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 September 27, 2005 with Najīyah Ḥusayn, female, born in 1940 in Qabbāʻah, Palestine and resides in Lebanon.Families: Sh'ḥādah; al-Maṣārwī; al-Ḥaj; Ḥamādah; Fandī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻŪṣajī (Maqām).Table of contents: Childhood and agricultural life in Qabbāʻah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and customs in Qabbāʻah . (@ 12:31)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 25:39)
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: 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 on June 26, 2003 with Dībah Muṣṭafá Ḥijāzī, female, born in 1933 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine.Families: ‘Awaḍ; Ayyūb; Ḥammād; Dāwūd.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); al-Ḥasan, Abū Ṣāliḥ (Circumcisor); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ(Revolutionary leader); al-Aḥmad, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); Ḥammīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Arab Salvation Army commander); Rāḍī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Badī‘ah, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Marār, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Rāʻī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Ghurrah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Zaynah, Dāwūd (Martyr); ʻŪthmān, Ḥasan (Martyr); ʻŪthmān, Asʻad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 14:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in al-Ghābisīyah. (@ 37:54)Table of contents: Violence, battles and resistance. (@ 45:8)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 62:34)
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 May 9, 2004 with Āminah Aḥmad Mūsá, female, born in al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī, Palestine.Families: Khalaf.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Shārm (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad (Maqām); al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām); al-Shaykh Sharaf (Maqām).Significant figures: Yūnus, Khalīl (Shaykh); al-Dakhīl, Shiḥādah (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Ḥmayyid, Muṣṭafá (Musician); al-Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Singer).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in Palestine. (@ 7:46)Table of contents: Childbirth and women's role . (@ 32:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 2004 with Āminah al-Sayyid, female, born in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon.Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; Ḥammād; al-Ḥāj; Khalīl; Balʻūs.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Sayidah Nafīsah (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: Wihbī, Zaydān (Mayor); ʻAzzām, Ᾱminah (Martyr); Yāsīn, Yāsīn (Martyr); Yāsīn, ʻAql (Martyr); ʻAzzām, Ḥāmid (Martyr); Ghunayyim, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); ʻAzzām, Shaykhah al-Dīb (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and cultural life in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions and turmoil . (@ 13:42)Table of contents: Evacuation orders from Saʻsaʻ . (@ 20:4)Table of contents: Zionist invasion during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 26:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 28, 2009 with Āminah Jamāl Zaydān, female, born in 1943 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Bank al-Mashriq (Bank); Madrasat al-Kifāḥ (School).Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Ibrāhīm (Professor); Fā‘ūr, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Refugee condition during the Israeli invasion of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah, 1982. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: House reconstruction in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp . (@ 20:36)Table of contents: House demolition in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp and war atrocities of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 1982 . (@ 50:6)Table of contents: Final reflections on refuge experience. (@ 73:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 11, 2004 with Āmīnah Saʻd, female, born in 1928? in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Saʻīd; al-Kayyāl; Mi'ārī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); al-Kayyāl (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Sulṭānī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and cultural life in al-Birwah . (@ 0:25)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance to military occupation in al-Birwah . (@ 19:3)Table of contents: Historical reflections. (@ 35:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 18, 2006 with Āminah Qāsim, female, born in 1936 in al-Jish, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ṭālib, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ayyūb, Salīm (Mayor); Qāsim, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Najīyah (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic dynamics under British rule. