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Historical Texts

Ottoman-French Capitulation, 1673 (in French)

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Fatah First Military Communiqué

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

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

The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada

Biographies

1880 - 16 June 1946

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

1905 - 2 May 1941

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Constantine Zurayk

18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1934 - 14 September 2021

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1936 - 3 August 1978

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

1941 - 5 February 2023

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

9 February 1963

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Events

Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved

1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950

Bloody Israeli Attack on the Gaza Strip

28 February 1955

Fatah Is Founded

Fatah and the Palestinian Entity

3rd Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza

20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966

Plane Hijacked to Entebbe

27 June 1976 - 4 July 1976

Ezzedine Kalak Is Assassinated in Paris

PLO and Jordan Agree on Idea of Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation

9 October 1982 - 10 November 1982

A Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Damascus

23 January 2008 - 25 January 2008

Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009

Fatah Seventh General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

4 December 2016

Highlights

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

The Palestine Communist Party

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity