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A Religious Component Related to Jerusalem and Other Elements Are Added to a Capitulation Granted to France

20 May 1604 - 17 April 1607

Greek Orthodox Backlash against Provision on Jerusalem's Holy Sites in Capitulation of 1604

Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

Uprising Against Egyptian Rule in Palestine

April 1834 - August 1834

Elections Held for Fourth Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

18 April 1912 - 5 August 1912

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

Establishment of the Istiqlal Party

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Arab National Fund Reestablished

Ahmed Bouchiki Assassinated in Lillehammer

Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Aziz Brigheeth and Samir Toukan in Cyprus

15 December 1979

Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

2 June 1980 - 3 June 1980

Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank

16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982

First Communiqué of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

14 December 1987

The PA Releases First Batch of New Textbooks

2 September 2000

Assassination of Ibrahim Bani Odeh in Nablus

23 November 2000

Establishment of al-Mubadara, the Palestinian National Initiative

Assassination of Hussam Hamdan in Khan Yunis

Assassination of Ibrahim Makadama in Gaza City

Assassination of Ibrahim al-Na'nish in Tulkarm Refugee Camp

28 October 2003

Assassination of Trad Jamal, Ibrahim Dayri, and Ammar Hassan near Deir al-Balah

Assassination of Imad Yahia Khalil Bader and Saqer Awni Saqer in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp

Assassination of Muhammad Ahmed Mar'i near Salfit

Formation of the Hamas-Led Cabinet

19 March 2006 - 28 March 2006

Abbas's Control Over PA Security Forces

5 April 2006 - 11 April 2006

Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, Mohammed Abdul Hadi, Mohammad Abu al-Husain, Hassan Abu al-Husain, Huthaifa Shubair, and Mohammed Sami Hamdan in Khan Yunis

Hamas-Led PA Ministry of Interior Establishes the Executive Support Force in Gaza

20 April 2006 - 25 May 2006

Assassination of Ahmed Ashour and Ahmed Arqan in Rafah

5 September 2006

Assassination of Ziad Malaisha and Ibrahim Abed in Kafr Dan

Assassination of Khaled Atallah and Ibrahim Atallah in Gaza City

Assassination of Ibrahim Abu Olba in Beit Lahiya

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

Warsaw Conference on the Middle East Initiated by the US

13 February 2019 - 14 February 2019

Assassination of Ibrahim Nabulsi in Nablus

Lion’s Den Group Emerges with Israeli Collective Punishment Against Residents of Nablus

2 September 2022 - 3 November 2022

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1859 - 21 July 1921

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

1917 - 12 December 2003

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1925 - 10 April 1973

1926 - 23 January 1984

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1934 - 14 September 2021

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Historical Texts

Ottoman Firman on Christian Holy Places in Jerusalem and Bethlehem

8 February 1852

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Palin Commission Report

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1946

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Egypt And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

12 September 1950

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

UNSC Resolution 904

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/240

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

30 September 2015

Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

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

28 February 2019

Historical Media

The first Arab delegation in London to protest the Balfour Declaration

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

The Palestinian Islamic Nation Conference Party

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

I. Ottoman Rule

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Great March of Return

Peaceful Demonstrations, Bloody Crackdown

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places