Biography: The interview was recorded on May 8, 2003 with Maḥmūd ʻAlī Abū Dāwūd, male, born in 1926 in Majd al-Kurūm, Palestine. He worked at a coffee shop then with the British army during World War II.Families: Qiblāwī; ‘Aṭāyā; al-Sa‘dī; al-Kayyāl; al-Zayyāt; al-Ghaḍbān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka Airport (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Shām Hotel (Hotel).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ Jinīn (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Barghūthī, Sayf al-Dīn (Teacher); Kitmitū, Ḥasan (Teacher); Faḍāyil, Ibrāhīm (Manager); Qaṭrān, Naʻīm (Doctor); al-Birjāwī, Abū Maḥmūd (Shoemaker); al-Birjāwī, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, Muṣṭafá (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, Nājī (British Army officer); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); ‘Aṭāyah, Abū Fāyiz (Revolutionary); ‘Aṭāyah , Nāyif (Revolutionary); Bishr, Kāmil (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-‘Abd, Ḥakam (Martyr); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); al-Faḍl, Fāyiz (Wounded); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd ‘Abd (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Yāsīn Aḥmad (Driver); al-Shwaylī, Abū Khiḍir (Officer); al-Bayyūmī, Muḥammad (Prisoner).Table of contents: Education and labor under British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions. (@ 16:16)Table of contents: Political situation under British mandate. (@ 32:59)Table of contents: Political activities during the Zionist occupation . (@ 44:22)Table of contents: Displacement and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 50:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 20, 2003 with ʻĪd Abū Huḍayb, male, born in 1917 in Baṣṣat al-Fāliq, Palestine.Families: Baydas; al-Jallād; al-Zubaydāt.Significant figures: Aḥmad al-Rudaysī (Prisoner); Yūnus, Abū Qandīl (Martyr); Khalīl, Abū Qandīl (Martyr); Aḥmad Saʻīd (Reporter).Table of contents: Childhood and socio-economic conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and trade . (@ 19:37)Table of contents: Social and cultural life at Baṣṣat al-Fāliq . (@ 24:44)Table of contents: Socio-political life at Baṣṣat al-Fāliq under the British rule. (@ 47:40)Table of contents: Economic hardships and resistance. (@ 63:5)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 83:6)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 102:42)
Biography: The Interview was recorded on January 18, 2003 with Qāsim Muḥammad Abū Jāmūs, male, born in 1924 in ʻAmqā, Palestine. He worked with British Army during World War II.Families: al-‘Akkī; al-Majẓūb; al-Shāmī; al-Sa‘īd; Salāmah; Tḥaybish; al-Muṣṭafá; Twaynī.Significant figures: al-Ḥusayn, Qāsim (Mayor); Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary Leader); Abū Jāmūs, Wahībah (Martyr).Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity during the British Mandate. (@ 0:45)Table of contents: Families and land in ʻAmqā. (@ 19:44)Table of contents: Battles and resistance. (@ 30:44)Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist occupation and displacement. (@ 39:39)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 62:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 2003 with Muḥammad Abū Raqabah, male, born in 1929 in Akka, Palestine. He was an Arab Salvation Army commander.Families: Ṭūqān; Shaqʻah; Nābulsī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Latin School (School); Kullīyat al-Najāḥ al-Waṭanī (School); al-Madrasah al-Ahlīyah al-Thānawīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Dayr al-Lātīn (Convent); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Mayor); al-ʻĪd, Sāmī (School principal); al-Naḥawī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥassūn, ʻAbdullāh (Teacher); Ṭūqān, Qadrī (Teacher); al-ʻAmad, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Jālī, Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter); Bushnāq, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Tawfīq, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Budayrī, Muṣbāḥ (Resistance fighter); Ḥaddād, ʻUthmān Jaʻfar (Resistance fighter); al-Khālidī, Ḥāzim (Officer); ʻAlī, Mufliḥ (Teacher); al-Hāshim, Ṭāhā (Arab Salvation Army commander); Salāmah, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ḥnayṭī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Lababīdī, Rafīq (Teacher); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Ṭabarī, Mūsá (Shaykh); Shuqayr, Shawkat (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jarbūʻ, Rashīd (Prisoner); al-ʻAẓm, Hishām (Prisoner).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and political life . (@ 10:20)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 37:32)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Akka, 1948 and imprisonment . (@ 54:58)Table of contents: Death of Amīn al-Ḥusaynī and final reflections
. (@ 72:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 18, 2003 with Kāmil Ṣāliḥ Abū Rashīd, male, born in Khirbat Jiddīn, Palestine.Families: Sursuq.Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); M‘addī, Jābir (Village leader); Farfaḥīnī, Abū Aḥmad (Poet); al-Ḍāhir, ‘Alī (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Social dynamics at a tribal community at Khirbat Jiddīn . (@ 0:14)Table of contents: Health and political conditions of ʻArab al-Suwayṭāt before and during the Zionist occupation . (@ 19:54)
Biography: The intrview was recorded on August 2, 2004 with Iftikār Abū Shullayḥ, female, born in 1936 in Jaffa, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Khalaf; al-Uqrum; al-Ramādī; Abū Samrā; al-Ghūl.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Rūbīn (Maqām).Significant figures: Khalaf, Khamīs (Martyr).Table of contents: Social history of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebration and traditions. (@ 12:15)Table of contents: Expulsion and right of return. (@ 30:10)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع حورية أبو الهنا، أنثى، ولدت عام 1939 في الطنطورة، فلسطين.Families: Salabūd; Ḥamdān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-al-Ṭanṭūrah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bujayrimī (Maqām); al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bujayrimī (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hindī, Dāwūd (Mayor); al-Hindī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ṭanṭūrī, Mūsá (Landowner); Abū al-Ḥanā, Faḍl (Martyr); Abū al-Hanā, Saʻūd (Prisoner); Abū al-Hanā, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Abū al-Hanā, Ḥusayn (Prisoner).Table of contents: Childhood and education . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 6:13)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 13:55)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion. (@ 21:17)Table of contents: al-Ṭanṭūrah Massacre, 1948 . (@ 37:43)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 50:19)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 63:7)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع زوجها محمود خليل الشيخ أحمد، ذكر، ولد عام 1926 في السميرية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: al-Amīn; Ḥamādah; Daʻbis; Twaynī.Significant figures: al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Mayor); Yūsuf, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Sulif, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Khaṭib, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Shanāʻah, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Cultural and rural life in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Cultural and social life in al-Sumayrīyah
. (@ 17:37)Table of contents: Zionist occupation, military attacks and Palestinian resistance. (@ 43:37)Table of contents: Continued warfare, violence and displacement. (@ 55:24)Table of contents: Resistance efforts and eventual exile. (@ 66:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 25, 2003 with ‘Awaḍ Aḥmad Abū al-Shabāb, male, born in 1933? in Saʻsaʻ.Families: Wihbī; Abū Shaykhah; Yāsīn; Fahd; ʻAzzām.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: ʻAzzām, Ḥāmid (Martyr); ʻAffāsh, Yāsīn (Martyr); ʻAffāsh, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Abū Ghunaym, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Sa‘īd, Maḥmūd (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 7:12)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 31:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 24, 2004 with Sa‘dah Ṣāliḥ Abū Ḥannā, female, born in 1926? in al-Raynah, Palestine.Families: al-Dabdūb; al-Ḥuways; al-ʻArrām; al-Kalash; Sillāwī; Abū Ḥannā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Catholic School (School); Orphanage School (School); Schneller School (School); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Rūm (Church); Abū Shūshah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥāṭūm, Kāmilah (Teacher).Table of contents: Childhood and hardships. (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Cultural and social life . (@ 11:18)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 22:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 17, 2003 with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Abū Ḥassān, male, born in 1931 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sayyid; Wihbah; Balʻūs; Abū Ḥassān; Khalīl; Abū al-Shabāb; al-Saʻīd; Azzām; Yassīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sittī Nafīsah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥusaynī, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Teacher); Bashīr, ‘Ādil (Teacher); Bal‘ūs, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Landowner); ‘Ayzak, Abū Ibrāhīm Zaydān (Mayor); al-Shawīsh, Muḥammad (Wounded); Wākid, Abdū (Vehicle driver); Azzām, Fahd (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and socio-economic life in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 12:49)Table of contents: Agriculture and economic measures. (@ 23:39)Table of contents: Families and land in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 38:27)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations and marriage customs. (@ 43:16)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 53:2)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 61:47)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Sa'sa'. (@ 90:28)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 97:59)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 114:58)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 130:3)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 146:7)Table of contents: Return to Palestine. (@ 160:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ʻAbdullāh Abū Ṣahyūn on February 23, 2003, male, born in 1932 in Akka, Palestine.Table of contents: Childhood memories and education in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and Zionist invasion. (@ 