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Biographies
Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Biography
Jurji Habib Hanania
1864 - 1920
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi
1871 - 1942
Biography
Khalil al-Sakakini
23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Izzeddin al-Qassam
1882 - 20 November 1935
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
Raghib al-Nashashibi
1882 - 1951
Biography
Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi
1882 - 1958
Biography
Tawfiq Canaan
24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Muhammad Izzat Darwaza
21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Aref al-Aref
1892 - 1973
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Issa al-Sifri
1894 - 19 March 1949
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini
1895 - 4 July 1974
Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi
1896 - 27 September 1951
Biography
Muhammad Ali al-Taher
1896 - 22 August 1974
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Matiel Mogannam
15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Biography
Ishaq Musa al-Husseini
1904 - 17 December 1990
Biography
Asma Tubi
1905 - 1983
Biography
Najati Sidqi
15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979
Biography
Sophie Halaby
26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997
Biography
Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih
1907 - 8 January 2001
Biography
Nicola Ziadeh
1907 - 27 July 2006
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
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud
1913 - 13 July 1948
Biography
Fouad Nassar
28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976
Biography
Hind al-Husseini
25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994
Biography
Fadwa Tuqan
1917 - 12 December 2003
Biography
Emile Touma
16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985
Biography
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994
Biography
Ihsan Abbas
2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003
Biography
Emile Habibi
29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996
Biography
Siba Fahoum
1923 - 12 May 2004
Biography
Fatima al-Budeiri
1923 - June 2009
Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Gabi Baramki
3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012
Biography
Ismail Shammout
2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006
Biography
Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)
10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988
Biography
Nayef Hawatmeh
November 1935
Biography
Edward W. Said
1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003
Biography
Ghassan Kanafani
9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972
Biography
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
1937
Biography
Faisal al-Husseini
17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019
Biography
Khalida Jarrar
9 February 1963
Biography
Tawfiq Ibrahim
- 1966
Events
Event
Establishment of Petah Tikva, the First Zionist Colony in Palestine
1878 - 1882
Event
Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe
1881 - 1884
Event
Seven Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1880s
1882 - 1884
Event
Nine Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine in the 1890s
1890 - 1896
Event
Establishment of the Jewish Colonization Association
September 1891
Event
2nd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
28 August 1898 - 31 August 1898
Event
Eight Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1899 and 1907
1899 - 1907
Event
3rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
15 August 1899 - 18 August 1899
Event
Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition
8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901
Event
5th Zionist Congress Is Held in Basel
26 December 1901 - 30 December 1901
Event
Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company
7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903
Event
2nd Wave of Jewish Immigration to Palestine
1904 - 1914
Event
Theodor Herzl Dies; Replaced by David Wolffsohn
3 July 1904
Event
Palestinian-Zionist Tension at al-Shajara - Sejera in the Tiberias Region
August 1904 - September 1904
Event
Creation of Underground Bar Giora Group
29 September 1907
Event
The Zionist Organization Opens an Office in Jaffa
December 1907
Event
Six Jewish Colonies Are Established in Palestine between 1908 and 1910
1908 - 1910
Event
Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley
March 1909 - July 1909
Event
Palestinians Clash with Settlers of Sejera Colony
3 April 1909 - 12 April 1909
Event
Foundation of the Zionist Paramilitary Group Hashomer
12 April 1909
Event
Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives
June 1909 - 2 November 1909
Event
World War I, the Ottomans Enter the War
1 August 1914 - February 1915
Event
Treaty of Versailles; Establishment of the League of Nations
28 June 1919 - 10 January 1920
Event
Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan
2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921
Event
White Paper (Churchill) of 1922 Clarifies the Terms of the Balfour Declaration
3 June 1922
Event
House of Lords and House of Commons Conflicting Views on Palestine
20 June 1922 - 4 July 1922
Event
14th Zionist Congress Is Held in Vienna
18 August 1925 - 31 August 1925
Event
Land Settlement Ordinance No. 9
30 May 1928
Event
7th Palestinian National Congress Meets in Jerusalem
20 June 1928 - 27 June 1928
Event
White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall
19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928
Event
General Conference of Palestine Arab Workers, Haifa
11 January 1930
Event
John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development
2 May 1930
Event
White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published
20 October 1930
Event
Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme
19 July 1931 - April 1932
Event
An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress
13 December 1931
Event
Increase in Jewish Immigration from Germany
1933 - 1935
Event
18th Zionist Congress Is Held in Prague
21 August 1933 - 3 September 1933
Event
19th Zionist Congress Meets in Lucerne
20 August 1935 - 4 September 1935
Event
Nuremberg Laws and Jewish Immigration
15 September 1935
Event
Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force
12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935
Event
British Secure Military Reinforcements and Arm a Jewish Settlement Police
May 1936 - September 1936
Event
London Round Table Conference Convenes
7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939
Event
MacDonald White Paper of 1939: Limited Concessions to Palestinians
17 May 1939 - 23 May 1939
Event
Outbreak of World War II
1 September 1939
