Biography: The interview was recorded on June 14, 1997 with Fāṭimah Ḥusayn Sha‘bān, female, born in 1928? in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Zayādinah; ʻAṭāyā.Significant figures: Nimrah, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); ʻAṭāyā, Maḥmūd (Mayor); ʻAwaḍ, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Ismāʻīl (Landowner); ʻAwaḍ, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: al-Zīb amidst the 1948 Nakba and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience and social conditions in Lebanon. (@ 25:53)Table of contents: Refugee living conditions and suffering. (@ 42:16)Table of contents: Community life and expulsion. (@ 61:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 2, 1999 with Fāṭimah Ḥamad ‘Aṭīyah, female, born in 1927 in Jāḥūlā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Aṭīyah; ‘Alī; Sha‘bān.Significant figures: ‘Alī, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Leader).Table of contents: Mayorship and social life in Jāḥūlā . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Mayorship activity and social relations. (@ 28:27)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and mayorship Post-Nakba. (@ 49:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 15, 1995 with Fāṭimah Zaghmūṭ, female, born in 1927 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 0:00)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع حسنة علي في تشرين الثاني يناير عام 1995، أنثى، ولدت عام 1913 في مجد الكروم، فلسطين وتقيم في الطريق الجديدة، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 29:15)Table of contents: Folk songs and poetry. (@ 58:10)Table of contents: Children's lullabies and Islamic Ruqyah . (@ 72:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 16, 1997 with Fāṭimah ‘Abd al-Salām al-Ḥanafī, female, born in 1931 in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Amīn (Hospital).Table of contents: Childhood and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 15:56)Table of contents: Social diversity in Palestine. (@ 26:50)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 47:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 30, 1995 with Fāṭimah ‘Awdah, female, born in 1916 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Table of contents: Children's songs. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Story of a prince. (@ 10:35)Table of contents: ‘Awdah family origin. (@ 20:3)Table of contents: Folk traditions. (@ 33:43)Table of contents: Childhood in Palestine and songs. (@ 44:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 12, 1999 with Fāṭimah Kāmil al-Qāḍī, female, Born in 1932 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Qāḍī; al-Jishshī; Sirḥān; al-Āghā.Significant figures: Shrayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Qāḍī, Shukrī (Mayor); al-Maḥmūd, Shafīq (Mayor).Table of contents: Embroidery work and sewing. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and embroidery. (@ 17:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 6, 1997 with Fāṭimah Muḥammad Abū Sālim, female, born in 1925 in al-Ṭīrah, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Short story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Ghuzzilmah. (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Story of the green bird. (@ 31:16)Table of contents: Story of Umm Ṣubayḥ and Abū Ṣubayḥ. (@ 36:15)Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories. (@ 41:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June, 1995 with Fāṭimah Muḥammad al-Ṭayyib, female, born in 1948 in Hawshah, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ṣiddīq, Aḥmad (Shaykh).Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and socioeconomic conditions in exile . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Ḥasan. (@ 9:47)Table of contents: Real life stories in Hawshah . (@ 27:37)Table of contents: Tales of Ogres . (@ 40:55)Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories and songs. (@ 68:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 15, 1997 with Fāṭimah Muṣṭafá al-Rūbī, female, born in 1934 in Safad, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī, Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Naḥawī; al-‘Arabī; al-Shab‘ānī; Dīb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Jāmi‘ al-Aḥmar (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Rūbī, Sa‘īd (Butcher); Abū al-Laban, Ṣāliḥ (Landlord); al-Rūbī, Muḥammad (Arab Salavtion Army soldier); al-Rūbī, Ibrāhīm (Arab Salvation Army soldier).Table of contents: Pre Nakba life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio political dynamics in Safad. (@ 6:40)Table of contents: Violence and armed resistance. (@ 14:41)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 20:52)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 30:20)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 47:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December, 1995 with Fatḥīyah Jānzī, female, born in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Ṣabrā, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian patriotic poetry and revolutionary songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Dalʻūnā and revolutionary songs. (@ 13:53)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and revolutionary songs. (@ 34:20)Table of contents: Ululations and folk songs. (@ 50:8)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs . (@ 74:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 1996 with Fatḥīyyah Ḥujayr, female, born in al-Ṭīrah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Muḥammad and two princesses. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 20:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 27, 1995 with Fakhrīyah Aḥmad ʻAbbās, female, born in 1944 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 21:5)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع عقل حجاوي (أبو أيمن)، ذكر، ولد عام 1943 في حجة، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding songs and music. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian traditional wedding songs and music . (@ 27:31)Table of contents: Wedding customs and traditions. (@ 56:41)Table of contents: Marriage customs and rites. (@ 65:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 26, 1997 with Farīd Fawzī al-Ṣāni‘, male, born in 1925 in Nablus, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon. He was a technician with the British Army during World War II.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Sibā‘ī (School); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation); Barclays Bank (Bank); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Ṣāni‘, Rā᾿id (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Hādī, Fakhrī (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary leader); ʻAbd al-Hādī, Fakhrī (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Muḥammad, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 10:44)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration in Palestine during the British Mandate. (@ 22:20)Table of contents: War time and expulsion. (@ 33:35)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 45:0)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance leadership. (@ 60:36)Table of contents: Refugee life in Syria and Lebanon. (@ 71:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 12, 1998 with Faḍl Muḥammad Mīʻārī, male, born in 1920 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Mīʻārī; al-Mashāyikh; Ḥusayn; al-Badārinah; Mī‘ārī; Karrūm.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Dīmāsī, Khalīl (Teacher); al-Naḥawī, Ṣalāḥ (Teacher).Table of contents: Agriculture and economic conditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Village history. (@ 7:35)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and agriculture in al-Farrāḍīyah . (@ 17:15)Table of contents: Tobacco industry and trade in Farrāḍīyah. (@ 38:18)Table of contents: Tobacco smuggling and trade. (@ 63:50)Table of contents: Tobacco industry and rural life . (@ 72:48)Table of contents: Agricultural economics, cultivation and rural conditions. (@ 96:49)Table of contents: Cultivation and farming practices. (@ 116:32)Table of contents: Farming practices and tools. (@ 129:16)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضّا مع صباح عوض، أنثى، ولدت عام 1976؟ وتقيم في صور، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian folk traditions and songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories . (@ 21:49)Table of contents: Folk story: The king and the peasant. (@ 35:29)Table of contents: Folk stories II: Shams al-Shumūs and the Ghoul. (@ 50:12)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع ابنها عبدو سعيد غفور، ذكر، ولد في عكا، فلسطين.Families: al-Bayā‘ah; al-Ghandūr; al-Srūjī; al-Sa‘dī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Azhar (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Furqah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Mu‘allaq (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Rūm (Church); Jāmi‘ al-Majādlī (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Qazmūz, Sa‘īd (Prayer caller); Qazmūz, Maḥmūd (Prayer caller).Table of contents: Childhood and wedding customs in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life and landmarks in Akka. (@ 16:27)Table of contents: Akka during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 32:9)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and return visit . (@ 38:8)Table of contents: Attempt at return to Akka. (@ 55:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 29, 1998 with Qāsim al-Rāghib, male, born in 1922 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a trader.Significant figures: al-Qabalān, Kanj (Village leader); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Village leader); al-Ibrāhīm, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ma‘rūf, Ghānim (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Rashīd, Shafīq (Trader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 15:18)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 27:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 27, 1997 with Qāsim Rāghib Dīb, male, born in 1922 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Historical events leading to Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948. (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Expulsion, refugee experience in exile, and hope of return. (@ 21:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 9, 1998 with Qāsim Sa‘īd Qāsim,male, born in 1928 in Khirbat Jālīn, Palestine and resides in al-Burghulīyah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Nāyif (Mayor).Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life in Khirbat Jālīn. (@ 16:59)Table of contents: Bedouin houses practices. (@ 22:39)Table of contents: Tribal community customs. (@ 41:46)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics during british rule and Zionist invasion. (@ 60:14)Table of contents: Tribal society in Palestine. (@ 68:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November, 1995 with Kāmilah ‘Abdū, female, born in 1933 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Wedding songs and zaffah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs a wedding customs. (@ 15:13)Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration songs. (@ 39:9)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and laments. (@ 62:29)Table of contents: Praise of Muḥammad and popular songs. (@ 75:23)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع أبو محمد سويدان، ذكر، ولد عام 1906 في البويزية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Laments and popular tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk tales. (@ 17:14)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and story of al-Shāṭir Ḥasan. (@ 43:36)Table of contents: Social life and traditions in Palestine. (@ 58:16)Table of contents: Story of Virgin Mary and birth of Jesus Christ. (@ 65:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 20, 1998 with Karīm Nāyif Kanj, male, born in 1925 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a Policeman with the British Police Forces in Palestine.Families: Sirḥān; Sursuq; Salām; al-Sa‘dī; al-Shaykh Ṭāhā; ‘Aṭāyā; Murād; Kanj; Sa‘īd; Abū Khashab.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Za‘īm, Ḥusnī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Abū Khashab, Muṣṭafá (Jailor); Rāfi‘, Sa‘īd (Prisoner); Sh'hayyib, Muḥammad (Policeman).Table of contents: Exile to Lebanon and refugee experience. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life and socio-economic conditions. (@ 16:1)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Socio-economic life. (@ 30:14)Table of contents: Employment and work in the British police forces. (@ 43:57)Table of contents: Employment and hierarchy in British Police forces in Palestine. (@ 70:7)Table of contents: Military training in Syria . (@ 99:50)Table of contents: Police activity in Palestine. (@ 110:0)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 121:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 7, 1999 with Karīmah Muḥammad Bushnāq, female, born in 1935 in Qaysārīyah, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Families: Bushnāq.Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, ‘Alī (Shaykh); al-Khamrah, Ya‘qūb (Shaykh); Shammās, Salīm (Principal); Abū Dāhish, Aḥmad (Teacher).Table of contents: Bosnian immigration to Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Bosnians during armed conflicts and exile to Lebanon. (@ 11:21)Table of contents: Adaptation and integration with Palestinians . (@ 22:29)Table of contents: Exile to Lebanon and refugee experience . (@ 31:58)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع غزالة عزّية، أنثى، ولدت عام 1926 في صفورية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Story of the ogre and al-Shāṭir Ḥdʻash. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Nuṣṣ Nṣayṣ and the Ogre. (@ 16:42)Table of contents: Popular tales and anecdotes. (@ 24:9)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً في 17 تشرين الثاني عام 1995 مع ندى العنبتاوي، أنثى، ولدت عان 1931 في شفا عمرو، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Marriage customs and songs. (@ 15:8)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Wedding songs and ululations . (@ 37:4)Table of contents: Palestinian folk poetry and tales. (@ 49:58)Table of contents: Children's stories. (@ 66:30)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع رشيد موعد، ذكر، ولد عام 1915 في صفورية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk songs and popular tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Fairy tales and popular songs. (@ 21:36)Table of contents: Popular tales and wedding songs. (@ 46:45)Table of contents: Palestinian folk tales and popular songs. (@ 63:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 6, 1997 with Laylá Shalṭaf, female, born in 1940 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Bshāmūn, Lebanon.Families: Ṭannūs; Faraḥ; Ghandūr.Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 15:14)Table of contents: Humanitarian conditions of refugees. (@ 23:52)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 35:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16, 1997 with Muḥsin ʻAbd al-Majīd Kāyid, male, born in 1924 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Baalbek, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Steel Brothers (Corporation).Significant figures: Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Village leader); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Village leader); al-Muṣṭafá, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor).Table of contents: Palestinian resistance and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War events and expulsion of Palestinians . (@ 14:37)Table of contents: Political activity during Nakba. (@ 23:58)Table of contents: Refugee conditions and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 35:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 23, 1997 with Muḥammad Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, male, born in 1927 in Ṣaffūrīyah , Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a trader.Families: Shiḥādah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Table of contents: Economic sectors in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Everyday economic practices and life conditions bfore 1948. (@ 12:11)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and community life during the British Mandate. (@ 30:44)Table of contents: War events and expulsion. (@ 43:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 23, 1997 with Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Barakah, male, born in 1923 in Mughr al-Khayṭ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Umar; Yūnus; al-Ḥāj; Barakah; al-Biqāʻī; Nashāshībī.Significant figures: al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Shiḥādah, Saʻīd (Martyr); Sārī, Fnaysh (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ṣabbāgh, Fāyiz (Camp leader).Table of contents: History of Nakba. