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Biographies

Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
As‘ad al-Shuqairi
1860 - February 1940
Biography
Jurji Habib Hanania
1864 - 1920
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Omar al-Bitar
1880 - 16 June 1946
Biography
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar
1880 - 1949
Biography
Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali
1889 - 7 July 1973
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Mustafa al-Dabbagh
1897 - 1 October 1989
Biography
Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
1904 - 17 December 1990
Biography
Najati Sidqi
15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Events

Event
Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism
1905 - 1914
Event
Young Turk Revolution
23 July 1908
Event
Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul
2 September 1908 - April 1909
Event
Establishment of the Qahtani Society in Istanbul
1909
Event
Formation of the Moderate Liberal Party and the Entente Libérale Party in Istanbul
30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911
Event
The Sykes-Picot Agreement Defines the British and French Spheres of Influence over the Ottoman Arab Provinces
23 November 1915 - 16 May 1916
Event
The Fourteen Points of US President Woodrow Wilson
8 January 1918
Event
The Mandate System: Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant
10 January 1920
Event
The Ottomans Sign the Treaty of Sèvres; The Turkish National Assembly in Ankara Rejects It
19 August 1920
Event
Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey
24 July 1923
Event
White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall
19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928
Event
The Mavi Marmara Incident
30 May 2010 - 5 June 2010
Event
Report of the Panel of Inquiry on the Mavi Marmara Incident (Palmer Commission)
2 September 2011
Event
Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 4
17 November 2012
Event
Reports About Indirect Israel-Hamas Talks on Long-Term Cease-Fire
16 June 2015 - 16 June 2015
Event
Israeli Bombing Resumes Against Gaza
1 May 2019 - 5 May 2019

Historical Texts

Document
Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement
1 October 1906
Document
Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein
25 October 1915
Document
Sykes-Picot Agreement
16 May 1916
Document
Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
Document
The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22
10 January 1920
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Churchill White Paper
3 June 1922
Document
League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine
24 July 1922
Document
The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)
10 August 1922
Document
Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922
10 August 1922
Document
Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem
19 November 1928
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937

Highlights

Highlight
UNRWA's Education System
A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking
Highlight
UNRWA
From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity
Highlight
Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule
Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition
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I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
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The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
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Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity
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Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
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Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art