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Biographies
Biography
Musa Kazim Husseini
1853 - 26 March 1934
Biography
Ali al-Rimawi
1860 - 1919
Biography
Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi
1864 - 6 August 1913
Biography
Najib Nassar
1865 - 3 March 1948
Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Isa al-Isa
1878 - 29 June 1950
Biography
Abdallah Mukhlis
27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947
Biography
Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar
1880 - 1949
Biography
Izzeddin al-Qassam
1882 - 20 November 1935
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Isaaf al-Nashashibi
1885 - 22 January 1948
Biography
Mu‘in al-Madi
1887 - 1957
Biography
Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim
1889 - 1953
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
Jamal al-Husseini
1892 - 5 July 1982
Biography
Kulthum Odeh
2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965
Biography
Karimeh Abbud
1893 - 27 April 1940
Biography
Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti
1894 - 22 June 1965
Biography
Izzat Tannous
27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993
Biography
Subhi al-Khadra
1895 - 4 July 1954
Biography
Musa Alami
8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984
Biography
Anbara Salam Khalidi
4 August 1897 - 1986
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Fuad Saba
1902 - 27 August 1984
Biography
Najati Sidqi
15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979
Biography
Badr Lama
23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Abd al-Majid Shuman
1912 - 5 July 2005
Biography
Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud
1913 - 13 July 1948
Biography
Anwar Nuseibeh
1913 - 1986
Biography
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001
Biography
Yasir Arafat
24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004
Biography
Anis Abdullah Sayigh
3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009
Biography
Shafiq al-Hout
13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009
Biography
Edward W. Said
1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003
Biography
Ahmad Ismail Yasin
June 1936 - 22 March 2004
Biography
Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout
1937
Biography
Hanan Ashrawi
8 October 1946
Biography
François Abou Salem
16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011
Events
Event
Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt
1882
Event
Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line
31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892
Event
Establishment of the Anglo-Palestine Company
7 July 1903 - 24 November 1903
Event
8th Zionist Congress Is Held in the Hague
14 July 1907 - 21 July 1907
Event
Provisional Law Concerning the Right of Certain Corporate Bodies to Own Immovable Property, 22 Rabi' al-awwal 1331
1 March 1913
Event
The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine
24 July 1922
Event
Establishment of the Arab National Fund
September 1932 - 8 August 1935
Event
Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially
January 1935
Event
First Phase of the Great Palestinian Rebellion
15 April 1936 - 23 July 1937
Event
Start of General Strike and Armed Resistance
7 May 1936 - 31 May 1936
Event
Roosevelt and Ibn Saud Meet
14 February 1945
Event
Great Britain Issues the Palestine (Revocations) Order in Council, 1948
12 May 1948
Event
SC Res. 95: Calling on Egypt to End Restrictions on Commercial Shipping through Suez Canal
1 September 1951
Event
Israel and the Lavon Affair
July 1954 - 17 February 1955
Event
Egypt Detains Israeli Freighter
28 September 1954
Event
Egypt Blocks Greek Freighter
25 May 1956
Event
Nationalization of the Suez Canal
26 July 1956
Event
London Conference on Suez
16 August 1956 - 23 August 1956
Event
Ben-Gurion Addresses the Issue of Suez
26 August 1956
Event
Britain, France, and Israel Sign the Protocol of Sèvres
22 October 1956 - 24 October 1956
Event
Israel Invades Egypt
29 October 1956
Event
The 1956 War - The Tripartite Aggression
29 October 1956 - 12 March 1957
Event
Israel Occupies Gaza
1 November 1956 - 7 March 1957
Event
UNGA 997 (ES-I): Calling for an Immediate Cease-Fire (the Suez Crisis)
2 November 1956
Event
British and French Troops Invade Canal Zone
5 November 1956
Event
Israel Addresses the Future of Sinai
7 November 1956 - 8 November 1956
Event
The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) Deploys in Sinai
12 November 1956 - 12 March 1957
Event
2nd Arab Summit Meets in Alexandria; Welcomes Establishment of PLO
5 September 1964 - 11 September 1964
Event
June War, 2nd Day
6 June 1967
Event
June War, 5th Day
9 June 1967
Event
Military Order No. 59, Concerning State Property
31 July 1967
Event
Egypt's War of Attrition
8 March 1969 - 7 August 1970
Event
Rogers Plan II
19 June 1970 - 7 August 1970
Event
President Sadat Suggests Partial Israeli Withdrawal from Suez Canal
4 February 1971
Event
October War, 1st Day
6 October 1973
Event
October War, 2nd Day
7 October 1973
Event
October War, 3rd Day
8 October 1973
Event
October War, 5th Day
10 October 1973
Event
October War, From the 6th to 10th Day
11 October 1973 - 14 October 1973
Event
Israeli Army Crosses the Suez Canal Westwards
15 October 1973 - 22 October 1973
Event
Kilometer 101 Talks
11 November 1973
Event
Sinai I Agreement
18 January 1974 - 3 March 1974
Event
Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty Is Signed in Washington, DC
26 March 1979
Event
The Knesset Issues Amendment 16 to the Planning and Building Law, 1965
12 February 1981
Event
Israeli Military Pressure on West Beirut
27 June 1982 - 11 July 1982
Event
Start of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
