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Events

A New Ottoman Capitulation: From Gracious Protection to Extraterritorial Immunities

Emerging Palestinian Identity and Arab Nationalism

Palestine Civil Government and Appointment of Herbert Samuel as High Commisioner

League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

Tension Over al-Buraq/ Western Wall

23 September 1928 - 30 October 1928

Joint Memorandum of Palestinian Parties

25 November 1935

Memorandum of Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Support in the United States for a Jewish Army

Series of Zionist Attacks

2 January 1948 - 26 January 1948

Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Beirut

27 January 1951

Palestinian Memorandum to UNCCP, Ramallah

Arab Information Center (AIC) Is Opened in New York

Escalation Across Jordanian-Israeli Lines

10 September 1956 - 26 September 1956

US-Israel Memorandum of Agreement Regarding the Reconvening of the Geneva Conference

1 September 1975

The Koenig Memorandum on Israeli Policy toward the Palestinians in Israel

1 March 1976 - April 1976

Tension in Hebron

1 July 1983 - 30 July 1983

Yasir Arafat Makes First Official Visit to Paris

2 May 1989 - 4 May 1989

The Tragedy of the Palestinians in Libya

9 August 1995 - 13 January 1999

Wye River Plantation Meeting; Memorandum Signed

15 October 1998 - 23 October 1998

Several Palestinian Organizations Publicly Oppose Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998

Feverish Settlement Activities After Wye Memorandum

26 October 1998 - 15 November 1998

Israeli Obstacles to Wye River Implementation; First Stage Redeployment Only

30 October 1998 - 17 May 1999

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

10 December 1998

President Clinton's Visit to Gaza

14 December 1998

Palestinian Popular Congress to Confirm Nullification Articles of National Charter, Gaza

14 December 1998

To Declare a Palestinian State at the End of the Transitional Period?

28 December 1998 - 25 April 1999

With Barak as Prime Minister, Negotiations on Wye Implementation Resume

11 July 1999 - 3 September 1999

Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II Accord)

4 September 1999

Implementation of Sharm al-Shaykh Memorandum (Wye II)

10 September 1999 - 20 March 2000

Official Resumption of Final Status Talks

13 September 1999 - 6 December 1999

Official Colonization Activity and (Very) Partial Removal of Settler Outposts

10 October 1999 - 10 November 1999

Failure to Reach a FAPS by 13 February 2000 Target Date

8 December 1999 - 6 February 2000

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Gaza

2 February 2000 - 3 February 2000

Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal for a Cease-Fire and a Resumption of Talks

16 April 2001 - 27 April 2001

Birth of the Middle East "Quartet"

The Knesset Adopts the “Criminal Procedure Law (Interrogating Suspects)"

26 June 2002 - 12 December 2016

Post Disengagement: Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing; EU Border Assistance Mission

15 November 2005 - 12 December 2005

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

16 January 2009

Cross-Border Violence, Gaza

20 September 2009 - 3 October 2009

Palestinians in the West Bank Boycott Israeli Dairy and Processed Food Products

9 February 2015 - 2 March 2015

A Doubtful Israel-Palestinian Postal Service Memorandum of Understanding

4 September 2016 - 15 August 2018

29th Arab Summit Meets in Dhahran

Biographies

Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1860 - 13 April 1930

Jurji Habib Hanania

1868 - October 1930

Freih Abu Middein

1880 - 16 June 1946

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

Mu‘in al-Madi

Muhammad Izzat Darwaza

21 June 1887 - 26 July 1984

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

1917 - 12 December 2003

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

1925 - 10 April 1973

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1927 - 13 January 2005

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

1937 - 12 July 2025

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Historical Texts

Letter from Theodore Herzl to Yusuf Diya-uddin al-Khalidi

Proclamation of the Independence of Syria

San Remo Conference Resolutions: Syria, Mesopotamia [Iraq], Palestine Mandates

Palin Commission Report

Report by the Haycraft Commission of Inquiry into the May 1921 Jaffa Riots

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Council of the League of Nations: Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

16 September 1922

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

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

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Memorandum of Conversation between King Abdulaziz Saud and President Roosevelt

14 February 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

The Grady-Morrison Plan

Abandoned Areas Ordinance

UNGA Resolution 194 (III)

11 December 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

Israel Law of Return and its Amendments

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

UNSC Resolution 228

25 November 1966

Palestine National Council, 7th Session: Resolutions

Programme of the Palestine National Front in the Occupied Territory

Memorandum of Agreement between the U.S. and Israel Regarding the Reconvening of the Geneva Conference

1 September 1975

The Koenig Memorandum

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

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

7 February 1983

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

13 December 1988

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

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

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

Declaration of the Heads of State or Government of the European Union On the Middle East Peace Process: The Berlin Declaration

Sharm el Sheikh Memorandum

4 September 1999

Protocol Concerning Safe Passage Between The West Bank And The Gaza Strip

Israeli-Palestinian Joint Statement

27 January 2001

Jordanian-Egyptian Proposal For an Israeli-Palestinian Cease-Fire and Resumption of Negotiations

The Mitchell Report

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States Regarding Prevention of the Supply of Arms and Related Materiel to Terrorist Groups

16 January 2009

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

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

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons

Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee: Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugee Affairs: A Unified Lebanese Vision For the Palestinian Refugees Affairs In Lebanon

Database of All Business Enterprises Involved in Israeli Settlement Activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

12 February 2020

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

12 January 2021

Historical Media

Young Turks Revolution

Grand Serai in Ruins

Highlights

Ottoman Territorial Reorganization, 1840-1917

Preliminary Sketches of Mandate Palestine's Boundaries

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

Stages of a Forced Displacement

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

A Vulnerable Yet Vibrant Community

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

The Palestine Communist Party

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

The Bosnians of Palestine

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Dera‘a Refugee Camp

Palestinian Music in Exile

Traditions and Resistance

Palestinians in El Salvador

A Prosperous, yet Depoliticized Diaspora

IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Public Contracts during the Mandate

Colonial Deals in Favor of Zionist Goals

The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (I)

Before the Nakba

Lebanon War, 1982

A Setback for the PLO and for Israel's 'Grand Design'

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

The United States and the Palestine Question Before 1944

From Heavenly Jerusalem to Earthly Jerusalem

The United Kingdom and the Palestine Question Before 1917

Ideological and Colonialist Path to Conquest

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

X. Oslo Process: Towards Failure

Canada and the Palestine Question

Israel First, Palestinians Second

Places

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Israeli Assassination Campaign Within Palestine Borders (I)

1996 - 2004

Thematic Chronology

Israeli Assassination Campaign Beyond Palestine Borders

1970 - present

Thematic Chronology

Israeli Assassination Campaign Within Palestine Borders (II)

2005-prensent