Interview with Aḥmad Faḍīl Hijjū

Title:

Interview with Aḥmad Faḍīl Hijjū
مقابلة مع أحمد فضيل حجو

Creator:

Interviewee: Hijjū, Aḥmad Faḍīl
Interviewer: Abū ʻAlī, Ibtisām

Contributor:

حجو، أحمد فضيل
ابو علي، إبتسام

Date:

1998-11-24
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1998 with Aḥmad Faḍīl Hijjū, male, born in 1922 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a Police officer in the British Police forces during the mandate.Families: al-Shahāyibah; al-ʻAjāyinah; al-ʻAṭwāt; al-Ḥajājiwah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Qādir, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Shihābī, Yaḥyá Saʻīd (Mayor); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-ʻAṭwāt, Kāmil (Policeman); al-Fawwāz, Ibrāḥīm (Policeman); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Policeman); al-Fayyāḍ, ʻUthmān (Policeman); Ṭabbārah, Anīs (Policeman); Saʻīd, Sulaymān (Policeman); al-Khaḍrah, Aḥmad (Policeman); al-Jayyūsī, Ḥusnī (Lawyer).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and rural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British police forces. (@ 18:14)Table of contents: British Police activity in Palestine. (@ 37:54)Table of contents: British police during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 64:57)Table of contents: British Police activity and Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 89:44)Table of contents: Warfare and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 105:44)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural economics
Agricultural land lease
Agriculture
Anti-Palestinian economic measures
Arbitration
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
British police forces
Dietary practices
Education
Family relations
Family structure
Farmers
Hookahs
Interpersonal relations
Intervillage relations
Land ownership
Lūbyā (Palestine)
Mayors
Means of transportation
Neighboring villages
Official documents
Polygamy
Population
Private schools
Professions
Ramaḍān
Schools
Shaykhs
Social relations
Socio-economic conditions
Taxes
Traders
Women in agriculture
British policy
Conduct of life
Discrimination practices
Dwellings
Financial compensation
Guards
Horseback riding
Income
Languages
Law
Measurement units
Morality
Police
Security
Social classes
Tailoring
Teachers
Youth
al-Sāmirīyah (Palestine)
Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Armored vehicles
Bribery
British Army
British high commissioner
British officers
Crime
Disputes
Employment
Gunshots
House raid
Military officials
Palestine Railways
Police stations
Punishment
Skirmishes
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Weapons confiscation
Attacks
Bedouins
Bombardment
Buses
Complaints
Courts
Damaged weapons
Displacement
Friendship
Governors
Jewish settlements
Nazareth (Palestine)
Palestinian national identity
Partition plan, 1947
Police investigations
Routes
Theft
Tiberias (Palestine)
Tobacco industry
Traitors
Zionist occupation
Arrest
Bail
Bread
Economic hardship
Expulsion from Palestine
Hardship
Imprisonment
Jews
Political prisoners
Prison riots
Prisoners
Rescue work
Rifles
Rulers
Rural-urban migration
Torture
Women
Women socio-economic role
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Aerial bombing
Atrocities of war
British Consulate
Building stones
Dispersion
Economic conditions
Fathers
Generations
Homeland
Hospitals
Lebanese Army
Living conditions
Lūbyā Battle, 1947
Martyrs
Military aid
Military courts
Military strategy
Naturalization refusal
Pistols
Psychological warfare
Refugee experience
Refugees
Relief
Suffering
Terrorism
Victory
Police--Palestine--History--20th century
Zionist terrorism--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
Agriculture--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Palestine--History--Arab rebellion, 1936-1939
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Rural conditions--Palestine--20th century
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948

Geographic region:

Village: Lūbyā

Extent:

Duration: 02:11:32

Rights:

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

Identifier:

jb_0012_ahmad_hijju.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Biographies Collection

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