Biography: The interview was recorded on October 4, 1998 with Jalāl As‘ad Ḥusayn, male, born in 1935 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Political turmoil, resistance and military activity in the village. (@ 9:20)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 23:44)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 38:25)Table of contents: Witnesses of al-Ṣafṣāf Battle. (@ 47:1)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 70:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Khiḍr Darwīsh Skaynī, male, born in 1924 in Saida, Lebanon.Significant figures: Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Shīshaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Assāf, Najīb (Wounded); al-B‘aynī, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Mallāk, Saʻīd (Martyr); Zayn al-Dīn, Maḥmud (Martyr); al-‘Abdullāh, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Ḥalāwah, Fawzī (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestine is not the "promised land" . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance : memoirs of occupied Palestine. (@ 11:53)Table of contents: War time, resistance and military activity. (@ 38:10)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 47:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 12, 1997 with Yūsuf Dīwān, male born in 1939 in Yājūr, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥilū; Abū al-Ghizlān; Jumʻah; Abū Rudaynah; al-Shaqrā; Abū Shtayyā; Ḥammād; al-ʻAfīfī; Murād.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Dūghān, Dīb (Resistance fighter); al-Milījī, Zaydān (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 14:40)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 27:10)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 37:5)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine, humiliation and isolation. (@ 48:19)Table of contents: Arab attitudes toward Palestine. (@ 58:42)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and resistance. (@ 62:20)Table of contents: Refugees hope for the future. (@ 71:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 12, 1997 with Yūsuf Dīwān, male born in 1939 in Yājūr, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥilū; Abū al-Ghizlān; Jumʻah; Abū Rudaynah; al-Shaqrā; Abū Shtayyā; Ḥammād; al-ʻAfīfī; Murād.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Dūghān, Dīb (Resistance fighter); al-Milījī, Zaydān (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 14:40)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 27:10)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 37:5)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine, humiliation and isolation. (@ 48:19)Table of contents: Arab attitudes toward Palestine. (@ 58:42)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and resistance. (@ 62:20)Table of contents: Refugees hope for the future. (@ 71:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 6, 1997 with Āmāl Shurayḥ, female, born in 1939? in Akka, Palestine and resides in ‘Aramūn, Lebanon.Families: Ṭannūs; Fākhūrī; Faraḥ.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Waṭanīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Shurayḥ, Fādī (Poet); Sirḥān, ʻĀdil (Village leader); Sirḥān, Fāris (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family and childhood . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The Exodus from Palestine. (@ 7:57)Table of contents: Occupation and exile. (@ 22:56)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 45:44)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 54:48)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 65:6)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 77:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 22, 1997 with Ᾱminah Asʻad Ḥamādah, female, born in 1929 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Agriculture and community life under the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Sumayrīyah and journey to Lebanon . (@ 8:34)Table of contents: Refugee life and experience in Lebanon. (@ 25:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 7, 1997 with Ᾱminah Ibrahīm al-Bakrī, female, born in 1914 in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Badrān; Khalīl; al-Tītī; ʻĀbid; al-Ḥusayn; al-Bakrī; Khāzin; Būlus; al-Khūrī.Significant figures: al-Sarkas, ʻUthmān (Mayor); Badrān, Ḥusayn Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al-Bakrī, Muḥammad Ḥasan (Lawyer); Darwīsh, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabaḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-‘Ābid, ‘Alī Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Dāhish, Jabr (Village leader); Bakrī, Ḥusayn (Leader).Table of contents: Rural life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Biʻnah. (@ 10:6)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 17:6)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 23:27)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 28:46)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 45:45)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 49:57)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 64:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 7, 1997 with Ᾱminah al-Ḥusayn, female, born in 1936 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Rural life and education in pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and expulsion. (@ 10:1)Table of contents: Refugee experience and suffering in Lebanon. (@ 30:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 6, 1997 with Ᾱminah Ḥasan Banāt, female, born in 1931 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in Lebanon . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Everyday life in Palestine and refugee conditions in Lebanon. (@ 11:6)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and hardships of expulsion from Palestine. (@ 23:34)Table of contents: War incidents and suffering
. (@ 44:27)Table of contents: Folk traditions and social life . (@ 61:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 1997 with Āminah Muḥammad al-Jabbār (Sārah Cohen), female, born in 1926 in Jerusalem and resides in Beirut, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘Ḥasan Bayk (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Samrī, Khalīl (Martyr); Ḥūsah, Dhakīyah (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic and political conditions in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, immigration and exile. (@ 7:46)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 22:20)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 30:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 18, 1997 with Aḥmad Ibrāhīm Tamīm, male, born in 1931 in al-Jāʻūnah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid, Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Tamīm; al-‘Amāyrī; Dakhl Allāh; Shiḥādah; al-Jalbūṭ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Maghārit al-Ghasīl (Maqām).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Social conditions in the village. (@ 4:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil, resistance and military activity. (@ 22:34)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 33:37)Table of contents: Leaving al-Jāʻūnah. (@ 41:20)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 49:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Aḥmad Ḥajīr, male, born in 1930 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥāmūlī.Significant figures: Abū Jrās, Khalīl (Survivor); Ḥajīr, Fāyiz (Revolutionary); Ḥajīr, Ṣafīyah (Martyr); Salmān, ʻAbdullāh (Village leader); Abū Dūdah, Khiḍir (Village leader); Ḥajīr, Ḥasan Muḥammad (Prisoner).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil anf revolutionaries. (@ 9:2)Table of contents: Military occupation and the popular resistance. (@ 23:0)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:48)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 44:42)Table of contents: Palestinian refugees life. (@ 53:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 17, 1997 with Aḥmad Sulaymān Aḥmad, male, born in 1926 in Dayshūm, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Abū Yaḥyá; Mīzārī; Nūḥ; al-Mārdīnī.Significant figures: Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); Ṣāliḥ, Muḥammad (Wounded); Nūḥ, Sa‘īd Ṣāliḥ (Wounded); Mizyān, al-Hādī ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); ‘Īsá, ‘Umar (Wouded); Ḥaddād, Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Qāsim, Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū Widdū, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Sha‘bān, ‘Umar (Martyr); Abū al-Nasab, Farīd (Camp leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 7:52)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 14:20)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 27:11)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 40:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 27, 1997 with Aḥmad Shiḥādah Falāḥ, male, born in 1918 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Quṭṭ; al-ʻArīq; ʻAlī Sālim; Ḥāj Mūsá; al-Ḥāj ʻAlī; Sursuq; ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl; Aṣlān.Significant figures: al-ʻAdawī, Ḥasan (Landowner); Abū al-Saʻd, Ḥusayn (Landowner); al-Ḥallāq, Aḥmad (Landowner); Zamzam, Asʻad (Landowner); al-Quṭṭ, Khalīl (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAkkī, Ibrāhīm (Landowner); Barakah, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance leader); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Ḥamādah, Kāmil (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in pre-Nakba Palestine and expulsion . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Settler colonialism, childhood memories, and education. (@ 10:38)Table of contents: Battles and the Arab Salvation Army withdrawal. (@ 26:17)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 50:19)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile . (@ 71:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16, 1997 with Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ Ismāʻīl, male, born in 1932 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked in a fire match factory.Families: ʻAbd al-Rāziq; Sursuq; Twaynī; Salām.Significant figures: al-ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Martyr); Shrayḥ, Fādī (Mayor).Table of contents: Political conditions and events surrounding Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and suffering in exile. (@ 22:4)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hope of return. (@ 44:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 18, 1997 with Aḥmad Ḍāhir al-‘Īsá, male, born in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes manufacture (Corporation).Table of contents: Palestinian history. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Palestinian affair. (@ 17:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 7, 1997 with Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Nawfal, male, born in 1932 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-ʻAfīfī; Sulaymān; al-Mawāʻidah; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-Saʻdīyah.Significant figures: Ḥallāb, Ḥasan (Teacher); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Shaykh, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Sarīnī, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Agriculture and community life in pre-Nakba Ṣaffurīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion and occupation of Ṣaffurīyah . (@ 16:40)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 27:50)Table of contents: Incidents and refugee social condition in Lebanon. (@ 41:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 7, 1997 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Qādir Ḥasan, male, born in 1928 in Ijzim, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Dwāymah; al-‘Azāyzah; al-Ṭaḥbūsh; Abū Zarad; al-‘Awāṣī; al-Qannūn; Qudsīyah; al-Kīlānī; al-Zinātī; Sursuq.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Lawyer); al-Māḍī, Mu‘īn (Lawyer); al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Landowner); Mūrād, ‘Abd al-Raḥīm (Shaykh); al-Nabhānī, Taqī al-Dīn (Shaykh); al-Khaṭīb, Nimir (Shaykh); Naffā‘, Yūnus (Leader); Naffāʻ; al-Ṣīdāwī, ‘Abdū (Resistance leader); Māḍī, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Rural life in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Childhood and everyday life. (@ 8:32)Table of contents: Political turmoil and armed resistance. (@ 19:13)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 25:10)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 34:10)Table of contents: Refuge life between Syria and Lebanon. (@ 48:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 6, 1997 with Aḥmad ʻAbdullāh Mizyān Aḥmad, male, born in 1925 in Dayshūm, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bazzī; al-Mārdīnī; al-Mīzānī.Significant figures: Mizyān, ʻAbdullāh (Imām); al-Mīzārī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); Zalghūṭ, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Resistance leader); al-Shāmī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Resistance leader); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Ḥusnī (Martyr); al-Hādī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad (Martyr); Rābiḥ, Zakīyah (Survivor).Table of contents: Social dynamics and community life in Dayshūm . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture, community, and social life in Dayshūm . (@ 26:57)Table of contents: Settler colonialism and political activity
. (@ 42:21)Table of contents: Arab Salvation Army in Dayshūm . (@ 69:18)Table of contents: Warfare and resistance. (@ 91:20)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 120:19)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 142:39)Table of contents: Final reflections on refugee experience and expulsion . (@ 164:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 7, 1997 with Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAsqūl, male, born in 1937 in Bīrīyā, Palestine.Families: Ṣawwān; Ayyūbī; Shaʻbān.Significant figures: Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Mayor); Shaʻbān, ʻAlī (Shepherd); Brayk, Shafīq (School principal); al-Najjār, Muḥammad (Camp leader); Ḥamad, Ḥasan (Public servant).Table of contents: Political dynamics in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood and socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 8:9)Table of contents: Violence and military occupation. (@ 21:33)Table of contents: Village occupation and displacement. (@ 39:56)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 50:32)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 67:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Aḥmad Mifliḥ ‘Alāʼ al-Dīn, male, born in 1931 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ghuzz, Abū Mahmūd (Resistance leader); al-ʻĪsá, Sulaymān ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Martyr); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Alāʼ al-Dīn, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Mifliḥ (Policeman); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Naṣr, Saʻīd (Survival); al-Ṭufaylī, ‘Alī (Survival).Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 15:4)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 22:40)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 33:17)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 47:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm al-ʻAbd, female, born in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Za‘rūrah; ‘Izzīyah; Sulaymān; Maw‘id; Abū al-N‘āj; ‘Aṭīyah; Khaṭṭāb.Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social customs and community life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 11:40)Table of contents: Palestinian songs and customs . (@ 20:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on with Umm Muḥammad Asʻad, female, born in Shaʻb, Palestine.Table of contents: Palestinians' call for Arab leaders. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Salutations to Family relations. (@ 12:3)
Biography: The interview was recording on February 7, 1997 with Amīnah Bashīr al-Mughrabī, female, born in 1921 in Nahariya, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon.Families: Twaynī; Sursuq; Twaynī.Significant figures: al-Shanṭī, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Ḥimmū, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥūrānī, Abū Kāmil (Engineer).Table of contents: Settlements and land issues before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 18:45)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 26:11)Table of contents: Exodus and revisiting Palestine. (@ 37:25)Table of contents: Exile and emigration. (@ 47:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Jabr Muḥammad Yūnus, male, born in 1920 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon. He was a trader.Families: al-Zaghmūṭ; Yūnus, Ḥamad; Yāsīn; Yūnus; Ḥamad.