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Events

Ottoman Conquest of the Levant

24 August 1516 - 12 January 1517

Edification and Restoration Works of Sultan Suleiman in Jerusalem

Ottoman Pledges to Grant Facilities to France: Towards the Capitulations Regime

18 October 1569 - 1613

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

The Rise of Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani in Northern Palestine

A New Ottoman Capitulation: From Gracious Protection to Extraterritorial Immunities

Palestine Under Zahir al-Umar: Locus of Renewed Ambition by Mamluk Muhammad Bey Abu al-Zahab

September 1773 - 11 June 1775

With the Ottoman-Russian Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji, Capitulations Turn into Bilateral Treaties

Acre Under Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar

Founding Principles of Ottoman Reform: The Tanzimat I

3 November 1839

Ottoman Firman Confirms Status Quo in Jerusalem and Bethlehem Christian Holy Places

8 February 1852

A New Ottoman Firman on Christian Holy Places Causes Confusion; Holy Places as a Trigger of the Crimean War

21 March 1852 - 4 October 1853

Founding Principles of Ottoman Reform: The Tanzimat Stage II

18 February 1856

Toward the Treaty of Paris Ending the Crimean War and Strengthening the European Influence on the Ottoman Empire

25 February 1856 - 30 March 1856

Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq

Sultan Abd al-Hamid II and the Ottoman Constitution

31 August 1876 - 19 December 1876

Jerusalem Representation in the First and Second Ottoman Parliaments

19 March 1877 - 14 February 1878

Great Britain Invades Egypt; Egypt as a British Veiled Protectorate

Young Turk Revolution

Establishment of the Qahtani Society in Istanbul

Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley

March 1909 - July 1909

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

The Ottomans Sign the Armistice of Mudros; Istanbul Is Occupied

30 October 1918 - 13 November 1918

Ahmed Bouchiki Assassinated in Lillehammer

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

14 February 1988

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

War on Gaza, Day 19: Hamas Cease-Fire Offer

14 January 2009

Warsaw Conference on the Middle East Initiated by the US

13 February 2019 - 14 February 2019

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1860 - 13 April 1930

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

1893 - 27 April 1940

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 21 May 1985

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

1917 - 12 December 2003

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Historical Texts

Ottoman Firman on Christian Holy Places in Jerusalem and Bethlehem

8 February 1852

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Palin Commission Report

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

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

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

28 February 2019

Historical Media

Young Turks Revolution

The Palestinian Islamic Nation Conference Party

Highlights

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

I. Ottoman Rule

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

The Great March of Return

Peaceful Demonstrations, Bloody Crackdown

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

Balad al-Shaykh

Daliyat al-Rawha'

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta