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From our Digital Projects | Thematic Chronology | This thematic chronology on Zionist military operations and ethnic cleansing describes the developments that shaped the Nakba, which consisted of the destruction of over 400 Palestinian villages and the expulsion by Zionist forces of about 750,000 Palestinians into neighboring countries, leading to the establishment of the

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | Palestinian refugee camps have become a major target of the second war waged by the Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank. al-Jalazonerefugee camp, established in 1949 north of Ramallah and home to more than 13,000 people, is one of these camps. Read more about Al-Jalazone Refugee Camp, West Bank in The Interactive Encyclopedia of

From our Digital Projects | Biography | Youssef Sami al-Youssef, a native of the village of Lubya in the Tiberias district, was one of the most prominent educators and intellectuals in Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees near Damascus. His life was marked by hardship and bitter struggle, but also by fierce self-reliance. Since the mid-1970s, he has occupied a prominent

From our Digital Projects | Event | On this day in 2003, the US administration under President George W. Bush presented the "Road Map" to Palestinians and Israelis. It consisted of three phases ending in 2005 with the establishment of a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority approved it, while Ariel Sharon's government responded with numerous reservations and

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | Olive trees are historically one of the most important natural resources in Palestine, spreading over terraces from Acre and Safad to the central region which includes the villages of the Nablus Mountains, Jerusalem, and Hebron. Read more about the overview of the olive economy as part of Palestine's industrial heritage in the nineteenth

From our Digital Projects | Biography | Kulthum Odeh, a native of Nazareth, was one of the first female Palestinian academics. Through her work at the Orientalism Institute in Leningrad and Moscow, translating Soviet literature into Arabic and Arabic literature into Russian, she made a significant contribution to building a cultural bridge between Russians and Arabs. Learn

From our Digital Projects | Event | On 4 April 1948, battles had started between the Arab Liberation Army, led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji, and Haganah forces for the control of the city of Haifa. On 21 April, British forces suddenly evacuated the city, enabling the Haganah to occupy it the next day, causing the displacement of its residents. Read more about The Battle for Haifa and

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | Marka Camp is the second largest camp in Jordan, with more than 40,000 refugees, and one of the six emergency camps established by UNRWA in 1968 to house Palestinians who fled the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during and after the June 1967 war. The camp is in Russeifa, Zarqa Governorate. Read more about Marka Refugee Camp, Jordan in The

From our Digital Projects | Biography | On this day eighty years ago, Leila Khaled was born in Haifa. She accompanied the Palestinian revolution since its inception in Lebanon where her family had taken refuge, and struggled as a fighter in the field, a leftist political leader, and social activist in the service of Palestinian women's rights. Learn more about Leila Khaled by

From our Digital Projects | Biography | Nayef Hawatmeh, founder and secretary-general of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), is one of the first generation of prominent leaders of the modern Palestinian revolution and in the PLO. Hawatmeh's personality combines the qualities of a diligent national leader with those of a committed leftist intellectual,