Encyclopedia of the Palestinians, Third Edition is the definitive resource for academic students, undergraduates, and general readers who want an account of Palestinians and their long history. This comprehensive resource includes new entries on recent developments and personalities and updates of many of the existing articles.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Transliteration
• Entries
• A
• Abbas, Mahmud
• Abbas, Muhammad
• Abd al-Baqi, Ahmad Hilmi
• Abd al-Hadi, Awni
• Abd al-Hadi family
• Abd al-Hadi, Mahdi
• Abd al-Shafi, Haydar
• Abd Rabbo, Yasir
• Abdullah ibn Husayn and the Zionists
• Abu-Amr, Ziad
• Abu Ayyash, Radwan
• Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim
• Abu Marzook, Musa
• Abu Middayn, Furayh
• Abu Nidal
• Abu Sharif, Bassam
• Abu Zayyad, Ziyad
• Acre
• Advisory Council
• Aghazarian, Albert
• al-Aker, Mamdouh
• al-Alami family (Gaza)
• al-Alami family (Jerusalem)
• al-Alami, Musa
• al-Ali, Naji
• All-Palestine Government
• Amiry, Suad
• Anglo-American Commission
• Antonius, George
• Aqqad, Umar
• al-Aqsa Intifada
• Arab Agency
• Arab Club
• Arab College
• Arab congresses
• Arab Executive
• Arab Higher Committee (AHC)
• Arab-Israel War, 1982
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Arab-Israeli War, 1948
• Arab League
• Arab League summit decisions on Palestine
• Arab Liberation Army
• Arab Liberation Front (ALF)
• Arab Party
• Arab Studies Society
• Arab Thought Forum
• Arab world
• Arafat, Fathi
• Arafat, Yasir
• archaeology, Palestine
• al-Ard
• al-Arif, Arif
• Aruri, Naseer
• Ashrawi, Hanan Mikha'il
• el-Asmar, Fouzi
• B
• Baily Committee
• Balfour Declaration
• Baramki, Gabriel
• Barghuthi family
• Barghuthi, Marwan
• Beersheba
• Bernadotte, Folke
• Bethlehem
• Bethlehem University
• Bir Zeit University
• Bishara, Azmi
• Black September
• Bludan Conference
• Boullata, Kamal
• Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement
• British Mandate for Palestine
• Budayri family
• C
• Camp David accords
• Camp David summit
• Cattan, Henry
• Center for Palestine Research and Studies
• Christian churches in the Holy Land
• Churchill White Paper
• Collège des Frères
• D
• Dahlan, Muhammad
• Dajani family (Jaffa)
• Dajani family (Jerusalem)
• Dakkak, Ibrahim
• Darawasha, Abd al-Wahhab
• Darwaza, Muhammad Izzat
• Darwish, Ishaq
• Darwish, Mahmud
• Dayr Yassin massacre
• Decentralization Party
• Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)
• Dudin, Mustafa
• Dusturiyya School
• E
• economic history, Palestine
• education, Palestine
• Egyptian policy toward Palestine
• Elmusa, Sharif
• embroidery, Palestine
• Erekat, Saeb
• Europe and Palestine
• F
• Farsoun, Samih
• Fatah
• Fayyad, Salam
• Freij, Elias
• French Reports
• Futuwwa
• G
• Gaza Strip
• Geneva Accord
• Geneva conferences
• Geneva Convention, 1949
• geography, Palestine
• al-Ghuri, Emile
• Glock, Albert
• H
• Habash, George
• Habibi, Emile
• Hadawi, Sami
• Haddad, Wadi
• Haifa
• Hallaj, Muhammad
• Hamami, Sa'id
• Hamas
• Hamdallah, Rami
• Haniyya, Isma'il
• al-Haq
• al-Haram al-Sharif
• al-Hasan, Hani
• al-Hasan, Khalid
• al-Hasi, Aqila Agha
• Hawatma, Nayif
• Haycraft Commission
• Hebron
• Hebron University
• high commissioner for Palestine
• holy places, Palestine
• Hope-Simpson Commission
• Husayn–McMahon correspondence
• al-Husayni, Amin
• al-Husayni family
• al-Husayni, Faysal
• al-Husayni, Jamal
• al-Husayni, Musa Kazim
• al-Hut, Shafiq
• I
• Inshas Conference
• Institute for Palestine Studies
• internally displaced persons, Palestine
• intifadas
• al-Isa, Isa
• Islamic fundamentalism
• Islamic Jihad
• Israel and the Palestinians
• Israeli settlements
• Istiqlal Party
• J
• Ja'bari, Muhammad Ali
• Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim
• Jaffa
• Jarallah family
• Jenin
• Jericho
• Jerusalem and the Palestinians
• Jibril, Ahmad
• Jiryis, Sabri
• Jordan and the Palestinians
• K
• Kanafani, Ghassan
• Kassim, Anis
• Kassim, Anis Fawzi
