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Events
Event
Acre under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani Challenges Direct Ottoman Rule
1746 - 1775
Event
Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine
February 1799 - May 1799
Event
Completion of the Hijaz Railway
1905
Event
Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism
1905 - 1914
Event
Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa
December 1908
Event
Railway Lines in Palestine
1914
Event
Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine
19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918
Event
Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet
15 May 1920
Event
Establishment of the Histadrut
December 1920
Event
3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa
13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920
Event
Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society
21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930
Event
Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine
April 1927
Event
General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa
11 January 1930
Event
A Conference in Nablus Debates Resorting to Arms
1 August 1931
Event
General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine
8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933
Event
Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially
January 1935
Event
Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force
12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935
Event
Irgun Attacks Against Palestinians Intensify
July 1938 - August 1938
Event
Jewish-Arab Attacks Resume
30 January 1939 - 26 February 1939
Event
Wave of Irgun Attacks against Palestinians
2 June 1939 - 1 August 1939
Event
Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British
January 1944 - March 1944
Event
Establishment of Lebanese Consulate General in Palestine
30 December 1944 - 23 May 1945
Event
More Irgun Operations Against the British
29 December 1946 - 28 January 1947
Event
Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan
6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947
Event
Series of Zionist Attacks
2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948
Event
Palestinian Attacks
14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948
Event
Zionist Attacks
15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948
Event
Haganah Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
Palestinian Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings
4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948
Event
Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee
13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948
Event
Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv
13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948
Event
First Palestine Truce, Israeli Reinforcements and Destruction of Palestinian Villages
11 June 1948 - 8 July 1948
Event
Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan
28 June 1948
Event
Ethnic Cleansing During the Second Truce
24 July 1948 - 15 October 1948
Event
Egypt Detains Israeli Freighter
28 September 1954
Event
Egypt Blocks Greek Freighter
25 May 1956
Event
Palestinians in Israel Stage a General Strike to Protest the Kafr Qasim Massacre
6 January 1957
Event
5th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Haifa
5 August 1979 - 6 August 1979
Event
Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield
7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002
Event
Military Confrontation Escalates Again in Gaza
15 February 2003 - 6 March 2003
Event
Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah
4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003
Event
Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, Mohammed Abdul Hadi, Mohammad Abu al-Husain, Hassan Abu al-Husain, Huthaifa Shubair, and Mohammed Sami Hamdan in Khan Yunis
8 April 2006
Event
July War: Israel Launches an Air War Against Hizballah
13 July 2006
Event
July War: Israel's Air War Fails to Knock out Hizballah
14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006
Event
July War: Israel's Special Operations Along the Border
17 July 2006 - 19 July 2006
Event
July War: Israel Attempts to Create a Special Security Zone
2 August 2006 - 10 August 2006
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2
9 July 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction
20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014
Event
Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev
14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015
Event
Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada
10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021
Event
May 2021 Gaza War, Day 10
19 May 2021
Biographies
Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Khalil Baidas
1875 - 9 February 1949
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Izzeddin al-Qassam
1882 - 20 November 1935
Biography
Boulos Shehadeh
1882 - 1 August 1943
Biography
Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Biography
Badr Lama
23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947
Biography
Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
1908 - 8 April 1948
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani
1909 - 1977
Biography
Abd al-Karim al-Karmi
1909 - 11 October 1980
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud
1913 - 13 July 1948
Biography
Emile Touma
16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985
Biography
Ihsan Abbas
2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003
Biography
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Hanna Abu Hanna
16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Ezzedine Kalak
1936 - 3 August 1978
Biography
Ghassan Kanafani
9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972
Biography
Samih al-Qasim
1939 - 19 August 2014
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah
12 October 1943
Biography
Leila Khaled
9 April 1944
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963
Historical Texts
Document
Sykes-Picot Agreement
16 May 1916
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
Document
Land Transfers Regulations, 1940
20 February 1940
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
Document
Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties
28 June 1948
Document
Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)
16 September 1948
Document
Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA
15 December 1956
Document
The Koenig Memorandum
1 March 1976
Document
UNGA Resolution ES-10/13
27 October 2003
Document
Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University
14 June 2009
Historical Media
Document
Third Palestinian National Congress, Haifa
14 December 1920
Document
Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party
1932
Document
Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)
2 November 1932
Document
Palestine and Oil
1936
Document
Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure
15 December 1938
Document
Illegal Immigration (I)
1946
Document
Illegal Immigration (II)
1946
Document
Haifa Railroad Station
20 September 1946
Charts
Document
Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”, 1932, 1951 and 2015
1932 - 2015
Highlights
Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
Highlight
The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
Highlight
Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
Highlight
Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
Highlight
IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
Highlight
Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule
Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition
Highlight
Palestinian Women in the Labor Market
A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism
Highlight
France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community
Highlight
Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
Highlight
Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
The Emergence of a Working Class
Highlight
Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse
Highlight
Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
Highlight
I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
Highlight
Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939
A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression
Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
Highlight
Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)
Before the Nakba
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp
Syria
Highlight
Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
Highlight
Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
Highlight
Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
Highlight
Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
Highlight
Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
Highlight
The May 2021 Gaza War
Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
Highlight
Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
Highlight
Dera‘a Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
Highlight
XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks
2006-2017
Highlight
The Algerians of Palestine
1830-1948
Highlight
The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
Highlight
Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art
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