Biography: The interview was recorded on May 8, 2003 with Maḥmūd ʻAlī Abū Dāwūd, male, born in 1926 in Majd al-Kurūm, Palestine. He worked at a coffee shop then with the British army during World War II.Families: Qiblāwī; ‘Aṭāyā; al-Sa‘dī; al-Kayyāl; al-Zayyāt; al-Ghaḍbān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka Airport (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Shām Hotel (Hotel).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ Jinīn (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Barghūthī, Sayf al-Dīn (Teacher); Kitmitū, Ḥasan (Teacher); Faḍāyil, Ibrāhīm (Manager); Qaṭrān, Naʻīm (Doctor); al-Birjāwī, Abū Maḥmūd (Shoemaker); al-Birjāwī, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, Muṣṭafá (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, Nājī (British Army officer); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); ‘Aṭāyah, Abū Fāyiz (Revolutionary); ‘Aṭāyah , Nāyif (Revolutionary); Bishr, Kāmil (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-‘Abd, Ḥakam (Martyr); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); al-Faḍl, Fāyiz (Wounded); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd ‘Abd (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Yāsīn Aḥmad (Driver); al-Shwaylī, Abū Khiḍir (Officer); al-Bayyūmī, Muḥammad (Prisoner).Table of contents: Education and labor under British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions. (@ 16:16)Table of contents: Political situation under British mandate. (@ 32:59)Table of contents: Political activities during the Zionist occupation . (@ 44:22)Table of contents: Displacement and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 50:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 20, 2003 with ʻĪd Abū Huḍayb, male, born in 1917 in Baṣṣat al-Fāliq, Palestine.Families: Baydas; al-Jallād; al-Zubaydāt.Significant figures: Aḥmad al-Rudaysī (Prisoner); Yūnus, Abū Qandīl (Martyr); Khalīl, Abū Qandīl (Martyr); Aḥmad Saʻīd (Reporter).Table of contents: Childhood and socio-economic conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and trade . (@ 19:37)Table of contents: Social and cultural life at Baṣṣat al-Fāliq . (@ 24:44)Table of contents: Socio-political life at Baṣṣat al-Fāliq under the British rule. (@ 47:40)Table of contents: Economic hardships and resistance. (@ 63:5)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 83:6)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 102:42)
Biography: The Interview was recorded on January 18, 2003 with Qāsim Muḥammad Abū Jāmūs, male, born in 1924 in ʻAmqā, Palestine. He worked with British Army during World War II.Families: al-‘Akkī; al-Majẓūb; al-Shāmī; al-Sa‘īd; Salāmah; Tḥaybish; al-Muṣṭafá; Twaynī.Significant figures: al-Ḥusayn, Qāsim (Mayor); Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary Leader); Abū Jāmūs, Wahībah (Martyr).Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity during the British Mandate. (@ 0:45)Table of contents: Families and land in ʻAmqā. (@ 19:44)Table of contents: Battles and resistance. (@ 30:44)Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist occupation and displacement. (@ 39:39)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 62:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 2003 with Muḥammad Abū Raqabah, male, born in 1929 in Akka, Palestine. He was an Arab Salvation Army commander.Families: Ṭūqān; Shaqʻah; Nābulsī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Latin School (School); Kullīyat al-Najāḥ al-Waṭanī (School); al-Madrasah al-Ahlīyah al-Thānawīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Dayr al-Lātīn (Convent); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Mayor); al-ʻĪd, Sāmī (School principal); al-Naḥawī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥassūn, ʻAbdullāh (Teacher); Ṭūqān, Qadrī (Teacher); al-ʻAmad, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Jālī, Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter); Bushnāq, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Tawfīq, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Budayrī, Muṣbāḥ (Resistance fighter); Ḥaddād, ʻUthmān Jaʻfar (Resistance fighter); al-Khālidī, Ḥāzim (Officer); ʻAlī, Mufliḥ (Teacher); al-Hāshim, Ṭāhā (Arab Salvation Army commander); Salāmah, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ḥnayṭī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Lababīdī, Rafīq (Teacher); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Ṭabarī, Mūsá (Shaykh); Shuqayr, Shawkat (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jarbūʻ, Rashīd (Prisoner); al-ʻAẓm, Hishām (Prisoner).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and political life . (@ 10:20)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 37:32)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Akka, 1948 and imprisonment . (@ 54:58)Table of contents: Death of Amīn al-Ḥusaynī and final reflections
