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 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)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 1997 with Samīḥah Abū Hawwāsh, female, born in 1944 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aytām, al-Ittiḥād al-Nisāʼī (School); Madrasat Ghirnāṭah (School); Dār al-Ṭufl (School); Madrasat al-Najāḥ (School).Significant figures: Shuwaykī, Hayfāʼ (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Hādī, ʻAlyāʼ (Teacher); al-Ḥusaynī, Hind (Orphanage principal).Table of contents: Childhood and refugee experience in Jordan and Palestine. (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Child education at the orphanage. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 57:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 30, 1977 with Suhaylah Khiḍr al-Saʻīd, female, born in 1934? in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAbd al-ʻĀl; Abū al-Sa‘d; Drāz.Significant figures: Sālim, Qāsim (Mayor); ʻAbdū, Qāsim (Teacher); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Yūsuf (Village leader); al-Ḥāj ‘Alī, Muṣṭafá (Village leader); Fattāḥ, Ḥayāt (Village leader); Ḥusayn, Khalīl Ibrāhīm (Coffeehouse owner); al-ʻAdawī, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAdawī, Maḥmud (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Khalīl (Resistance fighter); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); Abū al-Dīk, Khalīl (Resistance fighter); al-ʻArīḍī, Abū Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Yūsuf (Vehicle driver); Bazzī, Ṭalāl (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in Umm al-Faraj. (@ 9:21)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 18:23)Table of contents: Violence, battles and defense. (@ 30:29)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and the exodus. (@ 44:11)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 61:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 1997 with Ṣāliḥ Rashīd ‘Abd al-Ḥalīm, male, born in 1932 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in Jal al-Baḥr, Lebanon.Families: Mūsá; al-Dabbāḥ; Niʻmah; ‘Uthmān.Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 8:56)Table of contents: Refugee life and isolation. (@ 23:23)Table of contents: Childhood and parents. (@ 33:44)Table of contents: The psychological impact of the exodus. (@ 49:19)Table of contents: Sufferance and struggle. (@ 62:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 1997 with Ṣāliḥ Shaʻbān, male, born in 1934 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Biqāʻīyah; al-Zaydānīyīn; ʻUthmān; Abū ʻAlī; al-Lūbānī; Shaʻbān; ʻAyyāsh; Ibrāhīm al-Muṣṭafá; Ballūṭ; Khnayfis.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Dhū al-Kifal (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Biqāʻīyah, Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Razzāq (Martyr); al-Biqāʻīyah, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Saʻīd (Martyr); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr); al-Shaʻbān, Ḥusayn (Hostage); al-ʻAbwānī, Dāwūd (Martyr); al-Zayādinah, Muḥammad Saʻīd al-Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Yāsīn, ʻAbd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Hilālī, Ibrāhīm (Military officer); al-ʻAyyāsh, Qāsim (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life and customs in al-Dāmūn. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and British colonialism. (@ 13:35)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of al-Dāmūn, expulsion, and journey to exile . (@ 32:30)Table of contents: Refugee experience and suffering in Lebanon. (@ 48:51)Table of contents: Final reflections and hope of return. (@ 66:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 7, 1997 with Șubḥīyah Ja‘far, female, born in 1932 in al-Ḥusaynīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Ṭayyib; ‘Ammār; al-Rāshīdī; Ja‘far; Rābiḥ; al-Zāyir; al-Bashīr.Significant figures: ‘Ammār, ‘Alī (Wounded); Kānūn, Aḥmad (Martyr); ʻAmmār, Mahmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Killings and massacres in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 14:33)Table of contents: War events and the exodus. (@ 21:52)Table of contents: War crimes and collective wrongdoing. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: The long life of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. (@ 41:7)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah under zionist occupation. (@ 50:13)
Biography: الشمالي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shahābīyah.Significant figures: Maḥmūd, ‘Alī Yāsīn (Teacher); al-Blīlānī, Muṣṭafá ʻĪsá (Teacher); al-Maṣrī, Qāsim Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Zaghmūṭ, Yūsuf Kāmil (School principal).Table of contents: Agriculture and economic conditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 10:11)Table of contents: Political clashes, attacks and resistance. (@ 21:41)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 36:29)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 60:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 6, 1997 with ‘Abd al-Karīm Shiblī, male, born in 1926 in Ṣalḥah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shiblī; ʻAwn; al-Maʻmārī; al-Asʻad; al-Mizārī; Slīm; Sursuq.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūsuf (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Ismāʻīl, Naʻīm (Martyr); al-Naqīb, Ḥasan (Teacher); Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Jumʻah, Mūsá (Martyr); Fayyāḍ, ʻAbd (Martyr); al-Atāsī, Abū Khalīl (Resistance leader); Saʻīd, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Saʻīd, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ismāʻīl, Naʻīm (Mayor assistant); ʻAbdullāh, Najīb Ḍāhir (Resistance fighter); ʻAbdū, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-ʻAbdullāh, Tawfīq (Village leader).Table of contents: Childhood memories and family in Ṣalḥah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Warfare and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal. (@ 6:55)Table of contents: Ṣalḥah massacre, 1948 and Palestinian land sale. (@ 29:26)Table of contents: Refugee hardships and war atrocities . (@ 40:54)Table of contents: Social life and customs in pre-Nakba Ṣalḥah . (@ 63:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with ʻAlī al-Qādirī, male, born in 1924 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was the Imām of the mosque in al-Ṣafṣāf.Significant figures: Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kāyid, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Warfare and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 10:2)Table of contents: Refugee conditions in exile . (@ 22:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with ‘Alī Saʻīd al- Mughrabī, male, born in 1928 in Maʻdhar, Palestine.Families: ‘Aṭāyā.