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Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1880 - 16 June 1946

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

1885 - 19 December 1953

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

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

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Events

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

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

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Establishment of the Arab National Fund

September 1932 - 8 August 1935

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

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

Israel Deports Four Palestinians from Gaza to South Lebanon

Assassination of Jamal Abd al-Razeq near Rafah

22 November 2000

Assassination of Jamal Mansour and Jamal Salim in Nablus

Assassination of Trad Jamal, Ibrahim Dayri, and Ammar Hassan near Deir al-Balah

Assassination of Mahdi Jamal Mushtaha and Khaled al-Amreeti in Gaza City

Israel Steps up Military Actions in Gaza

29 May 2006 - 15 June 2006

War on Gaza, Day 7

Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009

Sanctions Against 3 Palestinian Knesset Members

4 February 2016 - 8 February 2016

Palestinian Reconciliation Meetings Renewed in Doha, Beirut and Moscow, with No Results

5 January 2017 - 17 January 2017

23rd Palestine National Council Convenes in Ramallah

30 April 2018 - 3 May 2018

Historical Media

Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

Arab Higher Committee Members

London Conference

Historical Texts

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

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

28 February 2019

Charts

Document

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”, 1932, 1951 and 2015

1932 - 2015

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Places