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Biographies

1865 - 3 March 1948

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - 1 August 1943

Rafiq al-Tamimi

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

Qudsia Khourshid

5 August 1912 - 2 December 2009

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

1927 - 13 January 2005

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

15 February 1929 - 23 May 2001

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Events

Formation of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization in Cairo

Ghassan Kanafani Publishes First Novel, Rijal fi-l-shams (Men in the Sun), in Beirut

Assassination of Ghassan Kanafani in Beirut

Attempted Assassination of Bassam Abu Sharif in Beirut

Ahmed Bouchiki Assassinated in Lillehammer

Assassination Attempt of PLO Senior Leadership in Beirut

Ali Hassan Salameh Is Killed in Beirut

22 January 1979

Assassination Attempt of Raed Karmi in Tulkarm

6 September 2001

Assassination of Hamdi Hassan Kalakh in Khan Yunis

Assassination of Trad Jamal, Ibrahim Dayri, and Ammar Hassan near Deir al-Balah

Assassination of Hassan Madhun and Fawzi Abu Qara’ in Jabaliya Refugee Camp

1 November 2005

Assassination of Hassan Asfour and Rami Hannoun East of Jabaliya Refugee Camp

6 February 2006

Assassination of Ibrahim Abdul Hadi, Mohammed Abdul Hadi, Mohammad Abu al-Husain, Hassan Abu al-Husain, Huthaifa Shubair, and Mohammed Sami Hamdan in Khan Yunis

War on Gaza, Day 6

Assassination of Ahmad Shaykh Khalil, Muhammad Ashur, Bassem Abu al-Ata, Hassan al-Khadari, and Abd al-Karim Shatat in Rafah

29 October 2011

Beirut Port Explosion

4 August 2020 - 7 August 2020

Historical Texts

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Report Submitted by the Arab Refugee Congress of Ramallah on al-Dawayima Massacre

Draft of UNSC Resolution 14985

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question

23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

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

Highlights

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

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

The First Intifada, 1987-1993

Exhilaration of Revolt, Promise of Freedom

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Palestinian Trade Unionism, 1920-1948

A Dynamic Movement Ripped Apart by the Nakba

The October 2000 Events in Israel

The Violent Repression of a Palestinian Solidarity Outburst

The Education of Palestinians in Israel

Struggling to Break Free from a System of Marginalization

The Palestinian National Liberation Movement – Fatah (I)

The Bosnians of Palestine

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Visual Arts (I)

Beginners (1795-1955)

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948

A Most Brutal Massacre Long Kept Under Wraps

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Lydda, 9-13 July 1948

A City-Wide Massacre Culminating in the Death March

Yarmouk Refugee Camp

Beddawi Refugee Camp

Palestinian Culture and Expressions of Identity