. (@ 72:7)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع حورية أبو الهنا، أنثى، ولدت عام 1939 في الطنطورة، فلسطين.Families: Salabūd; Ḥamdān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-al-Ṭanṭūrah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bujayrimī (Maqām); al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bujayrimī (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hindī, Dāwūd (Mayor); al-Hindī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ṭanṭūrī, Mūsá (Landowner); Abū al-Ḥanā, Faḍl (Martyr); Abū al-Hanā, Saʻūd (Prisoner); Abū al-Hanā, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Abū al-Hanā, Ḥusayn (Prisoner).Table of contents: Childhood and education . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 6:13)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 13:55)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion. (@ 21:17)Table of contents: al-Ṭanṭūrah Massacre, 1948 . (@ 37:43)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 50:19)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 63:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ʻAbdullāh Abū Ṣahyūn on February 23, 2003, male, born in 1932 in Akka, Palestine.Table of contents: Childhood memories and education in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and Zionist invasion. (@ 8:27)Table of contents: Zionist invasion, imprisonment, and expulsion. (@ 20:21)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع زوجته مريم محمود، أنثى، ولدت عام 1932 في دلاّته، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنانFamilies: Ḥlayḥil.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); Shaykh Ismāʻīl (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām); Shaykh Ismā‘īl (Maqām).Significant figures: Shanā‘ah, Yūsuf (Martyr); ‘Awaḍ, Qāsim Muḥammad (Teacher); ‘Uthmān, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Maḥmūd, Khālid (Musician); Aḥmad, Ḥasan (Musician); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm (Musician); al-Qāsim, Ḥasan (Martyr); Jdīd, Ghassān (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Education and everyday life in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Social conditions in Dallātah during the British rule. (@ 12:28)Table of contents: War time and the exodus. (@ 32:55)Table of contents: Political conditions and Community life . (@ 46:37)Table of contents: Political turmoil, resistance and military activity. (@ 59:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 74:40)
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 February 5, 2003 with Maḥmūd Aḥmad, male, born in 1925 in al-Manshīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a soldier with the British Armed Forces during World War II.Significant figures: Mirʻī, Yūsuf (Martyr); Kāmil, Salīm (Political leader).Table of contents: Agriculture and Palestinian land sale . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural life and Palestinian songs. (@ 24:14)Table of contents: Arabic poetry . (@ 51:44)Table of contents: Employment in the British army. (@ 56:14)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939 . (@ 73:26)Table of contents: The events leading to the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 82:19)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine . (@ 104:24)Table of contents: Imprisonment and killing the Palestinians. (@ 125:10)Table of contents: Revolutionary, folk, and wedding songs. (@ 139:34)Table of contents: Reunion with the family in exile. (@ 146:50)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 166:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 23, 2003 with Ḥafīẓah Ḥamādah Aḥmad, female, born in 1929? in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAbd al-Ghanī; Maṭar; Qays; Abbās; Ayyūb; ‘Abbās.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aḥmadīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Rabīʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: Khāzin, Adīb (Doctor); Dāhish, Jabr (Village leader).Table of contents: Agricultural life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 12:2)Table of contents: Political activity during the British rule. (@ 35:55)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 44:44)Table of contents: Refugee life and exile. (@ 51:29)
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 17, 2003 with Muḥammad Qāsim Dahshah, male, born in 1924 in Ṭayṭabā, Palestine. He was a policeman.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Mazār (Maqām); al-Rifā’īyah (Maqām).Significant figures: Saʻīd, Sulaymān (Policeman); Nīsān, Salīm (Trader).Table of contents: Employment and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The village of Ṭayṭabā
. (@ 15:54)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Gaza. (@ 26:10)Table of contents: Political turmoil and revolutionaries during the British rule. (@ 34:6)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and Palestinian expulsion. (@ 48:25)