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Biographies

Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Biography
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - 1 August 1943
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
Abd al-Hamid Shuman
1888 - 9 September 1974
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih
1907 - 8 January 2001
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Ihsan Abbas
2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003
Biography
Siba Fahoum
1923 - 12 May 2004
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah
12 October 1943

Events

Event
Sultan Abd al-Hamid II and the Ottoman Constitution
31 August 1876 - 19 December 1876
Event
Jerusalem Representation in the First and Second Ottoman Parliaments
19 March 1877 - 14 February 1878
Event
Young Turk Revolution
23 July 1908
Event
Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley
March 1909 - July 1909
Event
Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society
21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930
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Establishment of the Arab Bank in Jerusalem
21 May 1930 - 14 July 1930
Event
Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York
15 June 1955
Event
The PLO Opens its First Information Office in New York
22 January 1965 - 29 October 1974
Event
Formation of a Higher Islamic Council in Jerusalem 
24 July 1967
Event
The PLO Opens a Permanent Observer Mission to the UN
25 February 1975
Event
The US Orders the Closure of the Palestine Information Office (PIO) in Washington
15 September 1987 - 5 August 1988
Event
A Palestine Affairs Center, under the Auspices of the Arab League, Is Opened in Washington
1 April 1988 - 28 April 1994
Event
Assassination of Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) and Hayel Abdel Hamid (Abu al-Hol)
14 January 1991
Event
Norwegian Secret Channel, Exploratory Stage
20 January 1993 - 9 May 1993
Event
US State Department Allows the PLO to Open Foreign Mission in Washington
22 June 1994
Event
Assassination of Hamed Sidr near Nablus
4 November 2002
Event
Hizballah Fighters Capture Israeli Soldiers
12 July 2006
Event
July War: Massacre in Qana; 48-Hour Partial Suspension of Air Strikes
30 July 2006 - 2 August 2006
Event
Assassination of Mubarak Hasanat in Deir al-Balah
23 October 2007

Historical Media

Document
Young Turks Revolution
July 1908

Historical Texts

Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement
2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Highlights

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The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
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The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
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Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
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The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)
1957-1990
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V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
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Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
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I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
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Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
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The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
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Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
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The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
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Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
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The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Places

Place
al-Hamidiyya