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Biographies

Biography
Hafiz al-Sa’id
1843 - 1916
Biography
Nakhla Zurayq
1859 - 21 July 1921
Biography
Freih Abu Middein
1871 - 1955
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Musa Nasir
4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Zulaykha al-Shihabi
1903 - 13 May 1992
Biography
Constantine Zurayk
18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Haydar Abd al-Shafi
10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007
Biography
Ihsan Abbas
2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003
Biography
Issam Abd al-Hadi
1928 - 8 August 2013
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Ismail Shammout
2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006
Biography
Anis Abdullah Sayigh
3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009
Biography
Sulafa Hijjawi
1934 - 14 September 2021
Biography
Jamal Bannoura
1938 - 16 December 2020
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946

Events

Event
British Violent Repression
May 1936 - June 1936
Event
Anglo-American Conference Meets in London and Proposes the Morrison-Grady Federal Plan
24 July 1946
Event
Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement
5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946
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Palestinian Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
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Unit of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Attacks Kfar Darom
10 April 1948
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Operation Barak Toward the South
9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948
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Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan
28 June 1948
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End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem
8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948
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Ethnic Cleansing During the Second Truce
24 July 1948 - 15 October 1948
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UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem
17 September 1948
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Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce
15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948
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Operation Horev Against Egyptian Forces
22 December 1948 - 6 January 1949
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Palestinians Are Expelled from al-Faluja Pocket
1 March 1949 - 21 April 1949
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Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)
24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949
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Escalation Across Jordanian-Israeli Lines
10 September 1956 - 26 September 1956
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The Knesset Issues Amendment 16 to the Planning and Building Law, 1965
12 February 1981
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Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty Signed near Aqaba
26 October 1994
Event
Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain
23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005
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The Knesset Passes the "Admissions Committees Law"
22 March 2011
Event
A Joint Lebanese-Palestinian Civil Document Is Launched
16 April 2014
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3
10 July 2014
Event
Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev
14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015
Event
37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem
20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015
Event
Further Israeli Restrictions on Who Can Travel In and Out of the West Bank
20 February 2022 - 30 April 2022
Event
Foreign Ministers of the US, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, and Israel Meet in Sde Boker: The Negev Forum
27 March 2022 - 27 June 2022
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President Biden Visits Israel; Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership
13 July 2022 - 14 July 2023
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Netanyahu Forms Radical Right-Wing Israeli Government
29 December 2022

Historical Texts

Document
The Grady-Morrison Plan
24 July 1946
Document
Truman’s Statement on US Efforts for Palestine
4 October 1946
Document
Text of Plan Dalet (Plan D): General Section
10 March 1948
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Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties
28 June 1948
Document
Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance No. 33, 5708-1948
23 September 1948
Document
Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East
19 June 1967
Document
The Koenig Memorandum
1 March 1976
Document
Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
Document
Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset
20 November 1977
Document
Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme
15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979
Document
Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
Document
Secretary-General Report A/39/130 - S/16409
13 March 1984
Document
Israel's "Peace Initiative"
14 May 1989
Document
Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference
1 June 1991
Document
Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement
28 September 1991
Document
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)
13 September 1993
Document
Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See
10 November 1997
Document
Wye River Memorandum
23 October 1998
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
The Geneva Accord
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Document
President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon
14 April 2004
Document
President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007
Document
President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy
19 May 2011
Document
Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem
31 March 2013
Document
30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration
31 March 2019
Document
Abraham Accords: Treaty of Peace Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel
15 September 2020
Document
Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid
1 February 2022
Document
US-Israel Joint Declaration on Strategic Partnership
14 July 2022

Highlights

Highlight
Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917
Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries
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Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
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UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
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Palestinian Youth in Conflict
A Childhood Denied
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Palestine Liberation Organization (II)
From the Limelight to the Backstage
Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
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The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
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Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
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Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
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Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
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The Village of al-Araqib
Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond
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The Education of Palestinians in Israel
Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization
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Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
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The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
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IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
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Yarmouk Refugee Camp
Syria
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Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Jaramana Refugee Camp
Syria
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China and the Palestine Question
From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support
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Spain and the Palestine Question
Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
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Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance
Highlight
Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
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Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993

Places

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al-Maghar
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al-Muharraqa
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al-Sanbariyya
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Bayt 'Itab
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Bayt 'Affa
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Burayr
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Dayr al-Dubban
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Hatta
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Huj
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Hulayqat
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'Ibdis
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'Iraq Suwaydan
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al-Jaladiyya
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Jusayr
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Karatiyya
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Kawfakha
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Najd
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Sajad
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Simsim
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Tall al-Turmus
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al-Jammama
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al-Khalasa
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Dayr Rafat
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Bayt Jibrin