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Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

1860 - 13 April 1930

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1880 - 16 June 1946

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1882 - 22 April 1942

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

Events

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

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920

Palin Commission of Inquiry

12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920

3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa

13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920

The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London

2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922

Establishment of the Arab National Fund

September 1932 - 8 August 1935

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Death of Musa Kazim Husseini

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Alexandria Protocol and the League of Arab States

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Fighting Around Jerusalem

12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948

Musa Alami Publishes 'Ibrat Filastin (The Lesson of Palestine)

Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans

9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008

Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen

18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

Hamas's Heavy-Handed Control of a Salafi Group in Gaza

22 July 2009 - 15 August 2009

The Deceptive Settlement Freeze

26 November 2009 - 5 January 2010

Israel's Ramat Shlomo Constructions' Plan During Joe Biden's Visit

8 March 2010 - 11 March 2010

Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem

21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010

Palestinians in the West Bank Protest Israel's Assault on Gaza

16 November 2012 - 21 November 2012

For the Third Time, Israel Links the Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion

6 January 2014 - 22 January 2014

Egypt's Noncoordinated Cease-Fire Initiative Fails

14 July 2014 - 16 July 2014

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

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

13 September 2015 - 30 September 2015

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

Historical Media

British Troops with Machine Guns

The first Arab delegation in London to protest the Balfour Declaration

Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate

London Conference

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

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

28 February 2019

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Places

Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'

Khirbat Zakariyya

Sarafand al-Kharab