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Biographies

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

1905 - 2 May 1941

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Events

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Massacre in Deir Yasin

9 April 1948 - 11 April 1948

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv

13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948

End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem

8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

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

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

A Massacre in al-Dawayima

29 October 1948

Kafr Qasim Massacre

29 October 1956

The 1956 War - The Tripartite Aggression

29 October 1956 - 12 March 1957

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

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

Iraq and a "Palestinian Republic"

15 December 1959

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

6 June 1982 - 29 September 1982

Lebanon War Casualties

1 September 1982 - 11 October 1982

Sabra and Shatila Massacres

16 September 1982 - 18 September 1982

Israel Withdraws from Beirut and the Multinational Force Returns

23 September 1982 - 29 September 1982

Kahan Report on the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

7 February 1983 - 10 February 1983

Commemorating the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

17 September 1984

Closure of Bethlehem University

28 October 1987

Multilevel Gaza-Jericho Negotiations

12 December 1993 - 23 February 1994

Hebron Massacre

25 February 1994 - 18 March 1994

SC Res. 904: Condemning the Massacre of Palestinian Worshippers in al-Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron

July War: Massacre in Qana; 48-Hour Partial Suspension of Air Strikes

30 July 2006 - 2 August 2006

Assassination of Ziad Malaisha and Ibrahim Abed in Kafr Dan

Palestinians in West Bank Mobilize in Support of Gaza

8 July 2014 - 22 August 2014

With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

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

5 October 2015 - 28 November 2015

Israel Announces Plans to Double Settler Population in Hebron

1 December 2019

Murder Rate Among Palestinian Citizens of Israel Remains High Amid Israeli Police Inaction

21 December 2020

Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada

10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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

8 November 1948

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre

Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

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

7 February 1983

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

UNSC Resolution 904

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering

1 November 2017

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

28 February 2019

Highlights

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

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

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Lebanon War, 1982

A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'

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

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Marka Refugee Camp

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

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

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Places

Ghabat Kafr Sur

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Lebanon War, 1982

1982 - 1983

Periods

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Historical Media

Escape of the Youth, Sixth Wave of Killing

Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing