Interview with Aḥmad Āghā

Title:

Interview with Aḥmad Āghā
مقابلة مع أحمد آغا

Creator:

Interviewee: Āghā, Aḥmad
Interviewer: Mughrabī, Bushrá

Contributor:

آغا، أحمد
مغربي، بشرى

Date:

2004-03-14
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on March 14, 2004 with Aḥmad Āghā, male, born in 1930 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine. He worked as a military commander with the British police forces.Families: Sirḥān; Ᾱghā; al-Ḥammulah; al-Khayrāt; al-Fallāḥīn; Abū Anṭūn; al-Qiblāwī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Saint Luke's School (School); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Mujāhid (Maqām); al-Nabī Yahyá (Maqām); Jablat ʻAlī Abū Saʻd (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Ḥammūlah (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Qubbah, Maḥmūd (Teacher); Bishārah, Ḥannā (Teacher); ʻAwdah, ʻAbdallāh (Teacher); Ḥūrānī, Adīb (Teacher); Ḥabīb, Karam (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Bāqī, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Ḥijāzī, Fakhr (Teacher); Bustānī, Bashīr (Teacher); Shurayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Qāḍī, Shukrī (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad (Mayor), Sirḥān, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Mayor); Ᾱghā, Taqīy al-Dīn Aḥmad (Mayor); ʻAwdah, Fāṭimah (Dressmaker); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); Fuʼād, ʻUthmān (Revolutionary leader); al-Rashīd, Fawzī (Revolutionary leader); Ᾱghā, Muḥammad Kamāl (Resistance leader); Jadīd, Fuʼād (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Yannī, Yannī (Mayor); Laḥḥūd, Ḥannā (Resistance fighter); Ghabghad, Naʻīm (Minister); ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Rafīq, Naẓmī (Resistance fighter); al-Sibāʻī, Sabiʻ (Resistance fighter); Ᾱghā, Muḥmmad Kamāl (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family history and origin. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 7:29)Table of contents: Employment in the Palestinian mobile forces. (@ 15:28)Table of contents: Socio-political life in Tarshīḥā . (@ 27:13)Table of contents: Cultural life in Tarshīḥā. (@ 51:42)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 66:30)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine . (@ 74:17)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā and life in exile. (@ 100:38)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

MovingImage

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Video

Subject:

Conspiracy
Death
Fathers
Grandfathers
Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine)
Landowners
Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918
Settler colonialism
Shootings
Tarshīḥā (Palestine)
British colonialism
Children's games
Farmers
Laborers
Land ownership
Public schools
Qurʼānic teaching
Socio-economic conditions
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992
British army camps
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
British officers
British police forces
Explosions
Income
Jewish immigration
Jews
Military training
Tel Aviv (Jewish settlement: Palestine)
Terrorism
Agricultural income
Agricultural products
al-Suwayṭāt (Arab tribe)
British-Jewish relations
Churches
Dwellings
Economic prosperity
Family relations
Haifa (Palestine)
Historic buildings
Historical events
Interreligious relations
Land purchase
Land sale
Military strategy
Municipalities
Neighborhoods
Neighboring villages
Police
Settlement expansion
Social classes
Spring
Taxation
Tobacco trade
Trade
Agricultural prosperity
Arab Salvation Army
Arbitration
Bridal customs
Coffeehouses
Education
Entertainment
European Jewish Immigration
Food
Hospitality
Interreligious marriage
Intervillage relations
Medical care
Medical doctors
Newspapers
Radio stations
Wedding presents
ʻĪd celebrations
Brutal treatment
Identity cards
Imprisonment
Jewish settlements
Political activity
Road blocks
Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)
Strikes
Unemployment
Weapon acquisition
Aerial bombing
al-Birwah Battle, 1948
al-Ḥizb al-Sūrī al-Qawmī al-Ijtimāʻī
al-Kābrī Battle, 1948
al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977
al-Shajarah Battle, 1948
Armored vehicles
Bombings
Damaged weapons
Deception
Druzes
helpfulness
Jordanian Army
Kafr Yāsīf (Palestine)
Killing
Military withdrawal
Mines
Village leaders
Collaborationists
Demolition
Displacement
Emotions
House raid
Lebanon
Mothers
Palestinian national identity
Passing on memories
Prisoners of war
Refugee aid
Refugee experience
Return
Routes
Treason
Unfulfilled promises
Jews--Palestine--History--20th century
Palestine--Social life and customs--20th century
Palestine--History--Arab rebellion, 1936-1939
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Labor--Palestine--History--20th century
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Education--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--Zionist colonization--History--To 1948
Agriculture--Palestine--20th century
Tarshīḥā (Palestine)--History
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Zionist settlement--Palestine--History--To 1948
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948

Geographic region:

Village: Tarshīḥā

Extent:

Duration: 02:05:10

Rights:

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The copyright holder of this interview is the Nakba Archive, all rights reserved.

Identifier:

nn_0162_ahmad_agha.xml

Format:

video
mp4

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Nakba Collection

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