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Biographies

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1905 - 21 May 1985

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

1934 - 14 September 2021

1936 - 3 August 1978

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

9 February 1963

Historical Texts

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Cairo Agreement between the Lebanese Authorities and the Palestinian Guerrilla Organizations

3 November 1969

Eighth Arab Summit: Statement

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

Tenth Arab Summit: Final Statement

20 November 1979 - 22 November 1979

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip

The Durban Declaration

8 September 2001

Israel and the Road Map

23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

Statement by Middle East Quartet

23 September 2011

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

Basic Law: Israel - the Nation-State of the Jewish People

Events

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

Ziyad Husseini, Commander of the Popular Liberation Forces in Gaza, Dies

Six-Party Arab Summit in Riyadh on Palestinian-Syrian Ceasefire in Lebanon

16 October 1976 - 18 October 1976

8th Arab Summit Meets in Cairo

25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976

Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem

19 November 1977 - 21 November 1977

Fahd Plan Is Announced

US-PLO Official Meeting Takes Place in Carthage, Tunisia

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

14 January 1991

Assassination of Iyad Batat in Bayt Awa

13 December 1999

Assassination of Mas'ud Ayyad in Jabaliya

13 February 2001

Assassination of Iyad Hardan in Jenin

Assassination of Iyad Lafy al-Akhras in Rafah

16 October 2001

Launch of the South African Peace Initiative (Spier Initiative)

11 January 2002 - 12 January 2002

On the Road to Reform: First Palestinian Steps and Plans

15 May 2002 - 24 June 2002

Assassination of Nidal Fathi Farhat, Mufid Awad al-Bil, Akram Fahmi Naser, Muhammad Salmi, Ayman Mahanna, and Iyad Faraj Sheldan in Gaza City

16 February 2003

Assassination of Nader Jarawish and Ala Ayyad in Bethlehem

Assassination of Iyad al-Beik in Gaza City

Assassination of Iyad Hilu and Khaled al-Masri in Gaza City

20 October 2003

Assassination of Iyad Qadas and Iyad Najjar in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

8 December 2005

Formation of the Palestinian Unity Government

15 March 2007 - 17 March 2007

19th Arab Summit Meets in Riyadh: Revival of the Arab Peace Initiative

28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007

Israeli and US Reactions to the Revived Arab Peace Initiative

29 March 2007 - 17 April 2007

Emergency Cabinet in the West Bank

14 June 2007 - 26 June 2007

Reactions to West Bank-Gaza Strip Split

17 June 2007 - 20 June 2007

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

20 June 2007 - 21 June 2007

Fayyad's Emergency Government Becomes a de facto Regular Government

5 July 2007 - 14 July 2007

Bush's Policy Speech and Call for an International Conference

Israel Launches Operation Hot Winter in Gaza

28 February 2008 - 3 March 2008

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

Salam Fayyad's Government Issues “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State” Plan

25 August 2009 - 24 September 2009

Establishment of Palestinian National Dignity Fund

12 January 2010 - 18 May 2010

Impact of Democracy Drive in the Arab World on Palestinian Official Politics

14 February 2011 - 27 April 2011

Fayyad's Cabinet Reshuffle

Palestinian-Israeli Exchange of Letters for Cooperation on Taxes and Customs

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Resigns

Rami Hamdallah Forms New Palestinian Government

2 June 2013 - 6 June 2013

Palestine Submits Files to ICC, and Israel Decides to Interact with It

25 June 2015 - 30 October 2015

Comprehensive Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine

26 June 2015 - 2 January 2016

Settlers Set Fire to Two Palestinian Family Homes in Duma, West Bank

31 July 2015 - 9 August 2015

The Fate of the PLO Diplomatic Office in Washington

17 November 2017

The Arab League Jerusalem Committee Meets to Discuss Trump's Jerusalem Announcement

PA Asks the ICC to Investigate Israeli Settlement Policies

ICC Rules that it has Jurisdiction in Occupied Palestinian Territories; Investigation Announced

5 February 2021 - 2 April 2021

Highlights

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism

Delegitimizing Criticism of Israel

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

The Israeli Military

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

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

III. Late Mandate

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

The Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora