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Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

France and the Ottoman Empire Sign the Mytilene Agreements

2 November 1901 - 10 November 1901

Establishment of the Rawdat al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyya al-'Uthmaniyya al-Islamiyya in Jerusalem

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

11th Zionist Congress Meets in Vienna

2 September 1913 - 9 September 1913

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

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

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

23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916

Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine

19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

The General Syrian Congress and the King-Crane Commission

2 July 1919 - 3 July 1919

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant

10 January 1920

San Remo Conference: Distribution of Mandates

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

Prevention of Crime Ordinance is Issued

October 1920 - 15 December 1920

Mewat Land Ordinance

16 February 1921

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Palestine Police Ordinance Is Issued

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

12th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

1 September 1921 - 14 September 1921

Collective Responsibility for Crime Ordinance Comes into Force

House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine

20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Orders the Return of its Delegation from London

7 July 1922 - 31 July 1922

The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine

The British Issue a Constitution for Palestine in the Form of an Order in Council

League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

British-French Agreement on Boundary Line Between Palestine and Lebanon and Syria

British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah

25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923

13th Zionist Congress Is Held in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary)

6 August 1923 - 18 August 1923

Official Onset of British Mandate for Palestine

29 September 1923

Founding of the Arab National Party in Jerusalem

8 November 1923

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

14th Zionist Congress Is Held in Vienna

18 August 1925 - 31 August 1925

Collective Punishments Ordinance Is Issued

15th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

30 August 1927 - 11 September 1927

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

16th Zionist Congress Is Held in Zurich

28 July 1929 - 11 August 1929

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance No. 27

The British Issue the Criminal Law (Seditious Offences) Ordinance

25 October 1929

1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 October 1929

League of Nations Council Approves the Appointment of an International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall

14 January 1930 - 15 May 1930

Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances

Hope Simpson Report Is Published

22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

Establishment of the National Defense Party

2 December 1934

Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

The British Issue the Press Ordinance

17 January 1935

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party

Establishment of the National Bloc Party

Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force

12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935

Joint Memorandum of Palestinian Parties

25 November 1935

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Criminal Code Ordinance of 1936

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

23 July 1937 - September 1938

Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York

August 1937 - May 1941

Arab National Congress Convenes in Bludan

8 September 1937 - 9 September 1937

The "International Parliamentarian Congress of Arab and Islamic Countries in Support of Palestine" Is Held in Cairo

7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938

Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

Land Transfers Regulations

20 February 1940

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

The British Mandate Issues the Defence (Emergency) Regulations

27 September 1945

Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Publishes its Report after a Visit to Palestine

6 March 1946 - 20 April 1946

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN

Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party

Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

Arab Delegations Put Forward Constitutional Proposals to the London Round Table Conference on Palestine

30 September 1946

22nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

9 December 1946 - 24 December 1946

London Round Table Conference Reopens and Fails

27 January 1947 - 18 February 1947

UNGA 106 (S-1): Creation of a Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP)

Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition

15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947

Irgun Kidnaps and Murders Two British Sergeants

11 July 1947 - 31 July 1947

British to Terminate Palestine Mandate

26 September 1947

UNGA 181 (II): Palestine Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Great Britain Announces Termination Date of its Mandate over Palestine

11 December 1947

Palestinian Attacks

14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948

The Palestine Commission Submits First Reports to Security Council

31 January 1948 - 16 February 1948

Transjordan and Great Britain Agree on Jordanian Military Intervention in Palestine

7 February 1948

Fate of Diplomatic Representations in Jerusalem

11 February 1948 - 1 May 1948

Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive

10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

US Apparent Hesitancy Toward Partition

18 March 1948 - 30 March 1948

Early Responses to Truce and Trusteeship Ideas

19 March 1948 - 20 March 1948

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Zionist Leadership Decides to Proclaim Jewish State on 16 May

Trusteeship Plan for Palestine

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

British Parliament Enacts the Palestine Act, 1948

Operations Makkabi and Ben-Nun in al-Latrun Area

8 May 1948 - 31 May 1948

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Revocations) Order in Council, 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

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Arab States Explain Reasons for Intervening in Palestine

