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Biographies

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1893 - 27 April 1940

23 April 1907 - 1 October 1947

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1917 - 12 December 2003

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

Fatima al-Budeiri

1923 - June 2009

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

Ismail Shammout

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

1936 - 3 August 1978

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

Youssef Sami al-Youssef

1938 - 2 May 2013

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Events

Provisional Law of Disposal of Immovable Property, 5 Jumada al-ula 1331

Hussein-McMahon Correspondence: Prelude to the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

14 July 1915 - 30 March 1916

Nabi Musa Festival: Palestinian Mobilization and Palestinian-Zionist Clashes

2 April 1920 - 9 April 1920

Palin Commission of Inquiry

12 April 1920 - 1 July 1920

Scheduled Second Palestinian National Congress Cannot Meet

Great Britain Issues the Palestine Martial Law (Defence) Order in Council, 1936

30 September 1936

Land Transfers Regulations

20 February 1940

Bevin's Statement on Palestine; Formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

13 November 1945

Majority of UNSCOP Members Recommend Partition

15 June 1947 - 3 September 1947

UNGA 393 (V): Economic Reintegration of Refugees in the Middle East

2 December 1950

SC Res. 95: Calling on Egypt to End Restrictions on Commercial Shipping through Suez Canal

1 September 1951

A Lebanese Decree, Implicitly Applicable to Palestinian Refugees, Regulates Work of Foreigners

18 September 1964

SC Res. 252: Considering all Israeli Measures to Change Jerusalem's Legal Status as Invalid

9th Arab Summit Meets in Baghdad and Condemns the Camp David Accords

5 November 1978

Palestinian Writers in Occupied Territories Affirm Commitment to Palestine Cause

16th Palestine National Council Is Held in Algiers

14 February 1983 - 22 February 1983

The Baker Five-Point Plan

10 October 1989

Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty Signed near Aqaba

26 October 1994

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

8 March 2003 - 9 March 2003

US Day-to-Day Involvement in Palestinian-Related Security Matters and in the Disengagement Plan

10 March 2005 - 30 June 2005

Post-Annapolis Talks on Final Status: Bad Start

12 December 2007 - 27 December 2007

Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

Palestinian Legislative and Presidential Elections Postponed

12 November 2009

The US Shies Away from Its Strong Demands on Israel

19 March 2010 - 30 April 2010

Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks, Mediated by George Mitchell, Formally Relaunched in Washington

1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010

The Knesset Passes Israel Lands Law (Amendment No. 3) on Foreign Ownership

Fate of the Palestinian UN Admission Request

28 September 2011 - 8 November 2011

Sensing an Insurmountable Deadlock, Abbas Sends a Letter to Netanyahu

Abbas's Meeting With Obama in Washington Tests US Credibility

A Third Intifada or a Temporary Outburst?

2 October 2015 - 31 January 2016

EU court Rules that Israeli Settlement Products May not be Labeled “Made in Israel”

12 November 2019

Morocco Normalizes Relations with Israel in Exchange for US Recognition of Western Sahara as Part of Morocco

10 December 2020 - 14 December 2020

Historical Texts

Letter from Sir Henry McMahon to Sharif Hussein

25 October 1915

Recommendations of the King-Crane Commission

Palin Commission Report

Churchill White Paper

League of Nations - Mandate for Palestine

The Palestine Order in Council (Palestine Constitution)

Amery Memorandum on The Western Wall in Jerusalem

19 November 1928

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

Memorandum Submitted by Arab Senior Government Officials to the High Commissioner

Peel Commission Report

Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee: On the Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

London Round Table Conference on McMahon-Husain Correspondence

MacDonald White Paper

Reply of Arab Higher Committee on MacDonald White Paper

Biltmore Conference Declaration

The Alexandria Protocol on Forming the League of Arab States

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, 1945

22 September 1945

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Fourth Progress Report

22 September 1949

UNGA Resolution 393 (V)

2 December 1950

UNSC Resolution 95

1 September 1951

Proclamation of the Constitutional Statute of Gaza, 1962

Palestine National (qawmi) Charter

UNSC Resolution 228

25 November 1966

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

UNSC Resolution 252

Palestine National Council, 4th Session: Political Resolutions

10 July 1968 - 17 July 1968

UNSC Resolution 267

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

UNSC Resolution 298

25 September 1971

Speech by Jordan’S King Hussein, Proposing a United Arab Kingdom in the Event of a Peaceful Settlement

Palestine National Council, 11th Session: Political Program

12 December 1973

Speech of Yasir Arafat at the UNGA

13 November 1974

The Koenig Memorandum

Draft of UNSC Resolution 12119

Address by President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset

20 November 1977

Statement by Palestinian Institutions in the Occupied Territories on Sadat’s Visit to Israel

8 December 1977

Ninth Arab Summit: Final Statement

2 November 1978 - 5 November 1978

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

Israeli Model for the Self-Governing Authority

16 January 1980

Egyptian Model for Palestinian Full Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

