Interview with Ḥamīd Frayj

Title:

Interview with Ḥamīd Frayj
مقابلة مع حميد فريج

Creator:

Interviewee: Frayj, Ḥamīd
Interviewer: Mughrabī, Bushrá

Contributor:

فريج، حميد
مغربي، بشرى

Date:

2004-04-25
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on April 25, 2004 with Ḥamīd Frayj, male, born in 1920 in al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī, Palestine. He was a soldier in the Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces.Families: al-Shihābī; Ghulmīyah; Francis.Significant figures: al-Qāsim, Ḥammūd (Teacher); al-Dakhīl, Shiḥādah (Mayor); al-Yūsuf, Khalaf (Village leader); Zayn, Muḥammad Salīm (Public officer); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Leader); al-Ḥāj, Muṣliḥ (Musician); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbdū (Musician); al-Ḥmayyid, Muṣṭafá (Musician).Table of contents: Childhood memories and hardships . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and economical conditions. (@ 11:36)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Palestinian Jewish relations during the zionist invasion of Palestine. (@ 40:34)Table of contents: Attack, popular resistance and exile. (@ 54:20)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

MovingImage

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Video

Subject:

al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī (Palestine)
British army camps
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
Childhood dreams
Children's games
Education
Family structure
Intervillage relations
Living conditions
Marriage
Mothers
Orphans
Pregnancies
Schools
Siblings
Social norms
Socio-economic conditions
Suffering
Sūq
World War, 1939-1945
Agricultural economics
Agricultural land lease
Agricultural products
Aid
Arbitration
Blood money
British Army
British authorities
Building practices
Christians
Complaints
Economic prosperity
Financial compensation
Governors
Illiteracy
Irrigation
Land appropriation
Land ownership
Land registration
Land sale
Lawyers
Marjaʻyūn (Lebanon)
Murder
Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918
Peasant workers
Public lands
Traders
Water resources
al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975
Arranged marriage
Benevolence
Bridal customs
Circumcision
Customs and traditions
Dabkah
Dowry
Educational grants
Farm animals
Feasts
Hospitality
Marriage proposals
Shaykhs
Wedding celebration
Wedding songs
ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawwī
ʻĪd celebrations
Ambushes
Bridges
British-Jewish relations
Brokers
Convoys
Defense
Food
Horses
Income
Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad
Mayors
Military officials
Palestine Post (Post office)
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Pamphlets
Revolutionaries
Rifles
Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces
Zionist colonization
Ammunition
Arab Salvation Army
Battles
Betrayal
Crimes against individuals
Damaged Weapons
Dinners and dinning
Displacement
Expulsion from Palestine
Family reunification
Forced migration
Guards
Gypsies
Harvesting
Home bombing
Homeland
Hostility
House burning
Imprisonment
Injuries
Jewish settlements
Lebanese Army
Medical care
Military orders
Police investigations
Prisoners' treatment
Psychological warfare
Refugee camps
Refugee experience
Resistance movements
Return
Safad (Palestine)
Skirmishes
Tear gas
Village leaders
Violation of humanitarian law
Weapon acquisition
Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949
Zionist occupation
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Palestine--Social life and customs--20th century
Agriculture--Palestine--20th century
Marriage customs and rites--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Political prisoners--Palestine--20th century
Crimes against humanity--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions

Geographic region:

Village: al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī

Extent:

Duration: 01:23:22

Rights:

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

Identifier:

nn_0090_hamid_frayj.xml

Format:

video
mp4

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Nakba Collection

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