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Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi

1864 - 6 August 1913

Bendali Saliba al-Jawzi

1871 - 1942

24 September 1882 - 15 January 1964

Rafiq al-Tamimi

1889 - 1956

George Antonius

1892 - 1942

1892 - 1973

2 April 1892 - 24 April 1965

Mustafa al-Dabbagh

1897 - 1 October 1989

1905 - 21 May 1985

1907 - 27 July 2006

1910 - 26 February 1971

16 March 1919 - 27 August 1985

2 December 1920 - 29 July 2003

1927 - 13 January 2005

1928 - 1 September 2020

Anis Abdullah Sayigh

3 November 1931 - 25 December 2009

1 November 1935 - 24 September 2003

Arts and Literature

1859 - 21 July 1921

Isaaf al-Nashashibi

1885 - 22 January 1948

11 February 1886 - 19 October 1941

Wadi‘ Faris al-Bustani

1888 - 20 January 1954

Iskandar al-Khoury al-Beitjali

1889 - 7 July 1973

1893 - 27 April 1940

Wasif Jawhariyyeh

1897 - 1973

Ishaq Musa al-Husseini

1904 - 17 December 1990

1905 - 1983

1905 - 2 May 1941

15 May 1905 - 17 November 1979

Abd al-Karim al-Karmi

1909 - 11 October 1980

1917 - 12 December 2003

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

28 August 1919 - 12 December 1994

29 August 1922 - 2 May 1996

Salma Khadra Jayyusi

16 April 1925

1926 - 23 January 1984

13 September 1927 - 8 August 1967

Hanna Abu Hanna

16 October 1928 - 2 February 2022

7 May 1929 - 5 July 1994

2 March 1930 - 3 July 2006

1936 - 29 August 1987

Ghassan Kanafani

9 April 1936 - 8 July 1972

1939 - 19 August 2014

Mahmoud Darwish

13 March 1941 - 9 August 2008

1942 - 6 August 2019

François Abou Salem

16 November 1951 - 1 October 2011

Leadership and Militancy

- 1966

Musa Kazim Husseini

1853 - 26 March 1934

Freih Abu Middein

1871 - 1955

Izzeddin al-Qassam

1882 - 20 November 1935

27 July 1894 - 6 August 1993

Muhammad Amin al-Husseini

1895 - 4 July 1974

Subhi al-Khadra

1895 - 4 July 1954

Ahmad al-Shuqairi

1908 - 25 February 1980

Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini

1908 - 8 April 1948

Abd al-Rahim Mahmoud

1913 - 13 July 1948

28 November 1914 - 30 September 1976

1 August 1925 - 26 January 2008

24 August 1929 - 11 November 2004

Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)

10 October 1935 - 16 April 1988

Ahmad Ismail Yasin

June 1936 - 22 March 2004

Faisal al-Husseini

17 July 1940 - 31 May 2001

9 April 1944

Abd al-Aziz Rantisi

1947 - 17 April 2004

4 January 1951 - 26 October 1995

Dalal al-Mughrabi

29 December 1959 - 11 March 1978

Politics and Media

Sa‘id al-Karmi

1852 - 1935

1865 - 3 March 1948

1868 - 1930

1878 - 29 June 1950

Abd al-Qadir Muzaffar

1880 - 1949

1882 - 22 April 1942

Raghib al-Nashashibi

1882 - 1951

Boulos Shehadeh

1882 - August 1943

Shaykh Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi

1882 - 1958

Mu‘in al-Madi

1887 - 1957

Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim

1889 - 1953

Awni Abd al-Hadi

1889 - 15 March 1970

Jamal al-Husseini

1892 - 5 July 1982

Muhammad Ali al-Taher

1896 - 22 August 1974

8 May 1897 - 8 June 1984

Mohammed Ali al-Ja‘bari

1900 - 29 May 1980

Abd al-Hamid al-Sayih

1907 - 8 January 2001

1913 - 1986

Haydar Abd al-Shafi

10 June 1919 - 25 September 2007

1929 - 2 June 2016

Bassam Shak’a

1930 - 22 July 2019

13 January 1932 - 2 August 2009

Abd al-Wahhab Darawshah

12 October 1943

8 October 1946

Society and Economy

1875 - 9 February 1949

Khalil al-Sakakini

23 January 1878 - 13 August 1953

Ahmad Hilmi Pasha Abd al-Baqi

1882 - 29 June 1963

Khalil Abdallah Totah

20 May 1886 - 24 February 1955

Abd al-Hamid Shuman

1888 - 9 September 1974

Omar al-Saleh al-Barghouti

1894 - 22 June 1965

Ahmad Samih al-Khalidi

1896 - 27 September 1951

Anbara Salam Khalidi

4 August 1897 - 1986

Matiel Mogannam

15 February 1899 - 11 August 1992

1900 - 1970

1902 - 27 August 1984

Zulaykha al-Shihabi

1903 - 13 May 1992

Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

1909 - 1977

Sami Taha Hamran

1911 - 11 September 1947

Abd al-Majid Shuman

1912 - 5 July 2005

Wadi‘a Qaddura Khartabil

1915 - 2007

Hind al-Husseini

25 April 1916 - 13 September 1994

1923 - 12 May 2004

Yusra al-Barbari

15 April 1923 - 13 May 2009

20 April 1923 - 26 February 1999

Samira Abu Ghazaleh

1928 - 12 January 2017

Issam Abd al-Hadi

1928 - 8 August 2013

3 November 1929 - 30 August 2012