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: 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 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 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: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع زهرة الخضر، أنثى، ولدت عام 1932 في أم الفرج، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البص للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: ِArabic folk poetry. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Fairy tale. (@ 8:26)Table of contents: Songs and poems. (@ 21:4)Table of contents: al-Zayn M‘ammar story. (@ 33:3)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 45:24)Table of contents: Songs and Story. (@ 50:17)Table of contents: Sleeping beauty. (@ 60:37)Table of contents: The Six Brothers story. (@ 71:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 30, 1997 with Umm Māzin al-Yamānī, female, born in 1933 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Abū al-Ḥusayn story or Sleeping stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Children songs. (@ 21:17)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 27:29)
Biography: وسجلت المقابلة ايضا مع الياس شربين، ذكر، ولد عام 1931 في حيفا، فلسطين.Significant figures: al-al-Ḥajjār, Muṭrān (Poet).Table of contents: Socio- political dynamics during British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Two popular stories. (@ 11:31)Table of contents: ِArabic aphorism. (@ 20:36)Table of contents: Story of the Old woman and the Treasure. (@ 31:29)Table of contents: Real story. (@ 41:30)Table of contents: Friendship short story. (@ 53:11)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع فاطمة حسين سالم، أنثى، ولدت عام 1950 في بعلبك، لبنان وتقيم في مخيم الرشيدية للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Early childhood songs. (@ 12:32)
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 September 27, 1997 with Ḥusayn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ‘Ayyāsh (Abū 'Alī), male, Born in 1921? in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Abū Rāṣ; ʻAṭāllāh; ʻAbbūd; ʻAyyāsh; Sursuq; Sirḥān; al-Nashāshībī.Significant figures: Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ṭāhā Muḥammad Khalīl (Revolutionary); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Sālim, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Sulaymān, ʻAwaḍ (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣalṭī, Nāyif (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣahyūn, Abū Fāyiz (Tracker); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Sārī (Martyr); Zāyid, Ibn Qūrá (Jewish officer).Table of contents: Social life and political history of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: ʻAylūṭ during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 16:41)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and feudalism in Palestine. (@ 45:0)Table of contents: Political activity during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 68:1)Table of contents: Battles and Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine, 1948. (@ 84:19)Table of contents: Mass murder and expulsion from ʻAylūṭ . (@ 109:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Ḥusayn Muḥammad Darwīsh, male, born in 1937 in Khirbat Ja‘tūn, Palestine.Families: al-Darāwshah; Mir‘ī; Manāṣrī; Mḥaysnīyah; Ḥijāzī; Ḥawwā; Twaynī; Sursuq; Ḥabāyib; Bazzī; Salām; al-As‘ad.Significant figures: al-ʻAkkī, Aḥmad (Landowner); Ḥijāzī, Abū Aḥmad (Mayor); Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); al-Qassīs, Abū Mas‘ad (Village leader).Table of contents: Farming and living conditions before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 7:50)Table of contents: Infiltration during the British rule. (@ 15:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 28:46)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 38:23)Table of contents: War time and military operations. (@ 54:42)Table of contents: Land, defense and resistance. (@ 67:22)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 83:28)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 101:24)Table of contents: Humanitarian conditions during the exodus. (@ 114:38)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 130:19)