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Biographies

1860 - 13 April 1930

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Raghib al-Nashashibi

George Antonius

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1905 - 2 May 1941

1917 - 12 December 2003

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

1936 - 29 August 1987

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

9 February 1963

Events

Ottoman Consolidated Regulations on Jewish Residence and Land Purchase in Palestine

29 November 1900 - 28 January 1901

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Territorial Issues and Prelude to the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916

The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces

23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916

Start of the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration

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

26 October 1929

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

Hope Simpson Report Is Published

22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

Murison Commission of Inquiry

Charles Tegart's Means of Control

3 December 1937

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

Formation of a British-Arab Committee on Hussein-McMahon Correspondence at the London Round Table Conference

15 February 1939 - 16 March 1939

Yasir Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, and then Cairo

16 September 1983 - 22 December 1983

Israel Launches Operation Eastern Step

8 January 2005 - 17 January 2005

The Battle of Nahr el-Bared

20 May 2007 - 2 September 2007

Historical Texts

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Palin Commission Report

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

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

Churchill White Paper

Shaw Commission Report

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

The Palestine (Defence) Order in Council, 1937

Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

The Grady-Morrison Plan

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

UNSCOP Minority Proposal: Federal State Plan

3 September 1947

UN Palestine Commission First Report

29 January 1948

Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan, 1948

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

12 September 1950

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

1 September 1982

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

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: 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

The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada

Historical Media

Arrival in Palestine of Sir Hebert Samuel, High Commissioner

Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception

London Conference

Abandoning Ship

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Places

Khirbat Zakariyya