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Biographies

Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
Issa al-Sifri
1894 - 19 March 1949
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023
Biography
Issam Abd al-Hadi
1928 - 8 August 2013
Biography
Ezzedine Kalak
1936 - 3 August 1978
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Dalal al-Mughrabi
29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Historical Texts

Document
Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi
19 March 1899
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine
24 July 1922
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The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
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London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
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The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
President George W. Bush’s Speech Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
10 January 2008

Events

Event
Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa
16 March 1908
Event
London Round Table Conference Convenes
7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939
Event
Zionist Biltmore Conference Is Held in New York
6 May 1942 - 11 May 1942
Event
Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks
17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946
Event
Series of Zionist Attacks
2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948
Event
Settlement Attempt in Hebron
12 April 1968 - 16 June 1968
Event
Hussein Bashir Abu al-Khayr Is Assassinated in Nicosia
24 January 1973
Event
Palestinian Operations from South Lebanon
5 March 1975 - 20 November 1975
Event
Majid Abu Sharar Is Assassinated in Rome
9 October 1981
Event
Encirclement of Beirut
11 June 1982 - 20 June 1982
Event
Assassination of Rehavam Ze'evi and its Immediate Aftermath
17 October 2001 - 25 October 2001
Event
Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai
20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010
Event
Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem
21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010
Event
Israel’s Settlement Activity
6 June 2012 - 13 August 2012
Event
Settlement Construction
30 January 2015

Historical Media

Document
Jaffa Road during a General Strike
August 1929
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Lord Peel in Front of King David Hotel
November 1936
Document
Peel Commission and Partition
11 November 1936
Document
London Conference
February 1939
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King David Hotel
24 July 1946
Document
Scenes of Destruction
1948

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology
Zionist Operations Against the British Mandate Authorities
1944 - 1947

Highlights

Highlight
Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
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Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)
1957-1990
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
Highlight
III. Late Mandate
1936-1947
Highlight
Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993
Curating the National Identity
Highlight
XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era
2000-2006