Interview with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Darwīsh

Title:

Interview with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Darwīsh
مقابلة مع محمد حسين درويش

Creator:

Interviewee: Darwīsh, Muḥammad Ḥusayn

Contributor:

درويش، محمد حسين

Date:

yyyy-mm-dd

Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Darwīsh, male, born in 1917 in al-Birwah, Palestine. He worked as policeman with the British authorities.Families: Darwīsh; al-Kayyāl; Hawwāsh; ‘Alī Dīb; al-Zāyid; Khūrī; al-Shuqayrī; al- Saʻdī; Ḥbayshī; Sursuq; Qūwwatlī; al-‘Aḍm; Salām; Dabbāḥ.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa International Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabi Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Masjid al-Aqṣà (Mosque).Significant figures: Naḥfāwī, Ḥasan (Shaykh); al-Barghūtī, Nāyif (Military officer); Abū Zayid, Nājī (Military officer); al-Shuqayrī, Aḥmad (Lawyer); al-Dīb, Shafīq (Trader); Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥmayyid, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Ḥmayyid, Qāsim (poet); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-‘Abdullāh, Najīb (Revolutionary leader); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Jūdī, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); Hawwāsh, Yaḥyá (Revolutionary); Sulṭānah, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā (Revolutionary); Darwīsh, Shafīq (Chief justice); Bashir, ʻĀbid (Revolutionary leader); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); Bayḍūn, ʻIṣām (Doctor); al-Khūrī, Salīm (Doctor).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in al-Birwah under British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and political activity in Akka during British mandate. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: The British measures towards the Arab revolution. (@ 32:34)Table of contents: al-Birwah battle events and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 51:44)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

MovingImage

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Video

Subject:

Akka (Palestine)
British army camps
British colonialism
British-Jewish relations
Christians
Customs and traditions
Darwīsh, Maḥmūd, 1941–2008
Education
Farmers
Gaza (Palestine)
Grooms
Interreligious relations
Intervillage relations
Means of transportation
Palestine Railways
Police
Population
Return
Schools
Traders
Traditional medical procedures
Water wells
Wedding celebration
World War, 1939-1945
al-Difāʻ (Newspaper)
al-Shanṭī, Ibrāhīm Yaḥyá, 1910-1979
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
Building practices
Cities and towns
Coffeehouses
Dwellings
Fīlasṭīn (Newspaper)
Respect
Social relations
Weapon acquisition
al-Birwah Battle, 1948
al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975
al-Ḥusaynī, Jamāl, 1893-1982
al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977
Arab High Committee
Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Arrest
Balfour Declaration, 1917
Battles
Brutal treatment
Clashes
Economic prosperity
Hospitality
Hunger
Identity cards
Interpersonal relations
Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930
Jewish settlements
Lebanon
Martyrs
Morality
Protests against occupation
Revolutionaries
al-Birwah (Palestine)
Dispersion
Disputes
Expulsion from Palestine
Haifa (Palestine)
Land sale
Landowners
Money
Nation
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Passports
Ports
Radio stations
Return request
Trade
Treason
Zionist Invasion of Palestine,1948
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Palestine--History--Arab rebellion, 1936-1939
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Palestine--Social life and customs--20th century
Zionist settlement--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
Palestine--Zionist colonization--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948

Geographic region:

Village: al-Birwah

Extent:

Duration: 01:15:41

Rights:

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

Identifier:

nn_0364_muhammad_darwish.xml

Format:

video
mp4

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Nakba Collection

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