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Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1882 - 22 April 1942

1893 - 27 April 1940

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

1907 - 27 July 2006

1910 - 26 February 1971

1917 - 12 December 2003

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Palin Commission Report

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

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine

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

UNGA Resolution 273 (III)

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

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

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

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

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

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

17 September 1978

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

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

7 February 1983

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17459

12 September 1985

Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769

29 January 1986

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/229

UNGA Resolution 42/230

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

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

13 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

President Bill Clinton Proposals for a Final Settlement

23 December 2000

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

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Israel and the Road Map

23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

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

UNGA Resolution 58/292

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

Statement by Middle East Quartet on the Palestinian Legislative Elections

30 January 2006

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

President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

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

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

Scope of Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities

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

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

Twenty-Ninth Arab Summit (The Jerusalem Summit): Dhahran Declaration

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

28 February 2019

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements

18 November 2019

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

12 February 2020

HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

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 and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

Jewish-Arab Attacks Resume

30 January 1939 - 26 February 1939

Outbreak of World War II

1 September 1939

Enactment of Lebanese Labor Law and Its Subsequent Impact on Palestine Refugees

23 September 1946

Lebanon Sets up a Central Committee and Regional Committees to Deal with Refugees from Palestine

26 April 1948 - 11 May 1948

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

12 January 1949

UNGA 273 (III): Admitting Israel to Membership in the UN

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

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

Fatah Issues Its First Military Communiqué

Explosion in Mahane Yehuda in West Jerusalem

22 November 1968 - 28 November 1968

Land Law, 5729-1969

Tension in Hebron

1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983

Commemorating the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

17 September 1984

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Suicide Bombings in West Jerusalem: Israeli Reactions and Palestinian Measures

30 July 1997 - 25 September 1997

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

Invasion of Nablus: Fierce Resistance

3 April 2002 - 21 April 2002

Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan

Donors' Conference in Paris Supports Abbas's PA; PEGASE to Replace TIM

17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

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 9: Start of Phase 2

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

Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza

Clashes in East Jerusalem over al-Aqsa Mosque

27 September 2009 - 25 October 2009

Establishment of Palestinian National Dignity Fund

12 January 2010 - 18 May 2010

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

The Palestinian State: Recognition and Upgrade Drive, Mostly in Latin and Central America and Europe

1 December 2010 - 19 January 2012

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

Battir Landscape Is Inscribed in the World Heritage List

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

Fatah and Hamas Sign in Cairo an Agreement to End Palestinian Division

12 October 2017

Israeli Moves Against the BDS Movement

29 December 2017 - 7 January 2018

US President Trump Declares Jerusalem “Off the Table”

25 January 2018

US Cuts Aid to Palestinians

24 August 2018 - 14 September 2018

Israel Announces Plans to Double Settler Population in Hebron

1 December 2019

Bennett-Lapid Government Accelerates Colonization in its First Six Months

31 December 2021

Historical Media

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

Mahane Yehuda Explosion

22 November 1968

Charts

Document

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market - Female Labor Force Participation

1969 - 1993

Document

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market - Female and Male Participation

1996 - 2016

Document

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market - Unemployment Rates

1996 - 2016

Highlights

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

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 Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

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

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

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

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

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'

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

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

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Marka Refugee Camp

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Turkey and the Palestine Question

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

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel