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Biographies
Biography
Nakhla Zurayq
1859 - 21 July 1921
Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
Jurji Habib Hanania
1864 - 1920
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Khalil Abdallah Totah
20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955
Biography
George Antonius
1891 - 1942
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari
1900 - 29 May 1980
Biography
Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
1904 - 17 December 1990
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Emile Touma
16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985
Biography
Haydar Abd al-Shafi
10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007
Biography
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Biography
Hisham Sharabi
1927 - 13 January 2005
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Tawfiq Zayyad
7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah
12 October 1943
Biography
Abd al-Aziz Rantisi
1947 - 17 April 2004
Charts
Document
Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Growth
1860 - 1948
Events
Event
Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)
1917 - 1921
Event
Palin Commission of Inquiry
12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920
Event
Establishment of the Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA) in New York
25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950
Event
President Bourguiba and 1947 Partition Plan
27 February 1965 - 11 March 1965
Event
2nd Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo
31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965
Event
Israeli-Syrian Mounting Tension in Lebanon
28 April 1981 - 5 May 1981
Event
Philip Habib's Mediation for Cease-fire in South Lebanon
24 July 1981
Event
South Lebanon Cease-fire Is Broken
21 April 1982 - 9 May 1982
Event
Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
6 June 1982 - 29 September 1982
Event
Israel and the US Demand PLO Withdrawal from Beirut and Lebanon
15 June 1982 - 27 June 1982
Event
PLO Debates Withdrawal
16 June 1982 - 2 July 1982
Event
PLO Accepts Habib’s Plan
29 July 1982 - 31 July 1982
Event
Sabra and Shatila Massacres
16 September 1982 - 18 September 1982
Event
Deportation of Muhammad Dahlan
13 December 1986 - 26 January 1987
Event
Resumption of Diplomatic Activity
30 January 1988 - 10 February 1988
Event
Assassination of Habib Ashur and Imad Yasin in Gaza City
16 June 2006
Event
US Announces Resumption of UNRWA Funding and Forces UNRWA to Make Severe Policy Changes
7 April 2021 - 23 September 2021
Historical Texts
Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
UNGA Resolution 273 (III)
11 May 1949
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 5407
29 August 1963
Document
UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut
20 August 1982
Document
Twelfth Arab Summit: the Fez Initiative
9 September 1982
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/210
17 December 1987
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/229
2 March 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/230
23 March 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 43/160
9 December 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 43/177
15 December 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 58/292
17 May 2004
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 2011/24
18 February 2011
Document
HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine
27 May 2021
Historical Media
Document
Arab League Warnings
June 1946
Highlights
Highlight
The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
Highlight
The Palestinian Short Story
Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party
1948-present
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (II)
Pathfinders (1955-1965)
Highlight
Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982
A Massacre by Proxy
Highlight
Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
Highlight
Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
Highlight
Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art
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