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 21, 2003 with Āminah Muḥammad Zaydān, female, born in 1933 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥazīr; al-Dabbūr; al-Rabānī; ʻAsqūl; al-Ḥalabī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Sharikat al-Mustaqbal (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Khalīl (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Nabī Yaḥyá (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hajjūj, Bahjāt (Mayor); al-ʻAbbās, Fahd (Village leader); al-Hajjūj, Ramaḍān (Village leader); al-Rabānī, Nimir (Village leader); al-Rabānī, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Zawāwī, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); al-Zawāwī, Nimir (Revolutionary); Zaydān, Maḥmūd Salīm (Businessman).Table of contents: Education, agriculture, and community life in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life, wedding customs, and celebrations. (@ 11:48)Table of contents: Zionist attacks on al-Ṭīrah, Haifa . (@ 25:13)Table of contents: Conduct of life and expulsion from al-Ṭīrah, Haifa. (@ 36:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 11, 2012 with Āminah Muḥammad Qundus, female, born in 1931? in al-Zīb, Palestine.Families: al-Afandī; ‘Aṭāyā; Qiblāwī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Īsá, Ḥasan (Martyr); Qundus, Khalīl (Martyr); ‘Abdū, Aḥmad (Wounded); al-Rā‘ī, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Ṣaqlāwī (Fisherman); Bas‘ad, ‘Alī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, and eveyday life during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in the village. (@ 16:31)Table of contents: Political clashes during the British Mandate. (@ 28:25)Table of contents: Interreligious relations and military attacks . (@ 37:17)Table of contents: Violence, resistance during the Zionist colonization. (@ 47:41)Table of contents: Economic conditions in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 62:42)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 84:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2003 with Ᾱminah Yāsīn Sa‘d, female, born in al-Jish, Palestine.Families: al-Khalāylī; al-Zayādnī; Ayyūb; Saʻd; Zaydān; Fahdah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Nabī Sabalān (Maqām); al-ʻAjamī (Maqām).Significant figures: Ayyūb, Salīm ʻAlī (Mayor); Jubrān, Samʻān (Mayor); Ḥulayḥil, Aḥmad (Reporter); Jadīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Nāṣir, Aḥmad (Poet); al-Nāṣir, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥūrān, Maḥmūd Ḥusayn (Martyr); Fayyūm, Salīm (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Najīyah (Martyr); Sirḥān, Faṭṭumah (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic Life in al-Jish . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Religious places, practices, and social life in al-Jish . (@ 8:24)Table of contents: Political Dynamics in al-Jish . (@ 28:1)Table of contents: Events that led to the expulsion from al-Jish. (@ 33:50)Table of contents: Final reflections on expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 59:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 23, 2005 with Āmīnah Yāsīn ‘Umar, female, born in 1932 Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in al-Jalīl Palestinian Refugee Camp, Baalbek, Lebanon.Significant figures: Kāyid, Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Characteristics of Palestinian agriculture community under British rule. (@ 0:08)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 14, 2004 with Aḥmad Āghā, male, born in 1930 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine. He worked as a military commander with the British police forces.Families: Sirḥān; Ᾱghā; al-Ḥammulah; al-Khayrāt; al-Fallāḥīn; Abū Anṭūn; al-Qiblāwī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Saint Luke's School (School); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Mujāhid (Maqām); al-Nabī Yahyá (Maqām); Jablat ʻAlī Abū Saʻd (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Ḥammūlah (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Qubbah, Maḥmūd (Teacher); Bishārah, Ḥannā (Teacher); ʻAwdah, ʻAbdallāh (Teacher); Ḥūrānī, Adīb (Teacher); Ḥabīb, Karam (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Bāqī, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Ḥijāzī, Fakhr (Teacher); Bustānī, Bashīr (Teacher); Shurayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Qāḍī, Shukrī (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad (Mayor), Sirḥān, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Mayor); Ᾱghā, Taqīy al-Dīn Aḥmad (Mayor); ʻAwdah, Fāṭimah (Dressmaker); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); Fuʼād, ʻUthmān (Revolutionary leader); al-Rashīd, Fawzī (Revolutionary leader); Ᾱghā, Muḥammad Kamāl (Resistance leader); Jadīd, Fuʼād (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Yannī, Yannī (Mayor); Laḥḥūd, Ḥannā (Resistance fighter); Ghabghad, Naʻīm (Minister); ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Rafīq, Naẓmī (Resistance fighter); al-Sibāʻī, Sabiʻ (Resistance fighter); Ᾱghā, Muḥmmad Kamāl (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family history and origin. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 7:29)Table of contents: Employment in the Palestinian mobile forces. (@ 15:28)Table of contents: Socio-political life in Tarshīḥā . (@ 27:13)Table of contents: Cultural life in Tarshīḥā. (@ 51:42)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 66:30)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine . (@ 74:17)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā and life in exile. (@ 100:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 5, 2004 with Aḥmad Jabr Rifāʻī, male, born in 1931 in Firʻim, Palestine.Significant figures: ‘Izz al-Dīn, Kāmil (School principal); ‘Uthmān, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Political conditions and community life in Pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist terrorism and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 22:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 17, 2003 with Aḥmad Ḥusayn al-‘Alī, male, born in 1921 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine.Families: Sursuq.Significant figures: al-Ḥāj Yāsīn, ʻAlī (School principal); al-Rumayiẓ, Jumʻah (Teacher); al-Fandī, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Zaghmūt, Kāmil (Teacher); ʻArrābī, Maḥmūd (School principal); Yūsuf, Kāmil al-Ḥusayn (Village leader); Yūsuf, Kāmil al-Ḥusayn (Village leader); al-Ḥamīd, ‘Abdullāh (Shaykh); al-Ḥusayn Yūsuf, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Hamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor); Marzūq, Mūsá Jumʻah (Revolutionary); Zahrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Shaykh Mūsá, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Murshid, Qāsim (Martyr); al-ʻĪsá, Maryam (Martyr); Mirʻī, ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education in al-Khāliṣah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and everyday life . (@ 10:18)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life. (@ 26:32)Table of contents: Traditions and customs in al-Khāliṣah . (@ 55:23)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 65:30)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 73:6)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine, 1948. (@ 89:10)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 100:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 20, 2004 with Aḥmad Ḥusayn Ḥammūd, male, born in 1922 in Wādī al-Ḥundāj, Palestine.Families: al-Rasāṭimah; al-Ẓawāhirah; Ghazāziwah; Sursuq; Nuhrah; al-As‘ad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Muḥammad al-Munṭār (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Mūsá (Mayor); al-Muḥsin, Masʻūd (Mayor); al-Ṣāliḥ, Sulaymān Khālid (Revolutionary); al-Muḥammad, Sʻayyid (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Ḥummayḍah, Anīs (Revolutionary leader); Abū Khulayṣ, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army leader); ‘Ammār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); ‘Ammār; ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); al-Ja‘far, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood, social life, and customs. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 20:16)Table of contents: Settlement expansion and the Zionist occuaption. (@ 33:19)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 62:24)
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 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 March 31, 2004 with Aḥmad Khalīl Ḥusayn, male, born in 1931? in Ḥamāmah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Maṣrīyīn; al-Maqādīd; al-Kalālibah; Shurbajī; Bakr; Ḥasanayn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Shawwā (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū ʻArqūb (Maqām); al-Shaykh Ḥāmid (Maqām); Abū Jahm (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū Shaqrah, Kāmil (Teacher); al-Nāẓir, Kāmil (Teacher); al-Khayyāl, Khulūṣī (Teacher); Abū Samʻān, Yūsuf Khalīl (Martyr); al-Khawājah, Khālid (Martyr); Manāsh, Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-‘Abd, Yaḥyá (Martyr); al-Bakr, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Prisoner); Ḥāfiẓ, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ḥamāmah. (@ 7:23)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 21:1)Table of contents: Expulsion from Ḥamāmah . (@ 36:59)Table of contents: Expulsion from Gaza. (@ 58:43)