• Kassis, Nabeel
• Khalaf, Salah
• Khalid, Layla
• Khalidi family
• Khalidi Library
• Khalidi, Rashid
• Khalidi, Walid
• al-Khalidi, Yusuf Diya
• Khalifa, Sahar
• Khalil, Samiha Salama
• Khatib family
• Khatib, Ghassan
• al-Kidwa, Muhammad Nasser
• King-Crane Commission
• Kufr Qasim
• Kuttab, Da'ud
• Kuwait and the Palestinians
• L
• land and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
• Lausanne Conference
• law and the Palestinians
• Legislative Council
• Liberal Party, Palestinian
• Literary Society
• literature, Palestine
• London Conferences
• Lydda
• M
• Madrid Peace Conference
• Maliki, Riyad al-
• Mansour, Camille
• Mash'al, Khalid
• Masri family
• Masri, Mai
• massacre in Sabra and Shatilla
• Matar, Ibrahim
• Mavi Maramara incident of 2010
• media, Palestine
• Mi'ari, Muhammad
• Mogannam, Matiel
• Morrison-Grady Plan
• Moughrabi, Fouad
• Muhsin, Zuhayr
• Muragha, Sa'id Musa
• Muslim-Christian Associations
• al-Nabhani, Taqi al-Din
• N
• Nablus
• al-Najah National University
• al-Najjab, Sulayman
• Najjada
• al-Nakba
• Nakkara, Hanna Deeb
• al-Nashashibi, Fakhri
• al-Nashashibi family
• al-Nashashibi, Raghib
• Nasir, Hanna
• National Bloc Party
• National Defense Party
• National Guidance Committee
• Nazareth
• Nuseibeh family
• Nuseibeh, Sari
• O
• Orient House
• Oslo Accords
• Oslo peace process
• P
• Palestine and Syria
• Palestine and the Soviet Union
• Palestine and the United Nations
• Palestine and the United States
• Palestine Communist Party
• Palestine during the late Ottoman period
• Palestine Liberation Army (PLA)
• Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
• Palestine Liberation Organization institutions
• Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
• Palestine National Charter
• Palestine National Council
• Palestine Papers of 2011
• Palestine Partition Plan
• Palestine Red Crescent Society
• Palestine Research Center
• Palestinian Americans
• Palestinian art
• Palestinian Authority
• Palestinian citizens of Israel
• Palestinian exodus
• Palestinian folklore
• Palestinian Legislative Council
• Palestinian National Fund
• Palestinian National Salvation Front (PNSF)
• Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF)
• Palestinian refugees
• Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
• Palestinian right of return
• Palestinian society
• Palestinian theater
• Palestinians and human rights
• Palestinians and the Persian Gulf crisis
• Palestinians and the Vatican
• Palestinians and unions
• Palin Commission
• Peel Commission
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, external operations
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, general command
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
• population, Palestinian
• population transfer, Palestinians
• al-Qaddumi, Faruq
• Q
• Qalqiliya
• Qardosh, Mansur
• al-Qasim, Samih
• al-Qassam, Izz al-Din
• Qattan, Abd al-Muhsin
• Qa'war, Widad
• al-Qawuqji, Fawzi
• al-Quds University
• Qurai, Ahmad
• R
• Rajub, Jibril
• Rakah
• Ramallah
• Ramla
• Rantisi, Abd al-Aziz
• Rashidiyya School
• Reagan Plan
• Reform Party
• Rejection Front
• religious and ethnic communities, Palestine
• roadmap peace plan
• Rock, Alfred Butros
• Rogers Plan
• S
• Sabbagh, Hasib
• Safad
• Safieh, Afif
• Said, Edward
• al-Sa'iqa
• al-Sakakini, Khalil
• Salama, Ali Hasan
• SAMED
• San Remo Conference
• El Sarraj, Eyad
• Sartawi, Isam
• Saunders Document
• Sayigh family
• Sayigh, Rosemary
• Shaath, Nabil
• Shahid, Leila
• Shammas, Anton
• Sharabi, Hisham
• Shaw Commission
• Shehadeh family
• Shehadeh, Raja
• Shikaki, Khalil
• Shiqaqi, Fathi
• Shoman family
• Shultz Initiative
• Shuqayri, Ahmad
• Shuqayri, As'ad
• Siniora, Hanna
• Six-Day War
• Sourani, Raji
• St. George's School
• Supreme Muslim Council
• T
• Taba
• Tall al-Za'tar
• Tamari, Salim
• Tannous, Izzat
• terrorism, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• textbooks, use by Palestinians
• Tibawi, A. L.
