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Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

1902 - 27 August 1984

1905 - 2 May 1941

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

Anwar Nusseibeh

1913 - 22 November 1986

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

1929 - 2 June 2016

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1942 - 6 August 2019

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Events

Seven Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1880s

Establishment of the Rawdat al-Ma'arif al-Wataniyya al-'Uthmaniyya al-Islamiyya in Jerusalem

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

End of First Truce: Israeli Operation Dekel

8 July 1948 - 18 July 1948

Constantine Zurayk Publishes Ma'na al-Nakba (The Meaning of the Nakba) in Beirut

Elections at al-Urwa al-Wuthqa Society

Palestinian Operations in Northern Israel

Ma'moun Meraish Is Assassinated in Athens

President Bush's Letters to M.E. Leaders on Proposed Peace Conference

1 June 1991 - 14 July 1991

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Maps the Shape of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Solution

Failure of Final Status Talks at Camp David Summit

11 July 2000 - 25 July 2000

Assassination of Mahmoud Abu Hanud near Nablus

23 November 2001

Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map

2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004

Major Construction Plan in Ma'ale Adumim

21 March 2005 - 6 April 2005

Olmert's Separation Plan

5 March 2006 - 9 March 2006

Olmert's Convergence Plan Put Aside; Settlement Activity Resumes

18 August 2006 - 21 September 2006

Nablus Remains a Hot Spot

15 December 2007 - 5 January 2008

Israel Announces New Settlement Construction Plans

9 March 2008 - 2 April 2008

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Olmert's Political Gamble

31 August 2008 - 16 September 2008

War on Gaza, Day 8: End of Phase 1; Balance Sheet

Israel Approves Settlement Expansion

2 March 2011 - 11 August 2011

Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest

27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011

Israeli Settlement Activity Continues, Including Through Expulsion

12 December 2011 - 28 December 2011

Surge in Settlement Expansion

30 November 2012 - 10 February 2013

Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank

11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

Israel Once Again Links the Second-Stage Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion

29 October 2013 - 3 November 2013

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

Israel Races for Settlement Activities with an Eye on Trump

22 January 2017 - 1 February 2017

Opening of the “Apartheid Road”

10 January 2019

Historical Texts

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

The Hope Simpson Report

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut

7 February 1983

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

The “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years

Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017

6 February 2017

Highlights

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Marka (Hittin) Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Algerians of Palestine

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

Khirbat al-Jawfa

Wadi al-Hawarith