The British Mandate Ends. The US Recognizes the State of Israel

Israel's Law and Administration Ordinance

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

Bernadotte's New Plan

16 September 1948

Israel Establishes Military Government in Palestinian Areas

21 October 1948

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Israeli Law of Return

UNGA 512 (VI): UNCCP to Continue its Efforts

26 January 1952

The Knesset Enacts the Nationality Law

Gaza's Basic Law

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

Lebanon Establishes a Higher Commission for Palestine Affairs

1st Palestine National Council Is Held in Jerusalem: Establishment of the PLO

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

3rd Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca

13 September 1965 - 18 September 1965

US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Principles for Peace in the Middle East

General Assembly Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

Israeli Military Order Regarding Prohibition of Incitement and Hostile Propaganda Actions (West Bank) No. 101

SC Res. 381: Renewing UNDOF Mandate and Deciding to Hold a Future Debate on ME Problem

30 November 1975

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

President Carter for a Palestinian Homeland

16 March 1977 - 26 May 1977

Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty Is Signed in Washington, DC

Jordanian Parliament Revived

9 January 1984 - 18 January 1984

Iron Fist Policy in the Occupied Territories

29 July 1985 - 4 August 1985

Closure of Bethlehem University

28 October 1987

Israel's National Unity Government Collapses

13 March 1990 - 11 June 1990

The Issue of Hamas's Participation in the Palestine National Council

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

17 October 1991

Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty Signed near Aqaba

26 October 1994

21st Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza

22 April 1996 - 24 April 1996

Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu Is Elected Prime Minister

29 May 1996 - 18 June 1996

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 July 2000 - 3 July 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

9 September 2000 - 10 September 2000

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes Abate

23 December 2000 - 6 February 2001

Assassination of Ziad Malaisha and Ibrahim Abed in Kafr Dan

Palestinian National Unity Talks Resume in Cairo

25 February 2009 - 18 May 2009

The UN Human Rights Council Forms a Fact-Finding Mission on the War on Gaza (the Goldstone Mission)

The Goldstone Report and Palestinian Erratic Decision-Making

29 September 2009 - 16 October 2009

Israel Forms (Turkel) Commission to Examine the Mavi Marmara Incident

Abbas and Mishal Sign the Doha Declaration and Then Agree on its Suspension

5 February 2012 - 23 February 2012

Israeli Government "Legalizes" Three Jewish Settlement Outposts

22 April 2012 - 24 April 2012

Palestinians in West Bank Mobilize in Support of Gaza

8 July 2014 - 22 August 2014

France and Arab League Consider Resuscitating Securty Council Initiative

15 January 2015 - 29 June 2015

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 Unilaterally Ends the Temporary International Presence in Hebron

28 January 2019 - 6 February 2019

UNRWA Financial Situation Worsened after Misconduct Allegations

29 July 2019 - 13 December 2019

Jerusalem Court Ruling Threatens 700 Palestinians With Eviction

19 January 2020 - 26 January 2020

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

21 December 2020

US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes

7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021

Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada

10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021

Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Figures

1914 - 1947

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Birth Rate

1924 - 1948

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Death Rate

1924 - 1948

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Natural Growth

1924 - 1948

Historical Texts

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates

Palin Commission Report

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

Churchill White Paper

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 4th Palestinian National Congress Rejecting the British Mandate (in Arabic)

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Council of the League of Nations: Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate: Approving the Memorandum by the British Representative

16 September 1922

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

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

Report “to Determine the Rights and Claims of Moslems and Jews in Connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem”

1 December 1930

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931

Proposed New Constitution for Palestine

22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report

11 November 1938

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Biltmore Conference Declaration

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Arab Constitutional Proposals at London Roundtable Conference

30 September 1946

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

UNGA Resolution 106 (S-1)

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UNSC Resolution 46

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

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

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

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

UNGA Resolution 512 (VI)

26 January 1952

UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

Palestine National (watani) Charter

UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

UNGA Resolution 2628 (XXV)

4 November 1970

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNSC Resolution 381

30 November 1975

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

17 September 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409

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

13 December 1988

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

UNSC Resolution 1701

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

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

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

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

28 February 2019

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

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

Historical Media

Town of Safad, Northern Galilee

London Conference

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

Land Transfers Regulations - Zones A & B

Importation of a Military Industry

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities

1944 - 1947

Thematic Chronology

Regulating Palestinian Land

1858 - present

Thematic Chronology

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

1920 - 1945

Thematic Chronology

British and International Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine

1919 - 1946

Periods

III. Late Mandate

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

The Palestine Communist Party

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

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

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

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

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

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

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Marka Refugee Camp

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

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Balata Refugee Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

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

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Places

Ghabat Kafr Sur