Interview with Ḥafīẓah Qāsim Aḥmad

Title:

Interview with Ḥafīẓah Qāsim Aḥmad
مقابلة مع حفيظة قاسم أحمد

Creator:

Interviewee: Aḥmad, Ḥafīẓah Qāsim
Interviewer: ‘Abd al-‘Āl, Khadījah

Contributor:

أحمد، حفيظة قاسم
عبد العال، خديجة

Date:

1998-12-07
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1998 with Ḥafīẓah Qāsim Aḥmad, female, born in 1917 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She worked as a tailor.Families: Dhabbāḥ; al-Khaṭīb; al-Mūsá; Ṣunʻ Allāh; al-Muzayyan; Badrān; al-Dhabāḥ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Maqām Al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Dhabbāḥ, Fāṭimah (Tailor); al-Shaykh, ‘Alī (Shop owner); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd Sa‘īd (Mayor); Balṭajī, Umm Ḥasan (Derssmaker).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and sewing . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Sewing and bridal trousseau. (@ 29:58)Table of contents: Sewing tools and socio-economic conditions in Palestine. (@ 46:45)Table of contents: Refugee experience and education in exile . (@ 55:26)Table of contents: Sewing profession Post-Nakba and refugee life. (@ 64:35)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Agricultural products
al-Biʻnah (Palestine)
Bridal customs
Clothing and dresses
Coeducational schools
Coloring
Customs and traditions
Dayr al-Asad (Palestine)
Dhabīḥah
Economic conditions
Education
Embroidery
Entertainment
Expulsion
Farm animals
Gold
Haifa (Palestine)
Intervillage relations
Mayors
Mothers
Neighboring villages
Olive Oil
Orphans
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Peasants
Permits
Prayers
Religious diversity
Return
Rural life
Sūq
Teachers
Textiles
Trade
Vehicle drivers
Wealth
Wedding customs
Weddings
Women dressmakers
Arabic proverbs
Cost of living
Dowry
Ḥaṭṭah
Income
Letters
Living conditions
Traders
Vendors
Wedding veils
Akka (Palestine)
Childbirth
Dietary practices
Family structure
Fathers
Miscarriages
Refugee experience
Sewing machines
Social conditions
Women
Bombings
Polygamy
Schools
Sewing
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Women socio-economic role
Babies
Daughters
Displacement
Druzes
Expulsion from Palestine
Means of transportation
Measurement units
Mental health
Official documents
Personal belongings
Resistance movements
Truces
Work
Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948
Sewing--Palestine--History--20th century
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Clothing and dress--Palestine--20th century
Women, Palestinian--Palestine--Social conditions--20th century
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Palestine--History--Zionist invasion, 1948
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century

Geographic region:

Village: Dayr al-Asad

Extent:

Duration: 01:31:13

Rights:

0
The copyright holder of this interview is the Nakba Archive, all rights reserved.

Identifier:

jb_0029_hafizah_ahmad.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Biographies Collection

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