Biography: The interview was recorded on March 10, 2004 with Aḥmad Sulaymān Aḥmad, male, born in 1926 in Dayshūm, Palestine.Families: Nūḥ; Sulaymān; Mizyān; al-Mārdīnī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ḥanīyah (Maqām); Ḥanīyah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hādī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Rabīʻ, ʻAbd al-Rahīm (Prisoner); al-Salīm, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Nāyif (Martyr); Mizyān, al-Hādī ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Nūḥ, Abū ʻUmar (Martyr); Ṣāliḥ, Sa‘īd Muḥammad (Wounded); Shaʻbān, ʻUmar (Martyr); Abū Waddū, Ṣālih (Martyr); Ḥaddād, Saʻīd (Martyr); Ṣālih, Sa‘īd Muḥammad (Wounded).Table of contents: Social life and customs in Dayshūm. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 12:57)Table of contents: Agriculture and land ownership in Dayshūm. (@ 21:31)Table of contents: Customs and traditions. (@ 30:13)Table of contents: Military activity and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 40:6)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 60:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 2005 with Najīyah Ḥusayn, female, born in 1940 in Qabbāʻah, Palestine and resides in Lebanon.Families: Sh'ḥādah; al-Maṣārwī; al-Ḥaj; Ḥamādah; Fandī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻŪṣajī (Maqām).Table of contents: Childhood and agricultural life in Qabbāʻah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and customs in Qabbāʻah . (@ 12:31)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 25:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Khālid Yūnus Khālid, male, born in 1928 in Shaʻb, Palestine. He worked in the Forestry Service and than in the post office.Families: Khaṭīb; Fā‘ūr; Ḥamzah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dāi'rat al-Aḥrāj (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-‘Ulaymī (Maqām); Banāt al-‘Ayn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj ‘Abd, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Salīm, Kāyid, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Armūsh, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Rūsān, Ḍayf Allāh (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ḥassūn, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); al-‘Alī , Kāmil Sayyid (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Maḥmud Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education and employement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 12:46)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 18:56)Table of contents: Ceremonies and celebrations. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: War time and armed resistance. (@ 33:18)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 46:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:51)
Biography: Biiography: The interview was recorded on October 1, 2003 with Qāsim Muḥammad Dyāb, male, born in 1920? in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā, Palestine.Significant figures: al-‘Ajāj, Muḥammad (Tribe leader); Nakhlah, Jamīl (Village leader); Ṣghayyir, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Village leader); al-Mūsá, Dyāb (Revolutionary); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Weapon trader); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad (Landowner).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 13:39)Table of contents: Community life in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā. (@ 26:25)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity . (@ 42:11)Table of contents: Displacement and the journey of expulsion . (@ 64:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 26, 2003 with Dībah Muṣṭafá Ḥijāzī, female, born in 1933 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine.Families: ‘Awaḍ; Ayyūb; Ḥammād; Dāwūd.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); al-Ḥasan, Abū Ṣāliḥ (Circumcisor); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ(Revolutionary leader); al-Aḥmad, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); Ḥammīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Arab Salvation Army commander); Rāḍī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Badī‘ah, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Marār, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Rāʻī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Ghurrah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Zaynah, Dāwūd (Martyr); ʻŪthmān, Ḥasan (Martyr); ʻŪthmān, Asʻad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 14:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in al-Ghābisīyah. (@ 37:54)Table of contents: Violence, battles and resistance. (@ 45:8)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 62:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Laṭīfah Dīb, female,born in ʻAkbarah, Palestine.Families: Maʻārī; Mukhtār.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh ‘Alī (Maqām); Shaykh Salāmah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥlayḥil, Ḥasan (Musician); al-Aḥmad, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Nājī, Mūsà (Revolutionary); Abū Qāsim, Ḥayāt (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusaynī, Yūsuf (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions at ʻAkbarah. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Political activity at ʻAkbarah during the British Mandate. (@ 22:49)Table of contents: British policy towards the villagers and revolutionists. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 50:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 9, 2004 with Āminah Aḥmad Mūsá, female, born in al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī, Palestine.Families: Khalaf.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Shārm (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad (Maqām); al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām); al-Shaykh Sharaf (Maqām).Significant figures: Yūnus, Khalīl (Shaykh); al-Dakhīl, Shiḥādah (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Ḥmayyid, Muṣṭafá (Musician); al-Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Singer).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in Palestine. (@ 7:46)Table of contents: Childbirth and women's role . (@ 32:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 2004 with Āminah al-Sayyid, female, born in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon.Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; Ḥammād; al-Ḥāj; Khalīl; Balʻūs.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Sayidah Nafīsah (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: Wihbī, Zaydān (Mayor); ʻAzzām, Ᾱminah (Martyr); Yāsīn, Yāsīn (Martyr); Yāsīn, ʻAql (Martyr); ʻAzzām, Ḥāmid (Martyr); Ghunayyim, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); ʻAzzām, Shaykhah al-Dīb (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and cultural life in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions and turmoil . (@ 13:42)Table of contents: Evacuation orders from Saʻsaʻ . (@ 20:4)Table of contents: Zionist invasion during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 26:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 28, 2009 with Āminah Jamāl Zaydān, female, born in 1943 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Bank al-Mashriq (Bank); Madrasat al-Kifāḥ (School).Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Ibrāhīm (Professor); Fā‘ūr, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Refugee condition during the Israeli invasion of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah, 1982. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: House reconstruction in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp . (@ 20:36)Table of contents: House demolition in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp and war atrocities of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 1982 . (@ 50:6)Table of contents: Final reflections on refuge experience. (@ 73:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 11, 2004 with Āmīnah Saʻd, female, born in 1928? in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Saʻīd; al-Kayyāl; Mi'ārī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); al-Kayyāl (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Sulṭānī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and cultural life in al-Birwah . (@ 0:25)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance to military occupation in al-Birwah . (@ 19:3)Table of contents: Historical reflections. (@ 35:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 18, 2006 with Āminah Qāsim, female, born in 1936 in al-Jish, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ṭālib, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ayyūb, Salīm (Mayor); Qāsim, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Najīyah (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic dynamics under British rule. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 21, 2003 with Āminah Muḥammad Zaydān, female, born in 1933 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥazīr; al-Dabbūr; al-Rabānī; ʻAsqūl; al-Ḥalabī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Sharikat al-Mustaqbal (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Khalīl (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Nabī Yaḥyá (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hajjūj, Bahjāt (Mayor); al-ʻAbbās, Fahd (Village leader); al-Hajjūj, Ramaḍān (Village leader); al-Rabānī, Nimir (Village leader); al-Rabānī, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Zawāwī, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); al-Zawāwī, Nimir (Revolutionary); Zaydān, Maḥmūd Salīm (Businessman).Table of contents: Education, agriculture, and community life in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life, wedding customs, and celebrations. (@ 11:48)Table of contents: Zionist attacks on al-Ṭīrah, Haifa . (@ 25:13)Table of contents: Conduct of life and expulsion from al-Ṭīrah, Haifa. (@ 36:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 11, 2012 with Āminah Muḥammad Qundus, female, born in 1931? in al-Zīb, Palestine.Families: al-Afandī; ‘Aṭāyā; Qiblāwī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Īsá, Ḥasan (Martyr); Qundus, Khalīl (Martyr); ‘Abdū, Aḥmad (Wounded); al-Rā‘ī, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Ṣaqlāwī (Fisherman); Bas‘ad, ‘Alī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, and eveyday life during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in the village. (@ 16:31)Table of contents: Political clashes during the British Mandate. (@ 28:25)Table of contents: Interreligious relations and military attacks . (@ 37:17)Table of contents: Violence, resistance during the Zionist colonization. (@ 47:41)Table of contents: Economic conditions in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 62:42)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 84:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2003 with Ᾱminah Yāsīn Sa‘d, female, born in al-Jish, Palestine.Families: al-Khalāylī; al-Zayādnī; Ayyūb; Saʻd; Zaydān; Fahdah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Nabī Sabalān (Maqām); al-ʻAjamī (Maqām).Significant figures: Ayyūb, Salīm ʻAlī (Mayor); Jubrān, Samʻān (Mayor); Ḥulayḥil, Aḥmad (Reporter); Jadīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Nāṣir, Aḥmad (Poet); al-Nāṣir, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥūrān, Maḥmūd Ḥusayn (Martyr); Fayyūm, Salīm (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Najīyah (Martyr); Sirḥān, Faṭṭumah (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic Life in al-Jish . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Religious places, practices, and social life in al-Jish . (@ 8:24)Table of contents: Political Dynamics in al-Jish . (@ 28:1)Table of contents: Events that led to the expulsion from al-Jish. (@ 33:50)Table of contents: Final reflections on expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 59:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 23, 2005 with Āmīnah Yāsīn ‘Umar, female, born in 1932 Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in al-Jalīl Palestinian Refugee Camp, Baalbek, Lebanon.Significant figures: Kāyid, Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Characteristics of Palestinian agriculture community under British rule. (@ 0:08)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 14, 2004 with Aḥmad Āghā, male, born in 1930 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine. He worked as a military commander with the British police forces.Families: Sirḥān; Ᾱghā; al-Ḥammulah; al-Khayrāt; al-Fallāḥīn; Abū Anṭūn; al-Qiblāwī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Saint Luke's School (School); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Mujāhid (Maqām); al-Nabī Yahyá (Maqām); Jablat ʻAlī Abū Saʻd (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Ḥammūlah (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Qubbah, Maḥmūd (Teacher); Bishārah, Ḥannā (Teacher); ʻAwdah, ʻAbdallāh (Teacher); Ḥūrānī, Adīb (Teacher); Ḥabīb, Karam (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Bāqī, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Ḥijāzī, Fakhr (Teacher); Bustānī, Bashīr (Teacher); Shurayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Qāḍī, Shukrī (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad (Mayor), Sirḥān, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Mayor); Ᾱghā, Taqīy al-Dīn Aḥmad (Mayor); ʻAwdah, Fāṭimah (Dressmaker); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); Fuʼād, ʻUthmān (Revolutionary leader); al-Rashīd, Fawzī (Revolutionary leader); Ᾱghā, Muḥammad Kamāl (Resistance leader); Jadīd, Fuʼād (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Yannī, Yannī (Mayor); Laḥḥūd, Ḥannā (Resistance fighter); Ghabghad, Naʻīm (Minister); ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Rafīq, Naẓmī (Resistance fighter); al-Sibāʻī, Sabiʻ (Resistance fighter); Ᾱghā, Muḥmmad Kamāl (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family history and origin. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 7:29)Table of contents: Employment in the Palestinian mobile forces. (@ 15:28)Table of contents: Socio-political life in Tarshīḥā . (@ 27:13)Table of contents: Cultural life in Tarshīḥā. (@ 51:42)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 66:30)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine . (@ 74:17)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā and life in exile. (@ 100:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 5, 2004 with Aḥmad Jabr Rifāʻī, male, born in 1931 in Firʻim, Palestine.Significant figures: ‘Izz al-Dīn, Kāmil (School principal); ‘Uthmān, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Political conditions and community life in Pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist terrorism and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 22:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 17, 2003 with Aḥmad Ḥusayn al-‘Alī, male, born in 1921 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine.Families: Sursuq.Significant figures: al-Ḥāj Yāsīn, ʻAlī (School principal); al-Rumayiẓ, Jumʻah (Teacher); al-Fandī, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Zaghmūt, Kāmil (Teacher); ʻArrābī, Maḥmūd (School principal); Yūsuf, Kāmil al-Ḥusayn (Village leader); Yūsuf, Kāmil al-Ḥusayn (Village leader); al-Ḥamīd, ‘Abdullāh (Shaykh); al-Ḥusayn Yūsuf, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Hamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor); Marzūq, Mūsá Jumʻah (Revolutionary); Zahrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Shaykh Mūsá, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Murshid, Qāsim (Martyr); al-ʻĪsá, Maryam (Martyr); Mirʻī, ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education in al-Khāliṣah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and everyday life . (@ 10:18)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life. (@ 26:32)Table of contents: Traditions and customs in al-Khāliṣah . (@ 55:23)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 65:30)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 73:6)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine, 1948. (@ 89:10)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 100:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 20, 2004 with Aḥmad Ḥusayn Ḥammūd, male, born in 1922 in Wādī al-Ḥundāj, Palestine.Families: al-Rasāṭimah; al-Ẓawāhirah; Ghazāziwah; Sursuq; Nuhrah; al-As‘ad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Muḥammad al-Munṭār (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Mūsá (Mayor); al-Muḥsin, Masʻūd (Mayor); al-Ṣāliḥ, Sulaymān Khālid (Revolutionary); al-Muḥammad, Sʻayyid (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Ḥummayḍah, Anīs (Revolutionary leader); Abū Khulayṣ, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army leader); ‘Ammār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); ‘Ammār; ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); al-Ja‘far, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood, social life, and customs. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 20:16)Table of contents: Settlement expansion and the Zionist occuaption. (@ 33:19)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 62:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 12, 2004 with Aḥmad Khālid, male, born on 1917 in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in al-Jīyah, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Sa‘id; Kayyāl; N‘ārī; Samrī; Dīb.Significant figures: al-Naḥfāwī, Ḥasan (Teacher); al-Sa‘dī, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Teacher); ʻAṭallāh, As‘ad (Poet); al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).Table of contents: Rural community of al-Birwah. (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Social life in al-Birwah. (@ 23:9)Table of contents: Political dynamics at al-Birwah. (@ 34:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 21, 2004 with Aḥmad Khalīl Bashīr, male, born in 1926 in al-Sumayrīyah.Families: al-Amīn; al-Gharīb; Yūsuf; Ka‘mūsh; al-Bunnī; Sirrīyah; Ḥamādah; ‘Awaḍ; Ismā‘īl; al-Khaṭīb; ‘Abd al-Raḥīm; Sursuq; Twaynī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Yūsuf (Maqām).Significant figures: Bāb Allāh, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Ḥamādah (Village leader); al-Dīrāwī, Sa‘īd (Poet); al-Ṣayāḥ, Aḥmad (Doctor); Qaṭrān, Na‘īm (Doctor); al-Ismā‘īl, Mūsá (Revolutionary); Bāb Allāh, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); Ḥulayḥil, Mūsá (Revolutionary); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Khaṭīb, Sa‘īd (Martyr); Laymūnah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Shanā‘ah, Muṣṭafá (Revolutionary); al-Khaṭīb, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd (Wounded).Table of contents: Rural life and agriculture in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Political turbulence, warfare, and expulsion
. (@ 35:55)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 61:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 31, 2004 with Aḥmad Khalīl Ḥusayn, male, born in 1931? in Ḥamāmah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Maṣrīyīn; al-Maqādīd; al-Kalālibah; Shurbajī; Bakr; Ḥasanayn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Shawwā (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū ʻArqūb (Maqām); al-Shaykh Ḥāmid (Maqām); Abū Jahm (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū Shaqrah, Kāmil (Teacher); al-Nāẓir, Kāmil (Teacher); al-Khayyāl, Khulūṣī (Teacher); Abū Samʻān, Yūsuf Khalīl (Martyr); al-Khawājah, Khālid (Martyr); Manāsh, Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-‘Abd, Yaḥyá (Martyr); al-Bakr, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Prisoner); Ḥāfiẓ, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ḥamāmah. (@ 7:23)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 21:1)Table of contents: Expulsion from Ḥamāmah . (@ 36:59)Table of contents: Expulsion from Gaza. (@ 58:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 25, 2003 with Aḥmad Dawāymah, male, born in 1922 in Yibnah, Palestine.He worked in Pasta Manufacture during the British mandate.Families: al-Dawāynī; al-Khūrī; al-Māḍī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Pasta Manufacture (Corporation); Haifa Cigarette Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Juraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: Ṣafadī, Sāmī (Tailor); al-Khaṭīb, Nimir (Shaykh); Murād, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Shaykh); Naffāʻ, Yūnus (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood memories in Ijsim. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and interreligious marriage. (@ 12:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 23:18)Table of contents: Political turmoil, battles and military occupation. (@ 46:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from Haifa. (@ 55:24)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile. (@ 73:36)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 21, 2003 with Aḥmad Saʻīd Ka‘wash, male, born in 1927 in Mayrūn, Palestine.Families: Kan‘ān; Ka‘wash.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣaddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: Sharaf, ‘Abd al-Ghanī (Teacher); al-Dusūqī, Ḥusayn (Teacher); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Mayor); Ka‘wash, Saʻīd ʻAbd (Mayor); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Martyr); Zaynih, Ḥasan (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kanʻān, Khalīl (Martyr); Kanʻān, Fāris (Martyr); Kanʻān, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Mayrūn history. (@ 16:26)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and revolution. (@ 27:51)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration during the British rule. (@ 35:38)Table of contents: City occupation, resistance, displacement and exile. (@ 43:9)Table of contents: Battles, resistance and the expulsion. (@ 63:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 8, 2003 with Aḥmad Salīm al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1912 in al-Rās al-Aḥmar, Palestine.Families: Ayyūb; al-Shāyib; al-Khaṭīb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Qādirīyah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Murād, Rashid (Teacher); al-Khaṭīb, Faṭṭūm (Midwife); Ayyūb, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Mayor); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Shaʻbī, Abū Khalīl (Poet); al-Khaṭīb, Ḥannā al- ʻAlī (Musician); al-Khaṭīb, ʻAlī As‘ad (Musician); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥyī al-Dīn (Village leader); Ayyūb, Tawfīq (Village leader); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Qādir (Singer); Qaddūrah, Jamāl (Doctor); Qaddūrah, Ṣalāḥ (Doctor); al- Hirish, Fayyāḍ (Martyr); Shāhīn, Aḥmad (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Childhood and education in Raʼs al-Aḥmar. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community relations and ceremonial practices in Raʼs al-Aḥmar. (@ 10:10)Table of contents: Social practices, political turmoil and resistance. (@ 25:35)Table of contents: Society and conflict during Mandate Palestine. (@ 40:24)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 53:56)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 63:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 25, 2004 with Aḥmad Shafīq al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1926 in al-Qubaybah, Palestine.Families: al-Jadīlī; Sulṭān; al-Kuttah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Kullīyat Rawḍat al-Maʻārif (School).Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, Shafīq (Mayor); Shāhīn, Mūsá (Mayor); Yūnus, Muḥammad ʻᾹrif (School principal); Abū Sharkh, al-Sayyid (Mayor).Table of contents: Family origins, education, and childhood. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Social life, culture, and political conditions. (@ 21:46)Table of contents: Social and community life. (@ 46:48)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and political life. (@ 71:29)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and battles . (@ 83:27)Table of contents: Exile to Beirut and career establishment . (@ 96:40)Table of contents: Father's death and career. (@ 116:47)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع وزوجته نايفة أحمد علي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1933 في علما، فلسطين.Families: al-ʻAjjāwī; Shaḥrūr; al-Shaykh Aḥmad.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Sunbul (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque); al-Shaykh Nāṣir (Maqām); al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Faḥḥūmī, Būlūs (Teacher); al-Shakhnīnī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Teacher); al-Shaffūlī, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Shwaybī, Isḥāq (Jailer); Ḥammūd, Abū Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Mirʻī, Qāṣim (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Resistance fighter); ʻAjāwī, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); ʻAjāwī, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); Muṣṭafá, Khalīl (Martyr); Ghannām, Ḥasan, (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education in ʻAlmā . (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Employment in British Police forces . (@ 5:55)Table of contents: Cultural life at ʻAlmā . (@ 19:0)Table of contents: Palestinian political activity during the Arab revolt and Zionist invasion. (@ 34:6)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from ʻAlmā . (@ 47:5)Table of contents: Exodus to exile. (@ 53:41)Table of contents: Zionist terrorism and expulsion. (@ 59:36)Table of contents: Hardships of exile. (@ 66:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 2003 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Abū ‘Adas, male, born in 1924 in al-Mujaydil, Palestine. He worked with the Police during the British Mandate.Families: Sursuq; al-Lawābinah; Abū Khamīs; Wākid; Maṣāl; Sūṭarī; al-Khūrī; al-Buṭruṣ; Ṣalībā; Abū Dāwūd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Mujaydil (School); Ramat David (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū ʻAdas, Maḥmūd (Prisoner); Sūṭarī, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Sulaymān, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-Ghāzī, Muṭlaq Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Aḥmad, Tawfīq (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); Kassāb, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Martyr); ʻĪsá, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sulaymān, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Badīʻ, Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū ʻAzārah, Nāyif (Martyr); Samārah, Yūsuf (Martyr); Dabbūr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-ʻAbd, Dīb Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Mbadā, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Professions and employment . (@ 21:25)Table of contents: Political activity during the British rule. (@ 30:25)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in Palestine. (@ 42:55)Table of contents: Zionist attacks and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 67:38)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 89:22)Table of contents: Final reflections. (@ 111:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 1,2006 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, male, born in 1925 in Nimrīn, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Social and political dynamics in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Political conditions in Nimrīn during the zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 21:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 25, 2004 with Aḥmad ‘Awn, male, born in 1918, in Ṣalḥah, Palestine and resides in Shabrīhā, Lebanon.Families: Άwn; ‘Umar; Ma‘anqī.Significant figures: ‘Awdah, Muḥammad ‘Alī (School principal); al-Ḥāj Mūsá, ‘Alī (Mayor); Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Ismā‘īl, Na‘īm (Village leader); Maḥmūd, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ḥasan, Kāẓim (Village leader); Kasīrah, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); ‘Abbās, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Ḍahir, Nāṣīf (Martyr); Kāẓim, ‘Alī (Martyr); Ḥasan, Khalīl (Martyr); Ya‘qūb, Mūsá ‘Alī (Martyr); Ismā‘īl, ‘Abd al-Ḥāj (Martyr); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Martyr); Salāmah, Ismā‘īl (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic and cultural life in Ṣalḥah during the British Mandate. