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)