Interview with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Ghanī Khalīl

Title:

Interview with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Ghanī Khalīl
مقابلة مع محمد عبد الغني خليل

Creator:

Interviewee: Khalīl , Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Ghanī
Interviewer: Suwayd, Ḥasīb

Contributor:

خليل، محمد عبد الغني
سويد، حسيب

Date:

1997-07-06
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on July 6, 1997 with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Ghanī Khalīl, male,born in 1927 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a policeman.Families: Sursuq.Significant figures: al-Aḥmad, Musṭafá ʻAlī (Revolutionary); al-ʻAlī, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Tawbah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Ibrāhīm Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-‘Uthmān, Ṣāliḥ (Poet); Bishr, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); ʻAbd al-Hādī, Fakhrī Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Bakr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Sulaymān Muḥammad (Martyr); Naṣṣār, ʻAlī (Wounded); ‘Abd al-Hādī, Amīnah (Martyr); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, Sa‘īd Salīm (Martyr); al-Jabr, ‘Abd al-Majīd (Martyr); Abū N‘āj, Nimir (Resistance lader); al-Sālim, Mifliḥ (Martyr); al-Kharbūsh, ‘Alī (Martyr): al-Ṣāliḥ, Khālid Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Yāsīn, Aḥmad Mifliḥ (Resistance fighter); ʻAṭīyah, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Arabs-Jews relations during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 11:52)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 16:14)Table of contents: Military operations before Nakba. (@ 22:19)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 34:8)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 47:32)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 60:16)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 70:17)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural products
Antiquities
British high commissioner
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
British officers
British police forces
British-Jewish relations
Dairy products
Farm animals
Germans
Irrigation
Jewish gangs
Jewish immigration
Jewish settlements
Land appropriation
Neighboring villages
Orchards
Palestinian Jews
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Population
Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)
Skirmishes
Trade
Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Battles
Discrimination practices
Executions
Haganah
Imprisonment
Interrogations
King David Hotel bombing, 1946
Nahalal (Jewish settlement: Palestine)
Torture
Akka Battle, 1948
al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977
Boats
British Army
Defense
Forced migration
Haifa (Palestine)
Military training
Military withdrawal
Police
Ports
Relief
Resistance movements
Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces
Weapon acquisition
Zionist occupation
al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975
al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah
al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964
Arab Salvation Army
Courage
Emotions
Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948
Home bombing
Idhāʻat al-Sharq al-Adná
Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas
Lūbyā Battle, 1947
Mortars
Muftis (Muslim officials)
Safad (Palestine)
Wahhāb, Shakīb, 1890-1980
ʻAbdullāh, King of Jordan, 1882-1951
Aerial bombing
Armed patrols
Betrayal
Displacement
Military orders
Military superiority
Mines
Psychological warfare
Ṣaffurīyah Battle, 1948
Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine)
Tanks
Village liberation
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Zionist propaganda
Animals
Arrest
Bint Jubayl (Lebanon)
Expulsion from Palestine
Jewish Agency for Palestine
Land policy
Land sale
Means of transportation
Moroccans
Peasants
Personal belongings
Return
Seeking refuge
Shafā ʻAmrū Battle, 1947
Weapons
Weapons confiscation
Yugoslavs
Employment
Guards
International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād al-Muqaddas
Refugee aid
Refugee camps
Refugee experience
Suffering
Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949
Agricultural land lease
Ambushes
Border crossing
Collaborationists
Demonstrations
Fidā’iyyīn
Floods
Health services
Lebanese Army
Martyrs
Naturalization refusal
Refugee camps conditions
Settlement policy
Smuggling
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Work
Zionism
Refugee camps--Lebanon--Social conditions
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Revolutionaries--Political activity--Palestine--20th century
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Psychological warfare--Palestine--History--20th century
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948

Geographic region:

Village: Ṣaffurīyah

Extent:

Duration: 01:23:28

Rights:

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Identifier:

jn_0045_muhammad_khalil_abd-al-ghani.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection

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