1. Interview with Jalāl As‘ad Ḥusayn

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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)

2. Interview with Khiḍr Darwīsh Skaynī

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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)

3. Interview with Amīnah Bashīr al-Mughrabī

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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)

4. Interview with Jabr Muḥammad Yūnus

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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)

5. Interview with SulaymānʻAbd al-Rāziq

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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)

6. Interview with ‘Alī Saʻīd al-Mughrabī

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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)

7. Interview with Farīd Fawzī al-Ṣāni‘

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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)

8. Interview with Muḥammad As‘ad al-Qiblāwī

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Biography: The interview was recorded on May 26, 1997 with Muḥammad As‘ad al-Qiblāwī, male, born in 1920 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; Twaynī; Bayḍūn; al-Mamlūk; Salām.Significant figures: al-Zuʻbī, Subḥī (Teacher); Abū ‘Awaḍ, Aḥmad Darwīsh (Revolutionary); Abū ‘Awaḍ, Sulaymān(Revolutionary); Qiblāwī, ‘Īsá Asʻad (Revolutionary); al-Yamanī, Maḥmūd (Revolutiionary); Shibl, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Judge); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Shatāt, Muḥammad Sa‘d (Resistance fighter); al-Dūkhī, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Ṭarābulsī, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Mughrabī, Salīm (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAlī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Survivor); al-Sa‘dī, Muṣṭafá (Vehicle driver); al-Dūkhī, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Shatāt, Muḥammad Sa‘d (Martyr)); Abū ‘Awaḍ, Aḥmad Darwīsh (Resistance leader); al-Anas, Sulaymān (Martyr); al-Ḥusayn, Maḥmūd ‘Abd al-Ḥafīẓ (Martyr); al-Qiblāwī, ‘Īsá As‘ad (Wounded); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmud (Resistance leader); al-Kāyid, Abū Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); Mūsá, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Shatāt, Muḥammad Sa‘d (Resistance leadre); al-ʻAbdullāh, ‘Aql Qāsim (Prisoner); al-Maṣrī, Ḥusayn (Policeman); al-Jayyūsī, Abū Akram (Policeman); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in al-Zīb. (@ 5:2)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 12:18)Table of contents: Political circumstances before Nakbah. (@ 17:45)Table of contents: The Zionist infiltration in Palestine during mandate . (@ 26:5)Table of contents: Land, defense and revolutionaries. (@ 35:34)Table of contents: Military occupation and clashes. (@ 43:40)Table of contents: Military operations and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 53:42)Table of contents: Refugee life and exile. (@ 66:38)Table of contents: Political and Social conditions in Palestine before Nakbah. (@ 77:31)Table of contents: Land, defense and revolutionaries. (@ 83:44)

9. Interview with Nimir ‘Alī Miṣrī

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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)