Interview with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Abū ‘Adas

Title:

Interview with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Abū ‘Adas
مقابلة مع أحمد عبد الرحمن أبو عدس

Creator:

Interviewee: Abū ‘Adas, Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān
Interviewer: Muṣṭafá, Maysūn Jamāl

Contributor:

أبو عدس، أحمد عبد الرحمن
مصطفى، ميسون جمال

Date:

2003-12-13
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 2003 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Abū ‘Adas, male, born in 1924 in al-Mujaydil, Palestine. He worked with the Police during the British Mandate.Families: Sursuq; al-Lawābinah; Abū Khamīs; Wākid; Maṣāl; Sūṭarī; al-Khūrī; al-Buṭruṣ; Ṣalībā; Abū Dāwūd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Mujaydil (School); Ramat David (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū ʻAdas, Maḥmūd (Prisoner); Sūṭarī, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Sulaymān, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-Ghāzī, Muṭlaq Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Aḥmad, Tawfīq (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); Kassāb, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Martyr); ʻĪsá, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sulaymān, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Badīʻ, Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū ʻAzārah, Nāyif (Martyr); Samārah, Yūsuf (Martyr); Dabbūr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-ʻAbd, Dīb Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Mbadā, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Professions and employment . (@ 21:25)Table of contents: Political activity during the British rule. (@ 30:25)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in Palestine. (@ 42:55)Table of contents: Zionist attacks and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 67:38)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 89:22)Table of contents: Final reflections. (@ 111:23)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

MovingImage

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Video

Subject:

al-Mujaydil (Palestine)
Arabic proverbs
Childhood memories
Children's games
Children's songs
Education
Intervillage relations
Jewish settlements
Land sale
Mourning
Nuns
Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Poems
Public schools
Teachers
Women education
Armed patrols
British army camps
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
Child labour
Guards
Haifa (Palestine)
Income
Laborers
Languages
Palestine Railways
Palestinian Jews
Police
Professions
Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces
World War, 1939-1945
Akkā (Prison: Palestine)
Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Assassination
British colonialism
British-Jewish relations
Dogs
Ḥaṭṭah
Home bombing
Imprisonment
Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad
Jewish immigrants
Means of transportation
Protests against settlements
Revolutionaries
Ships
Strikes
Ṭarbūsh
Tracing
Weapon acquisition
Agricultural prosperity
Arranged marriage
Building practices
Christians
Churches
Coexistence
Dabkah
Dowry
Dwellings
Khirbat al-Karmil (Palestine)
Landowners
Mījānā
Mosques
Muḥammad ʻAlī Bāshā, Governor of Egypt, 1769-1849
Murder
Religious belief
Wedding celebration
Wedding customs
ʻAtābā
al-Hayʼah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā
al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975
Arab Salvation Army
Armed resistance
Attack
Balfour Declaration, 1917
Bombardment
Checkpoints
Displacement
Expulsion from Palestine
Jewish immigration
Military strategy
Police stations
Property destruction
Routes
Settler colonialism
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Zionist occupation
Arab countries
Border crossing
Collaborationists
Demolition
Dispersion
Family reunification
Forced migration
Investigation
Israeli Army (IDF)
Jordanian Government
Mass murder
Nazareth (Palestine)
Permits
Prisoners' treatment
Refugee camps
Return
Rumors
Seeking shelter
Suffering
Arrest
Generations
Israeli colonization
Israeli occupation
Naturalization refusal
Pain
Passing on memories
Terrorism
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Zionist terrorism--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Palestine--History--Arab rebellion, 1936-1939
al-Mujaydil (Palestine)--History
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Palestine--Zionist colonization--History--To 1948
Zionist immigration--Palestine--20th century
Zionist settlement--Palestine--History--To 1948
War and families--Palestine--20th century
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948

Geographic region:

Village: al-Mujaydil

Extent:

Duration: 01:58:57

Rights:

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

Identifier:

nn_0205_ahmad_abu_adas.xml

Format:

video
mp4

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Nakba Collection

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