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 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 12, 1999 with Ibrāhīm Yūsuf Rinnū, male, born in 1926 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Tripoli, Lebanon. He was a fisherman.Families: Abū Zayd, Rinnū; al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm; al-Ḥāj Khalīl; al-Bāshā; al-Ḥāj Sālim; Ḥishmī; Abū Hawwāsh.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Palestine Electric Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell Palestine (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Nāṣirī, Abū ‘Alī (Martyr); Rinnū, Kāmil (Leader); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Ṭāhā (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and Zionist terrorism . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Haifa. (@ 11:19)Table of contents: Socio-economic life and expulsion. (@ 40:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Dyāb Muḥammad al-Sayyid, male, born in 1922 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine. He was a policeman.Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; al-Ḥāj; Khalīl; al-Lūbānī.Significant figures: al-Shawwah, Muḥammad (Teacher); ‘Awartānī, Sa‘īd (Teacher); Badr, ‘Alī (Public officerl); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Mayor); Sulaymān, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Ḥusayn, ʻAbdullāh (Prisoner); Nāṣir, ʻAlī (Prisoner); al-ʻAjamī, Kamāl (Prisoner); Abū al-Shabāb, Yūsuf (Prisoner); al-Sayyid, Khālid (Prisoner).Table of contents: Education and community life. (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Employment during the British Mandate in Palestine. (@ 29:10)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 58:24)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and expulsion. (@ 69:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 28, 2004 with Dīb Muḥammad Khashshān, male, born in 1923 in Dayr al-Qāsī, Palestine.He worked as a policeman with the British authority during World War II.Families: Ma‘rūf; al-Ṣādiq; Maḥmūd; Khashshān; Qurfalī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh Jawhar (Maqām).Significant figures: ʻUthmān, Ibrāhīm (Teacher); ʻĀrif, Khālid (Teacher); Ḥasan, Muḥsin (Teacher); Jad‘ūn, Michel (School principal); Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Military trainer); ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Jordanian Army commander); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Ṣādiq, Majīd (Mayor); Ma‘rūf, Muḥammad (Mayor); Zaydān, ‘Alī (Folk poet); Khashshān, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Khashshān, Naʻīm (Revolutionary); Khashshān, Jamīl (Revolutionary); Jadʻūn, Michel (Translator); Sa‘ūd, Naʻīm (Martyr); Ḥammūd, Khālid (Martyr); Khashshān, Khālid (Revolutionary); Ẓāhir, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); ʻŪthmān, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader); Ma‘rūf, Khalīl (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Education in Dayr al-Qāsī. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and work experience in the British Army during the mandate. (@ 18:32)Table of contents: Religious and ethnic pluralism in Palestine during the British Mandate . (@ 36:26)Table of contents: Cultural and intervillage relations in Dayr al-Qāsī . (@ 52:24)Table of contents: Political conditions at Dayr al-Qāsī. (@ 62:12)Table of contents: War events and the Zionist invasion . (@ 69:4)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of the village. (@ 87:59)Table of contents: Military situation at Dayr al-Qāsī then the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 97:30)
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 January 7, 1997 with Zahrah Fahd Murrah, female, born in 1930 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām); al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām).Significant figures: Murrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Qaddūrah, Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Falāḥ, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ṭunnah, Yūsuf (Mayor); Mubaddah, Nāyif (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Ḥusayn Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAbbūd, Khalīl (Martyr); Qāsim, Muḥammad Khalīl (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Wahāb, Aḥmad (Martyr); Murrah, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Salīm, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Suḥmātā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 under the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli occupation and expulsion . (@ 6:44)Table of contents: Community life and beliefs in Sabalān. (@ 21:22)Table of contents: Expulsion and suffering. (@ 31:27)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hardships . (@ 42:34)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and wedding customs. (@ 51:32)
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)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع لطيفة أسعد أبو طه، انثى، ولدت عام 1922 في البروة، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Darwīsh; al-Kayyāl; Dīb; Saʻd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Jināyāt fī Akka (Court).Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, Muṣṭafá (Bus driver); al-Ḥumayrī, Nimir (Political prisoner); Fandī, ʻAlī (Political prisoner); al-Ḥammād, Nimir (Martyr); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Village leader); Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); Ṭāhā, Yūsuf (Mayor).Table of contents: Violence, battles and exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity. (@ 11:46)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 21:35)Table of contents: Refugee life conditions in Lebanon. (@ 31:37)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 37:49)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع محمود سعيد جعفر، ذكر، ولد عام 1935 في الحسينية، فلسطين.Families: Ṭayyib; Zāyir; al-Bashīr; ‘Ammār; al-Rāshidī.Significant figures: Ja‘far, ‘Ṭāhir (Landowner); Ja‘far, Ḥusayn (Resistance leader); ‘Ammār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Ṭayyib, Fāyiz Aḥmad (Martyr); Sa‘īd, Nimir (Martyr); Ja‘far, Zahrah (Wounded); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Ammār, ‘Alī (Wounded).Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist occupation and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 21:18)
