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Biographies
Biography
Sa'id al-Karmi
1852 - 1935
Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Freih Abu Middein
1871 - 1955
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - 1 August 1943
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Anbara Salam Khalidi
4 August 1897 - 1986
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
1904 - 17 December 1990
Biography
Asma Tubi
1905 - 1983
Biography
Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih
1907 - 8 January 2001
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Anwar Nuseibeh
1913 - 1986
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Haydar Abd al-Shafi
10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007
Biography
Yusra al-Barbari
15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009
Biography
Samiha Khalil
20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999
Biography
Hisham Sharabi
1927 - 13 January 2005
Biography
Samira Abu Ghazaleh
1928 - 12 January 2017
Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Bassam Shak’a
1930 - 22 July 2019
Biography
Ismail Shammout
2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006
Biography
Bashir Barghouti
1931 - 9 September 2000
Biography
Edward W. Said
1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946
Biography
Fathi Shiqaqi
4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995
Biography
François Abou Salem
16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963
Events
Event
Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq
July 1872
Event
Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt
1882
Event
Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem
31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917
Event
Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine
16 April 1918
Event
Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine
April 1927
Event
Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme
19 July 1931 - April 1932
Event
Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan
6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947
Event
Haganah Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee
28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948
Event
Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders
15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948
Event
Third Phase of the Palestine War: Arab-Israeli War
15 May 1948 - 6 January 1949
Event
End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem
8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948
Event
Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce
15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948
Event
The Knesset Enacts the Nationality Law
1 April 1952
Event
Egyptian-Israeli Armed Incidents
17 August 1956 - 11 September 1956
Event
Situation on Jordanian-Israeli Lines Continues to Deteriorate; Israeli Raid on Qalqilya
4 October 1956 - 11 October 1956
Event
Mahmoud Darwish Publishes First Book of Poetry, 'Asafeer bila Ajniha (Wingless Birds)
1960
Event
The Knesset Amends the Municipal Corporations Ordinance to Extend Area of West Jerusalem Municipality
27 June 1967 - 29 June 1967
Event
1st Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Beersheba
25 May 1979
Event
Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors
2 June 1980 - 3 June 1980
Event
Birzeit University Is Closed
14 November 1980
Event
Popular Resistance and Israeli Measures in West Bank
16 February 1982 - 30 March 1982
Event
Israeli Measures Against Palestinian Universities
2 November 1983 - 30 July 1984
Event
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories Oppose Reactivating the Jordanian Parliament
23 January 1984
Event
Israeli Repression in the Occupied Territories
4 December 1986 - 11 December 1986
Event
Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Amman
8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987
Event
Israel Deports Five Palestinians
27 August 1989
Event
Mounting Malaise in the Palestinian Territories
17 February 2000 - 18 May 2000
Event
Israeli Retaliatory Strategy and First Signs of a "Militarized" Intifada
19 October 2000 - 7 November 2000
Event
Assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa in al-Bireh
27 August 2001
Event
Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"
10 April 2002
Event
Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield
7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002
Event
Yasir Arafat in the Line of Fire
4 September 2003 - 30 September 2003
Event
Israeli-Palestinian Military Confrontation as Routine
18 August 2004 - 27 September 2004
Event
Assassination of Sabir Abu Assi, Assim Abu Ras, Amjad Arafat, and Adil Haniyeh in Gaza City
15 July 2005
Event
Fourth Round of Municipal Elections
15 December 2005
Event
Assassination of Ahmad Awad and Ramzi Shuhaybir in Gaza City
8 November 2006
Event
To Delink the West Bank from the Gaza Cease-Fire, Israel Escalates in the West Bank
7 July 2008 - 15 July 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 4
30 December 2008
Event
War on Gaza, Day 6
1 January 2009
Event
War on Gaza, Day 13
8 January 2009
Event
Israel's Demolition and Eviction Orders Increase in East Jerusalem
2 August 2009 - 9 November 2009
Event
Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem
21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2
9 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3
10 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 4 and 5
11 July 2014 - 12 July 2014
Event
Israel Detains Khalida Jarrar, then Releases Her, then Detains Her again
2 April 2015 - 19 January 2025
Event
Palestinian Attacks Against Soldiers and Settlers
8 January 2017 - 26 September 2017
Event
Palestinians Protest Israel's Killing of Basel al-Araj and Palestinian-Israeli Security Coordination
6 March 2017 - 28 March 2017
Event
Israel Continues to Attack Great March of Return Protesters
17 October 2018 - 1 November 2018
Event
US Changes Position on Legality of Israeli Settlements
18 November 2019 - 26 November 2019
Event
Israeli Settlement Construction Continues Unbated in Third Year of Trump Administration
31 December 2019
Event
US Erases the 4-June Line
28 October 2020 - 19 November 2020
Event
Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada
10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5
14 May 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 6
15 May 2021
Historical Texts
Document
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
National Bloc Party: Bylaws
4 October 1935
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
14 May 1948
Document
Law Promulgating the Basic Law for the Area under the Supervision of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine No. 255 of 1955 (in Arabic)
25 February 1958
Document
Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
Document
Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)
17 September 1978
Document
Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
28 January 1980
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 14943
1 April 1982
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué
15 November 1988
Document
Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
Document
Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference
1 June 1991
Document
Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement
28 September 1991
Document
Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference
31 October 1991
Document
Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip
5 October 1999
Document
President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East
24 June 2002
Document
Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law
18 March 2003
Document
Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council
27 March 2006
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA
30 September 2015
Document
Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
Document
Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
17 April 2017
Document
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Charts
Document
Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Birth Rate
1924 - 1948
Historical Media
Document
Cucumber Crops Being Harvested
3 June 1940
Document
Arab League Warnings
June 1946
Highlights
Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
Highlight
The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
Highlight
Palestinian Informal Justice
Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism
Highlight
The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (I)
1850s-1948
Highlight
UNRWA
From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
Highlight
The Separation Wall
Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians
Highlight
Palestinian Embroidery
A Rich and Diverse National Heritage
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (II)
1967-present
Highlight
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP
1967-present
Highlight
The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
Highlight
Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Jaramana Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
The Palestinian Flag
A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity
Highlight
Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917
Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (II)
1948-2048
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (II)
Pathfinders (1955-1965)
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Talbieh Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
Highlight
Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
Highlight
The War on Gaza, 2008–2009
Israel’s Strategic Quandary
Highlight
Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
The Village of al-Araqib
Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond
Highlight
Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
The Palestinian Poster
Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
Highlight
Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
Highlight
The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
Highlight
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
Highlight
Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps
Highlight
Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
The Palestinians in Sweden
Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses
Highlight
Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
Highlight
Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art
Places
Place
al-Bira
Place
al-Birwa
Place
Bayt Nabala
Place
Bir Ma'in
Place
Bir Salim
Place
Biriyya
Place
Kafr Bir'im
Place
al-Masmiyya al-Kabira
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