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Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

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

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

1942 - 6 August 2019

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

First Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant

10 January 1920

Report of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry on Jaffa Disturbances

Prevention of Crime (Tribal and Village Areas) Ordinance Goes into Effect

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN; Acknowledges Transjordan's Independence

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

Plan Dalet Finalized by the Haganah

Second Phase of the Palestine War: Zionist Offensive

10 March 1948 - 15 May 1948

Plan Dalet Launched

Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Jordan and Israel Sign Agreement on Demilitarization of Mount Scopus Area

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

Arab Sacrifice Brigade Formed and Dissolved

1 March 1949 - 30 November 1950

UNCCP Convenes the Lausanne Conference

27 April 1949 - 12 September 1949

Land Acquisition (Validation of Acts and Compensation) Law

Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York

Israel Razes Maghribi Quarter in Jerusalem Old City and Expels its Inhabitants

October War, 3rd Day

5th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Haifa

5 August 1979 - 6 August 1979

Draft SC Res. S/14943 to Denounce Dismissal of Palestinian Mayors, Vetoed by US

Encirclement of Beirut

11 June 1982 - 20 June 1982

Kahan Report on the Sabra-Shatila Massacres

7 February 1983 - 10 February 1983

Tal Rumayda Settlement in Hebron

Palestinian Hang-Glider Operation

25 November 1987

Mass Emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel Is Triggered

1 October 1989 - 14 January 1990

Arafat's Decree N° 1: Pre-1967 Laws in West Bank and Gaza Are still in Force

Draft SC Res. S/1997/241 to Demand that Israel Cease Construction of Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Vetoed by US

The Department of Palestinian Refugee Affairs in Lebanon Is Reorganized

14 October 2000

US and Palestinian Efforts to Stop Israeli Escalation

12 September 2001 - 16 October 2001

President Bush Publicly Endorses the Creation of a Palestinian State

2 October 2001 - 15 October 2001

Timid Diplomatic Efforts

2 November 2001 - 19 November 2001

Draft SC Res. S/2001/1199 Demanding Cessation of Violence and Return to Previous Positions Vetoed by the US

15 December 2001

US Response to the Israeli Invasion

4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002

Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"

The PLO Approves the Road Map

3 May 2003 - 11 May 2003

With US Blessing, Ambivalent Israeli Acceptance of the "Steps Set out in the Road Map"

4 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

Draft SC Res. S/2004/240 Condemning Extrajudicial Executions (Shaykh Ahmad Yasin) and all Terrorist Acts Vetoed by US

War on Gaza, Day 20

15 January 2009

Fatah Sixth General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

8 August 2009 - 11 August 2009

The Knesset Passes Israeli Prisons Law (Amendment No. 40) (Meetings with Lawyers)

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

Fifth Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City

The 2014 Gaza War: Toward an Open-Ended Cease-Fire

23 August 2014 - 26 August 2014

Renewal of Settlement Activity

31 August 2014 - 24 December 2014

Israel Freezes Transfer of Tax Revenues to the Palestinian Authority

1 January 2015 - 21 April 2015

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

4 March 2015 - 5 March 2015

Reports About Indirect Israel-Hamas Talks on Long-Term Cease-Fire

16 June 2015 - 16 June 2015

The Knesset adopts the NGO “Funding Transparency” Law

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

28 December 2016

Trump's Ambiguous Statement on Palestinian-Israeli Issues after his First Meeting as President with Netanyahu

15 February 2017

Israel's State Comptroller Publishes Report on Gaza 2014 War

28 February 2017

UNGA Res. ES-10/20 Calls for the Protection of the Palestinian Civilian Population

The US Replaces its Consulate General in Jerusalem by a Palestinian Affairs Unit within its New Embassy

18 October 2018

EU Anti-Palestinian Clause

May 2021 Gaza War: A Balance Sheet

Historical Texts

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

Palin Commission Report

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

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

Pact of the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UNSC Resolution 46

UNGA Resolution 186 (S-2)

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

Statement by the States, Members of the Arab League, on the Entry of Their Armies in Palestine

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Lebanon-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

UNSC Resolution 171

First Arab Summit: Statement

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Protocol for the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

11 September 1965

Draft of UNSC Resolution 7575/Rev.1

3 November 1966

UNGA Resolution 2252 (ES-V)

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National (watani) Charter

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Palestine National Council, 6th Session: Political Statement

6 September 1969

9 December 1969

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

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

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)

10 November 1975

UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)

10 November 1975

Draft of UNSC Resolution 11940

23 January 1976

The Koenig Memorandum

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Joint US-USSR Communiqué on Reconvening the Geneva Conference on the Middle East

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)

17 September 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

UNSC Resolution 465

The Regional Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Statement On the Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

The Venice Declaration

Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

UNGA Resolution ES-9/1

5 February 1982

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14943

UNSC Resolution 508

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

1 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409

Cairo Declaration on the PLO and Terrorism as read by PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat

7 November 1985

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

Secretary of State George Shultz: A Statement for Palestinians

26 February 1988

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

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

13 December 1988

Statement by President Reagan on Opening American-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20463

17 February 1989

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

UNSC Resolution 672

12 October 1990

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

Shimon Peres's Letter Concerning Reassurances on Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem

11 October 1993

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/241

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

UNGA Resolution ES-10/3

UNGA Resolution 52/250

Statement by the President of the Security Council S/PRST/1998/21

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip

Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization

15 February 2000

UNSC Resolution 1322

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

President Bill Clinton Proposals for a Final Settlement

23 December 2000

PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/270

Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal For an Israeli-Palestinian Cease-Fire and Resumption of Negotiations

The Mitchell Report

Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)

The Durban Declaration

8 September 2001

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2001/1199

14 December 2001

Fourteenth Arab Summit: The Arab Peace Initiative

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 35

UNSC Resolution 1435

24 September 2002

Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2002/1385

20 December 2002

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

Israel and the Road Map

23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/240

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

UNGA Resolution 58/292

Agreement on Movement and Access In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

Statement by Middle East Quartet on the Palestinian Legislative Elections

30 January 2006

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2006/508

UNSC Resolution 1701

UNGA Resolution ES-10/16

30 November 2006

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 39

UNSC Resolution 1860

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

UNGA Resolution 64/10

1 December 2009

Statement by the President of the Security Council S/PRST/2010/9

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration

17 December 2014

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2014/916

30 December 2014

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

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

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Scope of Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities

Report of the Middle East Quartet

UNSC Resolution 2334

23 December 2016

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017

6 February 2017

Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 46

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering

1 November 2017

Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution ES-10/20

UNGA Resolution 73/5

16 October 2018

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements

18 November 2019

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda On Opening an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine

20 December 2019

Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates

Abraham Accords: Declaration of Peace, Cooperation, and Constructive Diplomatic and Friendly Relations, Announced by the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain

15 September 2020

Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel

15 September 2020

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

11 January 2021

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

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

Historical Media

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

We'll Meet In Tel Aviv!

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing

Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestine Communist Party

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

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

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Marka Refugee Camp

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

The Bosnians of Palestine

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Camp David Accords, 1978-1979

Shattering the Arab Front

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

1955 - 1957

Thematic Chronology

Palestine Liberation Organization: National Council Sessions

1964 - present

Thematic Chronology

Israeli Assassination Campaign Beyond Palestine Borders

1970 - present

Thematic Chronology

Palestinian-Israeli Interim Negotiation Rounds

1991 - 1999

Thematic Chronology

Military Operations and Zionist Ethnic Cleansing

1946 - 1949