Interview with Muḥammad Abū Raqabah

Title:

Interview with Muḥammad Abū Raqabah
مقابلة مع محمد أبو رقبة

Creator:

Interviewee: Abū Raqabah, Muḥammad
Interviewer: Zaydān, Maḥmūd

Contributor:

أبو رقبة، محمد
زيدان، محمود

Date:

2003-11-12
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 2003 with Muḥammad Abū Raqabah, male, born in 1929 in Akka, Palestine. He was an Arab Salvation Army commander.Families: Ṭūqān; Shaqʻah; Nābulsī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Latin School (School); Kullīyat al-Najāḥ al-Waṭanī (School); al-Madrasah al-Ahlīyah al-Thānawīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Dayr al-Lātīn (Convent); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Mayor); al-ʻĪd, Sāmī (School principal); al-Naḥawī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥassūn, ʻAbdullāh (Teacher); Ṭūqān, Qadrī (Teacher); al-ʻAmad, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Jālī, Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter); Bushnāq, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Tawfīq, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Budayrī, Muṣbāḥ (Resistance fighter); Ḥaddād, ʻUthmān Jaʻfar (Resistance fighter); al-Khālidī, Ḥāzim (Officer); ʻAlī, Mufliḥ (Teacher); al-Hāshim, Ṭāhā (Arab Salvation Army commander); Salāmah, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ḥnayṭī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Lababīdī, Rafīq (Teacher); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Ṭabarī, Mūsá (Shaykh); Shuqayr, Shawkat (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jarbūʻ, Rashīd (Prisoner); al-ʻAẓm, Hishām (Prisoner).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and political life . (@ 10:20)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 37:32)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Akka, 1948 and imprisonment . (@ 54:58)Table of contents: Death of Amīn al-Ḥusaynī and final reflections . (@ 72:7)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

MovingImage

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Video

Subject:

Akka (Palestine)
al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975
Bourguiba, Habib, 1903-2000
Catholic Church
Coexistence
Dietary practices
Dwellings
Education
Family structure
Gardens
Historic buildings
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Neighborly behavior
Palestinian Orthodox Clubs
Pilgrims
Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193
Scouts
Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980
Sports
Zionist occupation
ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī
ʻĪd celebrations
al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah
Arab Salvation Army
Arabic patriotic poetry
Coffeehouses
Collaborationists
Damascus (Syria)
Day care centers
Elections
Guards
Ittiḥād al-Ṭullāb al-ʻArab
Maḥmūd, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm, 1913-1948
Military training
Municipalities
Nablus (Palestine)
Nationalism
Partition plan, 1947
Protests
Public schools
Syrian Army
Teachers
Ṭūqān, Fadwá, 1917-2003
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951
al-Hay’ah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā
al-Nādī al-Qawmī
al-Nādī al-Riyāḍī al-Islāmī
Ambushes
Arab countries
Boats
Bombardment
British Government
Conspiracy
Expulsion from Palestine
Haifa (Palestine)
Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948
Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas
Jewish settlements
Machination
Military strategy
Military superiority
Mortars
Nādī Usāmah
Negotiations
Protests against occupation
Psychological warfare
Revolutionary songs
Road blocks
Weapon acquisition
Aerial bombing
al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964
al-Tall, Waṣfī, 1919-1971
Battles
Disguise
Employment
Exile
Family reunification
Homs (Syria)
Khaddām, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1932?-
Majallat Filasṭīn (Magazine)
Military officials
Palestinian resistance movements
Prisoners' treatment
Refugee camp conditions
Seeking refuge
Algeria
Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004
Burial
Consolation
Hope
Israeli colonization
Jerusalem (Palestine)
Jewish immigrants
Right of return
Akka (Palestine)--History
Political prisoners--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
Education--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Psychological warfare--Palestine--History--20th century
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Arab countries--Foreign relations--Palestine
Palestine--Foreign relations--Arab countries

Geographic region:

Village: Akka

Extent:

Duration: 01:21:18

Rights:

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Identifier:

nn_0206_muhammad_abu_raqabah.xml

Format:

video
mp4

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Nakba Collection

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