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Events of the Arab Revolt, Zionist invasion and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 11:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Aḥmad Krayyim al-Ḥāj, male, born in 1925 in ʻAlmā, Palestine. He worked as a policeman with the British Army.Families: al-Ḥāj; al-ʻAjjāwī; Shaḥrūr; al-Zaghmūṭ; Zaghmūṭ.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Keren Kayemeth (Corporation); British Bank (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Yaʻqūb (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūsuf (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Fāḥūm, Ziyād (Teacher); ʻAbdullāh, Amīn (Teacher); Mūsá, Aḥmad ʻUmar (Teacher); al-Mukaḥḥal, Sha‘bān (Policeman); al-Ḥāj, Aḥmad Ḥusayn (Teacher); Ḥusayn ʻᾹqil (Poet); Saʻīd, Aḥmad (Mayor); Farḥāt Sallām (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Shaʻbī, Abū Khalīl (Poet); ʻᾹqil, Ḥusayn (Poet); Sulaymān, Aḥmad Saʻīd (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥāt (Poet); Mall, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Education and Employment during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life in ʻAlmā. (@ 17:19)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 31:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and the popular resistance. (@ 38:32)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 54:24)Table of contents: Exile and hope of return. (@ 66:46)
Biography: فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم برج البراجنة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Yānūḥ (School).Significant figures: al-Ṣafadī, Sālim (Teacher); Abū Abd al-Qādir, ‘Abd al-Ghanī (Teacher); al- Majẓub, Qāsim (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Abū Ḥusayn Muḥammad (Mayor); al-‘Akkī, Aḥmad (Land owner); ‘Abd al-‘Āl, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); al-‘Akkī, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Dīb, Rāghib (Landowner); ʻŪthmān, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Rifʻat, Aḥmad (Martyr); Abū Ḥamdān, Sulaymān (Shaykh); Ibrāhim, Nūḥ (Poet).Table of contents: Social life in ‘Amqā. (@ 1:29)Table of contents: Palestinian society characteristics before Zionist occupation. (@ 26:47)Table of contents: Weddings in ʻAmqā during British occupation. (@ 50:54)Table of contents: Battle events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 69:13)Table of contents: Battle events. (@ 88:57)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 105:1)Table of contents: Arab attitudes towards Palestinians right to return. (@ 111:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 27, 2004 with Aḥmad Muḥammad ‘Awaḍ, male, born in 1925 in al-Manshīyah, Palestine. He was a store keeper at the Department of Agriculture.Families: Di‘bis; Ṣaqr; al-Ḥāj Ḥusayn; Ḥamdū; al-‘Awīṣ; Abū Ṣghayyar; ‘Ayn Maḥmūd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dāīrat al-Zirā‘ah (Governmental institution); Dā'irat al-Masāḥah (Governmental institution); Dā'irat al-Zirā‘ah (Governmental Institution).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū ‘Atabah (Maqām); ʻIzz al-Dīn (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Qūwwatlī, Shamʻah (Landowner); Ḥāmid, Fahd (Shop owner); al-Ṭarāwī, Aḥmad (Shop owner); al-ʻAbd, ‘Alī (Sop owner); al-Ṭarāwī, Yūsuf (Shop owner); Mannā‘, Nimir (Village leader); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, ʻĪsá (Village leader); Mannā‘, Yāsīn (Poet); al-‘Abd, Rashīd (Poet); Lātī, Georges (Public officer); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); Mannā‘, Khalīl (Martyr); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Leader); Ḥamdū, Maḥmūd (Translater); Naffā‘, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Education and childhood in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic dynamics in al-Manshīyah . (@ 14:53)Table of contents: Social history of the village. (@ 28:16)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 41:13)Table of contents: Battles, armed resistance and expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 60:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 5, 2004 with Aḥmad Muḥammad Muṣṭafá, male, born in al-Khiṣāṣ, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Families: Shiḥādah; Juwayyid.Significant figures: Khalīl, Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb (Teacher); Shiḥādah, Aḥmad Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Juwayyid, ‘Aṭīyah Muḥammad (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic life at al-Khiṣāṣ. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Cultural life, settler colonialism, and Zionist invasion . (@ 11:20)Table of contents: Expulsion and nostalgia. (@ 31:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Aḥmad Maḥmūd al-Saʻdī on February 17, 2004, male, born in 1930 in al-Zīb, Palestine.Families: al-Saʻdī; ʻAṭāyā; Yūsuf; Saʻd al-Dīn; al-Shaykh Ṭāhā; ‘Awaḍ.Significant figures: al-Nāṭūr, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); al-Barghūtī, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); Manṣūr, Anīs (Author); ʻAṭāyā, Abū Sulaymān (Mayor); al-Fāris, Abū Shiḥādah (Mayor); Ṭāhā, Khalīl (Martyr); al-ʻAbd ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Rāʻī, Aḥmad (Martyr); ‘Aṭāyā, Abū ‘Izzāt (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and socio-economic life at al-Zīb . (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Social life, folklore, and religious beliefs . (@ 28:50)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and expulsion . (@ 54:35)Table of contents: Exile and Hardships . (@ 79:36)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 20, 2004 with Aḥmad Maḥmūd Jrād, male, born in 1928? in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā, Palestine and resides in Jib Jinnīn, Lebanon.Families: Nādir; al-‘Awāydah; Zahrān; al-‘Īsāt; al-Baṭāṭikhah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Mūsá al-Kāẓim (Maqām); Khirbat Irbid (Maqām).Significant figures: Nādir, Musṭafá (Soldier); Nādir, Khālid (Soldier); al-‘Ajāj, Muḥammad (Tribe leader); al-Mūsá, ‘Alī (Revolutionary); Nādir, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Nādir, Aḥmad (Martyr); Nādir, Khālid (Martyr); al-Ṭabarī, Khalīl (Leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and political turmoil in the village. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community . (@ 11:35)Table of contents: Political dynamics in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā. (@ 33:22)Table of contents: War events and expulsion. (@ 50:20)Table of contents: Refugee life and expulsion . (@ 73:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Aḥmad Muṣṭafà Shabāyṭah, male, born in 1912 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine and resides in ʼAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shabāyṭah; Azzām; al-Imām; Rabāḥ; Qīyyam; Sursuq; Ramaḍān; Twaynī; al-Lawābinah.Significant figures: Azzām, Mufaḍḍī (Trader); Azzām, Azzām (Trader); Shaʻbān, Muḥammad (Trader); al-Būlīṣ, Khalīl (Doctor); al-Saʻīd, Diyāb (Poet); al-Badawī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); Shabāyṭah, Mūsá (Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd al-ʻAbd (Mayor); Azzām, Abū Rāmī,(Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Resisatnce leader); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd ʻAbd al-Qādir (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Resistance fighter); al-Imām, Ḥāmid (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood difficulties and education. (@ 0:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn
. (@ 8:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 27:23)Table of contents: Political conditions and Palestinian resistance. (@ 38:21)Table of contents: Expulsion and hardships of exile . (@ 63:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 16, 2005 with Adīb Qa‘wār, male, born in 1930? in Nazareth, Palestine.Families: Fāhūm; Ḥamad; al-Fāhūm; al-Zu‘bī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Chamber of Commerce (Governmental institution); Kullīyyat al-Ḥuqūq (University).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Freres School (School); Palestine Electric Company Ltd (Corporation); Madrasat al-Maskūbīyah (School); Madarsat al-Maskūbīyah (School); al-Maskūbīyah School (School); American University of Beirut (University).