Biography: The interview was recorded on April 1, 1997 with Asʻad Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in 1927 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of the dog barber. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The fisherman and the fish I. (@ 11:10)Table of contents: The fisherman and the fish II . (@ 31:26)Table of contents: Fictions and fables. (@ 46:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 3, 1997 with Khiḍir Asʻad Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in1947 in Yaʻbad, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Three Brothers story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 18:0)Table of contents: Fables and other stories. (@ 44:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 1997 with Samīḥah Abū Hawwāsh, female, born in 1944 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aytām, al-Ittiḥād al-Nisāʼī (School); Madrasat Ghirnāṭah (School); Dār al-Ṭufl (School); Madrasat al-Najāḥ (School).Significant figures: Shuwaykī, Hayfāʼ (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Hādī, ʻAlyāʼ (Teacher); al-Ḥusaynī, Hind (Orphanage principal).Table of contents: Childhood and refugee experience in Jordan and Palestine. (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Child education at the orphanage. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 57:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 15, 1995 with Samīḥah Fahd Abū Hawwash, female, born in 1944 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Dār al-Ṭufl (School).Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration and others. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Maymūnah and Zīnat al-Dār story. (@ 17:20)Table of contents: Woodcutter story. (@ 38:56)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 54:56)Table of contents: Popular songs and fables. (@ 75:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 30, 1995 with Sa‘īd Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in 1939 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: The Fisherman and his wife story. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Sitt al-Ḥusun story. (@ 28:54)Table of contents: The Princes and the three brothers. (@ 55:55)Table of contents: Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none
. (@ 77:11)Table of contents: Fables. (@ 91:53)Table of contents: If you want a friend, get a dog. (@ 119:39)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع محمد الحامد، ذكر، ولد عام 1926 في صفورية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Marriage songs. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations. (@ 24:22)Table of contents: Songs collection. (@ 46:48)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 53:7)Table of contents: Popular songs. (@ 63:51)Table of contents: Ḥasān al-Rā‘ī story and folk songs. (@ 72:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع عطرة زيد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1931 في البويزية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Kwayyis (Maqām).Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet).Table of contents: Social conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs of life and rural life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 14:20)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and short stories. (@ 33:15)Table of contents: Fairy tales and traditions. (@ 62:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 6, 1997 with Fāṭimah Muḥammad Abū Sālim, female, born in 1925 in al-Ṭīrah, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Short story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Ghuzzilmah. (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Story of the green bird. (@ 31:16)Table of contents: Story of Umm Ṣubayḥ and Abū Ṣubayḥ. (@ 36:15)Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories. (@ 41:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 5, 1997 with Khadījah Muḥammad Abū Sālim,female, born in 1926 in al-Ṭīrah Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Tale of passed times. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular tale. (@ 11:57)Table of contents: The Merchant. (@ 22:26)Table of contents: Story of Magic Birds. (@ 45:27)Table of contents: Three Sisters story. (@ 53:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 22, 1995 with Ḥashmīyah Abū Sīkh, female, born in 1927 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Ḥārit Ḥrayk, Beirut, Lebanon.Families: Nābulsī; Rabāḥ.Significant figures: ʻAzīz, Aḥmad (Poet).Table of contents: Real Romantic story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 18:52)Table of contents: Songs of life. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Emotional songs. (@ 46:39)Table of contents: Nostalgia, love and other folk songs. (@ 55:44)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 69:31)
Biography: سعسع، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم برج البراجنة للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Whayyib (Maqām).Table of contents: Marriage and wedding customs and traditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs. (@ 21:51)Table of contents: Story of Shammah and Zahr al-Bān. (@ 29:0)Table of contents: Beliefs and doubts in Palestinian stories. (@ 49:2)Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine and story of Banū Hilāl . (@ 62:5)Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 73:40)Table of contents: Story of al-Zīr . (@ 87:15)Table of contents: Palestinian folk and wedding songs. (@ 113:9)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs . (@ 138:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on with Umm Muḥammad Asʻad, female, born in Shaʻb, Palestine.Table of contents: Palestinians' call for Arab leaders. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Salutations to Family relations. (@ 12:3)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع حسين محمد حسن، ذكر، ولد عام 1947 في صفد، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Real story . