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1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

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

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

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

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

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

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

1 December 1930

The Murison Commission Report

National Bloc Party: Bylaws

Peel Commission Report

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

UNGA Resolution 273 (III)

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

Fatah First Military Communiqué

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese Authorities and the Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations

3 November 1969

9 December 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Final Statement

30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

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

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)

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

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Twelfth Arab Summit: the Fez Initiative

9 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

UNGA Resolution 42/229

UNGA Resolution 42/230

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

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

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

The Mitchell Report

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

UNGA Resolution 58/292

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

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

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24

18 February 2011

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

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

28 February 2019

The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada

Events

Publication of The Awakening of the Arab Nation in Asiatic Turkey by Najib Azoury

Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism

Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa

Young Turk Revolution

Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul

2 September 1908 - April 1909

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

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

Establishment of the Qahtani Society in Istanbul

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Enactment of the Ottoman Associations Law

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

30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911

Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris

The Arab Congress Meets in Paris

17 June 1913 - 24 June 1913

Formation of the Covenant Society in Istanbul

28 October 1913

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

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

10 January 1920

The Ottomans Sign the Treaty of Sèvres; The Turkish National Assembly in Ankara Rejects It

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall

19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928

An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress

13 December 1931

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

7 October 1938 - 11 October 1938

Fate of Diplomatic Representations in Jerusalem

11 February 1948 - 1 May 1948

UNGA 194 (III): Establishment of a Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP)

11 December 1948

Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved

1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950

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

The Egyptian Revolution of 1952

24 February 1955

Bloody Israeli Attack on the Gaza Strip

28 February 1955

Fatah Is Founded

Fatah and the Palestinian Entity

Palestinians in Israel Demonstrate

21 September 1961

Israeli and Arab Responses to Joseph Johnson's Proposals

5 October 1962 - 17 October 1962

Fatah Issues Its First Military Communiqué

Military Training for Palestinians

11 October 1965

3rd Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza

20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966

6th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 September 1969 - 9 September 1969

PLO-Lebanon Cairo Agreement Regulates Palestinian Civil and Military Presence in the Country

3 November 1969

1st Extraordinary Session of the Palestine National Council Is Held in Amman

27 August 1970 - 28 August 1970

8th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

28 February 1971 - 5 March 1971

Arafat Addresses the UN General Assembly

13 November 1974

Plane Hijacked to Entebbe

27 June 1976 - 4 July 1976

Ezzedine Kalak Is Assassinated in Paris

Islamic Revolution in Iran

11 February 1979

PLO and Jordan Agree on Idea of Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation

9 October 1982 - 10 November 1982

Assassination of Caricaturist Naji al-Ali

22 July 1987 - 29 August 1987

Major Arrest Raid Against Hamas-Affiliated PA Officials

29 June 2006 - 19 August 2006

A Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Damascus

23 January 2008 - 25 January 2008

Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009

The Mavi Marmara Incident

30 May 2010 - 5 June 2010

International Reactions to the Mavi Marmara Incident

31 May 2010 - 3 June 2010

Statement S/PRST/2010/9 by SC President on the Mavi Marmara Incident

The United Nations Human Rights Council Establishes a Fact-Finding Mission on the Mavi Marmara Incident

2 June 2010 - 27 September 2010

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

The UN Secretary-General Establishes a Panel of Inquiry on the Mavi Marmara Incident (Palmer Commission)

Report of the Panel of Inquiry on the Mavi Marmara Incident (Palmer Commission)

2 September 2011

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 2

15 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 4

17 November 2012

Israeli and International Reactions to Announcement of Palestinian Unity Government

2 June 2014 - 3 June 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20

23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

Reports About Indirect Israel-Hamas Talks on Long-Term Cease-Fire

16 June 2015 - 16 June 2015

A Third Intifada or a Temporary Outburst?

2 October 2015 - 31 January 2016

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

Fatah Seventh General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

4 December 2016

The Israeli Knesset Passes a Law Regularizing Settlements Retroactively

6 February 2017

As Israel Backtracks on Its Measures Concerning the Haram al-Sharif, Palestinian Pressure Continues and Succeeds

24 July 2017 - 4 August 2017

International Response to Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

Israel Unilaterally Ends the Temporary International Presence in Hebron

28 January 2019 - 6 February 2019

Israeli Bombing Resumes Against Gaza

1 May 2019 - 5 May 2019

Hanan Ashrawi Resigns from PLO Executive Committee

9 December 2020

Historical Media

Young Turks Revolution

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Escape of the Youth, Sixth Wave of Killing

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

The Palestine Communist Party

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

IX. The First Intifada And The Beginning Of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

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

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Palestinian Emigration (I)

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)

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

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

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun 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

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

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

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks

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

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