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Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

1938 - 16 December 2020

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Events

Jerusalem Area Designated as a Sanjaq

Great Britain Invades Egypt; Egypt as a British Veiled Protectorate

Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition

8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901

Zionist-Palestinian Violence Breaks out in Jaffa

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Appointment of a British Chief Administrator for Palestine

Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine

Operation Ben-Ami in Western Galilee

13 May 1948 - 21 May 1948

Control of Coastal Plain Haifa-Tel Aviv

13 May 1948 - 23 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

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

Egyptian-Israeli Armed Incidents

17 August 1956 - 11 September 1956

Situation on Jordanian-Israeli Lines Continues to Deteriorate; Israeli Raid on Qalqilya

4 October 1956 - 11 October 1956

Kafr Qasim Massacre

29 October 1956

The 1956 War - The Tripartite Aggression

29 October 1956 - 12 March 1957

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

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

1st Session of Israeli-Egyptian Talks on Palestinian Autonomy Is Held in Beersheba

Closure of Bethlehem University

28 October 1987

Security on the Aftermath of Operation Defensive Shield

7 May 2002 - 5 June 2002

Israeli-Palestinian Military Confrontation as Routine

18 August 2004 - 27 September 2004

Assassination of Ziad Malaisha and Ibrahim Abed in Kafr Dan

War on Gaza, Day 4

30 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 6

War on Gaza, Day 13

Palestinians in West Bank Mobilize in Support of Gaza

8 July 2014 - 22 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 4 and 5

11 July 2014 - 12 July 2014

With the Haram al-Sharif Tensions, Protests Spread to the Occupied Territories

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

Palestinians in Israel Express their Concern and Solidarity with the Palestinian Outburst

5 October 2015 - 28 November 2015

In Retaliation to Palestinian Attacks, Yatta and Hebron Towns Are Collectively Targeted

8 June 2016 - 11 August 2016

Israel Continues to Attack Great March of Return Protesters

17 October 2018 - 1 November 2018

Murder Rate Among Palestinian Citizens of Israel Remains High Amid Israeli Police Inaction

21 December 2020

Palestinians in Israel at the Heart of the Unified Intifada

10 May 2021 - 3 June 2021

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 5

May 2021 Gaza War, Day 6

Historical Texts

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

1 September 1982

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: 1st Memorandum to US Secretary James Baker

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

Joe Biden’s Statement Before Mahmoud Abbas

31st Arab Summit: Algiers Declaration (in French)

2 November 2022

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

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 Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

Balata Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Marka (Hittin) Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

The Bosnians of Palestine

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Aida Refugee Camp

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

al-Ras al-Ahmar

'Arab al-Fuqara'

Bayyarat Hannun

Ghabat Kafr Sur

Khirbat Zakariyya

Sarafand al-Kharab