8:27)Table of contents: Zionist invasion, imprisonment, and expulsion. (@ 20:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 24, 2003 with ‘Abdullāh Ḥamīd Abū Ṣahyūn, male, born in 1931 in Akka, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Palestine Electric Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Ḥannā, George (Teacher); al-Naḥawī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Abū Ṣahyūn, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Mayor); ‘Aṣfūr, Ḥannā (Lawyer); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); al-Khāzin, Adīb (Doctor); al-Lūwaysī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Abū ‘Arqūb, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Khraybī, Rajā (Resistance fighter); al-Ṣīdānī, Tawfīq (Prisoner); al-Zīdānī, ‘Abd al-Majīd (Prisoner).Table of contents: Family history and tracing thieves . (@ 0:29)Table of contents: Economic conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 12:2)Table of contents: Land tenure,Tribes and tribal system. (@ 25:59)Table of contents: Tribal community characteristics. (@ 33:12)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity . (@ 46:57)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine after Nakbah. (@ 54:52)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 66:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 2003 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Abū ‘Adas, male, born in 1924 in al-Mujaydil, Palestine. He worked with the Police during the British Mandate.Families: Sursuq; al-Lawābinah; Abū Khamīs; Wākid; Maṣāl; Sūṭarī; al-Khūrī; al-Buṭruṣ; Ṣalībā; Abū Dāwūd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Mujaydil (School); Ramat David (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū ʻAdas, Maḥmūd (Prisoner); Sūṭarī, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Sulaymān, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-Ghāzī, Muṭlaq Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Aḥmad, Tawfīq (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); Kassāb, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Martyr); ʻĪsá, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sulaymān, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Badīʻ, Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū ʻAzārah, Nāyif (Martyr); Samārah, Yūsuf (Martyr); Dabbūr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-ʻAbd, Dīb Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Mbadā, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Professions and employment . (@ 21:25)Table of contents: Political activity during the British rule. (@ 30:25)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in Palestine. (@ 42:55)Table of contents: Zionist attacks and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 67:38)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 89:22)Table of contents: Final reflections. (@ 111:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded in April 7, 2006 with Salīmah Abū ‘Assāf, female, born in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al- Aswad; Ḥajῑr; Abū Dāhish; Abū al-Durrah; Kaʻwash; Khuwaytar; Zamzam; Abu Manhal; Darrāz; al-ʻArīḍ; Yazbik; al-Jamal.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Burj (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Hindῑ (School); Madrasat al-Sibā‘ῑ (School).Significant figures: Abū ‘Assāf, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Abū ‘Assāf, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Resistance fighter); al-Durrah, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻAsfūr, Ḥannā (Lawyer).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in Haifa during the British Mandate . (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Political dynamics during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 20:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 22, 2004 with Ḥusayn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm Abū ‘Ayyāsh, male, born in 1921 in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine.Families: Abū Rās; ʻAwaḍ Allāh; Abū Juwayyid; ʻAbbūd.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Lūṭ (Maqam).Significant figures: al-Aḥmad, Ḥasan al-Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Ṣaltī, Nāyif (Revolutionary leader); al-Sulaymān, ʻAwaḍ (Revolutionary leader); ʻAbd al-Khalīl, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ṭāhā (Martyr); al-ʻᾹmūd, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Saʻīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); ʻAbd al-ʻAlī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, Salīm Muḥammad (Disappeared person); al-‘Awdah, ‘Alī (Disappeared person); al-‘Alī, ‘Awaḍ (Disappeared person).Table of contents: Childhood life at ʻAylūṭ. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 7:38)Table of contents: British colonialism and political life. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: Battles and Palestinian mass murder . (@ 41:45)Table of contents: Expulsion from ʻAylūṭ during 1948
. (@ 64:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 7, 2004 with ‘Alyā Michael Ajwaḥ, female, born in 1930 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in Ḍbayyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bannā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Chatholic School (School).Significant figures: al-Rayyīs, Bishārah (Mayor); Jadʻūn, Najlā (Martyr); al-Shuwayrī, Salīm (Martyr); al-Ḥāṣbānī, Jiryis (Survivor).Table of contents: Social life in al-Baṣṣah . (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 25:6)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 34:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded in March 24, 2006 with Maryam Maḥmūd Asʻad, female, born in Fārah, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Ṣāliḥ; Khalīl; Maḥmūd; al-As‘ad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Nāyif (Mayor); al-Maḥmūd, ‘Abdullāh (Coffeehouse owner).Table of contents: Social life and events practices in Fārah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in Fārah during the Zionist occupation and expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 23:11)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع زوجته مريم محمود، أنثى، ولدت عام 1932 في دلاّته، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنانFamilies: Ḥlayḥil.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); Shaykh Ismāʻīl (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām); Shaykh Ismā‘īl (Maqām).Significant figures: Shanā‘ah, Yūsuf (Martyr); ‘Awaḍ, Qāsim Muḥammad (Teacher); ‘Uthmān, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Maḥmūd, Khālid (Musician); Aḥmad, Ḥasan (Musician); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm (Musician); al-Qāsim, Ḥasan (Martyr); Jdīd, Ghassān (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Education and everyday life in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Social conditions in Dallātah during the British rule. (@ 12:28)Table of contents: War time and the exodus. (@ 32:55)Table of contents: Political conditions and Community life . (@ 46:37)Table of contents: Political turmoil, resistance and military activity. (@ 59:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 74:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 9, 2004 with Wazīrah Ayyūb, female, born in Dallātah, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp Lebanon.Families: ʻAbdallāh; Ayyūb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Naṭṭāḥ, (Maqām).Significant figures: Qāsim, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-ʻAlī, Ḥasan Ḥusayn (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood in Dallātah. (@ 0:53)Table of contents: Social and cultural life . (@ 10:7)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 24:17)Table of contents: Disputes and battles with the Zionists. (@ 28:45)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 34:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 10, 2004 with Aḥmad Sulaymān Aḥmad, male, born in 1926 in Dayshūm, Palestine.Families: Nūḥ; Sulaymān; Mizyān; al-Mārdīnī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ḥanīyah (Maqām); Ḥanīyah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hādī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Rabīʻ, ʻAbd al-Rahīm (Prisoner); al-Salīm, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Nāyif (Martyr); Mizyān, al-Hādī ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Nūḥ, Abū ʻUmar (Martyr); Ṣāliḥ, Sa‘īd Muḥammad (Wounded); Shaʻbān, ʻUmar (Martyr); Abū Waddū, Ṣālih (Martyr); Ḥaddād, Saʻīd (Martyr); Ṣālih, Sa‘īd Muḥammad (Wounded).Table of contents: Social life and customs in Dayshūm. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 12:57)Table of contents: Agriculture and land ownership in Dayshūm. (@ 21:31)Table of contents: Customs and traditions. (@ 30:13)Table of contents: Military activity and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 40:6)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 60:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 2003 with Fāṭimah Ḥusayn Aḥmad, female, born in 1930? in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine.Families: al-Nāṭūr; al-Ḥanafī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Akka (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Khiḍir, Ḥasan (Landowner); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Landowner); al-Ḥamdān, Fāris (Landowner); al-Jammāl, Ḥasan (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life and customs in Khirbat al-Kasāyir . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ceremonies and practices in Khirbat al-Kasāyir . (@ 10:40)Table of contents: Resisting occupation in Khirbat al-Kasāyir
