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 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 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 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 December 5, 1998 with Jamīl Mūsá al-‘Alī, male, born in 1928 in Kafr ʻAnān, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a policeman in the British Police forces.Families: Shuqayr; Manṣūr; al-Khaḍr; al-Khaḍrah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: Muṣliḥ, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Naḥf, Ṣalāḥ (Teacher); Dīmāsī, Maḥmūd (Teacher); Ṭāhā, Muḥammad (Policeman); ‘Awāḍ, Ḥasan (Military officer).Table of contents: Rural life and employment in British police forces. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Work in the British police forces. (@ 24:21)Table of contents: Police work in British prisons. (@ 53:47)Table of contents: Prisoners' treatment and work in British prisons. (@ 80:38)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 100:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 26, 1998 with Ḥasnah ‘Abd Kīlānī, female, born in 1925 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Kīlānī; al-Shahāyibah; al-Hajājiwah; al-‘Aṭwāṭ; al-‘Ajāyinah; al-Ḥiṭṭīnī; Qaddūrah; al-Kīlānīyah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Jāmi‘ al-Azhar (School).Significant figures: Kīlānī, Muḥammad (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Social life and rural conditions . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Lūbyā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 16:43)Table of contents: Social life and customs . (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 36:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1998 with Ḥusnī Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ, male, born in 1912 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a carpenter.Families: al-Qāḍī; al-Mukhaḥḥal; al-Ḥusaynī; Sursuq; Twaynī; Salām; al-Khūrī.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Leader); Ṭannūs, ‘Īsá (Carpenter); Shāhīn, Jibrā’īl (Carpenter); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Tawfīq (Artist); Kāmil, Sa‘īd (Trader); Kāmil, Maḥmūd (Trader); Ṣāliḥ, Mahdī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jumay‘ān, Imīl (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Political history and activity in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Carpentry profession and social dynamics in Palestine. (@ 20:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic life in Tarshīḥā . (@ 46:0)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā and refugee experience . (@ 61:7)Table of contents: Refugee carpentry work Post-Nakba in exile . (@ 87:19)Table of contents: Carpentry wood types and trade. (@ 103:20)Table of contents: al-Kābrī Battle, 1948 . (@ 116:57)Table of contents: Municipality elections in Tarshīḥā and refugee experience . (@ 134:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1998 with Ḥafīẓah Qāsim Aḥmad, female, born in 1917 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She worked as a tailor.Families: Dhabbāḥ; al-Khaṭīb; al-Mūsá; Ṣunʻ Allāh; al-Muzayyan; Badrān; al-Dhabāḥ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Maqām Al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Dhabbāḥ, Fāṭimah (Tailor); al-Shaykh, ‘Alī (Shop owner); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd Sa‘īd (Mayor); Balṭajī, Umm Ḥasan (Derssmaker).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and sewing . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Sewing and bridal trousseau. (@ 29:58)Table of contents: Sewing tools and socio-economic conditions in Palestine. (@ 46:45)Table of contents: Refugee experience and education in exile . (@ 55:26)Table of contents: Sewing profession Post-Nakba and refugee life. (@ 64:35)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع غزالة إبراهيم عبد المعطي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1927 في بيت لحم، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Significant figures: al-Bahār, Khaḍrah (Midwife); Abū N‘āj, Nimir (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Displacement, exile and hope. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian children folk songs. (@ 12:54)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 25, 1998 with Rashīd ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd Sulaymān, male, born in 1927 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Najm; Sulaymān; ‘Īsá; al-Maw‘id; Ḥadāyidah; al-Sa‘dīyah; al-Maṣāriwah.Significant figures: ‘Izzīyah, Aḥmad Dāwūd (Teacher); Samārah, Shākir (School principal); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Municipal council); al-‘Afīfī, Maḥmud (Municipal council); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural economic in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 14:34)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 39:26)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and rural conditions in the village. (@ 58:3)Table of contents: Crops and agriculture life in Saffuriyah. (@ 73:21)Table of contents: House construction and Farming practices in Palestine. (@ 83:17)Table of contents: Rural life and practices. (@ 95:26)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 106:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 16, 1998 with Zahrah Ḥamad Khadījah, female, born in 1926 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Qāsimīyah, Lebanon.Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Traditional customs in a Bedouin community. (@ 17:29)Table of contents: Rites and ceremonies. (@ 42:4)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions. (@ 61:46)Table of contents: Social gatherings and customs. (@ 85:15)Table of contents: War time, military occupation and exile. (@ 100:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 30, 1998 with Zaynab Ibrāhīm Khalīl, female, born in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Abū Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Majẓub, Abū Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 16:38)Table of contents: Palestinian handicrafts and refugee hopes for the future. (@ 29:4)