Biography: The interview was recorded on October 4, 1998 with Jalāl As‘ad Ḥusayn, male, born in 1935 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Political turmoil, resistance and military activity in the village. (@ 9:20)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 23:44)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 38:25)Table of contents: Witnesses of al-Ṣafṣāf Battle. (@ 47:1)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 70:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 22, 1995 with Ḥashmīyah Abū Sīkh, female, born in 1927 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Ḥārit Ḥrayk, Beirut, Lebanon.Families: Nābulsī; Rabāḥ.Significant figures: ʻAzīz, Aḥmad (Poet).Table of contents: Real Romantic story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 18:52)Table of contents: Songs of life. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Emotional songs. (@ 46:39)Table of contents: Nostalgia, love and other folk songs. (@ 55:44)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 69:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Khiḍr Darwīsh Skaynī, male, born in 1924 in Saida, Lebanon.Significant figures: Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Shīshaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Assāf, Najīb (Wounded); al-B‘aynī, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Mallāk, Saʻīd (Martyr); Zayn al-Dīn, Maḥmud (Martyr); al-‘Abdullāh, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Ḥalāwah, Fawzī (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestine is not the "promised land" . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance : memoirs of occupied Palestine. (@ 11:53)Table of contents: War time, resistance and military activity. (@ 38:10)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 47:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 15, 1995 with Samīḥah Fahd Abū Hawwash, female, born in 1944 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Dār al-Ṭufl (School).Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration and others. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Maymūnah and Zīnat al-Dār story. (@ 17:20)Table of contents: Woodcutter story. (@ 38:56)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 54:56)Table of contents: Popular songs and fables. (@ 75:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December, 1995 with Fāṭimah Muṣṭafá al-Rūbī, female, born in 1934 in Safad, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. The interview was also recorded with Kāmilah al-ʻAlūṭī, female, born in 1931 in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.The interview was also recorded with Asʻad al-Mughrabī, male, born in 1927 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Jāmiʻ al-Aḥmar (Mosque).Significant figures: Funaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kaʻwash, Saʻd (Singer).Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Moses and Zionist occupation of Safad . (@ 16:8)Table of contents: Real life stories and Palestinian wedding celebration. (@ 25:15)Table of contents: Story of Joseph (Son of Jacob). (@ 42:41)Table of contents: Palestinian folk tales. (@ 50:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on may 15, 1997 with Amīnah Fayyāḍ, female, born in1925 in Shaʻb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Inspirational story of Honor. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of The Three Brothers. (@ 12:19)Table of contents: Fictional story. (@ 21:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 12, 1997 with Yūsuf Dīwān, male born in 1939 in Yājūr, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥilū; Abū al-Ghizlān; Jumʻah; Abū Rudaynah; al-Shaqrā; Abū Shtayyā; Ḥammād; al-ʻAfīfī; Murād.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Dūghān, Dīb (Resistance fighter); al-Milījī, Zaydān (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 14:40)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 27:10)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 37:5)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine, humiliation and isolation. (@ 48:19)Table of contents: Arab attitudes toward Palestine. (@ 58:42)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and resistance. (@ 62:20)Table of contents: Refugees hope for the future. (@ 71:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 12, 1997 with Yūsuf Dīwān, male born in 1939 in Yājūr, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥilū; Abū al-Ghizlān; Jumʻah; Abū Rudaynah; al-Shaqrā; Abū Shtayyā; Ḥammād; al-ʻAfīfī; Murād.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Dūghān, Dīb (Resistance fighter); al-Milījī, Zaydān (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 14:40)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 27:10)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 37:5)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine, humiliation and isolation. (@ 48:19)Table of contents: Arab attitudes toward Palestine. (@ 58:42)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and resistance. (@ 62:20)Table of contents: Refugees hope for the future. (@ 71:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 6, 1997 with Āmāl Shurayḥ, female, born in 1939? in Akka, Palestine and resides in ‘Aramūn, Lebanon.Families: Ṭannūs; Fākhūrī; Faraḥ.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Waṭanīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Shurayḥ, Fādī (Poet); Sirḥān, ʻĀdil (Village leader); Sirḥān, Fāris (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family and childhood . