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Events

Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine

February 1799 - May 1799

Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line

31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance No. 27

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

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

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

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Fighting Around Jerusalem

12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948

Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv

13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

Bernadotte's New Plan

16 September 1948

Emergency Regulations Regarding Absentee Property

2 December 1948

Individual Return of Tens of Thousands of Palestinian Refugees; Israel Launches "War on Infiltration"

January 1949 - December 1956

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Military Order No. 58, Concerning Abandoned Property (Private Property)

Military Order No. 59, Concerning State Property

The PFLP Announces It Has Abandoned the Tactic of Hijacking Planes

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Issues Its Charter

Israel and the US Put Effective End to Peace Talks

7 February 2001 - 8 February 2001

Aqaba Summit: Bush, Abdullah, Abbas, and Sharon Meet

Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah

4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003

Assassination of Trad Jamal, Ibrahim Dayri, and Ammar Hassan near Deir al-Balah

Assassination of Mohammed Shaban al-Dahdouh in Gaza City

US Makes Incredible Offer to Israel in Exchange for a Two-Month Partial Settlement Freeze

29 September 2010 - 12 December 2010

Fayyad's Cabinet Reshuffle

Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1865 - 3 March 1948

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

1905 - 2 May 1941

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

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

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

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

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

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

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

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

UNGA Resolution ES-10/3

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 Mitchell Report

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

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

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

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

Historical Media

The Haganah Starts Its Offensive

Abandoning Ship

Highlights

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

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

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018

Enshrining Discrimination

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Marka 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

Shatila Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Places

Dayr Abu Salama

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

Khirbat al-'Umur

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khirbat al-Tannur

Khirbat al-Taqa

Khirbat al-Zawiya

Khirbat Bayt Far

Khirbat Umm Burj