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Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Jurji Habib Hanania

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

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

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

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

1938 - 16 December 2020

1942 - 6 August 2019

Events

Establishment of Foreign Archeological Institutes in Jerusalem

Establishment of the Jewish Colonization Association in London

The Ottomans Abrogate the Capitulations

9 September 1914

The Ottomans Enter World War I; the Sinai-Palestine Front

1 November 1914 - 4 February 1915

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

Outbreak of World War II

1 September 1939

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

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

Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai

20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

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

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

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

UNGA Resolution 42/229

UNGA Resolution 42/230

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

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

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Marka (Hittin) Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi