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)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 6, 1999 with Rāfī ‘Uwaydis Aṭāmyān, male, born in 1946 and resides in al-Baṣṣ, Lebanon.Families: al-Safrī; al-Qubṭī; al-Dāmūnī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Table of contents: History of Armenians in the Arab countries. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Armenian-Palestinian relations. (@ 10:40)Table of contents: Armenians in Palestine. (@ 21:27)Table of contents: Armenians attitudes towards Arabs. (@ 26:57)
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)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 7, 1999 with Karīmah Muḥammad Bushnāq, female, born in 1935 in Qaysārīyah, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Families: Bushnāq.Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, ‘Alī (Shaykh); al-Khamrah, Ya‘qūb (Shaykh); Shammās, Salīm (Principal); Abū Dāhish, Aḥmad (Teacher).Table of contents: Bosnian immigration to Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Bosnians during armed conflicts and exile to Lebanon. (@ 11:21)Table of contents: Adaptation and integration with Palestinians . (@ 22:29)Table of contents: Exile to Lebanon and refugee experience . (@ 31:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 17, 1998 with Maḥmūd Yūsuf Dakwar, male, born in 1937 in Qaddītā, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon. He was an anthropologist.Families: Ḥlayḥil; Dakwar.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Elias Church (Church); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Bishārah (Church); Masjid al- Ṣakhrah (Mosque).Significant figures: Zaʻrūrah, Abū 'Alī (Resistance fighter); Rāḍī, Sharīf (Resistance fighter); Shūmān, Aḥmad (Leader); Nuwayhiḍ, Bayān (Professor); Atanas, ʻAql (Priest); Ghaṭṭās, Ghaṭṭās (School principal); ‘Abdūshah, Laṭīf (Teacher); ‘Arrāf, Shukrī (Writer).Table of contents: Early life: Family, childhood and schooling. (@ 0:29)Table of contents: Village description and Zionist infiltration . (@ 15:47)Table of contents: Folk traditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:7)Table of contents: Rural life and childhood memories. (@ 49:52)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 62:42)Table of contents: Forced departure from Qaddītā in 1948. (@ 75:7)Table of contents: Exile and refugee life. (@ 80:5)Table of contents: Cultural activities for Palestine in Exile. (@ 93:37)Table of contents: Palestinian handicrafts . (@ 117:40)Table of contents: Palestinian documents collections. (@ 146:15)Table of contents: Palestinian heritage equal to the Palestinian national identity. (@ 159:7)Table of contents: Heritage and identity . (@ 182:38)Table of contents: Conservation of the Palestinian cultural heritage. (@ 208:50)Table of contents: The Palestinian cultural identity. (@ 231:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 249:3)Table of contents: Family, land and childhood memories in occupied Palestine. (@ 265:35)Table of contents: Cities and villages under Israeli occupation. (@ 279:14)Table of contents: Collecting old remains from his destroyed village. (@ 297:43)Table of contents: Heritage theft. (@ 316:53)Table of contents: Palestinians under Israeli occupation. (@ 327:0)Table of contents: Palestinians in Israel, segregation and discrimination. (@ 347:17)Table of contents: Nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 361:38)
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)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 3, 1998 with Mūsà ʻAlī Hāshim, male, born in 1897 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a butcher and a trader.Families: al-Frayjāt; al-Khaṭīb; al-Dawālī; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-‘Abdullāh; al-Qawāsimah; al-Hawāshimah.Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Martyr); al-‘Alī, Sulaymān (Martyr); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Prisoner); al-Qaṭawīyah, Mir‘ī (Martyr); al-Jammāl, ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, ‘Abdullāh (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Yūsuf; Ḥusayn (Village leader); Jumʻah, Mūsá (Revolutionary); Yūsuf, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Dāwūd, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Yūsuf, ‘Īsá (Wounded).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 13:4)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics during the British rule . (@ 26:0)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 42:15)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 54:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 8,1998 with Nāyifah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1922 in Kawkab Abū al-Hayjāʼ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū al-Hayjāʼ(Maqām).Significant figures: Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Mayor); al-Ibrāhīm, Khalīl Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Muṣṭafá, Tawfīq Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Ṣāliḥ, Ṭāhā (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 14:26)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance and leadership. (@ 26:55)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 40:5)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 53:41)Table of contents: Poems and nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 66:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 2, 1997 with Sa‘dah Nimir Jrays, female, born in 1918 in Rmaysh, Lebanon and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Shaykh ʻAbdullāh (Mosque); al-Shaykh 'Īsá (Maqām).Significant figures: Jrays, Nimir (Revolutionary); al-Ḥajjār (Bishop); Māḍī, al-‘Abd (Governor); Zqayriq, al-‘Abd (Governor); al-Ḥajjār (Bishop).Table of contents: Ottoman rule of Palestine and Lebanon. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 29:16)Table of contents: Community and family life in the village. (@ 50:45)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 59:40)Table of contents: Refuge life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 70:11)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع لطيفة أسعد أبو طه، انثى، ولدت عام 1922 في البروة، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Darwīsh; al-Kayyāl; Dīb; Saʻd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Jināyāt fī Akka (Court).Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, Muṣṭafá (Bus driver); al-Ḥumayrī, Nimir (Political prisoner); Fandī, ʻAlī (Political prisoner); al-Ḥammād, Nimir (Martyr); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Village leader); Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); Ṭāhā, Yūsuf (Mayor).Table of contents: Violence, battles and exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity. (@ 11:46)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 21:35)Table of contents: Refugee life conditions in Lebanon. (@ 31:37)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 37:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Shiḥādah al-Ḥasan Jum‘ah, male,born in 1927 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; Fustuq; Salām; Sharārī; Ṭāhā; Maʻrūf; al-Khaṭīb; Hawwārī.Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ḥusayn (Tribe leader); Abū Shāhir, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Shāṭir, Ḥusayn (Trader); ʻAṣfūrah, Abū Mirshid (Trader); Abū al- Shanab, Farīd (Policeman); al-Ḥakīm, Ṣāliḥ (Policeman).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 15:34)Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life . (@ 35:40)Table of contents: Bedouins community in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 55:23)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine. (@ 69:41)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 86:7)Table of contents: Military activity and exile. (@ 112:35)Table of contents: Songs of life and love. (@ 122:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 1998 with Muḥammad ‘Alī Jābir, male, born in 1928 in ʻAmqā , Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked at Nur Safety Match in Akka.Families: ‘Abd al-Rāziq; al-Majdhūb; ‘Uthmān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nur Safety Match (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Majdhūb, Qāsim (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Majdhūb, Mifliḥ (Trader); al-Sa‘īd, Bāsim (Trader); al-‘Akkī, Muḥammad (Olive mill owner).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity in ʻAmqā . (@ 11:46)Table of contents: Labor and laboring conditions before Nakba. (@ 21:47)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 52:46)