event
Palestinian Factions Agree on the National Conciliation Document
27 June 2006
Event
Intra-Palestinian Dynamics: The False Hopes of National Unity Talks
25 August 2006 - 23 September 2006
Event
Formation of the Palestinian Unity Government
15 March 2007 - 17 March 2007
Event
Effects of the Siege of Gaza on Private Sector Production
9 December 2007 - 9 January 2008
Event
Israeli Supreme Court Endorses Economic Sanction Against Gaza
30 January 2008
Event
Seal on Gaza Borders Tightened
5 November 2008 - 29 November 2008
Event
Post-Annapolis Talks: Palestinian Stocktaking
1 January 2009
Event
Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza
13 March 2009
Event
The New Netanyahu Government Prepares its Position on the Palestinian Issue
31 March 2009 - 5 May 2009
Event
War on Gaza: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Related to UN Premises
4 May 2009
Event
Fayyad's Speech at Al-Quds University on Setting the Goal for Statehood in Two Years
22 June 2009
Event
Fatah Sixth General Conference Is Held in Bethlehem
4 August 2009 - 8 August 2009
Event
For the Third Time, Israel Links the Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion
6 January 2014 - 22 January 2014
Event
PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah
26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War: Toward an Open-Ended Cease-Fire
23 August 2014 - 26 August 2014
Event
Sanctions Against 3 Palestinian Knesset Members
4 February 2016 - 8 February 2016
Event
Fatah Seventh General Conference Is Held in Ramallah
29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016
Event
Assassination of Muhammad Zuwari in Sfax
15 December 2016
Event
Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad Meets in Istanbul
25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017
Event
Palestinians Protest Israel's Killing of Basel al-Araj and Palestinian-Israeli Security Coordination
6 March 2017 - 28 March 2017
Event
Hamas New Charter
1 May 2017
Event
The US Replaces its Consulate General in Jerusalem by a Palestinian Affairs Unit within its New Embassy
18 October 2018
Event
PA President Abbas Signs Accession Papers for 11 International Organizations
15 November 2018
Event
US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes
7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021
Historical Texts
Document
Basel (Zionist) Program
30 August 1897
Document
Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Document
Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
Document
UNGA Resolution 212 (III)
19 November 1948
Document
United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report
22 September 1949
Document
UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)
8 December 1949
Document
Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Egypt And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
12 September 1950
Document
UNGA Resolution 393 (V)
2 December 1950
Document
Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
14 March 1951
Document
UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)
26 January 1952
Document
UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys
30 June 1953
Document
Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA
26 November 1954
Document
Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA
15 December 1956
Document
UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)
21 April 1961
Document
Basic Law of the PLO
2 June 1964
Document
Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization
17 July 1968
Document
UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)
19 December 1968
Document
Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement
6 September 1969
Document
UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)
10 December 1969
Document
Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions
4 June 1970
Document
Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions
28 August 1970
Document
UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)
30 November 1970
Document
UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)
8 December 1970
Document
Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution
5 March 1971
Document
UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)
6 December 1971
Document
Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program
10 April 1972
Document
Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory
15 August 1973
Document
Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions
28 November 1973
Document
Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program
12 December 1973
Document
PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)
8 June 1974
Document
UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
Document
Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme
15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979
Document
Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué
25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980
Document
Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement
14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983
Document
UNGA Resolution 38/58
13 December 1983
Document
Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409
13 March 1984
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué
15 November 1988
Document
Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker
12 March 1991
Document
Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement
28 September 1991
Document
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)
13 September 1993
Document
Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations
29 April 1994
Document
Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
28 September 1995
Document
The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document
31 October 1995
Document
Wye River Memorandum
23 October 1998
Document
Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum
4 September 1999
Document
Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees
22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001
Document
The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)
27 January 2001
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
The Durban Declaration
8 September 2001
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2002/1385
20 December 2002
Document
Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law
18 March 2003
Document
A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
30 April 2003
Document
The Geneva Accord
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Document
Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal
1 March 2005
Document
Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council
27 March 2006
Document
National Conciliation Document
27 June 2006
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/17
24 January 2007
Document
President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007
Document
Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry
30 January 2008
Document
UNSC Resolution 1850
16 December 2008
Document
Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups
16 January 2009
Document
Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council
4 May 2009
Document
President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World
4 June 2009
Document
Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University
14 June 2009
Document
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years
22 June 2009
Document
Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)
7 August 2009
Document
Fatah Sixth General Conference: Five Points of Clarification on Political Program
8 August 2009
Document
Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
Document
Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State
16 May 2011
Document
Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations
23 September 2011
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2014/916
30 December 2014
Document
Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
Document
Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA
30 September 2015
Document
Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Document
Palestinian Prime Minister's Letter to Secretary of State on No Longer Accepting US Assistance
26 December 2018
Document
Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel
15 September 2020
Highlights
Highlight
Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967
The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”
Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property
Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967
Incubators of Resistance
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War
1973-1982
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948
The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station
Highlight
UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
Highlight
Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
Highlight
UNRWA
From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity
Highlight
The Education of Palestinians in Israel
Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization
Highlight
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)
1957-1990
Highlight
V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
Highlight
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP
1969-present
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
Highlight
Palestine Liberation Organization (II)
From the Limelight to the Backstage
Highlight
The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara
2002-present
Highlight
The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)
After the Nakba
Highlight
The Palestinian Communist Movement
1948-present
Highlight
Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP
1967-present
Highlight
Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
Highlight
The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba
Highlight
Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967
A Never-Ending Normalization
Highlight
Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Jaramana Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
Highlight
The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
Highlight
Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Palestinian Youth in Conflict
A Childhood Denied
Highlight
Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)
1990-present
Highlight
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
1980–present
Highlight
Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
Highlight
The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps
Perpetuating the Temporary
Highlight
Balata Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Baqa‘a Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Fawwar Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Sbeineh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Talbieh Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Rashidiyya Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
Highlight
Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Palestinians in Germany
From Melancholia to Anger
Highlight
Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank
Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda
Highlight
Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988
Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood
Highlight
The May 2021 Gaza War
Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes
Highlight
XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks
2006-2017
Highlight
The New South Africa and the Palestine Question
From Good Offices to Total Support
Highlight
Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
Thematic Chronologies
Thematic Chronology
World Zionist Organization Congresses
1897 - present
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