28 January 1980

The Regional Committee of the Heads of Arab Local Authorities in Israel Statement On the Assassination Attempts Against West Bank Mayors

Sadat’s Letter to Begin Following Israel’s Enactment of Basic Law on Jerusalem

Statement of First National Festival of Palestinian Literature in the Occupied Land

President Reagan's Talking Points Sent to Prime Minister Begin

1 September 1982

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

7 February 1983

Cairo Declaration on the PLO and Terrorism as read by PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat

7 November 1985

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation on Severing Ties with the West Bank

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

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

Secretary of State James Baker's: Five Points Framework for an Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue

10 October 1989

President George Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress on the Middle East

Palestinian West Bank – Gaza Delegation: Memorandum to U.S. Secretary James Baker

Exchange of Letters Between President Bush and Prime Minister Shamir on Proposed Peace Conference

Palestine National Council, 20th Session: Political Statement

28 September 1991

U.S. Letter of Assurances to Israel

18 October 1991

Speech of Haydar Abd al-Shafi at the Madrid Conference

31 October 1991

Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Oslo I Accord)

13 September 1993

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

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

Extraordinary Arab Summit, 1996: Resolution on the Palestine Question

21 June 1996 - 23 June 1996

Draft of UNSC Resolution 1997/199

UNGA Resolution ES-10/3

UNGA Resolution ES-10/6

9 February 1999

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 “Moratinos Non-Paper” on the Outcome of the Taba Talks (21-27 January 2001)

27 January 2001

The Mitchell Report

Law of 2003 Amending the Basic Law

The Geneva Accord

12 October 2003 - 1 December 2003

Agreement on Movement and Access In Connection with the Gaza Disengagement

15 November 2005

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

Summary Final Report - The Winograd Commission of Inquiry

30 January 2008

President Obama's Speech at Cairo University on the United States and the Muslim World

Netanyahu's Speech at Bar-Ilan University

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

25 September 2009

Mahmoud Abbas's Op-Ed in the New York Times: The Long Overdue Palestinian State

President Barack Obama's Address to the State Department Reframing U.S. Middle East Policy

Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Declaration

17 December 2014

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

Council of the European Union: Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process

18 January 2016

Report of the Middle East Quartet

Secretary John Kerry’s Speech on Middle East Peace

28 December 2016

UNESCWA Report on Israeli Apartheid

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas): Document of General Principles and Policies

China’s Four-Point Proposal on Promoting the Settlement of the Palestinian Issue

Palestinian Prime Minister's Letter to Secretary of State on No Longer Accepting US Assistance

26 December 2018

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

28 February 2019

Secretary Michael R. Pompeo Press Remarks On Israeli Settlements

18 November 2019

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

Historical Media

British Troops with Machine Guns

Land Transfers Regulations - Zones A & B

Highlights

The Palestinian Novel

Literature of the Oppressed in a Dispersed Geography

Palestinian Theater

The Bumpy History of a Maturing Art

Preservation of Heritage in Palestine

A Rising Awareness of an Imperiled Treasure

Present Absentees in Israel

Exiled in Their Own Homeland

Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israeli Jails

Large-Scale Incarceration and Resistance

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Expressions of Cultural Life in Post-1948 Haifa

Toward an Autonomous Palestinian Field

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

October 1973 War

A Daring Arab Initiative Followed by Ambivalent Results

The Separation Wall

Security, Grabbing Land, Strangling Palestinians

Israel’s Apartheid Regime

Entrenching Supremacism over the Palestinians

Palestinian Women in the Labor Market

A Burgeoning Workforce Curbed by Israel’s Colonialism

The Palestinian Poster

Popularizing National Landmarks and Symbols

The 1946 Anglo-American Committee

Humanitarianism Over Justice

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

An Ambiguous Constitutional-Legal Status

The Palestine Exploration Fund

Philanthropy, Exploration and Imperial Scheming

Palestine Liberation Organization (II)

From the Limelight to the Backstage

The Palestinian National Initiative Movement - Al-Mubadara

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

Jalil (Wavel) Refugee Camp

The Palestinian Flag

A Symbol of Identity and Solidarity

Meanings of the Nakba

Transformations through Time and Place

Palestinian Youth in Conflict

A Childhood Denied

XII. A Palestinian Authority Divided, Israeli Assaults on Gaza, and Peace Process Setbacks

Palestinian Visual Arts (IV)

Present Tense: New Directions (1995-2016)

The Palestinians in Peru

A Small, Dynamic Community with a 140-Year History

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

The May 2021 Gaza War

Against New Challenges, Israel’s Old Recipes

Burj al-Barajneh Refugee Camp

Al-Raml (Latakia) Refugee Camp

Muslim Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Religious-Political Ramifications of Israeli Occupation

Criminal Law in Mandate Palestine

A Repressive System with a Long-Lasting Impact

Mar Elias Refugee Camp

Wihdat Refugee Camp

Rashidiyya Refugee Camp

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability