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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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: 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)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 23, 1997 with Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Barakah, male, born in 1923 in Mughr al-Khayṭ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Umar; Yūnus; al-Ḥāj; Barakah; al-Biqāʻī; Nashāshībī.Significant figures: al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Shiḥādah, Saʻīd (Martyr); Sārī, Fnaysh (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ṣabbāgh, Fāyiz (Camp leader).Table of contents: History of Nakba. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Political activity in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 14:48)Table of contents: Battles and military occupation. (@ 21:55)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 43:21)Table of contents: Violence, battles and exile. (@ 53:49)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 76:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 1995 with Abū al-ʻAbd Barqajī, male, born in 1911 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ḥmayyid, Muḥammad (Poet); Ḥmayyid, Hāshim (Poet); Ḥmayyid, Qāsim (Poet); al-Baytam, Muḥammad ‘Alī (Singer); al-‘Alī, Jamīl Ḥusayn (Singer); Najā, Muḥammad (Singer); al-‘Alayyān, Aḥmad (Poet); ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, Kāmil (Governor).Table of contents: Social life before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics during ottoman rule. (@ 17:11)Table of contents: al-Zīr Sālim story. (@ 33:21)Table of contents: Songs and stories. (@ 47:13)
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 November 3, 1998 with Muṣṭafá Bayraqjī, male, born in 1906 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked at Akka airport during the British Mandate of Palestine.Families: al-Ḥusaynī; al-Nashāshībī; Ṭūqān; al-’Aẓm; al-Qūwatlī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka Airport (Airport).Significant figures: Iskandar, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Mayor); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Mayor).Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military attacks. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist- British agreement for Palestine before 1948. (@ 8:41)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 20:24)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity. (@ 33:14)Table of contents: Tales of passed times . (@ 46:11)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine. (@ 59:27)Table of contents: Pre-Nakbah life in the village. (@ 68:31)
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 July 7, 1999 with Karīmah Muḥammad Bushnāq, female, born in 1935 in Qaysārīyah, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Families: Bushnāq.Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, ‘Alī (Shaykh); al-Khamrah, Ya‘qūb (Shaykh); Shammās, Salīm (Principal); Abū Dāhish, Aḥmad (Teacher).Table of contents: Bosnian immigration to Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Bosnians during armed conflicts and exile to Lebanon. (@ 11:21)Table of contents: Adaptation and integration with Palestinians . (@ 22:29)Table of contents: Exile to Lebanon and refugee experience . (@ 31:58)