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 12:38)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 31:59)Table of contents: Ethics an moral. (@ 48:58)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع نبيهة الأشقر، أنثى، ولدت عام 1944 في شفا عمرو، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Table of contents: Popular tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian short folk stories . (@ 30:1)Table of contents: The kings and his three sons. (@ 49:27)Table of contents: Story of Rummān al-Dhahab. (@ 66:29)Table of contents: Palestinian popular short stories. (@ 82:52)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع عبد الفتاح الفول، ذكر، ولد عام 1940 في حيفا، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئن الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat Ghassān Kanafānī (School); Madrasat al-Shahīd al-shaykh Ḥasan (School); Madrasat al-Shahīd al-Shaykh Ḥasan (School).Table of contents: Wise Turtle story and other stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Sleeping Beauty story. (@ 18:37)Table of contents: Little Red Riding Hood Story. (@ 29:6)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 40:0)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع زوجته فاطمة علي شبعاني، أنثى، ولدت عام 1934؟. تقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shib‘ānī; Sha‘bān; Rajab; ‘Asqūl; al-Dilsī; Ṣawwān; Ayyūb; Shaʻbān.Significant figures: Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Shib‘ānī, Aḥmad (Wounded); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Shib‘ānī, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Yūsuf (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Ṣāfī Yaḥyá (Shepherd); Ṣawwān, Ismāʻīl (Shaykh); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥamad, Fuʼād As‘ad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 17:17)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 26:14)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 38:16)Table of contents: Economic conditions, Employment and exile. (@ 51:4)Table of contents: The Palestinian exodus. (@ 60:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 17, 1997 with Aḥmad Sulaymān Aḥmad, male, born in 1926 in Dayshūm, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Abū Yaḥyá; Mīzārī; Nūḥ; al-Mārdīnī.Significant figures: Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); Ṣāliḥ, Muḥammad (Wounded); Nūḥ, Sa‘īd Ṣāliḥ (Wounded); Mizyān, al-Hādī ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); ‘Īsá, ‘Umar (Wouded); Ḥaddād, Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Qāsim, Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū Widdū, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Sha‘bān, ‘Umar (Martyr); Abū al-Nasab, Farīd (Camp leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 7:52)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 14:20)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 27:11)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 40:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 6, 1997 with Aḥmad ʻAbdullāh Mizyān Aḥmad, male, born in 1925 in Dayshūm, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bazzī; al-Mārdīnī; al-Mīzānī.Significant figures: Mizyān, ʻAbdullāh (Imām); al-Mīzārī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); Zalghūṭ, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Resistance leader); al-Shāmī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Resistance leader); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Ḥusnī (Martyr); al-Hādī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad (Martyr); Rābiḥ, Zakīyah (Survivor).Table of contents: Social dynamics and community life in Dayshūm . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture, community, and social life in Dayshūm . (@ 26:57)Table of contents: Settler colonialism and political activity
. (@ 42:21)Table of contents: Arab Salvation Army in Dayshūm . (@ 69:18)Table of contents: Warfare and resistance. (@ 91:20)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 120:19)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 142:39)Table of contents: Final reflections on refugee experience and expulsion . (@ 164:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1998 with Ḥafīẓah Qāsim Aḥmad, female, born in 1917 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She worked as a tailor.Families: Dhabbāḥ; al-Khaṭīb; al-Mūsá; Ṣunʻ Allāh; al-Muzayyan; Badrān; al-Dhabāḥ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Maqām Al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Dhabbāḥ, Fāṭimah (Tailor); al-Shaykh, ‘Alī (Shop owner); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd Sa‘īd (Mayor); Balṭajī, Umm Ḥasan (Derssmaker).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and sewing . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Sewing and bridal trousseau. (@ 29:58)Table of contents: Sewing tools and socio-economic conditions in Palestine. (@ 46:45)Table of contents: Refugee experience and education in exile . (@ 55:26)Table of contents: Sewing profession Post-Nakba and refugee life. (@ 64:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 6, 1999 with Rāfī ‘Uwaydis Aṭāmyān, male, born in 1946 and resides in al-Baṣṣ, Lebanon.Families: al-Safrī; al-Qubṭī; al-Dāmūnī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Table of contents: History of Armenians in the Arab countries. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Armenian-Palestinian relations. (@ 10:40)Table of contents: Armenians in Palestine. (@ 21:27)Table of contents: Armenians attitudes towards Arabs. (@ 26:57)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع فوزية شحادة الخطيب، أنثى، ولدت عام 1926 في بلد الشيخ، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk and love songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration. (@ 16:16)Table of contents: Communal celebrations. (@ 31:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 1, 1997 with Maryam al-Fayyāḍ Badrān, female, born in 1938 in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Naḥf.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Badrān, Qāsim (Resistance fighter); Badrān, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Badrān, Qāsim (Military officer); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Mayor).Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 21:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع أم خالد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1941 في الصفصاف، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطنين، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk and wedding songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding songs and customs. (@ 26:32)Table of contents: Fairy tales and children's stories. (@ 49:24)Table of contents: Humorous tales . (@ 71:41)Table of contents: War between two countries and escape of the ogre. (@ 99:49)Table of contents: Popular songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 108:49)Table of contents: Dabkah songs and ululation. (@ 132:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 6, 1997 with Ᾱminah Ḥasan Banāt, female, born in 1931 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in Lebanon . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Everyday life in Palestine and refugee conditions in Lebanon. (@ 11:6)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and hardships of expulsion from Palestine. (@ 23:34)Table of contents: War incidents and suffering
. (@ 44:27)Table of contents: Folk traditions and social life . (@ 61:29)