Interview with Raymond Elias ʻAffārah

Title:

Interview with Raymond Elias ʻAffārah
مقابلة مع ريمون الياس عفارة

Creator:

Interviewee: ʻAffārah, Raymond Elias
Interviewer: Abū Hawwash, Jābir

Contributor:

عفارة، ريمون الياس
أبو هواش، جابر

Date:

1997-06-07
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 1997 with Raymond Elias ʻAffārah, male, born in 1936 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Catholic school (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).Significant figures: Ḥallās, Riḍā (Teacher); Kannūn, Maḥmud (Shaykh).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Infiltration and attacks. (@ 8:20)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 19:25)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 29:50)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 43:0)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural economics
al-Hayʼah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā
al-Ṭīrah, Haifa (Palestine)
Barbers
Building practices
Children's games
Christians
Coexistence
Educational grants
Expulsion from Palestine
Fathers
Interreligious relations
Kafr Smayr (Palestine)
Means of transportation
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Peasants
Population
Religious education
Siblings
Socio-economic conditions
Trade
Weapon acquisition
Ammunition
Battles
Bombings
British-Jewish relations
Brothers
Buses
Checkpoints
Damaged weapons
Haganah
Jewish immigrants
Leaders
Military superiority
Military training
Palestinian Jews
Psychological warfare
Resistance movements
Rumors
Settler colonialism
Shootings
Skirmishes
Vehicle drivers
Zionist colonization
ʻĪd celebrations
Akka (Palestine)
Arab Salvation Army
Boats
Children in armed conflicts
City dwellers
Displacement
Emotions
Evacuation
Israeli checkpoints
Killing
Massacres
Suffering
Tyre (Lebanon)
Uncles
Vehicles
Weapons
Zionist occupation
Arbitration
British colonialism
Catholic Church
Clans
Decision making
Diseases
Dwellings
Haifa (Palestine)
House rent
Intervillage relations
Kafr Smyar (Palestine)
Medical care
Money
Personal belongings
Refugee aid
Refugee experience
Refugees
Routes
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Village leaders
Arrest
Boundaries
Cousins
Death
Druzes
Hiding
Homeland
Identity cards
Imprisonment
International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Israeli occupation
Jewish neighbors
Jewish settlements
Lebanese Government
Morale
Naturalization
Patriotism
Religion
Return
Route choices
Smuggling
Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
War and families--Palestine--20th century
Zionist settlement--Palestine--History--To 1948
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Religious pluralism--Palestine--20th century
Psychological warfare--Palestine--History--20th century
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Zionist terrorism--Palestine--History--To 1948

Geographic region:

Village: al-Ṭīrah, Haifa

Extent:

Duration: 00:58:05

Rights:

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

Identifier:

jn_0017_raymond_affarah.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection

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