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Biographies

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

Jurji Habib Hanania

1868 - October 1930

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

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

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

1929 - 2 June 2016

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

Building of the Jaffa-Jerusalem Railroad Line

31 March 1890 - 26 September 1892

Palestinian Peasants in Tiberias Score a Rare Success Against Zionist Land Acquisition

8 December 1900 - 11 November 1901

Zionist Attempt to Buy 1.5 Million Dunams in the Jordan Valley

March 1909 - July 1909

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Report of the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry on Jaffa Disturbances

The League of Nations Confirms Britain’s Mandate over Palestine

Joint Memorandum of Palestinian Parties

25 November 1935

Expulsion from Hebron Area

Egypt-UNRWA Agreement on Plans for Refugee Resettlement Projects

Israel's Construction of the "National Water Carrier"

2 September 1953

Palestinians in Gaza Rise Up Against Resettlement Projects

1 March 1955 - 6 March 1955

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

Israel Land Requisition in Old City of Jerusalem

5th Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

1 February 1969 - 4 February 1969

Palestinians in Israel Mobilize Against Confiscation

1 January 1976 - 6 March 1976

Palestinian-Jordanian Coordination for Peace Talks

26 February 1984 - 1 March 1984

The PLO Executive Committee Rejects Israel's Peace Initiative

Settlement Activity Around Jerusalem

19 January 1995 - 1 February 1995

Land Expropriation in Jerusalem

27 April 1995 - 3 May 1995

Palestinian Response to Har Homa/Jabal Abu Ghunaym Settlement Project

27 February 1997 - 10 April 1997

Palestinian-Israeli Talks Deadlocked

10 March 1997 - 30 July 1997

Implementation of Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II)

10 September 1999 - 20 March 2000

Toward a Protracted Confrontation

10 November 2000 - 22 December 2000

Israel Closes Orient House and Other Jerusalem Institutions

Losses During the 1st Year of the Second Intifada

28 September 2001

Israel Decides to Create Buffer Zones (Separation Wall)

14 April 2002 - 25 April 2002

Losses on the Two-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2002

Losses on the Three-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2003

Widening Philadelphi (Salahuddin) Route: Operation Rainbow

16 May 2004 - 24 May 2004

Operation Active Shield in Gaza; Assassination of Militants in Gaza and West Bank

27 June 2004 - 5 August 2004

Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map

2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004

Losses on the Four-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2004

Operation Days of Penitence

29 September 2004 - 15 October 2004

Losses on the Five-Year Anniversary of the Second Intifada

28 September 2005

Israel's Operation Summer Rains Against Gaza Continues

15 August 2006 - 9 September 2006

Israel's Operation Summer Rains Enters its 4th Month

1 October 2006 - 31 October 2006

Israel's Operation Autumn Clouds Against Gaza

1 November 2006 - 12 November 2006

The US to Strengthen Security Forces Loyal to Abbas

14 December 2006 - 5 January 2007

Israeli Operations Against Gaza Resume

24 June 2007 - 12 July 2007

Settlement Expansion in Jabal Abu Ghunaym/ Har Homa

4 December 2007

Donors' Conference in Paris Supports Abbas's PA; PEGASE to Replace TIM

17 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

Salam Fayyad's Government Issues “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State” Plan

25 August 2009 - 24 September 2009

Israel Approves a Major Settlement Plan in Gilo, East Jerusalem

17 November 2009

The US Tries to Launch Israeli-Palestinian Talks Through Letters of Guarantee

16 December 2009 - 4 January 2010

Establishment of Palestinian National Dignity Fund

12 January 2010 - 18 May 2010

Israel Announces Easing of Gaza Blockade

8 June 2010 - 5 July 2010

Israel Resumes Provocative Settlement Measures in East Jerusalem

21 June 2010 - 30 June 2010

Israel Settlement Activity Taken up Again in Earnest

27 September 2011 - 1 November 2011

Israel’s Settlement Activity

6 June 2012 - 13 August 2012

Dangerous Surge of Israeli-Palestinian Violence in and across Gaza

14 October 2012 - 13 November 2012

Visit of Qatar’s Emir Shaykh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani to Gaza

