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From our Digital Projects | Thematic Chronology | On this day fifty years ago, the armies of Egypt and Syria launched the October War, surprising Israel and achieving impressive victories in the early days of the fighting. Arab oil as a political and economic weapon was used for the first time. Read about the October 1973 War on The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | On 28 September 2000, Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon visited Haram al-Sharif with a thousand-police escort. The provocation ignites, the following day, demonstrations in Jerusalem. The latter were repressed by the Israeli police, provoking the death of seven young Palestinians, signaling the beginning of al-Aqsa Intifada. Read about The

From our Digital Projects | Biography | On this day, 20 years ago, Edward Said passed away. Through his writings, academic activities and public engagement, he played a prominent role in spreading the Palestinian narrative in the United States and the West, and in defending the justice of his people's struggle for self-determination. Learn more about Edward Said's legacy by

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | The signing of the Oslo Accord at the White House thirty years ago, has not resulted in the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, as hoped for by the PLO leadership. Instead, it has led to the reorganization of the Israeli occupation through the expansion of the settlement activities in East Jerusalem and in the West Bank,

From our Digital Projects | Highlight | The Talbieh Refugee Camp was established in 1968 in al-Jizeh village, approximately twelve kilometers south of the Queen Alia Airport, Jordan. Residents claim that the camp adopted the name Talbieh (an affluent neighborhood in Jerusalem prior to the 1948 Nakba) because of the good living conditions it offered compared to other camps at