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Biographies

Freih Abu Middein

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

1910 - 26 February 1971

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

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

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

The Grady-Morrison Plan

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

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

Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Events

The British Issue the Criminal Law (Seditious Offences) Ordinance

25 October 1929

British Violent Repression

May 1936 - June 1936

Anglo-American Conference Meets in London and Proposes the Morrison-Grady Federal Plan

Jewish Agency Partition Plan Secures US Endorsement

5 August 1946 - 14 August 1946

Palestinian Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Unit of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Attacks Kfar Darom

Operation Barak Toward the South

9 May 1948 - 13 May 1948

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

Count Bernadotte's Palestine Plan

End of First Truce: Israeli Operations An-Far, Dani and Qedem

8 July 1948 - 17 July 1948

Ethnic Cleansing During the Second Truce

24 July 1948 - 15 October 1948

UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte Is Assassinated by Lehi in Jerusalem

17 September 1948

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

15 October 1948 - 4 November 1948

Operation Horev Against Egyptian Forces

22 December 1948 - 6 January 1949

Palestinians Are Expelled from al-Faluja Pocket

1 March 1949 - 21 April 1949

Israel Enacts the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones)

24 April 1949 - 27 July 1949

Escalation Across Jordanian-Israeli Lines

10 September 1956 - 26 September 1956

Israel Addresses the Future of Sinai

7 November 1956 - 8 November 1956

June War, 1st Day

Sharon's Pacification of Gaza

August 1970 - December 1971

October War, 1st Day

The Knesset Issues Amendment 16 to the Planning and Building Law, 1965

12 February 1981

Arafat Survives a Plane Crash in Libya

7 April 1992 - 8 April 1992

Disengagement: Evacuation of Settlers

8 August 2005 - 22 August 2005

Ongoing Israeli Raids: Operation First Rain

23 September 2005 - 2 October 2005

The Knesset Passes the "Admissions Committees Law"

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3

Israeli Police Acts Against Palestinians in the Negev

14 January 2015 - 27 January 2015

37th Zionist Congress, Jerusalem

20 October 2015 - 22 October 2015

Abbas Signs 22 Treaties as a Response to Trump's Move on Jerusalem

18 December 2017

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine

Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement

Palestinian Citizenship in Israel

An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

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 Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

The Bosnians of Palestine

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The Algerians of Palestine

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

Periods

VI. Rise of the Palestinian National Movement

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

Places

al-Masmiyya al-Kabira

Bayyarat Hannun

Ijlil al-Qibliyya

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

Khirbat al-Zababida

Khirbat Umm Burj

Khiyam al-Walid

Sarafand al-'Amar