Biography: The interview was recorded on May 8, 2003 with Maḥmūd ʻAlī Abū Dāwūd, male, born in 1926 in Majd al-Kurūm, Palestine. He worked at a coffee shop then with the British army during World War II.Families: Qiblāwī; ‘Aṭāyā; al-Sa‘dī; al-Kayyāl; al-Zayyāt; al-Ghaḍbān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka Airport (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Shām Hotel (Hotel).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ Jinīn (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Barghūthī, Sayf al-Dīn (Teacher); Kitmitū, Ḥasan (Teacher); Faḍāyil, Ibrāhīm (Manager); Qaṭrān, Naʻīm (Doctor); al-Birjāwī, Abū Maḥmūd (Shoemaker); al-Birjāwī, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, Muṣṭafá (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, Nājī (British Army officer); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); ‘Aṭāyah, Abū Fāyiz (Revolutionary); ‘Aṭāyah , Nāyif (Revolutionary); Bishr, Kāmil (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-‘Abd, Ḥakam (Martyr); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); al-Faḍl, Fāyiz (Wounded); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd ‘Abd (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Yāsīn Aḥmad (Driver); al-Shwaylī, Abū Khiḍir (Officer); al-Bayyūmī, Muḥammad (Prisoner).Table of contents: Education and labor under British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions. (@ 16:16)Table of contents: Political situation under British mandate. (@ 32:59)Table of contents: Political activities during the Zionist occupation . (@ 44:22)Table of contents: Displacement and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 50:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded in March 22, 2006 with Anīsah Dyāb Abū Haykal, female, born in al-Manshīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp,Lebanon.Families: Mannāʻ; Ṣaqr; Da‘bis.Significant figures: al-Mū‘ā, Fawziyyah (Poet); Abū Mannāʻ, Yāsīn (Poet); al-Ṭrābulsī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Mannāʻ, Khalīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Social dynamics and events practices in al-Manshīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political dynamics during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 23:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 20, 2003 with ʻĪd Abū Huḍayb, male, born in 1917 in Baṣṣat al-Fāliq, Palestine.Families: Baydas; al-Jallād; al-Zubaydāt.Significant figures: Aḥmad al-Rudaysī (Prisoner); Yūnus, Abū Qandīl (Martyr); Khalīl, Abū Qandīl (Martyr); Aḥmad Saʻīd (Reporter).Table of contents: Childhood and socio-economic conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and trade . (@ 19:37)Table of contents: Social and cultural life at Baṣṣat al-Fāliq . (@ 24:44)Table of contents: Socio-political life at Baṣṣat al-Fāliq under the British rule. (@ 47:40)Table of contents: Economic hardships and resistance. (@ 63:5)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 83:6)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 102:42)
Biography: The Interview was recorded on January 18, 2003 with Qāsim Muḥammad Abū Jāmūs, male, born in 1924 in ʻAmqā, Palestine. He worked with British Army during World War II.Families: al-‘Akkī; al-Majẓūb; al-Shāmī; al-Sa‘īd; Salāmah; Tḥaybish; al-Muṣṭafá; Twaynī.Significant figures: al-Ḥusayn, Qāsim (Mayor); Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary Leader); Abū Jāmūs, Wahībah (Martyr).Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity during the British Mandate. (@ 0:45)Table of contents: Families and land in ʻAmqā. (@ 19:44)Table of contents: Battles and resistance. (@ 30:44)Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist occupation and displacement. (@ 39:39)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 62:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 2003 with Muḥammad Abū Raqabah, male, born in 1929 in Akka, Palestine. He was an Arab Salvation Army commander.Families: Ṭūqān; Shaqʻah; Nābulsī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Latin School (School); Kullīyat al-Najāḥ al-Waṭanī (School); al-Madrasah al-Ahlīyah al-Thānawīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Dayr al-Lātīn (Convent); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Mayor); al-ʻĪd, Sāmī (School principal); al-Naḥawī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥassūn, ʻAbdullāh (Teacher); Ṭūqān, Qadrī (Teacher); al-ʻAmad, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Jālī, Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter); Bushnāq, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Tawfīq, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Budayrī, Muṣbāḥ (Resistance fighter); Ḥaddād, ʻUthmān Jaʻfar (Resistance fighter); al-Khālidī, Ḥāzim (Officer); ʻAlī, Mufliḥ (Teacher); al-Hāshim, Ṭāhā (Arab Salvation Army commander); Salāmah, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ḥnayṭī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Lababīdī, Rafīq (Teacher); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Ṭabarī, Mūsá (Shaykh); Shuqayr, Shawkat (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jarbūʻ, Rashīd (Prisoner); al-ʻAẓm, Hishām (Prisoner).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and political life . (@ 10:20)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 37:32)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Akka, 1948 and imprisonment . (@ 54:58)Table of contents: Death of Amīn al-Ḥusaynī and final reflections
