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From our Digital Projects | Biography | Khalil Sakakini was one of the most prominent educators in Palestine before the Nakba, and a liberal, enlightened intellectual who fought, within the framework of the national movement, religious segregation. The Nahda College which he founded in 1938 became one of the most outstanding nationalist and secular educational institutions in

From our Digital Projects | Biography | Mahmoud Darwish is one of the most internationally prominent Arab poets and one of the few whose poetry cannot be divorced from his life and his cause, a cause he helped to transform from a national to a universal human cause. He died in the United States on 9 August 2008, following a heart operation. Learn more about Mahmoud Darwish by

From our Digital Projects | Biography | Issam Abd al-Hadi was an active Palestinian pioneer of women's and political action. She was elected several times president of the General Union of Palestinian Women, and held the position of vice-president of the Women's International Democratic Federation from 1981 to 1992. Abd al-Hadi succeeded in conveying the justice of the

From our Digital Projects | Biography | 110 years ago, Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi passed away. He was a scholar, a diplomat and a political figure. As a prominent member of the Ottoman Parliament representing Jerusalem (1908-1912), he raised the issue of Zionism on several occasions during parliamentary sessions, warning against the dangers Jewish immigration and the continuing

From our Digital Projects | Biography | Ezzedine Kalak who as the PLO representative in Paris, had opened its Liaison and Media Bureau in 1975 with the agreement of the French government, was assassinated on 3 August 1978. Under his leadership, the bureau had quickly become a beehive constantly buzzing with work in support of the Palestinian cause. Learn more about Ezzedine

From our Digital Projects | Biography | On this day 80 years ago, Boulos Shehadeh passed away. He was a writer and a poet. As the owner of the Mirʾat al-Sharq newspaper [Mirror of the East], he stood out for his boldness in criticizing the mistakes made by the leaders of the Palestinian national movement's and in calling upon them to adopt a gradualist strategy on the basis of

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | It is one of Israel’s most discriminatory laws against Palestinian Arabs, citizens of the state. It not only failed to mention their political rights, it also ignored their civil rights, whether individual or communal. It dropped Arabic as an official language, and restricted the right to self-determination to the Jewish people. Read

From our Digital Projects | Place | Khirbat al-Lawz is a village that was located 11 kilometers west of Jerusalem. Its lands were used for cultivating vineyards, olive and almond trees, vegetables, and grain. Khirbat al-Lawz was occupied on 13−14 July, along with a string of nearby villages. Its inhabitants who remained in the area or attempted to return were forcibly

From our Digital Projects | Biography | On this day in 1972, Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad. He was one of the most prominent novelists and modernist playwrights who enriched Palestinian culture with their creativity. He also left behind analytical studies and a number of paintings. Learn more about Ghassan Kanafani by reading her biography in The

From our Digital Projects | Biography | Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout is an academic and university professor who, through her life, thought and experience, brought together Palestine and Lebanon. She is one of the most prominent authors who contributed to the field of Palestinian history, as evidenced by her works on Palestinian political leaderships during the British Mandate and