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Acre under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani Challenges Direct Ottoman Rule

Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine

February 1799 - May 1799

Completion of the Hijaz Railway

Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism

Establishment of Palestinian Newspaper al-Karmel in Haifa

Railway Lines in Palestine

Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine

19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

Establishment of the Histadrut

3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa

13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

A Conference in Nablus Debates Resorting to Arms

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

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

12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935

Irgun Attacks Against Palestinians Intensify

July 1938 - August 1938

Jewish-Arab Attacks Resume

30 January 1939 - 26 February 1939

Wave of Irgun Attacks against Palestinians

2 June 1939 - 1 August 1939

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

Establishment of Lebanese Consulate General in Palestine

30 December 1944 - 23 May 1945

More Irgun Operations Against the British

29 December 1946 - 28 January 1947

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

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

Palestinian Attacks

14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948

Zionist Attacks

15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv

13 May 1948 - 23 May 1948

First Palestine Truce, Israeli Reinforcements and Destruction of Palestinian Villages

11 June 1948 - 8 July 1948

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

Ethnic Cleansing During the Second Truce

24 July 1948 - 15 October 1948

Egypt Detains Israeli Freighter

28 September 1954

Egypt Blocks Greek Freighter

Palestinians in Israel Stage a General Strike to Protest the Kafr Qasim Massacre

5th Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Haifa

5 August 1979 - 6 August 1979

Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

Military Confrontation Escalates Again in Gaza

15 February 2003 - 6 March 2003

Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah

4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003

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

July War: Israel Launches an Air War Against Hizballah

July War: Israel's Air War Fails to Knock out Hizballah

14 July 2006 - 16 July 2006

July War: Israel's Special Operations Along the Border

17 July 2006 - 19 July 2006

July War: Israel Attempts to Create a Special Security Zone

2 August 2006 - 10 August 2006

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada

10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 10

Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

1875 - 9 February 1949

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1902 - 27 August 1984

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Palin Commission Report

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

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

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

The Koenig Memorandum

UNGA Resolution ES-10/13

27 October 2003

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Historical Media

Third Palestinian National Congress, Haifa

14 December 1920

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

Palestine and Oil

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Illegal Immigration (I)

Illegal Immigration (II)

Haifa Railroad Station

20 September 1946

Charts

Document

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”, 1932, 1951 and 2015

1932 - 2015

Highlights

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

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

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

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

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

I. Ottoman Rule

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Marka Refugee Camp

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art