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 June 27, 1997 with Qāsim Rāghib Dīb, male, born in 1922 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Historical events leading to Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948. (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Expulsion, refugee experience in exile, and hope of return. (@ 21:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 8,1998 with Nāyifah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1922 in Kawkab Abū al-Hayjāʼ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū al-Hayjāʼ(Maqām).Significant figures: Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Mayor); al-Ibrāhīm, Khalīl Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Muṣṭafá, Tawfīq Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Ṣāliḥ, Ṭāhā (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 14:26)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance and leadership. (@ 26:55)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 40:5)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 53:41)Table of contents: Poems and nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 66:53)
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)
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: 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: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2002 with ‘Abd Ḥusayn Khalīl, male, born in 1922 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a soldier in theTrans-Jordan Frontier Forces.Families: Ḥammūd; Fahd.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dāwūd ( Maqām).Significant figures: Rāghib, Ibrāhīm (Teacher); al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); al-Jālūdī, Muḥammad (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); Abū Khabīṭah (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); Rāghib, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); Ḥassūn, Kamāl (Revolutionary); Kāyid, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Mahdī, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); Ṭurfah, Rashīd (Resistance fighter); Ibrāhīm, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood and family life in Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment with the British Army. (@ 9:17)Table of contents: Agriculture, society and ceremonial customs in Shaykh Dāwūd
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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: The interview was recorded on September 20, 1997 with Nabīhah Khatīb, female, born in 1927 in ʻAmqā, Palestine.Table of contents: Purposeful story of Palestinian popular culture. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of the lazy man and his wife. (@ 18:22)Table of contents: Story of a king and his sons. (@ 25:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad Lubānī on October 14, 2009, male, born in 1928 in Tiberias, Palestine. He was a driver.Families: al-‘Afīfī; al-Ṭabarī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Trans Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank); Baritos Bank (Bank); Anglo Bank (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church); Jāmiʻ al-Baḥrah (Mosque).Significant figures: Shuqayf, Ṣalʻat (School principal); Mdayris, Antoine (Teacher); ʻAnkūsh, Muṣṭafá Shāhīn (Revolutionary); Abū Zayyān, Ḥusayn ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary); al-Ḥamawī, Ṣubḥi (Revolutionary); Shāhīn, Shukrī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and employment . (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Weapon trade and British siege. (@ 19:7)Table of contents: Socio-political conditions and religious life in Tiberias . (@ 27:43)Table of contents: Cultural life and interreligious relations in Tiberias . (@ 48:20)Table of contents: Battles and Palestinian reisstance. (@ 55:13)Table of contents: Hardships and exile. (@ 73:24)
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 December 7, 2004 with Muṣṭafá Muḥammad, male, born in 1925, in Jāḥūlā, Palestine.He was a trench digger.Families: ʻAṭiyah; Shaʻbān; Muḥammad; ʻAlī; ʻĪsá.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: ʻIzz al-Dīn, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Fattaḥ, ʻAbd (Teacher); Shiḥādah, Mūsà (Shaykh).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and cultural life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture, social, and cultural life. (@ 8:41)Table of contents: Disputes and relations with the jews. (@ 27:28)