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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

A Capitulation Granted to France Reaffirms Latin Rights in Jerusalem's Holy Sites

5 June 1673 - 20 April 1690

The Naqib al-Ashraf Rebellion in Jerusalem

A New Ottoman Capitulation: From Gracious Protection to Extraterritorial Immunities

A Riot Against the Franciscans in the Holy Sepulchre Leads to a Firman More Favorable to the Greek Orthodox

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

Establishment of European and American Consulates in Jerusalem

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

Treaty of Berlin Confirms the Status Quo Related to the Christian Sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem

Establishment of Archeological Institutes in Jerusalem

Establishment of Muslim-Christian Societies: Towards National Representation in Palestine

8 May 1918 - December 1918

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

Appointment of the King-Crane Commission

20 March 1919 - 21 July 1919

Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920

Advisory Council for Palestine Is Established

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

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

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Orders the Return of its Delegation from London

7 July 1922 - 31 July 1922

1st British Census of Palestine

23 October 1922

2nd British Census of Palestine

British Recommend Partition

Labor Victory in Great Britain

Church Leaders in Palestine Denounce Partition

Palestine Arab Refugee Office (PARO) Is Opened in New York

25 June 1955 - 15 January 1962

Hunger Strike of Palestinian Women in Jerusalem

26 January 1969 - 28 January 1969

Fatah Reaffirms its Political Objective

28 January 1969

5th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 February 1969 - 4 February 1969

Arafat Addresses the UN General Assembly

13 November 1974

Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel

30 December 1993

Ambiguous and Weakened Assurances on Further Redeployment

16 January 1997

The Holy See and Israel Sign an Agreement Complementing their 1993 Fundamental Agreement

10 November 1997

Vatican-PLO Agreement

15 February 2000

Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit

11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000

Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?

16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001

Invasion of Bethlehem: The Siege of the Church of the Nativity

1 April 2002 - 10 May 2002

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Parties and Factions Sign a Code of Conduct

17 October 2005

Palestinian Legislative Elections: At the Polls

25 January 2006

Comprehensive Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Palestine

26 June 2015 - 2 January 2016

President Trump Announces the Official US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

Church of the Holy Sepulchre Temporarily Closes in Protest

25 February 2018 - 28 February 2018

30th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

Israeli Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Settler Organization’s Claim to Three Buildings in the Old City of Jerusalem

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1860 - 13 April 1930

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

1875 - 9 February 1949

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

1880 - 16 June 1946

1882 - 22 April 1942

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

1902 - 27 August 1984

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

1925 - 10 April 1973

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

1936 - 29 August 1987

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1941 - 5 February 2023

1942 - 6 August 2019

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Growth

1860 - 1948

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Fertility Rate

1962 - 2018

Document

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities", 2015

2015

Historical Texts

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

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission Report

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

Churchill White Paper

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

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

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Biltmore Conference Declaration

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The Grady-Morrison Plan

UNGA Resolution 106 (S-1)

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

9 December 1969

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

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

Palestine National Council, 17th Session: Final Statement

22 November 1984 - 29 November 1984

Secretary of State George Shultz: A Statement for Palestinians

26 February 1988

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Palestinian Declaration of Independence

15 November 1988

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

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

13 December 1988

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

Shimon Peres's Letter Concerning Reassurances on Palestinian Institutions in Jerusalem

11 October 1993

Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel

30 December 1993

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

28 September 1995

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization

15 February 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

The Mitchell Report

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

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

17 October 2005

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

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

25 September 2009

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

Statement by President Donald Trump On Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel

6 December 2017

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates

Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel

15 September 2020

Historical Media

The Constitutional School

Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception

Old City of Jerusalem from the Church of the Savior

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

The Bosnians of Palestine

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

Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

Palestinian Photographers Before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

I. Ottoman Rule

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Places

al-Masmiyya al-Saghira

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Khirbat al-Tannur

Kirad al-Baqqara

Sarafand al-Kharab

Sarafand al-'Amar

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Foreign Interference in Ottoman Internal Affairs

1569 - 1923

Thematic Chronology

Palestinian National Congresses

1918 - 1934