. (@ 23:15)Table of contents: Violence, battles and expulsion. (@ 35:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 5, 2003 with Maḥmūd Aḥmad, male, born in 1925 in al-Manshīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a soldier with the British Armed Forces during World War II.Significant figures: Mirʻī, Yūsuf (Martyr); Kāmil, Salīm (Political leader).Table of contents: Agriculture and Palestinian land sale . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural life and Palestinian songs. (@ 24:14)Table of contents: Arabic poetry . (@ 51:44)Table of contents: Employment in the British army. (@ 56:14)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939 . (@ 73:26)Table of contents: The events leading to the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 82:19)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine . (@ 104:24)Table of contents: Imprisonment and killing the Palestinians. (@ 125:10)Table of contents: Revolutionary, folk, and wedding songs. (@ 139:34)Table of contents: Reunion with the family in exile. (@ 146:50)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 166:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 23, 2003 with Ḥafīẓah Ḥamādah Aḥmad, female, born in 1929? in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAbd al-Ghanī; Maṭar; Qays; Abbās; Ayyūb; ‘Abbās.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aḥmadīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Rabīʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: Khāzin, Adīb (Doctor); Dāhish, Jabr (Village leader).Table of contents: Agricultural life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 12:2)Table of contents: Political activity during the British rule. (@ 35:55)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 44:44)Table of contents: Refugee life and exile. (@ 51:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 23, 2006 with Fāṭimah Maḥmūd Badr, female, born in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Fahd; Ḥammūd; al-Baytam; ‘Abd al-ʻĀl; Fahid.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dāwūd (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionist); al-‘Uthmān, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥammīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Aḥmad,‘Abdullāh (Martyr); Badr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of al-Shaykh Dāwūd and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 15:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2003 with Kāmil Aḥmad Bal‘āwī, male, born in 1928 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-‘Anabtāwī, ‘Alī (Teacher); al-Khaḍrah, Samīr (Teacher); al-Nāṣir, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Sharār, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Ḥusayn, Ḥasan (Village leader); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad Nimir (Resistance leader); ‘Awaḍ, Aḥmad ‘Awaḍ (Revolutionary); Abū al-ʻUlá, Khiḍir (Resistance fighter); Yāsīn, Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter); Abū Ibrāhīm, Abū Ibrāhīm Khalīl (Resistance leader); ʻAḍm, Hishām (Arab Salvation Army Commander); Ḥūrānī, Akram (Resistance fighter); al-Shīshaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Sarrāj, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Ḥassūn, Yūsuf (Poet); Ḥassūn,Yūsuf (Poet).Table of contents: Social conditions at Shafā ʻAmrū during the British Mandate. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics at Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 13:57)Table of contents: Religious and cultural identity of Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 25:36)Table of contents: Social life and customs. (@ 36:25)Table of contents: Political dynamics after the British mandate . (@ 43:16)Table of contents: War events and the Zionist invasion . (@ 52:57)Table of contents: Nakba consequences. (@ 88:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 21, 2004 with Aḥmad Khalīl Bashīr, male, born in 1926 in al-Sumayrīyah.Families: al-Amīn; al-Gharīb; Yūsuf; Ka‘mūsh; al-Bunnī; Sirrīyah; Ḥamādah; ‘Awaḍ; Ismā‘īl; al-Khaṭīb; ‘Abd al-Raḥīm; Sursuq; Twaynī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Yūsuf (Maqām).Significant figures: Bāb Allāh, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Ḥamādah (Village leader); al-Dīrāwī, Sa‘īd (Poet); al-Ṣayāḥ, Aḥmad (Doctor); Qaṭrān, Na‘īm (Doctor); al-Ismā‘īl, Mūsá (Revolutionary); Bāb Allāh, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); Ḥulayḥil, Mūsá (Revolutionary); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Khaṭīb, Sa‘īd (Martyr); Laymūnah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Shanā‘ah, Muṣṭafá (Revolutionary); al-Khaṭīb, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd (Wounded).Table of contents: Rural life and agriculture in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Political turbulence, warfare, and expulsion
. (@ 35:55)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 61:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 6, 2004 with Khalīl Bayyūk, male, born in al-Ramlah, Palestine and resides in al-Ḥamrā, Lebanon.Families: Salāmah; al-Rifāʻī; al-Sūsū; al-Kuṭṭī; Zabānī; Sallām; al-Zughalī; al-Ḥusaynī; al-Fār; al-Billī; Kishhīk.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Saint Joseph School (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Dayr al-Lātīn (Convent).Table of contents: Education and childhood memories. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Social and community life . (@ 13:29)Table of contents: Political conditions and Expulsion from al-Ramlah. (@ 28:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 10, 2004 with Ibrāhīm Khalīl Biqāʻī, male, born in 1930 in al-Wayzīyah, Palestine.Families: ʻUthmān; Misʻid; ʻUmar; Yūnus: al-Ḥāj; al-Biqā‘ī; Barakī; Jirjis.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Firʻim (School).Significant figures: Abū Raḥmah, ʻAwaḍ (Shaykh); ʻIzz al-Dīn, Kāmil (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Ḥalīl, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); ʻUmar, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); Yūnus, Muṣṭafá al-Aḥmad (Mayor); Yūnus, Fayyāḍ (Revolutionary); al-Shaykh Maḥmūd, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Revolutionary); Ṭabrī, Fūʼād (Doctor); al-Ḥāj, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and cultural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social conditions and community life . (@ 13:24)Table of contents: Harassment of Mughr al-Khayṭ during the Arab revolt. (@ 32:18)Table of contents: Battles and war events . (@ 37:6)Table of contents: British Army withdrawal and Zionist occupation. (@ 57:1)Table of contents: Expulsion from Mughr al-Khayṭ. (@ 64:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 18, 2006 with Mūsá ʻAli Birjāwī, male, born in 1929 in Hūnīn, Palestine and resides in Dayr al-Zahrānī, Lebanon.Families: Shaḥrūr; Birjāwī; Ḥudruj; Ma‘tūq.Significant figures: al-Shuqayrī, Aḥmad (Lawyer); al-Asʻad, Aḥmad (Leader); Shaḥrūr, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and political dynamics in Hūnīn. (@ 0:42)Table of contents: Political conditions in Hunīn during the British rule and Zionist occupation. (@ 30:47)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon and Jordan. (@ 41:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 7, 2004 with Ibrāhīm Maḥmūd Blaybil, male, born in 1920 in Ṭayṭabāh, Palestine. He worked as a foreman with the British Army during World War II and then as a teacher.Families: Sulaymān; Shanā‘ā, Blaybil; al-Rifā‘ī; al-Sa‘dī; Dahshih; ʻAlī Qāsim; al-‘Ajjāwī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Khaḍūrī al-Zirā‘īyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Tapline (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, Ḥamādah (Shaykh); al-Nabhānī, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); al-Zanānīrī, Jamīl (Public officer); Khalīfah, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Ṭaʻān, ‘Abd al-Karīm (School principal); al-Rifāʻī, Khālid al-Ḥusayn (Mayor); Sha‘th, ‘Alī (School principal); Dahshih, Abū ‘Aṭā (Revolutionary); Blaybil, Abū Fu’ād (Martyr); al-Sa‘dī, al-‘Abd (Martyr); Nīsān, Sālim (Trader); al-Rifāʻī, Khālid (Martyr); al-Rashīd, ‘Īsá (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education and political conditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Study and teaching during the British Mandate. (@ 17:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions under the British Mandate . (@ 36:0)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 56:25)Table of contents: War time and political occupation. (@ 68:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 17, 2003 with Muḥammad Qāsim Dahshah, male, born in 1924 in Ṭayṭabā, Palestine. He was a policeman.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Mazār (Maqām); al-Rifā’īyah (Maqām).Significant figures: Saʻīd, Sulaymān (Policeman); Nīsān, Salīm (Trader).Table of contents: Employment and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The village of Ṭayṭabā
. (@ 15:54)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Gaza. (@ 26:10)Table of contents: Political turmoil and revolutionaries during the British rule. (@ 34:6)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and Palestinian expulsion. (@ 48:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 25, 2003 with Zahīyah Yūsuf Dakwar, female, born in 1925? in Qaddītā, Palestine.Families: Ḥulayḥil; Ḥamzah; Shanāʻah; Dakwar; Kaʻwash; Yūnus; Ḥamad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Buṭmī (Maqām); al-Shaykh ʻAlī (Maqām); al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām); al-Mashārif (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥulayḥil, Abū Saʻīd (Shaykh); Dakwar, Salīm (Mayor); Dakwar, ʻAlī (Mayor); Ḥamzah, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Ḥittīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Qaddītā. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories and education. (@ 8:2)Table of contents: Community and family life in the village. (@ 13:58)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion . (@ 35:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥusayn Maḥmūd Dakwar, male, born in 1910? in Qaddītā, Palestine.Families: Ḥlayḥil.Significant figures: Abū Rayyā, Maryam (Martyr).Table of contents: Rural conditions in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Arab Revolt during the British rule. (@ 12:33)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion to lebanon. (@ 23:17)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 36:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Darwīsh, male, born in 1917 in al-Birwah, Palestine. He worked as policeman with the British authorities.Families: Darwīsh; al-Kayyāl; Hawwāsh; ‘Alī Dīb; al-Zāyid; Khūrī; al-Shuqayrī; al- Saʻdī; Ḥbayshī; Sursuq; Qūwwatlī; al-‘Aḍm; Salām; Dabbāḥ.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa International Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabi Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Masjid al-Aqṣà (Mosque).Significant figures: Naḥfāwī, Ḥasan (Shaykh); al-Barghūtī, Nāyif (Military officer); Abū Zayid, Nājī (Military officer); al-Shuqayrī, Aḥmad (Lawyer); al-Dīb, Shafīq (Trader); Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥmayyid, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Ḥmayyid, Qāsim (poet); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-‘Abdullāh, Najīb (Revolutionary leader); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Jūdī, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); Hawwāsh, Yaḥyá (Revolutionary); Sulṭānah, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā (Revolutionary); Darwīsh, Shafīq (Chief justice); Bashir, ʻĀbid (Revolutionary leader); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); Bayḍūn, ʻIṣām (Doctor); al-Khūrī, Salīm (Doctor).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in al-Birwah under British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and political activity in Akka during British mandate. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: The British measures towards the Arab revolution. (@ 32:34)Table of contents: al-Birwah battle events and the expulsion to Lebanon
