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Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1868 - October 1930

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

1878 - 29 June 1950

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

1882 - 22 April 1942

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

George Antonius

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

1894 - 19 March 1949

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 2 May 1941

1905 - 21 May 1985

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

1926 - 23 January 1984

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1941 - 5 February 2023

Historical Media

Town of Safad, Northern Galilee

Events

Founding of the Haganah, the Jewish Paramilitary Organization

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

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

19 November 1928 - 27 December 1928

16th Zionist Congress Is Held in Zurich

28 July 1929 - 11 August 1929

The British Form a Commission of Inquiry on Disturbances at al-Buraq / Western Wall

13 September 1929

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

13 February 1931

The [Palestine] Arab Executive Committee Denounces MacDonald's Reassurance to Weizmann

Enactment of the Palestine Order in Council Related to al-Buraq / Western Wall

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

Outbreak of the Great Palestinian Rebellion

15 April 1936 - 30 April 1936

Criminal Code Ordinance of 1936

Wave of Irgun Attacks against Palestinians

2 June 1939 - 1 August 1939

Stern Gang and Irgun Start Operations Against British

January 1944 - March 1944

Coordinated Zionist Anti-British Activism

1 October 1945 - 31 October 1945

Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

17 June 1946 - 22 July 1946

Series of Zionist Attacks on Palestinians in the Wake of the Partition Plan

6 December 1947 - 31 December 1947

Haganah Operations

11 March 1948 - 31 March 1948

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

3 April 1948 - 21 April 1948

Operation Hametz and the Fall of Jaffa

24 April 1948 - 13 May 1948

Britain and France Join the War

31 October 1956

June War, 4th Day

Dial 1-202-456-1414

Andrews and Bolling Rounds of Negotiation

13 June 2000 - 17 June 2000

Israeli and Palestinian Response to the Clinton Proposals

28 December 2000 - 3 January 2001

Israel and the US Put Effective End to Peace Talks

7 February 2001 - 8 February 2001

US Response to the Israeli Invasion

4 April 2002 - 17 April 2002

Settlement Activity in Spite of Road Map

2 August 2004 - 23 August 2004

The US to Strengthen Security Forces Loyal to Abbas

14 December 2006 - 5 January 2007

Gaza: Military Confrontation Continues and Siege is Tightened

26 March 2008 - 15 May 2008

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

16 January 2009

Israel Approves a Major Settlement Plan in Gilo, East Jerusalem

17 November 2009

President Obama Meets Netanyahu and Pushes the Palestinians for Direct Talks with Israel

6 July 2010 - 23 August 2010

Israel's 2012 Assault on Gaza: Cease-Fire Evening Announcement

21 November 2012

First Trump Administration Statement on Israeli Settlements

2 February 2017

The Israeli Knesset Passes a Law Regularizing Settlements Retroactively

6 February 2017

First Phone Contact Between Trump and Abbas

10 March 2017 - 12 March 2017

Trump Signs the 6-Month Waiver Delaying the Application of the Jerusalem Embassy Act

White House Statement on Israeli Settlement Activity

Trump Peace Negotiating Team to Travel to Middle East

15 June 2018 - 24 June 2018

The US Recognizes the Golan Heights as Part of Israel

21 March 2019 - 25 March 2019

30th Arab Summit Meets in Tunis

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Mecca

US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ Plan and Conference

22 June 2019 - 26 June 2019

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

Historical Texts

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

Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929

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

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

Report “to Determine the Rights and Claims of Moslems and Jews in Connection with the Western or Wailing Wall at Jerusalem”

1 December 1930

MacDonald's Letter to Weizmann

13 February 1931

Palestine (Western or Wailing Wall) Order in Council, 1931

Communiqué: Formation of the Arab Independence Party; the Party Bylaws (in Arabic)

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Law Promulgating the Basic Law for the Area under the Supervision of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine No. 255 of 1955 (in Arabic)

25 February 1958

President Bourguiba's Speech on the Palestine Question (in Arabic)

Bylaws of the Executive Committee of the PLO (in Arabic)

Statement of the General Congress to Defend Arab Lands in Israel (in Arabic)

18 October 1975

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 21st Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996

Statement of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (in Arabic)

PLO Central Council, Statement (in Arabic)

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

Palestine National Council, 23rd Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

30 April 2018 - 4 May 2018

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

The Palestine Communist Party

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

III. Late Mandate

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

Demography and the Palestine Question (I)

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The Israeli Military

The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”

The Palestinians in Chile

A Large Community, Fully Chilean, Fully Engaged for Palestine

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Palestinian Visual Arts (II)

Pathfinders (1955-1965)

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

The Deir Yasin Massacre, 9 April 1948

An Ominous Sign of Worse to Come

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance