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1859 - 21 July 1921

Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Jurji Habib Hanania

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - October 1930

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

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

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

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

George Antonius

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

1893 - 27 April 1940

1894 - 19 March 1949

4 April 1895 - 26 August 1971

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

1905 - 21 May 1985

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

1907 - 27 July 2006

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

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

1927 - 13 January 2005

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

1928 - 1 September 2020

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

1941 - 5 February 2023

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

1962 - 31 July 2024

Events

The Ottoman Government Sets Out Principles Governing Jewish Immigration to the Empire

24 November 1881

Great Britain Invades and Occupies Egypt

Establishment of the Palestine Arab Workers Society

21 March 1925 - 11 January 1930

Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

Arab Office (AO) Is Opened in Washington

September 1945 - December 1947

Zionist Conquest of Eastern Galilee

28 April 1948 - 25 May 1948

Civil War in Lebanon

May 1958 - October 1958

Anti-Monarchic Coup in Iraq

Naturalization in Lebanon and the Casablanca Protocol on the Treatment of Palestinians in Arab States

US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Principles for Peace in the Middle East

Israel's Autonomy Plan for the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 December 1977

Operations Against French and US Contingents in Beirut

23 October 1983

Munther Abu Ghazaleh Assassinated in Athens

21 October 1986

The US Orders the Closure of the Palestine Information Office (PIO) in Washington

15 September 1987 - 5 August 1988

Secretary Baker First Stage Diplomacy

9 March 1991 - 22 May 1991

Extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Sharon's Letter to Bush on Disengagement Plan

Assassination of Majdi Mar'i, Fadi al-Sarwan, and Jihad Abu Salhieh in Nablus

1 November 2004

Assassination of Muhammad Ahmed Mar'i near Salfit

Palestinian Legislative Elections: Fatah's Confused Preparation

25 November 2005 - 28 December 2005

July War: A Balance Sheet

After the July War: Final Report of the Winograd Commission

30 January 2008

War on Gaza, Day 1, Start of Phase 1

27 December 2008

War on Gaza, Day 6

Post-Annapolis Talks: Palestinian Stocktaking

War on Gaza, Day 7

War on Gaza, Day 17

12 January 2009

War on Gaza: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Related to UN Premises

Israel Forms (Turkel) Commission to Examine the Mavi Marmara Incident

Symbolic Erection of Bab al-Shams and Bab al-Karama villages in the West Bank

11 January 2013 - 20 January 2013

The 2014 Gaza War: Days 44-50

20 August 2014 - 26 August 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: Report of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools

A Third Intifada or a Temporary Outburst?

2 October 2015 - 31 January 2016

Israel's Supreme Court Annuls a 2017 Law Regularizing Settlements Retroactively

Historical Texts

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem

11 December 1917

Message of the General Syrian Congress To the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission Report

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Palestine Legislative Council Election Order, 1922

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

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

The Murison Commission Report

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

British Government Statement on the Partition (Woodhead) Commission's Report

11 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

Land Transfers Regulations, 1940

20 February 1940

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

UNSC Resolution 43: Calling for an Immediate Truce in Palestine

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Al-Dawayima Massacre, 29 October 1948 An Israeli Soldier Eye-Witness Account

8 November 1948

Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement

24 February 1949

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 512 (VI)

26 January 1952

Special Report of the Director of the UNRWA

15 December 1956

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

Lyndon B. Johnson: Statement on Principles for Peace in the Middle East

Fatah: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Press Release

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Begin's Autonomy Plan

28 December 1977

Palestine National Council, 14th Session: National Unity Programme

15 January 1979 - 22 January 1979

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Joint Letter from President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin to President Carter Concerning Negotiations on Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

The Venice Declaration

Palestine National Council, 15th Session: Political Statement

11 April 1981 - 19 April 1981

Israel's Proposals for the Self-Governing Authority in the West Bank and Gaza

31 January 1982

UNGA Resolution ES-9/1

5 February 1982

Plan for the Departure from Lebanon of the PLO Leadership, Offices, and Combatants in Beirut

1 September 1982

Israeli Cabinet Communiqué on President Reagan's Peace Proposal

2 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 16th Session: Final Statement

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

Palestine National Council, 18th Session: Final Statement

20 April 1987 - 25 April 1987

Palestine National Council (19th Session) Political Communiqué

15 November 1988

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

13 December 1988

Israel's "Peace Initiative"

Israeli Cabinet Decision on the Five-Point Plan of Secretary Baker

5 November 1989

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Palestinian-Israeli Protocol on Economic Relations

The Knesset Law Concerning the Implementation of the Agreement on Gaza and Jericho Areas (Restrictions of Activity) 1994

26 December 1994

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

28 September 1995

Yitzhak Rabin’s Address to Knesset after Israeli-Palestinian Agreement

The Beilin – Abu Mazen Document

31 October 1995

Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron

17 January 1997

UNGA Resolution ES-10/7

20 October 2000

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 2000: Communiqué

21 October 2000 - 22 October 2000

PLO Negotiating Team Reservations Concerning President Bill Clinton’s 23 December Proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement

PLO Negotiation Affairs Department Assessment of US Policy

20 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

President George W. Bush’s Speech US Policy in the Middle East

A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Israel and the Road Map

23 May 2003 - 25 May 2003

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan: Key Principles

UNGA Resolution 58/292

UNGA Resolution ES-10/15

Palestinian Authority's Declaration on Institutional Renewal

President George W. Bush’s Policy Speech

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

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

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report)

25 September 2009

UNGA Resolution 67/19

29 November 2012

Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration

17 December 2014

Report of the UNHِQ Board of Inquiry Into Incidents Affecting UNRWA Schools during the 2014 Gaza War

Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the 70th Session of the UNGA

30 September 2015

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

Law for the Regularization of Settlement in Judea and Samaria, 5777-2017

6 February 2017

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

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

Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

28 February 2019

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda On Opening an Investigation into War Crimes in Palestine

20 December 2019

Joint Statement of the United States, the State of Israel, and the United Arab Emirates

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

Highlights

Colonial Transformation of a Spiritual City

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Palestinian Visual Arts (III)

Explorers (1965-1995)

Palestinians in Israel’s “Mixed Cities”

Manufacturing Ghettoes, Erasing History

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Palestine Police During the British Mandate

Law Enforcement in Service of Zionist Goals

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

VII. From A Sense Of Victory To Separate Peace And Civil War

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Steadfastness as Everyday Resistance

III. Late Mandate

UNRWA's Education System

A Palestinian-Shaped Undertaking

Israel’s Gaza Redeployment, 2005

Exacerbating the Siege and Targeting the Land of the West Bank

Palestinian Labor in Israel

A Fluctuating Market Subject to Israel’s Interests

From Relief Provider to Vector of Identity

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

V. Reverberations Of 1948 Palestine War And The Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Second Intifada, 2000-2005

Mounting Confrontation, Shattered Aspirations

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine – DFLP

Palestinian Emigration (I)

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Olive Oil Production in the Late Ottoman Rule

Embracing New Technology within a Deeply Rooted Tradition

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

Israel’s Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty, 1992

Jewish Identity at the Expense of Citizen Equality

Palestinian Embroidery

A Rich and Diverse National Heritage

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip, 1948-1967

The Political and Social Remodeling of a Cramped Palestinian Space

France and the Palestine Question before 1948

Competition with the British, North African Considerations, Lukewarm Support for Zionism

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

Palestinian Emigration (II)

Lebanon War, 1982

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

UN Partition Plan, 29 November 1947

Paving the Way to the Impending Nakba

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

The Palestinian Communist Movement

Arab Labor in Mandate Palestine

The Emergence of a Working Class

Homs (A'ideen) Refugee Camp

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – PFLP

Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949

Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests

Nablus Soap Production

The Decline of an Ancient Heritage

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine

Negotiating Palestine after the Nakba

The Israeli Military

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

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jaramana Refugee Camp

Khan Dunoun Refugee Camp

Khan Eshieh Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

The Bosnians of Palestine

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (II)

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Marka Refugee Camp

Sabra and Shatila, 16-18 September 1982

A Massacre by Proxy

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

Spain and the Palestine Question

Upholding Support for Palestine Amidst Growing Relations with Israel

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

Palestinians Under Military Rule in Israel, 1948-1966

Governing the Lives of a Confined Population

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Mexico and the Palestine Question

Equidistance… in Israel’s Favor

Balata Refugee Camp

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Dheisheh Refugee Camp

Fawwar Refugee Camp

Husseiniyeh Refugee (Gathering) Camp

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Sayida Zeinab (Qabr Essit) Refugee Camp

The War on Gaza, 2008–2009

Israel’s Strategic Quandary

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Talbieh Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Shatila Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinians in Germany

From Melancholia to Anger

Nahr el-Bared Refugee Camp

Charts

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (2)

2000

Document

Demography and the Palestine Question (II) - Palestinians in the Diaspora (1)

2000 - 2010