Interview with Aḥmad Khalīl Bashīr

Title:

Interview with Aḥmad Khalīl Bashīr
مقابلة مع أحمد خليل بشير

Creator:

Interviewee: Bashīr, Aḥmad Khalīl

Contributor:

بشير، أحمد خليل

Date:

2004-01-21
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on January 21, 2004 with Aḥmad Khalīl Bashīr, male, born in 1926 in al-Sumayrīyah.Families: al-Amīn; al-Gharīb; Yūsuf; Ka‘mūsh; al-Bunnī; Sirrīyah; Ḥamādah; ‘Awaḍ; Ismā‘īl; al-Khaṭīb; ‘Abd al-Raḥīm; Sursuq; Twaynī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Yūsuf (Maqām).Significant figures: Bāb Allāh, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Ḥamādah (Village leader); al-Dīrāwī, Sa‘īd (Poet); al-Ṣayāḥ, Aḥmad (Doctor); Qaṭrān, Na‘īm (Doctor); al-Ismā‘īl, Mūsá (Revolutionary); Bāb Allāh, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); Ḥulayḥil, Mūsá (Revolutionary); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Khaṭīb, Sa‘īd (Martyr); Laymūnah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Shanā‘ah, Muṣṭafá (Revolutionary); al-Khaṭīb, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd (Wounded).Table of contents: Rural life and agriculture in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Political turbulence, warfare, and expulsion . (@ 35:55)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 61:1)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

MovingImage

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Video

Subject:

Agricultural calendars
Agricultural products
Akka (Palestine)
al-Sumayrīyah (Palestine)
Anti-Palestinian economic measures
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
Childhood
Family structure
Farmers
Farming practices
Harvesting
Imports
Land ownership
Means of transportation
Neighbors
Orchards
Professions
Rural life
Schools
Sūq
Trade
Water resources
Work
al-Hayb (Arab tribe)
Antiquities
Arbitration
Arranged marriage
Banū Hilāl (Arab tribe)
Building practices
Dwellings
Entertainment
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Grandfathers
Hospitality
Inheritance
Intervillage relations
Jewish settlements
Land partition
Land sale
Mawlid
Medical aid
Nahariya (Palestine)
Neighboring villages
Religious diversity
Settler colonialism
Social classes
Traditional medical procedures
Wedding traditions
ʻĪd celebrations
al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977
Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Arab Salvation Army
Assault
Bombardment
British colonialism
Brothers
Burial
Child mortality
Children in armed conflicts
Crimes against humanity
Damaged weapons
Displacement
Escape
Guards
Jewish immigrants
Lies
Martyrs
Military superiority
Murder
Palestinian resistance
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Relief requests
Revolutionaries
Route choices
Shootings
Violation of humanitarian law
Weapon trade
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Arab countries
Conspiracy
Deception
Dispersion
Economic aid
Expulsion from Palestine
Family reunification
Land deeds
Mortars
Naturalization
Passing on memories
Personal belongings
Rulers
Smuggling
Socio-economic conditions
Suffering
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
Agriculture--Palestine--20th century
Rural conditions--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948--Atrocities
Zionist terrorism--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Zionist settlement--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Palestine--History--Arab rebellion, 1936-1939

Geographic region:

Village: al-Sumayrīyah

Extent:

Duration: 01:23:16

Rights:

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

Identifier:

nn_0051_ahmad_bashir.xml

Format:

video
mp4

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Nakba Collection

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