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Bishārah (Church).Significant figures: Qa‘wār, Ṭannūs (Contractor); Ṭannūs, Qa‘wār (Mayor); Bishārah, Salīm (Mayor).Table of contents: History of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 11:27)Table of contents: Religious pluralism and social conditions in Nazareth . (@ 26:30)Table of contents: Political turmoil in Nazareth. (@ 38:5)Table of contents: Zionist occupation . (@ 48:2)Table of contents: City occupation and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 62:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 18, 2005 with Umm Kārim Abū Sālim and others, female, born in 1947 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ghassān Ḥammūd (Hospital).Significant figures: Abū Kārim, Maḥmūd ‘Alī (Martyr); al-Yūsuf, Māhir (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: War and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Intervention and Israeli terrorism . (@ 12:23)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 24:38)Table of contents: Palestinian women's role in the war. (@ 37:48)Table of contents: Refugees and humanitarian conditions during the Israeli invasion. (@ 49:34)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع إبنتها هلا أيو سالم، أنثى، ولدت وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution).Significant figures: al-Yūsuf, Māhir (Writer); Abū Sālim, Maḥmud (Martyr); al- Ḥiṭṭīnī, Umm Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad (Lebanese Army commander).Table of contents: Battles and violence in Lebanon,1982. (@ 2:21)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 12:18)Table of contents: Living conditions during the Israeli invasion. (@ 22:0)Table of contents: Palestinian refugee camp conditions during the Israeli invasion. (@ 40:26)Table of contents: Social dynamics in a Palestinian community. (@ 56:40)Table of contents: Social and political changes in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 71:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Mīlād, female, born in 1940 in Wādī al-Ḥundāj, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 17:9)Table of contents: The prince and his wife. (@ 30:42)Table of contents: Refugee hopes and stories. (@ 44:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Wāʼil, female, born in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: The Story of the injured lady. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wisdom tale. (@ 10:0)Table of contents: Milkman, Poorman and Richman story. (@ 20:18)Table of contents: Symbolism in Arabic stories. (@ 27:43)Table of contents: Parent - child influence. (@ 33:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 4, 2009 with Amal Shihābī, female, born in 1962 and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Sarāyā Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Mustashfá al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Significant figures: Sulaymān, ‘Abd al-Laṭīf (Teacher); al-Maw‘id, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Salwá (Prisoner); al-‘Abdullāh, Āminah (Prisoner); al-Ta‘miri, Ṣalāḥ (Social worker).Table of contents: Israeli war crimes and terrorism. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political activity and detention in Israeli camps. (@ 8:32)Table of contents: Experience in Israeli detention camps. (@ 35:30)Table of contents: Women's role in building up the Palestinian society. (@ 59:30)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع أم محمد عباس، أنثى، تقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institutions).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ghassān Ḥammūd (Hospital).Significant figures: al-‘Abdullāh, Āminah (Prisoner); Ka‘wash, Sanīyah (Prisoner).Table of contents: Childhood, education and political situation in the camp. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: A week in Israeli detention camp. (@ 15:47)Table of contents: Release of detainees. (@ 29:47)Table of contents: Palestinian women in detention camps. (@ 39:41)Table of contents: Palestinian Political secret movements. (@ 65:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 19, 2006 with Amīn Shākir Shaḥrūr, male, born in 1933 in Hūnīn, Palestine and resides in Dayr al-Zahrānī, Lebanon.Families: Fā‘ūr; al-Birjāwī; Ḥudruj; Ḥassūn; ‘Allūsh.Significant figures: Shaḥrūr, Shākir (Mayor); al-Birjāwī, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Kaḥḥāl, Najībah (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic aspects in Hūnīn under the British rule. (@ 0:23)Table of contents: Political dynamics in Hūnīn during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 25, 2003 with Amīnah al-Sa‘dī, female, born in 1935 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine.Significant figures: al-Ghuzlān, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood and marriage in Ṣaffurīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Ṣaffurīyah and expulsion. (@ 21:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 3, 2005 with Amīnāh al-Maṣrī, female, born in 1932? al-Kābrī, Palestine and reides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Shaykh; al-Hādī; ʻᾹṭif; Sirḥān; al-Jishshī; Balqīs; al-ʻAlī; ‘Aṭāyā.Significant figures: al-Rīnnāwī, Ṭawfīq (Poet); Ḥisin, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood memories at al-Kābrī. (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Social and community life at al-Kābrī. (@ 6:31)Table of contents: Battles in al-Kābrī. (@ 31:41)Table of contents: Hope of return . (@ 37:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 27, 2003 with Amīnah Ḥusayn Shamālī, female, born in ʻArab al-Zubayd, Palestine.Significant figures: Yūsuf, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Kibrah, Maḥmūd (Construction worker); al-Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Landowner); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Ṭayyib, Fāyiz (Mayor); Sa‘īd , Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Muṣṭafá, ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); al-Khūrī , Shiḥādah (Trader); Ṭayyib, Fāyiz (Martyr); Dīb, Ṣubḥī (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in al-ʻAlmānīyah. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Social and cultural conditions in the village. (@ 22:6)Table of contents: Health conditions in the village. (@ 50:30)Table of contents: Political dynamics during the British rule. (@ 62:54)Table of contents: War events and the evacuation. (@ 76:55)Table of contents: Forced migration and refugees . (@ 92:30)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 106:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2003 with Amīnah ‘Abd al-Karīm al-Wākid, female, born in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine.Families: Abū Ra’is; ʻAbbūd; ʻAbdullāh; Abū al-Zuwayyid.Landmarks-Places of Worship: ʻAyn Lūṭ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ḥasan (Mayor).Table of contents: Rural conditions and social life. (@ 0:26)Table of contents: Cultural life and customs . (@ 21:3)Table of contents: Battles, Zionist terrorism, and expulsion
. (@ 43:4)Table of contents: Journey to exile and suffering. (@ 65:37)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع إبنتها جميلة الاشقر، انثى، ولدت وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيينن لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá al-Baṣṣah (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Mustashfá Ghassān Ḥammūd (Hospital).Table of contents: War and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian women role during the Israeli invasion. (@ 10:37)Table of contents: War atrocities in a Palestinian refugee camp. (@ 37:41)Table of contents: War and social changes. (@ 54:21)
Biography: Biograpgy: The interview was recorded on June 4, 2004 with Amīnah Maḥmūd Muṣṭafá, female, born in 1928 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥamūl; al-Aghawāt; al-Muqassim; Fāʻūr; Muṣṭafá.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Shafīq (Mayor); ʻUmar, Fāyiz al-ʻAbd (Martyr); Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Zakī (Resistance leader); Ḥammūd, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Jishshī, Abū Suhayl (Leader); al-Jishshī, Maḥmūd (Leader).Table of contents: Women education and agriculture. (@ 0:17)Table of contents: Social conditions and community life in Tarshīḥā. (@ 21:32)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Zionist invasion. (@ 41:48)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā. (@ 59:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 18, 2006 with Ammūn Aḥmad Ghunaym, female, born in 1930? in al-Jish, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Dīb; Ruḥaymī; Shāhīn; Nimir.Significant figures: ‘Aql, Atanās (Teacher); al-Khaṭīb, Nājīyah (Martyr); Fahdī, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Socical dynamics in al-Jish. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 18:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 2003 with Anīs ʻAbdullāh Sāyigh, male, born in 1931 in Tiberias, Palestine.Families: al-Ṭabarī; al-Khūrī; al-Ḥāj Ismāʻīl; al-Khaṭṭābīn.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School); al-Kullīyah al-ʻArabīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Bishop Gobat School (School); Mustashfá al-Ṭāʼifah (Hospital); al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Sayyida Sukayna (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ṣayfī, Ṭalʻat (School principal); Wihbī, Tawfīq (Teacher); Najm, Muḥammad Yūsuf (Writer); al-Hawwārī, Muḥammad Nimir (Leader); Ṣāyigh, Yūsuf (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family origin and childhood memories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education in Palestine. (@ 16:3)Table of contents: Community and social classes of the city. (@ 33:27)Table of contents: Zionist movement in Palestine . (@ 45:53)Table of contents: History of Tiberias. (@ 56:1)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 63:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded in March 22, 2006 with Anīsah Dyāb Abū Haykal, female, born in al-Manshīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp,Lebanon.Families: Mannāʻ; Ṣaqr; Da‘bis.Significant figures: al-Mū‘ā, Fawziyyah (Poet); Abū Mannāʻ, Yāsīn (Poet); al-Ṭrābulsī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Mannāʻ, Khalīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Social dynamics and events practices in al-Manshīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political dynamics during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 23:31)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع إنتصار أبو سالم، أنثى، ولدت وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Hamsharī (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Umm Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: War events and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War crimes during the Israeli invasion. (@ 14:53)Table of contents: Arrests during the Israeli occupation. (@ 27:29)Table of contents: Palestinian women activities during the Israeli occupation. (@ 40:54)Table of contents: Community and family life during the Israeli invasion. (@ 55:40)Table of contents: Political dynamics in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 67:45)
