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Biography
Samiha Khalil

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Story
Revolutionizing hunger

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Thematic Chronology
1897 - present
World Zionist Organization Congresses

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Event
2011
Despite US, European, and Arab Pressure, Abbas Submits a Request for Full UN Membership

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'Palestine Post' Explosion

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Story
Drawing outside the frames

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Death of The Shepherd Boy Fathi, Third Wave of Killing

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Land in Jewish Possession (1944)

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Event
1921
4th Palestinian National Congress Is Held in Jerusalem

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Event
2003
General Assembly Resolution A/RES/ES-10/12

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Funeral of Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

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Period
1516 to 1917
I. Ottoman Rule

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Old City of Jerusalem from the Church of the Savior

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Event
1976
Draft Security Council Resolution S/12022

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Event
1974
GA Resolutions 3236 and 3237 (XXIX)

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al-Manshiyya Quarter

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The Constitutional School

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Event
2011
State of Palestine: Application for Admission to Membership in the United Nations

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Violence
Battle of al-Karama

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Story
How a people funded their revolution

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Event
1987 to 1988
General Assembly Resolutions 42/210, 42/229 and 42/230

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Period
1917 to 1936
II. Early Mandate Period

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Event
1937
Arab Higher Committee Is Banned

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Story
No laughing matter

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British Troops with Machine Guns

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Event
1948
Operation Ben Ami in Western Galilee

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Institutional Policy/program
Jordan
Palestinians in Jordan, 1947-1967

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Event
2011
Draft Security Council Resolution S/2011/24

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Event
1950
Special International Regime for Jerusalem

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Biography
Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

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Event
1936
British Violent Repression

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Event
2003
General Assembly Resolution A/RES/ES-10/13

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Biography
Mahmoud Darwish

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Third Palestinian National Congress, Haifa

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Event
1905
Publication of The Awakening of the Arab Nation in Asiatic Turkey by Najib Azoury

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Period
1936 to 1947
III. Second Mandate Period

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Event
1947
General Assembly Resolution 181 (II)

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Event
2000
Security Council Resolution S/RES/1322

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Biography
Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

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Period
1947 to 1950
IV. The Palestine War And The Nakba

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Event
1935
Oil Pipeline Connecting Northern Iraq to Haifa Opens Officially

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Biography
Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

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Biography
Salma Khadra Jayyusi

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Event
1949
General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV)

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Aftermath Outside of the New Gate

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Event
1974
Sinai I Agreement

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Biography
Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

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Land Transfer Regulations - Zones A & B

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Story
When pickles become a weapon

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Event
1949
UN Conciliation Commission on Palestine Convenes the Lausanne Conference

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Event
2004
Draft Security Council Resolution S/2004/783

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Event
1839 to 1862
Establishment of European and American Consulates in Jerusalem

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Event
1946
Series of Zionist Anti-British Attacks

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Biography
Abd al-Hamid Shuman

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Thematic Chronology
1973 - 1974
October 1973 War

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Town of Safad, Northern Galilee

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Mr. and Mrs. Winston Churchill at Government House Reception

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Event
1988 to 1989
Draft Security Council Resolutions S/19466, S/19780, S/20463, S/20677, and S/20945/Rev.1

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Event
1948
Operation Chametz and the Fall of Jaffa

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Story
Death of the storyteller, birth of the theater

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Biography
Naji al-Ali

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Event
1981
Israeli Air Force Destroys Iraqi Nuclear Reactor Under Construction Near Bagdad.

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Event
2004
General Assembly Resolution A/RES/ES-10/15

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Peel Commission and Partition

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Thematic Chronology
1947 - present
The UN and Palestine: General Assembly

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Arab Women Congress Delegation to the High Commissioner

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Colonization Diplomatic
Balfour Declaration

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Nahr al-Barid

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Biography
Hanan Ashrawi

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Event
1945 to 1946
Organized Irgun and Lehi Anti-British Attacks

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Event
1936
General Strike Called Off

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Thematic Chronology
1919 - 1946
British and International Commissions of Inquiry in Mandate Palestine

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