. (@ 51:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 25, 2003 with Aḥmad Dawāymah, male, born in 1922 in Yibnah, Palestine.He worked in Pasta Manufacture during the British mandate.Families: al-Dawāynī; al-Khūrī; al-Māḍī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Pasta Manufacture (Corporation); Haifa Cigarette Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Juraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: Ṣafadī, Sāmī (Tailor); al-Khaṭīb, Nimir (Shaykh); Murād, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Shaykh); Naffāʻ, Yūnus (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood memories in Ijsim. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and interreligious marriage. (@ 12:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 23:18)Table of contents: Political turmoil, battles and military occupation. (@ 46:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from Haifa. (@ 55:24)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile. (@ 73:36)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Qasim Muḥammad Dirbāj, male, born in 1925 in Qadas, Palestine.Families: Mārdīnī; al-Mārdīnī; Bazzī; Farḥāt; Kinyār; Dirbaj; al-Sūqīyah; ‘Īsá.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām); Umm Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Dʹhaynī, ʻAbdullāh (Shaykh); Dirbāj, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Sūqīyah,ʻAqlah (Mayor); Khanāfir, Saʻīd (Village leader); al-Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Village leader); Khalīl, Ḥasan (Wounded); al-As‘ad, Aḥmad (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Dirbāj, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter leader); Ḥusayn, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Kinyār, Muḥammad Qāsim (Resistance fighter); al-‘Abd, Qāsim (Wounded); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-As‘ad, Aḥmad (Leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in the villagwe. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Land and identity in Palestine. (@ 8:59)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics during the British rule. (@ 25:40)Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 32:27)Table of contents: Marriage celebrations in Palestine. (@ 42:14)Table of contents: Community life in Qadas. (@ 53:38)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity in the village. (@ 59:44)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 69:7)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 81:13)Table of contents: Military occupation and hopes for the future. (@ 93:30)
Biography: Biiography: The interview was recorded on October 1, 2003 with Qāsim Muḥammad Dyāb, male, born in 1920? in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā, Palestine.Significant figures: al-‘Ajāj, Muḥammad (Tribe leader); Nakhlah, Jamīl (Village leader); Ṣghayyir, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Village leader); al-Mūsá, Dyāb (Revolutionary); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Weapon trader); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad (Landowner).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 13:39)Table of contents: Community life in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā. (@ 26:25)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity . (@ 42:11)Table of contents: Displacement and the journey of expulsion . (@ 64:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Laṭīfah Dīb, female,born in ʻAkbarah, Palestine.Families: Maʻārī; Mukhtār.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh ‘Alī (Maqām); Shaykh Salāmah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥlayḥil, Ḥasan (Musician); al-Aḥmad, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Nājī, Mūsà (Revolutionary); Abū Qāsim, Ḥayāt (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusaynī, Yūsuf (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions at ʻAkbarah. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Political activity at ʻAkbarah during the British Mandate. (@ 22:49)Table of contents: British policy towards the villagers and revolutionists. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 50:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 28, 2006 with Muḥammad Mūsà D‘aybis, male, born in 1934 in Qadas, Palestine and resides in al-Anṣārīyah, Lebanon.Families: al-Mārdīnī; Bazzī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Table of contents: Social and economic dynamics in Qadas. (@ 0:12)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion. (@ 8:8)
Biography: This interview was recorded on May 13, 2004 with Nāyif D‘aybis, female, born in 1931? in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-ʻAjjāwī; Shaḥrūr; ʻAzzām; Ḥajjāj; Sulaymān.Significant figures: ʻAql, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Sulaymān, Aḥmad Muḥammad (Mayor); Ghannām, ʻAbdullāh (Poet).Table of contents: Agriculture and community life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding tradiotions and customs. (@ 30:8)Table of contents: Expulsion from ʻAlmā . (@ 59:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 28, 2005 with George Bāsīl Farrāj, male, born in 1924 in Jerusalem, Palestine and resides in Beirut, Lebanon. He worked as a chief secretary of the British high commissioner office during the mandate.Families: Ghunaym, Ṭannūs; al-Jūrī; Mushabbak.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Waṭaniyyah al-Urthūduksiyyah (School); Madrasat al-Muṭrān (School); Madrasat al-Ummah (School); Saint George's School (School); Bishop Gobat School (School); Terra Santa School (School); Madrasat Ṣahyūn (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Qiyāmah (Church); Mār Yaʻqūb (Church); Mār Jirjis (Church).Significant figures: Ḥarāmī, Shukrī (Teacher); Farrāj, ʻĪsá (Martyr); al-Ṭubbī, Michel (Mayor); Abū Shanab, Maḥfūẓ (Club director); Daʻdis, Shafīq (Club director).Table of contents: Childhood memories in Jerusalem. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic and political conditions before Nakba. (@ 7:52)Table of contents: Children's activities in Palestine . (@ 14:2)Table of contents: Political conditions in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 22:17)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 27:19)
Biography: وتقيم في مخيم شاتيلا للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shaʻbān.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Waḥsh, Shaykhah (Dressmaker).Table of contents: Families and social customs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Everyday life and political activity in Majd al-Kurūm. (@ 11:38)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and fleeing from Palestine. (@ 19:52)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine . (@ 29:51)Table of contents: Childhood and family life. (@ 34:56)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and community life. (@ 46:40)Table of contents: Marriage and family relations. (@ 63:26)Table of contents: Social gatherings and customs. (@ 73:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 3, 2003, with ʻĀʼishah Muḥammad Farḥāt, female, born in 1922 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Tal al-Zaʻtar Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She was a dressmaker.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ṣiḍḍīq, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Khiḍir, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ṭāhir, Faḍīl (Resistance fighter); Abū ʻAṭīyah, Darwīsh (Resistance fighter); al-Mughrabī, Abū Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Customs and society in Hawshah . (@ 0:23)Table of contents: Social relations and community celebrations. (@ 17:20)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Hawshah. (@ 39:36)Table of contents: Continued warfare and expulsion from Hawshah. (@ 57:54)Table of contents: Displacement and refugee life. (@ 80:39)Table of contents: Return to Palestine . (@ 97:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 25, 2004 with Ḥamīd Frayj, male, born in 1920 in al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī, Palestine. He was a soldier in the Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces.Families: al-Shihābī; Ghulmīyah; Francis.Significant figures: al-Qāsim, Ḥammūd (Teacher); al-Dakhīl, Shiḥādah (Mayor); al-Yūsuf, Khalaf (Village leader); Zayn, Muḥammad Salīm (Public officer); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Leader); al-Ḥāj, Muṣliḥ (Musician); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbdū (Musician); al-Ḥmayyid, Muṣṭafá (Musician).Table of contents: Childhood memories and hardships
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and economical conditions. (@ 11:36)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Palestinian Jewish relations during the zionist invasion of Palestine. (@ 40:34)Table of contents: Attack, popular resistance and exile. (@ 54:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 5, 2003 with Ṭālibah Fuḍḍah, female, born in Suḥmātā, Palestine.Families: Qaddūrah; ʻAbd al-Wahhāb; al-Jishshī; Zaydān; Faʻūr.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Iraqi Pipeline Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm (Maqām); Sit Naʻaymīyah (Maqām); Sit al-Zāwiyah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ṣāliḥ, Maḥmūd (Mayor); al-Jawdah, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Ḥamzah, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Abū al-Hayjah, Kāyiḥ (Martyr); Jamīl, Sa‘īd (Policeman); Fiḍḍah, Ṭālib (Policeman); al-Jishshī ,Maḥmūd (Landowner); Zaydān, Asʻad (Landowner); Abū Ibrāhīm; Fawzī (Resistance fighter); Ḥamzah, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Abū al-Hayjā, Kāyid (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Maḥmūd Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Bakhītah, Ibn Yūsuf (Martyr); al-ʻArrābī, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Agriculture and social customs in Suḥmātā . (@ 0:21)Table of contents: Cultural and religious practices in Suḥmātā. (@ 21:18)Table of contents: Political turmoil, military attacks and Palestinian resistance. (@ 44:55)Table of contents: Military occupation of Majd al-Kurūm. (@ 73:26)Table of contents: Palestinian refugee experience . (@ 87:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 20, 2003 with Fāṭimah Ibrāhīm Fāris, female, born in Shaʻb, Palestine.Significant figures: Ḥassūn, Yūsuf (Poet); Shaḥin, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and growing up in Palestine. (@ 0:08)Table of contents: Cultural and social life . (@ 6:28)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 27:8)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine . (@ 37:12)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and final reflections . (@ 53:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad ʻAbd al- Ḥāmid Fāris on May 21, 2003, male, born in 1921 in al-Zīb, Palestine. He worked with the British Army forces.Families: Sirḥān; al-Saʻdī; ʻAṭāyā; ‘Aṭāyā.Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, Fatḥ Allāh (Shaykh); al-Majdalāwī, Saʻd (Poet); al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Landowner); al-Saʻdī, Muṣṭafá (Land owner); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Jammāl, Aḥmad (Guard); Fāris, Salīm ‘Alī (Martyr); ʻAwaḍ, Sulaymān Mūsá (Revolutionary); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Yamanī, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); al-Qiblāwī, Abū Mūsá (Revolutionary); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Baytam, Rufayyiḍ (Revolutionary leader); al-Mughrabī, Abū ‘Āṭif (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:30)Table of contents: Cultural and political life at al-Zīb