Biography: فلسطين.Families: al-Asadī.Significant figures: al-Bāqī, Muḥammad ʻAbd a-Raḥīm (Revolutionary); Anṭāqyā, Sālim (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Ṣawwān, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Shaʻbān, Yaḥyá (Revolutionary leader); al-Ḥāj, Aḥmad Khalīl (Martyr); Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Qamalmaz, Iḥsān (Military officer); Shdīd, Ghassān (Military officer); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Family origin and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions in Palestine. (@ 16:18)Table of contents: Social life and ceremonies. (@ 20:41)Table of contents: Bīrīyā during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 31:59)Table of contents: Political life and military training in Syria. (@ 41:43)Table of contents: Military activity and resistance. (@ 57:56)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Palestinian villages during 1948. (@ 75:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 4, 2004 with Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn ‘Uṭūr, male, born in 1923 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥusayn; al-Badārinah; Karrūm; Abū Shākir; ʻUṭūr; Shamaṣ; al-Maʻālī.Significant figures: Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); Abū Dayyah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); al-Shāʻir, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Shāʻir, Tawfīq (Revolutionary); ‘Alāmah, Fu’ād (Revolutionary); al-Shā‘ir, ‘Abdullāh (Revolutionary); al-Aḥmad, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Martyr); ʻUbayd, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Mūsá, Tawfīq (Martyr); al-Khālid, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Agriculture, community life, and customs at al-Farrāḍīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939
. (@ 19:52)Table of contents: Collaboration and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 28:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 24, 2003 with Ibrāhīm Shiḥādah, male, born in 1927 in Qabbāʻah, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Families: al-Qūwwatlī; al-Hrāwī; Sursuq.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Firʻim (School); Madrasat Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (School); Madrasat Beisan (School).Significant figures: al-Muṣṭafá, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Muṣṭafá, Muḥammad (Mayor); Yāzidī, Tawfīq (Governor); ʻAbbās, Aḥmad Nimir (Military officer); Sulaymān, Naẓmī (Military officer); al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al- Muṣṭafá, ‘Alī (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); al-Zaghmūṭ, Nāyif Maḥmūd (Poet); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Ṣāliḥ (Dentist); ʻUthmān, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); al-Salīm al-Ṣāliḥ, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Ghurayyib, Khālid (Martyr); Ghurayyib, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ghurayyib, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Salām, Ṣā’ib (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Yūsuf (Martyr); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr).Table of contents: Mayor elections and education . (@ 0:16)Table of contents: Service in the British police forces. (@ 11:29)Table of contents: Social norms and community life. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 52:0)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine during 1948 . (@ 60:1)Table of contents: Terrorism and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 73:28)Table of contents: Political conditions and dates of leading events to Nakba. (@ 99:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 23, 2005 with Ibrāhīm ʻAdawī, male, born in 1927 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAwaḍ; ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl.Significant figures: Khālid, Shākir (Shaykh); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Farfaḥīnī, Dīb (Poet); al-Ammūnī, Yaḥyá (Poet); Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Sa‘īd (Poets); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions at al-Ghābisīyah. (@ 10:9)Table of contents: Customs and traditions. (@ 31:52)Table of contents: Battles and war events. (@ 43:39)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal . (@ 66:0)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع خديجة عبد العال، أنثى، ولدت في الشيخ داوود، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان. عملت مع جمعية النجدة الاجتماعية.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospitals); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Khalīl (Hospital); Mustashfá Ghassān Hammūd (Hospital).Significant figures: Ḥassūn, Hala (Teacher).Table of contents: Israeli invasion and war events. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli invasion casualties . (@ 14:35)Table of contents: Israeli detention and Palestinian prisoners' treatment. (@ 32:1)Table of contents: Israeli policies during invasion and women's political activity . (@ 51:21)Table of contents: Women's socio-economic role and political activity in the war . (@ 65:0)Table of contents: Organizations and social activism in Palestinian refugee camps. (@ 76:27)Table of contents: Palestinian women activities during the Israeli invasion, 1982. (@ 83:41)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in refugee camps in Lebanon, 1982. (@ 89:12)
Biography: The intrview was recorded on August 2, 2004 with Iftikār Abū Shullayḥ, female, born in 1936 in Jaffa, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Khalaf; al-Uqrum; al-Ramādī; Abū Samrā; al-Ghūl.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Rūbīn (Maqām).Significant figures: Khalaf, Khamīs (Martyr).Table of contents: Social history of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebration and traditions. (@ 12:15)Table of contents: Expulsion and right of return. (@ 30:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 3, 2003 with Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn Yūsuf, male, born in 1932 in Ghuwayr Abū Shūshah, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Evangelical Episcopal School (School); al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).Significant figures: al-Ḥannā', Y‘aqūb (Bishop); Kanʻān, Sulaymān (Trader); ʻAylabūnī, Sa‘īd (Teacher); Dyāb, Salīm ‘Aṭallāh (School principal); ʻAbd al-Hādī, Khamīs (Mayor); al-Ḥannā, Y‘aqūb (Bishop).Table of contents: Education in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Land, Conflict, and Justice . (@ 12:1)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and attacks. (@ 26:15)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 40:1)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 52:23)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right to return. (@ 65:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 10, 2003 with Ibrāhīm Khalīl Ibrāhīm, male,born in 1929 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine.Families: Ḥasan; Shiḥādah; al-Ghaḍbān; Ibrīq; Twaynī; Sham‘aah; Qūwatlī; Salām.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: Shiḥādah, Ḥalīm (School principal); al-Jishshī, Muḥammad Rāghib (Teacher); Niyāzī, Rif‘at (Teacher); Mzīghīṭ, Sāmī (Teacher); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Mayor); Fāris, Rujina (Midwife); al-Shiblī, Shaykhah (Midwife); al-Ḥāj ʻAlī, Ḥasan (Circumcisor); al-Dīb, Elias (Doctor).Table of contents: Social history of the village . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socioeconomic life during the British rule in Kuwaykāt. (@ 11:54)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 24:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 10, 2004 with Ibrāhīm Khalīl Biqāʻī, male, born in 1930 in al-Wayzīyah, Palestine.Families: ʻUthmān; Misʻid; ʻUmar; Yūnus: al-Ḥāj; al-Biqā‘ī; Barakī; Jirjis.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Firʻim (School).Significant figures: Abū Raḥmah, ʻAwaḍ (Shaykh); ʻIzz al-Dīn, Kāmil (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Ḥalīl, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); ʻUmar, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); Yūnus, Muṣṭafá al-Aḥmad (Mayor); Yūnus, Fayyāḍ (Revolutionary); al-Shaykh Maḥmūd, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Revolutionary); Ṭabrī, Fūʼād (Doctor); al-Ḥāj, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and cultural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social conditions and community life . (@ 13:24)Table of contents: Harassment of Mughr al-Khayṭ during the Arab revolt. (@ 32:18)Table of contents: Battles and war events . (@ 37:6)Table of contents: British Army withdrawal and Zionist occupation. (@ 57:1)Table of contents: Expulsion from Mughr al-Khayṭ. (@ 64:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 7, 2004 with Ibrāhīm Maḥmūd Blaybil, male, born in 1920 in Ṭayṭabāh, Palestine. He worked as a foreman with the British Army during World War II and then as a teacher.Families: Sulaymān; Shanā‘ā, Blaybil; al-Rifā‘ī; al-Sa‘dī; Dahshih; ʻAlī Qāsim; al-‘Ajjāwī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Khaḍūrī al-Zirā‘īyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Tapline (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, Ḥamādah (Shaykh); al-Nabhānī, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); al-Zanānīrī, Jamīl (Public officer); Khalīfah, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Ṭaʻān, ‘Abd al-Karīm (School principal); al-Rifāʻī, Khālid al-Ḥusayn (Mayor); Sha‘th, ‘Alī (School principal); Dahshih, Abū ‘Aṭā (Revolutionary); Blaybil, Abū Fu’ād (Martyr); al-Sa‘dī, al-‘Abd (Martyr); Nīsān, Sālim (Trader); al-Rifāʻī, Khālid (Martyr); al-Rashīd, ‘Īsá (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education and political conditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Study and teaching during the British Mandate. (@ 17:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions under the British Mandate . (@ 36:0)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 56:25)Table of contents: War time and political occupation. (@ 68:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 11, 2003 with Ismāʻīl ʻAbd al-Qādir Shammūṭ, male, born in 1930 in al-Lidd, Palestine. He was an artist.Families: Shammūṭ.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Lidd al-’Ibtidā’īyah (School); Maṭār al-Lidd (Airport).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Ṣālih (Maqām); al-Nabī Rūbīn (Maqām); Saint George Church (Church); Bi’r al-Za’baq (Maqām).Significant figures: Ẓalātīnū, Dāwūd (Teacher); al-Ḥusaynī, Shawqī (Artist); Ṣaqr, Ḥāfiẓ (Revolutionary); Ṣaqr, Ḥāfiẓ (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, family origin and political conditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural life and education . (@ 11:34)Table of contents: Early life and art education . (@ 28:51)Table of contents: Jordanian army withdrawal and expulsion from al-Lidd. (@ 52:40)Table of contents: Expulsion and suffering. (@ 72:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 18, 2006 with al-‘Abdah Jābir, female, born in al-Mālikīyah, Palestine. She worked at the British camp of al-Mālikīyah and resides in al-Marwānīyah, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Ḥākūrit Khalīl ʻAyyād (Jewish monument).Significant figures: ʻĪsà, Aḥmad (Landowner); Khalīl, Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAwaḍ, Alī (Revolutionary); al-Asʻad, Aḥmad (Revolutionaryr); Bazzī, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Jumʻa, Mūsá (Martyr); Muṣṭafá, Mūsá (Martyr); al-Sayyid Ḥusayn, Yūsuf (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); Sa‘d, Ma‘rūf (Resistance fighter); al-Asʻad, Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Economic conditions of a Palestinian family. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Events of Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 12:16)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 24:42)Table of contents: The military situation during the Zionist invasion of al-Mālikīyah. (@ 41:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 4, 2004 with Budūr ‘Abd al-Ghanī, female, born in 1934? Naḥf, Palestine and resides in Ṣabrā and Shātīlā Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Abd al-Ghanī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al Khiḍir (Maqām); al Shaykh Rabī‘ (Maqām); Sit al-Zāwīyah (Maqām); Yūsuf al-Gharīb (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Khashshān, Yūsuf (Martyr); Maṭar, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Dāhish, Jabr (Village leader); Ḥannā, Naqqār (Leader).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 15:10)Table of contents: Violence, occupation and resistance. (@ 23:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 14, 2003 with Bādī‘ah Nāyfah, female, born in Qāqūn, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Na‘ālwah; Fuqahā’; Bahatah; Nāyfah.Significant figures: Nāyfah, Qāsim (Village leader); al-Nāṣir, Shafīqah (Tailor); al-Nāsir, Ᾱminah (Midwife).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and wedding celebrations at Qāqūn. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Community patterns and mechanisms. (@ 25:2)Table of contents: Political dynamics at the village during Zionist attack. (@ 41:43)Table of contents: Political situation and resistance during the Zionist occupation. (@ 57:44)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 87:29)Table of contents: The expulsion and socio-economic conditions in Lebanon. (@ 100:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 2, 2009 with Bahījah Muḥammad Darwīsh, female, born and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Sa‘dī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution).Significant figures: ‘Aṭīyah, ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Umm Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Israeli occupation and the resistance in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War and women activity during the Israeli invasion. (@ 18:55)Table of contents: Women protest movement during the israeli occupation. (@ 36:7)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance in Lebanon, 1982. (@ 49:53)Table of contents: Women's rights and role in the society. (@ 62:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 5, 2004 with Pauline Saʻīd, female, born in 1928 in Jaffa, Palestine and resides in Hamra, Lebanon. She was a teacher.Families: al-Nashāshībī; al-Ḥusaynī; Abū Ghūsh; Maria; Alonso; al-Bayrūtī; Ṣabbāghah; Dabbās; Lātīn; Gharghūr; al-Ḥumṣī; ʻAbd al-Nūr; Dajānī; al-Ḥāj ʻAlī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat Rāhibāt Ṣahyūn (School); Madrasat Rāhibāt Mār Yūsuf (School); Church Missionary Society (School); Orthodox School (School); Frères (School); Madrasat Rāhibāt al-Ṭilyān (School); Madrasat Rāhibāt al-Nāṣirah (School); Ottoman Bank (Bank); Barclays Bank (Bank); Englander (Clothes shop).Significant figures: Dajānī, Saʻīd (Doctor); Saʻīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Gharghūr, Līlah (Wounded).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and cultural life . (@ 0:23)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and cultural life in Jaffa. (@ 28:25)Table of contents: Political and socio-economic conditions. (@ 42:28)Table of contents: Battles and expulsion from Jaffa. (@ 61:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 12, 2005 with Bayān Nuwayhiḍ, female, born in 1937, in Jerusalem, Palestine and resides in Beirut, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Kullīyat Dār al-Mu‘allimāt (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: King David Hotel (Hotel); Schmidt school (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: Ṣalāḥ, ‘Abd al-Laṭīf (Lawyer); Balābisah, Ḥayāt (Martyr).Table of contents: Political and cultural history of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil in Jerusalem. (@ 12:44)Table of contents: War events. (@ 23:57)Table of contents: Palestinians in exile. (@ 38:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 11, 2004 with Turkīyah al-Aḥmad, female, born in 1933 in Haifa, Palestine.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Khamrah, Abū Yūsuf (Mayor); al-ʻAwaḍ, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).Table of contents: Tribal community life in Pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tribal customs and social life. (@ 23:8)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from Haifa. (@ 41:13)Table of contents: Hope of return and final reflections. (@ 65:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 19, 2004 with Tawfīq ʻAbdullāh Maḥmūd, male, born in 1922 in Dallātah, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al-Rifāʻīyah; Shanāʻah; al-ʻAbdullāh; Ayyūb; Ḥammīd; Suwayd.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām); al-Shaykh Yūsuf (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Nābulsī, Ḥāmid (Teacher); Murād, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Teacher); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); Saʻīd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Khālid (Musician); al-Aḥmad, Ḥasan (Musician); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm (Musician); Tawbah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); Maḥmūd, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Resistance leader); Ḥammīd, Sirḥān (Resistance leader); Shdīd, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Qāsim, Ḥasan (Martyr); Maḥmūd, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Mayor); Ḥusayn, Qāsim Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood and hardships of education . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and cultural life in Dallātah . (@ 13:33)Table of contents: Social manners and Zionist exploration of Palestinian lands. (@ 40:49)Table of contents: Palestine during Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 52:37)Table of contents: Palestine during 1948 Nakba . (@ 61:44)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 72:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Thérèse Dāʼūd, female, born in 1963 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Abū al-Marājil, and two short stories. (@ 12:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Thérèse Dāwūd, female, born in 1963 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ‘Awdah, Fāris (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Mūsá Srāj story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Umm Fāris story. (@ 18:0)Table of contents: ‘Ā̕idah bint al-Nakba and other real stories. (@ 25:57)Table of contents: Real stories and songs. (@ 37:2)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع حسين لوباني، ذكر، ولد عام 1939 في الدامون، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم نهار البارد للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Table of contents: Short stories . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral stories. (@ 14:14)Table of contents: Story of women's machination . (@ 29:21)Table of contents: Moral story of mothers in law and daughters in law . (@ 40:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on Decemeber 8, 2003 with Jamīl Ismā‘īl Ḥamad, male, born in 1935 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); al-‘Abbāsī, Ghālib (School Principal); al-Nāṣir, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); Ḥujām, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Massacres, violence and expulsion. (@ 9:33)Table of contents: Eyewitness of al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre. (@ 28:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 27, 2004 with Jamīlah Ḥasan Khaḍrah, female, born in Kufayrāt, Palestine.Families: Ḥamdān; al-Nāṭūr; al-Shaḥtarī; Khaḍrah; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: Khaḍrah, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Jammāl, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and agricultural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural and social life at Khirbat al-Kasāyir. (@ 17:25)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 42:50)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and expulsion of Palestine. (@ 56:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 28, 2005 with George Bāsīl Farrāj, male, born in 1924 in Jerusalem, Palestine and resides in Beirut, Lebanon. He worked as a chief secretary of the British high commissioner office during the mandate.Families: Ghunaym, Ṭannūs; al-Jūrī; Mushabbak.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Waṭaniyyah al-Urthūduksiyyah (School); Madrasat al-Muṭrān (School); Madrasat al-Ummah (School); Saint George's School (School); Bishop Gobat School (School); Terra Santa School (School); Madrasat Ṣahyūn (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Qiyāmah (Church); Mār Yaʻqūb (Church); Mār Jirjis (Church).Significant figures: Ḥarāmī, Shukrī (Teacher); Farrāj, ʻĪsá (Martyr); al-Ṭubbī, Michel (Mayor); Abū Shanab, Maḥfūẓ (Club director); Daʻdis, Shafīq (Club director).Table of contents: Childhood memories in Jerusalem. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic and political conditions before Nakba. (@ 7:52)Table of contents: Children's activities in Palestine . (@ 14:2)Table of contents: Political conditions in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 22:17)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 27:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 11, 2005 with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Asadī, male, born in 1922 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked with the British army during World War II.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Terra-Santa School (School).Significant figures: al-Jaylānī, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Shaykh); al-Asad, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Naqqārah, Ḥannā (Lawyer); Jdīd, Ṣalāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd Sa‘īd (Mayor).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Childhood, education and work during the British Mandate. (@ 19:45)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Dayr al-Asad. (@ 36:4)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 50:51)Table of contents: Refugee experience and expulsion. (@ 68:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 2003 with Ḥasan al-Ḥallūṭ, male, born in 1926 in al-Kābrī, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwi Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sirḥān.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Karāj Shḥīm (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Zāwiyah (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Hādī, Sayyid (Shaykh); al-Ṣafadῑ, Dῑb (Mayor); Ḥammād, Nimir (Martyr); al-Anas, Sulaymān (Martyr); al-Shaykh ʻῙsá, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-’Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Naḥfāwῑ, Muḥammad (Martyr); Fandῑ, Mit‘ib (Martyr); Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader); Muhyī al-Dīn Amar, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥannā, ‘Aṣfūr (Lawyer).Table of contents: Everyday life and society in al-Kābrī
. (@ 0:12)Table of contents: Political turbulence, Palestinian resistance, and military attacks
. (@ 16:33)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and battles
. (@ 35:6)Table of contents: Zionist occupation, resistance, and expulsion . (@ 47:44)Table of contents: Refugee life and hardships. (@ 69:20)
Biography: This interview was recorded with Ḥasan Badr al-Shāhīn, male, born in Jaffa, Palestine.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Wadādiīyah (Hospital); Barclays Bank (Bank); English hospital (Hospital).Table of contents: Childhood memories and Battles. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Jaffa and war events. (@ 16:15)Table of contents: Cultural life and traditions. (@ 21:3)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hope of return . (@ 35:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 19, 2003 with Ḥasan Jamāl al-Ḥusaynī, male, born in 1925 in Jerusalem, Palestine.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Rawḍah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque); al Maskūbīyah church (Church).Significant figures: al-ʻAlamī, Fayḍī (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood memories in Jerusalem. (@ 0:08)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations in pre Nakba Palestine. (@ 10:58)Table of contents: Revisiting Jerusalem . (@ 27:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 18, 2003 with Ḥasan ‘Alī ʻĪsá, male, born in 1927 in Ḥ̣iṭṭīn, Palestine. He was a policeman with the British Army.Families: Sursuq, Salām; Daḥābirah.Significant figures: al-Turk, Ghālib (School principal); al-Mun’im, ’Abd (Policeman); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Sa’īd (Poet); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Shakīb (Poet); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Mayor); al-Rinnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); Nādir, Ḥasan (Doctor); al-Rabāḥ, ’Alī Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Sha’bān, Abū Fawzī (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Mayor); al- ‘Azzām, Muḥammad al-‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); Rabāḥ, ‘Ursān ‘Azzām (Resistance fighter); al-Khālid, Muḥammad As’ad (Shaykh); al-Khālid, Muḥammad As‘ad (Martyr); ʻĪsá, Nimir ‘Alī (Policeman).Table of contents: Childhood, education and employment in Ḥiṭṭīn
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance against the military occupation of Ḥiṭṭīn
. (@ 21:13)Table of contents: Customs and manners in Ḥiṭṭīn. (@ 36:29)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance efforts. (@ 57:42)Table of contents: City occupation and armed resistance in Ḥ̣iṭṭīn. (@ 72:8)Table of contents: Armed resistance against Zionist occupation and expansion. (@ 87:11)Table of contents: Warfare, displacement and distress
. (@ 102:4)Table of contents: Right of return to Palestine. (@ 116:0)Table of contents: Remembering the Nakba and the homeland. (@ 135:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 30, 2003 with Ḥasan Qāsim Zayn, male, born in 1928 in al-Mazraʻah, Palestine. He worked in the British Army camps.Families: Saʻd; al-Zayn; Qallūs; Ḥijāzī; al-Ḥaddād.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: Saʻīd, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Ḥasan, Badr (Foreman); al-Najamī, Salīm (Leader); al-Kurdī, Fāyiz (Lawyer); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance leader); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and education in al-Mazraʻah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions, employment, and agricultural life. (@ 9:15)Table of contents: Customs, Traditions, and Socio-political life . (@ 26:18)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 51:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 24, 2004 with Ḥasan Mirʻī al-Shāyib, male, born in 1917 in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Social and Political dynamics at ʻAlmā during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political activity at ʻAlmā during the British rule and the Zionist occupation . (@ 23:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on ِApril 13, 2004 with Ḥasnah Aḥmad Ṭāhā, female, born in 1936? in Naḥf, Palestine.Families: ʻAbbās; Maṭar; Saʻīd; ʻAbd al-Ghanī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Rabīʻ (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-ʻAbd, Maḥmūd (Trader).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding songs and traditions. (@ 18:10)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 35:42)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 59:3)