9 December 1987
Event
Resurgence of Intifada, Worsening of Repression
3 May 1989 - 16 May 1989
Event
Renewed Israeli Settlement Activities and Plans in East Jerusalem
25 May 1998 - 21 June 1998
Event
Assassination of Atef Ubayyat in Beit Sahur
18 October 2001
Event
Extending Retaliation to Syrian Territory; Operation Root Canal in Rafah
4 October 2003 - 30 October 2003
Event
Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan
2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004
Event
Hamas's Heavy-Handed Control of a Salafi Group in Gaza
22 July 2009 - 15 August 2009
Event
Israel Announces Easing of Gaza Blockade
8 June 2010 - 5 July 2010
Event
State of Palestine: Application for Admission to Membership in the United Nations
23 September 2011
Event
Visit of Qatar’s Emir Shaykh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani to Gaza
23 October 2012
Event
Israel Once Again Links the Second-Stage Release of Palestinian Prisoners with Settlement Expansion
29 October 2013 - 3 November 2013
Event
Renewal of Settlement Activity
31 August 2014 - 24 December 2014
Event
Heightened Tension at Haram al-Sharif
30 September 2014 - 22 December 2014
Event
Palestinians in the West Bank Boycott Israeli Dairy and Processed Food Products
9 February 2015 - 2 March 2015
Event
Israel's Policy Toward the Palestinian Outburst
4 October 2015 - 13 October 2015
Event
Church of the Holy Sepulchre Temporarily Closes in Protest
25 February 2018 - 28 February 2018
Event
Airbnb Pressured to End Operations in the West Bank; Reverses Decision After Pressure
19 November 2018 - 9 April 2019
Event
The Israel Electric Corporation Cuts Power in the West Bank
22 September 2019 - 29 December 2019
Event
Creeping Normalization
19 May 2020 - 25 June 2020
Event
Sudan to Normalize Ties with Israel in Exchange for US Incentives
25 August 2020 - 23 September 2021
Event
Facebook Censors Palestinians
24 May 2021 - 15 October 2021
Event
Norwegian Wealth Fund and the Pension Fund Divest from Companies Linked to Israeli Settlements
5 July 2021 - 3 September 2021
Historical Texts
Document
Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein
25 October 1915
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
League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine
24 July 1922
Document
Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922
10 August 1922
Document
National Fund: Establishment of Company to Save the Lands of Palestine (in Arabic)
11 October 1932
Document
The Murison Commission Report
4 January 1934
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
London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence
16 March 1939
Document
Land Transfers Regulations, 1940
20 February 1940
Document
Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt
14 February 1945
Document
The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945
22 September 1945
Document
Israel: Law and Administration Ordinance
19 May 1948
Document
Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties
28 June 1948
Document
Jordan-Israel General Armistice Agreement
3 April 1949
Document
Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement
20 July 1949
Document
Absentees' Property Law, 5710-1950
14 March 1950
Document
UNSC Resolution 95
1 September 1951
Document
Prevention of Infiltration (Offences and Jurisdiction) Law 1954 (5714)
16 August 1954
Document
UNGA Resolution 997 (ES-I)
2 November 1956
Document
Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions
10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968
Document
Rogers Plan
9 December 1969
Document
Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions
4 June 1970
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
Sixth Arab Summit: Policy Statement
28 November 1973
Document
Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Egypt
18 January 1974
Document
Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel and Syria
31 May 1974
Document
Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
Document
The Koenig Memorandum
1 March 1976
Document
Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
Document
Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)
17 September 1978
Document
Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement
2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978
Document
Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt
26 March 1979
Document
Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority
16 January 1980
Document
Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza
31 January 1982
Document
Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut
20 August 1982
Document
Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
Document
Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement
20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987
Document
Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
Document
Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
Document
Israeli Cabinet Decision on the Five-Point Plan of Secretary Baker
5 November 1989
Document
Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)
13 September 1993
Document
Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations
29 April 1994
Document
Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area
4 May 1994
Document
Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
28 September 1995
Document
Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
17 January 1997
Document
Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip
5 October 1999
Document
PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement
1 January 2001
Document
The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
Document
Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law
