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Biographies

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1885 - 19 December 1953

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

1902 - 27 August 1984

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Events

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony

3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909

Establishment of the Arab National Fund

September 1932 - 8 August 1935

The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings

4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948

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

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

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

Assassination Attempt of George Habash in Bsaba Village

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

Closure of Bethlehem University

28 October 1987

Assassination of Mustafa Sabah in Gaza City

4 December 2002

Assassination of Ziad Malaisha and Ibrahim Abed in Kafr Dan

Assassination of Ashraf Sabah and Hisham al-Saidani in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

13 October 2012

Dangerous Surge of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in and across Gaza

14 October 2012 - 13 November 2012

Palestinians in West Bank Mobilize in Support of Gaza

8 July 2014 - 22 August 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

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

Historical Texts

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

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

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement

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

28 February 2019

Historical Media

Arab Higher Committee Members

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

London Conference

Highlights

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Kafr Qasim, 29 October 1956

Israel’s Army Massacres Its Own Peaceful Citizens

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Marka Refugee Camp

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

Balata Refugee Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

The Bosnians of Palestine

Places

Ghabat Kafr Sur