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The Exodus from Palestine. (@ 7:57)Table of contents: Occupation and exile. (@ 22:56)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 45:44)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 54:48)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 65:6)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 77:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 22, 1997 with Ᾱminah Asʻad Ḥamādah, female, born in 1929 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Agriculture and community life under the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Sumayrīyah and journey to Lebanon . (@ 8:34)Table of contents: Refugee life and experience in Lebanon. (@ 25:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April, 1997 with Āminah As‘ad Ḥamad, female, born in 1912 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: The King and his Daughter story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Fantasy Short Stories. (@ 5:23)Table of contents: Popular stories. (@ 16:45)Table of contents: Green Bird story and other. (@ 33:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 7, 1997 with Ᾱminah Ibrahīm al-Bakrī, female, born in 1914 in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Badrān; Khalīl; al-Tītī; ʻĀbid; al-Ḥusayn; al-Bakrī; Khāzin; Būlus; al-Khūrī.Significant figures: al-Sarkas, ʻUthmān (Mayor); Badrān, Ḥusayn Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al-Bakrī, Muḥammad Ḥasan (Lawyer); Darwīsh, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabaḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-‘Ābid, ‘Alī Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Dāhish, Jabr (Village leader); Bakrī, Ḥusayn (Leader).Table of contents: Rural life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Biʻnah. (@ 10:6)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 17:6)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 23:27)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 28:46)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 45:45)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 49:57)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 64:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 7, 1997 with Ᾱminah al-Ḥusayn, female, born in 1936 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Rural life and education in pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and expulsion. (@ 10:1)Table of contents: Refugee experience and suffering in Lebanon. (@ 30:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 6, 1997 with Ᾱminah Ḥasan Banāt, female, born in 1931 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in Lebanon . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Everyday life in Palestine and refugee conditions in Lebanon. (@ 11:6)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and hardships of expulsion from Palestine. (@ 23:34)Table of contents: War incidents and suffering
. (@ 44:27)Table of contents: Folk traditions and social life . (@ 61:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ᾱminah Khiḍir, female, Born in 1926 in Kufrītā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al-Nāṭūr; al-Shaḥbarī; Sursuq; al-Ṭayyib; al-Ḥanafī; al-Khiḍir; al-Nawāṭīr; al-Aḥmad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥanafī, ʻAbd al-Salām (Revolutionary); Khiḍir, Fāris (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary leader); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Ḥāfiẓ (Martyr); al-Muḥammad, ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Political turmoil and Hawshah and al-Kasāyir battle. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions and social life. (@ 14:21)Table of contents: Rural conditions and social life. (@ 35:5)Table of contents: Childbirth and cultural life . (@ 62:16)Table of contents: Expulsion from Khirbat al-Kasāyir and dispersion. (@ 72:55)Table of contents: Childhood incidents and cultural life in Khirbat al-Kasāyir . (@ 79:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 20, 1997 with Āminah ‘Abd al-Ghanī, female, born in 1912 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: True Beauty: Short Story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Logger story and other. (@ 11:24)Table of contents: Story of Mqatta‘at al-Dayyāt. (@ 22:50)Table of contents: Popular stories. (@ 37:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 1997 with Āminah Muḥammad al-Jabbār (Sārah Cohen), female, born in 1926 in Jerusalem and resides in Beirut, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘Ḥasan Bayk (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Samrī, Khalīl (Martyr); Ḥūsah, Dhakīyah (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic and political conditions in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, immigration and exile. (@ 7:46)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 22:20)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 30:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 15, 1995 with Abū Aḥmad al-ʻAwaytī, male, born in 1934 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Wedding celebrations. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Traditional celebration. (@ 27:24)Table of contents: Songs and dance. (@ 49:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 1996 with Abū Ayman‘Aql, male, born in 1943 in Nablus, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Love folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 22:21)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 39:22)Table of contents: Fables stories. (@ 63:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 1995 with Abū al-ʻAbd Barqajī, male, born in 1911 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ḥmayyid, Muḥammad (Poet); Ḥmayyid, Hāshim (Poet); Ḥmayyid, Qāsim (Poet); al-Baytam, Muḥammad ‘Alī (Singer); al-‘Alī, Jamīl Ḥusayn (Singer); Najā, Muḥammad (Singer); al-‘Alayyān, Aḥmad (Poet); ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, Kāmil (Governor).Table of contents: Social life before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics during ottoman rule. (@ 17:11)Table of contents: al-Zīr Sālim story. (@ 33:21)Table of contents: Songs and stories. (@ 47:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاّ مع حسين سويد، ذكر، ولد عام 1931 في صفد، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding songs and story of the old lady and her daughters in law. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk tale . (@ 22:56)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Ḥasan I. (@ 41:2)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Ḥasan II. (@ 65:10)Table of contents: The tote bag of happiness and the fluent rooster. (@ 73:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 18, 1996 with Abū Muḥammad Suwayd, male, born in 1946 in Safad, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: The birth of Moses and survival from Pharaoh's execution . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Escape of Moses from executioners and his first contact with God . (@ 28:18)Table of contents: Return of Moses to Egypt and his miracles . (@ 44:4)Table of contents: God's messages to people through Moses and oppression of his believers . (@ 53:19)Table of contents: Separation of the sea by Moses and death of the Pharaoh. (@ 68:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 18, 1997 with Aḥmad Ibrāhīm Tamīm, male, born in 1931 in al-Jāʻūnah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid, Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Tamīm; al-‘Amāyrī; Dakhl Allāh; Shiḥādah; al-Jalbūṭ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Maghārit al-Ghasīl (Maqām).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Social conditions in the village. (@ 4:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil, resistance and military activity. (@ 22:34)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 33:37)Table of contents: Leaving al-Jāʻūnah. (@ 41:20)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 49:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Aḥmad Ḥajīr, male, born in 1930 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥāmūlī.Significant figures: Abū Jrās, Khalīl (Survivor); Ḥajīr, Fāyiz (Revolutionary); Ḥajīr, Ṣafīyah (Martyr); Salmān, ʻAbdullāh (Village leader); Abū Dūdah, Khiḍir (Village leader); Ḥajīr, Ḥasan Muḥammad (Prisoner).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil anf revolutionaries. (@ 9:2)Table of contents: Military occupation and the popular resistance. (@ 23:0)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:48)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 44:42)Table of contents: Palestinian refugees life. (@ 53:56)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع تفاحة العلي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1945 في التل، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Popular music and songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of a crazy man. (@ 13:1)Table of contents: Popular stories. (@ 22:7)Table of contents: Folk poetry and Zalghutah. (@ 39:25)Table of contents: Fictional stories. (@ 51:31)Table of contents: The Woodcutter story. (@ 64:18)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 18, 1998 with Aḥmad Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Ghanī, male, born in 1929 in Dabbūrīyah, Palestine. He was a police officer in the British Police forces during the mandate.Families: Yūsuf; Ibrāhīm; al-Maṣāliḥah; al-ʻAzāyzah; al-Aṭrash; al-Najjār; al-Yūsufī; Khamīs.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Pipeline Company (Corporation); German Hospital (Hospital).Significant figures: Abū Zurāq, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Burīnī, Saʻīd (Policeman); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Military officer); Khamīs, Mūsá (Policeman); al-ʻDaysī, Aḥmad (Martyr); Simḥān, Maḥmūd Resistance leader); Sallām, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAwartānī, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); Ḥadīd, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Mifliḥ, Yūsuf (Resistance leader); al-Dājānī, Mūsá (Resistance leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Arab Salvation Army leader).Table of contents: Employment in the British Police forces . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: British Police activity and army mistreatment during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 27:46)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and Palestinian resistance. (@ 35:15)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion. (@ 60:8)Table of contents: Return to Palestine and resistance . (@ 83:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 21, 1996 with Aḥmad Sallūmmah, male, Born in 1961 from Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Childhood life of Prophet Muḥammad and dawn of prophethood. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Beginning of islamic missionary and torture of muslim believers. (@ 29:49)Table of contents: Islamic missionary and the miracle of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʻrāj . (@ 55:28)Table of contents: Immigration of Prophet Muḥammad and muslims to Medina. (@ 84:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 17, 1997 with Aḥmad Sulaymān Aḥmad, male, born in 1926 in Dayshūm, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Abū Yaḥyá; Mīzārī; Nūḥ; al-Mārdīnī.Significant figures: Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); Ṣāliḥ, Muḥammad (Wounded); Nūḥ, Sa‘īd Ṣāliḥ (Wounded); Mizyān, al-Hādī ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); ‘Īsá, ‘Umar (Wouded); Ḥaddād, Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Qāsim, Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū Widdū, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Sha‘bān, ‘Umar (Martyr); Abū al-Nasab, Farīd (Camp leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 7:52)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 14:20)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 27:11)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 40:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 27, 1997 with Aḥmad Shiḥādah Falāḥ, male, born in 1918 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Quṭṭ; al-ʻArīq; ʻAlī Sālim; Ḥāj Mūsá; al-Ḥāj ʻAlī; Sursuq; ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl; Aṣlān.Significant figures: al-ʻAdawī, Ḥasan (Landowner); Abū al-Saʻd, Ḥusayn (Landowner); al-Ḥallāq, Aḥmad (Landowner); Zamzam, Asʻad (Landowner); al-Quṭṭ, Khalīl (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAkkī, Ibrāhīm (Landowner); Barakah, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance leader); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Ḥamādah, Kāmil (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in pre-Nakba Palestine and expulsion . