Interview with Aḥmad Ḥajīr

Title:

Interview with Aḥmad Ḥajīr
مقابلة مع أحمد حجير

Creator:

Interviewee: Ḥajīr, Aḥmad
Interviewer: ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Khadījah

Contributor:

حجير، أحمد
عبد العال، خديجة

Date:

1997-05-30
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Aḥmad Ḥajīr, male, born in 1930 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥāmūlī.Significant figures: Abū Jrās, Khalīl (Survivor); Ḥajīr, Fāyiz (Revolutionary); Ḥajīr, Ṣafīyah (Martyr); Salmān, ʻAbdullāh (Village leader); Abū Dūdah, Khiḍir (Village leader); Ḥajīr, Ḥasan Muḥammad (Prisoner).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil anf revolutionaries. (@ 9:2)Table of contents: Military occupation and the popular resistance. (@ 23:0)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:48)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 44:42)Table of contents: Palestinian refugees life. (@ 53:56)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural products
al-Ṭīrah, Haifa (Palestine)
Antiquities
Arranged marriage
Convents
Disputes
Elections
Farmers
Hadar (Jewish settlement: Palestine)
Hardship
Landowners
Mayors
Muslims
Neighboring villages
Olive oil mills
Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918
Polygamy
Pre-Nakba geographical territories
Revolutionaries
Siblings
Socio-economic conditions
Turkey
Armed patrols
Assassination
British Army
British army camps
British colonialism
British high commissioner
British officers
British-Jewish relations
Crimes against private property
Currency convertibility
Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948
Films
Guards
House burning
House raid
Injuries
Land appropriation
Martyrs
Military training
Mines
Mischief
Pistols
Terrorism
Thieves
Village leaders
Weapon acquisition
World War, 1939-1945
Aerial bombing
Ammunition
Arab Salvation Army
Boats
Burial
Cost of living
Crops
Expulsion from Palestine
Haifa (Palestine)
House rent
Israeli checkpoints
Jabal al-Karmil (Palestine)
Jewelry
Money
Palestinian Jews
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Personal belongings
Prisoners of war
Psychological warfare
Refugee experience
Resistance movements
Seeking shelter
Tanks
Truces
Violation of humanitarian law
Weapons
Women in armed conflicts
Women socio-economic role
Zionist occupation
al-Kābrī Battle, 1948
Compulsory education
Crimes against humanity
Education
Electricity
International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross
Refugee aid
Refugee camps
Schools
Traitors
ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)
al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977
Anti-Palestinian measures
Arab countries
Caves
Dispersion
Dwellings
Hiding
Home demolition
Homeland
Intervillage relations
Land brokers
Land expropriation
Land sale
Promises
Return
al-Ḥizb al-Shuyūʻī al-Kurdī
Anṣār (Detention camp: Lebanon)
Construction workers
Druzes
Identity cards
Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982
Jordan
Naturalization refusal
Official documents
Palestinian diaspora
Passports
Prisoner exchange
Smuggling
Trucks
West Bank (Palestine)
al-Ṭīrah, Haifa (Palestine)--History
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
War and families--Palestine--20th century
Zionist terrorism--Palestine--History--To 1948
Zionist settlement--Palestine--History--To 1948
Crimes against humanity--Palestine--20th century

Geographic region:

Village: al-Ṭīrah, Haifa

Extent:

Duration: 01:02:17

Rights:

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

Identifier:

jn_0058_ahmad_hujayr.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection

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