Biography: The interview was recorded on December 1, 1995 with Khadījah, female, born in 1911 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular songs collection. (@ 19:8)Table of contents: Prayers and songs. (@ 32:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 5, 1997 with Khadījah Muḥammad Abū Sālim,female, born in 1926 in al-Ṭīrah Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Tale of passed times. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular tale. (@ 11:57)Table of contents: The Merchant. (@ 22:26)Table of contents: Story of Magic Birds. (@ 45:27)Table of contents: Three Sisters story. (@ 53:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Khaznah Muḥammad ʻUlayyān, female, born in 1921 in Mughr al-Khayṭ, Palestine.Families: Barakah; Tarāshiḥah; Ḍāhir; Dyāb.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻUlayyān , Sulaymān ʻAbd al-laṭīf (Resistance fighter); al-Yūnus, ʻAwaḍ (Landowner); ‘Umar, Ḥusayn (Landowner); ‘Umar, ‘Alī (Landowner); ʻUlayyān , ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Ghanī, Sulaymān (Landowner); ʻUlayyān , Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Dyāb, ‘Umar (Vehicle driver); al-Ḥāj, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Biqā‘ī, Sharīfah Maḥmūd (Wounded).Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 13:17)Table of contents: Political life during the British Mandate. (@ 24:11)Table of contents: Occupation and exile. (@ 34:35)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 50:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 3, 1997 with Khiḍir Asʻad Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in1947 in Yaʻbad, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Three Brothers story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 18:0)Table of contents: Fables and other stories. (@ 44:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 22, 1997 with Khalīl Ibrāhīm Sālim, male, born in 1929 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine.Families: Ḥijāzī; ‘Ulayyān; Twaynī.Significant figures: Twaynī, Ghassān (Landowner); al-Yamanī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Mir‘ī, ‘Abd (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rābāḥ (Resistance leader); Sirḥān, Fāyiz (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Families and land. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and resistance. (@ 8:31)Table of contents: Military operations and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: The exodus and the refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 9, 1997 with Khalīl Ḥusayn Ṣidqī, male, born in 1924 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon. He was as a quarrier.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell Oil Company (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Pipeline Company (Corporation); English Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh ‘Īsá (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); Mār Ilyās (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Kāmil (Businessman).Table of contents: Quarrying profession during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Religious diversity and socio-economic life. (@ 9:43)Table of contents: Palestine during World War II. (@ 30:10)Table of contents: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and political conditions. (@ 37:51)Table of contents: City occupation, terrorism and expulsion. (@ 58:32)Table of contents: Terrorism, expulsion and journey to exile. (@ 68:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 13, 1997 with Khalīl Ḥusayn Yāsīn, male, born in 1933 in Ibṭin, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Qaramān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: Yāsīn, al-‘Abd (Wounded); Yāsīn, Aḥmad (Wounded).Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 11:35)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 18:37)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 25:7)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاّ مع أبو مازن، ذكر، ولد في فلسطين ويقيم في لبنان.Significant figures: Shuqayr, Asʻad (Shaykh); al-Miʻjil, Khālid (Judge); Layyūm, Ḥusayn (Poet).Table of contents: Palestinian elderly people's tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian conduct of life . (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and songs in Palestine. (@ 21:5)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Muḥammad. (@ 31:43)Table of contents: Folk poetry and marriage customs. (@ 47:0)Table of contents: Folk music. (@ 57:17)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and children's stories. (@ 64:0)Table of contents: Fairy tales . (@ 74:9)Table of contents: Marriage celebration and traditions. (@ 82:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 5, 1997 with Dībah Muṣṭafá Ḥijazī, female, born in 1933 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Children's songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Poems and songs. (@ 12:18)Table of contents: Short stories and poems. (@ 27:5)Table of contents: Stories and aphorims. (@ 36:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 7, 1997 with Raʼīfah Sha‘fāṭī, female, born in 1912? in Akka, Palestine and resides in ‘Aramūn, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Sīdī Abū ‘Atabah (Maqām): al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Sīdī ‘Izz al-Dīn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Jazzār, ‘Abdullāh (Muftī); al-Khalīl, Nadīyā (Dressmaker).Table of contents: Community and family life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family, childhood and schooling. (@ 10:31)Table of contents: Wedding and marriage customs. (@ 22:31)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in Akka. (@ 51:23)Table of contents: Refugees and living conditions. (@ 67:49)Table of contents: Forced departure from Palestine. (@ 80:8)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 93:39)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 102:6)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 125:52)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع غزالة إبراهيم عبد المعطي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1927 في بيت لحم، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Significant figures: al-Bahār, Khaḍrah (Midwife); Abū N‘āj, Nimir (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Displacement, exile and hope. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian children folk songs. (@ 12:54)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Rāḍiyah Nawfal, female, born in 1951 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Weddings and ceremonies. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Songs of love. (@ 16:33)