• Tiberias
• Tibi, Ahmad
• Tubi, Tawfiq
• Tulkarm
• Tuma, Emile
• Tuqan, Fadwa
• Tuqan family
• Turki, Fawaz
• U
• UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338
• United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine
• United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
• United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP)
• W
• water, Palestine
• al-Wazir, Intisar
• al-Wazir, Khalil
• West Bank
• West Bank barrier
• West Bank Data Project
• Western (Wailing) Wall disturbances
• White Paper of 1939
• women, Palestine
• Woodhead Commission
• Y
• Yasin, Ahmad
• Z
• Zayyad, Tawfiq
• Zibri, Mustafa
• Zionism
• Zionism and the Palestinians
• Zoabi, Haneen
• Zu'aytir, Akram
• Documents
• Basle Declaration
• McMahon Letter
• Sykes Picot Agreement
• Balfour Declaration
• Anglo-French Declaration
• League of Nations Covenant
• King-Crane Commission Recommendations
• Churchill Memorandum (White Paper)
• Mandate for Palestine
• Palestine Royal (Peel) Commission Report
• The White Paper
• Pact of the Arab League
• Plan for the Partition of Palestine: Resolution 181 (II)
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194
• Resolution 303, On the Internationalization of Jerusalem
• Resolution 2253 (ES-V) Concerning Measures Taken by Israel to Change the Status of the City of Jerusalem
• Statement to the United Nations General Assembly Concerning the U.S. Position on Jerusalem
• UN Security Council Resolution 242
• Palestine National Charter (Covenant)
• Statement to the United Nations Security Council Concerning the U.S. Position on Jerusalem
• Rogers Plan
• Resolution 298 on Jerusalem
• UN Security Council Resolution 338
• Palestine National Council, Political Program
• Palestine National Council, PLO, Political Program
• Arab Summit Resolution on Palestine
• Resolution on Palestinian Self-Determination
• Brookings Report Summary
• Palestine National Council, Political Program
• Camp David Accords
• Statement on Palestinian Rights
• The Venice Declaration of the European Economic Community
• The Fahd Plan
• Reagan Plan
• Letter to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir
• Speech on Jordan's Disengagement from the West Bank
• Palestinian Declaration of Independence
• Joint Statement by Yasir Arafat and Five American Jews*
• Address to the United Nation General Assembly
• Resolution A/43/L.54
• Statement on Dialogue with the PLO
• Statement on Relations with the PLO
• Geneva Press Statement
• Madrid Declaration by the European Community
• Oslo Accords
• Israel and the Palestinian Authority Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II)
• Clinton Parameters (Proposals) for a Final Settlement
• Declaration on the Saudi Peace Initiative
• Nuseibeh-Ayalon Agreement
• Roadmap Proposal for Final and Comprehensive Settlement to the Middle East Conflict
• Geneva Accord
• Four-Stage Disengagement Plan
• Joint Understanding Read by President Bush at Annapolis Conference
• Address by PM Netanyahu at Bar-Ilan University
• UN General Assembly Resolution Accepting Palestine as a Non-member Observer State
• John Kerry's Final Speech
• UNESCO Draft Decision on Occupied Palestine
• Glossary
• Chronology
• Annotated Bibliography