Interview with Kāmil Aḥmad Bal‘āwī

Title:

Interview with Kāmil Aḥmad Bal‘āwī
مقابلة مع كامل أحمد بلعاوي

Creator:

Interviewee: Bal‘āwī, Kāmil Aḥmad
Interviewer: ʻAlwān, Amīrah

Contributor:

بلعاوي، أحمد
علوان، أميرة

Date:

2003-10-15
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2003 with Kāmil Aḥmad Bal‘āwī, male, born in 1928 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-‘Anabtāwī, ‘Alī (Teacher); al-Khaḍrah, Samīr (Teacher); al-Nāṣir, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Sharār, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Ḥusayn, Ḥasan (Village leader); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad Nimir (Resistance leader); ‘Awaḍ, Aḥmad ‘Awaḍ (Revolutionary); Abū al-ʻUlá, Khiḍir (Resistance fighter); Yāsīn, Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter); Abū Ibrāhīm, Abū Ibrāhīm Khalīl (Resistance leader); ʻAḍm, Hishām (Arab Salvation Army Commander); Ḥūrānī, Akram (Resistance fighter); al-Shīshaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Sarrāj, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Ḥassūn, Yūsuf (Poet); Ḥassūn,Yūsuf (Poet).Table of contents: Social conditions at Shafā ʻAmrū during the British Mandate. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics at Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 13:57)Table of contents: Religious and cultural identity of Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 25:36)Table of contents: Social life and customs. (@ 36:25)Table of contents: Political dynamics after the British mandate . (@ 43:16)Table of contents: War events and the Zionist invasion . (@ 52:57)Table of contents: Nakba consequences. (@ 88:3)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

MovingImage

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Video

Subject:

Akka (Prison: Palestine)
Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Arrest
Balʻah (Palestine)
Bedouins
British colonization
Brokers
Christians
Collaborationists
Displacement
Disputes
Druzes
Education
Educational grants
Executions
Farm animals
Farmers
Interreligious relations
Land appropriation
Land registration
Land sale
Loans
Minorities
Mothers
Murder
Muslims
Nazareth (Palestine)
Public schools
Safad (Palestine)
Siblings
Spies
Village siege
Agricultural products
Animal slaughter
Anti-Palestinian economic measures
Arranged marriage
British army camps
Buses
Coexistance
Convents
Craftsmen
Economic hardship
Family relations
Handicrafts
Herbal remedies
Income
Laborers
Means of transportation
Medical care
Neighboring villages
Professions
Sūq
Trade
Trains
ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Caliph, -644
al-Ṭayibah (Palestine)
Building practices
Caves
Churches
Dwellings
Generosity
Gold
Group marriage
Intervillage relations
Jewish settlements
Jews
Prisoners
Religious belief
Socio-economic conditions
Synagogues
Water wells
Wedding presents
Entertainment
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Grooms
Marriage
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Social relations
Wedding celebration
al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975
British Government
British-Jewish relations
Clashes
Guards
Jamʻiyyat al-Iʻtiṣām
Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad
Military withdrawal
Political parties
Thieves
Unfulfilled promises
World War, 1939-1945
Zionist colonization
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951
Aerial bombing
al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah
al-Qasṭal Battle
al-Rās al-Aḥmar (Palestine)
al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964
Arab countries
Arab Salvation Army
Arab-Israeli conflict
Assassination
Battles
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
Cities and towns
Dispersion
Emotions
Expulsion from Palestine
Food
Home bombing
Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948
Iraqi Army
Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine)
Lebanon
Massacres
Military aid
Military strategy
Military training
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970
Organizations
Protection
Refugee experience
Resistance
Social classes
Syria
Truces
Weapon acquisition
Women
Childhood memories
Conduct of life
Defeat
Homecoming
Homeland
Hope
Nation
Palestine
Photographs
Return request
Revolutionary songs
Revolutionaries--Political activity--Palestine--20th century
Religious pluralism--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--Zionist colonization--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Zionist settlement--Palestine--History--To 1948
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Arab countries--Foreign relations--Palestine
Palestine--Foreign relations--Arab countries
Palestine--Social life and customs--20th century
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Palestine--History--Arab rebellion, 1936-1939

Geographic region:

Village: Shafā ʻAmrū

Extent:

Duration: 01:41:47

Rights:

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

Identifier:

nn_0315_kamil_balawi.xml

Format:

video
mp4

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Nakba Collection

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