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A Religious Component Related to Jerusalem and Other Elements Are Added to a Capitulation Granted to France

20 May 1604 - 17 April 1607

Greek Orthodox Backlash against Provision on Jerusalem's Holy Sites in Capitulation of 1604

Acre Under Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar

Napoleon Bonaparte in Palestine

February 1799 - May 1799

Jerusalem Representation in the First and Second Ottoman Parliaments

19 March 1877 - 14 February 1878

Great Britain Invades Egypt; Egypt as a British Veiled Protectorate

Herzl Correspondence with Jerusalem Mayor

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

17 December 1908 - 17 January 1912

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

18 April 1912 - 5 August 1912

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

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

21 August 1915 - 6 May 1916

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

Founding of the Arab National Party in Jerusalem

8 November 1923

Establishment of the Arab Bank in Jerusalem

21 May 1930 - 14 July 1930

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

13 December 1931

Establishment of the Istiqlal Party

Establishment of the Arab National Fund

September 1932 - 8 August 1935

Establishment of the National Defense Party

2 December 1934

Death of Shaykh Izzeddin al-Qassam in a Battle with a British Force

12 November 1935 - 21 November 1935

The Arab Higher Committee is Formed

Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

October 1937 - November 1937

Arab National Fund Reestablished

Establishment of the Institute of Arab American Affairs (IAAA) in New York

25 November 1944 - 31 January 1950

Roosevelt and Ibn Saud Meet

14 February 1945

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi Is Appointed Military Governor of Jerusalem

Responses to Bernadotte's Plan

2 July 1948 - 5 July 1948

Establishment of All-Palestine Government in Gaza

22 September 1948 - 2 October 1948

Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference

Elections in Israel

25 January 1949 - 14 February 1949

Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York

Palestine Arab Refugee Office (PARO) Is Opened in New York

25 June 1955 - 15 January 1962

Death of Ahmad Hilmi Abd al-Baqi; Ahmad al-Shuqairi as Palestine Delegate to the Arab League

29 June 1963 - 19 September 1963

Palestinian Delegation at the UN

18 October 1963 - 5 November 1963

1st Arab Summit Meets in Cairo, Deals with Israeli Diversion of the Jordan River

13 January 1964 - 17 January 1964

1st Palestine National Council Is Held in Jerusalem: Establishment of the PLO

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

Opening an Office of the PLO in Lebanon

23 October 1964 - 13 November 1964

The PLO Opens its First Information Office in New York

22 January 1965 - 29 October 1974

2nd Palestine National Council Is Held in Cairo

31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965

Palestinians Reorganize

11 December 1967 - 19 January 1968

Ahmed Bouchiki Assassinated in Lillehammer

Shaykh Ahmad Yasin's Islamic Center Is Established in Gaza

7 September 1973

Ezzedine Kalak Is Assassinated in Paris

A PLF Operation in Nahariya

Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Aziz Brigheeth and Samir Toukan in Cyprus

15 December 1979

Fahd Plan Is Announced

First Communiqué of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

14 December 1987

Israeli Raid on Palestinian Base South of Beirut; Ahmad Jibril Is Targeted

9 December 1988

Ahmad Yasin Arrested

Israel Deports 415 Palestinians to South Lebanon

13 December 1992 - 17 December 1992

Norwegian Secret Channel, Exploratory Stage

20 January 1993 - 9 May 1993

Norwegian Secret Channel, Official Stage

20 May 1993 - 20 August 1993

Start of Israel-PLO Economic Talks in Paris

Inauguration of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza

Attempted Assassination of Khalid Mishal in Amman; Ahmad Yasin Released

25 September 1997 - 1 October 1997

Assassination of Mohi al-Din Sharif in Ramallah

Palestinian Authority Crackdown Against Hamas

3 August 1999 - 26 August 1999

Setting Up Israeli-Palestinian Back Channel

1 December 1999 - 5 May 2000

The Stockholm Back Channel - 1st Session

12 May 2000 - 15 May 2000

Andrews and Bolling Rounds of Negotiation

13 June 2000 - 17 June 2000

Clinton Invites Arafat and Barak to a Summit in Camp David

3 July 2000 - 11 July 2000

Another Timid Return to Diplomacy: a Peres-Qurai' Draft?

16 December 2001 - 27 December 2001

Invasion of Ramallah: The Siege of Arafat's Compound

29 March 2002 - 1 May 2002

Assassination of Yusuf Abu Hin in Gaza City

Ahmad Qurai' Is Appointed PM: A Nine-Week Ministerial Crisis

7 September 2003 - 12 November 2003

Palestinian Peace Gestures

1 December 2003 - 7 January 2004

Draft SC Res. S/2004/240 Condemning Extrajudicial Executions (Shaykh Ahmad Yasin) and all Terrorist Acts Vetoed by US

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

The Palestinian Leadership Faces an Internal Crisis and Risks Loss of Control

7 July 2004 - 27 July 2004

Palestinian Presidential Elections: Mahmoud Abbas Is Elected

1 December 2004 - 15 January 2005

New Palestinian Cabinet Under Ahmad Qurai'

24 February 2005

PA New Legislature and Consultations to Form a New Cabinet

18 February 2006 - 16 March 2006

Israeli Raid on Jericho Jail

14 March 2006 - 18 March 2006

Formation of the Hamas-Led Cabinet

19 March 2006 - 28 March 2006

Major Arrest Raid Against Hamas-Affiliated PA Officials

29 June 2006 - 19 August 2006

Formation of the Palestinian Unity Government

15 March 2007 - 17 March 2007

Israel Escalates Attacks in Gaza and the West Bank

3 April 2007 - 29 May 2007

Palestinian and Israeli Teams to Prepare Annapolis International Conference

20 September 2007 - 25 November 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Bad Start

12 December 2007 - 27 December 2007

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status Intensify

4 February 2008 - 24 February 2008

Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen

18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

War on Gaza, Day 5

31 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 7

War on Gaza, Day 15: Intensification of Israeli Attacks

10 January 2009

Hamas's Heavy-Handed Control of a Salafi Group in Gaza

22 July 2009 - 15 August 2009

Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhuh in Dubai

20 January 2010 - 31 January 2010

The PLO Considers Internationalization as an Alternative to Negotiations

16 October 2010

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

14 November 2012

Assassination of Ahmad Ja'bari in Gaza City

14 November 2012

Palestinians' Hunger Strikes in Israeli Prisons

19 February 2013 - 22 April 2013

Tension and Hostilities Mount Across Gaza

14 June 2014 - 2 July 2014

Dangerous Escalation on the Gaza Front

3 July 2014 - 7 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Day 2

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 11 and 12

18 July 2014 - 19 July 2014

Fifth Attempted Assassination of Mohammed Deif in Gaza City

Hamas's Military Wing Outlawed in Egypt

31 January 2015 - 28 February 2015

Fatah Seventh General Conference Renews Its Governing Bodies

4 December 2016

Amendment No. 46 of Basic Law: The Knesset Gives Additional Reasons for Disqualifying Arab Candidates

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Mecca

Cracks in Arab Unity on Palestine

9 September 2020 - 22 September 2020

Morocco Normalizes Relations with Israel in Exchange for US Recognition of Western Sahara as Part of Morocco

10 December 2020 - 14 December 2020

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

1859 - 21 July 1921

1860 - 13 April 1930

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

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

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

1893 - 27 April 1940

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

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

1907 - 27 July 2006

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

1910 - 26 February 1971

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

1926 - 23 January 1984

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

1928 - 1 September 2020

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1934 - 14 September 2021

9 May 1935 - 10 April 1973

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

1941 - 5 February 2023

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

9 February 1963

Historical Media

Yusuf Diya-uddin Pasha al-Khalidi

Jemal Pasha Reviews His Troops

Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London

Members of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party

Arab Higher Committee Members

Smashing the Palestinian Political Infrastructure

15 December 1938

Arab League Warnings

Historical Texts

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

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

3 February 1919

Letter from Palestinian Associations and Clubs to the Syrian Congress Presidency (in Arabic)

Statement of the Executive Committee of the 4th Palestinian National Congress Rejecting the British Mandate (in Arabic)

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

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

11 October 1932

The Palestine Arab Party: Bylaws and Internal Regulations (in Arabic)

Law Promulgating the Basic Law for the Area under the Supervision of the Egyptian Forces in Palestine (in Arabic)

25 February 1958

Lebanon’s Department for Palestinian Refugee Affairs (in Arabic)

Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)

5 November 1963

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

28 May 1964 - 2 June 1964

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

Palestine National Council, 2nd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

