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Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1865 - 3 March 1948

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Events

First Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Municipal Elections Are Held in Palestine

Zionist Attacks

15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

The Arab League Jerusalem Committee Meets to Discuss Trump's Jerusalem Announcement

Historical Media

Town of Safad, Northern Galilee

Historical Texts

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

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

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering

1 November 2017

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

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Palestinian Refugees in Syria

Fully Integrated, for Better and for Worse

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

I. Ottoman Rule

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

Places

al-Ras al-Ahmar

al-Shawka al-Tahta

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta

al-Zuq al-Fawqani

al-Zuq al-Tahtani

'Arab al-Samniyya

'Arab al-Shamalina

'Arab al-Zubayd

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khiyam al-Walid

Kirad al-Baqqara

Kirad al-Ghannama

Mansurat al-Khayt