Interview with Aḥmad ʻAbdullāh Aḥmad

Title:

Interview with Aḥmad ʻAbdullāh Aḥmad
مقابلة مع أحمد عبد الله أحمد

Creator:

Interviewee: Aḥmad, Aḥmad ʻAbdullāh
Interviewer: Wanās, Fāyzah

Contributor:

أحمد، أحمد عبد الله
فايزة، وناس

Date:

1997-02-06
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on February 6, 1997 with Aḥmad ʻAbdullāh Mizyān Aḥmad, male, born in 1925 in Dayshūm, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bazzī; al-Mārdīnī; al-Mīzānī.Significant figures: Mizyān, ʻAbdullāh (Imām); al-Mīzārī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); Zalghūṭ, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Resistance leader); al-Shāmī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Resistance leader); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Ḥusnī (Martyr); al-Hādī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad (Martyr); Rābiḥ, Zakīyah (Survivor).Table of contents: Social dynamics and community life in Dayshūm . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture, community, and social life in Dayshūm . (@ 26:57)Table of contents: Settler colonialism and political activity . (@ 42:21)Table of contents: Arab Salvation Army in Dayshūm . (@ 69:18)Table of contents: Warfare and resistance. (@ 91:20)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 120:19)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 142:39)Table of contents: Final reflections on refugee experience and expulsion . (@ 164:32)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Algeria
Border crossing
British colonialism
Brothers
Celebrations
Clothing and Dresses
Dietary practices
Dwellings
Education of Women
Family structure
Farm animals
Farmers
Friday prayers
Gender role
Handicrafts
Immigration
Land
Landowners
Martyrdom
Neighboring villages
Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918
Population
Qurʼānic teaching
Religious fanaticism
Schools
Shaykhs
Social relations
Teachers
Vehicles
Agricultural economics
Agricultural products
Algerians
Anti-Palestinian economic measures
Boundaries
Dispersion
Helpfulness
Intervillage relations
Olive oil mills
Respect
Rivers
Smuggling
Soils
Villages
al-Harrāwī Battle, 1948
al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975
al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah
al-Mālikīyah (Palestine)
Ammunition
Arab countries
Arab Salvation Army
Balfour Declaration, 1917
British authorities
Bullets
Childhood
Children's games
Coexistence
Damaged weapons
Economic hardship
Entertainment
Football
Government ownership
Great Britain
Identity cards
Jaffa oranges
Jewish immigrants
Jewish immigration
Land purchase
Mantaqat Imtiyāz al-Ḥūlah (Palestine)
Maps
Military aid
Military training
Najmat al-Ṣubuḥ (Jewish settlement: Palestine)
Protests
Public lands
Qadas (Palestine)
Religious diversity
Safad (Palestine)
Settler colonialism
Social norms
Strikes
Weapon acquisition
World War, 1914-1918
Zionists
Aerial bombing
Ambushes
Battles
Disputes
Guards
Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948
Jerusalem (Palestine)
Military withdrawal
Patrol
Road blocks
Shepherds
Terrorism
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Palestine)
al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964
Armored vehicles
Bombardment
Brutal treatment
Death
Defense
Injuries
Jewish settlements
Lebanese Army
Military strategy
Mortars
Resistance
Trenches
al-Harrāwī (Palestine)
al-Ḥusaynīyah (Palestine)
al-Mālikīyah Battle, 1948
al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948
Arab tribes
Armed forces
Atrocities of war
Attack
Children in armed conflicts
Crimes against humanity
Explosions
Expulsion
Family reunification
Home demolition
Hospitality
Mines
Murder
Poison
Relief
Ṣalḥah Massacre, 1948
Seeking shelter
Victims
Village occupation
Village siege
Water wells
Betrayal
Bint Jubayl (Lebanon)
Children
Discrimination
Economic aid
Economic conditions
Housing
Income
Laborers
Lebanese Government
Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)
Refugee camps conditions
State of Israel
Storms
Suffering
Taxes
Theft
United Nations
United States
Water resources
Weapons
Winter
Work
Agriculture
Arab unity
Dayshūm (Palestine)
Homeland
Living conditions
Naturalization
Palestinian unity
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Education--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--Social life and customs--20th century
Zionist settlement--Palestine--History--To 1948
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948--Atrocities
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Massacres--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Palestine--History--Arab rebellion, 1936-1939
Crimes against humanity--Palestine--20th century

Geographic region:

Village: Dayshūm

Extent:

Duration: 02:54:17

Rights:

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Identifier:

jn_0084_ahmad_mizyan.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection

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