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Settler colonialism, childhood memories, and education. (@ 10:38)Table of contents: Battles and the Arab Salvation Army withdrawal. (@ 26:17)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 50:19)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile . (@ 71:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16, 1997 with Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ Ismāʻīl, male, born in 1932 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked in a fire match factory.Families: ʻAbd al-Rāziq; Sursuq; Twaynī; Salām.Significant figures: al-ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Martyr); Shrayḥ, Fādī (Mayor).Table of contents: Political conditions and events surrounding Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and suffering in exile. (@ 22:4)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hope of return. (@ 44:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 18, 1997 with Aḥmad Ḍāhir al-‘Īsá, male, born in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes manufacture (Corporation).Table of contents: Palestinian history. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Palestinian affair. (@ 17:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1997? with Aḥmad Ḍāhir ‘Īsá, male, born in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine.Table of contents: Relay of memories and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile and diaspora . (@ 11:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 7, 1997 with Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Nawfal, male, born in 1932 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-ʻAfīfī; Sulaymān; al-Mawāʻidah; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-Saʻdīyah.Significant figures: Ḥallāb, Ḥasan (Teacher); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Shaykh, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Sarīnī, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Agriculture and community life in pre-Nakba Ṣaffurīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion and occupation of Ṣaffurīyah . (@ 16:40)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 27:50)Table of contents: Incidents and refugee social condition in Lebanon. (@ 41:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 7, 1997 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Qādir Ḥasan, male, born in 1928 in Ijzim, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Dwāymah; al-‘Azāyzah; al-Ṭaḥbūsh; Abū Zarad; al-‘Awāṣī; al-Qannūn; Qudsīyah; al-Kīlānī; al-Zinātī; Sursuq.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Lawyer); al-Māḍī, Mu‘īn (Lawyer); al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Landowner); Mūrād, ‘Abd al-Raḥīm (Shaykh); al-Nabhānī, Taqī al-Dīn (Shaykh); al-Khaṭīb, Nimir (Shaykh); Naffā‘, Yūnus (Leader); Naffāʻ; al-Ṣīdāwī, ‘Abdū (Resistance leader); Māḍī, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Rural life in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Childhood and everyday life. (@ 8:32)Table of contents: Political turmoil and armed resistance. (@ 19:13)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 25:10)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 34:10)Table of contents: Refuge life between Syria and Lebanon. (@ 48:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 6, 1997 with Aḥmad ʻAbdullāh Mizyān Aḥmad, male, born in 1925 in Dayshūm, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bazzī; al-Mārdīnī; al-Mīzānī.Significant figures: Mizyān, ʻAbdullāh (Imām); al-Mīzārī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); Zalghūṭ, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Resistance leader); al-Shāmī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Resistance leader); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Ḥusnī (Martyr); al-Hādī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad (Martyr); Rābiḥ, Zakīyah (Survivor).Table of contents: Social dynamics and community life in Dayshūm . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture, community, and social life in Dayshūm . (@ 26:57)Table of contents: Settler colonialism and political activity
. (@ 42:21)Table of contents: Arab Salvation Army in Dayshūm . (@ 69:18)Table of contents: Warfare and resistance. (@ 91:20)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 120:19)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 142:39)Table of contents: Final reflections on refugee experience and expulsion . (@ 164:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1998 with Aḥmad Faḍīl Hijjū, male, born in 1922 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a Police officer in the British Police forces during the mandate.Families: al-Shahāyibah; al-ʻAjāyinah; al-ʻAṭwāt; al-Ḥajājiwah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Qādir, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Shihābī, Yaḥyá Saʻīd (Mayor); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-ʻAṭwāt, Kāmil (Policeman); al-Fawwāz, Ibrāḥīm (Policeman); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Policeman); al-Fayyāḍ, ʻUthmān (Policeman); Ṭabbārah, Anīs (Policeman); Saʻīd, Sulaymān (Policeman); al-Khaḍrah, Aḥmad (Policeman); al-Jayyūsī, Ḥusnī (Lawyer).