Interview with Aḥmad Shiḥādah Falāḥ

Title:

Interview with Aḥmad Shiḥādah Falāḥ
مقابلة مع أحمد شحادة فلاح

Creator:

Interviewee: Falāḥ, Aḥmad Shiḥādah
Interviewer: Jumʻah, Muḥammad
Interviewer: ʻAwaḍ, Walīd

Contributor:

فلاح، أحمد شحادة
جمعة، محمد
عوض، وليد

Date:

1997-06-27
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on June 27, 1997 with Aḥmad Shiḥādah Falāḥ, male, born in 1918 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Quṭṭ; al-ʻArīq; ʻAlī Sālim; Ḥāj Mūsá; al-Ḥāj ʻAlī; Sursuq; ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl; Aṣlān.Significant figures: al-ʻAdawī, Ḥasan (Landowner); Abū al-Saʻd, Ḥusayn (Landowner); al-Ḥallāq, Aḥmad (Landowner); Zamzam, Asʻad (Landowner); al-Quṭṭ, Khalīl (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAkkī, Ibrāhīm (Landowner); Barakah, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance leader); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Ḥamādah, Kāmil (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in pre-Nakba Palestine and expulsion . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Settler colonialism, childhood memories, and education. (@ 10:38)Table of contents: Battles and the Arab Salvation Army withdrawal. (@ 26:17)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 50:19)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile . (@ 71:2)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural products
al-Kābrī Battle, 1948
Arab Salvation Army
Betrayal
Building materials
Children's games
Construction
Dwellings
Expulsion
Housing
Intervillage relations
Islamic education
Military strategy
Neighboring villages
Population
Pre-Nakba geographical territories
Pre-Nakba life
Schools
Shaykhs
Umm al-Faraj (Palestine)
Village leaders
Village siege
Wealth
Weapons confiscation
Bribery
Child abuse
Children
Education
Health services
Jewish National Fund
Jewish settlements
Land purchase
Land sale
Medical aid
Nahariya (Palestine)
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Qurʼānic teaching
Reconstructed urban setting
Settler colonialism
Urban planning
Water resources
Work
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951
Aerial bombing
al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine)
al-Sumayrīyah Battle, 1948
British-Jewish relations
Currency convertibility
Damaged weapons
Demolition
Displacement
Economic hardship
Evacuation orders
Military agreements
Murder
News
Psychological warfare
Radio stations
Rifles
Smuggling
Weapon acquisition
Weapon smuggling
Weapon trade
Zionist occupation
al-Sumayrīyah (Palestine)
Brutal treatment
Conspiracy
Coups d'état
Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948
Guards
Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine)
Manners
Propaganda
Refugee experience
Resistance
Routes
Saʻādah, Anṭūn, 1904-1949
Seeking refuge
Terrorism
Tyre (Lebanon)
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882–1951
al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975
al-Mazraʻah (Palestine)
Defeat
Discrimination
Ḥadīth
Health conditions
Hiding
Husayn Ibn Ali, King of Hejaz, 1853?-1931
Hygiene
Income
Leaders
Lies
Living conditions
Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)
Nationalism
Naturalization
Peasants
Personal belongings
Professions
International Committee of the Red Cross
Refugee aid
Respect
Seeking shelter
Social norms
United Nations
Wars
ʻAnjar (Lebanon)
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948--Atrocities
Zionist settlement--Palestine--History--To 1948
Education--Palestine--20th century
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Zionist terrorism--Palestine--History--To 1948
Psychological warfare--Palestine--History--20th century

Geographic region:

Village: Umm al-Faraj

Extent:

Duration: 01:32:42

Rights:

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

Identifier:

jn_0099_ahmad_falah.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Nakba Collection

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