Interview with Khalīl Suwaydān

Title:

Interview with Khalīl Suwaydān
خليل سويدان

Creator:

Interviewee: Suwaydān, Khalīl
Interviewer: Suwayd, Ḥasīb

Contributor:

سويدان، خليل
سويد، حسيب

Date:

1997-09-06
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on September 6, 1997 with Khalīl Suwaydān, male, born in 1924?? in al-Buwayzīyah, Palestine.Families: Shatlah; Jabr; Suwaydān; Francis; Sursuq; Salām.Significant figures: Suwaydān, Aḥmad al-Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); Rmayḥ, Abū al-Naṣr (Resistance fighter); al-Yūsuf, Dīb (Resistance fighter); Suhayl, 'Alī Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-ʻĀbid, Rashīd Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Mughayīb, ʻĪsá (Resistance fighter); Suwaydān, Muḥammad ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); Jum‘ah, Abū Jum‘ah Shihādah (Resistance leader); Shaʻbān, Muḥammad Shiḥādah (Resistance leader); Suwaydān, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); al-Ḥāj Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Maḥmūd, Ḥmayīd (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al- ʻAlī, ʻAlī Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Suwaydān, Aḥmad al-Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Rmayḥ, Abū al-Naṣr (resistance fighter); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ṣubḥ, Nāyif (Governor); Suwaydān, Aḥmad al-Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Dīb, Abū Yūsuf (Martyr); al-‘Alī, Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-‘Abdullāh, Shiḥādah (Resistance fighter); Wansah, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); Rmayh, Abū al-Naṣr (Resistance fighter); Mubārak, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Dāmūnī, Abū Ḥasan (Court witness); al-Naḥfāwī, Ṣāliḥ (Court witness); al-Sharshabīl, Ibrāhīm (Prisoner).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 9:15)Table of contents: Land defense. (@ 29:16)Table of contents: Zionists infiltration and Land appropriation . (@ 38:54)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 50:16)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 71:17)Table of contents: Expulsion, humiliation and isolation. (@ 85:35)Table of contents: Palestinian Camps in Lebanon. (@ 93:24)Table of contents: Social conditions of the Palestinians in Lebanon. (@ 115:59)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural calendars
Agricultural products
al-Buwayzīyah (Palestine)
Border cities and towns
Dīwān
Farm animals
Fathers
Landowners
Mosques
Neighboring villages
Peasants
Population
Praying
Siblings
Social classes
Village leaders
Ambushes
Ammunition
Animosity
Anti-Palestinian economic measures
Arab countries
Armored vehicles
Battles
Betrayal
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
British-Jewish relations
Buses
Children
Convoys
Currencies
Damaged weapons
Defense
Discrimination
Expulsion from Palestine
Flour mills
Guards
Injuries
Military superiority
Military training
Military withdrawal
Police stations
Relief
Resistance movements
Taxes
Villagers
Weapon acquisition
Women
al-Nabī Yusha' Battle, 1948
al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964
Arab Salvation Army
Arabs
Armed resistance
Armies intervention
Caves
Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948
Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas
Jewish colonization
Seeking shelter
Ummah
Violation of humanitarian law
Antiquities
Arbitration
Ashkenazi Jews
Collaborationists
Competitiveness
Confiscation
Courts
Government ownership
Interpersonal relations
Jewish immigrants
Jewish settlements
Land brokers
Land purchase
Land registration
Land sale
Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918
Public lands
Settler colonialism
Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980
Social relations
Traitors
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951
Armed patrols
Clans
Crimes against humanity
Cultivation
Dispersion
Fārūq of Egypt, 1920-1965
Feasts
Forced migration
Iraqi Army
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Lebanese Army
Machination
Maqām
Military orders
Mizrahi Jews
Najmat al-Ṣubuḥ, Battle, 1948
Palestinian unity
Personal belongings
Refugee experience
Shootings
Smuggling
Spring
Syrian Army
Treason
Truces
Water wells
Weapons
al-Ḥūlah Massacre, Lebanon, 1948
Arrest
Attack
Death
Diseases
Home bombing
Homeland
Martyrs
Psychological warfare
Refugee aid
Revenge
Shoemakers
Survival
Trains
Weapon trade
Weapons confiscation
Zionist propaganda
Blood money
Brokers
Coffeehouses
Disputes
Friendship
Injustice
Investigation
Killing
Lebanese Government
Military courts
Municipalities
Prison sentences
Refugee camps
Refugee legal status
Return
Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004
Attempt at return
Conspiracy
Education
Hatred
Humiliation
Income
Land ownership
Lebanon
Living conditions
Palestinian diaspora
Peasant workers
Police
Political prisoners
Porters
Refugee camps conditions
Refugees
Socio-economic conditions
Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949
Building stones
Burial
Chamoun, Camille, 1900-1987
Christians
Destruction
Gaza (Palestine)
Imprisonment
Land deeds
Medical care
Muslims
Naturalization
Patience
Priests
Reconstructed urban setting
Scouts
State of Israel
Villages
Work
Agriculture--Palestine--20th century
Land tenure--Palestine
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Revolutionaries--Political activity--Palestine--20th century
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Refugee camps--Lebanon--Social conditions
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Massacres--Palestine--20th century
Zionist terrorism--Palestine--History--To 1948
Economic sanctions--Palestine--History--To 1948

Geographic region:

Village: al-Buwayzīyah

Extent:

Duration: 02:11:40

Rights:

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Identifier:

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Format:

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Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection

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