Event
End of World War II
8 May 1945 - 15 August 1945
Event
Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks
24 November 1945 - 19 January 1946
Event
British to Terminate Palestine Mandate
26 September 1947
Event
First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense
29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948
Event
Arab Liberation Army Organized
1 January 1948 - 10 January 1948
Event
Palestinian Attacks
14 January 1948 - 19 February 1948
Event
British Break Arab Attacks
6 February 1948 - 10 February 1948
Event
Zionist Attacks
15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948
Event
Haganah Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
Palestinian Operations
11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948
Event
The Battle for Haifa and Its Surroundings
4 April 1948 - 22 April 1948
Event
Unit of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Attacks Kfar Darom
10 April 1948
Event
Fighting Around Jerusalem
12 April 1948 - 23 April 1948
Event
Arab Gains in Gush Etzion
3 May 1948 - 14 May 1948
Event
Arab Armies Cross Palestine Borders
15 May 1948 - 10 June 1948
Event
Soviet Union Threatens Intervention
5 November 1956
Event
2nd Arab Summit Meets in Alexandria; Welcomes Establishment of PLO
5 September 1964 - 11 September 1964
Event
Military Order No. 291 on Land Settlement
19 December 1968
Event
Military Order No. 321 Concerning Land Law (Acquisition for Public Purposes)
28 March 1969
Event
UNGA 2649 (XXV): Condemning Denial of Right to Self-Determination to Peoples of South Africa and Palestine
30 November 1970
Event
Black September in Munich Olympic Games
5 September 1972 - 6 September 1972
Event
Black September Hijack Operation
29 October 1972 - 30 October 1972
Event
Plane Hijacked to Entebbe
27 June 1976 - 4 July 1976
Event
Wadi Haddad Dies in Berlin, East Germany
28 March 1978
Event
5th Negotiation Round, Washington
27 April 1992 - 30 April 1992
Event
Orient House, Jerusalem and PLO Foreign Relations
1 March 1999 - 11 May 1999
Event
New Threshold Crossed with Suicide Bombing and Warplanes
18 May 2001 - 4 June 2001
Event
War on Gaza: Calls for Active Diplomacy
4 January 2009 - 5 January 2009
Event
Western Powers Adopt a Program of Action Against Weapons Smuggling into Gaza
13 March 2009
Event
Israel-Hamas Token Preliminary Prisoner Deal
2 October 2009 - 3 October 2009
Event
Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai
20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010
Event
The State of Palestine Becomes Full Member of the UNESCO
5 October 2011 - 31 October 2011
Event
French Efforts in Favor of a Draft UNSC Resolution on Palestinian-Israeli Peace
2 December 2014 - 17 December 2014
Event
Formation of the Munich Group
15 February 2020 - 24 September 2020
Event
Meetings of the Munich Group and the Middle East Quartet
11 January 2021 - 18 November 2021
Event
ICC Rules that it has Jurisdiction in Occupied Palestinian Territories; Investigation Announced
5 February 2021 - 2 April 2021
Historical Texts
Document
Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission
3 July 1919
Document
Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission
28 August 1919
Document
The Covenant of the League of Nations: Article 22
10 January 1920
Document
Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
Document
Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots
10 August 1921
Document
Churchill White Paper
3 June 1922
Document
The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)
10 August 1922
Document
Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem
19 November 1928
Document
Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929
12 March 1930
Document
Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
Charter of the Arab Youth Congress
4 January 1932
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
Document
Proposed New Constitution for Palestine
22 December 1935 - 23 December 1935
Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
Peel Commission Report
July 1937
Document
Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
Document
Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report
9 November 1938
Document
British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report
11 November 1938
Document
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
Document
Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
Document
Biltmore Conference Declaration
11 May 1942
Document
Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt
14 February 1945
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
Document
Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962
5 March 1962
Document
First Arab Summit: Statement
13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964
Document
Palestine National (qawmi) Charter
28 May 1964
Document
Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release
1 January 1968
Document
Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
Document
Palestine National (watani) Charter
10 July 1968
Document
Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement
4 February 1969
Document
Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions
4 June 1970
Document
Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions
28 August 1970
Document
UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)
30 November 1970
Document
Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution
5 March 1971
Document
Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program
10 April 1972
Document
Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory
15 August 1973
Document
Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program
12 December 1973
Document
Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
Document
UNGA Resolution 3376 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
UNGA Resolution 3379 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
UNGA Resolution 3375 (XXX)
10 November 1975
Document
Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme
15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979
Document
Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement
11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981
Document
Crown Prince Fahd Peace Plan
7 August 1981
Document
Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land
18 August 1981
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/210
17 December 1987
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 19466
29 January 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/229
2 March 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 42/230
23 March 1988
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 19780
14 April 1988
Document
Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué
15 November 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 43/160
