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Events

Ottoman Pledges to Grant Facilities to France: Towards the Capitulations Regime

18 October 1569 - 1613

Alliance Between Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani and Mamluk Leader Ali Bey al-Kabeer: To Conquer Palestine and Syrian Territory

November 1770 - June 1771

With the Ottoman-Russian Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji, Capitulations Turn into Bilateral Treaties

A New Ottoman Firman on Christian Holy Places Causes Confusion; Holy Places as a Trigger of the Crimean War

21 March 1852 - 4 October 1853

Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe

First Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine

Publication of The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

6th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel, Discusses the Uganda Scheme

23 August 1903 - 28 August 1903

Start of the Arab Revolt Against the Ottomans

General Allenby Issues Guidelines for the Military Occupation of the Levant

23 October 1918

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

The Eastern Women's Congress in Defense of Palestine Is Held in Cairo

15 October 1938 - 18 October 1938

MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians

17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939

21st Zionist Congress Meets in Geneva

16 August 1939 - 25 August 1939

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

First Palestine Truce, Israeli Reinforcements and Destruction of Palestinian Villages

11 June 1948 - 8 July 1948

Escalation Across Jordanian-Israeli Lines

10 September 1956 - 26 September 1956

Israel's Strike Against Syria

31 January 1960 - 15 February 1960

June War, 5th Day

The Knesset Paves the Way for the Annexation of East Jerusalem

27 June 1967 - 28 June 1967

Absentees' Property (Compensation) Law, 5733-1973

Sinai I Agreement

18 January 1974 - 3 March 1974

9th Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad and Condemns the Camp David Accords

5 November 1978

Venice Declaration

Israel Invades Along the Eastern Axis

6 June 1982 - 12 June 1982

The “Creeping” Cease-fire

10 June 1982 - 26 June 1982

Invasion of Nablus: Fierce Resistance

3 April 2002 - 21 April 2002

US Response to the Israeli Invasion

4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002

George W. Bush's Major Speech on US Policy for the Middle East

The PLO Approves the Road Map

3 May 2003 - 11 May 2003

Sharon's Speech on Unilateral Disengagement Plan

18 December 2003

Israel Launches Operation Eastern Step

8 January 2005 - 17 January 2005

Israel's Operation Summer Rains Against Gaza Continues

15 August 2006 - 9 September 2006

War on Gaza, Day 17

12 January 2009

War on Gaza: US-Israel MOU on Arms Smuggling into Gaza

16 January 2009

US Makes Incredible Offer to Israel in Exchange for a Two-Month Partial Settlement Freeze

29 September 2010 - 12 December 2010

The Palestinian State: Recognition and Upgrade Drive, Mostly in Latin and Central America and Europe

1 December 2010 - 19 January 2012

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 21-24

28 July 2014 - 31 July 2014

US State Department Separates Palestinian Office from Embassy to Israel

8 June 2022 - 9 June 2022

Historical Texts

Ottoman-French Capitulation, 1673 (in French)

Ottoman-Egyptian Separating Line Agreement

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission Report

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

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

Council of the League of Nations: Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

16 September 1922

The Hope Simpson Report

National Bloc Party: Bylaws

Peel Commission Report

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

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

Bevin's Statement on Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

13 November 1945

US Congress Resolution on Palestine

17 December 1945 - 19 December 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

Statement by the Council of the Arab League on the Anglo-American Committee's Report on Palestine

The Grady-Morrison Plan

Truman’s Statement on US Efforts for Palestine

UNSCOP Minority Proposal: Federal State Plan

3 September 1947

UNSCOP Majority Proposal: Partition Plan

3 September 1947

UNSCOP Recommendations Approved Unanimously or by Substantial Majority

3 September 1947

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Text of Plan Dalet (Plan D): General Section

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on their Military Intervention in Palestine

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

UNGA Resolution 303

9 December 1949

Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

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

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

28 November 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement

28 November 1973

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

The Venice Declaration

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Legal Personality Agreement Between Israel and the Holy See

10 November 1997

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups

16 January 2009

Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council

President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Bezalel Smotrich: Israel's Decisive Plan

7 September 2017

Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

12 February 2020

Amnesty Report on Israeli Apartheid

1 February 2022

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

1859 - 21 July 1921

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1865 - 3 March 1948

1878 - 29 June 1950

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Rafiq al-Tamimi

George Antonius

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

Rajeh al-Salfiti

1921 - 27 May 1990

1927 - 13 January 2005

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

13 July 1949 - 18 February 2026

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

6 December 1966 - 24 March 2018

Historical Media

Sykes-Picot Agreement

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

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

Palestinian Photographers Before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property

Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Urban Palestine

Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Balata Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

III. Late Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Palestinian Emigration (II)

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

Sbeineh Refugee Camp

Jabal al-Hussein Refugee Camp

Marka (Hittin) Refugee Camp

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Shatila Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

Japan and the Palestine Question

A Policy still Subordinate to the US

Jerash Refugee Camp (Gaza Camp)

Zarqa Refugee Camp

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Periods

I. Ottoman Rule

XII. Gaza Strip Separated and Assaulted

Places

al-Batani al-Gharbi

al-Batani al-Sharqi

al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa

al-Ghubayya al-Tahta

al-Naghnaghiyya

al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya

al-Shawka al-Tahta

'Arab al-'Arida

'Arab al-Shamalina

Bayyarat Hannun

Dayr Abu Salama

Ghabat Kafr Sur

Ghuwayr Abu Shusha

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Khirbat al-Damun

Khirbat al-Kasayir

Khirbat al-Muntar

Khirbat Bayt Far

Khirbat Umm Burj

Khiyam al-Walid

al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta

'Arab al-Bawati