. (@ 13:24)Table of contents: Work and cultural life. (@ 38:43)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and Battles . (@ 52:20)Table of contents: Bitterness of exile and hope of return. (@ 66:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 24, 2004 with Ṣāliḥ Fāyiz, male, born in 1928 in Balad al-Shaykh, Palestine.Families: ʻAbbūdī; al-Aḥmad; al-Mashāyikh.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Sahel (Maqām).Significant figures: Jarrāḥ, Shafīq (Teacher); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); al-Rīnāwī, Ṭawfīq (Poet); Khuraybish, Ṣāliḥ (Poet); al-Kharasānī, Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); al-Manāṣfī, ʻAlī (Martyr); Yūsuf, ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Manṣūr, Yūsuf (Revolutionary leader); Nāyif, Aḥmad (Policeman).Table of contents: Childhood and employment. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Community life and beliefs. (@ 20:45)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 31:51)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 51:14)Table of contents: Battles and Zionist occupation of Palestine . (@ 60:8)Table of contents: Expulsion from Balad al-Shaykh. (@ 71:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 2004 with ‘Uthmān Aḥmad Fā‘ūr, male, born in 1920 in Firʻim, Palestine and resides in Saʻdnāyil, Lebanon. He was a trader.Landmarks-Public Institutions: ʻᾹqir (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Scots College (School).Significant figures: ʻAllām, Niyāzī (Teacher); Mirʻī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn (Nurse); ʻUthmān, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-ʻAwdah, Sulaymān (Shaykh); al-ʻUthmān, Salīm (Village leader); Manṣūr, Muḥammad (Trader); ʻAbdullāh, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary leader); ʻAwdah, Yūsuf (Revolutionary leader); al-Zayn, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); ʻUthmān, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); ʻAwdah, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Education and trade. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in Firʻim . (@ 27:20)Table of contents: Firʻim during the Arab revolt 1936-1939 and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 46:32)Table of contents: Firʻim during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 62:59)
Biography: Biogarphy: This interview was recorded on August 20, 2003 with Nufaylah Muḥammad Fā‘ūr, female, born in 1933? in ʻArab al-Samnīyah, Palestine.Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Nāyif (Mayor).Table of contents: Everyday life and social customs in Tarshīḥā . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions, resistance and exile. (@ 30:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 25, 2003 with Kalthūm Ghannām, female, born in 1923? in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine.Families: Abū Shawwāṭah; Abū ʻĪsá.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shyakh Rabī‘ah (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Khūrī, Ḥannā (Doctor); al-Zāwih, Samīrah (Doctor); Ghannām, Asʻad (Resistance fighter); Dirbās, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Rural life in al-Ṭīrah and land appropriation . (@ 0:18)Table of contents: Cultural life at al-Ṭīrah
. (@ 12:5)Table of contents: Political conditions and Zionist invasion of al-Ṭīrah
. (@ 37:39)Table of contents: Betrayal, expulsion, and suffering. (@ 53:32)Table of contents: Exile and longing . (@ 76:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 1, 2005 with Maḥmūd Ghaḍbān, male, born in 1926 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nur Safety Match (Corporation).Significant figures: al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary); al-Baytam, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); al-Baytam, Fayyāḍ (Revolutionary); al-Wāwī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Iskandar, Khalīl (Village leader); Iskandar, ‘Alī (Village leader); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Village leader); al-Baytam, Fayyāḍ (Revolutionary leader); Abū Ghanī, Fāyiz (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Political turmoil during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War events and Zionist occupation . (@ 14:54)Table of contents: Military occupation and Palestinian resistance . (@ 27:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 18, 2006 with Ammūn Aḥmad Ghunaym, female, born in 1930? in al-Jish, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Dīb; Ruḥaymī; Shāhīn; Nimir.Significant figures: ‘Aql, Atanās (Teacher); al-Khaṭīb, Nājīyah (Martyr); Fahdī, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Socical dynamics in al-Jish. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 18:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16,2003 with ‘Abdullāh Mir‘ī Hambūz,male, born in 1920 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Jamāl; Kan‘ān; al-Khūrī; Fraywāt; Mamlūk; al-As‘ad; Sursuq; al-Bannā.Significant figures: Ḥammād, Muḥammad (Martyr); Fraywāt, Mīkhā’īl (Resistance fighter); Kanʻān, Zakī (Resistance fighter); Kanʻān, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Resistance fighter); al-Jamal, Rashīd (Resistance fighter); al-Jamāl, Fāyiz (Resistance fighter); al-Nābulsī, ‘Abd al-Ḥay (Resistance fighter); Fraywāt, Buṭrus (Village leader).Table of contents: Community life in ʻArab al-Ṭūqīyah
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: ʻArab al-Ṭūqīyah's community and customs
. (@ 12:55)Table of contents: Marriage and familial customs. (@ 17:28)Table of contents: Political events from 1936-1948. (@ 21:48)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 29:20)Table of contents: War time and military occupation
. (@ 49:51)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 61:34)Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 67:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 22, 2006 with Ṣafīyah Hilāl, female, born in al-Manshīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū ‘Atābā (Maqām).Table of contents: Social life in al-Manshīyah. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: Political dynamics during the Zionist invasion in al-Manshīyah and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 10, 2003 with Ibrāhīm Khalīl Ibrāhīm, male,born in 1929 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine.Families: Ḥasan; Shiḥādah; al-Ghaḍbān; Ibrīq; Twaynī; Sham‘aah; Qūwatlī; Salām.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: Shiḥādah, Ḥalīm (School principal); al-Jishshī, Muḥammad Rāghib (Teacher); Niyāzī, Rif‘at (Teacher); Mzīghīṭ, Sāmī (Teacher); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Mayor); Fāris, Rujina (Midwife); al-Shiblī, Shaykhah (Midwife); al-Ḥāj ʻAlī, Ḥasan (Circumcisor); al-Dīb, Elias (Doctor).Table of contents: Social history of the village . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socioeconomic life during the British rule in Kuwaykāt. (@ 11:54)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 24:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 25, 2004 with Luṭfīyah Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1928? in Safad, Palestine.Families: al-Khiḍir; al-Naḥawī; Rustum.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Saʻīd (Maqām); Abu Qamīṣ (Maqām); Banāt Yaʻqūb (Maqām); al-Sit Zaynab (Maqām); al-Ṣiḍḍīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Mirʻī, Shiḥādah (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and conduct of life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural life and religious beliefs . (@ 10:31)Table of contents: Social life and cultural customs . (@ 21:52)Table of contents: Zionist harrasment and expulsion from Palestine during 1948. (@ 37:40)Table of contents: Final reflections on refugee experience. (@ 60:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 4, 2003 with Sumayyah Aḥmad Ismā‘īl, female, born in 1936 in al-Kābrī, Palestine and resides in Beirut, Lebanon.Families: Qaddūrah; al-Sal‘ūs; Dabājah; Hāshim; ‘Aṭif; Sirḥān.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Leader); al-Ṣafadī, Abū al-’Abd (Mayor); Farfaḥīnī, Dīb (Poet); al-Shabaṭī, ’Īsá (Martyr); al-Anas, Sulaymān (Martyr); Salīm, Yūsuf (Trader); al-Duqqī, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Ḥasan, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Kallās, Khalīl (Arab Salvation Army commander); Abū Shāwir, Rashād (Writer); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Marwān (Writer).Table of contents: Agriculture, families and social relations in al-Kābrī. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding customs and celebrations. (@ 14:46)Table of contents: Family life and child care. (@ 27:59)Table of contents: Village life and communal gatherings . (@ 39:54)Table of contents: Political activity and interreligious relations. (@ 50:14)Table of contents: War time, battles and displacement. (@ 72:35)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 86:39)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 98:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 16, 2004 with Meli Ḥannā Isḥāq, female, born in 1925 in Jerusalem, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Saint Francis (Club); Saint Anthony (Club); Golf Club (Club); Orthodox Club (Club); Young Men Christian Association (Library).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat Rahbāt Ṣahyūn (School); Schmidt's Girls College (School); Jerusalem Girls' College (School); Christian Missionary Society (Hospital); Nun Pollad (Hospital); Bayt Laḥm (Hospital); Augusta Victoria (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Holy Saviour (Church); Sœurs de Marie Réparatrice (Church); Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church); Haykal Sulaymān (Temple); al-Mahd (Church); al-Qiyāmah (Church).Table of contents: Social life in Jerusalem under British mandate. (@ 0:08)Table of contents: Religious pluralism and social life in Jerusalem
