Interview with Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAsqūl

Title:

Interview with Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAsqūl
مقابلة مع أحمد محمد عسقول

Creator:

Interviewee: ʻAsqūl, Aḥmad Muḥammad
Interviewer: ‘Awaḍ, Walīd
Interviewer: Jumʻah, Muḥammad

Contributor:

عسقول، أحمد محمد
عوض، وليد
جمعة، محمد

Date:

1997-09-07
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on September 7, 1997 with Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAsqūl, male, born in 1937 in Bīrīyā, Palestine.Families: Ṣawwān; Ayyūbī; Shaʻbān.Significant figures: Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Mayor); Shaʻbān, ʻAlī (Shepherd); Brayk, Shafīq (School principal); al-Najjār, Muḥammad (Camp leader); Ḥamad, Ḥasan (Public servant).Table of contents: Political dynamics in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood and socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 8:9)Table of contents: Violence and military occupation. (@ 21:33)Table of contents: Village occupation and displacement. (@ 39:56)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 50:32)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 67:49)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural products
Bīrīyā (Palestine)
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
Building practices
Dairy products
Displacement
Farm animals
Guards
Intervillage relations
Landowners
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Peasants
Population
Safad (Palestine)
Schools
Siblings
Skirmishes
Traders
Village leaders
Water resources
Weapon acquisition
Zionist occupation
Burial
Children's games
Coexistence
Domestic animals
Education
Farming practices
Football
Graveyards
Interpersonal relations
Land acquisition
Languages
Leaders
Martyrs
Naturalization
Qurʼānic teaching
Rural life
Socio-economic conditions
Tanks
Aerial bombing
al-Ṣafṣāf Battle, 1948
al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948
al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964
Arab Salvation Army
Bombardment
Childbirth
Damaged weapons
Dispersion
Hiding
Land ownership
Land sale
Military withdrawal
Moroccans
Possessions
Rifles
Routes
Singing
Suffering
Survival
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Battlefields
British-Jewish relations
Conspiracy
Death
Expulsion from Palestine
Haganah
Home bombing
Khaḍrā, Ṣubḥī, 1895-1954
Military superiority
Narrators
News
Palestinian Jews
Pamphlets
Resistance
Resistance movements
Return
Village siege
Beggars
Caves
Families
House rent
Living conditions
Rain
Refugee aid
Refugee camps
Refugee experience
Shootings
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Youth
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951
al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975
Attempt at return
Boats
Brothers
Cheating
Collaborationists
Cowardice
Defense
Discrimination
Disputes
Druzes
Explosions
Fishermen
Great Britain
Homeland
Income
Mines
Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)
Naturalization refusal
Pre-Nakba geographical territories
Protests
Refugee camps conditions
Sisters
ʻAnjar (Lebanon)
Rural conditions--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Palestinian-Jewish relations--Palestine--History--To 1948
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, Palestine, 1948
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century

Geographic region:

Village: Bīrīyā

Extent:

Duration: 01:31:57

Rights:

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

Identifier:

jn_0024_ahmad_askul.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection

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