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Biographies

Biography
Nakhla Zurayq
1859 - 21 July 1921
Biography
Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi
1882 - 29 June 1963
Biography
Adil Jabir
1885 - 19 December 1953
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Sadhij Nassar
1900 - 1970
Biography
Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari
1900 - 29 May 1980
Biography
Asma Tubi
1905 - 1983
Biography
Badr Lama
23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani
1909 - 1977
Biography
Qudsia Khourshid
5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009
Biography
Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil
1915 - 2007
Biography
George Habash
1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008
Biography
Issam Abd al-Hadi
1928 - 8 August 2013
Biography
Antoine Zahlan
1928 - 1 September 2020
Biography
Anis Abdullah Sayigh
3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009
Biography
Ahmad Ismail Yasin
June 1936 - 22 March 2004
Biography
Youssef Sami al-Youssef
1938 - 2 May 2013
Biography
Mahmoud Darwish
13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008
Biography
Kamal Boullata
1942 - 6 August 2019

Historical Texts

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Letter from Palestinian Associations and Clubs to the Syrian Congress Presidency (in Arabic)
15 May 1920
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Palin Commission Report
1 July 1920
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Churchill White Paper
3 June 1922
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Statement of the Executive Committee of the 5th Palestinian National Congress on Boycotting the Legislative Council Elections (in Arabic)
1 September 1922
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Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)
22 August 1930
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Peel Commission Report
July 1937
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Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report
23 July 1937
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MacDonald White Paper
17 May 1939
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Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper
30 May 1939
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Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
20 April 1946
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UNGA Partition Plan
29 November 1947
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Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
14 May 1948
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Statement by the Governments of the Arab League States on the Occasion of the Entry of the Arab Armies in Palestine
15 May 1948
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UNSC Resolution 54
15 July 1948
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Palestinian National Council: Proclamation of the Independence of Palestine
1 October 1948
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Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
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Syria–Israel General Armistice Agreement
20 July 1949
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United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report
22 September 1949
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UNSC Resolution 95
1 September 1951
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Exchange of Notes Between Lebanon and UNRWA
26 November 1954
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Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA
15 December 1956
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Speech of Ahmad al-Shuqairi, Head of the Palestine Delegation, before the UN Special Political Committee (in Arabic)
5 November 1963
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Palestine National (qawmi) Charter
28 May 1964
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Palestine National (watani) Charter
10 July 1968
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Palestine National Council, 5th Session: Political Statement
4 February 1969
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UNGA Resolution 2649 (XXV)
30 November 1970
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Palestine National Council, 8th Session: Interim Political Program of the Palestine Revolution
5 March 1971
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Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program
10 April 1972
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Sixth Arab Summit: Confidential Decisions
28 November 1973
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Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program
12 December 1973
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Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA
13 November 1974
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Eighth Arab Summit: Statement
25 October 1976 - 26 October 1976
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Palestine National Council, 13th Session: Political Declaration
12 March 1977 - 22 March 1977
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Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset
20 November 1977
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Framework for Peace in the Middle East (Camp David Accords)
17 September 1978
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Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement
2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978
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Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority
16 January 1980
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UNSC Resolution 465
1 March 1980
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Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem
3 August 1980
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Eleventh Arab Summit: Final Communiqué
25 November 1980 - 27 November 1980
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Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza
31 January 1982
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985
20 April 1982
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Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut
20 August 1982
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Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal
2 September 1982
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Kahan Commission of Inquiry Report into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut
7 February 1983
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Palestinian-Jordanian Joint Action Agreement
11 February 1985
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Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1985: Final Communiqué
7 August 1985 - 9 August 1985
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 17769
29 January 1986
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Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement
20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987
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Secretary of State George Shultz: A Statement for Palestinians
26 February 1988
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Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
18 August 1988
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Palestinian Declaration of Independence
15 November 1988
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Yasir Arafat’s Speech Before the Forty-Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly
13 December 1988
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Press Conference Statement of Yasir Arafat Clarifying His Speech Before the UN General Assembly
14 December 1988
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Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question
23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989
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Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement
28 September 1991
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U.S.-Soviet Letter of Invitation to Peace Talks in Madrid
18 October 1991
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Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference
31 October 1991
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Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty
17 March 1992
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Fundamental Agreement Between The Holy See And The State Of Israel
30 December 1993
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Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement
5 October 1995
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The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document
31 October 1995
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Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron
17 January 1997
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UNGA Resolution ES-10/2
25 April 1997
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Wye River Memorandum
23 October 1998
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List of Transitional Issues Not Implemented by the Israeli Side, According to the PA Negotiations Affairs Department (in Arabic)
9 February 2000
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Basic Agreement Between the Holy See and the Palestine Liberation Organization
15 February 2000
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Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué
21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000
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Israeli-Palestinian Joint Statement
27 January 2001
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The Mitchell Report
30 April 2001
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Palestinian-Israeli Security Implementation Work Plan (Tenet Cease-Fire Plan)
11 June 2001
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Letter of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
12 March 2002
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Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 35
15 May 2002
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Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law
18 March 2003
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A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
30 April 2003
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Israel and the Road Map
23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003
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The Geneva Accord
12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003
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Mecca Agreement
8 February 2007
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President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech
16 July 2007
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Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry
30 January 2008
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Basic Law: The Knesset Amendment No. 39
30 June 2008
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Letter Dated 4 May 2009 from the Secretary-General Addressed to the President of the Security Council
4 May 2009
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Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University
14 June 2009
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Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)
25 September 2009
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President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy
19 May 2011
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Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War
27 April 2015
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Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict
24 June 2015
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Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA
30 September 2015
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Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process
18 January 2016
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Report of the Middle East Quartet
1 July 2016
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Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace
28 December 2016
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Marwan Barghouti’s Op-Ed in The New York Times: Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons
17 April 2017
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The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies
1 May 2017
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Draft of UNSC Resolution S/2017/1060
18 December 2017
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UNGA Resolution ES-10/19
21 December 2017
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PLO Central Council, 28th Session: Final Communiqué (in Arabic)
15 January 2018
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Twenty-Ninth Arab Summit (The Jerusalem Summit): Dhahran Declaration
15 April 2018
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Draft of UNSC Resolution 2018/516
1 June 2018
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UNGA Resolution ES-10/20
13 June 2018
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Abraham Accords: Declaration of Peace, Cooperation, and Constructive Diplomatic and Friendly Relations, Announced by the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Bahrain
15 September 2020
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Abraham Accords Peace Agreement: Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel
15 September 2020

Events

Event
Israel's Strike Against Syria
31 January 1960 - 15 February 1960
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Timing Another Israeli Escalation with Sharon's Interview on Gaza-Centered Disengagement Plan
2 February 2004 - 13 March 2004
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Assassination of Ahmad Yasin in Gaza City
22 March 2004
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Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations
15 March 2014
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US Officials Partake in Inauguration of Large-Scale Settler Project in East Jerusalem
30 June 2019

Highlights

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Jerusalem
Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City
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The Palestinian Novel
Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography
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Palestinian Music
Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry
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Sumud
Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance
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Colonization and Dispossession
Zionism's Imagined Geography
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The October 2000 Events in Israel
The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst
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XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics
2000-2006
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Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992
Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality
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The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, 14 May 1948
An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status
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The Palestinian National Movement and the Jewish Question (II)
After the Nakba
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The Israeli Military
The Myth of “the Most Moral Army in the World”
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Meanings of the Nakba
Transformations through Time and Place
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Demography and the Palestine Question (II)
1948-2048
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Israel's Nation-State Law, 2018
Enshrining Discrimination
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The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
1980–present
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VI. The Rise Of The Palestinian Movement In The Wake Of The 1967 Arab Defeat
1966-1973
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Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation
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Talbieh Refugee Camp
Jordan
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Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon