1. Interview with Nawfal Yāsīn

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Biography: The interview was recorded on November 2, 1987 with Nawfal Yāsīn, male, born in 1929 in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shaḥrūr; Sulaymān; Mirʻī; Azzām; ʻAṭīyah; ʻAql; Abū Ṭaʻʻān; Hajāj; Dʻaybis; Ghannām; Yāsīn; Abbās; al-Ḥāj Khalīl; ʻAjjāwī; al-ʻAynah; al-Khaḍrah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital); Egged Bus Comapny (Corporation); Mustashfá Ṭabaryā (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque); al-Siddīq (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Assūm (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); Munṭār (Maqām).Significant figures: Inkhil, ʻAbd al-Hamīd (Shaykh); al-Dirbās, Muḥammad ʻĪsá (Businessman); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad Fāris (Businessman); Mūsá, Aḥmad ʻUmar (Teacher); al-Karmī, ʻAbd al-Rahīm (Teacher); al-Fahūmī, Dyāb (Teacher); al-Shihāb, Fawzī (Teacher); Ḥamad, Muḥammad Ṭālib (Teacher); Ḥawwā, Aḥmad Ḥasan (Teacher); Qaddūrah, Ḥikmat (Teacher); Yūnus, Ahmad (Teacher); Suwaydān, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf (Teacher); ʻĪsá, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥāj (Teacher), Ghaṭṭās, Ghaṭṭās Yūsuf (School principal); Abū Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Martyr); ʻAbdullāh, Muḥammad Ḥasan (Martyr); Saʻīd, Aḥmad Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAṭāyā, Sulymān (Teacher); al-Rifāʻī, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); al-Rifāʻī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Ghannām, Ḥasan ʻAlī (Martyr); Shiḥādah, Saʻīd (Martyr).Table of contents: Agriculture, childhood, and community life in ʻAlmā . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Antiquities and caves in Palestine. (@ 25:31)Table of contents: Social life and customs. (@ 52:20)Table of contents: British mandate and employment . (@ 75:56)Table of contents: Wedding traditions, religious events and funeral traditions. (@ 93:21)Table of contents: Miscellaneous narratives and explusion to Lebanon. (@ 134:0)