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Biographies

Hafiz al-Sa’id

1860 - 13 April 1930

As‘ad al-Shuqairi

1860 - February 1940

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Abd al-Latif Salah

1884 - 8 November 1952

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

1902 - 27 August 1984

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi (Abu Salma)

1909 - 11 October 1980

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925 - 20 April 2023

1926 - 23 January 1984

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Mustafa al-Zabri (Abu Ali Mustafa)

14 May 1938 - 27 August 2001

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Yahya al-Sinwar

19 October 1962 - 17 October 2024

Historical Texts

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

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

British-French Demarcation of Line Between Syria and Palestine

Statement of the Arab National Conference

13 December 1931

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

Wye River Memorandum

23 October 1998

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

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

31st Arab Summit: Algiers Declaration (in French)

2 November 2022

Events

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

First Major Debate on Zionism in Ottoman Parliament

March 1911 - May 1911

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

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

1st Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

27 January 1919 - 10 February 1919

Founding of the Arab National Party in Jerusalem

8 November 1923

Attempt to Reconstitute the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine

22 November 1945 - 29 May 1946

Zionist Attacks

15 February 1948 - 5 March 1948

Assassination of Sa'ad Arabid in Gaza City

Assassination of Majed Sa'di in Jenin

Assassination of Nabil Sa'eedi and Rabah Zaqqout in Gaza City

20 September 2004

Attempted Assassination of Khalil al-Hayya in Gaza City

Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen

18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

After Threats of Annexation, Normalization Reignites Palestinian Reconciliation Talks

3 September 2020 - 24 September 2020

Palestinian Reconciliation Comes again to a Standstill

1 October 2020 - 17 November 2020

Bennett-Lapid Government Takes Office in Israel

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

The Judaization of the Galilee

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

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

VIII. Palestinian Defeat, Divisions And Survival

IX. First Intifada and Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Exhibition-Making Practices, 1917-1993

Curating the National Identity

Stages of a Forced Displacement

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of the Palestine War

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity

Places

al-Jammasin al-Gharbi

al-Jammasin al-Sharqi

Historical Media

Escape of the Youth, Sixth Wave of Killing