interactive encyclopedia of the palestine question – palquest | search

Sections

About

Use quotation marks “…” to search for an exact phrase.

Did you mean: 1948 Eleventh Annual Exhibition?

Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

1893 - 27 April 1940

1894 - 19 March 1949

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

1917 - 12 December 2003

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

1928 - 1 September 2020

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22

10 January 1920

Palin Commission Report

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

The Murison Commission Report

Proposed New Constitution for Palestine

22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The Grady-Morrison Plan

British Referral of the Palestine Question to the UN

Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account

8 November 1948

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950

Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA

26 November 1954

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

UNGA Resolution 1604 (XV)

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Basic Law of the PLO

Amended Basic Law of the Palestine Liberation Organization

UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)

10 December 1969

UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)

8 December 1970

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

PLO Interim Program (Ten-Point Program)

The Koenig Memorandum

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué

25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980

Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut

7 February 1983

UNGA Resolution 38/58

13 December 1983

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1987: Resolutions

8 November 1987 - 11 November 1987

UNSC Resolution 605

22 December 1987

UNSC Resolution 607

UNSC Resolution 608

14 January 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466

29 January 1988

Secretary of State George Shultz: A Statement for Palestinians

26 February 1988

UNGA Resolution 42/229

The Shultz Negotiations Plan

UNGA Resolution 42/230

Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1988: Concluding Statement (in Arabic)

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/160

9 December 1988

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

Press Conference Statement of Yasir Arafat Clarifying His Speech Before the UN General Assembly

14 December 1988

Statement by President Reagan on Opening American-PLO Dialogue

14 December 1988

UNGA Resolution 43/177

15 December 1988

Draft of UNSC Resolution 20677

UNSC Resolution 641

Draft of UNGA Resolution A/44/L.50

29 November 1989

PLO “Assumptions” with Regard to Baker's Five Points

1 December 1989

Hamas’s Memorandum on Restructuring the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1990: Statement (in Arabic)

28 May 1990 - 30 May 1990

UNSC Resolution 681

20 December 1990

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

UNSC Resolution 726

UNSC Resolution 799

18 December 1992

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Palestine National Council, 21st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996

UNGA Resolution 52/250

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

UNGA Resolution 58/292

Palestinian Parties and Factions Code of Conduct during the Legislative Electoral Process

17 October 2005

Statement of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (in Arabic)

The Palestine Announcement in Lebanon (in Arabic)

Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups

16 January 2009

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

Application of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations

23 September 2011

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

HRC Resolution S-21/1

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

Scope of Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017

6 February 2017

PLO Central Council, 28th Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

15 January 2018

Palestine National Council, 23rd Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

30 April 2018 - 4 May 2018

PLO Central Council, 29th Session: Resolutions (in Arabic)

15 August 2018 - 17 August 2018

UNGA Resolution 73/5

16 October 2018

PLO Central Council, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)

28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018

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

12 February 2020

HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

Events

The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant

10 January 1920

Regulation Concerning the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council

20 December 1921 - 9 January 1922

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

A Lebanese Decree, Implicitly Applicable to Palestinian Refugees, Regulates Work of Foreigners

18 September 1964

UNGA 2443 (XXIII): Establishing Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights in Occupied Territories

19 December 1968

A Palestine Information Office (PIO) Is Opened in Washington

9th Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad and Condemns the Camp David Accords

5 November 1978

Israeli Measures Against Palestinian Universities

2 November 1983 - 30 July 1984

The US Orders the Closure of the Palestine Information Office (PIO) in Washington

15 September 1987 - 5 August 1988

US Legislation Aiming at the Closure of the PLO UN Observer Mission in New York

9 October 1987 - 22 December 1987

First Communiqué of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

14 December 1987

Draft Security Council Resolutions S/19466, S/19780, S/20463, S/20677, and S/20945/Rev.1

1 February 1988 - 7 November 1989

UNGA 42/229: Calling Host Country to Abide by Agreement (on PLO Mission), Requesting ICJ Opinion

US Secretary of State Shultz Negotiations Plan

ICJ on US Treaty Obligations and the US Position on the PLO Office in New York

9 March 1988 - 11 March 1988

Jordan Severs Ties with the West Bank

28 July 1988 - 4 August 1988

19th Palestine National Council Meets in Algiers and Proclaims the Palestinian State

12 November 1988 - 15 November 1988

UNGA 43/177: The PLO to Be Designated as Palestine in the UN System; Territorial Scope

15 December 1988

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Tunis

31 March 1989 - 2 April 1989

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Casablanca

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

The Issue of Hamas's Participation in the Palestine National Council

21st Palestine National Council Is Held in Gaza

22 April 1996 - 24 April 1996

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 July 2000 - 3 July 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

9 September 2000 - 10 September 2000

13th Arab Summit Meets in Amman

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

Annual Zionist General Council (WZO) Meets in Jerusalem

The Lebanese Minister of Labor Removes some Restrictions on the Work of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

7 June 2005 - 14 December 2005

Fayyad's Emergency Government Becomes a de facto Regular Government

5 July 2007 - 14 July 2007

The PLO Central Council Meets in Ramallah

23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008

Fayyad's Speech at Al-Quds University on Setting the Goal for Statehood in Two Years

Hamas New Charter

Knesset Passes Law to Deduct Funds from the PA Tax Revenue

2 July 2018 - 3 July 2018

Settlement Construction in 2018 Remains High

31 December 2018

US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes

7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021

Annual Settler March: Israeli Forces Violently Disperse Palestinian Protesters

Historical Media

Illegal Immigration (I)

Illegal Immigration (II)

Palestine: A Homeland Denied

Highlights

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Marka Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Resolution 242, 22 November 1967

Ambiguous Parameters for a Middle East Settlement

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Turkey and the Palestine Question

Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Palestinian Emigration (II)

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

Periods

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations