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 March 11, 2012 with Āminah Muḥammad Qundus, female, born in 1931? in al-Zīb, Palestine.Families: al-Afandī; ‘Aṭāyā; Qiblāwī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Īsá, Ḥasan (Martyr); Qundus, Khalīl (Martyr); ‘Abdū, Aḥmad (Wounded); al-Rā‘ī, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Ṣaqlāwī (Fisherman); Bas‘ad, ‘Alī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, and eveyday life during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in the village. (@ 16:31)Table of contents: Political clashes during the British Mandate. (@ 28:25)Table of contents: Interreligious relations and military attacks . (@ 37:17)Table of contents: Violence, resistance during the Zionist colonization. (@ 47:41)Table of contents: Economic conditions in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 62:42)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 84:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 23, 2005 with Āmīnah Yāsīn ‘Umar, female, born in 1932 Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in al-Jalīl Palestinian Refugee Camp, Baalbek, Lebanon.Significant figures: Kāyid, Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Characteristics of Palestinian agriculture community under British rule. (@ 0:08)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 31, 2004 with Aḥmad Khalīl Ḥusayn, male, born in 1931? in Ḥamāmah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Maṣrīyīn; al-Maqādīd; al-Kalālibah; Shurbajī; Bakr; Ḥasanayn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Shawwā (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū ʻArqūb (Maqām); al-Shaykh Ḥāmid (Maqām); Abū Jahm (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū Shaqrah, Kāmil (Teacher); al-Nāẓir, Kāmil (Teacher); al-Khayyāl, Khulūṣī (Teacher); Abū Samʻān, Yūsuf Khalīl (Martyr); al-Khawājah, Khālid (Martyr); Manāsh, Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-‘Abd, Yaḥyá (Martyr); al-Bakr, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Prisoner); Ḥāfiẓ, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ḥamāmah. (@ 7:23)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 21:1)Table of contents: Expulsion from Ḥamāmah . (@ 36:59)Table of contents: Expulsion from Gaza. (@ 58:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 25, 2003 with Aḥmad Dawāymah, male, born in 1922 in Yibnah, Palestine.He worked in Pasta Manufacture during the British mandate.Families: al-Dawāynī; al-Khūrī; al-Māḍī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Pasta Manufacture (Corporation); Haifa Cigarette Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Juraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: Ṣafadī, Sāmī (Tailor); al-Khaṭīb, Nimir (Shaykh); Murād, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Shaykh); Naffāʻ, Yūnus (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood memories in Ijsim. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and interreligious marriage. (@ 12:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 23:18)Table of contents: Political turmoil, battles and military occupation. (@ 46:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from Haifa. (@ 55:24)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile. (@ 73:36)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 21, 2003 with Aḥmad Saʻīd Ka‘wash, male, born in 1927 in Mayrūn, Palestine.Families: Kan‘ān; Ka‘wash.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣaddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: Sharaf, ‘Abd al-Ghanī (Teacher); al-Dusūqī, Ḥusayn (Teacher); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Mayor); Ka‘wash, Saʻīd ʻAbd (Mayor); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Martyr); Zaynih, Ḥasan (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kanʻān, Khalīl (Martyr); Kanʻān, Fāris (Martyr); Kanʻān, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Mayrūn history. (@ 16:26)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and revolution. (@ 27:51)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration during the British rule. (@ 35:38)Table of contents: City occupation, resistance, displacement and exile. (@ 43:9)Table of contents: Battles, resistance and the expulsion. (@ 63:2)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع وزوجته نايفة أحمد علي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1933 في علما، فلسطين.Families: al-ʻAjjāwī; Shaḥrūr; al-Shaykh Aḥmad.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Sunbul (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque); al-Shaykh Nāṣir (Maqām); al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Faḥḥūmī, Būlūs (Teacher); al-Shakhnīnī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Teacher); al-Shaffūlī, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Shwaybī, Isḥāq (Jailer); Ḥammūd, Abū Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Mirʻī, Qāṣim (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Resistance fighter); ʻAjāwī, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); ʻAjāwī, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); Muṣṭafá, Khalīl (Martyr); Ghannām, Ḥasan, (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education in ʻAlmā . (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Employment in British Police forces . (@ 5:55)Table of contents: Cultural life at ʻAlmā . (@ 19:0)Table of contents: Palestinian political activity during the Arab revolt and Zionist invasion. (@ 34:6)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from ʻAlmā . (@ 47:5)Table of contents: Exodus to exile. (@ 53:41)Table of contents: Zionist terrorism and expulsion. (@ 59:36)Table of contents: Hardships of exile. (@ 66:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 16, 2005 with Adīb Qa‘wār, male, born in 1930? in Nazareth, Palestine.Families: Fāhūm; Ḥamad; al-Fāhūm; al-Zu‘bī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Chamber of Commerce (Governmental institution); Kullīyyat al-Ḥuqūq (University).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Freres School (School); Palestine Electric Company Ltd (Corporation); Madrasat al-Maskūbīyah (School); Madarsat al-Maskūbīyah (School); al-Maskūbīyah School (School); American University of Beirut (University).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Bishārah (Church).Significant figures: Qa‘wār, Ṭannūs (Contractor); Ṭannūs, Qa‘wār (Mayor); Bishārah, Salīm (Mayor).Table of contents: History of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 11:27)Table of contents: Religious pluralism and social conditions in Nazareth . (@ 26:30)Table of contents: Political turmoil in Nazareth. (@ 38:5)Table of contents: Zionist occupation . (@ 48:2)Table of contents: City occupation and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 62:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 25, 2003 with Amīnah al-Sa‘dī, female, born in 1935 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine.Significant figures: al-Ghuzlān, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood and marriage in Ṣaffurīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Ṣaffurīyah and expulsion. (@ 21:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 2003 with Anīs ʻAbdullāh Sāyigh, male, born in 1931 in Tiberias, Palestine.Families: al-Ṭabarī; al-Khūrī; al-Ḥāj Ismāʻīl; al-Khaṭṭābīn.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School); al-Kullīyah al-ʻArabīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Bishop Gobat School (School); Mustashfá al-Ṭāʼifah (Hospital); al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Sayyida Sukayna (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ṣayfī, Ṭalʻat (School principal); Wihbī, Tawfīq (Teacher); Najm, Muḥammad Yūsuf (Writer); al-Hawwārī, Muḥammad Nimir (Leader); Ṣāyigh, Yūsuf (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family origin and childhood memories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education in Palestine. (@ 16:3)Table of contents: Community and social classes of the city. (@ 33:27)Table of contents: Zionist movement in Palestine . (@ 45:53)Table of contents: History of Tiberias. (@ 56:1)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 63:46)