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 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 September 8, 2003 with Aḥmad Salīm al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1912 in al-Rās al-Aḥmar, Palestine.Families: Ayyūb; al-Shāyib; al-Khaṭīb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Qādirīyah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Murād, Rashid (Teacher); al-Khaṭīb, Faṭṭūm (Midwife); Ayyūb, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Mayor); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Shaʻbī, Abū Khalīl (Poet); al-Khaṭīb, Ḥannā al- ʻAlī (Musician); al-Khaṭīb, ʻAlī As‘ad (Musician); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥyī al-Dīn (Village leader); Ayyūb, Tawfīq (Village leader); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Qādir (Singer); Qaddūrah, Jamāl (Doctor); Qaddūrah, Ṣalāḥ (Doctor); al- Hirish, Fayyāḍ (Martyr); Shāhīn, Aḥmad (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Childhood and education in Raʼs al-Aḥmar. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community relations and ceremonial practices in Raʼs al-Aḥmar. (@ 10:10)Table of contents: Social practices, political turmoil and resistance. (@ 25:35)Table of contents: Society and conflict during Mandate Palestine. (@ 40:24)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 53:56)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 63:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 25, 2004 with Aḥmad Shafīq al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1926 in al-Qubaybah, Palestine.Families: al-Jadīlī; Sulṭān; al-Kuttah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Kullīyat Rawḍat al-Maʻārif (School).Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, Shafīq (Mayor); Shāhīn, Mūsá (Mayor); Yūnus, Muḥammad ʻᾹrif (School principal); Abū Sharkh, al-Sayyid (Mayor).Table of contents: Family origins, education, and childhood. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Social life, culture, and political conditions. (@ 21:46)Table of contents: Social and community life. (@ 46:48)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and political life. (@ 71:29)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and battles . (@ 83:27)Table of contents: Exile to Beirut and career establishment . (@ 96:40)Table of contents: Father's death and career. (@ 116:47)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع وزوجته نايفة أحمد علي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1933 في علما، فلسطين.Families: al-ʻAjjāwī; Shaḥrūr; al-Shaykh Aḥmad.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Sunbul (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque); al-Shaykh Nāṣir (Maqām); al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Faḥḥūmī, Būlūs (Teacher); al-Shakhnīnī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Teacher); al-Shaffūlī, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Shwaybī, Isḥāq (Jailer); Ḥammūd, Abū Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Mirʻī, Qāṣim (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Resistance fighter); ʻAjāwī, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); ʻAjāwī, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); Muṣṭafá, Khalīl (Martyr); Ghannām, Ḥasan, (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education in ʻAlmā . (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Employment in British Police forces . (@ 5:55)Table of contents: Cultural life at ʻAlmā . (@ 19:0)Table of contents: Palestinian political activity during the Arab revolt and Zionist invasion. (@ 34:6)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from ʻAlmā . (@ 47:5)Table of contents: Exodus to exile. (@ 53:41)Table of contents: Zionist terrorism and expulsion. (@ 59:36)Table of contents: Hardships of exile. (@ 66:33)
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 on April 1,2006 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, male, born in 1925 in Nimrīn, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Social and political dynamics in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Political conditions in Nimrīn during the zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 21:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 25, 2004 with Aḥmad ‘Awn, male, born in 1918, in Ṣalḥah, Palestine and resides in Shabrīhā, Lebanon.Families: Άwn; ‘Umar; Ma‘anqī.Significant figures: ‘Awdah, Muḥammad ‘Alī (School principal); al-Ḥāj Mūsá, ‘Alī (Mayor); Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Ismā‘īl, Na‘īm (Village leader); Maḥmūd, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ḥasan, Kāẓim (Village leader); Kasīrah, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); ‘Abbās, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Ḍahir, Nāṣīf (Martyr); Kāẓim, ‘Alī (Martyr); Ḥasan, Khalīl (Martyr); Ya‘qūb, Mūsá ‘Alī (Martyr); Ismā‘īl, ‘Abd al-Ḥāj (Martyr); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Martyr); Salāmah, Ismā‘īl (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic and cultural life in Ṣalḥah during the British Mandate. