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Acre under Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani Challenges Direct Ottoman Rule

Uprising Against Egyptian Rule in Palestine

April 1834 - August 1834

British Commissioner Is Assassinated

26 September 1937

Establishment of Hanita Settlement in Western Galilee

Partition (Woodhead) Commission Report Is Published

9 November 1938

Palestinians and Zionists on UNSCOP Partition Plan

29 September 1947 - 3 October 1947

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders

15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948

Third Phase of the Palestine War: Arab-Israeli War

15 May 1948 - 6 January 1949

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

Operation Hiram in the North

28 October 1948 - 31 October 1948

Israel Conducts its First Population Census

8 November 1948 - 1 February 1949

Israel's Construction of the "National Water Carrier"

2 September 1953

Israel's Strike Against Syria

31 January 1960 - 15 February 1960

Fatah Issues Its First Military Communiqué

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

The Koenig Memorandum on Israeli Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel

1 March 1976 - April 1976

Start of the Second Intifada

29 September 2000 - 4 October 2000

The Knesset Passes the "Admissions Committees Law"

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

Biographies

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

1902 - 27 August 1984

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

1923 - 12 May 2004

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Historical Media

Town of Safad, Northern Galilee

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

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

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

Highlights

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

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

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Algerians of Palestine