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and rural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British police forces. (@ 18:14)Table of contents: British Police activity in Palestine. (@ 37:54)Table of contents: British police during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 64:57)Table of contents: British Police activity and Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 89:44)Table of contents: Warfare and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 105:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 7, 1997 with Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAsqūl, male, born in 1937 in Bīrīyā, Palestine.Families: Ṣawwān; Ayyūbī; Shaʻbān.Significant figures: Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Mayor); Shaʻbān, ʻAlī (Shepherd); Brayk, Shafīq (School principal); al-Najjār, Muḥammad (Camp leader); Ḥamad, Ḥasan (Public servant).Table of contents: Political dynamics in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood and socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 8:9)Table of contents: Violence and military occupation. (@ 21:33)Table of contents: Village occupation and displacement. (@ 39:56)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 50:32)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 67:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Aḥmad Mifliḥ ‘Alāʼ al-Dīn, male, born in 1931 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ghuzz, Abū Mahmūd (Resistance leader); al-ʻĪsá, Sulaymān ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Martyr); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Alāʼ al-Dīn, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Mifliḥ (Policeman); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Naṣr, Saʻīd (Survival); al-Ṭufaylī, ‘Alī (Survival).Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 15:4)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 22:40)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 33:17)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 47:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Aḥmad Mifliḥ ‘Alā’ al-Dīn (Abū Usāmah), male, born in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-‘Īsá, Sulaymān Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Martyr); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Alā’ al-Dīn, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Mufliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and resistance . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance, occupation, and expulsion from Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 11:28)Table of contents: Journey to exile and refugee experience . (@ 34:18)Table of contents: Final reflections on the future of Palestinians . (@ 54:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 16, 1998 with Aḥmad Yūsuf Qaddūrah, male, born in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Biqāʻ, Lebanon.Families: Qaddūrah; al-Madāydī; Mūsá; Fāyiz; al-Jishshī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Būtāgī Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-‘Abd Mūsá, Sa‘īd (Mayor); Qayṣar, Jirjis (Mayor); Qaddūrah, ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Alī, al-‘Abd (Mayor).Table of contents: Agriculture and socio-economic conditions in Suḥmātā . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tobacco industry in Palestine . (@ 9:17)Table of contents: Cultivating and picking Tobacco in Palestine. (@ 37:10)Table of contents: Economic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 45:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 1, 1997 with Asʻad Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in 1927 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of the dog barber. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The fisherman and the fish I. (@ 11:10)Table of contents: The fisherman and the fish II . (@ 31:26)Table of contents: Fictions and fables. (@ 46:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on Decmber12, 1995 with Asʻad Mughrabī, male, born in 1927 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Bald head story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The end of the Bald head story. (@ 28:10)Table of contents: Moral short story. (@ 38:31)Table of contents: Symbolism in Arabic short story. (@ 54:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 19, 1995 with Umm Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1921 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Children's song. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk traditions in Palestine. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Rural life and traditions in Palestine . (@ 22:42)Table of contents: Wedding traditions. (@ 44:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm al-ʻAbd, female, born in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Za‘rūrah; ‘Izzīyah; Sulaymān; Maw‘id; Abū al-N‘āj; ‘Aṭīyah; Khaṭṭāb.Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social customs and community life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 11:40)Table of contents: Palestinian songs and customs . (@ 20:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 10, 1995 with Umm Ḥusayn ‘Aql, female, born in 1899 in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in Ḥārit Ḥrayk, Lebanon.Families: ‘Aṭā.Table of contents: Traditional folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk traditions. (@ 9:56)Table of contents: Popular culture and tradition. (@ 27:46)Table of contents: Weavers of the songs. (@ 36:6)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع أم سعيد في أيلول سبتمبر عام 1995، أنثى، ولدت عام 1916 في لوبيا، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Arabic short stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The king and his daughter story. (@ 17:55)Table of contents: Popular tales. (@ 31:35)Table of contents: Popular story. (@ 52:13)Table of contents: Three Sisters story. (@ 62:52)Table of contents: The Woodcutter story. (@ 73:43)Table of contents: Folk song and a story. (@ 84:31)