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Biographies
Biography
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Biography
Zulaykha al-Shihabi
1903 - 13 May 1992
Biography
Asma Tubi
1905 - 1983
Biography
Nicola Ziadeh
1907 - 27 July 2006
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Fadwa Tuqan
1917 - 12 December 2003
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
1937
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Fathi Shiqaqi
4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995
Biography
François Abou Salem
16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963
Historical Texts
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Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
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Sykes-Picot Agreement
16 May 1916
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Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
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Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
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The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order
20 December 1921
Document
Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929
12 March 1930
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
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Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
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The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
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Peel Commission Report
July 1937
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Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
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Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
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London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
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MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
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Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt
14 February 1945
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The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
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Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
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UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
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Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine
15 May 1948
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Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine
15 May 1948
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Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
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Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948
23 September 1948
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Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
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Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement
23 March 1949
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Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement
3 April 1949
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UNGA Resolution 273 (III)
11 May 1949
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Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement
20 July 1949
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United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report
22 September 1949
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Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
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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
Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA
15 December 1956
Document
Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
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Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions
28 August 1970
Document
Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement
13 July 1971
Document
Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program
10 April 1972
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Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions
28 November 1973
Document
Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria
31 May 1974
Document
Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
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UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)
10 November 1975
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UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
The Koenig Memorandum
1 March 1976
Document
Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset
20 November 1977
Document
Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)
17 September 1978
Document
Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority
16 January 1980
Document
Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza
31 January 1982
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 17459
12 September 1985
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769
29 January 1986
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UNGA Resolution 42/210
17 December 1987
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UNGA Resolution 42/229
2 March 1988
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UNGA Resolution 42/230
23 March 1988
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UNGA Resolution 43/160
9 December 1988
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Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
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UNGA Resolution 43/177
15 December 1988
Document
Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations
29 April 1994
Document
Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
17 January 1997
Document
Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum
4 September 1999
Document
President Bill Clinton Proposals for a Final Settlement
23 December 2000
Document
Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
12 March 2002
Document
Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council
15 May 2002
Document
President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East
24 June 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
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Israel and the Road Map
23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003
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The Geneva Accord
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/13
27 October 2003
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President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon
14 April 2004
Document
UNGA Resolution 58/292
17 May 2004
Document
Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal
1 March 2005
Document
Statement by Middle East Quartet on the Palestinian Legislative Elections
30 January 2006
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
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Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years
22 June 2009
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Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
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President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy
19 May 2011
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HRC Resolution S-21/1
23 July 2014
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Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
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Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
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Scope of Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities
24 March 2016
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Report of the Middle East Quartet
1 July 2016
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Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
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Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
17 April 2017
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Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering
1 November 2017
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Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel
6 December 2017
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Twenty-Ninth Arab Summit (The Jerusalem Summit): Dhahran Declaration
15 April 2018
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
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Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements
18 November 2019
Document
Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
12 February 2020
Document
HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine
27 May 2021
Events
Event
A Zionist–Arab Incident in Zarnuqa
23 July 1913
Event
The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces
23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916
Event
The Russian Revolution; Sykes-Picot Agreement Is Published
8 March 1917 - 23 November 1917
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The Fourteen Points of US President Woodrow Wilson
8 January 1918
Event
General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant
23 October 1918
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San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates
25 April 1920
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French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon
14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920
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The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan
25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920
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The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem
13 January 1938
Event
Jewish-Arab Attacks Resume
30 January 1939 - 26 February 1939
Event
Outbreak of World War II
1 September 1939
Event
Enactment of Lebanese Labor Law and Its Subsequent Impact on Palestine Refugees
23 September 1946
Event
Lebanon Sets up a Central Committee and Regional Committees to Deal with Refugees from Palestine
26 April 1948 - 11 May 1948
Event
First Arab-Israeli Armistice Talks Commence Under UN Supervision in Rhodes
12 January 1949
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UNGA 273 (III): Admitting Israel to Membership in the UN
11 May 1949
Event
Palestinians in Israel Stage a General Strike to Protest the Kafr Qasim Massacre
6 January 1957
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Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq
14 July 1958
Event
Fatah Issues Its First Military Communiqué
1 January 1965
Event
Explosion in Mahane Yehuda in West Jerusalem
22 November 1968 - 28 November 1968
Event
Land Law, 5729-1969
17 July 1969
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Tension in Hebron
1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983
Event
Commemorating the Sabra-Shatila Massacres
17 September 1984
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo
21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996
Event
Suicide Bombings in West Jerusalem: Israeli Reactions and Palestinian Measures
30 July 1997 - 25 September 1997
Event
33rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem
23 December 1997 - 26 December 1997
Event
Official Resumption of Final Status Talks
13 September 1999 - 6 December 1999
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Assassination of Hussein Ubayyat in Beit Sahur, Before a Clinton-Arafat Meeting in Washington
9 November 2000
Event
Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?
16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001
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Invasion of Nablus: Fierce Resistance
3 April 2002 - 21 April 2002
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Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan
14 April 2004
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Donors' Conference in Paris Supports Abbas's PA; PEGASE to Replace TIM
17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008
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Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire
4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008
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War on Gaza, Day 1, Start of Phase 1
27 December 2008
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War on Gaza, Day 4
30 December 2008
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War on Gaza, Day 9: Start of Phase 2
4 January 2009
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War on Gaza, Day 11: Dramatic Surge in Palestinian Civilian Casualties
6 January 2009
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Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza
13 March 2009
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Clashes in East Jerusalem over al-Aqsa Mosque
27 September 2009 - 25 October 2009
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Establishment of Palestinian National Dignity Fund
12 January 2010 - 18 May 2010
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Palestinian Municipal Elections Announced and Delayed
8 February 2010 - 12 February 2011
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With the Arab League Blessing, Israeli-Palestinian Proximity Talks Are Launched
22 April 2010 - 20 May 2010
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The Palestinian State: Recognition and Upgrade Drive, Mostly in Latin and Central America and Europe
1 December 2010 - 19 January 2012
Event
Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest
27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011
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Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion
12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011
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Hamas's Khalid Mishal Visits the Gaza Strip
8 December 2012
Event
Battir Landscape Is Inscribed in the World Heritage List
20 June 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 32-42: Three Days of Fighting Followed by Eight Days of Truce
8 August 2014 - 18 August 2014
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President Abbas Signs Acceptance of the ICC Jurisdiction and Accession to the ICC Rome Statute
31 December 2014 - 7 January 2015
Event
Settlement Construction
30 January 2015
Event
Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif
26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016
Event
First Phone Contact Between Trump and Abbas
10 March 2017 - 12 March 2017
Event
Fatah and Hamas Sign in Cairo an Agreement to End Palestinian Division
12 October 2017
Event
Israeli Moves Against the BDS Movement
29 December 2017 - 7 January 2018
Event
US President Trump Declares Jerusalem “Off the Table”
25 January 2018
Event
US Cuts Aid to Palestinians
24 August 2018 - 14 September 2018
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Israel Announces Plans to Double Settler Population in Hebron
1 December 2019
Event
Bennett-Lapid Government Accelerates Colonization in its First Six Months
31 December 2021
Historical Media
Document
Sykes-Picot Agreement
8 May 1916
Document
Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)
2 November 1932
Document
Mahane Yehuda Explosion
22 November 1968
Charts
Document
Palestinian Women in the Labor Market - Female Labor Force Participation
1969 - 1993
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Palestinian Women in the Labor Market - Female and Male Participation
1996 - 2016
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Palestinian Women in the Labor Market - Unemployment Rates
1996 - 2016
Highlights
Highlight
Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
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Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
Highlight
Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property
Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab
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Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip
A Site of Continual Displacement
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The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
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Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
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XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?
2017-
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Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
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III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
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UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
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World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
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Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank
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UNRWA
From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity
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XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics
2000-2006
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October 1973 War
A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results
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Camp David Accords, 1978-1979
Shattering the Arab Front
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The Second Intifada, 2000-2005
Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations
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The Separation Wall
Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians
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Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians
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Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule
Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition
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Palestinian Women in the Labor Market
A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism
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Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992
Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality
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Palestinian Embroidery
A Rich and Diverse National Heritage
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Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
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France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
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Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community
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Palestinian Emigration (II)
1967-present
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Lebanon War, 1982
A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'
Highlight
Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968
A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance
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Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956
Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens
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Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
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The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993
Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement
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Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
The Emergence of a Working Class
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Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
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Nablus Soap Production
The Decline of an Ancient Heritage
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The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba
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The Palestinians in Chile
A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine
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Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Jaramana Refugee Camp
Syria
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Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp
Syria
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Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
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The Palestinian Flag
A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity
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Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
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Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
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Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917
Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries
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Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp
Jordan
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X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority
1993-2000
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Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
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Palestinian Visual Arts (II)
Pathfinders (1955-1965)
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The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
1987–present
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Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
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Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
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Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
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The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
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June 1967 War
A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
Highlight
The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps
Perpetuating the Temporary
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VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat
1966-1973
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China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
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Balata Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Baqa‘a Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Fawwar Refugee Camp
West Bank
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Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp
Syria
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Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp
Syria
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Sbeineh Refugee Camp
Syria
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Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Rashidiyya Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Italy and the Palestine Question
From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility
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Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
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Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
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Mexico and the Palestine Question
Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor
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Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity
Highlight
The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
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Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
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Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Palestinians in Germany
From Melancholia to Anger
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The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
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Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
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Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp
Lebanon
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The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
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Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
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The May 2021 Gaza War
Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes
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Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
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Dera‘a Refugee Camp
Syria
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The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
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Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps
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The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question
Solidarity of the Colonized
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
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Palestinian Labor in Israel
A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests
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