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Biographies

Biography
Freih Abu Middein
1871 - 1955
Biography
Badr Lama
23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947
Biography
Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini
1908 - 8 April 1948
Biography
Qadri Tuqan
1910 - 26 February 1971
Biography
Sami Taha Hamran
1911 - 11 September 1947
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Haydar Abd al-Shafi
10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Bashir Barghouti
1931 - 9 September 2000
Biography
Samih al-Qasim
1939 - 19 August 2014

Historical Texts

Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
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Biltmore Conference Declaration
11 May 1942
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
14 May 1948
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Abandoned Areas Ordinance
24 June 1948
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Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties
28 June 1948
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Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East
19 June 1967
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Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
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Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
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President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East
6 March 1991
Document
Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement
28 September 1991
Document
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)
13 September 1993
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PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement
1 January 2001
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President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon
14 April 2004
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President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007

Events

Event
The British Issue the Criminal Law (Seditious Offences) Ordinance
25 October 1929
Event
British Violent Repression
May 1936 - June 1936
Event
Anglo-American Conference Meets in London and Proposes the Morrison-Grady Federal Plan
24 July 1946
Event
Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement
5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946
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Palestinian Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
Unit of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Attacks Kfar Darom
10 April 1948
Event
Operation Barak Toward the South
9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948
Event
Abandoned Areas Ordinance
24 June 1948
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Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan
28 June 1948
Event
End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem
8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948
Event
Ethnic Cleansing During the Second Truce
24 July 1948 - 15 October 1948
Event
UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem
17 September 1948
Event
Operations Yoav and ha-Har in the South Put End to 2nd Truce
15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948
Event
Operation Horev Against Egyptian Forces
22 December 1948 - 6 January 1949
Event
Palestinians Are Expelled from al-Faluja Pocket
1 March 1949 - 21 April 1949
Event
Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)
24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949
Event
Escalation Across Jordanian-Israeli Lines
10 September 1956 - 26 September 1956
Event
Israel Addresses the Future of Sinai
7 November 1956 - 8 November 1956
Event
June War, 1st Day
5 June 1967
Event
Sharon's Pacification of Gaza
August 1970 - December 1971
Event
October War, 1st Day
6 October 1973
Event
The Knesset Issues Amendment 16 to the Planning and Building Law, 1965
12 February 1981
Event
Arafat Survives a Plane Crash in Libya
7 April 1992 - 8 April 1992
Event
Disengagement: Evacuation of Settlers
8 August 2005 - 22 August 2005
Event
Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain
23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005
Event
The Knesset Passes the "Admissions Committees Law"
22 March 2011
Event
The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3
10 July 2014
Event
Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev
14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015
Event
37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem
20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015
Event
Abbas Signs 22 Treaties as a Response to Trump's Move on Jerusalem
18 December 2017

Highlights

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Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
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Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity
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Present Absentees in Israel
Exiled in Their Own Homeland
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Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967
Incubators of Resistance
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Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
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IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
Highlight
The Education of Palestinians in Israel
Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization
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Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
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The Palestinian Communist Movement
1948-present
Highlight
Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
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Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917
Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries
Highlight
Palestinian Youth in Conflict
A Childhood Denied
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Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
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UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
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Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
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The Village of al-Araqib
Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond
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Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
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The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
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Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance
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The Algerians of Palestine
1830-1948
Highlight
The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
Highlight
Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Periods

Period
VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War
Period
VI. Rise of the Palestinian National Movement