Biography: The interview was recorded with Ᾱminah Khiḍir, female, Born in 1926 in Kufrītā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al-Nāṭūr; al-Shaḥbarī; Sursuq; al-Ṭayyib; al-Ḥanafī; al-Khiḍir; al-Nawāṭīr; al-Aḥmad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥanafī, ʻAbd al-Salām (Revolutionary); Khiḍir, Fāris (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary leader); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Ḥāfiẓ (Martyr); al-Muḥammad, ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Political turmoil and Hawshah and al-Kasāyir battle. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions and social life. (@ 14:21)Table of contents: Rural conditions and social life. (@ 35:5)Table of contents: Childbirth and cultural life . (@ 62:16)Table of contents: Expulsion from Khirbat al-Kasāyir and dispersion. (@ 72:55)Table of contents: Childhood incidents and cultural life in Khirbat al-Kasāyir . (@ 79:39)
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)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1997? with Aḥmad Ḍāhir ‘Īsá, male, born in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine.Table of contents: Relay of memories and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile and diaspora . (@ 11:30)
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 with Aḥmad Mifliḥ ‘Alā’ al-Dīn (Abū Usāmah), male, born in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-‘Īsá, Sulaymān Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Martyr); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Alā’ al-Dīn, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Mufliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and resistance . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance, occupation, and expulsion from Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 11:28)Table of contents: Journey to exile and refugee experience . (@ 34:18)Table of contents: Final reflections on the future of Palestinians . (@ 54:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 16, 1998 with Aḥmad Yūsuf Qaddūrah, male, born in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Biqāʻ, Lebanon.Families: Qaddūrah; al-Madāydī; Mūsá; Fāyiz; al-Jishshī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Būtāgī Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-‘Abd Mūsá, Sa‘īd (Mayor); Qayṣar, Jirjis (Mayor); Qaddūrah, ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Alī, al-‘Abd (Mayor).Table of contents: Agriculture and socio-economic conditions in Suḥmātā . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tobacco industry in Palestine . (@ 9:17)Table of contents: Cultivating and picking Tobacco in Palestine. (@ 37:10)Table of contents: Economic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 45:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 12, 1999 with Ibrāhīm Yūsuf Rinnū, male, born in 1926 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Tripoli, Lebanon. He was a fisherman.Families: Abū Zayd, Rinnū; al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm; al-Ḥāj Khalīl; al-Bāshā; al-Ḥāj Sālim; Ḥishmī; Abū Hawwāsh.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Palestine Electric Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell Palestine (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Nāṣirī, Abū ‘Alī (Martyr); Rinnū, Kāmil (Leader); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Ṭāhā (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and Zionist terrorism . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Haifa. (@ 11:19)Table of contents: Socio-economic life and expulsion. (@ 40:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on with Bahīyah al-ʻAdawī, female, born in Palestine.Table of contents: ʻAtābā and wedding songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Stupidity in popular tale. (@ 25:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 5, 1998 with Jamīl Mūsá al-‘Alī, male, born in 1928 in Kafr ʻAnān, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a policeman in the British Police forces.Families: Shuqayr; Manṣūr; al-Khaḍr; al-Khaḍrah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: Muṣliḥ, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Naḥf, Ṣalāḥ (Teacher); Dīmāsī, Maḥmūd (Teacher); Ṭāhā, Muḥammad (Policeman); ‘Awāḍ, Ḥasan (Military officer).Table of contents: Rural life and employment in British police forces. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Work in the British police forces. (@ 24:21)Table of contents: Police work in British prisons. (@ 53:47)Table of contents: Prisoners' treatment and work in British prisons. (@ 80:38)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 100:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Khalīlī, male, Born in 1911 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a truck driver in Palestine.Families: Muṣṭafá; al-Jishī; Samārah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: Shraym, Fahd (Mayor); Ḥadād, Jibrā’īl (Mayor).Table of contents: Agriculture and socio-economic life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tobacco cultivation and trade. (@ 10:17)Table of contents: Tobacco industry and cultivation. (@ 36:57)Table of contents: Dwellings in Palestine. (@ 64:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 26, 1998 with Ḥasnah ‘Abd Kīlānī, female, born in 1925 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Kīlānī; al-Shahāyibah; al-Hajājiwah; al-‘Aṭwāṭ; al-‘Ajāyinah; al-Ḥiṭṭīnī; Qaddūrah; al-Kīlānīyah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Jāmi‘ al-Azhar (School).Significant figures: Kīlānī, Muḥammad (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Social life and rural conditions . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Lūbyā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 16:43)Table of contents: Social life and customs . (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 36:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1998 with Ḥusnī Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ, male, born in 1912 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a carpenter.Families: al-Qāḍī; al-Mukhaḥḥal; al-Ḥusaynī; Sursuq; Twaynī; Salām; al-Khūrī.