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Events

The Naqib al-Ashraf Rebellion in Jerusalem

Tax Revolt in Jerusalem

Uprising Against Egyptian Rule in Palestine

April 1834 - August 1834

Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line

31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party

Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force

12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

British Violent Repression

May 1936 - June 1936

British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police

May 1936 - September 1936

Start of General Strike and Armed Resistance

7 May 1936 - 31 May 1936

Appointment of the Peel Commission

Fawzi al-Qawuqji Aids the Great Palestinian Rebellion

Great Britain Issues the Palestine Martial Law (Defence) Order in Council, 1936

30 September 1936

Peel Commission Investigates the Cause of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

11 November 1936 - 24 January 1937

Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937

18 March 1937 - 24 March 1937

Avner Defense Plan

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

Palestinians Reject Peel Commission Report

Second Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

23 July 1937 - September 1938

Formation of the Arab National League (ANL) in New York

August 1937 - May 1941

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

British Military Officers Replace Civilian Commissioners

Third Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

October 1938 - September 1939

British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy

November 1938 - May 1939

Killing of Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad

MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians

17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Ethnic Cleansing During the Second Truce

24 July 1948 - 15 October 1948

Start of Civil War in Lebanon

13 April 1975 - 2 September 1982

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

Israel Invades Along the Central Axis

6 June 1982 - 11 June 1982

Israeli Invasion Along the Western Axis

6 June 1982 - 14 June 1982

The “Creeping” Cease-fire

10 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

Operation of Israeli Occupation Forces Against Ayn al-Hilwa

16 May 1984 - 18 May 1984

Israeli Army Withdraws from Saida Region

16 February 1985

Mounting Anti-Israeli Mobilization

10 May 2000 - 20 May 2000

Arab and International Support of Palestinian Uprising

30 September 2000 - 7 October 2000

Assassination of Imad Abu Sunayna in Hebron

On the Road to Reform: First Palestinian Steps and Plans

15 May 2002 - 24 June 2002

Nablus Remains a Hot Spot

15 December 2007 - 5 January 2008

Israel's Demolition and Eviction Orders Increase in East Jerusalem

2 August 2009 - 9 November 2009

Palestinian Mass Hunger Strike in Israeli Prisons

17 April 2012 - 14 May 2012

Palestinians in the West Bank Protest Israeli Settlement Expansion

31 January 2014 - 7 February 2014

Palestinians Start Hunger Strike in Israeli Prisons

17 April 2017 - 26 May 2017

China's New Four-Point Proposal for Settlement of Palestinian Question

The Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

International Response to Israeli Attacks on Great March of Return Protesters

30 March 2018 - 14 May 2018

The US Opens its Embassy in Jerusalem; Guatemala and Paraguay (Temporarily) Follow Suit

14 May 2018 - 15 May 2018

Biographies

1865 - 3 March 1948

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1926 - 23 January 1984

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

1936 - 29 August 1987

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Council of the Arab League: Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

UNGA Resolution ES-10/2

UNGA Resolution ES-10/3

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

Historical Media

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

Abd al-Rahim al-Hajj Muhammad

British Troops Regain Control of Jerusalem's Old City

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

The Palestine Communist Party

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

III. Late Mandate

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Places

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta

'Arab al-Shamalina

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

'Iraq al-Manshiyya

Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-Lawz

Khirbat al-Manara

Khirbat Qumbaza

Kirad al-Ghannama

Sarafand al-Kharab

Sarafand al-'Amar