9 December 1988
Document
Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
Document
UNGA Resolution 43/177
15 December 1988
Document
Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement
28 September 1991
Document
Draft of UNSC Resolution 1995/394
17 May 1995
Document
The Geneva Accord
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
Document
UNGA Resolution 58/292
17 May 2004
Document
Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State
16 May 2011
Document
Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA
30 September 2015
Document
Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
17 April 2017
Document
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Op-Ed in The Guardian: Britain Must Atone for the Balfour Declaration – and 100 years of Suffering
1 November 2017
Document
Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Egypt and Jordan (The Munich Group)
11 January 2021
Document
The Dignity and Hope Manifesto: The Unity Intifada
18 May 2021
Document
HRC Res. S-30/1: Establishing an Ongoing Commission of Inquiry on Palestine
27 May 2021
Historical Media
Document
London Conference
February 1939
Document
Arms Dumps in the Colonies
2 September 1946
Document
Battle for the Roads
1948
Highlights
Highlight
Jerusalem
Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City
Highlight
Architecture and Urban Planning in Palestine
Caught Between Domination, Devastation and Mismanagement
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Preservation of Heritage in Palestine
A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure
Highlight
Palestinian Citizenship in Israel
An Unwanted Minority Asserts Its Narrative and Identity
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
Highlight
Palestinian Informal Justice
Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism
Highlight
Palestine Police During the British Mandate
Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals
Highlight
The First Intifada, 1987-1993
Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom
Highlight
Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa
Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field
Highlight
Palestinian Cinema
From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression
Highlight
The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948
The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station
Highlight
Sumud
Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance
Highlight
Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
Highlight
World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (I)
1850s-1948
Highlight
V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
Highlight
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP
1969-present
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
Highlight
Israel’s Apartheid Regime
Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians
Highlight
Palestinian Women in the Labor Market
A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism
Highlight
France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
The 1946 Anglo-American Committee
Humanitarianism Over Justice
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (II)
1967-present
Highlight
The Palestine Exploration Fund
Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming
Highlight
Palestine Liberation Organization (I)
The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement
Highlight
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP
1967-present
Highlight
The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse
A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism
Highlight
Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
Highlight
Nablus Soap Production
The Decline of an Ancient Heritage
Highlight
The Palestinians in Chile
A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine
Highlight
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
Highlight
I. Ottoman Rule
1516-1917
Highlight
The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives
Highlight
The Palestinian Flag
A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity
Highlight
1956 War
The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression
Highlight
Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (I)
Beginners (1795-1955)
Highlight
Demography and the Palestine Question (II)
1948-2048
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (II)
Pathfinders (1955-1965)
Highlight
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
1980–present
Highlight
The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
1987–present
Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Palestine-Lebanon Border
A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens
Highlight
Marka Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966
Governing the Lives of a Confined Population
Highlight
VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat
1966-1973
Highlight
The European Union and the Palestine Question
From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions
Highlight
The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)
Before the Nakba
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine
A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact
Highlight
Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Italy and the Palestine Question
From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility
Highlight
UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947
Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba
Highlight
Urban Palestine
Divergent Trajectories of Spatial and Social Transformations
Highlight
Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
Highlight
Palestinians in Germany
From Melancholia to Anger
Highlight
Public Contracts during the Mandate
Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals
Highlight
Beddawi Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity
1948-1993
Highlight
The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
Highlight
Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails
Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance
Highlight
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
Highlight
The Algerians of Palestine
1830-1948
Highlight
The Bosnians of Palestine
1881-present
Highlight
The New South Africa and the Palestine Question
From Good Offices to Total Support
Highlight
Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps
Highlight
The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question
Solidarity of the Colonized
Highlight
Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
Periods
Period
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
Period
I. Ottoman Rule
Thematic Chronologies
Thematic Chronology
Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005
2003 - 2006
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