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Political activity in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 14:48)Table of contents: Battles and military occupation. (@ 21:55)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 43:21)Table of contents: Violence, battles and exile. (@ 53:49)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 76:29)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع فاطمة الطويسي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1926 في صفورية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Significant figures: al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher).Table of contents: Social customs and traditions in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories, cultural life, and education. (@ 18:0)Table of contents: The prince's quest of wisdom. (@ 48:42)Table of contents: Fairy tales and folk songs. (@ 65:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 12, 1996 with Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1920 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader).Table of contents: Story of al-Mughdād the Arabian knight I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of al-Mughdād the Arabian knight II. (@ 27:55)Table of contents: Folk poetry and ʻatābā. (@ 44:53)Table of contents: Popular tales. (@ 56:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on ٍSeptember 22, 1997 with Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Aswad, male, born in 1920 in al-Karmil, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was Quarrier.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Evangelical School (School); Maṭār Nihlāl (Airport); Utility Company (Corporation); Egged Bus Company (Corporation); Schwat (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Ḥāj ‘Abdullāh (Mosque).Significant figures: Abū Durrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Ṣahyūn, Rājī (News reporter); Srūr, Abū Maḥmūd (Leader).Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Britain and Germany in the second world war . (@ 11:27)Table of contents: Palestine from Ottoman to British rule. (@ 31:43)Table of contents: Jews, Palestinians and one Palestine during the British Mandate. (@ 42:33)Table of contents: Social life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 58:58)Table of contents: Community traditions and customs in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 68:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 10, 1998 with Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, male, born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked with the British Army.Families: Najm; ‘Īsá; Ṭāhā; Sulaymān; al-Khalīl; Bakr; al-‘Allūsh; al-Maw‘id; al-Ḥadāyidah; Ghunaym; al-Maṣāriwah; Abū ‘Awdah; al-Ḥāj Aḥmad; al-Ḥāj As‘ad; al-Jundī; Abū Na‘āj; al-‘Afīfī; ‘Alā’ al-Dīn; Salām; Sursuq; al-Asʻad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Dayr Ḥannā (Convent).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Maw‘id, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Mayor); Sulaymān, Abū Fāris (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor); Sa‘d al-Dīn, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Sharīf, Ḥusayn (Shaykh); Yūsuf, Saʻīd (School principal); al-‘Anabtāwī, ‘Abd al-Raḥīm (Teacher); al-Faṭābīl, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥallūmī, Jamīl (Teacher); ‘Arābī, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd (Doctor); al-Masrī, ‘Umar (Doctor); Salāmah, Farḥāt (Poet); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmud (Resistance leader); al-Sirrinī, Mifliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Maw‘id, ʻĀṭif (Resistance fighter); al-Maw‘id, ʻĀrif (Resistance fighter); al-‘Abbūshī, Muḥammad (Store keeper).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community and family life in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 10:53)Table of contents: Social conditions and health care in Palestine before 1948. (@ 22:39)Table of contents: Agriculture and political turmoil. (@ 35:34)Table of contents: Military occupation, land defense and Resistance activities. (@ 56:25)Table of contents: From agricultural worker to an employee with the British forces. (@ 72:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 29, 1998 with Muḥammad Dhīb Maw‘id, male, born in 1923 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sulaymān; al-Maw‘id; al-Sa‘īdīyah; al-Ghanāyimah; Abū Ma‘āz; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-Daghāyirah; al-‘Anātinah; al-Khaṭābinah; Rāshid; al-Maqādiḥah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Maw‘id, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); Sulaymān, Abū Fāris (Mayor); al-Sa‘īd, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī , Muḥammad Sayyid (Soap maker); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Yamanī, Salīm (Resistance leader); Mawʻid, Faraj (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Village history . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic dynamics in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 13:8)Table of contents: Land and agriculture. (@ 35:53)Table of contents: British colonialist policies and employment . (@ 50:59)Table of contents: War events and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 59:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 1, 1995 with Muḥammad Saʻd al-Quṭṭ, male, born in 1921 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Zayādinah.Table of contents: Proverbs and wise sayings . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular songs and Arabic proverbs. (@ 26:48)Table of contents: Arabic proverbs and real life stories . (@ 49:47)Table of contents: Arabic proverbs and storytelling . (@ 78:24)Table of contents: Proverb tales and advice . (@ 86:53)Table of contents: Benevolence and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 105:55)Table of contents: Popular tales . (@ 129:13)Table of contents: Short stories . (@ 153:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 28, 1997 with Muḥammad Sa‘d al-Quṭṭ, male, born in 1919 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, Asʻad (Shaykh); Shiḥādah, Muḥammad (Coffeehouse owner); Huwaydī, Ḥamīd (Trader); Sirḥān, Nāyif (Leader); al-Rīnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); al-Majdalāwī, Rashīd (Poet).Table of contents: Agriculture life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic and political conditions during the Ottoman and British rule. (@ 12:2)Table of contents: Revolution and revolutionists during the British Mandate. (@ 21:52)Table of contents: Community life and celebrations. (@ 45:42)Table of contents: Life style in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 59:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 11, 1998 with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Karīm ‘Azzām, male, born in 1924 in Ṣaffūrīyah , Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a circumcisor.