Interview with Ᾱminah Ibrahīm al-Bakrī

Title:

Interview with Ᾱminah Ibrahīm al-Bakrī
مقابلة مع آمنة ابراهيم البكري

Creator:

Interviewee: al-Bakrī, Ᾱminah Ibrahīm
Interviewer: ‘Awaḍ, Walīd
Interviewer: Jumʻah, Muḥammad

Contributor:

البكري، آمنة ابراهيم
عوض، وليد
جمعة، محمد

Date:

1997-11-07
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on November 7, 1997 with Ᾱminah Ibrahīm al-Bakrī, female, born in 1914 in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Badrān; Khalīl; al-Tītī; ʻĀbid; al-Ḥusayn; al-Bakrī; Khāzin; Būlus; al-Khūrī.Significant figures: al-Sarkas, ʻUthmān (Mayor); Badrān, Ḥusayn Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al-Bakrī, Muḥammad Ḥasan (Lawyer); Darwīsh, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabaḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-‘Ābid, ‘Alī Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Dāhish, Jabr (Village leader); Bakrī, Ḥusayn (Leader).Table of contents: Rural life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Biʻnah. (@ 10:6)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 17:6)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 23:27)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 28:46)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 45:45)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 49:57)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 64:19)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural products
al-Biʻnah (Palestine)
Building practices
Caves
Dwellings
Farm animals
Farming practices
Harvesting
Intervillage relations
Peasants
Rural life
Water resources
Water wells
Catholic Church
Children's games
Chores
Christians
Death
Disputes
Eldest child
Handicrafts
Interreligious relations
Land deeds
Landowners
Love stories
Loved ones
Marriage
Marriage contracts
Midwives
Olive oil mills
Orchards
Orthodox Eastern Church
Soap
Women education
Brothers
Engagement
Escape
Gifts
Grooms
Hebrew
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Sabbath
Social norms
Vendors
Wedding celebration
Wedding traditions
Weddings
ʻĪd celebrations
Akka (Palestine)
al-Layyāt Battle, 1936
Arab Salvation Army
British high commissioner
Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948
Gardens
Guards
Officers
Psychological warfare
Resistance movements
Revolutionaries
Rifles
Skirmishes
Socio-economic conditions
Terrorism
Vehicles
Village siege
Weapon acquisition
Aerial bombing
Arrest
Battles
Breastfeeding
Burial
Child mortality
Childbirth
Children
Discrimination
Diseases
Dispersion
Displacement
Druzes
Emotions
Expulsion from Palestine
Food
Forced evacuation
Living conditions
Mass murder
Olive trees
Refugee aid
Refugee experience
Rmaysh (Lebanon)
Seeking shelter
Trucks
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Vaccination
Zionist occupation
ʻAnjar (Lebanon)
Bread
Conduct of life
Generosity
Interpersonal relations
Morality
Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)
Refugee camps
Agricultural land lease
Attempt at return
Cities and towns
Cousins
Family reunification
Famine
Jewish settlements
Land expropriation
Land sale
Nablus (Palestine)
Paradise
Permits
Political prisoners
Pre-Nakba geographical territories
Return
Routes
Smuggling
Suffering
Uncles
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951
al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975
Beirut (Lebanon)
Betrayal
Homecoming
Homeland
Ḥusayn, King of Jordan, 1935-1999
Identity cards
Nation
Naturalization
Naturalization refusal
Official documents
Personal belongings
Reconstructed urban setting
Reparations
Souls
Victims
Youth
ʻAtābā
Agriculture--Palestine--20th century
Manners and customs--Palestine--20th century
Religious pluralism--Palestine--20th century
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948--Atrocities
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
War and families--Palestine--20th century
Psychological warfare--Palestine--History--20th century
Zionist terrorism--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948

Geographic region:

Village: al-Biʻnah

Extent:

Duration: 01:16:44

Rights:

0
The copyright holder of this interview is the Nakba Archive, all rights reserved.

Identifier:

jn_0022_aminah_al-bakri.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection

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