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The Rise of Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani in Northern Palestine

The Territory Under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani's Control: Economic and Social Dimension

Palestine Under Zahir al-Umar: Locus of Intra-Mamluk Rivalry

June 1771 - June 1773

Palestine Under Zahir al-Umar: Locus of Renewed Ambition by Mamluk Muhammad Bey Abu al-Zahab

September 1773 - 11 June 1775

Acre Under Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar

The Fall of Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani

12 June 1775 - 22 August 1775

Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine

February 1799 - May 1799

Ibrahim Pasha in Palestine

October 1831 - 1834

Ottoman Law of the Provinces: Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine

7 November 1864

Administrative Reorganization in Syria and Palestine

Nine Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1890s

Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907

Six Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1908 and 1910

Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

Foundation of Tel Aviv

Elections Held for Fourth Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

18 April 1912 - 5 August 1912

Railway Lines in Palestine

Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine

Third Stage of British Palestine Campaign: Completion of the Conquest of Palestine

19 September 1918 - 25 September 1918

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine

General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa

11 January 1930

Hanging of Palestinian Militants

Anti-British Operation and British Retaliation in al-Bassa

6 September 1938 - 10 September 1938

British Military Officers Replace Civilian Commissioners

Continuation of Zionist-British Confrontation

16 April 1947 - 26 April 1947

Irgun Kidnaps and Murders Two British Sergeants

11 July 1947 - 31 July 1947

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

First Palestine Truce, Israeli Reinforcements and Destruction of Palestinian Villages

11 June 1948 - 8 July 1948

Palestinians in Israel Stage a General Strike to Protest the Kafr Qasim Massacre

Start of the Second Intifada

29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000

Palestinian-Israeli Clashes in Acre

8 October 2008 - 13 October 2008

Israel Pursues its Confiscation of Palestinian Land in the West Bank

10 March 2016 - 21 April 2016

Jewish National Fund Adopts New Policy to Purchase and Claim Lands in the West Bank

25 February 2021 - 2 September 2021

Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1865 - 3 March 1948

1875 - 9 February 1949

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

1885 - 19 December 1953

Mu‘in al-Madi

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1907 - 27 July 2006

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (I) - Population Growth

1860 - 1948

Historical Texts

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Palin Commission Report

The Supreme Islamic Shari'a Council Order

20 December 1921

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Commission) Report

9 November 1938

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

UNSCOP Majority Proposal: Partition Plan

3 September 1947

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

The Koenig Memorandum

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Historical Media

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Judaization of the Galilee

A Long-Lasting Strategy Faced by a Bulwark of Palestinian Tenacity

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Balata Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

The Bosnians of Palestine

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

al-Ras al-Ahmar

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'

'Arab al-Samniyya

Balad al-Shaykh

Sarafand al-'Amar