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj Muḥammad, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Landowner); al-Fāhūm, Rāfi‘ (Resistance leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Writer).Table of contents: Social values and traditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in Palestine. (@ 11:42)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 25:47)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine under Israeli occupation. (@ 43:24)Table of contents: Tales of wonder, wisdom and heroes. (@ 60:4)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 70:39)Table of contents: Popular stories. (@ 77:7)Table of contents: Community life and traditions. (@ 87:18)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Karīm Ghunaym , male, born in 1938 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Najm; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; ʻĪsá; al-Maw‘id; Ghunaym; al-Maqāziḥah; al-Ḥadāyidah; Rāshīd.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Municipal council); Yūsuf, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Laylá, Ḥasan (Shaykh).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ṣaffurīyah. (@ 17:48)Table of contents: Popular resistance in the village. (@ 32:3)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 48:9)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 65:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 10, 1997 with Muḥammad ‘Aql, male, born in 1929 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAtābā; al-Ḥadāydī; Abū Nāṣir; Ḥallūm; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Steel (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); Abū Qāsim, Jamīl (Teacher); al-Maw‘id, Maw‘id Muḥammad (Teacher); ʻIzzīyah, Aḥmad Dāwūd (Teacher); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Ḥadīdī, Aḥmad (Public officer); al-Mawʻid, Salīm (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Nawfal, Amīn (Refugee camp leader); al-Ṣabbāgh, Fāyiz (Refugee camp leader).Table of contents: Rural life and political history of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social dynamics and economic condition in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 20:14)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience . (@ 32:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 1998 with Muḥammad ‘Alī Jābir, male, born in 1928 in ʻAmqā , Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked at Nur Safety Match in Akka.Families: ‘Abd al-Rāziq; al-Majdhūb; ‘Uthmān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nur Safety Match (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Majdhūb, Qāsim (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Majdhūb, Mifliḥ (Trader); al-Sa‘īd, Bāsim (Trader); al-‘Akkī, Muḥammad (Olive mill owner).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity in ʻAmqā . (@ 11:46)Table of contents: Labor and laboring conditions before Nakba. (@ 21:47)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 52:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 3, 1998 with Muḥammad ‘Alī ‘Abīd, male, born in 1921 in Kafr Qariʻ, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked with the British police forces during World War II.Families: al-‘Athāminah; al-Maṣāriwah; al-Zaḥāliqah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port).Significant figures: al-Yāsīn, Asmar (Revolutionary leader); al-Maṣri, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); ‘Uthmān, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); ‘Uthmān, ‘Abd (Revolutionary); ‘Uthmān, Ibrāhīm (Wounded); al-‘Abdullāh, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Maṣrī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Maṣrī, Maḥmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 14:22)Table of contents: Social customs in the village before Nakba. (@ 28:38)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance during the British Mandate. (@ 39:29)Table of contents: War events during the British rule. (@ 52:15)Table of contents: The second World War. (@ 63:32)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine. (@ 85:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 1997 with Muḥammad ʻAlī Mawʻid, male, born in 1925 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon. He worked with the British Army.Families: Sulaymān; Maw'id.Significant figures: Qashmūsh, Simʻān (Foreman); Fawzī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Fāyiq, Aḥmad (School principal); al-‘Īsá, Rashīd Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Tawbah, Khalīl Sulaymān (Resistance fighter); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Sa‘d al-Dīn, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Salīm, Maw‘id (Village leader); al-Ibrāhīm, Sa‘īd (Mayor); al-ʻAbdullāh, Ibrāhīm Aḥmad (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Majīd, Sa‘īd (Artist).Table of contents: Political activities during the British rule. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 10:12)Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 32:26)Table of contents: Social and traditional customs in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 43:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 30, 1998 with Muḥammad Qāsim Muḥammad, male, born in 1926 in Jāḥūlā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a straw mats maker.Families: Sha‘bān; ‘Aṭīyah; Jabr; al-Danānshah; Sursuq; Ghulmīyah; Salām.Significant figures: al-ʻAlī, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (mayor); al-Ḥūrī, Mūsá (Teacher); ʻIzz al-Dīn, Muḥammad (Teacheer); al-Ḥāj, Unsī (Shaykh); Ṣubḥ, Nāyif (Landowner); Yāsīn, Muḥammad (Broker); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Broker); al-Ṣāliḥ, Aḥmad (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Abū Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family, childhood and schooling during the British rule. (@ 13:47)Table of contents: Rural life in Jāḥūlā before Nakba. (@ 25:35)Table of contents: Family business and economic conditions in the village. (@ 46:52)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and community life. (@ 64:4)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion . (@ 79:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June19, 1997 with Muḥammad Qāsim Muḥammad, male, born in 1923 in Jāḥūlā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sha‘bān; ‘Aṭīyah; Jabr; Fannīsh; Sursuq; Salām; Ghulmīyah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Hadassah hospital (Hospital).Significant figures: ‘Aṭīyah, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Yūnus (Shaykh); ‘Īsá, Maḥmūd Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Naḥawī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Lawyer); al-Rifā‘ī, Ḥusnī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Rifaʻī, Ḥusayn (Arab Salvation army commander); Lūbyā, Ḥusayn (Arab Salvation army soldier); ‘Aṭīyah, Abū Aḥmad Sulaymān (Wounded); Yāsīn, ‘Alī Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 11:44)Table of contents: Social and political conditions before Nakba. (@ 19:31)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 29:16)Table of contents: Battle and armed resistance. (@ 42:21)Table of contents: Military activity and resistance. (@ 50:29)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 59:0)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 73:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 3, 1997 with Maḥmūd Aḥmad Shtaywī, male, born in 1936 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Naḥf (School); Madrasat al-Rāmah (School).Significant figures: Naḥlah, Jamīl (Mayor); al-Dāhish, Jabr (Mayor); Shuqayr, Abū ʻAlī (Prisoner of war).Table of contents: Early life and betrayal . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Rāmah and journey to exile . (@ 8:21)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hardships in Lebanon. (@ 36:4)Table of contents: Attempt at return to Palestine and rejection. (@ 43:10)Table of contents: Communication with family relations in occupied Palestine . (@ 59:40)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع زوجته فاطمة علي شبعاني، أنثى، ولدت عام 1934؟. تقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shib‘ānī; Sha‘bān; Rajab; ‘Asqūl; al-Dilsī; Ṣawwān; Ayyūb; Shaʻbān.Significant figures: Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Shib‘ānī, Aḥmad (Wounded); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Shib‘ānī, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Yūsuf (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Ṣāfī Yaḥyá (Shepherd); Ṣawwān, Ismāʻīl (Shaykh); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥamad, Fuʼād As‘ad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 17:17)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 26:14)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 38:16)Table of contents: Economic conditions, Employment and exile. (@ 51:4)Table of contents: The Palestinian exodus. (@ 60:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 13, 1995 with Maḥmūd al-Bāyir, male, born in 1936 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Shabrīḥah, Lebanon. The interview was also recorded with Șālih Rashīd, male, born in 1934 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in Jal al-baḥ, Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of Bishr and Husn I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Bishr and Husn II. (@ 26:59)Table of contents: Arabic folk poetry. (@ 39:26)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and folk poetry . (@ 59:16)Table of contents: Prayers to God and religious anthems. (@ 80:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 6, 1997 with Maḥmūd al-Hindi, male, born in 1934 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aḥmadī (School); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Shukrī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Muftī).Table of contents: History of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Akka. (@ 18:17)Table of contents: Refugees: The experience of forced migration . (@ 29:45)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 49:56)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:52)Table of contents: Refugees hopes. (@ 74:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 18, 1997 with Maḥmūd Darwīsh ‘Abd al-‘Āl, male, born in 1920 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Abd al-‘Āl; ‘Awaḍ; Sursuq; Salām; Twaynī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Sālim, Yūsuf (Village leader); al-Sālim, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-‘Amrīṭī, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al-Zayn, Muḥammad Maḥmud (Poet); Dāhish, Jabr (Resistance fighter); Sarkīs, Ḥasan (Resistance fighter); al-Dāwūd, Muṣṭafá (Resistance fighter); Fahīm, Abū ‘Alī (Landowner); Ḥijāzī, Musṭafá (Resistance fighter); Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Socioc-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood and social conditions in al-Ghābisīyah. (@ 7:18)Table of contents: British colonial policy in Palestine. (@ 19:58)Table of contents: Military occupation and immigration. (@ 28:58)Table of contents: Battle and betrayal. (@ 40:4)Table of contents: Zionist occupation, immigration and refugees. (@ 61:45)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 69:57)Table of contents: Refugees hope. (@ 78:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 7, 1997 with Maḥmūd Rinnū, male, born in 1922 in Haifa, Palestine. He was a fisherman in Haifa port.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Burj (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).Significant figures: Qaṣād, Kāmil (Principal); Nāyif, Aḥmad (Military officer); Farḥāt, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Srūr (Resistance leader); Ṣafwat, Ismāʻīl (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ibrāhīm, Surūr (Martyr); Qazmūz, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Martyr); Rinnū, Aḥmad Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Rinnū, Maḥmūd Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Political life under the British Mandate of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and settler colonialism in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 17:28)Table of contents: Expulsion from Haifa and hope of return. (@ 37:7)Table of contents: War events and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 49:39)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 65:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Maḥmūd Sarrīs, male, born in Majd al-Kurūm, Palestine.Families: Minnā'; Khalāyil; Kanʻān; Sirḥān.Significant figures: al-Maḥbūb, Salīm (Landowner); Salīm , Muḥammad (Mayor); Sirḥān, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Salīm (Mayor); Kinʻān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Economic conditions before Nakba. (@ 18:42)Table of contents: Rural economy and country life in Palestine before 1948. (@ 37:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 11, 1997 with Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ al-Bashīr, male, born in 1934 in al-Ḥusaynīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Fāyiz; Ja‘far; al-Rawāshidah; al-Bashāyīrah; al-Ṭawāhirah; al-Rawābiḥah; al-‘Amāmirah.Significant figures: al-Kānūn, Aḥmad (Martyr); Jaʻfar, Raḥmah (Martyr); Fāyiz, Raḥmah (Martyr).Table of contents: Land purchase scheme in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 12:56)Table of contents: Violence, betrayal and expulsion. (@ 27:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Maḥmūd ʻĪsá, male, born in 1951 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in al-Jalīl Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Lebanese University (University); University of Copenhagen (University).Significant figures: ʻAllūsh, Nājī (Writer); Khālid, Ḥasan (Muftī); Yaḥfūfī, Sulaymān (Muftī).Table of contents: Political and military activity of a Palestinian refugee. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Memories of passed times. (@ 13:6)Table of contents: Intellectual activities of the Palestinian diaspora. (@ 21:30)Table of contents: Palestinians in exile: Diaspora and the search for a homeland. (@ 40:20)Table of contents: Palestinians, from peasants to revolutionaries. (@ 55:21)Table of contents: Palestinians in Israel: A nation in waiting . (@ 66:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1998 with Maḥmūd Qaddūrah, male, born in 1926 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah. Lebanon. He worked with British police forces then as a shoemaker.Families: Qaddūrah; Mūsa; Murrah; al-Jishshī; ‘Āmir; Barshīr.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Rashīd ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Company (Corporation); Najran Company (Corporation); Singer (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Ṭūqah, Rāshid (Trader); Fu’ād, ʻUthmān (Manager).Table of contents: Agriculture and social conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Professions in Suḥmātā. (@ 10:27)Table of contents: Shoe industry in Suḥmātā. (@ 21:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 18, 1998 with Maḥmūd Muḥammad al-Amīn, male, born in 1924 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a mayor.Families: ‘Abd al-Ghanī; ‘Awaḍ; al-Yūsuf; Ḥamādah; Ismā‘īl; al-Khaṭīb; al-Bunnī; al-Amīn; al-Sirḥān; Aṭāyā.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Kafr Yāsīf (School).Significant figures: al-Yūsuf, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Bunnī, Maḥmūd Aḥmad (Village leader); Ismā‘īl, Shiḥādah (Village leader); ‘Awaḍ, ‘Īsa (Village leader); al-Yūsuf, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); al-Kurdī, Maḥmūd ‘Alī (Village leader); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Amīn, Muḥammad (Landowner); al-Nimir, Muḥammad (Public officer); Murād, As‘ad (School principal).Table of contents: Mayorship and community life in al-Sumayrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and mayorship . (@ 19:23)Table of contents: Mayor contact with British authorities and anti-Palestinian economic measures. (@ 44:33)Table of contents: Roles of Mayors post-Nakba. (@ 70:15)
