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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

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

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

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

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

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

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

1929 - 2 June 2016

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

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

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

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

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

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese Authorities and the Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations

3 November 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Seventh Arab Summit: The Palestine Resolution

29 October 1974

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

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

7 February 1983

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

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

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

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

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council

Mecca Agreement

8 February 2007

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

30 September 2015

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

Events

Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul

2 September 1908 - April 1909

Establishment of the Literary Club in Istanbul

July 1909 - March 1915

Amin al-Husseini Elected Mufti of Jerusalem

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Unit of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Attacks Kfar Darom

Cross-Border Attacks from Gaza

General Islamic Conference on Palestine, Jerusalem

3 December 1953 - 9 December 1953

Israel and the Lavon Affair

July 1954 - 17 February 1955

Shaykh Ahmad Yasin's Islamic Center Is Established in Gaza

7 September 1973

First Communiqué of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

14 December 1987

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Issues Its Charter

Assassination of Adel Awadallah and Imad Awadallah in Khirbat al-Taybeh

11 September 1998

Assassination of Omar Saadeh and Taha al-Aruj in Bethlehem

Assassination of Muhammad Ubayyat in Beit Jala

13 October 2002

Assassination of Yusuf Abu Hin in Gaza City

Assassination of Yasir Abu Aysh, Hussein Abu Aysh and Majdi Khatib in Rafah

2 February 2004

Attempted Assassination of Ahmad Ja'bari in Gaza City

Assassination of Mahmud al-Majzub in Sidon

Attempted Assassination of Ashraf Farwana in Gaza City

12 October 2006

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

15 December 2009 - 16 December 2009

Assassination of Mu'taz Quraiqe‘ in Gaza City

Mohamed Morsi, President of Egypt

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza

14 November 2012 - 22 November 2012

Assassination of Ahmad Abu Jalal near al-Maghazi Refugee Camp

16 November 2012

Tension Mounts with the Kidnapping of Three Israeli Settlers in the Hebron Region

12 June 2014 - 30 June 2014

Hamas New Charter

A Unified Lebanese Vision on Issues of Palestinian Refugees Living in Lebanon

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 7

Highlights

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

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

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

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

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance