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Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1868 - October 1930

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

George Antonius

1893 - 27 April 1940

1894 - 19 March 1949

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Constantine Zurayk

18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

1928 - 1 September 2020

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1936 - 29 August 1987

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Events

Herzl Correspondence with Jerusalem Mayor

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Territorial Issues and Prelude to the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916

The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces

23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916

Start of the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

The Russian Revolution; Sykes-Picot Agreement Is Published

8 March 1917 - 23 November 1917

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London

2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922

White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration

British-French Demarcation of Line Between Palestine (Including Transjordan) and Syria (Including Lebanon)

The British Issue the Criminal Law (Seditious Offences) Ordinance

25 October 1929

Establishment of the Reform Party

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Formation of a British-Arab Committee on Hussein-McMahon Correspondence at the London Round Table Conference

15 February 1939 - 16 March 1939

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan; a New Constitution for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

25 May 1946 - 7 December 1946

A New Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Transjordan

Official Name of Jordan as an Issue

Assassination of King Abdullah

20 July 1951 - 11 August 1952

King Hussein’s Formal Accession to the Throne

New Lebanese Social Security Law Implicitly Excludes Palestinian Refugees from its Benefits

26 September 1963

The PLO Opens its First Information Office in New York

22 January 1965 - 29 October 1974

Black September in Jordan

15 September 1970 - 25 September 1970

Emergency Arab Summit Meets in Cairo to Force a Palestinian-Jordanian Agreement

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

King Hussein Proposes a "United Arab Kingdom"

10th (Extraordinary) Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

6 April 1972 - 12 April 1972

Hussein Bashir Abu al-Khayr Is Assassinated in Nicosia

24 January 1973

Assassination of Zaid Muchassi in Athens

PLO and Jordan Agree on Idea of Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation

9 October 1982 - 10 November 1982

Failed Attempt of Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination

31 March 1983 - 8 April 1983

Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination for Peace Talks

26 February 1984 - 1 March 1984

Palestinian Internal Polarization

27 March 1984 - 20 May 1984

Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement

11 February 1985 - 22 February 1985

Attempts to Form a Jordanian-Palestinian Delegation to Meet the US

1 March 1985 - 1 September 1985

Extraordinary Arab Summit Meets in Casablanca

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

Breakdown of Jordanian-Palestinian Coordination

25 January 1986 - 1 April 1986

Hussein-Peres London Secret Agreement

Resumption of Diplomatic Activity

30 January 1988 - 10 February 1988

Jordan Severs Ties with the West Bank

28 July 1988 - 4 August 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Casablanca

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Palestinian Response to the Invasion of Kuwait

3 August 1990 - 17 January 1991

President Bush's Letters to M.E. Leaders on Proposed Peace Conference

1 June 1991 - 14 July 1991

Israeli Army Redeploys from Areas in the West Bank

November 1995 - December 1995

Clinton - Netanyahu - Arafat - Hussein Meeting in Washington

1 October 1996 - 2 October 1996

US Position on Further Redeployment and Palestinian Obligations

5 December 1997 - 3 September 1998

Wye River Plantation Meeting; Memorandum Signed

15 October 1998 - 23 October 1998

King Hussein Dies; Eldest Son Is Crowned King Abdullah II

17 February 1999

Assassination of Hussein Ubayyat in Beit Sahur, Before a Clinton-Arafat Meeting in Washington

9 November 2000

Toward a Protracted Confrontation

10 November 2000 - 22 December 2000

Israeli Leaders Push for an American War Against Iraq

16 October 2002 - 9 February 2003

The US War Against Iraq; Security Developments in the West Bank and Gaza

17 March 2003 - 9 April 2003

Assassination of Jasir Hussein Ahmad Aleemi in Tulkarm

Assassination of Yasir Abu Aysh, Hussein Abu Aysh and Majdi Khatib in Rafah

2 February 2004

Assassination of Rawad Fathi Farahat and Nafez Abu Hussein in Gaza City

24 September 2005

Operation Blue Skies and Continuing Escalation

22 December 2005 - 23 January 2006

An Amendment to the Lebanese Social Security Law Grants Palestinian Refugees Right to End-of-Service and Occupational Emergency Compensations

Kerry Draws Up a Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

17 February 2014

Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism

16 September 2014

PA Resumes Coordination with Israel, Receives Some Withheld Funds

17 November 2020 - 2 December 2020

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 8

Meetings Resume between PA and Israeli Ministers; Palestinians Added to Population Registry

29 August 2021 - 28 December 2021

PLO Central Council Holds, in Ramallah, its First Meeting in 4 Years

6 February 2022 - 9 February 2022

Hussein al-Sheikh Appointed Secretary-General of the PLO Executive Committee

Historical Texts

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

Churchill White Paper

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Assembly of the League of Nations Resolution on Mandates

Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement

Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan

Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

Speech by Jordan’s King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Seventh Arab Summit: The Palestine Resolution

29 October 1974

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué

7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985

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

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

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

28 February 2019

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

Abraham Accords: Treaty of Peace Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel

15 September 2020

Framework for Cooperation between UNRWA and the USA, 2021-2022

US-Israel Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership

31st Arab Summit: Algiers Declaration (in French)

2 November 2022

Historical Media

Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)

2 November 1932

Arab Higher Committee Members

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Arab League Warnings

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 15 November 1988

Historic Undertakings For the Sake of Statehood

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinians in Jordan Since 1967

A Never-Ending Normalization

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

VI. Rise of The Palestinian National Movement

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Wihdat Refugee Camp

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

Ijlil al-Qibliyya