18 March 2003
Document
A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
30 April 2003
Document
Palestinian Parties and Factions Code of Conduct during the Legislative Electoral Process
17 October 2005
Document
Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council
27 March 2006
Document
UNSC Resolution 1701
11 August 2006
Document
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Address at al-Quds University: Statehood in Two Years
22 June 2009
Document
Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
Document
Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA
30 September 2015
Document
Scope of Database of Firms Contributing to Israeli Settlement Activities
24 March 2016
Document
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
Document
Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon
20 July 2017
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019
Document
Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
12 February 2020
Document
B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
12 January 2021
Historical Media
Document
Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London
April 1930
Document
Caricature: Balfour and the Woes His Ill-Fated Promise Brought to Palestine (Filastin Newspaper)
2 November 1932
Document
Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
circa 1940
Document
Land in Jewish Possession (1944)
31 December 1944
Highlights
Highlight
The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
Highlight
Palestinian Photographers before 1948
Documenting Life in a Time of Change
Highlight
Israel’s Appropriation of Palestinian Property
Cooking Up Laws for the Sake of Land Grab
Highlight
The Palestine Communist Party
1919–1948
Highlight
Sumud
Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance
Highlight
Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948
A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba
Highlight
World Zionist Organization
Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine
Highlight
IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba
1947-1950
Highlight
XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics
2000-2006
Highlight
V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict
1950-1966
Highlight
October 1973 War
A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results
Highlight
Camp David Accords, 1978-1979
Shattering the Arab Front
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (I)
1850s-1967
Highlight
The Separation Wall
Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians
Highlight
Palestinian Women in the Labor Market
A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism
Highlight
Palestinian Embroidery
A Rich and Diverse National Heritage
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967
The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space
Highlight
France and the Palestine Question before 1948
Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism
Highlight
Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community
Highlight
Palestinian Emigration (II)
1967-present
Highlight
Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine
The Emergence of a Working Class
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
Jaramana Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
1956 War
The Political Failure of the Tripartite Aggression
Highlight
X. The Oslo Process And The Establishment Of The Palestinian Authority
1993-2000
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
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
Highlight
The Palestinians in Peru
A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History
Highlight
June 1967 War
A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Highlight
VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat
1966-1973
Highlight
Dheisheh Refugee Camp
West Bank
Highlight
Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation
Highlight
Mar Elias Refugee Camp
Lebanon
Highlight
Italy and the Palestine Question
From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility
Highlight
Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”
Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History
Highlight
Mexico and the Palestine Question
Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor
Highlight
Turkey and the Palestine Question
Torn between a Pro-Western Stance, Regional Considerations and Identity
Highlight
Wihdat Refugee Camp
Jordan
Highlight
Spain and the Palestine Question
Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel
Highlight
Palestinians in Germany
From Melancholia to Anger
Highlight
The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991
Between Ideology and Realism
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 March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip
Thwarting Resettlement Schemes
Highlight
The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948
An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come
Highlight
The Nakba
Stages of a Forced Displacement
Highlight
Lydda, 9-13 July 1948
A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March
Highlight
Dera‘a Refugee Camp
Syria
Highlight
The 2014 Gaza War
An Asymetric Draw
Highlight
XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks
2006-2017
Highlight
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
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
Palestine-Egypt Border
A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans
Highlight
The Palestinians in Sweden
Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses
Thematic Chronologies
Thematic Chronology
1956 War
1955 - 1957
Thematic Chronology
The May 2021 Gaza War
2021
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