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Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

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

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

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-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1923 - 12 May 2004

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

1939 - 19 August 2014

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Events

Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress

13 December 1931

Establishment of the Istiqlal Party

British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy

November 1938 - May 1939

Arab National Fund Reestablished

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

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

Fatah Is Founded

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

Assassination of Anwar Mahmud Hamran in Nablus

11 December 2000

Assassination of Amer Hudairy in Tulkarm

Assassination of Khadir al-Husary in Gaza City

1 September 2003

Assassination of Amr Abu Sitta in Rafah

Assassination of Mahdi Jamal Mushtaha and Khaled al-Amreeti in Gaza City

Disengagement: Evacuation of Settlers

8 August 2005 - 22 August 2005

Assassination of Shadi Suhail Muhanna and Muhammad Ahmad Kandeel in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

27 October 2005

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

Formation of the Palestinian Unity Government

15 March 2007 - 17 March 2007

War on Gaza, Day 17

12 January 2009

Assassination of Abdallah Makawi in Rafah

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza

14 November 2012 - 22 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: Cease-Fire Evening Announcement

21 November 2012

Assassination of Haytham al-Mis-hal near Rafah

Rami Hamdallah Forms New Palestinian Government

2 June 2013 - 6 June 2013

Jewish National Fund Adopts New Policy to Purchase and Claim Lands in the West Bank

25 February 2021 - 2 September 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 8

Historical Media

Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

London Conference

Historical Texts

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

The Koenig Memorandum

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

The Mitchell Report

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

12 February 2020

Places

Highlights

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

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

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry