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Biographies

1893 - 27 April 1940

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Constantine Zurayk

18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

1934 - 14 September 2021

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Historical Media

British Troops with Machine Guns

Events

Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920

Palin Commission of Inquiry

12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920

Palestinian Writers in Occupied Territories Affirm Commitment to Palestine Cause

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

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

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land

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

7 February 1983

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

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

28 February 2019

Highlights

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

The Great March of Return

Peaceful Demonstrations, Bloody Crackdown

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places