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-‘Adl al-‘Ulyā (Court).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Keren Kayemeth (Corporation); Egged Bus Company(Corporation).Significant figures: al-Ṭabarī, Fāyiz (Lawyer); Kūsā, Elias (Lawyer); ‘Anabtāwī, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Ṭabarī, Khalīl (Revolutionary); al-Ṭabarī, Ṣidqī (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ṭāhir, Sālim (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ṭāhir, Sālim (Village leader); Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Village leader); Shishaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander); Abū Nasab, Farīd (Refugee camp leader); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-‘Arābī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Rizq, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Land legislation in Palestine. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Land ownership in Palestine. (@ 12:59)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 18:15)Table of contents: Violence,battles and armed resistance. (@ 29:7)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 39:6)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 49:2)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 63:47)Table of contents: Land, refugees and return. (@ 79:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 17, 1997 with ‘Alī Muḥammad al-Najjār, male, born in 1913 in Safad, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a carpenter.Families: Khaḍrā; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Significant figures: Qaddūrah, Zakī (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Mir‘bī, Muṣṭafá (Governor); ʻArābī, Muṣṭafá (School principal); Shamar, ‘Alī (Coffeehouse owner); ‘Asqūl, ʻAlī (Public servant); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Village leader); Qaddūrah, Walīd (Martyr); Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Trader).Table of contents: Political conditions in the city before Nakba. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Memories of life in Palestine and Lebanon. (@ 7:43)Table of contents: Community life in the city. (@ 19:31)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics before Nakba. (@ 31:29)Table of contents: War time, city occupation and the expulsion. (@ 44:24)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 61:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 14, 1997 with Fāṭimah Ḥusayn Sha‘bān, female, born in 1928? in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Zayādinah; ʻAṭāyā.Significant figures: Nimrah, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); ʻAṭāyā, Maḥmūd (Mayor); ʻAwaḍ, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Ismāʻīl (Landowner); ʻAwaḍ, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: al-Zīb amidst the 1948 Nakba and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience and social conditions in Lebanon. (@ 25:53)Table of contents: Refugee living conditions and suffering. (@ 42:16)Table of contents: Community life and expulsion. (@ 61:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 16, 1997 with Fāṭimah ‘Abd al-Salām al-Ḥanafī, female, born in 1931 in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Amīn (Hospital).Table of contents: Childhood and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 15:56)Table of contents: Social diversity in Palestine. (@ 26:50)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 47:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 15, 1997 with Fāṭimah Muṣṭafá al-Rūbī, female, born in 1934 in Safad, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī, Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Naḥawī; al-‘Arabī; al-Shab‘ānī; Dīb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Jāmi‘ al-Aḥmar (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Rūbī, Sa‘īd (Butcher); Abū al-Laban, Ṣāliḥ (Landlord); al-Rūbī, Muḥammad (Arab Salavtion Army soldier); al-Rūbī, Ibrāhīm (Arab Salvation Army soldier).Table of contents: Pre Nakba life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio political dynamics in Safad. (@ 6:40)Table of contents: Violence and armed resistance. (@ 14:41)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 20:52)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 30:20)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 47:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 26, 1997 with Farīd Fawzī al-Ṣāni‘, male, born in 1925 in Nablus, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon. He was a technician with the British Army during World War II.