Interview with Muṣṭafá Bayraqjī

Title:

Interview with Muṣṭafá Bayraqjī
مقابلة مع مصطفى بيرقجي

Creator:

Interviewee: Bayraqjī, Muṣṭafá
Interviewer: Kharybaṭī, Fādīyā

Contributor:

بيرقجي، مصطفى
خريبطي، فاديا

Date:

1998-11-03
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Description:

Biography: The interview was recorded on November 3, 1998 with Muṣṭafá Bayraqjī, male, born in 1906 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked at Akka airport during the British Mandate of Palestine.Families: al-Ḥusaynī; al-Nashāshībī; Ṭūqān; al-’Aẓm; al-Qūwatlī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka Airport (Airport).Significant figures: Iskandar, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Mayor); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Mayor).Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military attacks. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist- British agreement for Palestine before 1948. (@ 8:41)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 20:24)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity. (@ 33:14)Table of contents: Tales of passed times . (@ 46:11)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine. (@ 59:27)Table of contents: Pre-Nakbah life in the village. (@ 68:31)

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Sound

Type (Narrower):

Oral History

Type (Broader):

Sound

Subject:

Aerial bombing
Airports
Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Arrest
Assassination
Bernadotte, Folke, 1895-1948
British Government
British-Jewish relations
Burj al-Barājinah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)
Collaborationists
Displacement
Enemies
Germans
Iraqi Army
Jewish immigrants
Jewish national home
Military superiority
Palestinian Jews
Palestinian-Jewish relations
Partition plan, 1947
Pre-Nakba life
Weapons confiscation
Women in armed conflicts
World War, 1939-1945
Zionist colonization
Zionist occupation
Agricultural products
Akka (Palestine)
Ammunition
Arab countries
British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948
Cultivation
Farm animals
Income
Kuwaykāt (Palestine)
Land sale
Landowners
Peasants
Revolutionary leadership
Theft
Trenches
al-Hilālī, Abū Zayd
Customs and traditions
Dhabīḥah
Exile
Expulsion from Palestine
Friendship
Generosity
Hospitality
Interpersonal relations
Poets
Refugees
Tanẓīmāt
Wedding customs
ʻAtābā
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951
al-Saʻīd, Nūrī, 1888-1958
Armed resistance
Battles
Betrayal
Building stones
Currencies
Dīwān
Hookahs
Hunger
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006
Ḥusayn, King of Jordan, 19351999
Illiteracy
Israeli colonization
Lebanese Army
Lebanon
Mines
Qurʼānic teaching
Terrorism
Traders
Uncles
Weapon acquisition
Weapon trade
ʻAbd al-Ilāh, Ḥaqqī Ismāʻīl, 1913-1953
Attack
Beggars
Boats
Disguise
Fishermen
Folktales
Horses
Hostility
Injuries
Knights
Muhalhil
Nawar
Official documents
Poems
Survival
Arab workers
Bread
Family structure
Farmers
Intervillage relations
Land deeds
Living conditions
Municipalities
Neighboring villages
Peasant workers
Population
Professions
Self-sufficiency
Socio-economic conditions
Arbitration
Clans
Coffee
Construction workers
Cooking
Cost of living
Dietary practices
Dignity
Disputes
Employment
Hunting
Land registration
Marriage proposals
Naturalization refusal
Prayers
Princes
Qatar
Refugee experience
Stoves
Palestine--History--British Mandate, 1922-1948
Palestine--Zionist colonization--History--To 1948
Palestine--History--Arab rebellion, 1936-1939
Revolutionaries--Palestine--20th century
Battles--Palestine--History--To 1948
Palestine--Socio-economic conditions--20th century
Arab countries--Foreign relations--Palestine
Palestine--Foreign relations--Arab countries
ʻAtābā--Palestine
Refugees, Palestinian--Lebanon--Social conditions
Manners and customs--Palestine--20th century
Rural conditions--Palestine--20th century
Palestine--History--Nakba, 1948
Expulsion--Palestine--History--20th century
Zionist terrorism--Palestine--History--To 1948

Geographic region:

Village: Kuwaykāt

Extent:

Duration: 01:26:53

Rights:

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

Identifier:

jb_0105_mustafa_bayrajiyah_quqat.xml

Format:

audio
mp3

Is part of:

POHA, Al-Jana, Biographies Collection

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