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: The interview was recorded on January 11, 1997 with Jum‘ah Rizq al-Ḥāj Dāwūd, male, born in 1925 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a shoemaker.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Aḥmadīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Waṭanīyah (School); Jam‘īyat al-Ṭaqm al-Ḥadīd (Association).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Raml (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Mīnā’ (Mosque).Significant figures: Abū al-Ḥudá, ‘Alī (School principal); al-Dāyah, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Childhood and cultural life in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: History and cultural life in Pre-Nakba Akka. (@ 12:35)Table of contents: Work in the shoe industry in Akka. (@ 29:19)Table of contents: Political conditions during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 34:21)Table of contents: Betrayal, collaboration and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 42:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 22, 1997 with Rashīd Aḥmad al-ʻAynayn, male, born in 1926 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-ʻAynayn; al-Nūr; Rustum: al-Bayk; Fahd; Baytam; Yāsīn; Wajdī; Badr; Asʻad al-Khalīl; Sursuq.Significant figures: al-ʻAynayn, Aḥmad Rashīd (Revolutionary); Fahd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Shūrī, Muḥammad ʻUthmān (Martyr); Abū al-Khayr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Ḥisn, Qāsim (Martyr); Badr, Ḥasan (Land owner); Ḥisn, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Resistance leader); al-Fāris, Najīb (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Political conditions and events surrounding 1948 Nakba . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political dynamics and betrayal . (@ 18:9)Table of contents: War events and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 35:45)Table of contents: Refugee living conditions in Lebanon. (@ 50:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 25, 1998 with Rashīd ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd Sulaymān, male, born in 1927 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Najm; Sulaymān; ‘Īsá; al-Maw‘id; Ḥadāyidah; al-Sa‘dīyah; al-Maṣāriwah.Significant figures: ‘Izzīyah, Aḥmad Dāwūd (Teacher); Samārah, Shākir (School principal); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Municipal council); al-‘Afīfī, Maḥmud (Municipal council); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural economic in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 14:34)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 39:26)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and rural conditions in the village. (@ 58:3)Table of contents: Crops and agriculture life in Saffuriyah. (@ 73:21)Table of contents: House construction and Farming practices in Palestine. (@ 83:17)Table of contents: Rural life and practices. (@ 95:26)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 106:56)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع راضية إبراهيم عبدالله، انثى، ولدت عام 1925؟ في صفورية، فلسطين.Families: ‘Afīfī; al-Ḥāj.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Symbolism in popular culture. (@ 19:46)Table of contents: Weddings and ceremonies in the village. (@ 31:18)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 52:18)Table of contents: Songs and poems. (@ 65:2)Table of contents: Palestinian folk traditions. (@ 84:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 1997 with Raymond Elias ʻAffārah, male, born in 1936 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Catholic school (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).Significant figures: Ḥallās, Riḍā (Teacher); Kannūn, Maḥmud (Shaykh).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Infiltration and attacks. (@ 8:20)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 19:25)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 29:50)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 43:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 23, 1995 with Zubaydah Aḥmad al-Nāṭūr, female, born in 1918 in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding customs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Homeland nostalgia. (@ 15:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 31, 1997 with Zahrah Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāj, female, born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ‘Arābī, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd (Doctor); al-Maṣrī, ‘Umar (Doctor).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture life in Palestine. (@ 10:43)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 20:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 16, 1998 with Zahrah Ḥamad Khadījah, female, born in 1926 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Qāsimīyah, Lebanon.Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Traditional customs in a Bedouin community. (@ 17:29)Table of contents: Rites and ceremonies. (@ 42:4)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions. (@ 61:46)Table of contents: Social gatherings and customs. (@ 85:15)Table of contents: War time, military occupation and exile. (@ 100:2)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع فاطمة اليوسف، أنثى، ولدت عام 1941 في السُمَيريّة، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Magical world story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular poems and songs. (@ 12:40)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 23:44)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 35:9)Table of contents: The Princess and the slave and other stories. (@ 59:33)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 80:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 1997 with Zahrah Ḥumayyid, female, born in 1927 in ʻAyn al-Zaytūn, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥammīd; Khaṭṭāb; Idrīs; Ghrayyib; al-Sha‘bī.Significant figures: Khaṭṭāb, ‘Abd (Mayor); Ḥamad, As‘ad (Olive mill owner); Yāsīn; Aḥmad (Olive mill owner); al-Zayn, Salīm (Revolutionary); Ḥamad; Fū'ād As‘ad (Prisoner); Khaṭṭāb, Aḥmad Murrah (Martyr); al-Ṭabarānī, ʻAlī (Prisoner); Maḥmūd, Qāsim Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Muḥammad, Qāsim (Martyr); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Abd, Ḥāmid Ḥasan (Martyr); al-‘Abd, ‘Abd Muḥammad (Martyr); Nimr, Asʻad (Martyr); al-Rashīd, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); Khaṭṭāb, Kāyid (Martyr); al-Sha‘bī, Nimi r (Martyr); al-Sha‘bī, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Idrīs, Jamīl (Martyr); al-Shāwīsh, Amīnah (Martyr); al-Mtawwat, Zaynab (Martyr); Idrīs, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Idrīs, Zaynab (Martyr); Khaṭṭāb, Maḥmūd al-Ḥamad (Matyr).Table of contents: Village history . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture, and everyday life. (@ 10:6)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 31:41)Table of contents: Marriage celebrations. (@ 41:2)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule. (@ 52:47)Table of contents: War time, massacres and exodus. (@ 67:48)
Biography: biography: The interview was recorded on November 19, 1995 with Zahrah Zayd, female, born in 1916 in ʻAyn al-Zaytūn, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian customs and ceremonies. (@ 10:32)Table of contents: Palestinian wedding customs. (@ 23:2)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ayn al-Zaytūn. (@ 30:25)Table of contents: Agriculture life in Palestine. (@ 50:22)Table of contents: Socio economic and political conditions in Ayn al-Zaytūn. (@ 64:25)Table of contents: Palestinian food habits and traditional customs. (@ 76:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 2, 1989 with Zahrah Salīm Rabāḥ, female, born in 1924 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Shu‘ayb (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Badawī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Poet).Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village . (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Community life during the British Mandate. (@ 12:25)Table of contents: Political conditions before Nakbah. (@ 20:34)Table of contents: Community life in Ḥiṭṭīn. (@ 30:41)Table of contents: Social life and customs in the village. (@ 44:0)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع أمينة قبلاوي.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding customs. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 23:29)Table of contents: Popular songs. (@ 36:23)Table of contents: Emotional songs. (@ 40:49)Table of contents: Traditional tales. (@ 47:20)Table of contents: Love songs. (@ 62:51)Table of contents: Traditional folk songs. (@ 77:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Zahrah Fahd Murrah, female, born in 1930 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām); al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām).Significant figures: Murrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Qaddūrah, Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Falāḥ, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ṭunnah, Yūsuf (Mayor); Mubaddah, Nāyif (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Ḥusayn Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAbbūd, Khalīl (Martyr); Qāsim, Muḥammad Khalīl (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Wahāb, Aḥmad (Martyr); Murrah, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Salīm, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Suḥmātā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 under the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli occupation and expulsion . (@ 6:44)Table of contents: Community life and beliefs in Sabalān. (@ 21:22)Table of contents: Expulsion and suffering. (@ 31:27)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hardships . (@ 42:34)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and wedding customs. (@ 51:32)
Biography: .سجلت المقابة أيضا مع زوجها أبو رشيدFamilies: ʻAllūsh; Najm; al-Ḥāj; al-Sa‘dī; Sulaymān; al-Maw‘ad.Significant figures: al-Maw‘ad, Muḥammad (Mayor); Sulaymān, ‘Abd al-Majīd (Mayor); al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Sa‘dī, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Ghuzz, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Aḥmad, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Bakr, Tawfīq Sulaymān (Martyr); Bishr, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Matyr); al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-Hādī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Community and family life. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Rites, ceremonies and customs. (@ 12:7)Table of contents: Agriculture, families and social relations. (@ 25:57)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 42:10)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 51:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 7, 1997 with Zahrah Muḥammad Khalīl, female, born in 1934? in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine.Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 8:53)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 13:0)Table of contents: Eyewitness of the Palestinian exodus. (@ 32:54)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 42:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 30, 1998 with Zaynab Ibrāhīm Khalīl, female, born in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Abū Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Majẓub, Abū Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 16:38)Table of contents: Palestinian handicrafts and refugee hopes for the future. (@ 29:4)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع راضية مرهجي، انثى، ولدت عام 1926 في صفورية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Significant figures: al-ʻŪthmān, Ṣāliḥ (Singer).Table of contents: Songs of life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral fiction. (@ 10:30)Table of contents: Songs and stories. (@ 16:39)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 25:47)Table of contents: Love folk songs. (@ 45:31)Table of contents: Stories of love and devotion. (@ 69:43)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع صباح محمد عوض، أنثى، ولدت عام 1969 في الغابسية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البص للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Significant figures: ʻAwaḍ, Marzūq (Village leader); al-Tawbah, Abū Maḥmūd (Leader); al-Najmī, salīm (Leader); Khiḍir, Qāsim (Land agent).Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Heroic stories. (@ 19:1)Table of contents: Real stories from Palestine and Heroic poems. (@ 30:36)Table of contents: Poems and songs. (@ 45:20)Table of contents: The Old man and his wife story. (@ 65:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Sa‘d al-Dīn Tawfīq, male, born in 1920 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Twaynī; Mamlūk; Sursuq; ‘Aṭāyā.Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Aṭāyā, Fāyiz (Village leader).Table of contents: Land defense and military occupation. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 10:18)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 21:0)Table of contents: Refugee experience and revisiting Palestine. (@ 33:33)Table of contents: Refugees in Lebanon. (@ 48:1)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance and military occupation. (@ 59:57)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع حنيفة أبو غزالة، أنثى، ولدت عام 1937 في حيفا، فلسطين وتقيم في الروشة، لبنان.Families: al-Dīk; al-Qalʻah; al-Ṣalāḥ; al-Yāsīn; Khūrī; Abū Yāghī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 20:10)Table of contents: Political conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine and expulsion. (@ 32:15)Table of contents: Popular tale and folk songs. (@ 50:16)Table of contents: Social life in pre-Nakba Haifa and folk stories . (@ 62:10)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع زهرة حمادة، أنثى، ولدت عام 1926 في السُمَيريّة فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Songs and a Palestinian popular story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of the The thirteenth son. (@ 19:55)Table of contents: The Logger story . (@ 35:56)Table of contents: Popular songs collection. (@ 50:2)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع لطيفة أسعد أبو طه، انثى، ولدت عام 1922 في البروة، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Darwīsh; al-Kayyāl; Dīb; Saʻd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Jināyāt fī Akka (Court).Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, Muṣṭafá (Bus driver); al-Ḥumayrī, Nimir (Political prisoner); Fandī, ʻAlī (Political prisoner); al-Ḥammād, Nimir (Martyr); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Village leader); Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); Ṭāhā, Yūsuf (Mayor).Table of contents: Violence, battles and exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity. (@ 11:46)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 21:35)Table of contents: Refugee life conditions in Lebanon. (@ 31:37)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 37:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 2, 1997 with Sa‘dah Nimir Jrays, female, born in 1918 in Rmaysh, Lebanon and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Shaykh ʻAbdullāh (Mosque); al-Shaykh 'Īsá (Maqām).Significant figures: Jrays, Nimir (Revolutionary); al-Ḥajjār (Bishop); Māḍī, al-‘Abd (Governor); Zqayriq, al-‘Abd (Governor); al-Ḥajjār (Bishop).Table of contents: Ottoman rule of Palestine and Lebanon. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 29:16)Table of contents: Community and family life in the village. (@ 50:45)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 59:40)Table of contents: Refuge life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 70:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 30, 1995 with Sa‘īd Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in 1939 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: The Fisherman and his wife story. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Sitt al-Ḥusun story. (@ 28:54)Table of contents: The Princes and the three brothers. (@ 55:55)Table of contents: Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none
. (@ 77:11)Table of contents: Fables. (@ 91:53)Table of contents: If you want a friend, get a dog. (@ 119:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 8, 1998 with Sa‘īd Aḥmad al-Ḥāmid, male, born in 1920 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a trader.Families: Sulaymān; al-Maw‘id.Significant figures: al-Ghuzz, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Salīm, Maw‘id (Trader); ‘Arābī, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd (Doctor); al-Fāhūm, Khālid (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before and after Nakba . (@ 15:39)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 27:56)Table of contents: Marriage, social relations and economics. (@ 48:36)Table of contents: Land defense, occupation and exile. (@ 60:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Salīm Khalīl Mūsà, male, born in 1927 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a quarryman.Families: ʻAbbās; Ayyūb; Maṭar; ʻAbdullāh ʻAbd al-Ghanī; Qays; Sirḥān; al-Ḥāj Ḥasan; Dʻaybis.Significant figures: al-‘Abdullāh, Khālid (Leader); ʻUbayd, Shafīq (Teacher); al-Nāṭūr, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); Ghunaym, Rif‘at (Teacher); Abū Naṣrah, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Ḥasan, Khalīl Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá (Martyr); al-Dūkhī, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); ‘Uṭūr, al-‘Abd (Village leader); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Ghazāl, Khālid (Village leader); al-‘Abdullāh, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); al-Muṣṭafá, Maḥmūd (Village leader); al-‘Abdullāh, Khālid (Village leader); al-As‘ad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Biqāʻī, Adīb (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: History of Naḥf . (@ 10:3)Table of contents: Community life and social relations in the village . (@ 24:1)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Naḥf . (@ 38:55)Table of contents: Norms and practices in Naḥf and it's surroundings. (@ 53:8)Table of contents: social conditions and political turmoil before Nakba. (@ 74:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 6, 1997 with SulaymānʻAbd al-Rāziq, male, born in 1905 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine. He was a trader and than a quarrier and resides in al-Ghāzīyyah, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: Qaramān, Ṭāhir (Businessman); al-Sharīf, Ḥusayn (Shaykh); Abū al-Habaj, Muḥammad (Musician); al-Naṣir, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Abū Jlayyīl, Ibrāhīm (Resistance leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Najīb (Village leader); Ḥamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm Nimr (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and everyday life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 17:40)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 27:45)Table of contents: Passing on memories. (@ 37:50)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 49:41)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 57:16)Table of contents: Military occupation and exodus. (@ 67:6)Table of contents: Refugee conditions in Lebanon. (@ 75:35)Table of contents: Return to Palestine. (@ 83:46)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 91:26)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in Shafā ʻAmrū before Nakba. (@ 103:37)Table of contents: Nostalgia, Postmemories, and Homeland. (@ 114:15)Table of contents: Songs and memories. (@ 127:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 1997 with Samīḥah Abū Hawwāsh, female, born in 1944 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aytām, al-Ittiḥād al-Nisāʼī (School); Madrasat Ghirnāṭah (School); Dār al-Ṭufl (School); Madrasat al-Najāḥ (School).Significant figures: Shuwaykī, Hayfāʼ (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Hādī, ʻAlyāʼ (Teacher); al-Ḥusaynī, Hind (Orphanage principal).Table of contents: Childhood and refugee experience in Jordan and Palestine. (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Child education at the orphanage. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 57:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 20, 1997 with Sihām Muḥammad ‘Ali, female, born in 1954 in Fārah, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: ‘Uqlat al-Uṣba‘ story. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Woodcutter story. (@ 13:11)Table of contents: Moral stories. (@ 25:30)Table of contents: Fantasy and magic stories. (@ 40:15)Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 55:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 30, 1977 with Suhaylah Khiḍr al-Saʻīd, female, born in 1934? in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAbd al-ʻĀl; Abū al-Sa‘d; Drāz.Significant figures: Sālim, Qāsim (Mayor); ʻAbdū, Qāsim (Teacher); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Yūsuf (Village leader); al-Ḥāj ‘Alī, Muṣṭafá (Village leader); Fattāḥ, Ḥayāt (Village leader); Ḥusayn, Khalīl Ibrāhīm (Coffeehouse owner); al-ʻAdawī, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAdawī, Maḥmud (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Khalīl (Resistance fighter); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); Abū al-Dīk, Khalīl (Resistance fighter); al-ʻArīḍī, Abū Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Yūsuf (Vehicle driver); Bazzī, Ṭalāl (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in Umm al-Faraj. (@ 9:21)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 18:23)Table of contents: Violence, battles and defense. (@ 30:29)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and the exodus. (@ 44:11)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 61:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Shiḥādah al-Ḥasan Jum‘ah, male,born in 1927 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; Fustuq; Salām; Sharārī; Ṭāhā; Maʻrūf; al-Khaṭīb; Hawwārī.Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ḥusayn (Tribe leader); Abū Shāhir, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Shāṭir, Ḥusayn (Trader); ʻAṣfūrah, Abū Mirshid (Trader); Abū al- Shanab, Farīd (Policeman); al-Ḥakīm, Ṣāliḥ (Policeman).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 15:34)Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life . (@ 35:40)Table of contents: Bedouins community in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 55:23)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine. (@ 69:41)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 86:7)Table of contents: Military activity and exile. (@ 112:35)Table of contents: Songs of life and love. (@ 122:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Shiḥādah Jum‘ah Shatlah, male, born in 1923 in al-Buwayzīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a tribe leader.