31 May 1965 - 4 June 1965

Palestine National Council, 3rd Session: Political Resolutions (in Arabic)

20 May 1966 - 24 May 1966

Emergency Arab Summit, 1970: Statement (in Arabic)

21 September 1970 - 28 September 1970

Palestinian Popular Congress, Statement (in Arabic)

6 April 1972 - 10 April 1972

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Statement (in Arabic)

12 January 1973

Sixth Arab Summit: Statement (in Arabic)

28 November 1973

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

18 October 1975

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1988: Concluding Statement (in Arabic)

7 June 1988 - 9 June 1988

Hamas’s Memorandum on Restructuring the Palestine National Council (in Arabic)

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

22 April 1996 - 25 April 1996

List of Transitional Issues Not Implemented by the Israeli Side, According to the PA Negotiations Affairs Department (in Arabic)

9 February 2000

Thirteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

27 March 2001 - 28 March 2001

Fifteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

Sixteenth Arab Summit: Final Statement (in Arabic)

22 May 2004 - 23 May 2004

Seventeenth Arab Summit: The Algiers Declaration (in Arabic)

22 March 2005 - 23 March 2005

Eighteenth Arab Summit: The Khartoum Declaration (in Arabic)

28 March 2006 - 29 March 2006

Nineteenth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007

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

PLO Central Council, Statement (in Arabic)

The Palestine Announcement in Lebanon (in Arabic)

Final Statement of the Palestinian National Conference (in Arabic)

25 January 2008

Yemen's Initiative for the Resumption of Palestinian Internal Dialogue (in Arabic)

Twentieth Arab Summit: The Damascus Declaration (in Arabic)

29 March 2008 - 30 March 2008

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

23 November 2008 - 24 November 2008

Twenty-First Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)

Fatah Sixth General Conference: Political Program (in Arabic)

Egypt's View on Ending Palestinian Division (in Arabic)

9 September 2009

Agreement on Palestinian National Conciliation (Draft) (in Arabic)

10 October 2009

Implementation Mechanisms of the Palestinian National Conciliation Agreement: Minutes of Palestinian Factions' Meeting (in Arabic)

20 December 2011

The Doha Declaration on Palestinian Reconciliation (in Arabic)

6 February 2012

Twenty-Third Arab Summit: The Baghdad Declaration

Twenty-Fourth Arab Summit: The Doha Declaration (in Arabic)

26 March 2013 - 27 March 2013

Twenty-Fifth Arab Summit: Resolutions (in Arabic)

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Statement Issued after a PLO-Hamas Meeting to End Division and Implement the National Reconciliation Agreement (in Arabic)

PLO Central Council, Resolutions (in Arabic)

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

Fatah's 7th General Conference: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

29 November 2016 - 4 December 2016

Closing Statement of the Popular Conference for the Palestinians Abroad (in Arabic)

25 February 2017 - 26 February 2017

Statement Issued Following the Meeting of the Palestinian National Action Factions (in Arabic)

21 November 2017 - 22 November 2017

Emergency Meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (in Arabic)

13 December 2017

PLO Central Council, 28th Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)

15 January 2018

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

30 April 2018 - 4 May 2018

PLO Central Council, 30th Session: Communiqué (in Arabic)

28 October 2018 - 29 October 2018

Ismail Haniyeh: Hamas's Vision for Advancing the Palestinian Cause (in Arabic)

3 November 2021

Highlights

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

Stages of a Forced Displacement

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Battle of al-Karama, 21 March 1968

A Triggering Moment For the Palestinian Resistance

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

The Palestinian Communist Movement

X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Palestinian Emigration (I)

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

The Bosnians of Palestine

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

The Republic of Ireland and the Palestine Question

Solidarity of the Colonized

The Algerians of Palestine

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

Perpetuating Israel’s Structural Dominance

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

The Palestinians and the Israeli Communist Party

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

I. Ottoman Rule

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

XI. Second Intifada and the Post-Arafat Era

Palestine Liberation Organization (I)

The Reemergence of the Palestinian National Movement

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

VII. After 1973 War: Separate Peace and Civil War

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The USSR and the Palestine Question, 1950–1991

Between Ideology and Realism

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Madrid and the Oslo Agreement, 1991-1993

Short-Lived Promises of a Negotiated Settlement