. (@ 12:37)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in Jerusalem during Mandatory Palestine . (@ 22:39)Table of contents: Conduct of life in pre-Nakba Jerusalem and the expulsion . (@ 41:28)
Biography: السيرة سجلت المقابلة مع مسعدة عبد جمّال في 23 ايلول سبتمبر عام 2003، انثى، ولدت عام 1915؟ في شفا عمرو، فلسطين .Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām).Table of contents: Upbringing in Shafā ʻAmru
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Land and society
. (@ 15:33)Table of contents: Wedding ceremonies and marriage customs. (@ 31:59)Table of contents: Arab-Jewish relations. (@ 55:34)Table of contents: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and socio-political activity. (@ 63:0)Table of contents: Interreligious relations, conflict and warefare. (@ 73:26)Table of contents: Military occupation, hostility and exile. (@ 93:39)Table of contents: Refugee life and right of return. (@ 100:27)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع محمود سعيد جعفر، ذكر، ولد عام 1935 في الحسينية، فلسطين.Families: Ṭayyib; Zāyir; al-Bashīr; ‘Ammār; al-Rāshidī.Significant figures: Ja‘far, ‘Ṭāhir (Landowner); Ja‘far, Ḥusayn (Resistance leader); ‘Ammār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Ṭayyib, Fāyiz Aḥmad (Martyr); Sa‘īd, Nimir (Martyr); Ja‘far, Zahrah (Wounded); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Ammār, ‘Alī (Wounded).Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist occupation and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 21:18)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 20, 2004 with Aḥmad Maḥmūd Jrād, male, born in 1928? in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā, Palestine and resides in Jib Jinnīn, Lebanon.Families: Nādir; al-‘Awāydah; Zahrān; al-‘Īsāt; al-Baṭāṭikhah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Mūsá al-Kāẓim (Maqām); Khirbat Irbid (Maqām).Significant figures: Nādir, Musṭafá (Soldier); Nādir, Khālid (Soldier); al-‘Ajāj, Muḥammad (Tribe leader); al-Mūsá, ‘Alī (Revolutionary); Nādir, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Nādir, Aḥmad (Martyr); Nādir, Khālid (Martyr); al-Ṭabarī, Khalīl (Leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and political turmoil in the village. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community . (@ 11:35)Table of contents: Political dynamics in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā. (@ 33:22)Table of contents: War events and expulsion. (@ 50:20)Table of contents: Refugee life and expulsion . (@ 73:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad Maḥmūd Jumʻah on February 2, 2004, male, born in 1926 in Arab al-Zubāydah, Palestine.Significant figures: Yūsuf, Ṣubḥī (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood difficulties and growing up . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist terrorism and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 8:46)Table of contents: Battles and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 27:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 18, 2004 with Fāyiz Khalīfah Jum‘ah, male, born in 1929 in Khirbat Jālīn, Palestine.Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Ḥusayn, Ḥamadah (Arab tribe leader); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-Ṣāliḥ, ʻAlī (Prisoner); al-Ṣāliḥ, Aḥmad (Prisoner); al-Ḥasan, Ḥuwaydah (Prisoner).Table of contents: Social dynamics in Arab tribes. (@ 0:36)Table of contents: Cultural and social life . (@ 21:25)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 31:33)Table of contents: Palestine during 1947-1948. (@ 37:28)Table of contents: War events, imprisonment at the Israeli prisons and expulsion . (@ 56:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 18, 2006 with al-‘Abdah Jābir, female, born in al-Mālikīyah, Palestine. She worked at the British camp of al-Mālikīyah and resides in al-Marwānīyah, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Ḥākūrit Khalīl ʻAyyād (Jewish monument).Significant figures: ʻĪsà, Aḥmad (Landowner); Khalīl, Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAwaḍ, Alī (Revolutionary); al-Asʻad, Aḥmad (Revolutionaryr); Bazzī, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Jumʻa, Mūsá (Martyr); Muṣṭafá, Mūsá (Martyr); al-Sayyid Ḥusayn, Yūsuf (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); Sa‘d, Ma‘rūf (Resistance fighter); al-Asʻad, Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Economic conditions of a Palestinian family. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Events of Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 12:16)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 24:42)Table of contents: The military situation during the Zionist invasion of al-Mālikīyah. (@ 41:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 3, 2004 with ‘Abd al-Laṭīf Kanafānī, male, born in 1927 in Haifa, Palestine. He was the administrative director of Bayt al-Māl al-ʻArabī.Families: al-Mīqātī; al-Jārūdī; al-Nūrī; Ni‘mah; Shbīb; al-Kanafānī; Shiblāq.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Kulīyat al-Quds (University); Dā’irat al-Mālīyah (Governmental institution); Bayt al-Māl al-ʻArabī (Financial institution).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Islāmīyah (School); Frères Maris School (School); Catholic School (School); Sicilian School (School); Holy Family Hospital (Hospital); al-Mustashfá al-Almānī (Hospital); Saint Luke's School (School); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Qaṣṣāb, Kāmil (Principal); al-Ḥabbāl, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf (Teacher); Blayq, Najīb (Teacher); Ḥammād, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Ṭāhir, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Jāmi‘ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Rashīd (Leader); al-Khāl, Yūsuf (Teacher); Wakīm, George (Teacher); Levy, Shabtai (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Rahmān (Mayor); Abū Fāḍil, Munīr (Policeman).Table of contents: Childhood and education in Haifa. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education in Saida and Jerusalem . (@ 14:28)Table of contents: Political conditions and joining al-Ḥizb al-Sūrī al-Qawmī al-Ijtimāʻī . (@ 32:8)Table of contents: Employment and political conditions . (@ 41:47)Table of contents: Social dynamics and intellectual life in Haifa. (@ 50:50)Table of contents: Political life in Palestine during 1947-1948 and expulsion. (@ 63:23)Table of contents: Final reflections on expulsion and nostalgia . (@ 83:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 30, 2005 with Mahdīyah ʻĀrif Kanjū, female, born in Tiberias, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shishannah; al-Sukkarī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dar al-Muʻalimāt (School of Teachers); Ḥamām al-Bāshā (Public bath).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation); Alliance School (School).Significant figures: al-Ṭabarī, Ṭāhir (Mayor); Kanjū, Iḥsān (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics at Tiberias. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Religious pluralism in Tiberias . (@ 16:33)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 28:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded in March 31, 2006 with ‘Uṭrah Saʻīd Kaʻwash, female, born in 1935 in Mayrūn, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥmayyid; Kanʻān; Fā‘ūr; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfà Adāsah (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Ayyūb (Maqām); al-Nabῑ Shuʻayb (Maqām); Mazār Abū Bakir (Maqām); Sham‘ūn (Maqām).Significant figures: Kishkish, ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ (Teacher); al-Khadrah, Fawzῑ (Teacher); Kanʻān, Fāris (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic and religious aspects in Mayrūn . (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Social events and practices in Mayrūn . (@ 22:22)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics and medical care in Mayrūn . (@ 51:35)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and uprooting from Mayrūn . (@ 66:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 21, 2003 with Aḥmad Saʻīd Ka‘wash, male, born in 1927 in Mayrūn, Palestine.Families: Kan‘ān; Ka‘wash.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣaddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: Sharaf, ‘Abd al-Ghanī (Teacher); al-Dusūqī, Ḥusayn (Teacher); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Mayor); Ka‘wash, Saʻīd ʻAbd (Mayor); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Martyr); Zaynih, Ḥasan (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kanʻān, Khalīl (Martyr); Kanʻān, Fāris (Martyr); Kanʻān, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Mayrūn history. (@ 16:26)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and revolution. (@ 27:51)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration during the British rule. (@ 35:38)Table of contents: City occupation, resistance, displacement and exile. (@ 43:9)Table of contents: Battles, resistance and the expulsion. (@ 63:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Maḥmūd Ka‘wash, male, born in Mayrūn in 1927, Palestine. He worked as a policeman during the British mandate.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah(Church); al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Ṣddiq (Maqām).Significant figures: Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet).Table of contents: Childhood and employment . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the police during the British rule . (@ 21:50)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 30:49)Table of contents: Palestine during 1947-1948. (@ 51:49)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 70:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 11, 2003 with Rashrāsh Muḥammad Ka‘wash, male, born in 1922 in Mayrūn, Palestine. He worked with the Border guards.Families: Kan‘ān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Zāwyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); Maghārit al-Mshabbak (Maqām).Significant figures: Ka‘wash, Muḥammad al-ʻAbd (Village leader); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad Ṭalāl (Resistance fighter); Ka‘wash, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); Ka‘wash, Khālid Ṭāhā (Resistance fighter); Kan‘ān, Khalīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Education in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: History of Mayrūn. (@ 6:16)Table of contents: Wedding traditions political turmoil, resistance and military activity in Mayrūn. (@ 18:38)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 32:45)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 3, 2004 with Fāris Khalīl, male, born in Sabalān, Palestine.Families: ʻAmir; Khalīl; al-Muḥammad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ḥusayn (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture in Sabalān. