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Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

1893 - 27 April 1940

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1926 - 23 January 1984

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1942 - 6 August 2019

Events

Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe

Establishment of the Jewish Colonization Association

World War I, the Ottomans Enter the War

1 August 1914 - February 1915

Treaty of Versailles; Establishment of the League of Nations

28 June 1919 - 10 January 1920

Increase in Jewish Immigration from Germany

18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague

21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933

19th Zionist Congress Meets in Lucerne

20 August 1935 - 4 September 1935

Nuremberg Laws and Jewish Immigration

15 September 1935

Outbreak of World War II

1 September 1939

End of World War II

8 May 1945 - 15 August 1945

Black September in Munich Olympic Games

5 September 1972 - 6 September 1972

Black September Hijack Operation

29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972

Plane Hijacked to Entebbe

27 June 1976 - 4 July 1976

Wadi Haddad Dies in Berlin, East Germany

Orient House, Jerusalem and PLO Foreign Relations

1 March 1999 - 11 May 1999

New Threshold Crossed with Suicide Bombing and Warplanes

18 May 2001 - 4 June 2001

War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy

4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009

Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza

Israel-Hamas Token Preliminary Prisoner Deal

2 October 2009 - 3 October 2009

Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai

20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010

The State of Palestine Becomes Full Member of the UNESCO

5 October 2011 - 31 October 2011

French Efforts in Favor of a Draft UNSC Resolution on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

2 December 2014 - 17 December 2014

Formation of the Munich Group

15 February 2020 - 24 September 2020

Meetings of the Munich Group and the Middle East Quartet

11 January 2021 - 18 November 2021

ICC Rules that it has Jurisdiction in Occupied Palestinian Territories; Investigation Announced

5 February 2021 - 2 April 2021

Historical Texts

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

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

7 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 42/210

17 December 1987

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

UNGA Resolution 42/229

UNGA Resolution 42/230

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution 58/292

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

Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Egypt and Jordan (The Munich Group)

11 January 2021

HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Marka Refugee Camp

VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Shatila Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel