Interview with Aḥmad Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Ghanī

Title:

Interview with Aḥmad Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Ghanī
مقابلة مع أحمد سعيد عبد الغني

Creator:

Interviewee: ʻAbd al-Ghanī, Aḥmad Saʻīd
Interviewer: al-Maṣrī, Muḥammad

Contributor:

عبد الغني، أحمد سعيد
المصري، محمد

Date:

1998-11-18
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on November 18, 1998 with Aḥmad Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Ghanī, male, born in 1929 in Dabbūrīyah, Palestine. He was a police officer in the British Police forces during the mandate.Families: Yūsuf; Ibrāhīm; al-Maṣāliḥah; al-ʻAzāyzah; al-Aṭrash; al-Najjār; al-Yūsufī; Khamīs.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Pipeline Company (Corporation); German Hospital (Hospital).Significant figures: Abū Zurāq, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Burīnī, Saʻīd (Policeman); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Military officer); Khamīs, Mūsá (Policeman); al-ʻDaysī, Aḥmad (Martyr); Simḥān, Maḥmūd Resistance leader); Sallām, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAwartānī, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); Ḥadīd, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Mifliḥ, Yūsuf (Resistance leader); al-Dājānī, Mūsá (Resistance leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Arab Salvation Army leader).Table of contents: Employment in the British Police forces . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: British Police activity and army mistreatment during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 27:46)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and Palestinian resistance. (@ 35:15)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion. (@ 60:8)Table of contents: Return to Palestine and resistance . (@ 83:24)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural products
Bribery
British officers
Dabbūrīyah (Palestine)
Defense
Disputes
Income
Jews
Military orders
Military training
Neighboring villages
Palestinian resistance
Patrol
Punishment
Rulers
Social status
Spies
Village leaders
Weapons
Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Armed patrols
Arrest
British Army
British colonialism
Brutal treatment
Collaborationists
Gunshots
House raid
Imprisonment
Martyrs
Murder
Police
Political prisoners
Resistance
Road blocks
Terrorism
Torture
Village siege
Violation of humanitarian law
Women in armed conflicts
Akka (Prison: Palestine)
al-Mujaydil Battle
al-Shajarah Battle, 1948
Arab Salvation Army
Arabs
Bombings
British police forces
Circassians
Courts
Demolition
Employment
Fidā’iyyīn
Jamʻiyyat al-Iʻtiṣām
Leaders
Military officials
Military tactics
Mines
Mizrahi Jews
Nazareth (Palestine)
Prison riots
Prisoners of war
Relief
Resistance movements
Routes
Shootings
Smuggling
Tanks
Yemenis
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Zionist occupation
Aerial bombing
Aunts
Battles
Bombardment
Checkpoints
Churches
Clothing and dresses
Fire
Friendship
Hospitality
Military withdrawal
Miʻilyā (Palestine)
Police stations
Revolutionary leadership
Theft
Threats
Weapons confiscation
Arabic patriotic poetry
British army camps
British embassy in Lebanon
British-Jewish relations
Family reunification
Financial compensation
Golan (Syria)
Intelligence services
Jaysh al-Yarmūk
Patriotism
Refugee camps
Revolutionary songs
Right of return
Wishes
Police--Palestine--History--20th century
Zionist terrorism--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948--Atrocities
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Palestine--History--Arab rebellion, 1936-1939
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Revolutionaries--Political activity--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949

Geographic region:

Village: Dabbūrīyah

Extent:

Duration: 01:44:00

Rights:

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

Identifier:

jb_0015_ahmad_abdulghani.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Biographies Collection

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