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Biographies

1878 - 29 June 1950

1880 - 16 June 1946

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

1893 - 27 April 1940

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1934 - 14 September 2021

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

1936 - 29 August 1987

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

1939 - 19 August 2014

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

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

7 February 1983

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

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

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

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

Highlights

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Photographers Before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Places

Khirbat al-Lawz

Events

Sadat's Visit to Jerusalem

19 November 1977 - 21 November 1977

Mounting Anti-Israeli Mobilization

10 May 2000 - 20 May 2000

Arafat's Sudden Illness and Death

12 October 2004 - 12 November 2004

Israeli Forces Raid Addameer and General Union of Service Sector Workers Offices in Ramallah

19 September 2019