Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Nazmīyah Fatḥ Allāh, female, born in 1930 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Sirḥān.Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The exodus and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 9:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on may 15, 1997 with Amīnah Fayyāḍ, female, born in1925 in Shaʻb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Inspirational story of Honor. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of The Three Brothers. (@ 12:19)Table of contents: Fictional story. (@ 21:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 6, 1997 with Nādiyah Faḍḍah, female, born in 1927 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Biʼr al-‘Abd, Lebanon.Families: Staytīyah; al-ʻĀsī; Sursuq; Twaynī; Bayhum; al-‘Abdah; Jarrāḥ; Badr; al-Shuqayrī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Barclays bank (Bank); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Zaytūn (Mosque).Significant figures: Faḍḍah, Jihād (Resistance fighter); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Muwaqqiʻ, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Amīn, Muḥammad (School principal); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Leader); ‘Azzām, Samīrah (Journalist).Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity in the city. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 12:27)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 22:9)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 37:45)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion. (@ 46:51)Table of contents: Refugees in Lebanon. (@ 54:55)Table of contents: Experiences of Palestinian exile. (@ 70:43)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile from Palestine. (@ 83:32)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع عقل حجاوي (أبو أيمن)، ذكر، ولد عام 1943 في حجة، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding songs and music. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian traditional wedding songs and music . (@ 27:31)Table of contents: Wedding customs and traditions. (@ 56:41)Table of contents: Marriage customs and rites. (@ 65:40)
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 May 30, 1997 with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Karīm Ghunaym , male, born in 1938 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Najm; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; ʻĪsá; al-Maw‘id; Ghunaym; al-Maqāziḥah; al-Ḥadāyidah; Rāshīd.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Municipal council); Yūsuf, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Laylá, Ḥasan (Shaykh).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ṣaffurīyah. (@ 17:48)Table of contents: Popular resistance in the village. (@ 32:3)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 48:9)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 65:5)
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 November 24, 1998 with Aḥmad Faḍīl Hijjū, male, born in 1922 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a Police officer in the British Police forces during the mandate.Families: al-Shahāyibah; al-ʻAjāyinah; al-ʻAṭwāt; al-Ḥajājiwah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Qādir, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Shihābī, Yaḥyá Saʻīd (Mayor); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-ʻAṭwāt, Kāmil (Policeman); al-Fawwāz, Ibrāḥīm (Policeman); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Policeman); al-Fayyāḍ, ʻUthmān (Policeman); Ṭabbārah, Anīs (Policeman); Saʻīd, Sulaymān (Policeman); al-Khaḍrah, Aḥmad (Policeman); al-Jayyūsī, Ḥusnī (Lawyer).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and rural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British police forces. (@ 18:14)Table of contents: British Police activity in Palestine. (@ 37:54)Table of contents: British police during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 64:57)Table of contents: British Police activity and Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 89:44)Table of contents: Warfare and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 105:44)
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 September 3, 1998 with Mūsà ʻAlī Hāshim, male, born in 1897 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a butcher and a trader.Families: al-Frayjāt; al-Khaṭīb; al-Dawālī; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-‘Abdullāh; al-Qawāsimah; al-Hawāshimah.Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Martyr); al-‘Alī, Sulaymān (Martyr); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Prisoner); al-Qaṭawīyah, Mir‘ī (Martyr); al-Jammāl, ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, ‘Abdullāh (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Yūsuf; Ḥusayn (Village leader); Jumʻah, Mūsá (Revolutionary); Yūsuf, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Dāwūd, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Yūsuf, ‘Īsá (Wounded).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 13:4)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics during the British rule . (@ 26:0)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 42:15)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 54:39)
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 December 8,1998 with Nāyifah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1922 in Kawkab Abū al-Hayjāʼ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū al-Hayjāʼ(Maqām).Significant figures: Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Mayor); al-Ibrāhīm, Khalīl Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Muṣṭafá, Tawfīq Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Ṣāliḥ, Ṭāhā (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 14:26)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance and leadership. (@ 26:55)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 40:5)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 53:41)Table of contents: Poems and nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 66:53)