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Rasūl (Maqām).Significant figures: al-‘Alī, Shiḥādah (Shaykh); al-Luwasī, Ḥasan (Shaykh); al-Shāʻir, ʻAbdullāh (Resistance leader); Rabīʻ, Abū Fawzī (Resistance leader); Yāsīn, Abū ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Ḥūrānī, Akram (Leader); Suwaydān, Khalīl (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Buwayzīyah . (@ 13:47)Table of contents: Community customs and traditions. (@ 31:26)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries, and military activity. (@ 42:7)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 57:48)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع إبراهيم حسن أبو ثريا، ذكر، ولد عام 1939 في قلنديا، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-‘Arabīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Juraynī (Mosque); al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); al-Zāwiyah al-Shādhilīyah (Mosque).Significant figures: Ṭāhā, Khalīl Muḥammad (Leader); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); Salām, Farḥān (Poet); al-Jazzār, ‘Abdullāh (Shaykh); al-Shādhilī, ‘Alī (Shaykh); Ḥijāzī, Muḥammad (Circumcisor); al-Shalabī, Abū Ḥasan (Circumcisor).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Buwayzīyah. (@ 11:21)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 27:36)Table of contents: Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions. (@ 35:34)Table of contents: Community and family life in Palestine pre-Nakbah. (@ 44:6)Table of contents: Folk traditions in Akka. (@ 53:9)Table of contents: Ceremonies and celebrations. (@ 68:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December, 1995 with Shammā Maḥmūd Ismā‘īl, female, born in 1926 in ʻArab al-Zubayd, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebrations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Traditions and customs. (@ 12:44)Table of contents: Children's songs. (@ 26:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 30, 1997 with Shaykha Ismā‘īl Zayd, female, born in 1926 in al-Ẓāhirīyah ,Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Zayd; Salāmah; Shāhīn; Ṭarāwīyah; al-Khabbāzī; Sha‘bān; Ḥudayrī.Significant figures: al-ʻĪsá, Faṭṭūm (Dressmaker); Ṭarāwīyah, Ṭāhā (Martyr); al-Ḥudayrī, Saʻīd (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Salīm (Resistance fighter); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community and family life. (@ 14:16)Table of contents: Socio-political conditions in the village. (@ 25:55)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Zionist infiltration during the British rule. (@ 35:39)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 46:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 10, 1997 with Shīrīn al-Ḥāj, female, born in 1975 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Ghoul story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The end of Sit Budūr story. (@ 12:53)Table of contents: Gbaynih story. (@ 21:11)Table of contents: The Woodcutter story. (@ 33:32)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع أحمد الزامل، ذكر، ولد عام 1951 في ترشيحا، فلسطين ويقيم في صور، لبنان.Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tale of passed times. (@ 21:56)Table of contents: Ghoul story. (@ 32:43)Table of contents: Arab tribes stories, inaudible. (@ 38:5)Table of contents: Arabic poetry. (@ 60:17)Table of contents: Song and story. (@ 77:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 1997 with Ṣāliḥ Rashīd ‘Abd al-Ḥalīm, male, born in 1932 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in Jal al-Baḥr, Lebanon.Families: Mūsá; al-Dabbāḥ; Niʻmah; ‘Uthmān.Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 8:56)Table of contents: Refugee life and isolation. (@ 23:23)Table of contents: Childhood and parents. (@ 33:44)Table of contents: The psychological impact of the exodus. (@ 49:19)Table of contents: Sufferance and struggle. (@ 62:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 1997 with Ṣāliḥ Shaʻbān, male, born in 1934 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Biqāʻīyah; al-Zaydānīyīn; ʻUthmān; Abū ʻAlī; al-Lūbānī; Shaʻbān; ʻAyyāsh; Ibrāhīm al-Muṣṭafá; Ballūṭ; Khnayfis.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Dhū al-Kifal (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Biqāʻīyah, Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Razzāq (Martyr); al-Biqāʻīyah, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Saʻīd (Martyr); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr); al-Shaʻbān, Ḥusayn (Hostage); al-ʻAbwānī, Dāwūd (Martyr); al-Zayādinah, Muḥammad Saʻīd al-Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Yāsīn, ʻAbd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Hilālī, Ibrāhīm (Military officer); al-ʻAyyāsh, Qāsim (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life and customs in al-Dāmūn. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and British colonialism. (@ 13:35)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of al-Dāmūn, expulsion, and journey to exile . (@ 32:30)Table of contents: Refugee experience and suffering in Lebanon. (@ 48:51)Table of contents: Final reflections and hope of return. (@ 66:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 17, 1995 with Ṣālih Ṣālih, male, born in 1926 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Popular songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tale of passed times and songs. (@ 6:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 5, 1998 with Șāliḥ ʻAbd al-Rāziq, male, born in 1922 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a policeman.Families: al-Majdhūb; ʻAbd al-Rāziq; al-Khaṭīb.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Majdhūb, Qāsim (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Aḥmad (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Land, agriculture and community life. (@ 12:40)Table of contents: Political turmoil, immigration and refugees. (@ 24:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 12, 1997 with Ṣāliḥa Maḥmūd Sa‘d, female, born in 1912 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Love story of passed times. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ghoul story and fable. (@ 9:5)Table of contents: Green Bird story and other stories. (@ 25:3)Table of contents: Real story. (@ 40:29)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع تحفة يعقوب، أنثى، ولدت عام 1916 في شفا عمرو، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian wedding folk songs. (@ 11:5)Table of contents: Political songs. (@ 26:47)Table of contents: Palestinian political and folk songs. (@ 36:17)Table of contents: Songs of love and nation. (@ 46:50)Table of contents: Arabic folk songs. (@ 73:49)
Biography: The interview was recording on October 27, 1995 with Ṣubhīyah ‘Abdullāh Yāssīn, female, born in 1942 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 24:26)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 46:48)Table of contents: Palestinian folklore. (@ 72:7)Table of contents: Religious and children songs. (@ 94:40)Table of contents: Short Arabic stories. (@ 109:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 7, 1997 with Șubḥīyah Ja‘far, female, born in 1932 in al-Ḥusaynīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Ṭayyib; ‘Ammār; al-Rāshīdī; Ja‘far; Rābiḥ; al-Zāyir; al-Bashīr.Significant figures: ‘Ammār, ‘Alī (Wounded); Kānūn, Aḥmad (Martyr); ʻAmmār, Mahmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Killings and massacres in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 14:33)Table of contents: War events and the exodus. (@ 21:52)Table of contents: War crimes and collective wrongdoing. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: The long life of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. (@ 41:7)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah under zionist occupation. (@ 50:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع هنا أبو مهاوش، أنثى، ولدت عام 1934 في حيفا، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البص للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Jamal, Tawfīq (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian rites and ceremonies. (@ 14:29)Table of contents: Two folk stories. (@ 25:4)Table of contents: Children story. (@ 48:16)
Biography: الشمالي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shahābīyah.Significant figures: Maḥmūd, ‘Alī Yāsīn (Teacher); al-Blīlānī, Muṣṭafá ʻĪsá (Teacher); al-Maṣrī, Qāsim Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Zaghmūṭ, Yūsuf Kāmil (School principal).Table of contents: Agriculture and economic conditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 10:11)Table of contents: Political clashes, attacks and resistance. (@ 21:41)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 36:29)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 60:50)
Biography: البريطاني خلال الإنتداب.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Maṭār al-Jāʻūnah (Airport); Haifa port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Sarāyāt Kanʻān (Students dorms); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); Jāmiʻ al-Jraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Kūrī, Maḥmūd (Auto mechanic); al-Rifāʻī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad Nimir (Resistance fighter leader); al-Shā‘ir, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter leader); al-Ḥamad, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Rifaʻī, Aḥmad (Shaykh).Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries, and military acivity . (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 24:21)Table of contents: Military occupation of Palestine. (@ 35:24)Table of contents: War time and occupation. (@ 47:24)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 71:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1996 with ‘Āʼishah al-Amām, female, born in 1936 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Praise songs and speech of prophet Muḥammad I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Praise songs and speech of Prophet Muḥammad II. (@ 27:42)Table of contents: Birth of Prophet Muḥammad. (@ 54:11)Table of contents: Songs and storytelling of biography of Prophet Muḥammad . (@ 57:48)Table of contents: Songs of Prophet Muḥammad . (@ 74:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Āʼishah al-Munawwar, female, born in 1928 in Dayshūm, Palestine.Families: Nūḥ.Table of contents: Handicrafts and Pottery making . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Dietary practices and socio-economic conditions . (@ 13:0)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع صالح الصالح، انثى، ولدت عام 1926 في السميرية، فلسطين وتقيم في صيدا، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Marriage celebrations. (@ 10:44)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and tales of love. (@ 31:18)Table of contents: Wedding folk songs. (@ 45:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 29, 1997 with ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Ḥasan Khiḍir, male, born in 1912 in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; al-Maḥājinah.Significant figures: al-Ḥusaynī, Yaʻqūb (Public officer); Muḥammadī, Fādī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Farhāt, Muḥammad (Land broker); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Khāliq, Muṣṭafá (Martyr).Table of contents: Political dynamics under the British Mandate and warfare . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist colonization and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 27:5)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and social norms. (@ 51:9)Table of contents: Wedding customs and traditions. (@ 62:33)Table of contents: Political conditions, betrayal, and return visit to Palestine . (@ 68:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 22, 1998 with ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sa’dī, male, born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a teacher.Families: Mawʻid; al-Saʻdī; Ghgunaym; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; Murād.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dā'irat al-Maʻārif (Governmental institution); al-Madrasah al-Ṣināʻīyah (School); Madrasat Ṣaffūrī (School); Madrasat Safad al-Thānawīyah (School); Madrasat Haifa al-Thānawīyah (School); Madrasat Kafr Mindah al-Ibtidāʼīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat Haifa al-Ṣināʻīyah (Schools).Significant figures: al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); al-Ḥāj, Jamīl (Teacher); Mawʻid, Faraj (Teacher); Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ Salīm (Mayor); al-Sa’dī, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor); Mawʻid, Faraj (Teacher); ʻArābī, Rajā (Teacher); al-Mawʻid, Faraj (Teacher); al-ʻAllūsh, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); al-Ḥāj, Maḥmūd Sulaymān (Teacher).Table of contents: Socio-economic life in pre-Nakba Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and social life. (@ 13:13)Table of contents: Education in Palestine during the British Mandate. (@ 43:4)Table of contents: Education and political dynamics . (@ 72:28)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 83:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 22, 1996 with ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ al-Ghūl, male, born in 1941 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Rāshid, Khālid (Singer); al Qayyā, Arghul Abū al-‘Abd (Musician).Table of contents: Palestinian ballads. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Palestinian folklore. (@ 16:0)Table of contents: Wedding music. (@ 25:21)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 35:37)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 44:15)Table of contents: Mother's recompense. (@ 54:1)Table of contents: Story of a Mother. (@ 75:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 22, 1996 with ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ al-Ghūl, male, born in 1941 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: God prophets. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of a prophet. (@ 11:11)Table of contents: Religious stories. (@ 28:16)Table of contents: King Sulayman story. (@ 50:23)Table of contents: Biaqīs and king Sulayman. (@ 65:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 9, 1998 with ʻAbd al-Qādir Yūsuf al-Mawʻid, male, born in 1924 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Mawʻid; Sulaymān; al-Ḥadāydī; al-Zahayrī; Tāhā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Holy Family Hospital (Hospital); Nazareth Hospital (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Mawʻid, Yūsuf (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣālih (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Sharīf (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and agriculture in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Water resources, land acquisition and German settlements . (@ 28:10)Table of contents: Olive mills. (@ 45:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 6, 1997 with ‘Abd al-Karīm Shiblī, male, born in 1926 in Ṣalḥah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shiblī; ʻAwn; al-Maʻmārī; al-Asʻad; al-Mizārī; Slīm; Sursuq.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūsuf (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Ismāʻīl, Naʻīm (Martyr); al-Naqīb, Ḥasan (Teacher); Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Jumʻah, Mūsá (Martyr); Fayyāḍ, ʻAbd (Martyr); al-Atāsī, Abū Khalīl (Resistance leader); Saʻīd, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Saʻīd, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ismāʻīl, Naʻīm (Mayor assistant); ʻAbdullāh, Najīb Ḍāhir (Resistance fighter); ʻAbdū, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-ʻAbdullāh, Tawfīq (Village leader).Table of contents: Childhood memories and family in Ṣalḥah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Warfare and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal. (@ 6:55)Table of contents: Ṣalḥah massacre, 1948 and Palestinian land sale. (@ 29:26)Table of contents: Refugee hardships and war atrocities . (@ 40:54)Table of contents: Social life and customs in pre-Nakba Ṣalḥah . (@ 63:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 1, 1997 with ʻAbdullāh al-Ṣāliḥ, male, Born in Sannīrīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He served as a soldier in the British Army.Families: Ghulmīyah.Significant figures: Ghulmīyah, Ḥabīb Raḍwān (Mayor); Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Lawyer); Ghulmīyah, Naṣṣār (Lawyer).Table of contents: Land expropriation and disputes . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in British Army. (@ 11:34)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 29:17)Table of contents: Dispute between France and Britain . (@ 35:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 17, 1998 with ʻAbdullāh Muḥammad al-Sayyid, male, born in 1924 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He served in the British Police forces in Palestine during the mandate.Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; al-Ḥāj; al-Shaykh Khalīl; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Ṣulḥ (Governmental institution); Maṭār al-Jāʻūnah (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Sharikat al-Ittīḥād (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Sayyid, Muḥammad Maḥāsin (Mayor); Wihbī, Zaydān (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Riḍā (Scout leader); Yāsīn, Yāsīn (Martyr); al-Dīb, Shaykhah (Martyr); ʻAzzām, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Sayyid, Abū Muḥammad Dyāb (Resistance fighter); al-Sayyid, Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Khāliq (Resistance fighter); Qaddūrah, ʻAbd al-Majīd (Martyr); al-Balʻūs, Ṣubḥī (Scout trainer); ‘Abdullāh al-Aṣbaḥ (Resistance leader.Table of contents: Agriculture and rural conditions in Saʻsaʻ . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and rural life. (@ 22:14)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Saʻsaʻ during the British Mandate. (@ 51:9)Table of contents: Employment in the British police forces. (@ 75:16)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine in 1948 and expulsion. (@ 87:49)Table of contents: Expulsion from Saʻsaʻ and hope of return. (@ 104:32)Table of contents: Scout incident and martyrdom of resistance leader ‘Abdullāh al-Aṣbaḥ. (@ 116:23)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع حسين محمد حسن، ذكر، ولد عام 1947 في صفد، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Real story . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 12:38)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 31:59)Table of contents: Ethics an moral. (@ 48:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 10, 1995 with ʻAbdullāh al-Ṣalih, male, born in Kafr Birʻim, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Saʻīd al-Shaykh.Table of contents: Weddings and folk traditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk traditions and dispute resolution. (@ 28:6)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and ʻAtābā. (@ 46:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 25, 1995 with ‘Abdullāh Muṣṭafá ‘Abdullāh, male, born in 1923? in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Wuhayyib (Maqām).Table of contents: Wedding songs and customs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 9:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 28, 1997 with ‘Azīzah Ḥasan (Umm Nimir), female, born in 1931 in al-Buwayzīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Jabābīrī; al-Khaḍrawīyah; al-Ṭūkhī; Shiblī; Suwaydān; Shatlah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: ʻĀmūd al-Dīn (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: Ghunaym, Khaṭīb (Shaykh); Suwaydān, Abū al-Nūr (Shop owner); al-Rumayḥ, Manṣūr (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and community life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood, social life, and customs. (@ 15:1)Table of contents: Rural life in al-Buwayzīyah . (@ 25:34)Table of contents: Zionist invasion in 1948 and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 36:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with ʻAlī al-Qādirī, male, born in 1924 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was the Imām of the mosque in al-Ṣafṣāf.Significant figures: Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kāyid, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Warfare and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 10:2)Table of contents: Refugee conditions in exile . (@ 22:24)
Biography: The interview was recording with ‘Alī al-Najjār, male, born in Jaffa, Palestine and reides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a driver with the British Army.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ Ḥasan Bayk (Mosque).Significant figures: Dabbās, ʻIzzat (Auto mechanic); Haykal, Yūsuf (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Description of the city. (@ 9:34)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Zionist infiltration . (@ 26:1)Table of contents: War time, military occupation , immigration and refugees. (@ 39:8)Table of contents: Refugee hope. (@ 57:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with ‘Alī Saʻīd al- Mughrabī, male, born in 1928 in Maʻdhar, Palestine.Families: ‘Aṭāyā.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-‘Adl al-‘Ulyā (Court).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Keren Kayemeth (Corporation); Egged Bus Company(Corporation).Significant figures: al-Ṭabarī, Fāyiz (Lawyer); Kūsā, Elias (Lawyer); ‘Anabtāwī, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Ṭabarī, Khalīl (Revolutionary); al-Ṭabarī, Ṣidqī (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ṭāhir, Sālim (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ṭāhir, Sālim (Village leader); Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Village leader); Shishaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander); Abū Nasab, Farīd (Refugee camp leader); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-‘Arābī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Rizq, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Land legislation in Palestine. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Land ownership in Palestine. (@ 12:59)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 18:15)Table of contents: Violence,battles and armed resistance. (@ 29:7)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 39:6)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 49:2)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 63:47)Table of contents: Land, refugees and return. (@ 79:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 17, 1997 with ‘Alī Muḥammad al-Najjār, male, born in 1913 in Safad, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a carpenter.Families: Khaḍrā; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Significant figures: Qaddūrah, Zakī (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Mir‘bī, Muṣṭafá (Governor); ʻArābī, Muṣṭafá (School principal); Shamar, ‘Alī (Coffeehouse owner); ‘Asqūl, ʻAlī (Public servant); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Village leader); Qaddūrah, Walīd (Martyr); Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Trader).Table of contents: Political conditions in the city before Nakba. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Memories of life in Palestine and Lebanon. (@ 7:43)Table of contents: Community life in the city. (@ 19:31)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics before Nakba. (@ 31:29)Table of contents: War time, city occupation and the expulsion. (@ 44:24)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 61:49)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع عطرة زيد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1931 في البويزية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Kwayyis (Maqām).Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet).Table of contents: Social conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs of life and rural life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 14:20)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and short stories. (@ 33:15)Table of contents: Fairy tales and traditions. (@ 62:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded with 'Alyā al-Mawʻid, female, Born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine.Families: al-Ḥadāyidah; al-ʻAdādinah.Significant figures: al-Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Barmakīyah, Zaynah (Dancer); al-Mawʻid, Salīm (Village leader); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Salīm, Yūsuf (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Ka‘dlī, Muḥammad (Leader).Table of contents: Wedding Customs and traditions
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and community life in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 8:49)Table of contents: Pre-nakba life and the military occupation of Palestine. (@ 31:17)Table of contents: Community and family life . (@ 51:31)Table of contents: Socio-religious ceremonies in the village. (@ 75:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 30, 1998 with ʻUmar As‘ad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, male, born in 1922 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and reides in Tripoli, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥalabī; al-Zayn; Abū Shaqrā; Dirbās; al- Abṭaḥ; Bakīr; al-Bāshīyah; Salmān; Nājī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqam).Significant figures: al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); Idrīs, Khiḍir (Mayor); Zaydān, Fāyiz (Teacher); al-ʻAykī, Ḥasan (Carpenter).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural land in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa . (@ 15:32)Table of contents: Agricultural conditions in the village . (@ 30:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil and exile from Palestine. (@ 46:1)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع نبيهة الأشقر، أنثى، ولدت عام 1944 في شفا عمرو، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Table of contents: Popular tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian short folk stories . (@ 30:1)Table of contents: The kings and his three sons. (@ 49:27)Table of contents: Story of Rummān al-Dhahab. (@ 66:29)Table of contents: Palestinian popular short stories. (@ 82:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ‘Awaḍ Maḥmūd Yūnus, male, born in 1910 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon. He worked in tax collection in Palestine.Families: Yūnis.Significant figures: Ṭaḥḥān, Najīb (Teacher); al-Salṭī, Rashīd (Public officer).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and political conditions in al-Ṣafṣāf . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education, political conditions, and employment in finance . (@ 20:5)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 43:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 3, 1997 with ʻĪsá Muḥammad Maṣrī, male, born in 1914 in al-Nāʻimah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bayk.Significant figures: ‘Ablah, Ḥasīb (Landowner); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Landowner); Abū Kharrūb, Ismā‘īl (Mayor); al-‘Alī, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Maṣrī, Maḥmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion, terrorism and defense. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family and community life . (@ 29:11)Table of contents: Political conditions and socio-economic life. (@ 40:59)Table of contents: Zionist terrorism, expulsion and refugee experience . (@ 60:14)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in exile. (@ 72:8)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع سميرة أبو حمدي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1951 في صفد، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Love songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular songs. (@ 16:33)Table of contents: bald head story. (@ 22:10)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 40:0)Table of contents: Palestinian ceremonies celebrations. (@ 52:56)Table of contents: Story of passed times. (@ 62:44)Table of contents: Story and children's songs. (@ 70:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Fāṭimah Aḥmad ‘Aṭīyah, female, born in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in Baalbek.Families: Sulaymān; Shaḥrūr; al-Mukhtār; al-‘Ajjāwī; al-Sa‘īd.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Ḥāj ‘Abdullāh (Mosque).Significant figures: Sa‘īd, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Fāris, Sa‘īd (Village leader); Sayf, Yūsuf (Martyr); Dirbās, Ammūn (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, community life and customs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life and conditions in ʻAlmā. (@ 12:59)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 28:55)Table of contents: Socio-economic life in ʻAlmā and Haifa. (@ 47:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 28, 1995 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Mir‘ī, female, born in 1931 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and praise of Muḥammad. (@ 21:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1995 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Manṣūr, female, born in 1941 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ṭuwaysī; Ghunaym; Ḥāmid; Sulaymān.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Mayor).Table of contents: Farming practices and rural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Dietary practices and social norms in Palestine. (@ 24:54)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and celebrations. (@ 40:11)Table of contents: Wedding customs and folk traditions. (@ 69:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 13, 1995 with Fāṭimah al-Ṣāliḥ, female, Born in 1941 in Kafr Birʻim, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and wedding songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs of life . (@ 27:47)