Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Ṭāhā Saʻd, female and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Two short stories. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Sacrifice in social relations. (@ 8:18)Table of contents: Dignity in literature. (@ 16:37)Table of contents: The king and his son in law . (@ 26:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Tāhā Saʻd, female and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of a king and his daughter. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Short Arabic stories. (@ 11:28)Table of contents: Moral stories. (@ 21:42)Table of contents: Cunning and guile in Arabic short stories. (@ 34:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 3, 1995 with Umm ‘Alī, female, born in 1916 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Popular songs and poetry. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs of love. (@ 7:47)Table of contents: Collective songs. (@ 26:12)Table of contents: The most famous Palestinian popular song. (@ 42:36)Table of contents: Zalghūṭah. (@ 61:38)Table of contents: Political poetry. (@ 73:21)Table of contents: Wedding customs. (@ 84:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 5, 1995 with Umm ‘Alī Ḥamzah, female, born in 1921 in Shaʻb, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Marriage celebrations in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk songs . (@ 15:14)Table of contents: Songs and Zalghūtah. (@ 28:41)Table of contents: Story from Palestine. (@ 50:31)Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian popular songs. (@ 66:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع زهرة الخضر، أنثى، ولدت عام 1932 في أم الفرج، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البص للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: ِArabic folk poetry. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Fairy tale. (@ 8:26)Table of contents: Songs and poems. (@ 21:4)Table of contents: al-Zayn M‘ammar story. (@ 33:3)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 45:24)Table of contents: Songs and Story. (@ 50:17)Table of contents: Sleeping beauty. (@ 60:37)Table of contents: The Six Brothers story. (@ 71:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 30, 1997 with Umm Māzin al-Yamānī, female, born in 1933 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Abū al-Ḥusayn story or Sleeping stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Children songs. (@ 21:17)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 27:29)
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: The interview was recorded on November 17, 1995 with Amīnah al-Mūsá, female, born in 1911 in ʻAmqā, Plaestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Traditional songs and memories of childhood. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic life in ʻAmqā . (@ 15:55)Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 30:51)Table of contents: Marriage traditional celebration. (@ 56:59)Table of contents: Black Dog story. (@ 65:24)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 83:16)
Biography: The interview was recording on February 7, 1997 with Amīnah Bashīr al-Mughrabī, female, born in 1921 in Nahariya, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon.Families: Twaynī; Sursuq; Twaynī.Significant figures: al-Shanṭī, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Ḥimmū, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥūrānī, Abū Kāmil (Engineer).Table of contents: Settlements and land issues before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 18:45)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 26:11)Table of contents: Exodus and revisiting Palestine. (@ 37:25)Table of contents: Exile and emigration. (@ 47:11)
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: The interview was recorded on April 15, 1997 with Amīnah ‘Aql, female, born in 1927 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Fictional stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral story and patriotic songs. (@ 21:14)
Biography: وسجلت المقابلة ايضا مع الياس شربين، ذكر، ولد عام 1931 في حيفا، فلسطين.Significant figures: al-al-Ḥajjār, Muṭrān (Poet).Table of contents: Socio- political dynamics during British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Two popular stories. (@ 11:31)Table of contents: ِArabic aphorism. (@ 20:36)Table of contents: Story of the Old woman and the Treasure. (@ 31:29)Table of contents: Real story. (@ 41:30)Table of contents: Friendship short story. (@ 53:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 12, 1999 with Ibrāhīm Yūsuf Rinnū, male, born in 1926 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Tripoli, Lebanon. He was a fisherman.Families: Abū Zayd, Rinnū; al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm; al-Ḥāj Khalīl; al-Bāshā; al-Ḥāj Sālim; Ḥishmī; Abū Hawwāsh.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Palestine Electric Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell Palestine (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Nāṣirī, Abū ‘Alī (Martyr); Rinnū, Kāmil (Leader); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Ṭāhā (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and Zionist terrorism . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Haifa. (@ 11:19)Table of contents: Socio-economic life and expulsion. (@ 40:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on 1995 with Bāsimah Muḥammad Ṭāhā, female born in 1929 in Kafar Kannā, Palestine and resides in, Tripoli, Lebanon.Table of contents: Marriage folk songs. (@ 0:00)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November, 1995 with Badr al-Sayyid, male, born in 1926 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 12:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on with Bahīyah al-ʻAdawī, female, born in Palestine.Table of contents: ʻAtābā and wedding songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Stupidity in popular tale. (@ 25:33)
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 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: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع فاطمة علي سعد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1919 في نحف، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: The Beauty story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 14:35)Table of contents: Story of Two Friends and the king. (@ 25:8)Table of contents: Two popular stories. (@ 39:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Jabr Muḥammad Yūnus, male, born in 1920 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon. He was a trader.Families: al-Zaghmūṭ; Yūnus, Ḥamad; Yāsīn; Yūnus; Ḥamad.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Ecole Des Frères (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Saʻd Allāh al-Khalīl (Hospital); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Kull, Naʻīm (Resistance fighter); al-Zaghmūṭ, Ismāʻīl (Village leader); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); al-Yūnus, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Yūnus, Dīb Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥasan, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Resistance fighter); Zaynī, Ḥasan (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); Farhūd, Aḥmad Nimir (Resistance fighter); Kāyid, Aḥmad Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); Shraynī, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); al-Shūlī, Ḥannah (Flour mill owner); ʻAzzām, ʻAlī (Flour mill owner); Yūnus, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, Nāyif (Martyr); Swaydī, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestinian villages. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948. (@ 16:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Ṣafṣāf and journey to Lebanon. (@ 42:18)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile . (@ 65:11)Table of contents: Education and economic conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 77:8)Table of contents: Political conditions and Zionist occupation. (@ 88:2)Table of contents: Social and community life in pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 104:12)Table of contents: Living conditions during the British Mandate of Palestine 1920-1948 . (@ 126:1)Table of contents: Final reflections on life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 149:37)
Biography: The interview was also recorded with her husband Muḥammad ʻAbd Darwīsh, male, born in 1921 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Expulsion and journey to Lebanon
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine. (@ 13:31)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 36:6)Table of contents: Rural life in Pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 60:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 6, 1997 with Jumʻah Ruḥayyil Mshayrifah, male, born in 1926 in Nāʻimah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a policeman with the British Army forces.Families: Mashārifah; Daḥāwishah; ‘Absīyah; Khdayrawīyah; Ḥajjāj; Shihāb.Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 7:37)Table of contents: Refugees life conditions. (@ 20:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 5, 1998 with Jamīl Mūsá al-‘Alī, male, born in 1928 in Kafr ʻAnān, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a policeman in the British Police forces.Families: Shuqayr; Manṣūr; al-Khaḍr; al-Khaḍrah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: Muṣliḥ, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Naḥf, Ṣalāḥ (Teacher); Dīmāsī, Maḥmūd (Teacher); Ṭāhā, Muḥammad (Policeman); ‘Awāḍ, Ḥasan (Military officer).Table of contents: Rural life and employment in British police forces. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Work in the British police forces. (@ 24:21)Table of contents: Police work in British prisons. (@ 53:47)Table of contents: Prisoners' treatment and work in British prisons. (@ 80:38)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 100:31)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع فاطمة حسين سالم، أنثى، ولدت عام 1950 في بعلبك، لبنان وتقيم في مخيم الرشيدية للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Early childhood songs. (@ 12:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 7, 1997 with Jihād Ṭalāl al-Ḥāj, male, born in 1940 in al-Sammūʻī, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Kishkish, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Teacher); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ashqar, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Mayor); Qaddūrah, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); Qaddūrah, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and expulsion from al-Sammūʻī . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories and Zionist crimes . (@ 17:31)Table of contents: Education and pre-Nakba life . (@ 33:40)Table of contents: Land ownership of al-Sammūʻī village and refugee experience. (@ 49:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 1997 with Ḥājah Khalīl ʻᾹmir, male, born in 1929 in Bīr al-Maksūr, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Jandāwī, Abū Aḥmad (Leader); al-Ṭaynīs, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Jandāwī, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Childhood memories and community life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to Lebanon. (@ 14:45)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon . (@ 35:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 20, 1997 with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Asadī, male, born in 1922 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked with the British Army.Families: al-Asadī; al-Dhabāḥ; Mūsá.Table of contents: Childhood and education in Pre-Nakba Dayr al-Asad . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British army and political turmoil . (@ 9:57)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience . (@ 17:43)Table of contents: lsraeli colonization of Palestinian land. (@ 34:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Khalīlī, male, Born in 1911 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a truck driver in Palestine.Families: Muṣṭafá; al-Jishī; Samārah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: Shraym, Fahd (Mayor); Ḥadād, Jibrā’īl (Mayor).Table of contents: Agriculture and socio-economic life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tobacco cultivation and trade. (@ 10:17)Table of contents: Tobacco industry and cultivation. (@ 36:57)Table of contents: Dwellings in Palestine. (@ 64:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 7, 1997 with Ḥasan Ḥamad, male, born in 1930 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Kūkū; al-Zaghmūṭ; Ḥamad; Mirʻī; Sharāybī; ʻUbayd; Abū al-Kull; Shraydī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Zāwiyah (School); Madrasat al-Rujūm (School); Madrasat Khadūrī al-Zirāʻīyah (School).Significant figures: Zayn, Abū Salīm (Public officer); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); Ḥamad, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and community traditions in al-Ṣafṣāf . (@ 14:56)Table of contents: al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948. (@ 27:25)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 40:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 6, 1997 with Ḥasan Yūsuf ʻAwdah, male, born in 1920 in Nazareth, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a construction worker with the British Army forces.Families: Sursuq.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation); al-Mustashfá al-Inglīzī (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid Cleopatra (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Fāhūm, Ismā‘īl (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military attacks. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Military activity and exile from Palestine. (@ 10:12)Table of contents: Military occupation of Nazareth. (@ 26:1)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 41:13)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 48:27)Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 58:44)Table of contents: Israeli policy in occupied territories. (@ 72:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 26, 1998 with Ḥasnah ‘Abd Kīlānī, female, born in 1925 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Kīlānī; al-Shahāyibah; al-Hajājiwah; al-‘Aṭwāṭ; al-‘Ajāyinah; al-Ḥiṭṭīnī; Qaddūrah; al-Kīlānīyah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Jāmi‘ al-Azhar (School).Significant figures: Kīlānī, Muḥammad (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Social life and rural conditions . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Lūbyā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 16:43)Table of contents: Social life and customs . (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 36:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 17, 1997 with Ḥasnah ‘Alī Mannā‘, female, born in 1927 in Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Most popular folk tale: Jbaynih. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Nways story. (@ 14:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1998 with Ḥusnī Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ, male, born in 1912 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a carpenter.Families: al-Qāḍī; al-Mukhaḥḥal; al-Ḥusaynī; Sursuq; Twaynī; Salām; al-Khūrī.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Leader); Ṭannūs, ‘Īsá (Carpenter); Shāhīn, Jibrā’īl (Carpenter); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Tawfīq (Artist); Kāmil, Sa‘īd (Trader); Kāmil, Maḥmūd (Trader); Ṣāliḥ, Mahdī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jumay‘ān, Imīl (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Political history and activity in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Carpentry profession and social dynamics in Palestine. (@ 20:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic life in Tarshīḥā . (@ 46:0)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā and refugee experience . (@ 61:7)Table of contents: Refugee carpentry work Post-Nakba in exile . (@ 87:19)Table of contents: Carpentry wood types and trade. (@ 103:20)Table of contents: al-Kābrī Battle, 1948 . (@ 116:57)Table of contents: Municipality elections in Tarshīḥā and refugee experience . (@ 134:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 18, 1996 with Ḥusayn Zayd, male, born in 1941 in al-Ẓāhirīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Harām (Mosques); Ibrāhīm Maqām (Maqām).Table of contents: Story of a prophet. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Qurʼān stories. (@ 23:32)Table of contents: Palestine, the land of prophets. (@ 37:53)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع محمد عبد الغني الخليل، ذكر، ولد عام 1931 في صفورية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Families: Abū al-Nʻāj.Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Amīn, Muṣliḥ (Village leader).Table of contents: Social life and customs in Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and social customs. (@ 14:47)Table of contents: The reward of good deeds . (@ 34:4)Table of contents: Story about the chivalry of Arabs. (@ 48:2)Table of contents: The virtue of patience. (@ 59:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Ḥusayn Shams, male, born in 1934 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥusayn; Karrūm; Sārah; Shams; Ghunaym; Abū Shākir.Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Aḥmad (Village leader); Abū Dayyā, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); ‘Uṭūr, Ibrāhīm (Wonded); Ghunaym, ‘Abdullāh (Wounded); Karrūm, Tawfīq al-Mūsa (Martyr); al-Khālid, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr).Table of contents: Socioe-conomic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and forced departure. (@ 19:45)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 32:39)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 43:42)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 57:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 1997 with Ḥusayn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ‘Ayyāsh (Abū 'Alī), male, Born in 1921? in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Abū Rāṣ; ʻAṭāllāh; ʻAbbūd; ʻAyyāsh; Sursuq; Sirḥān; al-Nashāshībī.Significant figures: Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ṭāhā Muḥammad Khalīl (Revolutionary); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Sālim, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Sulaymān, ʻAwaḍ (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣalṭī, Nāyif (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣahyūn, Abū Fāyiz (Tracker); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Sārī (Martyr); Zāyid, Ibn Qūrá (Jewish officer).Table of contents: Social life and political history of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: ʻAylūṭ during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 16:41)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and feudalism in Palestine. (@ 45:0)Table of contents: Political activity during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 68:1)Table of contents: Battles and Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine, 1948. (@ 84:19)Table of contents: Mass murder and expulsion from ʻAylūṭ . (@ 109:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lūbānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Bāsh, Ḥasan (Writer); al-Bakr, Maḥmūd Mifliḥ (Writer); al-‘Afīfī, Fāṭimah (Poet).Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs and stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Love stories in literature. (@ 13:22)Table of contents: Palestinian social customs and traditions . (@ 28:47)Table of contents: Popular songs and poetry. (@ 46:19)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 68:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 17, 1997 with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lūbānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Biqāʻī; al-Zayādinah; al-Lawābinah; al-ʻAthāminah; al-ʻAyāyshah; Abū ʻAlī; Mīkhā'īl; Abū Ḥamdī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-ʻAfīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Lūbānī, Dāhish Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Biqāʻī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz (Martyr); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Tawfīq (Martyr); Ṣāliḥ, al-ʻAbd (Martyr); al-Bīṭār, Khalīl (Teacher); ʻŪbayd, Shafīq (School principal).Table of contents: Sociopolitical dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 18:10)Table of contents: Political turmoil and popular resistance. (@ 44:34)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 54:7)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 61:24)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 82:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 13, 1997 with Ḥusayn Muḥammad Ḥijjū, male, born in 1931 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Shihābī.Significant figures: al-ʻUthmān, Dawwās (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, ʻᾹrif (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Saʻīd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Manṣūr, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Shaʻbān, ʻAlī (Prisoner); Abū ʻAyshah, Ṣāliḥ (Prisoner).Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and war events. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 17:15)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile and attempt at return . (@ 42:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Ḥusayn Muḥammad Darwīsh, male, born in 1937 in Khirbat Ja‘tūn, Palestine.Families: al-Darāwshah; Mir‘ī; Manāṣrī; Mḥaysnīyah; Ḥijāzī; Ḥawwā; Twaynī; Sursuq; Ḥabāyib; Bazzī; Salām; al-As‘ad.Significant figures: al-ʻAkkī, Aḥmad (Landowner); Ḥijāzī, Abū Aḥmad (Mayor); Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); al-Qassīs, Abū Mas‘ad (Village leader).Table of contents: Farming and living conditions before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 7:50)Table of contents: Infiltration during the British rule. (@ 15:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 28:46)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 38:23)Table of contents: War time and military operations. (@ 54:42)Table of contents: Land, defense and resistance. (@ 67:22)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 83:28)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 101:24)Table of contents: Humanitarian conditions during the exodus. (@ 114:38)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 130:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 14, 1997 with Ḥafīẓah al-Asadī, female, born in 1911? in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She was a seamstress.Table of contents: Community and family life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 18:42)
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 in 1995 with Ḥulwah ‘Abbās, female, born in 1914 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Ḥārit Ḥurayk, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Amūn, Yaḥyá (Poet); al-Baytam, ʻAwaḍ (Poet).Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian wedding. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The Palestinian Wedding Practices and Rituals. (@ 13:23)Table of contents: Sleeping Beauty story. (@ 28:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 20, 1995 with Ḥalīmah al-Shaykh Khalīl, female, born in 1892 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Memories of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular story. (@ 18:28)Table of contents: Two short popular stories. (@ 29:15)Table of contents: Popular poetry and songs. (@ 50:12)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع زوجها عبد الرحمن محمد المجذوب، ذكر، ولد عام 1925 في عمقا، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم المية ومية للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان. كان يعمل في فبركت الكبريت في عكا.Families: Abū Jāmūs; ʻUwayyid; al-Ḥajal; al-ʻAkkī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka airport (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nūr Safety Match (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Muṣṭafá (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Darwīsh, Shafīq (Lawyer).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and beliefs in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 21:35)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 43:0)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 58:6)