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Biographies

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1928 - 1 September 2020

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Events

2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel

28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898

Foundation of Tel Aviv

Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer

International Zionist Conference Meets in London

The British Government Rejects the Conclusions of the Partition (Woodhead) Commission

11 November 1938

23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951

Covenant between Zionist Organization and Israel

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem

25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998

Palestinian Dialogue Conference Held in Cairo

15 March 2005 - 17 March 2005

The PLO Presents "the Palestine Announcement in Lebanon"

The Deceptive Settlement Freeze

26 November 2009 - 5 January 2010

The Knesset Passes the "Nakba Law"

Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif

30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014

Historical Texts

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission Report

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

Churchill White Paper

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

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

11 November 1938

Biltmore Conference Declaration

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

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Final Statement

30 May 1970 - 4 June 1970

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

1 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

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

13 December 1988

Israeli Cabinet Decision on the Five-Point Plan of Secretary Baker

5 November 1989

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization

15 February 2000

Israeli-Palestinian Joint Statement

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

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

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

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

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

China’s Four-Point Proposal on Promoting the Settlement of the Palestinian Issue

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

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda On Opening an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine

20 December 2019

Highlights

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

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

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel