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Events

The Naqib al-Ashraf Rebellion in Jerusalem

May 1703 - November 1705

Local Control of Zionist Land Purchases in the Sanjaq of Jerusalem

Establishment of the Arab-Ottoman Brotherhood Society in Istanbul

2 September 1908 - April 1909

Elections Held for Third Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

Palestinian Members of the Ottoman Parliament Express Opposition to Zionist Objectives

June 1909 - 2 November 1909

Establishment of the Literary Club in Istanbul

July 1909 - March 1915

Formation of the Moderate Liberal Party and the Entente Libérale Party in Istanbul

30 October 1909 - 8 November 1911

Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris

Elections Held for Fourth Ottoman Parliament; Five Representatives from Regions in Palestine

18 April 1912 - 5 August 1912

Formation of the Covenant Society in Istanbul

28 October 1913

Elections Held for Fifth Ottoman Parliament; Six Representatives from Regions in Palestine

Jemal Pasha Orders the Public Hanging of Arab Nationalists from the Levant

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

The British Prepare for the Occupation of Palestine

Second Stage of British Palestine Campaign: From Bir al-Sabi' and Gaza to Jerusalem

31 October 1917 - 9 December 1917

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

The General Syrian National Congress Proclaims the Independence of the Arab Syrian Kingdom

7 March 1920 - 8 March 1920

French Occupy Damascus; Arab Syrian Kingdom Nominally Reduced to Transjordan

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

3rd Palestinian National Congress Meets in Haifa

13 December 1920 - 19 December 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Amin al-Husseini Elected Mufti of Jerusalem

The Palestinian Delegation Conducts Sterile Negotiations in London

2 July 1921 - 31 July 1922

Regulation Concerning the Supreme Moslem Sharia Council

20 December 1921 - 9 January 1922

Founding of the Arab National Party in Jerusalem

8 November 1923

Islamic Conference in Defense of al-Buraq and Muslim Holy Places in Jerusalem

1 November 1928

White Paper (Amery) on Status Quo at al-Buraq / Western Wall

19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928

Pan-Islamic Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

7 December 1931 - 17 December 1931

Challenging the Pan-Islamic Congress, a Conference of the Palestinian Islamic Nation Is Convened

11 December 1931

An Arab National Conference Meets on the Sidelines of the Pan-Islamic Congress

13 December 1931

Establishment of the Arab National Fund

September 1932 - 8 August 1935

General Strike and Demonstrations in Palestine

8 October 1933 - 3 November 1933

Death of Musa Kazim Husseini

Establishment of the National Defense Party

2 December 1934

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Party

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

British "Divide-and-Rule" Policy

November 1938 - May 1939

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Formation of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Front in Opposition to the Palestine Arab Party

Arab League Supervises the Establishment of a Unified Palestinian Arab Higher Committee

First Phase of Palestine War: Offensive Defense versus Active Defense

29 November 1947 - 10 March 1948

Operations Nachshon and Har'el to Open Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza

22 September 1948 - 2 October 1948

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

Arab Oil, a Weapon in the Battle

17 October 1973 - 21 October 1973

A Palestine Information Office (PIO) Is Opened in Washington

Detention of Faisal al-Husseini

12 April 1987 - 13 September 1987

Another Round of Releasing and Detaining Faisal al-Husseini

9 June 1988 - 29 January 1989

Secretary Baker First Stage Diplomacy

9 March 1991 - 14 May 1991

20th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

23 September 1991 - 28 September 1991

US Letters of Assurances to Parties to Upcoming Peace Conference

15 October 1991 - 18 October 1991

Palestinians Agree to Return to Washington Negotiations

Status of Orient House in Jerusalem

29 May 1994 - 7 June 1994

Orient House, Jerusalem and PLO Foreign Relations

1 March 1999 - 11 May 1999

Ariel Sharon at al-Haram al-Sharif

28 September 2000

Death of Faisal al-Husseini

Biographies

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Historical Texts

1st Palestinian National Congress: Petition to Paris Peace Conference (in Arabic)

3 February 1919

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 5th Palestinian National Congress on Boycotting the Legislative Council Elections (in Arabic)

1 September 1922

Arab Executive Committee's Response to High Commissioner's Offer to Form an Arab Agency Similar to the Jewish Agency in Palestine (in Arabic)

12 October 1923

National Fund: Establishment of Company to Save the Lands of Palestine (in Arabic)

11 October 1932

Establishment of a Provisional Palestinian Civil Administration (in Arabic)

Palestine National Council, 1st Session: List of Members (in Arabic)

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Historical Media

Third Palestinian National Congress, Haifa

14 December 1920

Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

Pan-Islamic Congress, 1931

16 December 1931

Musa Kazim Husseini's Funeral, Damascus Gate

Arab Higher Committee Members

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

London Conference

Funeral of Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

Highlights

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

III. Late Mandate

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)

After the Nakba

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

France and the Palestine Question Before 1948

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

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition