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A Religious Component Related to Jerusalem and Other Elements Are Added to a Capitulation Granted to France

20 May 1604 - 17 April 1607

Greek Orthodox Backlash against Provision on Jerusalem's Holy Sites in Capitulation of 1604

Elections Held for Fourth Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

18 April 1912 - 5 August 1912

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

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

The Egyptian Revolution of 1952

24 February 1955

Egyptian-Czech Arms Deal

27 September 1955

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

London Conference on Suez

16 August 1956 - 23 August 1956

Britain, France, and Israel Sign the Protocol of Sèvres

22 October 1956 - 24 October 1956

Kafr Qasim Massacre

29 October 1956

The 1956 War - The Tripartite Aggression

29 October 1956 - 12 March 1957

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

Civil War in Lebanon

May 1958 - October 1958

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

Iraq and a "Palestinian Republic"

15 December 1959

1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

Reports on Israeli Plans Against Syria

12 May 1967 - 14 May 1967

Egypt Reacts to Israeli Threats Against Syria

15 May 1967 - 22 May 1967

Israel Prepares for War with US Consent

2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967

June War, 5th Day

PLO-Lebanon Cairo Agreement Regulates Palestinian Civil and Military Presence in the Country

3 November 1969

Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

Abdel Nasser Dies of a Sudden Heart Attack; Anwar al-Sadat Succeeds Him

28 September 1970

Ahmed Bouchiki Assassinated in Lillehammer

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

Closure of Bethlehem University

28 October 1987

Assassination of Abu Hasan Qasim, Hamdi Sultan al-Tamimi and Marwan Kayyali in Limassol

14 February 1988

Assassination of Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) and Hayel Abdel Hamid (Abu al-Hol)

14 January 1991

Assassination of Hussam Hamdan in Khan Yunis

Assassination of Imad Yahia Khalil Bader and Saqer Awni Saqer in Khan Yunis Refugee Camp

Assassination of Muhammad Ahmed Mar'i near Salfit

Assassination of Ahmed Ashour and Ahmed Arqan in Rafah

5 September 2006

Mohamed Morsi, President of Egypt, Is Ousted by the Military

The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba

21 February 2016

Abbas Launches Diplomatic Activity at the UN to Get a Security Council Resolution on Israeli Settlements

22 September 2016 - 22 December 2016

Israel Begins Public Normalization Push

20 January 2019

Warsaw Conference on the Middle East Initiated by the US

13 February 2019 - 14 February 2019

The Waqf Reopens Bab al-Rahma at the Haram al-Sharif Compound

14 February 2019 - 17 March 2019

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 11

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1868 - October 1930

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

1882 - 22 April 1942

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

1893 - 27 April 1940

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

1910 - 26 February 1971

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

1923 - 12 May 2004

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1936 - 3 August 1978

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

1962 - 31 July 2024

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Historical Texts

Ottoman Firman on Christian Holy Places in Jerusalem and Bethlehem

8 February 1852

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt

18 January 1974

PLO Central Council, Statement on Sadat's Visit to Israel

30 November 1977

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2004/240

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

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

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

28 February 2019

Historical Media

The Palestinian Islamic Nation Conference Party

Highlights

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

The Great March of Return

Peaceful Demonstrations, Bloody Crackdown

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya

al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya

'Iraq al-Manshiyya