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Events

International Intervention against Egyptian Rule in the Levant

The Ottomans Sign the Armistice of Mudros; Istanbul Is Occupied

30 October 1918 - 13 November 1918

The Ottomans Sign the Treaty of Sèvres; The Turkish National Assembly in Ankara Rejects It

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall

23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928

Islamic Conference in Defense of al-Buraq and Muslim Holy Places in Jerusalem

1 November 1928

White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall

19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928

al-Buraq / Western Wall: Palestinians Rise up in Protest against Zionist Provocations

15 August 1929 - 29 August 1929

The British Form a Commission of Inquiry on Disturbances at al-Buraq / Western Wall

13 September 1929

1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 October 1929

League of Nations Council Approves the Appointment of an International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall

14 January 1930 - 15 May 1930

Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances

Report of the International Commission on al-Buraq / Western Wall

1 December 1930

Enactment of the Palestine Order in Council Related to al-Buraq / Western Wall

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

Palestinians and Zionists on UNSCOP Partition Plan

29 September 1947 - 3 October 1947

Arab League Meeting on Palestine in Aley, Lebanon

7 October 1947 - 15 October 1947

Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

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

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Massacre in Deir Yasin

9 April 1948 - 11 April 1948

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

West Bank to Be Placed under Jordanian Military Government

16 May 1948 - 24 May 1948

First Palestine Truce, Israeli Reinforcements and Destruction of Palestinian Villages

11 June 1948 - 8 July 1948

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

Israel Declares Jerusalem Occupied City

Jordan Amends the Parliamentary Election Law

13 December 1949

The Egyptian Revolution of 1952

Palestinians in Gaza Rise Up Against Resettlement Projects

1 March 1955 - 6 March 1955

Egyptian-Czech Arms Deal

27 September 1955

France and Israel Sign Arms Deal and Prepare for War

22 June 1956 - 29 July 1956

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

Israel Land Requisition in Old City of Jerusalem

Israel Strengthens its Control over East Jerusalem

27 April 1969 - 26 June 1969

Israeli Invasion Along the Western Axis

6 June 1982 - 14 June 1982

The “Creeping” Cease-fire

10 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

Tunnel Opened by Israel in Old City, Jerusalem; Palestinian-Israeli Clashes

24 September 1996 - 28 September 1996

SC Res. 1073: Calling for the Reversal of all Acts (Opening of Western Wall Tunnel) Aggravating the Situation

28 September 1996

Resumption of Peace Talks; the Clinton "Proposals"

19 December 2000 - 23 December 2000

Palestinian Peace Gestures

1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004

Olmert's Separation Plan

5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006

Both Authorities in West Bank and Gaza Reorganize Security Forces

2 November 2007 - 4 December 2007

War on Gaza, Day 8: End of Phase 1; Balance Sheet

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

Provocative Israeli Decision Related to Haram al-Sharif

26 June 2016 - 5 July 2016

UNESCWA and the Report on Israeli Apartheid

UN SG Antonio Guterres Distances Himself from ESCWA Report; Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf Resigns

16 March 2017 - 17 March 2017

President Trump's Visit to Israel

22 May 2017 - 23 May 2017

President Trump Announces the Official US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Morocco Normalizes Relations with Israel in Exchange for US Recognition of Western Sahara as Part of Morocco

10 December 2020 - 14 December 2020

Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Freih Abu Middein

1878 - 29 June 1950

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1882 - 22 April 1942

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rafiq al-Tamimi

George Antonius

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1928 - 1 September 2020

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission Report

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929

Report “to Determine the Rights and Claims of Moslems and Jews in Connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem”

1 December 1930

Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931

National Bloc Party: Bylaws

Peel Commission Report

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

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

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre

UNGA Resolution 303

9 December 1949

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

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

18 January 1974

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

7 February 1983

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

13 December 1988

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

UNGA Resolution 52/250

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

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

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

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

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

25 September 2009

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

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

6 December 2017

Historical Media

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Jemal Pasha Reviews His Troops

Implosion, Killing of the Women, Ninth Wave of Killing

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

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

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

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

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

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

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

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

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

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

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

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

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry