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Biographies

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Constantine Zurayk

18 April 1909 - 12 August 2000

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

1927 - 13 January 2005

1942 - 6 August 2019

Events

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 October 1929

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

Hope Simpson Report Is Published

22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

UNRWA Signs Agreement with Jordan as Refugee Host Country

14 March 1951 - 20 August 1951

23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951

US Withdraws Aswan Funding

Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan

Palestinian National Unity Talks Resume in Cairo

25 February 2009 - 18 May 2009

John Kerry Conducts Shuttle Diplomacy for Resumption of Negotiations

4 March 2013 - 8 May 2013

Arab League Delegation in Washington Discusses the Arab Peace Initiative

Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds

23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013

Terms of Talk Resumption as Sponsored by Kerry

Launch of Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Direct Negotiations in Washington

29 July 2013 - 30 July 2013

Israeli-Palestinian Direct Talks Take Place in Jerusalem

14 August 2013 - 2 September 2013

Israeli-Palestinian Talks Accelerate for Nothing

25 September 2013 - 23 October 2013

Israel's Settlement Expansion Disrupts the Palestinian Negotiation Team

31 October 2013 - 13 November 2013

Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement

14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014

Abbas Meeting with Kerry in Paris Ends in Total Failure

19 February 2014 - 21 February 2014

Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners

17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Settlement Announcement in the Midst of a Crisis Regarding the Negotiations

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20

23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: The Intermittent Cease-Fires (Phase III)

31 July 2014 - 26 August 2014

The PLO Strives for a Security Council Resolution Specifying a Timetable for Ending the Occupation

26 September 2014 - 28 November 2014

Palestinian Leadership Debates End of Security Coordination with Israel

10 December 2014 - 14 December 2014

Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba

21 February 2016

Palestinians Thwart the Setting Up of Cameras at Haram al-Sharif

18 March 2016 - 18 April 2016

Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

28 December 2016

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

Churchill White Paper

Shaw Commission Report

The Hope Simpson Report

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Peel Commission Report

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNSCOP Minority Proposal: Federal State Plan

3 September 1947

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

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

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

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

The Koenig Memorandum

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

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

7 February 1983

President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East

U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians

18 October 1991

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

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

28 September 1995

President Clinton Proposals on Israeli‑Palestinian Peace

23 December 2000

The Mitchell Report

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

UNSC Resolution 1850

16 December 2008

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

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

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

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

15 September 2020

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry to HRC

Highlights

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestinian Photographers Before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

I. Ottoman Rule

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The New South Africa and the Palestine Question

From Good Offices to Total Support

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Zarqa Refugee Camp

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Aida Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations

2013 - 2014

Places