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Biographies

Biography
Said al-Shawwa
1868 - October 1930
Biography
Alfred Roch
1882 - 22 April 1942
Biography
May Ziadeh
11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941
Biography
Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani
1888 - 20 January 1954
Biography
Awni Abd al-Hadi
1889 - 15 March 1970
Biography
Ahmad al-Shuqairi
1908 - 25 February 1980
Biography
Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani
1909 - 1977
Biography
Ihsan Abbas
2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003
Biography
Yusra al-Barbari
15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009
Biography
Muin Bseiso
1926 - 23 January 1984
Biography
Samira Azzam
13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967
Biography
Ibrahim Dakkak
1929 - 2 June 2016
Biography
Ezzedine Kalak
1936 - 3 August 1978

Events

Event
Formation of the Young Arab Society in Paris
1911 - 1914
Event
Balfour Declaration Is Made
2 November 1917
Event
Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir
11 April 1921
Event
al-Buraq / Western Wall: Palestinians Rise up in Protest against Zionist Provocations
15 August 1929 - 29 August 1929
Event
The British Form a Commission of Inquiry on Disturbances at al-Buraq / Western Wall
13 September 1929
Event
Shaw Commission Report on al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances
12 March 1930
Event
John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development
2 May 1930
Event
White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published
20 October 1930
Event
Establishment of the National Defense Party
2 December 1934
Event
Stern Gang Assassinates Lord Moyne in Cairo
6 November 1944
Event
Israel Appoints Rashad al-Shawa as Mayor of Gaza
September 1971

Historical Texts

Document
Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein
25 October 1915
Document
Report of the Shaw Commission on the al-Buraq / Western Wall Disturbances of August, 1929
12 March 1930
Document
Passfield White Paper
20 October 1930
Document
Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner
30 June 1936
Document
The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States
7 October 1944
Document
Egypt-Israel General Armistice Agreement
24 February 1949
Document
Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1989: Resolution on the Palestine Question
23 May 1989 - 26 May 1989
Document
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry: On the Protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
28 February 2019

Historical Media

Document
Fourth Palestinian Delegation in London
April 1930

Highlights

Highlight
Palestinian Theater
The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (III)
Explorers (1965-1995)
Highlight
The Peel Commission, 1936–1937
Sowing the Seeds of the Partition
Highlight
Land Day, 30 March 1976
A Turning Point in the Defense of Palestinian Lands in Israel
Highlight
The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara
2002-present
Highlight
Germany and the Palestine Question Since 1949
Breaking with the Nazi Past, Adapting to Changing Interests
Highlight
II. British Occupation and Early Mandate
1917-1936
Highlight
Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917
Promising Palestine Away
Highlight
Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)
Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)
Highlight
Rashidiyya Refugee Camp
Lebanon

Places

Place
al-Shawka al-Tahta
Place
Tall al-Shawk
Place
Umm al-Shawf