Interview with Aḥmad Dawāymah

Title:

Interview with Aḥmad Dawāymah
مقابلة مع أحمد دوايمة

Creator:

Interviewee: Dawāymah, Aḥmad
Interviewer: Zaydān, Maḥmūd

Contributor:

دوايمة، أحمد
زيدان، محمود

Date:

2003-12-25
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on December 25, 2003 with Aḥmad Dawāymah, male, born in 1922 in Yibnah, Palestine.He worked in Pasta Manufacture during the British mandate.Families: al-Dawāynī; al-Khūrī; al-Māḍī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Pasta Manufacture (Corporation); Haifa Cigarette Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Juraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: Ṣafadī, Sāmī (Tailor); al-Khaṭīb, Nimir (Shaykh); Murād, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Shaykh); Naffāʻ, Yūnus (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood memories in Ijsim. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and interreligious marriage. (@ 12:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 23:18)Table of contents: Political turmoil, battles and military occupation. (@ 46:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from Haifa. (@ 55:24)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile. (@ 73:36)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

MovingImage

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Video

Subject:

British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
Child labour
Coffee
Custody
Employment
Family structure
Fathers
Haifa (Palestine)
Histadrut
Illiteracy
Income
Jewish immigrants
Mistreatment
Orphans
Palestine Railways
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Religious belief
Settler colonialism
Socio-economic conditions
Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces
Yibnah (Palestine)
Bakeries
British Army
British Mandate for Palestine, 1920-1948
Entertainment
Identity cards
Interreligious marriage
Jewish settlements
Mizrahi Jews
Palestinian Jews
Partition plan, 1947
Ships
Aerial bombing
Brokers
Clashes
Coexistence
Collaborationists
Destruction
Discriminatory measures
Displacement
Emotions
Expulsion
Family reunification
Home demolition
Humiliation
Iraqi Army
Israeli checkpoints
Jaysh Lubnān al-Janūbī
Neighborhoods
Nostalgia
Olive trees
Permits
Remapping national territories
State of Israel
United Nations
Water resources
Armed resistance
British policy
Children
Governors
Guards
Hadar (Jewish settlement: Palestine)
Jamʻiyyat al-Iʻtiṣām
Jamʻiyyat al-ʻUmāl al-ʻArabiyah al-Filasṭīniyah
Jerusalem (Palestine)
Machination
Military superiority
Military training
Mines
Ports
Skirmishes
Tanks
Aid
Akka (Palestine)
Ammunition
Bernadotte, Folke, 1895-1948
Boats
British-Jewish relations
Chehab, Fuad, 1902-1973
Damaged Weapons
Dispersion
Expulsion from Palestine
Food
Ijzim
Imprisonment
Injuries
Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982
Jordanian Army
Laborers
Mayors
Pamphlets
Peacekeeping operations
Personal belongings
Porters
Radio stations
Relief
Right of return
Routes
Safad Battle, 1948
Weapons
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Death
Economic hardship
Israeli colonization
Lebanese Army
Ramaḍān
Refugee aid
Refugee experience
Syria
Traitors
Victory
Weapons confiscation
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Interfaith marriage--Palestine--20th century
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Religious pluralism--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Palestinian-Jewish relations--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Partition, 1947
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Zionist immigration--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
United Nations--Palestine
Palestine--Zionist colonization--History--To 1948

Geographic region:

Village: Yibnah

Extent:

Duration: 01:23:20

Rights:

0
The copyright holder of this interview is the Nakba Archive, all rights reserved.

Identifier:

nn_0220_ahmad_dawaymah.xml

Format:

video
mp4

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Nakba Collection

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