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Social and community life . (@ 10:0)Table of contents: Political conditions and deception . (@ 24:13)Table of contents: Expulsion from Sabalān. (@ 32:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 29, 2003 with Ḥusayn Dīb Khalīl, male, born in 1926 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine. He was a soldier with the British Army.Families: Shadhlī,; Qāsim; Ḥammūd; al-Shūlī; ‘Akkāwī; al-‘Aynayn; al-Mashāyikh; al-Nūr; Ayyūb; Aṣlān; al-Nūr; Rustom; Baytam; ʻAkkāwī; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Bahjah airport.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Badr (Club); Mustashfà Akka (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dāwūd (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Farfaḥīnī, Dīb (Poet); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Teacher); Faramāwī, Qāsim (Teacher); Mir‘ī , ‘Abd (Soldier); al-ʻAdawī, Ibrāhīm (Soldier); Faraj, Aḥmad (Soldier); Mortaḍá, Rāghib (Soldier); al-Jishshī, Muḥammad (Soldier); Da‘ās, Mūsá (Corporal); Rustom, ‘Abd (Landowner); al-Baytam, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-‘Aynayn, Mir‘ī (Revolutionary): Zaynab, ‘Alī (Revolutionary); Ḥassūn, Kamāl (Revolutionary): al-Shūlī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Shūlī, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Shaykh); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, 'Uthmān (Martyr); Abd al-ʻĀl, Abd al-ʻĀl (Martyr); Ṭamalāwī, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Social life and traditional customs at al-Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and political activities
. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic aspects of al-Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 37:44)Table of contents: Religious pluralism and political activities. (@ 51:27)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British Mandate and Zionist occupation. (@ 67:6)Table of contents: Political dynamics at al-Shaykh Dāwūd during the Zionist occupation of Palestine . (@ 82:25)Table of contents: The expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 91:19)Table of contents: Exodus and refugees' experience . (@ 102:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2002 with ‘Abd Ḥusayn Khalīl, male, born in 1922 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a soldier in theTrans-Jordan Frontier Forces.Families: Ḥammūd; Fahd.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dāwūd ( Maqām).Significant figures: Rāghib, Ibrāhīm (Teacher); al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); al-Jālūdī, Muḥammad (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); Abū Khabīṭah (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); Rāghib, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); Ḥassūn, Kamāl (Revolutionary); Kāyid, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Mahdī, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); Ṭurfah, Rashīd (Resistance fighter); Ibrāhīm, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood and family life in Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment with the British Army. (@ 9:17)Table of contents: Agriculture, society and ceremonial customs in Shaykh Dāwūd
. (@ 19:18)Table of contents: Colonialism, military occupation and resistance. (@ 39:24)Table of contents: Revolutionaries and resistance during the Zionist invasion, 1948. (@ 54:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 28, 2004 with Dīb Muḥammad Khashshān, male, born in 1923 in Dayr al-Qāsī, Palestine.He worked as a policeman with the British authority during World War II.Families: Ma‘rūf; al-Ṣādiq; Maḥmūd; Khashshān; Qurfalī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh Jawhar (Maqām).Significant figures: ʻUthmān, Ibrāhīm (Teacher); ʻĀrif, Khālid (Teacher); Ḥasan, Muḥsin (Teacher); Jad‘ūn, Michel (School principal); Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Military trainer); ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Jordanian Army commander); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Ṣādiq, Majīd (Mayor); Ma‘rūf, Muḥammad (Mayor); Zaydān, ‘Alī (Folk poet); Khashshān, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Khashshān, Naʻīm (Revolutionary); Khashshān, Jamīl (Revolutionary); Jadʻūn, Michel (Translator); Sa‘ūd, Naʻīm (Martyr); Ḥammūd, Khālid (Martyr); Khashshān, Khālid (Revolutionary); Ẓāhir, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); ʻŪthmān, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader); Ma‘rūf, Khalīl (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Education in Dayr al-Qāsī. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and work experience in the British Army during the mandate. (@ 18:32)Table of contents: Religious and ethnic pluralism in Palestine during the British Mandate . (@ 36:26)Table of contents: Cultural and intervillage relations in Dayr al-Qāsī . (@ 52:24)Table of contents: Political conditions at Dayr al-Qāsī. (@ 62:12)Table of contents: War events and the Zionist invasion . (@ 69:4)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of the village. (@ 87:59)Table of contents: Military situation at Dayr al-Qāsī then the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 97:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 27, 2004 with Jamīlah Ḥasan Khaḍrah, female, born in Kufayrāt, Palestine.Families: Ḥamdān; al-Nāṭūr; al-Shaḥtarī; Khaḍrah; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: Khaḍrah, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Jammāl, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and agricultural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural and social life at Khirbat al-Kasāyir. (@ 17:25)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 42:50)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and expulsion of Palestine. (@ 56:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 12, 2004 with Aḥmad Khālid, male, born on 1917 in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in al-Jīyah, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Sa‘id; Kayyāl; N‘ārī; Samrī; Dīb.Significant figures: al-Naḥfāwī, Ḥasan (Teacher); al-Sa‘dī, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Teacher); ʻAṭallāh, As‘ad (Poet); al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).Table of contents: Rural community of al-Birwah. (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Social life in al-Birwah. (@ 23:9)Table of contents: Political dynamics at al-Birwah. (@ 34:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Khālid Yūnus Khālid, male, born in 1928 in Shaʻb, Palestine. He worked in the Forestry Service and than in the post office.Families: Khaṭīb; Fā‘ūr; Ḥamzah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dāi'rat al-Aḥrāj (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-‘Ulaymī (Maqām); Banāt al-‘Ayn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj ‘Abd, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Salīm, Kāyid, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Armūsh, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Rūsān, Ḍayf Allāh (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ḥassūn, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); al-‘Alī , Kāmil Sayyid (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Maḥmud Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education and employement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 12:46)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 18:56)Table of contents: Ceremonies and celebrations. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: War time and armed resistance. (@ 33:18)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 46:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 6, 2004 with Fīfī Khūrī, female, born in 1922 in Jaffa, Palestine and resides in al-Ḥamrā, Lebanon.Families: al-Ṭarazī; Dabbās; Dumyānī; Gharghūr.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Banco di Roma (Bank); Madrasat Rāhibāt Ṣahyūn (School); Rāhibāt Mār Yūsuf Lilẓuhūr (School); Madrasat Ḥasan ʻArafah (School); Jerusalem Girls Collage (School); Bīr zaytt School (School); Orthodox (School); Madrasat al-Muṭrān (School); Barclays Bank (Bank); Ottoman Bank (Bank).Significant figures: al-Khūrī, Anthony (Trader); Nāṣir, Nabīhah (School principal); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Revolutionary leader); Bear, Lola (Tailorer); Nāṣir, Mūsá (Mayor); al-ʻĪsá, Micheal (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Family origins and childhood in Palestine. (@ 0:15)Table of contents: Education and degrees . (@ 8:1)Table of contents: Socio-economic life . (@ 27:56)Table of contents: Social and cultural life. (@ 39:44)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and psychological warfare . (@ 48:50)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 69:15)
Biography: .ولدت عام 1928 في قدس، فلسطين وتقيم في الأنصارية، لبنانFamilies: Kinyār; Dirbāj.Significant figures: al-Mārdīnī, Aḥmad (Landowner); Ḥadīd, Khalīl (Public officer); ‘Īsá, Siknah (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Martyr); Jumʻa, Mūsá (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic conditions in Qadas. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in Qadas during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 11, 2006 with Ḥamdah Qāsim Kinyār, female, born in 1929? in Qadas, Palestine and resides in al-Anṣārīyah, Lebanon.Families: Farḥāt; Bazzī.Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before the Zionist occupation. (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Social and political conditions in Qadas during the Zionist invasion. (@ 20:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 11, 2003 with ‘Abd al-Majīd Krayyim, male, born in 1927 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a military commander with the Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces.Families: Krayyim; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; al-ʻAfīfī; Muʻīd.Significant figures: Krayyim, Aḥmad (School principal); al-Yaḥyá, ʻAbd al-Razzāq (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Amīn, Bahjat Najāt (Arab Salvation Army soldier); al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); Abū Laylá, Ḥasan (Shaykh); ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Cheese maker) al-Ṭāhā, Mifliḥ Amīn (Village leader); Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ al-Salīm al-Muḥammad (Village leader); Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ al-Salīm (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Sulaymān (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj, Saʻīd (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj, Salīm (Municipal council); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Yāsīn, Muṣliḥ (Resistance leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Border guard); Abū al-Niʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Broker).