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)
Biography: البريطاني خلال الإنتداب.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Maṭār al-Jāʻūnah (Airport); Haifa port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Sarāyāt Kanʻān (Students dorms); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); Jāmiʻ al-Jraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Kūrī, Maḥmūd (Auto mechanic); al-Rifāʻī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad Nimir (Resistance fighter leader); al-Shā‘ir, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter leader); al-Ḥamad, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Rifaʻī, Aḥmad (Shaykh).Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries, and military acivity . (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 24:21)Table of contents: Military occupation of Palestine. (@ 35:24)Table of contents: War time and occupation. (@ 47:24)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 71:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 17, 1998 with ʻAbdullāh Muḥammad al-Sayyid, male, born in 1924 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He served in the British Police forces in Palestine during the mandate.Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; al-Ḥāj; al-Shaykh Khalīl; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Ṣulḥ (Governmental institution); Maṭār al-Jāʻūnah (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Sharikat al-Ittīḥād (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Sayyid, Muḥammad Maḥāsin (Mayor); Wihbī, Zaydān (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Riḍā (Scout leader); Yāsīn, Yāsīn (Martyr); al-Dīb, Shaykhah (Martyr); ʻAzzām, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Sayyid, Abū Muḥammad Dyāb (Resistance fighter); al-Sayyid, Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Khāliq (Resistance fighter); Qaddūrah, ʻAbd al-Majīd (Martyr); al-Balʻūs, Ṣubḥī (Scout trainer); ‘Abdullāh al-Aṣbaḥ (Resistance leader.Table of contents: Agriculture and rural conditions in Saʻsaʻ . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and rural life. (@ 22:14)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Saʻsaʻ during the British Mandate. (@ 51:9)Table of contents: Employment in the British police forces. (@ 75:16)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine in 1948 and expulsion. (@ 87:49)Table of contents: Expulsion from Saʻsaʻ and hope of return. (@ 104:32)Table of contents: Scout incident and martyrdom of resistance leader ‘Abdullāh al-Aṣbaḥ. (@ 116:23)
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
. (@ 19:18)Table of contents: Colonialism, military occupation and resistance. (@ 39:24)Table of contents: Revolutionaries and resistance during the Zionist invasion, 1948. (@ 54:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 25, 1995 with ‘Abdullāh Muṣṭafá ‘Abdullāh, male, born in 1923? in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Wuhayyib (Maqām).Table of contents: Wedding songs and customs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 9:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ‘Abdullāh Muṣṭafá ‘Abdullāh, male, born in 1923 in Sa'sa', Palestine.Families: Khalīl; Wihbih; al-Sayyid; ‘Abd al-Ghanī; ‘Abd al-Karīm; ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd; Shaykh Ḥusayn.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Siḍḍīq (Maqām); Sitt Nafīsah (Maqām); Shaykh Whayb (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Shawwā, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Sa‘īd, Maḥmūd (Village leader); Wihbih, Zaydān ‘Abd al-Karīm (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, ‘Awaḍ (Village leader); al-Sayyid, Maḥāsin (Village leader); Wihbih, Zaydān ‘Abd al-Karīm (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, ‘Awaḍ (Resistance fighter); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad( Weapon trader).Table of contents: Childhood in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socioeconomic conditions in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 10:17)Table of contents: Religious communities, customs and monuments. (@ 18:57)Table of contents: Social conditions and customs in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 34:24)Table of contents: Revolutionary and nationalist chants from Saʻsaʻ. (@ 45:7)Table of contents: Political and military events in Saʻsaʻ . (@ 49:35)Table of contents: Refugee hope. (@ 70:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with ʻAlī al-Qādirī, male, born in 1924 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was the Imām of the mosque in al-Ṣafṣāf.Significant figures: Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kāyid, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Warfare and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 10:2)Table of contents: Refugee conditions in exile . (@ 22:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 2, 1999 with Fāṭimah Ḥamad ‘Aṭīyah, female, born in 1927 in Jāḥūlā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Aṭīyah; ‘Alī; Sha‘bān.Significant figures: ‘Alī, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Leader).Table of contents: Mayorship and social life in Jāḥūlā . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Mayorship activity and social relations. (@ 28:27)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and mayorship Post-Nakba. (@ 49:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 25, 2004 with Fāṭimah ‘Abdullāh, female, born Saʻsaʻ, Palestine.Families: al-Shaykh Ḥusayn; ‘Uthmān; Mizyān; Jum‘ah; Farḥat; al-Ṭawīl; al-Afandī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Sit Nafīsah (Maqām); al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Shajarah al-Maḥẓūrah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-Ṣafadī, Saʻīd (Poet).Table of contents: Childhood during the Ottoman rule of Palestine, 1876-1918. (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Cultural songs in Palestine. (@ 13:9)Table of contents: Revolutionary songs. (@ 39:13)Table of contents: Religious beliefs . (@ 52:55)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 60:51)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع ابنها عبدو سعيد غفور، ذكر، ولد في عكا، فلسطين.Families: al-Bayā‘ah; al-Ghandūr; al-Srūjī; al-Sa‘dī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Azhar (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Furqah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Mu‘allaq (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Rūm (Church); Jāmi‘ al-Majādlī (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Qazmūz, Sa‘īd (Prayer caller); Qazmūz, Maḥmūd (Prayer caller).Table of contents: Childhood and wedding customs in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life and landmarks in Akka. (@ 16:27)Table of contents: Akka during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 32:9)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and return visit . (@ 38:8)Table of contents: Attempt at return to Akka. (@ 55:38)
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 November 9, 1998 with Qāsim Sa‘īd Qāsim,male, born in 1928 in Khirbat Jālīn, Palestine and resides in al-Burghulīyah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Nāyif (Mayor).Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life in Khirbat Jālīn. (@ 16:59)Table of contents: Bedouin houses practices. (@ 22:39)Table of contents: Tribal community customs. (@ 41:46)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics during british rule and Zionist invasion. (@ 60:14)Table of contents: Tribal society in Palestine. (@ 68:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 23, 1997 with Muḥammad Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, male, born in 1927 in Ṣaffūrīyah , Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a trader.Families: Shiḥādah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Table of contents: Economic sectors in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Everyday economic practices and life conditions bfore 1948. (@ 12:11)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and community life during the British Mandate. (@ 30:44)Table of contents: War events and expulsion. (@ 43:29)