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Biographies

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Events

Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine

Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

Third Phase of the Palestine War: Arab-Israeli War

15 May 1948 - 6 January 1949

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

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

Egyptian-Israeli Armed Incidents

17 August 1956 - 11 September 1956

Situation on Jordanian-Israeli Lines Continues to Deteriorate; Israeli Raid on Qalqilya

4 October 1956 - 11 October 1956

1st Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Beersheba

Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

Israeli-Palestinian Military Confrontation as Routine

18 August 2004 - 27 September 2004

War on Gaza, Day 4

30 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 6

War on Gaza, Day 13

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 4 and 5

11 July 2014 - 12 July 2014

Israel Continues to Attack Great March of Return Protesters

17 October 2018 - 1 November 2018

Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada

10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 6

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Aida Refugee Camp

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Places

al-Ras al-Ahmar

'Arab al-Fuqara'

Sarafand al-Kharab