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British army. (@ 6:35)Table of contents: Cultural and social life . (@ 25:9)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 53:53)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance for survival . (@ 82:18)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 105:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 17, 2011 with Renée Kuttih, female, born in 1925 in al-Ramlah, Palestine.Families: al-Ghuṣaynī; Abū al-Laban; al-Khayrī; al-Tāj; al-Fārūqī; Qutrān; al-‘Azūnī; al-Ṣūṣū; Naṣṣār.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Mustashfá al-‘Askarī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al- Ingliz (School); Sharikat Bāṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Spinneys (Corporation); American University of Beirut (University); Friends Girls School (School); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation); Sharikat Baṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Sharika al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Significant figures: Kuttih, Costandi (Mayor); Kuttih, Georges (Pharmacist); Kuttih, Ḥannah (Doctor); Qutrān, Michel (Chief justice); Bishārah, Sāmī (Doctor); Shaṭārah, Wadī‘ah (Teacher); Ḥannūsh, Victoria (School principal); Kuttih, Alex (Pharmacist); ‘Aṣāṣah, Ḥikmat (Landlord); Bshārah, Sāmī (Doctor); Fī‘ānī, Georges (Businessman).Table of contents: Socio-economic Life in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Pre-marital Life,Village Traditions and Schooling . (@ 14:39)Table of contents: Engagement, Marriage and Family Life . (@ 40:45)Table of contents: Wedding celebration and honeymoon in Europe. (@ 63:16)Table of contents: Political turmoil and displacement. (@ 79:44)Table of contents: Relations with the Jews. (@ 87:43)Table of contents: Land Ownership and attacks. (@ 98:10)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and life in exile . (@ 104:48)Table of contents: Return to Palestine and life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 116:34)Table of contents: Childhood and other Personal Memories. (@ 129:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 28, 2004 with Muḥammad Yūsuf Kāyid, male, born in 1927 in al-Ṭīrah, Palestine. He worked with the British army during World War II.Families: Zaydān; Ḥajīr; Abū Rāshid; al-Bashīr; Shiblī; al-‘Asal; Abū Shaqrā; Kāyid.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Baladiyat Haifa (Municipality); Dā’irat al-Rrayy wa al-Miyāh (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Sibā‘ī (School); Iraq Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Lifshitz, Joseph (Engineer); al-Ḥalabī, Muḥammad (Businessman); al-Sibā‘ī, Muḥammad (School principal); Idrīs, Khiḍir (Mayor); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); al-Bardān, Mus‘ad (Martyr); Ḥajīr, Muḥammad ‘Abdū (Martyr); al-Dabbūr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Idrīs, ‘Alī (Martyr).Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political history of al-Ṭīrah under British rule. (@ 17:56)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 37:59)Table of contents: Humanitarian situation of the Palestinian refugees. (@ 56:37)
Biography: Biogarphy: The interview was recorded on May 9, 2004 with Sa‘dá al-Ḥasan Kāyid, female, born in 1922 in Jidrū, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Shamālī Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Table of contents: Everyday life practices in Ḥawwāsah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Marriage customs and wedding celebrations. (@ 21:37)Table of contents: Socio-religious customs and celebrations. (@ 33:38)Table of contents: Palestinian social customs. (@ 53:50)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration, occupation and military attacks . (@ 83:32)Table of contents: Continued warfare and departure. (@ 96:1)Table of contents: Right of return and refugee hardship. (@ 115:54)
Biography: Tthe interview was recorded on February 8, 2004 with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lubānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Tripoli, Lebanon.Families: al-Zayādinah; al-Biqā‘īyah; al-‘Ayāyshah; al-‘Athāminah; al-Lawābinah; Sarḥānī; Abū al-Hayjā; Fir‘im; ‘Uthmānī; al-Shanā‘ah; Ka‘wash; Zaghmūṭ; Shraydī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Zaydānī, Ṣāliḥ (Historical figure); 'Ubayd, Shafīq (Principal); al-Bīṭār, Khalīl (Teacher); al-ʻAbbūd, Jubrān (Landowner); ʻAzīz, Aḥmad (Poet); al-Mrāḥ, Shanā‘ah (Poet); Saʻīd, As‘ad (Poet); al-Asadī, Abū Sa‘ūd (Poet); al-Rīnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-Biqā‘ī, Ḥaydar (Village leader); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); Jayyūsī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Poet); Wihbī, Mārūn Ilyās (Poet); Abū al-ʿAsal, Riyāḥ Ḥannā (Bishop); ʻArafāt, Jamīl (Author); al-Walī, Fu’ād (Teacher); al-Bāsh, Ḥasan (Author); al-Mubayyīḍ, Salīm ‘Arafāt (Author); Sirḥān, Nimir (Author); al-Dājānī, Mu‘taz (Director of the Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural life, social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 14:10)Table of contents: Palestinian folklore. (@ 31:27)Table of contents: Memories in poetry. (@ 61:31)Table of contents: Poetry and politics in Palestine. (@ 83:18)Table of contents: Battles and Palestinian poetry. (@ 105:22)Table of contents: Post-Nakba literature. (@ 121:40)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations and marriage customs. (@ 141:49)Table of contents: Memories of childhood. (@ 167:48)Table of contents: War time and military operations. (@ 179:5)Table of contents: Exile road. (@ 203:43)Table of contents: Exile literature. (@ 219:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 29, 2003 with ‘Ā'ishah Maḥmūd Luṭfī, female, born in 1930? in Jabāliyā, Palestine.Families: Ḥamdān; Shaḥbarī; al-Khiḍir.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Ṣaffūrīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: Faraj, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Khiḍir, Ḥasan (Mayor); Luṭfī, Aḥmad Ramaḍān (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and upbringing in Khirbat al-Kasāyir
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political activity in Khirbat al-Kasāyir
. (@ 15:11)Table of contents: Palestinian traditions and the ensuing refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 24:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad Lubānī on October 14, 2009, male, born in 1928 in Tiberias, Palestine. He was a driver.Families: al-‘Afīfī; al-Ṭabarī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Trans Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank); Baritos Bank (Bank); Anglo Bank (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church); Jāmiʻ al-Baḥrah (Mosque).Significant figures: Shuqayf, Ṣalʻat (School principal); Mdayris, Antoine (Teacher); ʻAnkūsh, Muṣṭafá Shāhīn (Revolutionary); Abū Zayyān, Ḥusayn ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary); al-Ḥamawī, Ṣubḥi (Revolutionary); Shāhīn, Shukrī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and employment . (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Weapon trade and British siege. (@ 19:7)Table of contents: Socio-political conditions and religious life in Tiberias . (@ 27:43)Table of contents: Cultural life and interreligious relations in Tiberias . (@ 48:20)Table of contents: Battles and Palestinian reisstance. (@ 55:13)Table of contents: Hardships and exile. (@ 73:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 14, 2003 with Fāṭimah Majẓūb, female, born in 1933 in ʻAmqā, Palestine.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Ibrahīm (Policeman); al-Majẓūb, Rajā (Policeman); al-Majẓūb, Amīn (Policeman); al-Majẓūb, Naʻīm (Policeman); al-Jamāl, Abū Ṣāliḥ (Policeman); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Policeman); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life, customs and celebrations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Chiildhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 8:22)Table of contents: Celebrations, customs and community life in ʻAmqā. (@ 23:37)Table of contents: Revolutionaries, interreligious relations and the Zionist occuaption. (@ 36:55)Table of contents: Political turbulence and fleeing Palestine. (@ 49:47)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 62:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 11, 2006 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Manṣūr, female, born in 1926 in al-Rās al-Aḥmar, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Khaṭīb; Ayyūb; al-Ḥāj.Significant figures: Ayyūb, Fakhrῑ (Village leader); Ayyūb, Ma‘in (Village leader); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Sāmiyah (Teacher); al- Khaṭīb, Muḥyī al-Dīn Ṭāhā (Village leader); Nῑsān, Salīm (Trader); al-Hraysh, Fayyād (Martyr); al -‘Abdullāh, Tawfīq (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio- economic dynamics in al-Rās al-Aḥmar . (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule, Zionist occupation and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 24:32)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع مريم رابح، أنثى، ولدت عام 1934؟ في الحسينية، فلسطين.Significant figures: al-ʻUthmān; Jaʻfar; al-Bashīr; Rābiḥ; al-Saʻīd, Nimir (Resistance fighter); ʻAmmār, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Rābiḥ, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Waqān, Ᾱminah (Martyr); al-Kānūn, Aḥamd (Martyr); Rābiḥ, al-Kānūn (Martyr); ʻAmmār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Ṭāhir, Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Saʻīd, Nimir (Martyr).Table of contents: Agricultural life in al-Ḥusaynīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah battle and massacre, 1948. (@ 5:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and hope of return. (@ 27:50)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah battle and massacre, 1948 and journey to exile. (@ 32:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 16, 2004 with Muḥammad Jamīl Mash‘al, male, born in 1929 in Safad, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Jāmiʻ al-Aḥmar (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Banāt Yaʻqūb (Maqām).Significant figures: Brayk, Shafīq (Teacher); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Landowner); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and social relations. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Community life and culture in Safad. (@ 9:26)Table of contents: Political conditions and treason. (@ 17:43)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 29:35)