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Biographies

1868 - October 1930

Abdallah Mukhlis

27 December 1878 - 16 December 1947

1880 - 16 June 1946

Raghib al-Nashashibi

Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

1885 - 19 December 1953

Mu‘in al-Madi

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

26 June 1905 - 21 May 1997

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

1927 - 13 January 2005

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

Bashir Barghouti

1931 - 9 September 2000

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

1939 - 19 August 2014

1942 - 6 August 2019

Events

Start of the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans

Establishment in New York of the Palestine Anti-Zionism Society (Later Renamed Palestine National League)

British Failed Attempts to Conquer Transjordan

21 March 1918 - 4 May 1918

Conquest of Damascus; Faisal Enters Liberated City

26 September 1918 - 3 October 1918

San Remo Conference: Distributions of Mandates

French Occupy Damascus and Establish State of Greater Lebanon

14 July 1920 - 31 August 1920

The Issue of the Administration of Transjordan

25 July 1920 - 31 December 1920

Churchill and Abdullah Reach Preliminary Understanding over Transjordan

2 March 1921 - 30 March 1921

Hybrid Status for Transjordan; Prince Abdullah Becomes Its Emir

League of Nations Approves Exclusion of Transjordan Territory from the Jewish National Home

14 September 1922 - 16 September 1922

British-French Agreement on Boundary Line Between Palestine and Lebanon and Syria

British Formal and Conditional Assurance to Transjordan's Abdullah

25 April 1923 - 25 May 1923

Treaty of Lausanne Is Signed with Ataturk's Turkey

Agreement between Great Britain and Transjordan Emirate

20 February 1928

1st Palestine Arab Women's Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

26 October 1929

John Hope Simpson Sent to Palestine to Investigate Questions of Immigration, Land Settlement and Development

Hope-Simpson Report Is Published

22 August 1930 - 20 October 1930

White Paper (Passfield) of 1930 Is Published

20 October 1930

Lewis French and the Palestine Development Scheme

19 July 1931 - April 1932

Protection of Cultivators Ordinance, No. 37

Peel Commission Report Proposes Partition of Palestine

Appointment of the Palestine Partition (Woodhead) Commission

The Palestine Archeological Museum Opens Its Doors in Jerusalem

13 January 1938

London Round Table Conference Convenes

7 February 1939 - 27 March 1939

League of Nations Passes on Supervision over Mandates to the UN

Independence of the Emirate of Transjordan and Establishment of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

West Bank to Be Placed under Jordanian Military Government

16 May 1948 - 24 May 1948

Pro-Jordanian Amman Conference

Arab Responses to Formation of the All-Palestine Government

5 October 1948 - 14 October 1948

Great Britain Recognizes Israel on a de facto Basis

30 January 1949

The US Recognizes Transjordan on a de jure Basis

31 January 1949

Jordan's Early Measure to "Jordanize" Arab Palestinians

14 February 1949

Jordan Amends the Parliamentary Election Law

13 December 1949

Dissolution of the Jordanian Parliament

UNRWA Signs Agreement with Jordan as Refugee Host Country

14 March 1951 - 20 August 1951

Assassination of King Abdullah

20 July 1951 - 11 August 1952

23rd Zionist Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

14 August 1951 - 30 August 1951

The US and Jordan River Waters

25 June 1954 - 6 July 1954

US Withdraws Aswan Funding

Appointment of Special Representative of the UNCCP

Proposals Announced by Joseph Johnson, Special Representative of the UNCCP

Israeli and Arab Responses to Joseph Johnson's Proposals

5 October 1962 - 17 October 1962

Israel Prepares for War with US Consent

2 June 1967 - 4 June 1967

June War, 6th Day

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

Attempted Assassination of Anis Sayigh in Beirut

Sharm al-Shaykh Summit

16 October 2000 - 18 October 2000

14th Arab Summit Meets in Beirut and Adopts Saudi Peace Initiative

27 March 2002 - 28 March 2002

Aqaba Summit: Bush, Abdullah, Abbas, and Sharon Meet

Bush's Letter to Sharon on the Disengagement Plan

Reactions to Bush's Assurances to Sharon RE Disengagement Plan

15 April 2004 - 6 May 2004

19th Arab Summit Meets in Riyadh: Revival of the Arab Peace Initiative

28 March 2007 - 29 March 2007

Hamas-Fatah Talks in Yemen

18 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

Israel Breaks the Gaza Cease-Fire

4 November 2008 - 30 November 2008

Palestinian National Unity Talks Resume in Cairo

25 February 2009 - 18 May 2009

The Obama Administration Prepares its Peace Initiative with the Arab Side

21 April 2009 - 28 May 2009

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

1 September 2010 - 2 September 2010

Assassination of Muhammad Abu Mu‘ammar in Rafah

Assassination of Muhammad al-Dayah, Abdullah Lubbad, and Isma‘il Lubbad in Deir al-Balah

Assassination of Abdullah al-Talbani in Jabaliya

27 December 2011

John Kerry Conducts Shuttle Diplomacy for Resumption of Negotiations

4 March 2013 - 8 May 2013

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

Arab League Delegation in Washington Discusses the Arab Peace Initiative

Kerry's Shuttle Diplomacy for the Resumption of Talks Intensifies and Apparently Succeeds

23 May 2013 - 19 July 2013

Terms of Talk Resumption as Sponsored by Kerry

Launch of Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Direct Negotiations in Washington