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Sibā‘ī (School); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation); Barclays Bank (Bank); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Ṣāni‘, Rā᾿id (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Hādī, Fakhrī (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary leader); ʻAbd al-Hādī, Fakhrī (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Muḥammad, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 10:44)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration in Palestine during the British Mandate. (@ 22:20)Table of contents: War time and expulsion. (@ 33:35)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 45:0)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance leadership. (@ 60:36)Table of contents: Refugee life in Syria and Lebanon. (@ 71:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 27, 1997 with Qāsim Rāghib Dīb, male, born in 1922 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Historical events leading to Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948. (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Expulsion, refugee experience in exile, and hope of return. (@ 21:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 6, 1997 with Laylá Shalṭaf, female, born in 1940 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Bshāmūn, Lebanon.Families: Ṭannūs; Faraḥ; Ghandūr.Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 15:14)Table of contents: Humanitarian conditions of refugees. (@ 23:52)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 35:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16, 1997 with Muḥsin ʻAbd al-Majīd Kāyid, male, born in 1924 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Baalbek, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Steel Brothers (Corporation).Significant figures: Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Village leader); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Village leader); al-Muṣṭafá, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor).Table of contents: Palestinian resistance and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War events and expulsion of Palestinians . (@ 14:37)Table of contents: Political activity during Nakba. (@ 23:58)Table of contents: Refugee conditions and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 35:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 23, 1997 with Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Barakah, male, born in 1923 in Mughr al-Khayṭ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Umar; Yūnus; al-Ḥāj; Barakah; al-Biqāʻī; Nashāshībī.Significant figures: al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Shiḥādah, Saʻīd (Martyr); Sārī, Fnaysh (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ṣabbāgh, Fāyiz (Camp leader).Table of contents: History of Nakba. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Political activity in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 14:48)Table of contents: Battles and military occupation. (@ 21:55)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 43:21)Table of contents: Violence, battles and exile. (@ 53:49)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 76:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Karīm Ghunaym , male, born in 1938 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Najm; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; ʻĪsá; al-Maw‘id; Ghunaym; al-Maqāziḥah; al-Ḥadāyidah; Rāshīd.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Municipal council); Yūsuf, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Laylá, Ḥasan (Shaykh).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ṣaffurīyah. (@ 17:48)Table of contents: Popular resistance in the village. (@ 32:3)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 48:9)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 65:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 10, 1997 with Muḥammad ‘Aql, male, born in 1929 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAtābā; al-Ḥadāydī; Abū Nāṣir; Ḥallūm; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Steel (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); Abū Qāsim, Jamīl (Teacher); al-Maw‘id, Maw‘id Muḥammad (Teacher); ʻIzzīyah, Aḥmad Dāwūd (Teacher); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Ḥadīdī, Aḥmad (Public officer); al-Mawʻid, Salīm (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Nawfal, Amīn (Refugee camp leader); al-Ṣabbāgh, Fāyiz (Refugee camp leader).Table of contents: Rural life and political history of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social dynamics and economic condition in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 20:14)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience . (@ 32:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June19, 1997 with Muḥammad Qāsim Muḥammad, male, born in 1923 in Jāḥūlā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sha‘bān; ‘Aṭīyah; Jabr; Fannīsh; Sursuq; Salām; Ghulmīyah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Hadassah hospital (Hospital).Significant figures: ‘Aṭīyah, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Yūnus (Shaykh); ‘Īsá, Maḥmūd Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Naḥawī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Lawyer); al-Rifā‘ī, Ḥusnī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Rifaʻī, Ḥusayn (Arab Salvation army commander); Lūbyā, Ḥusayn (Arab Salvation army soldier); ‘Aṭīyah, Abū Aḥmad Sulaymān (Wounded); Yāsīn, ‘Alī Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 11:44)Table of contents: Social and political conditions before Nakba. (@ 19:31)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 29:16)Table of contents: Battle and armed resistance. (@ 42:21)Table of contents: Military activity and resistance. (@ 50:29)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 59:0)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 73:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 3, 1997 with Maḥmūd Aḥmad Shtaywī, male, born in 1936 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Naḥf (School); Madrasat al-Rāmah (School).Significant figures: Naḥlah, Jamīl (Mayor); al-Dāhish, Jabr (Mayor); Shuqayr, Abū ʻAlī (Prisoner of war).Table of contents: Early life and betrayal . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Rāmah and journey to exile . (@ 8:21)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hardships in Lebanon. (@ 36:4)Table of contents: Attempt at return to Palestine and rejection. (@ 43:10)Table of contents: Communication with family relations in occupied Palestine . (@ 59:40)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع زوجته فاطمة علي شبعاني، أنثى، ولدت عام 1934؟. تقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shib‘ānī; Sha‘bān; Rajab; ‘Asqūl; al-Dilsī; Ṣawwān; Ayyūb; Shaʻbān.Significant figures: Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Shib‘ānī, Aḥmad (Wounded); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Shib‘ānī, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Yūsuf (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Ṣāfī Yaḥyá (Shepherd); Ṣawwān, Ismāʻīl (Shaykh); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥamad, Fuʼād As‘ad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 17:17)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 26:14)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 38:16)Table of contents: Economic conditions, Employment and exile. (@ 51:4)Table of contents: The Palestinian exodus. (@ 60:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 6, 1997 with Maḥmūd al-Hindi, male, born in 1934 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aḥmadī (School); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Shukrī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Muftī).Table of contents: History of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Akka. (@ 18:17)Table of contents: Refugees: The experience of forced migration . (@ 29:45)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 49:56)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:52)Table of contents: Refugees hopes. (@ 74:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 18, 1997 with Maḥmūd Darwīsh ‘Abd al-‘Āl, male, born in 1920 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Abd al-‘Āl; ‘Awaḍ; Sursuq; Salām; Twaynī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Sālim, Yūsuf (Village leader); al-Sālim, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-‘Amrīṭī, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al-Zayn, Muḥammad Maḥmud (Poet); Dāhish, Jabr (Resistance fighter); Sarkīs, Ḥasan (Resistance fighter); al-Dāwūd, Muṣṭafá (Resistance fighter); Fahīm, Abū ‘Alī (Landowner); Ḥijāzī, Musṭafá (Resistance fighter); Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Socioc-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood and social conditions in al-Ghābisīyah. (@ 7:18)Table of contents: British colonial policy in Palestine. (@ 19:58)Table of contents: Military occupation and immigration. (@ 28:58)Table of contents: Battle and betrayal. (@ 40:4)Table of contents: Zionist occupation, immigration and refugees. (@ 61:45)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 69:57)Table of contents: Refugees hope. (@ 78:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 7, 1997 with Maḥmūd Rinnū, male, born in 1922 in Haifa, Palestine. He was a fisherman in Haifa port.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Burj (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).Significant figures: Qaṣād, Kāmil (Principal); Nāyif, Aḥmad (Military officer); Farḥāt, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Srūr (Resistance leader); Ṣafwat, Ismāʻīl (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ibrāhīm, Surūr (Martyr); Qazmūz, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Martyr); Rinnū, Aḥmad Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Rinnū, Maḥmūd Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Political life under the British Mandate of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and settler colonialism in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 17:28)Table of contents: Expulsion from Haifa and hope of return. (@ 37:7)Table of contents: War events and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 49:39)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 65:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 11, 1997 with Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ al-Bashīr, male, born in 1934 in al-Ḥusaynīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Fāyiz; Ja‘far; al-Rawāshidah; al-Bashāyīrah; al-Ṭawāhirah; al-Rawābiḥah; al-‘Amāmirah.Significant figures: al-Kānūn, Aḥmad (Martyr); Jaʻfar, Raḥmah (Martyr); Fāyiz, Raḥmah (Martyr).Table of contents: Land purchase scheme in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 12:56)Table of contents: Violence, betrayal and expulsion. (@ 27:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1997 with Mudalalah ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Rīnāwī, female, born in 1937 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Khalaf; al-Naṣṣār.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Banāt Yaʻqūb (Maqām); Dayr Ḥannah (Convent); Dayr Ṣaffūrī (Convent).Significant figures: al-Rīnāwī, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Rīnāwī, Saʻīd (Martyr); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Ghuzz, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: History of Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule. (@ 14:29)Table of contents: Occupation of Ṣaffūrīyah and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 21:57)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 31:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 1, 1997 with Maryam al-Fayyāḍ Badrān, female, born in 1938 in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Naḥf.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Badrān, Qāsim (Resistance fighter); Badrān, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Badrān, Qāsim (Military officer); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Mayor).Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 21:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 13, 1997 with Muṣṭafá Maḥmūd Ṭāhā, male, born in 1929 in Shaʻb, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥamzah; Khaṭīb; Zaytūn; al-Asadīyah; Shaykh Muḥammad; Ḥusayn; Najjār.Significant figures: al-Ṭayyār, Musṭafá (Policeman); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Saʻīd Amīn (Policeman); Abū ʻAlī, Dhāhir (Martyr); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Resistance leader); Salīm, Kāyid Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥamzah, Muṣṭafá al-Ḥāj ‘Abd (Martyr); al-Ḥarāmī, Ḥasan (Wounded); Ṭarīf, Salmān (Shaykh); al-Shaykh Aḥmad, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Flayyih, Rashīd (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Politics and government during the British rule. (@ 13:0)Table of contents: Political turmoil and popular resistance in Shaʻb. (@ 24:59)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 31:46)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 38:44)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 47:51)Table of contents: Citizenship and identity. (@ 64:50)Table of contents: Refugees hope for the future. (@ 80:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 6, 1997 with Nādiyah Faḍḍah, female, born in 1927 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Biʼr al-‘Abd, Lebanon.Families: Staytīyah; al-ʻĀsī; Sursuq; Twaynī; Bayhum; al-‘Abdah; Jarrāḥ; Badr; al-Shuqayrī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Barclays bank (Bank); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Zaytūn (Mosque).Significant figures: Faḍḍah, Jihād (Resistance fighter); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Muwaqqiʻ, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Amīn, Muḥammad (School principal); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Leader); ‘Azzām, Samīrah (Journalist).Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity in the city. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 12:27)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 22:9)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 37:45)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion. (@ 46:51)Table of contents: Refugees in Lebanon. (@ 54:55)Table of contents: Experiences of Palestinian exile. (@ 70:43)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile from Palestine. (@ 83:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 7, 1997 with Nāyfah ʻAbd al-Tāyih, female, born in 1936 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Aleppo, Syria.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Mustashfá al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation); Bata (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh ‘Īsá (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); Mar Elias (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Ḍargham, Srūr (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Childhood and social conditions in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social dynamics in Haifa. (@ 13:44)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 22:13)Table of contents: War time and expulsion. (@ 31:3)Table of contents: Sufferance and death during the expulsion. (@ 41:13)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 54:34)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 69:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Nazmīyah Fatḥ Allāh, female, born in 1930 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Sirḥān.Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The exodus and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 9:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 24, 1997 with Nimir ‘Alī Miṣrī, male, born in 1929 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a driver with the British Army.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Haifa Port (Port); Akka port (Port).Significant figures: al-Ṣuluḥ, Adīb (Teacher); Qaṭṭān, Ḥabīb (School principal); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Abū Durrah, Abū al-‘Abd (Revolutionary leader); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); al-Ayyūbī, Najātī (Masyor); al-Ayyūbī, Najāt (Mayor); al-Sammān, Khiḍir (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Abū Ḥusayn (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Agricultural life in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 8:47)Table of contents: Political turmoil, military activity in the village. (@ 15:55)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in al-Ṭīrah. (@ 32:15)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military activity. (@ 41:9)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 47:34)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 59:57)Table of contents: War time, military occupation and exile. (@ 71:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Nūkhah Krayyim Ṭāhā, female, born in 1931 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Barr Elyas, Lebanon.Families: Sayyid; Wihbī; Ḥāmid; ʻIzz al-Dīn.Table of contents: Childhood and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in Saʻsaʻ . (@ 17:3)Table of contents: Communal celebrations. (@ 32:6)Table of contents: Social gathering and customs. (@ 50:44)Table of contents: War time and expulsion . (@ 57:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 24, with Walīd al-Ḥāj, male, born in 1940 in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAzzām; Shaḥrūr; ʻAjjāwī; al-Ḥāj; Sursuq; Salām.Significant figures: Abū ‘Ῑd, Khalīl (Village leader); Ḥammūd, Abū Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Aḥmad Ḥasan (Martyr); Khūrī, Farīd (Teacher).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Customs and community in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 20:22)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 27:44)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 46:47)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 54:45)Table of contents: Refugee life and isolation. (@ 64:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 23, 1997 with Yūsuf Muḥammad Yūsuf, male, born in 1923 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; Salām; al-As‘ad; Fā‘ūr; Arslān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Table of contents: Economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 7:47)Table of contents: Warfare and the forced departure from Palestine. (@ 12:33)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 21:31)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 32:30)