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Biography: The interview was recorded on June 18, 2003 with Kāmil Ṣāliḥ Abū Rashīd, male, born in Khirbat Jiddīn, Palestine.Families: Sursuq.Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); M‘addī, Jābir (Village leader); Farfaḥīnī, Abū Aḥmad (Poet); al-Ḍāhir, ‘Alī (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Social dynamics at a tribal community at Khirbat Jiddīn . (@ 0:14)Table of contents: Health and political conditions of ʻArab al-Suwayṭāt before and during the Zionist occupation . (@ 19:54)
Biography: The intrview was recorded on August 2, 2004 with Iftikār Abū Shullayḥ, female, born in 1936 in Jaffa, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Khalaf; al-Uqrum; al-Ramādī; Abū Samrā; al-Ghūl.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Rūbīn (Maqām).Significant figures: Khalaf, Khamīs (Martyr).Table of contents: Social history of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebration and traditions. (@ 12:15)Table of contents: Expulsion and right of return. (@ 30:10)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع حورية أبو الهنا، أنثى، ولدت عام 1939 في الطنطورة، فلسطين.Families: Salabūd; Ḥamdān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-al-Ṭanṭūrah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bujayrimī (Maqām); al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bujayrimī (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hindī, Dāwūd (Mayor); al-Hindī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ṭanṭūrī, Mūsá (Landowner); Abū al-Ḥanā, Faḍl (Martyr); Abū al-Hanā, Saʻūd (Prisoner); Abū al-Hanā, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Abū al-Hanā, Ḥusayn (Prisoner).Table of contents: Childhood and education . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 6:13)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 13:55)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion. (@ 21:17)Table of contents: al-Ṭanṭūrah Massacre, 1948 . (@ 37:43)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 50:19)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 63:7)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع زوجها محمود خليل الشيخ أحمد، ذكر، ولد عام 1926 في السميرية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: al-Amīn; Ḥamādah; Daʻbis; Twaynī.Significant figures: al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Mayor); Yūsuf, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Sulif, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Khaṭib, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Shanāʻah, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Cultural and rural life in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Cultural and social life in al-Sumayrīyah
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Biography: The interview was recorded on October 25, 2003 with ‘Awaḍ Aḥmad Abū al-Shabāb, male, born in 1933? in Saʻsaʻ.Families: Wihbī; Abū Shaykhah; Yāsīn; Fahd; ʻAzzām.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: ʻAzzām, Ḥāmid (Martyr); ʻAffāsh, Yāsīn (Martyr); ʻAffāsh, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Abū Ghunaym, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Sa‘īd, Maḥmūd (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 7:12)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 31:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 24, 2004 with Sa‘dah Ṣāliḥ Abū Ḥannā, female, born in 1926? in al-Raynah, Palestine.Families: al-Dabdūb; al-Ḥuways; al-ʻArrām; al-Kalash; Sillāwī; Abū Ḥannā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Catholic School (School); Orphanage School (School); Schneller School (School); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Rūm (Church); Abū Shūshah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥāṭūm, Kāmilah (Teacher).Table of contents: Childhood and hardships. (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Cultural and social life . (@ 11:18)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 22:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 17, 2003 with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Abū Ḥassān, male, born in 1931 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sayyid; Wihbah; Balʻūs; Abū Ḥassān; Khalīl; Abū al-Shabāb; al-Saʻīd; Azzām; Yassīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sittī Nafīsah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥusaynī, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Teacher); Bashīr, ‘Ādil (Teacher); Bal‘ūs, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Landowner); ‘Ayzak, Abū Ibrāhīm Zaydān (Mayor); al-Shawīsh, Muḥammad (Wounded); Wākid, Abdū (Vehicle driver); Azzām, Fahd (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and socio-economic life in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 12:49)Table of contents: Agriculture and economic measures. (@ 23:39)Table of contents: Families and land in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 38:27)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations and marriage customs. (@ 43:16)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 53:2)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 61:47)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Sa'sa'. (@ 90:28)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 97:59)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 114:58)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 130:3)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 146:7)Table of contents: Return to Palestine. (@ 160:35)