Interview with Nimir ‘Alī Miṣrī

Title:

Interview with Nimir ‘Alī Miṣrī
مقابلة مع نمر علي مصري

Creator:

Interviewee: Miṣrī, Nimir ‘Alī
Interviewer: Mughrabī, Bushrá

Contributor:

مصري، نمر علي
مغربي، بشرى

Date:

1997-06-24
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on June 24, 1997 with Nimir ‘Alī Miṣrī, male, born in 1929 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a driver with the British Army.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Haifa Port (Port); Akka port (Port).Significant figures: al-Ṣuluḥ, Adīb (Teacher); Qaṭṭān, Ḥabīb (School principal); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Abū Durrah, Abū al-‘Abd (Revolutionary leader); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); al-Ayyūbī, Najātī (Masyor); al-Ayyūbī, Najāt (Mayor); al-Sammān, Khiḍir (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Abū Ḥusayn (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Agricultural life in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 8:47)Table of contents: Political turmoil, military activity in the village. (@ 15:55)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in al-Ṭīrah. (@ 32:15)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military activity. (@ 41:9)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 47:34)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 59:57)Table of contents: War time, military occupation and exile. (@ 71:49)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural land lease
Agricultural products
al-Ṭīrah, Haifa (Palestine)
British police forces
Childhood
Cultivation
Education
Family structure
Holidays
Landowners
Neighboring villages
Neighbors
Olive oil mills
Public schools
Qurʼānic teaching
Traders
Vehicle drivers
West Bank (Palestine)
Aerial bombing
Arab countries
Balfour Declaration, 1917
British army camps
British colonialism
British high commissioner
British-Jewish relations
Drivers
Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, King of Hejaz, 1853?-1931
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Protests against occupation
Strikes
Vehicles
World War, 1939-1945
‘Abd el-Ḥam īd II, Sulṭān of the Turks, 1842-1918
al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935
Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Burial
Coexistence
Collaborationists
Disappeared persons
Disputes
Identity cards
Immigration
Mayors
Partition plan, 1947
Religious diversity
Revenge
Revolutionaries
Skirmishes
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
Building stones
Cowardice
Dwellings
Hadar (Jewish settlement: Palestine)
Immigrants
Land appropriation
Land brokers
Land sale
Living conditions
Population
ʻAtlit (Prison: Palestine)
Ambushes
Attack
European Jewish Immigration
Haganah
Jewish settlements
Military withdrawal
Settler colonialism
Weapon acquisition
ʻAtlīt (Prison: Palestine)
al-Ṭirah Battle
Ammunition
Armed resistance
Bombardment
British Army
British officers
Buses
Caves
Displacement
Guards
Home bombing
Jordanian Army
Marriage
Martyrs
Seeking shelter
al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977
Arab Salvation Army
Barbed wire
Battles
Betrayal
Boats
Expulsion from Palestine
Haifa (Palestine)
Injuries
Iraqi Army
Military training
Organizations
Personal belongings
Return
Sa‘d, Ma‘rūf, 1910-1975
Snipers
Weapons
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951
al-Qasṭal Battle, 1948
Arrest
Bint Jubayl (Lebanon)
Damaged Weapons
Helpfulness
House rent
Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948
Lebanese Government
Massacres
Mīyah wa Mīyah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)
News
Palestinian Jews
Property destruction
Refugee aid
Refugee experience
Suicide
Ṣulḥ, Riyāḍ, 1894-1951
Torture
Treason
Truces
Village siege
Violation of humanitarian law
Agriculture--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Psychological warfare--Palestine--History--20th century
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Revolutionaries--Political activity--Palestine--20th century
Zionist immigration--Palestine--20th century
Crimes against humanity--Palestine--20th century
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Massacres--Palestine--20th century
Zionist settlement--Palestine--History--To 1948

Geographic region:

Village: al-Ṭīrah, Haifa

Extent:

Duration: 01:36:16

Rights:

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Identifier:

jn_0004_nimr_masriyah.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection

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