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Ecole Des Frères (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Saʻd Allāh al-Khalīl (Hospital); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Kull, Naʻīm (Resistance fighter); al-Zaghmūṭ, Ismāʻīl (Village leader); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); al-Yūnus, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Yūnus, Dīb Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥasan, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Resistance fighter); Zaynī, Ḥasan (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); Farhūd, Aḥmad Nimir (Resistance fighter); Kāyid, Aḥmad Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); Shraynī, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); al-Shūlī, Ḥannah (Flour mill owner); ʻAzzām, ʻAlī (Flour mill owner); Yūnus, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, Nāyif (Martyr); Swaydī, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestinian villages. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948. (@ 16:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Ṣafṣāf and journey to Lebanon. (@ 42:18)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile . (@ 65:11)Table of contents: Education and economic conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 77:8)Table of contents: Political conditions and Zionist occupation. (@ 88:2)Table of contents: Social and community life in pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 104:12)Table of contents: Living conditions during the British Mandate of Palestine 1920-1948 . (@ 126:1)Table of contents: Final reflections on life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 149:37)
Biography: The interview was also recorded with her husband Muḥammad ʻAbd Darwīsh, male, born in 1921 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Expulsion and journey to Lebanon
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine. (@ 13:31)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 36:6)Table of contents: Rural life in Pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 60:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 6, 1997 with Jumʻah Ruḥayyil Mshayrifah, male, born in 1926 in Nāʻimah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a policeman with the British Army forces.Families: Mashārifah; Daḥāwishah; ‘Absīyah; Khdayrawīyah; Ḥajjāj; Shihāb.Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 7:37)Table of contents: Refugees life conditions. (@ 20:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 7, 1997 with Jihād Ṭalāl al-Ḥāj, male, born in 1940 in al-Sammūʻī, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Kishkish, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Teacher); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ashqar, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Mayor); Qaddūrah, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); Qaddūrah, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and expulsion from al-Sammūʻī . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories and Zionist crimes . (@ 17:31)Table of contents: Education and pre-Nakba life . (@ 33:40)Table of contents: Land ownership of al-Sammūʻī village and refugee experience. (@ 49:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 1997 with Ḥājah Khalīl ʻᾹmir, male, born in 1929 in Bīr al-Maksūr, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Jandāwī, Abū Aḥmad (Leader); al-Ṭaynīs, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Jandāwī, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Childhood memories and community life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to Lebanon. (@ 14:45)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon . (@ 35:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 20, 1997 with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Asadī, male, born in 1922 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked with the British Army.Families: al-Asadī; al-Dhabāḥ; Mūsá.Table of contents: Childhood and education in Pre-Nakba Dayr al-Asad . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British army and political turmoil . (@ 9:57)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience . (@ 17:43)Table of contents: lsraeli colonization of Palestinian land. (@ 34:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 7, 1997 with Ḥasan Ḥamad, male, born in 1930 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Kūkū; al-Zaghmūṭ; Ḥamad; Mirʻī; Sharāybī; ʻUbayd; Abū al-Kull; Shraydī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Zāwiyah (School); Madrasat al-Rujūm (School); Madrasat Khadūrī al-Zirāʻīyah (School).Significant figures: Zayn, Abū Salīm (Public officer); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); Ḥamad, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and community traditions in al-Ṣafṣāf . (@ 14:56)Table of contents: al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948. (@ 27:25)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 40:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 6, 1997 with Ḥasan Yūsuf ʻAwdah, male, born in 1920 in Nazareth, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a construction worker with the British Army forces.Families: Sursuq.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation); al-Mustashfá al-Inglīzī (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid Cleopatra (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Fāhūm, Ismā‘īl (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military attacks. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Military activity and exile from Palestine. (@ 10:12)Table of contents: Military occupation of Nazareth. (@ 26:1)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 41:13)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 48:27)Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 58:44)Table of contents: Israeli policy in occupied territories. (@ 72:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Ḥusayn Shams, male, born in 1934 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥusayn; Karrūm; Sārah; Shams; Ghunaym; Abū Shākir.Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Aḥmad (Village leader); Abū Dayyā, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); ‘Uṭūr, Ibrāhīm (Wonded); Ghunaym, ‘Abdullāh (Wounded); Karrūm, Tawfīq al-Mūsa (Martyr); al-Khālid, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr).Table of contents: Socioe-conomic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and forced departure. (@ 19:45)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 32:39)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 43:42)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 57:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 17, 1997 with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lūbānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Biqāʻī; al-Zayādinah; al-Lawābinah; al-ʻAthāminah; al-ʻAyāyshah; Abū ʻAlī; Mīkhā'īl; Abū Ḥamdī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-ʻAfīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Lūbānī, Dāhish Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Biqāʻī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz (Martyr); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Tawfīq (Martyr); Ṣāliḥ, al-ʻAbd (Martyr); al-Bīṭār, Khalīl (Teacher); ʻŪbayd, Shafīq (School principal).Table of contents: Sociopolitical dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 18:10)Table of contents: Political turmoil and popular resistance. (@ 44:34)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 54:7)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 61:24)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 82:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 13, 1997 with Ḥusayn Muḥammad Ḥijjū, male, born in 1931 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Shihābī.Significant figures: al-ʻUthmān, Dawwās (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, ʻᾹrif (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Saʻīd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Manṣūr, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Shaʻbān, ʻAlī (Prisoner); Abū ʻAyshah, Ṣāliḥ (Prisoner).Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and war events. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 17:15)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile and attempt at return . (@ 42:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Ḥusayn Muḥammad Darwīsh, male, born in 1937 in Khirbat Ja‘tūn, Palestine.Families: al-Darāwshah; Mir‘ī; Manāṣrī; Mḥaysnīyah; Ḥijāzī; Ḥawwā; Twaynī; Sursuq; Ḥabāyib; Bazzī; Salām; al-As‘ad.Significant figures: al-ʻAkkī, Aḥmad (Landowner); Ḥijāzī, Abū Aḥmad (Mayor); Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); al-Qassīs, Abū Mas‘ad (Village leader).Table of contents: Farming and living conditions before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 7:50)Table of contents: Infiltration during the British rule. (@ 15:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 28:46)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 38:23)Table of contents: War time and military operations. (@ 54:42)Table of contents: Land, defense and resistance. (@ 67:22)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 83:28)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 101:24)Table of contents: Humanitarian conditions during the exodus. (@ 114:38)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 130:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 14, 1997 with Ḥafīẓah al-Asadī, female, born in 1911? in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She was a seamstress.Table of contents: Community and family life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 18:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Khaznah Muḥammad ʻUlayyān, female, born in 1921 in Mughr al-Khayṭ, Palestine.Families: Barakah; Tarāshiḥah; Ḍāhir; Dyāb.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻUlayyān , Sulaymān ʻAbd al-laṭīf (Resistance fighter); al-Yūnus, ʻAwaḍ (Landowner); ‘Umar, Ḥusayn (Landowner); ‘Umar, ‘Alī (Landowner); ʻUlayyān , ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Ghanī, Sulaymān (Landowner); ʻUlayyān , Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Dyāb, ‘Umar (Vehicle driver); al-Ḥāj, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Biqā‘ī, Sharīfah Maḥmūd (Wounded).Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 13:17)Table of contents: Political life during the British Mandate. (@ 24:11)Table of contents: Occupation and exile. (@ 34:35)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 50:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 22, 1997 with Khalīl Ibrāhīm Sālim, male, born in 1929 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine.Families: Ḥijāzī; ‘Ulayyān; Twaynī.Significant figures: Twaynī, Ghassān (Landowner); al-Yamanī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Mir‘ī, ‘Abd (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rābāḥ (Resistance leader); Sirḥān, Fāyiz (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Families and land. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and resistance. (@ 8:31)Table of contents: Military operations and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: The exodus and the refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 13, 1997 with Khalīl Ḥusayn Yāsīn, male, born in 1933 in Ibṭin, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Qaramān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: Yāsīn, al-‘Abd (Wounded); Yāsīn, Aḥmad (Wounded).Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 11:35)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 18:37)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 25:7)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 7, 1997 with Raʼīfah Sha‘fāṭī, female, born in 1912? in Akka, Palestine and resides in ‘Aramūn, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Sīdī Abū ‘Atabah (Maqām): al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Sīdī ‘Izz al-Dīn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Jazzār, ‘Abdullāh (Muftī); al-Khalīl, Nadīyā (Dressmaker).Table of contents: Community and family life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family, childhood and schooling. (@ 10:31)Table of contents: Wedding and marriage customs. (@ 22:31)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in Akka. (@ 51:23)Table of contents: Refugees and living conditions. (@ 67:49)Table of contents: Forced departure from Palestine. (@ 80:8)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 93:39)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 102:6)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 125:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 22, 1997 with Rashīd Aḥmad al-ʻAynayn, male, born in 1926 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-ʻAynayn; al-Nūr; Rustum: al-Bayk; Fahd; Baytam; Yāsīn; Wajdī; Badr; Asʻad al-Khalīl; Sursuq.Significant figures: al-ʻAynayn, Aḥmad Rashīd (Revolutionary); Fahd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Shūrī, Muḥammad ʻUthmān (Martyr); Abū al-Khayr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Ḥisn, Qāsim (Martyr); Badr, Ḥasan (Land owner); Ḥisn, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Resistance leader); al-Fāris, Najīb (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Political conditions and events surrounding 1948 Nakba . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political dynamics and betrayal . (@ 18:9)Table of contents: War events and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 35:45)Table of contents: Refugee living conditions in Lebanon. (@ 50:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 1997 with Raymond Elias ʻAffārah, male, born in 1936 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Catholic school (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).Significant figures: Ḥallās, Riḍā (Teacher); Kannūn, Maḥmud (Shaykh).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Infiltration and attacks. (@ 8:20)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 19:25)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 29:50)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 43:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Zahrah Fahd Murrah, female, born in 1930 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām); al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām).Significant figures: Murrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Qaddūrah, Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Falāḥ, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ṭunnah, Yūsuf (Mayor); Mubaddah, Nāyif (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Ḥusayn Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAbbūd, Khalīl (Martyr); Qāsim, Muḥammad Khalīl (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Wahāb, Aḥmad (Martyr); Murrah, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Salīm, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Suḥmātā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 under the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli occupation and expulsion . (@ 6:44)Table of contents: Community life and beliefs in Sabalān. (@ 21:22)Table of contents: Expulsion and suffering. (@ 31:27)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hardships . (@ 42:34)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and wedding customs. (@ 51:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 7, 1997 with Zahrah Muḥammad Khalīl, female, born in 1934? in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine.Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 8:53)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 13:0)Table of contents: Eyewitness of the Palestinian exodus. (@ 32:54)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 42:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 6, 1997 with SulaymānʻAbd al-Rāziq, male, born in 1905 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine. He was a trader and than a quarrier and resides in al-Ghāzīyyah, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: Qaramān, Ṭāhir (Businessman); al-Sharīf, Ḥusayn (Shaykh); Abū al-Habaj, Muḥammad (Musician); al-Naṣir, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Abū Jlayyīl, Ibrāhīm (Resistance leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Najīb (Village leader); Ḥamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm Nimr (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and everyday life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 17:40)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 27:45)Table of contents: Passing on memories. (@ 37:50)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 49:41)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 57:16)Table of contents: Military occupation and exodus. (@ 67:6)Table of contents: Refugee conditions in Lebanon. (@ 75:35)Table of contents: Return to Palestine. (@ 83:46)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 91:26)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in Shafā ʻAmrū before Nakba. (@ 103:37)Table of contents: Nostalgia, Postmemories, and Homeland. (@ 114:15)Table of contents: Songs and memories. (@ 127:28)