23 October 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on the Gaza Strip, Day 1

14 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza

14 November 2012 - 22 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza, Day 8

21 November 2012

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: A Balance Sheet

22 November 2012

Surge in Settlement Expansion

30 November 2012 - 10 February 2013

With or Without Negotiations, Israel Continues its Settlement Activities

30 May 2013 - 11 August 2013

Trilateral Agreement for a Red Sea-Dead Sea Link

9 December 2013

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Dangerous Escalation on the Gaza Front

3 July 2014 - 7 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 3

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 21-24

28 July 2014 - 31 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 26-28: Fighting Continues

2 August 2014 - 4 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 43

Renewal of Settlement Activity

31 August 2014 - 24 December 2014

Settlement Construction

30 January 2015

A "Reconstruction Hudna" in Gaza?

2 March 2015 - 14 April 2015

Settlement Construction

23 July 2015 - 17 November 2015

Israel Pursues its Confiscation of Palestinian Land in the West Bank

10 March 2016 - 21 April 2016

Continued Israeli Settlement Activity and Destruction of Palestinian Infrastructure

27 July 2016 - 7 December 2016

Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee Reactivated

15 January 2017

Hamas New Charter

Old Cities of Jerusalem and Hebron Inscribed as World Heritage in Danger

4 July 2017 - 7 July 2017

Botched Undercover Israeli Operation in Gaza Sparks Exchange of Fire

11 November 2018 - 13 November 2018

Israeli Violence Ahead of One-Year Anniversary of Great March of Return; Egyptian Restraint Efforts

22 March 2019 - 29 March 2019

US Officials Partake in Inauguration of Large-Scale Settler Project in East Jerusalem

EU Anti-Palestinian Clause

Jewish National Fund Adopts New Policy to Purchase and Claim Lands in the West Bank

25 February 2021 - 2 September 2021

Historical Texts

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission Report

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

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

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Suggestions Presented by the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte) to the Two Parties

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 302 (IV)

8 December 1949

Agreement between the Government of the Kingdom of Egypt And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

12 September 1950

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

UNGA Resolution 513 (VI)

26 January 1952

UNRWA-Egypt Agreement on Economic and Engineering Surveys

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

First Arab Summit: Statement

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

UNGA Resolution 2452 (XXIII)

19 December 1968

Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement

4 February 1969

UNGA Resolution 2535 (XXIV)

10 December 1969

Palestinian National Council, Emergency Session: Resolutions

UNGA Resolution 2672 (XXV)

8 December 1970

Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution

UNGA Resolution 2792 (XXVI)

6 December 1971

Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions

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

Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration

12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly

13 December 1988

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

Palestinian and Israeli Positions on Refugees

22 January 2001 - 23 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

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

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

UNGA Resolution ES-10/14

12 December 2003

Prime Minister Elect Ismail Haniyeh Presents New Government’s Program To the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

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

25 September 2009

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Report of the Middle East Quartet

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

China’s Four-Point Proposal on Promoting the Settlement of the Palestinian Issue

Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas to End Palestinian Division

12 October 2017

Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516

UNGA Resolution ES-10/20

B’Tselem: A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid

12 January 2021

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

The Palestine Communist Party

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

XIII. With a Growingly Intractable Deadlock, Whither Palestine?

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

III. Late Mandate

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Land Day, 30 March 1976

A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

The Palestine Question in German Public Discourse

A Conflation of Zionism, Israel and Judaism

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Ein el Tal (Handarat) Refugee Camp

Demography and the Palestine Question (II)

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps

Perpetuating the Temporary

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

The European Union and the Palestine Question

From Promising Ambitions to Crippling Divisions

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

The Village of al-Araqib

Rebuilding Home for the Hundredth Time and Beyond

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Tal al-Za‘atar Refugee Camp

Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank

Determined to Stay High on the National Agenda

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Algerians of Palestine

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Palestinians in Sweden

Engaged for Palestine beyond their Diverse Legal Statuses

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (1)

2015 - 2048

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (2)

2015 - 2048

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Projections of Population (3)

2015 - 2048