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Biographies

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1910 - 26 February 1971

1917 - 12 December 2003

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

1934 - 14 September 2021

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Palin Commission Report

Franco-British Convention on Mandate Boundaries

23 December 1920

Shaw Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNSCOP Recommendations Approved Unanimously or by Substantial Majority

3 September 1947

Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance

Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948

23 September 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

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

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)

17 September 1978

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

7 February 1983

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

13 December 1988

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

President Clinton Proposals on Israeli‑Palestinian Peace

23 December 2000

Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/13

27 October 2003

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

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

1 November 2017

Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

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

28 February 2019

ICC Decision on its Jurisdiction in Palestine

5 February 2021

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Events

A Zionist–Arab Incident in Zarnuqa

The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces

23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916

The Russian Revolution; Sykes-Picot Agreement Is Published

8 March 1917 - 23 November 1917

The Fourteen Points of US President Woodrow Wilson

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

French Occupy Damascus; Arab Syrian Kingdom Nominally Reduced to Transjordan

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

Outbreak of World War II

1 September 1939

First Arab-Israeli Armistice Talks Commence Under UN Supervision in Rhodes

12 January 1949

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

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

Fatah Issues Its First Military Communiqué

Land Law, 5729-1969

Commemorating the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

17 September 1984

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

33rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

23 December 1997 - 26 December 1997

Official Resumption of Final Status Talks

13 September 1999 - 6 December 1999

Assassination of Hussein Ubayyat in Beit Sahur, Before a Clinton-Arafat Meeting in Washington

9 November 2000

Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?

16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001

Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

War on Gaza, Day 1, Start of Phase 1

27 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 4

30 December 2008

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

Clashes in East Jerusalem over al-Aqsa Mosque

27 September 2009 - 25 October 2009

Palestinian Municipal Elections Announced and Delayed

8 February 2010 - 12 February 2011

With the Arab League Blessing, Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks Are Launched

22 April 2010 - 20 May 2010

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

Hamas's Khalid Mishal Visits the Gaza Strip

8 December 2012

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 32-42: Three Days of Fighting Followed by Eight Days of Truce

8 August 2014 - 18 August 2014

President Abbas Signs Acceptance of the ICC Jurisdiction and Accession to the ICC Rome Statute

31 December 2014 - 7 January 2015

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif

26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016

First Phone Contact Between Trump and Abbas

10 March 2017 - 12 March 2017

Bennett-Lapid Government Accelerates Colonization in its First Six Months

31 December 2021

Historical Media

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

Lebanon War, 1982

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

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Balata Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

III. Late Mandate

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure

XIII. A Growingly Intractable Deadlock

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

Shatila Refugee Camp

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

Zarqa Refugee Camp

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Great March of Return

Peaceful Demonstrations, Bloody Crackdown

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Aida Refugee Camp

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

Khirbat al-Kasayir

Khirbat Umm Burj

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Transjordan and its Evolving Connection to Palestine

1915-1954