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Leader); Ṭannūs, ‘Īsá (Carpenter); Shāhīn, Jibrā’īl (Carpenter); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Tawfīq (Artist); Kāmil, Sa‘īd (Trader); Kāmil, Maḥmūd (Trader); Ṣāliḥ, Mahdī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jumay‘ān, Imīl (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Political history and activity in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Carpentry profession and social dynamics in Palestine. (@ 20:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic life in Tarshīḥā . (@ 46:0)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā and refugee experience . (@ 61:7)Table of contents: Refugee carpentry work Post-Nakba in exile . (@ 87:19)Table of contents: Carpentry wood types and trade. (@ 103:20)Table of contents: al-Kābrī Battle, 1948 . (@ 116:57)Table of contents: Municipality elections in Tarshīḥā and refugee experience . (@ 134:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 1997 with Ḥusayn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ‘Ayyāsh (Abū 'Alī), male, Born in 1921? in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Abū Rāṣ; ʻAṭāllāh; ʻAbbūd; ʻAyyāsh; Sursuq; Sirḥān; al-Nashāshībī.Significant figures: Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ṭāhā Muḥammad Khalīl (Revolutionary); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Sālim, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Sulaymān, ʻAwaḍ (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣalṭī, Nāyif (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣahyūn, Abū Fāyiz (Tracker); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Sārī (Martyr); Zāyid, Ibn Qūrá (Jewish officer).Table of contents: Social life and political history of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: ʻAylūṭ during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 16:41)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and feudalism in Palestine. (@ 45:0)Table of contents: Political activity during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 68:1)Table of contents: Battles and Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine, 1948. (@ 84:19)Table of contents: Mass murder and expulsion from ʻAylūṭ . (@ 109:2)
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: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع زوجها عبد الرحمن محمد المجذوب، ذكر، ولد عام 1925 في عمقا، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم المية ومية للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان. كان يعمل في فبركت الكبريت في عكا.Families: Abū Jāmūs; ʻUwayyid; al-Ḥajal; al-ʻAkkī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka airport (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nūr Safety Match (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Muṣṭafá (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Darwīsh, Shafīq (Lawyer).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and beliefs in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 21:35)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 43:0)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 58:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 9, 1997 with Khalīl Ḥusayn Ṣidqī, male, born in 1924 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon. He was as a quarrier.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell Oil Company (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Pipeline Company (Corporation); English Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh ‘Īsá (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); Mār Ilyās (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Kāmil (Businessman).Table of contents: Quarrying profession during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Religious diversity and socio-economic life. (@ 9:43)Table of contents: Palestine during World War II. (@ 30:10)Table of contents: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and political conditions. (@ 37:51)Table of contents: City occupation, terrorism and expulsion. (@ 58:32)Table of contents: Terrorism, expulsion and journey to exile. (@ 68:23)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع غزالة إبراهيم عبد المعطي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1927 في بيت لحم، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Significant figures: al-Bahār, Khaḍrah (Midwife); Abū N‘āj, Nimir (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Displacement, exile and hope. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian children folk songs. (@ 12:54)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:28)
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 January 11, 1997 with Jum‘ah Rizq al-Ḥāj Dāwūd, male, born in 1925 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a shoemaker.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Aḥmadīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Waṭanīyah (School); Jam‘īyat al-Ṭaqm al-Ḥadīd (Association).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Raml (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Mīnā’ (Mosque).Significant figures: Abū al-Ḥudá, ‘Alī (School principal); al-Dāyah, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Childhood and cultural life in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: History and cultural life in Pre-Nakba Akka. (@ 12:35)Table of contents: Work in the shoe industry in Akka. (@ 29:19)Table of contents: Political conditions during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 34:21)Table of contents: Betrayal, collaboration and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 42:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 25, 1998 with Rashīd ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd Sulaymān, male, born in 1927 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Najm; Sulaymān; ‘Īsá; al-Maw‘id; Ḥadāyidah; al-Sa‘dīyah; al-Maṣāriwah.Significant figures: ‘Izzīyah, Aḥmad Dāwūd (Teacher); Samārah, Shākir (School principal); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Municipal council); al-‘Afīfī, Maḥmud (Municipal council); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural economic in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 14:34)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 39:26)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and rural conditions in the village. (@ 58:3)Table of contents: Crops and agriculture life in Saffuriyah. (@ 73:21)Table of contents: House construction and Farming practices in Palestine. (@ 83:17)Table of contents: Rural life and practices. (@ 95:26)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 106:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 31, 1997 with Zahrah Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāj, female, born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ‘Arābī, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd (Doctor); al-Maṣrī, ‘Umar (Doctor).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture life in Palestine. (@ 10:43)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 20:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 16, 1998 with Zahrah Ḥamad Khadījah, female, born in 1926 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Qāsimīyah, Lebanon.Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Traditional customs in a Bedouin community. (@ 17:29)Table of contents: Rites and ceremonies. (@ 42:4)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions. (@ 61:46)Table of contents: Social gatherings and customs. (@ 85:15)Table of contents: War time, military occupation and exile. (@ 100:2)