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)
