1st World War

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Balfour Declaration

Ottoman Empire officially ends

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British Mandate (legitimised by the league of nations 1922)

Arna Mer Khamis was born

Poet Nuh Ibrahim is murdered by the British

Second World War

The Nakbe, where an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes

Arna Joins the communist party

Jenin Refugee Camp was formed

Six-day war

Isreal murders writer Ghassan Kanafani

Isreal kills political leader, writer and poet Kamal Nasser in Lebanon

1st Intifada begins

Naji al-Ali is murdered in London. Whilst it was never confirmed, it is suspected to be a Mossad assassination.

Arna goes to Jenin Refugee Camp and established Care & Learning and The Stone Theatre alongside local women.

Suhail Khoury (Edward Said National Conservatory of Music) is arrested and imprisoned for creating music tapes.

Discussions for the Oslo accords begin

The Edward Said National Conservatory of Music is founded

Founding of Yabous Cultural Centre

2nd intifada begins

Yousef Swaitat suicide mission

Ten-day invasion of Jenin Refugee Camp

Omar Bakri films ‘Jenin Jenin’

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Founding of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement

Founding of The Freedom Theatre In Jenin Refugee Camp

Ahmed Tobasi leaves prison and joins The Freedom Theatre

Israel and Egypt close the borders to Gaza, restricting movement for people in and out until this day.d ordering 24 copies to be confiscated.

Isreal launches Operation "Cast Lead" on Gaza.

Juliano Mer Khamis is murdered

Four members of The Freedom Theatre are arrested and imprisoned.

Nabil Al Raee, who became Artistic Director of the Freedom Theatre after Juliano's murder, is arrested and imprisoned.

Mohammad Saba’aneh is arrested and imprisoned

Photographer Mohammad Al Azza is shot in the head.

Mohammed Al Azzah is arrested.

Isreal launches 'Operation Protective Edge' on Gaza

Poet Dareen Tatour is arrested and imprisonment

Loai Tafesh, dancer-choreographer and founder of Naqsh dance ensemble, is arrested and imprisonment

President Trump formally recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and states that the American embassy would be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Land Day protests in Gaza begin demanding an end to the Israeli blockade and the right of return for refugees. Across 18 months, 168 Palestinians were murdered and thousands injured.

The US embassy is opened in Jerusalem on the 70th Gregorian anniversary of the creation of the modern State of Israel.

The Said al-Mishal Centre in Gaza is bombed

Dareen Tatour’s imprisonment and house arrest ends.

Rania Elias (Yabous Cultural Center) and Suhail Khoury (Edward Said National Conservatory of Music)

arrested and interrogated.

Mohammed Bakri continues to be taken to court for ‘Jenin, Jenin’. He is ordered to pay damages to Israeli soldier Nissim Magnaji of 175,000 shekels ($55,000) and 50,000 shekels of court expenses. The court also re-introduces a ban on the film in Israel and ordering 24 copies to be confiscated.

Dancer and choreographer Atta Khattab is held in prison.

Palestinian cultural organisations lose the majority of their core funding after refusing the demands of international funders to depoliticise their work.