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Events of the Arab Revolt, Zionist invasion and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 11:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Aḥmad Krayyim al-Ḥāj, male, born in 1925 in ʻAlmā, Palestine. He worked as a policeman with the British Army.Families: al-Ḥāj; al-ʻAjjāwī; Shaḥrūr; al-Zaghmūṭ; Zaghmūṭ.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Keren Kayemeth (Corporation); British Bank (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Yaʻqūb (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūsuf (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Fāḥūm, Ziyād (Teacher); ʻAbdullāh, Amīn (Teacher); Mūsá, Aḥmad ʻUmar (Teacher); al-Mukaḥḥal, Sha‘bān (Policeman); al-Ḥāj, Aḥmad Ḥusayn (Teacher); Ḥusayn ʻᾹqil (Poet); Saʻīd, Aḥmad (Mayor); Farḥāt Sallām (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Shaʻbī, Abū Khalīl (Poet); ʻᾹqil, Ḥusayn (Poet); Sulaymān, Aḥmad Saʻīd (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥāt (Poet); Mall, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Education and Employment during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life in ʻAlmā. (@ 17:19)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 31:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and the popular resistance. (@ 38:32)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 54:24)Table of contents: Exile and hope of return. (@ 66:46)
Biography: فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم برج البراجنة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Yānūḥ (School).Significant figures: al-Ṣafadī, Sālim (Teacher); Abū Abd al-Qādir, ‘Abd al-Ghanī (Teacher); al- Majẓub, Qāsim (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Abū Ḥusayn Muḥammad (Mayor); al-‘Akkī, Aḥmad (Land owner); ‘Abd al-‘Āl, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); al-‘Akkī, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Dīb, Rāghib (Landowner); ʻŪthmān, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Rifʻat, Aḥmad (Martyr); Abū Ḥamdān, Sulaymān (Shaykh); Ibrāhim, Nūḥ (Poet).Table of contents: Social life in ‘Amqā. (@ 1:29)Table of contents: Palestinian society characteristics before Zionist occupation. (@ 26:47)Table of contents: Weddings in ʻAmqā during British occupation. (@ 50:54)Table of contents: Battle events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 69:13)Table of contents: Battle events. (@ 88:57)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 105:1)Table of contents: Arab attitudes towards Palestinians right to return. (@ 111:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 27, 2004 with Aḥmad Muḥammad ‘Awaḍ, male, born in 1925 in al-Manshīyah, Palestine. He was a store keeper at the Department of Agriculture.Families: Di‘bis; Ṣaqr; al-Ḥāj Ḥusayn; Ḥamdū; al-‘Awīṣ; Abū Ṣghayyar; ‘Ayn Maḥmūd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dāīrat al-Zirā‘ah (Governmental institution); Dā'irat al-Masāḥah (Governmental institution); Dā'irat al-Zirā‘ah (Governmental Institution).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū ‘Atabah (Maqām); ʻIzz al-Dīn (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Qūwwatlī, Shamʻah (Landowner); Ḥāmid, Fahd (Shop owner); al-Ṭarāwī, Aḥmad (Shop owner); al-ʻAbd, ‘Alī (Sop owner); al-Ṭarāwī, Yūsuf (Shop owner); Mannā‘, Nimir (Village leader); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, ʻĪsá (Village leader); Mannā‘, Yāsīn (Poet); al-‘Abd, Rashīd (Poet); Lātī, Georges (Public officer); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); Mannā‘, Khalīl (Martyr); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Leader); Ḥamdū, Maḥmūd (Translater); Naffā‘, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Education and childhood in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic dynamics in al-Manshīyah . (@ 14:53)Table of contents: Social history of the village. (@ 28:16)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 41:13)Table of contents: Battles, armed resistance and expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 60:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 5, 2004 with Aḥmad Muḥammad Muṣṭafá, male, born in al-Khiṣāṣ, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Families: Shiḥādah; Juwayyid.Significant figures: Khalīl, Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb (Teacher); Shiḥādah, Aḥmad Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Juwayyid, ‘Aṭīyah Muḥammad (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic life at al-Khiṣāṣ. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Cultural life, settler colonialism, and Zionist invasion . (@ 11:20)Table of contents: Expulsion and nostalgia. (@ 31:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Aḥmad Maḥmūd al-Saʻdī on February 17, 2004, male, born in 1930 in al-Zīb, Palestine.Families: al-Saʻdī; ʻAṭāyā; Yūsuf; Saʻd al-Dīn; al-Shaykh Ṭāhā; ‘Awaḍ.Significant figures: al-Nāṭūr, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); al-Barghūtī, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); Manṣūr, Anīs (Author); ʻAṭāyā, Abū Sulaymān (Mayor); al-Fāris, Abū Shiḥādah (Mayor); Ṭāhā, Khalīl (Martyr); al-ʻAbd ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Rāʻī, Aḥmad (Martyr); ‘Aṭāyā, Abū ‘Izzāt (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and socio-economic life at al-Zīb . (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Social life, folklore, and religious beliefs . (@ 28:50)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and expulsion . (@ 54:35)Table of contents: Exile and Hardships . (@ 79:36)
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 Aḥmad Muṣṭafà Shabāyṭah, male, born in 1912 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine and resides in ʼAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shabāyṭah; Azzām; al-Imām; Rabāḥ; Qīyyam; Sursuq; Ramaḍān; Twaynī; al-Lawābinah.Significant figures: Azzām, Mufaḍḍī (Trader); Azzām, Azzām (Trader); Shaʻbān, Muḥammad (Trader); al-Būlīṣ, Khalīl (Doctor); al-Saʻīd, Diyāb (Poet); al-Badawī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); Shabāyṭah, Mūsá (Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd al-ʻAbd (Mayor); Azzām, Abū Rāmī,(Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Resisatnce leader); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd ʻAbd al-Qādir (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Resistance fighter); al-Imām, Ḥāmid (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood difficulties and education. (@ 0:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn
. (@ 8:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 27:23)Table of contents: Political conditions and Palestinian resistance. (@ 38:21)Table of contents: Expulsion and hardships of exile . (@ 63:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 16, 2005 with Adīb Qa‘wār, male, born in 1930? in Nazareth, Palestine.Families: Fāhūm; Ḥamad; al-Fāhūm; al-Zu‘bī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Chamber of Commerce (Governmental institution); Kullīyyat al-Ḥuqūq (University).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Freres School (School); Palestine Electric Company Ltd (Corporation); Madrasat al-Maskūbīyah (School); Madarsat al-Maskūbīyah (School); al-Maskūbīyah School (School); American University of Beirut (University).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Bishārah (Church).Significant figures: Qa‘wār, Ṭannūs (Contractor); Ṭannūs, Qa‘wār (Mayor); Bishārah, Salīm (Mayor).Table of contents: History of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 11:27)Table of contents: Religious pluralism and social conditions in Nazareth . (@ 26:30)Table of contents: Political turmoil in Nazareth. (@ 38:5)Table of contents: Zionist occupation . (@ 48:2)Table of contents: City occupation and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 62:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 18, 2005 with Umm Kārim Abū Sālim and others, female, born in 1947 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ghassān Ḥammūd (Hospital).Significant figures: Abū Kārim, Maḥmūd ‘Alī (Martyr); al-Yūsuf, Māhir (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: War and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Intervention and Israeli terrorism . (@ 12:23)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 24:38)Table of contents: Palestinian women's role in the war. (@ 37:48)Table of contents: Refugees and humanitarian conditions during the Israeli invasion. (@ 49:34)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع إبنتها هلا أيو سالم، أنثى، ولدت وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution).Significant figures: al-Yūsuf, Māhir (Writer); Abū Sālim, Maḥmud (Martyr); al- Ḥiṭṭīnī, Umm Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad (Lebanese Army commander).Table of contents: Battles and violence in Lebanon,1982. (@ 2:21)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 12:18)Table of contents: Living conditions during the Israeli invasion. (@ 22:0)Table of contents: Palestinian refugee camp conditions during the Israeli invasion. (@ 40:26)Table of contents: Social dynamics in a Palestinian community. (@ 56:40)Table of contents: Social and political changes in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 71:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Mīlād, female, born in 1940 in Wādī al-Ḥundāj, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 17:9)Table of contents: The prince and his wife. (@ 30:42)Table of contents: Refugee hopes and stories. (@ 44:19)