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Biographies

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1885 - 19 December 1953

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

A Massacre in al-Dawayima

29 October 1948

Palestine Arab Refugee Office (PARO) Is Opened in New York

25 June 1955 - 15 January 1962

Escalation Across Jordanian-Israeli Lines

10 September 1956 - 26 September 1956

Yasir Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, and then Cairo

16 September 1983 - 22 December 1983

Israeli Raid on Palestinian Base South of Beirut; Ahmad Jibril Is Targeted

9 December 1988

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

11 September 1998

Invasion of Jenin Camp: Fierce Battle

3 April 2002 - 19 April 2002

Assassination of Fuad Lidawi in Gaza City

The Battle of Nahr el-Bared

20 May 2007 - 2 September 2007

Assassination of Tareq Abu Ghali in Nablus

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 3

16 November 2012

With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

Historical Texts

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

Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account

8 November 1948

Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

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

13 December 1988

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

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

30 September 2015

Highlights

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Marka Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Places