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Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1926 - 23 January 1984

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

Historical Texts

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Israeli-Palestinian Joint Statement

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

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

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

31st Arab Summit: Algiers Declaration (in French)

2 November 2022

Events

Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives

June 1909 - 2 November 1909

Formation of the Moderate Liberal Party and the Entente Libérale Party in Istanbul

30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911

First Major Debate on Zionism in Ottoman Parliament

March 1911 - May 1911

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

Zionist Attacks

15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948

Sadat Is Assassinated; Husni Mubarak Becomes President of Egypt

Yasir Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, and then Cairo

16 September 1983 - 22 December 1983

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

Attempts to Form a Jordanian-Palestinian Delegation to Meet the US

1 March 1985 - 1 September 1985

Egypt Proposes a Ten-Point Plan for Palestinian Elections

1 July 1989 - 30 September 1989

Sharm al-Shaykh Summit

16 October 2000 - 18 October 2000

14th Arab Summit Meets in Beirut and Adopts Saudi Peace Initiative

27 March 2002 - 28 March 2002

Triggered by a Suicide Bombing, Israel Raids West Bank Towns and Shells Arafat's Headquarters

5 June 2002 - 17 June 2002

Assassination of Sa'ad Arabid in Gaza City

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

Assassination of Majed Sa'di in Jenin

Assassination of Nabil Sa'eedi and Rabah Zaqqout in Gaza City

20 September 2004

Assassination of Mubarak Hasanat in Deir al-Balah

23 October 2007

War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy

4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009

War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties

War on Gaza: Israel Announces a Unilateral Cease-Fire

17 January 2009

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks, Mediated by George Mitchell, Formally Relaunched in Washington

1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Held in Sharm al-Shaykh and Jerusalem

14 September 2010 - 15 September 2010

Pro-Democracy Revolts and Demonstrations in Several Arab Countries

17 December 2010 - 11 February 2011

After Threats of Annexation, Normalization Reignites Palestinian Reconciliation Talks

3 September 2020 - 24 September 2020

Palestinian Reconciliation Comes again to a Standstill

1 October 2020 - 17 November 2020

Bennett-Lapid Government Takes Office in Israel

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Khirbat al-Shuna