Biography: The interview was also recorded with Abū Yāsir, male, born in Palestine and resides in Lebanon.Table of contents: The Bedouin prince and his dead wife I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The Bedouin prince and his dead wife II. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: The prince's beard and his lion friend. (@ 32:7)Table of contents: Abraham's destruction of imagery and his miracle . (@ 46:14)Table of contents: Forced departure of Abraham from his land and marriage. (@ 75:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Maḥmūd Mūsá Kāyid, male, born in 1912 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Attempt of demolishing Kaʻbah and birth of prophet Muḥammad. (@ 11:18)Table of contents: Biography of prophet Muhammad I. (@ 22:23)Table of contents: Biography of prophet Muhammad II . (@ 50:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 17, 1998 with Maḥmūd Nimir Mīʻārī, male, born in 1927 in ʻAkbarah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.He was a tobacco farmer.Families: Ḥasná; Ḥishmih; Fayyāḍ; Mīʻārī; Maghāmis.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Mīʻārī, Aḥmad Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Mīʻārī, Nimir ‘Abd (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural economics in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 16:46)Table of contents: Agricultural practices in the village. (@ 38:29)Table of contents: Land preparation and planting methods in the village. (@ 58:8)Table of contents: Harvesting operations . (@ 73:25)Table of contents: Rural conditions in Palestinian village during the British rule. (@ 89:1)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile
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Biography: The interview was recorded on November 17, 1998 with Maḥmūd Yūsuf Dakwar, male, born in 1937 in Qaddītā, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon. He was an anthropologist.Families: Ḥlayḥil; Dakwar.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Elias Church (Church); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Bishārah (Church); Masjid al- Ṣakhrah (Mosque).Significant figures: Zaʻrūrah, Abū 'Alī (Resistance fighter); Rāḍī, Sharīf (Resistance fighter); Shūmān, Aḥmad (Leader); Nuwayhiḍ, Bayān (Professor); Atanas, ʻAql (Priest); Ghaṭṭās, Ghaṭṭās (School principal); ‘Abdūshah, Laṭīf (Teacher); ‘Arrāf, Shukrī (Writer).Table of contents: Early life: Family, childhood and schooling. (@ 0:29)Table of contents: Village description and Zionist infiltration . (@ 15:47)Table of contents: Folk traditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:7)Table of contents: Rural life and childhood memories. (@ 49:52)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 62:42)Table of contents: Forced departure from Qaddītā in 1948. (@ 75:7)Table of contents: Exile and refugee life. (@ 80:5)Table of contents: Cultural activities for Palestine in Exile. (@ 93:37)Table of contents: Palestinian handicrafts . (@ 117:40)Table of contents: Palestinian documents collections. (@ 146:15)Table of contents: Palestinian heritage equal to the Palestinian national identity. (@ 159:7)Table of contents: Heritage and identity . (@ 182:38)Table of contents: Conservation of the Palestinian cultural heritage. (@ 208:50)Table of contents: The Palestinian cultural identity. (@ 231:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 249:3)Table of contents: Family, land and childhood memories in occupied Palestine. (@ 265:35)Table of contents: Cities and villages under Israeli occupation. (@ 279:14)Table of contents: Collecting old remains from his destroyed village. (@ 297:43)Table of contents: Heritage theft. (@ 316:53)Table of contents: Palestinians under Israeli occupation. (@ 327:0)Table of contents: Palestinians in Israel, segregation and discrimination. (@ 347:17)Table of contents: Nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 361:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1997 with Mudalalah ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Rīnāwī, female, born in 1937 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Khalaf; al-Naṣṣār.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Banāt Yaʻqūb (Maqām); Dayr Ḥannah (Convent); Dayr Ṣaffūrī (Convent).Significant figures: al-Rīnāwī, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Rīnāwī, Saʻīd (Martyr); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Ghuzz, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: History of Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule. (@ 14:29)Table of contents: Occupation of Ṣaffūrīyah and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 21:57)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 31:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 6, 1997 with Mudallalah al-Rīnāwī, female, born in 1932 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Table of contents: Palestinian wedding folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of the pigeon and the ogre. (@ 11:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Maryam al-‘Arbajī, female, born in 1932 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Table of contents: Folk songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 0:22)Table of contents: Folktale and popular songs. (@ 12:20)Table of contents: Palestinian Popular songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 39:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 1, 1997 with Maryam al-Fayyāḍ Badrān, female, born in 1938 in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Naḥf.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Badrān, Qāsim (Resistance fighter); Badrān, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Badrān, Qāsim (Military officer); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Mayor).Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 21:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع نمر علي عيسى، ذكر، ولد عام 1921 في حطين، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs wedding songs
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk tales and fables. (@ 29:43)Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 44:47)Table of contents: Praise of Muḥammad . (@ 73:1)Table of contents: Marriage customs and rites. (@ 90:56)Table of contents: Palestinian wedding songs and traditions . (@ 120:58)Table of contents: Wedding songs and zaffah. (@ 146:13)Table of contents: Palestinian wedding folk songs. (@ 174:17)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع هدى أبو الدينة، أنثى ولدت في الناصرة، فلسطين.Families: al-ʻInbtāwī, Yāsīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Oil Refinery Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Qassām, Abū Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary leader); al-ʻInbtāwī, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ḥamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor); Khunayfis, Ṣaliḥ (Mayor); Indrāws, Abū Ilyās (Mayor).Table of contents: Wedding traditions and songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding customs
. (@ 9:54)Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 14:26)Table of contents: Harvesting and work . (@ 34:47)Table of contents: Love story. (@ 41:31)Table of contents: Arab revolt. (@ 49:19)Table of contents: Revolutionary songs and social life in Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 59:23)Table of contents: Bedtime stories and the woodcutter story . (@ 69:20)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع آمنة إسماعيل علي الحسين، أنثى، ولدت في فلسطين وتقيم في لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian national anthems and folk songs. (@ 7:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 4, 1998 with Muṣṭafá al-Saʻdī, male, born in 1897 in Akka, Palestine and resided in Beirut, Lebanon.Families: al-Khaḍrah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nur Safety Match (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Jazzār, ʻAbdullāh (Muftī); Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Shaykh); al- Saʻdī, Abd al-Fattāḥ (Mayor); al-Jazzār, ‘Abdullāh (Shaykh); Mīrī, ‘Alī (Shaykh).Table of contents: The Turks rule in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in Akka. (@ 8:11)Table of contents: Social and religious life in Palestine during the Ottoman rule. (@ 23:6)Table of contents: Agriculture and everyday life in Palestine during the British rule . (@ 31:19)Table of contents: Family and religious life in the city. (@ 56:15)Table of contents: Socio-political conditions and religious life in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 68:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 3, 1998 with Muṣṭafá Bayraqjī, male, born in 1906 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked at Akka airport during the British Mandate of Palestine.Families: al-Ḥusaynī; al-Nashāshībī; Ṭūqān; al-’Aẓm; al-Qūwatlī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka Airport (Airport).Significant figures: Iskandar, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Mayor); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Mayor).Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military attacks. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist- British agreement for Palestine before 1948. (@ 8:41)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 20:24)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity. (@ 33:14)Table of contents: Tales of passed times . (@ 46:11)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine. (@ 59:27)Table of contents: Pre-Nakbah life in the village. (@ 68:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 12, 1995 with Muṣṭafá Ḥusayn al-Ṣāliḥ, male, born in 1934 in Ghuwayr Abū Shūshah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of Khanfūr. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of prince Muhammad al-Jarbah I. (@ 29:38)Table of contents: Story of prince Muhammad al-Jarbah II. (@ 55:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 13, 1997 with Muṣṭafá Maḥmūd Ṭāhā, male, born in 1929 in Shaʻb, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥamzah; Khaṭīb; Zaytūn; al-Asadīyah; Shaykh Muḥammad; Ḥusayn; Najjār.Significant figures: al-Ṭayyār, Musṭafá (Policeman); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Saʻīd Amīn (Policeman); Abū ʻAlī, Dhāhir (Martyr); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Resistance leader); Salīm, Kāyid Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥamzah, Muṣṭafá al-Ḥāj ‘Abd (Martyr); al-Ḥarāmī, Ḥasan (Wounded); Ṭarīf, Salmān (Shaykh); al-Shaykh Aḥmad, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Flayyih, Rashīd (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Politics and government during the British rule. (@ 13:0)Table of contents: Political turmoil and popular resistance in Shaʻb. (@ 24:59)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 31:46)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 38:44)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 47:51)Table of contents: Citizenship and identity. (@ 64:50)Table of contents: Refugees hope for the future. (@ 80:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 27, 1995 with Muná Khalīl al-Bashīr, female, born in 1916 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Poetry and short story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Love story and folk poetry. (@ 12:13)Table of contents: Folk songs and poetry. (@ 27:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 21, 1997 with Mūsà al-Ḥāj Mūsà, male, born in 1927 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.He worked at the British Army camps.Significant figures: al-Yamanī, Muḥammad (Shaykh).Table of contents: Palestinian popular culture. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Economic and political conditions in the village during the British rule. (@ 18:8)Table of contents: Working with the British forces. (@ 35:28)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and community life. (@ 60:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 3, 1998 with Mūsà ʻAlī Hāshim, male, born in 1897 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a butcher and a trader.Families: al-Frayjāt; al-Khaṭīb; al-Dawālī; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-‘Abdullāh; al-Qawāsimah; al-Hawāshimah.Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Martyr); al-‘Alī, Sulaymān (Martyr); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Prisoner); al-Qaṭawīyah, Mir‘ī (Martyr); al-Jammāl, ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, ‘Abdullāh (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Yūsuf; Ḥusayn (Village leader); Jumʻah, Mūsá (Revolutionary); Yūsuf, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Dāwūd, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Yūsuf, ‘Īsá (Wounded).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 13:4)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics during the British rule . (@ 26:0)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 42:15)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 54:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 14, 1998 with Mawʻid Muḥammad Mawʻid, male born in 1920 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon. Hes was a teacher.Families: Mawʻid; Sulaymān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Qalʻah (School); Jāmi‘at al-Quds (University); Madrasat Ṣaffurīyah al-Ibtidāīyah (School); Madrasat al-Nāṣirah al-Thānawīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: American University of Beirut (University); Madrasat al-Ṣinā‘ah (School); Madrasat al-Nāṣirah al-Thānawīyah (School); Madrasat al-Funūn (School); Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School); American university of Beirut (University); Madrasat Ṣaffūrīyah al-Ibtidā’īyah (School).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Sharīf, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Saʻīd Muḥammad (Mayor); Laylá, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Dhizrá, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Teacher); Khaḍrā, Fawzī (Teacher); Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Village leader); ʻAwn Allāh, Raʼūfah (School principal); Faraḥ, Fu’ād (Public officer); Makkīyah, ‘Itāb (Public officer); Sa‘d al-Dīn, Rashād (School principal); Abū Qāsim, Jamīl ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Zanānīrī, Jamīl (Supplier); al-Dīrānī, Riḍā (Supplier); Samārah, Shākir (Principal); Samārah, Shukrī (Teacher); Samārah, Usāmah (Teacher); ‘Uthmān, Rābi‘ah (Teacher); ʻAzzīyah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Na‘nā‘, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ʻAwn Allāh, Ra’ūfah (School principal); al-Mawʻid, Naṣṣār (Village leader); Fāyiq, Aḥmad (School principal); Dhizrá, Muḥammad ‘Abdū (Teacher); Na‘nā‘, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Sharīf, ‘Abd al-Karīm Muḥammad (Teacher); Abū Qāsim, Jamīl ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); ‘Azzīyah, Aḥmad (Teacher); Mawʻid, Aḥmad al-ʻAlī (Teacher); Krayyim, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Sa‘dī, Muḥammad ʻIzz al-Dīn (Teacher); Laylá, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥallāq, Ḥasan (Shaykh); Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); Krayyim, Aḥmad (Teacher): al-Mawʻid, Aḥmad ‘Alī (Teacher); al-Mawʻid, Salīm (Village leader); al-Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Village leader).Table of contents: Social conditions in the village before the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Study and teaching in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 18:5)Table of contents: Education and labor market in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:56)Table of contents: Educational curriculum before 1948 in Palestine. (@ 44:48)Table of contents: Educational assessment in Palestinian schools during the British Mandate. (@ 62:40)Table of contents: Teaching methods. (@ 70:34)Table of contents: Parents teacher relations and educational systems in Palestine. (@ 90:22)Table of contents: Learning, Teaching and work in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 104:13)Table of contents: Female education and school activities in Palestine. (@ 117:20)Table of contents: Military activity and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 127:1)Table of contents: Teaching as a profession. (@ 137:30)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 141:19)Table of contents: Educational environments and religious diversity in the village. (@ 151:41)Table of contents: Teaching skills. (@ 162:23)Table of contents: Living conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 175:16)Table of contents: Educational history of the village. (@ 187:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 6, 1997 with Nādiyah Faḍḍah, female, born in 1927 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Biʼr al-‘Abd, Lebanon.Families: Staytīyah; al-ʻĀsī; Sursuq; Twaynī; Bayhum; al-‘Abdah; Jarrāḥ; Badr; al-Shuqayrī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Barclays bank (Bank); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Zaytūn (Mosque).Significant figures: Faḍḍah, Jihād (Resistance fighter); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Muwaqqiʻ, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Amīn, Muḥammad (School principal); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Leader); ‘Azzām, Samīrah (Journalist).Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity in the city. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 12:27)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 22:9)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 37:45)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion. (@ 46:51)Table of contents: Refugees in Lebanon. (@ 54:55)Table of contents: Experiences of Palestinian exile. (@ 70:43)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile from Palestine. (@ 83:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 1, 1998 with Nāyif Darwīsh ‘Alī, male, born in 1917 in Khirbat Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a trader.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Mustashfá al-Islāmī (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Bukhārī , Yūsuf (Musician).Table of contents: Political turmoil and military attack. (@ 0:05)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations and political conditions in Palestine before 1948. (@ 8:5)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 26:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Nāyfah Lūbānī, female, born in 1928 in al-Damūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs and political poetry. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of ʻAbdullātū and his siblings. (@ 6:5)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and poetry. (@ 13:7)Table of contents: Islamic ruqyah from evil eye and Palestinian popular songs. (@ 35:31)Table of contents: Short stories . (@ 45:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 8,1998 with Nāyifah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1922 in Kawkab Abū al-Hayjāʼ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū al-Hayjāʼ(Maqām).Significant figures: Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Mayor); al-Ibrāhīm, Khalīl Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Muṣṭafá, Tawfīq Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Ṣāliḥ, Ṭāhā (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 14:26)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance and leadership. (@ 26:55)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 40:5)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 53:41)Table of contents: Poems and nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 66:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 7, 1997 with Nāyfah ʻAbd al-Tāyih, female, born in 1936 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Aleppo, Syria.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Mustashfá al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation); Bata (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh ‘Īsá (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); Mar Elias (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Ḍargham, Srūr (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Childhood and social conditions in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social dynamics in Haifa. (@ 13:44)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 22:13)Table of contents: War time and expulsion. (@ 31:3)Table of contents: Sufferance and death during the expulsion. (@ 41:13)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 54:34)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 69:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 8, 1997 with Nabīhah Rashīd al-Sa‘d, female, born in 1917 in al-Manshīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of al-Ẓāhir Bībars. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Fiction and popular tales of religious figures. (@ 9:9)Table of contents: Story of Shams al-Ḍuḥah. (@ 35:8)Table of contents: Songs and story of the green bird. (@ 49:37)Table of contents: Story of al-ʻAbd Muḥārib. (@ 59:33)Table of contents: Yā Ḥamāmah yā lamāmah. (@ 77:51)Table of contents: Story of al-Qāniṣah. (@ 86:38)
Biography: سعسع، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم برج البراجنة للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Whayyib (Maqām).Table of contents: Marriage and wedding customs and traditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs. (@ 21:51)Table of contents: Story of Shammah and Zahr al-Bān. (@ 29:0)Table of contents: Beliefs and doubts in Palestinian stories. (@ 49:2)Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine and story of Banū Hilāl . (@ 62:5)Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 73:40)Table of contents: Story of al-Zīr . (@ 87:15)Table of contents: Palestinian folk and wedding songs. (@ 113:9)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs . (@ 138:51)
Biography: The interview was also recorded witih Ibtihāj al-Daqqāq, female, born in 1936 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Hādī (Maqām); al-Mujāhid (Maqām); Shīḥah (Maqām); al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām); al-Bayyāḍ (Maqām).Table of contents: Folk and harvesting songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs and social customs. (@ 6:44)Table of contents: Popular songs and Palestinian monuments . (@ 35:33)Table of contents: Story of Jbaynah. (@ 53:58)Table of contents: Grandfather and the jinn and children's songs. (@ 58:39)Table of contents: Wedding songs and customs. (@ 64:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on 1995 with Naẓmīyah al-Janḥāwī, female, born in 1916 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Dāwūd (Maqām).Table of contents: Palestinian traditional songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zalghutah. (@ 10:13)Table of contents: Traditional songs in Palestine. (@ 16:32)Table of contents: Songs collection. (@ 38:43)Table of contents: Miscellaneous collection of songs. (@ 56:51)Table of contents: Classic Arabic songs. (@ 69:12)Table of contents: Short story. (@ 75:3)Table of contents: Green Bird story. (@ 85:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Nazmīyah Fatḥ Allāh, female, born in 1930 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Sirḥān.Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The exodus and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 9:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 15, 1995 with Naʻāmih al-Ḥāj Sulaymān, female, born in 1926 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Fairy tales . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 11:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on 1995 with Ni‘mah ‘Awaḍ, female, born in 1921 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Ḥasan and al-Shāṭir Muḥammad. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk stories and pilgrimage songs. (@ 14:11)Table of contents: Pilgrimage story and songs. (@ 24:43)Table of contents: al-Shāṭir Muḥammad story. (@ 53:3)Table of contents: Folk songs and stories. (@ 65:47)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع أم خالد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1941 في الصفصاف، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطنين، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk and wedding songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding songs and customs. (@ 26:32)Table of contents: Fairy tales and children's stories. (@ 49:24)Table of contents: Humorous tales . (@ 71:41)Table of contents: War between two countries and escape of the ogre. (@ 99:49)Table of contents: Popular songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 108:49)Table of contents: Dabkah songs and ululation. (@ 132:4)