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 October 22, 2002 with Kāmilah Ibrāhīm al-Nāṣir, female, born in 1932 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine.Families: al-Wannih.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al- Khiḍir (Maqām); Mar Elias (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū Muṣṭafá, Ḥalīm (Martyr); al-Nāṣir, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Qaddūmī, Dāwūd (Martyr); al-Sharār, ‘Alī (Martyr); Nimir, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Ḥallāq, Jabbūr (Mayor); Abū al-ʻUlā, Khiḍir (Resistance fighter); al-Hindāwī, Umm ‘Alī (Prisoner); Na‘īm, Umm Khalīl (Prisoner).Table of contents: Childhood and society during wartime. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Customs and community life in Shafā ʻAmrū
. (@ 14:49)Table of contents: Ceremonies, rites and traditional practices in Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 25:28)Table of contents: Social relations and political turmoil. (@ 33:47)Table of contents: Society and warfare. (@ 53:49)Table of contents: Mass evacuation by Israeli authority. (@ 67:14)
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 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 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 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 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 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)