29 July 2013 - 30 July 2013

Israeli-Palestinian Direct Talks Take Place in Jerusalem

14 August 2013 - 2 September 2013

Israeli-Palestinian Talks Accelerate for Nothing

25 September 2013 - 23 October 2013

Israel's Settlement Expansion Disrupts the Palestinian Negotiation Team

31 October 2013 - 13 November 2013

Aim of Talks Is No Longer a Comprehensive Agreement but a Framework Agreement

14 November 2013 - 31 January 2014

Abbas Meeting with Kerry in Paris Ends in Total Failure

19 February 2014 - 21 February 2014

Kerry Prepares Another Working Draft Framework for Negotiations

Stakes Related to Whether Israel Will Release, as Agreed, the 4th Group of Palestinian Prisoners

17 March 2014 - 29 March 2014

25th Arab Summit Meets in Kuwait

25 March 2014 - 26 March 2014

Settlement Announcement in the Midst of a Crisis Regarding the Negotiations

PLO Central Council Meeting Is Held in Ramallah

26 April 2014 - 27 April 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 13-15: Dramatic Surge in the Fighting; al-Shuja‘iyya Destruction

20 July 2014 - 22 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War, Days 16-20

23 July 2014 - 27 July 2014

The 2014 Gaza War: The Intermittent Cease-Fires (Phase III)

31 July 2014 - 26 August 2014

The PLO Strives for a Security Council Resolution Specifying a Timetable for Ending the Occupation

26 September 2014 - 28 November 2014

Palestinian Leadership Debates End of Security Coordination with Israel

10 December 2014 - 14 December 2014

Netanyahu Reaffirms Status Quo at Haram al-Sharif; Cameras at Haram al-Sharif?

22 October 2015 - 24 October 2015

The US, Egypt, Jordan and Israel Hold a Secret Summit Meeting in Aqaba

21 February 2016

Palestinians Thwart the Setting Up of Cameras at Haram al-Sharif

18 March 2016 - 18 April 2016

Kerry's "Farewell" Speech on Palestinian-Israeli Peace

28 December 2016

Historical Texts

Palin Commission Report

Churchill White Paper

Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development (The Hope-Simpson Report)

Passfield White Paper

20 October 1930

The Murison Commission Report

Peel Commission Report

Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead) Report

9 November 1938

Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

UNGA Partition Plan

29 November 1947

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel

Progress Report of the UN Mediator on Palestine (Bernadotte)

16 September 1948

Declaration of Jordan’s National Assembly, On the Unity between the Eastern and Western Banks of Jordan

Agreement between the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

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

Palestine National Council, 9th Session: Final Statement

Palestine National Council, 10th Session (Extraordinary): Political program

The Koenig Memorandum

Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt

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

7 February 1983

Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

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

U.S. Letter of Assurances to the Palestinians

18 October 1991

Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area

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

28 September 1995

The Mitchell Report

UNSC Resolution 1397

The Quartet (UN, EU, Russia, US) Communiqué on the Situation in the Occupied Territories

Yasir Arafat's Speech at the Palestinian Legislative Council

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

President Bush's letter to Prime Minister Sharon

Mecca Agreement

8 February 2007

UNSC Resolution 1850

16 December 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

Jordanian-Palestinian Agreement on Holy Sites in Jerusalem

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

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

28 February 2019

30th Arab Summit: Tunis Declaration

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

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

Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception

Arab Revolt 1936 - Royal Commission

11 January 1937

Highlights

Palestinians in Jordan, 1948-1967

The Making of the “Jordanians of Palestinian Origin”

The Palestinian Short Story

Exile, Sorrow, and Black Humor

Palestinian Photographers before 1948

Documenting Life in a Time of Change

Palestinian Music

Blending Levantine Sounds and the Power of Poetry

Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip

A Site of Continual Displacement

Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip Since 1967

Incubators of Resistance

Palestinian Informal Justice

Thriving in the Shadow of Colonialism

Palestinian Cinema

From Serving the Revolution to Creative Expression

The Palestine Radio, 1936-1948

The Contradictory Effects of a Government-Run Station

Colonization and Dispossession

Zionism's Imagined Geography

World Zionist Organization

Setting the Stage for a Jewish State in Palestine

XI. The Al-Aqsa Intifada and the End of an Era in Palestinian Politics

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

The March 1955 Outburst in the Gaza Strip

Thwarting Resettlement Schemes

The Peel Commission, 1936–1937

Sowing the Seeds of the Partition

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

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

Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp

II. British Occupation and Early Mandate

I. Ottoman Rule

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

Setting a Pattern of Futile 'Peace' Initiatives

Husn (Martyr Azmi el-Mufti) Refugee Camp

Great Palestinian Rebellion, 1936-1939

A Popular Uprising Facing a Ruthless Repression

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

Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917

Promising Palestine Away

Palestine-Lebanon Border

A Line Drawn with the Stroke of Foreign Pens

Palestine-Egypt Border

A Line Imposed by the British on the Ottomans

A Watershed in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The 2014 Gaza War

An Asymetric Draw

China and the Palestine Question

From Revolutionary Solidarity to Rhetorical Support

Baqa‘a Refugee Camp

Italy and the Palestine Question

From Supportive Equidistance to Hostility

Palestine and International Justice

The Long and Tortuous Quest for Accountability

Thematic Chronologies

Thematic Chronology

Kerry-Sponsored Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations

2013 - 2014