Biography: The interview was recorded with Laṭīfah Dīb, female,born in ʻAkbarah, Palestine.Families: Maʻārī; Mukhtār.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh ‘Alī (Maqām); Shaykh Salāmah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥlayḥil, Ḥasan (Musician); al-Aḥmad, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Nājī, Mūsà (Revolutionary); Abū Qāsim, Ḥayāt (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusaynī, Yūsuf (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions at ʻAkbarah. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Political activity at ʻAkbarah during the British Mandate. (@ 22:49)Table of contents: British policy towards the villagers and revolutionists. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 50:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 24, 2003 with Ibrāhīm Shiḥādah, male, born in 1927 in Qabbāʻah, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Families: al-Qūwwatlī; al-Hrāwī; Sursuq.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Firʻim (School); Madrasat Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (School); Madrasat Beisan (School).Significant figures: al-Muṣṭafá, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Muṣṭafá, Muḥammad (Mayor); Yāzidī, Tawfīq (Governor); ʻAbbās, Aḥmad Nimir (Military officer); Sulaymān, Naẓmī (Military officer); al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al- Muṣṭafá, ‘Alī (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); al-Zaghmūṭ, Nāyif Maḥmūd (Poet); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Ṣāliḥ (Dentist); ʻUthmān, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); al-Salīm al-Ṣāliḥ, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Ghurayyib, Khālid (Martyr); Ghurayyib, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ghurayyib, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Salām, Ṣā’ib (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Yūsuf (Martyr); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr).Table of contents: Mayor elections and education . (@ 0:16)Table of contents: Service in the British police forces. (@ 11:29)Table of contents: Social norms and community life. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 52:0)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine during 1948 . (@ 60:1)Table of contents: Terrorism and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 73:28)Table of contents: Political conditions and dates of leading events to Nakba. (@ 99:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥusun Sa‘īd, female, born in Khirbat Saʻsaʻ, Palestine.Families: ‘Azzām; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Sa‘īd, Maḥmūd (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:35)Table of contents: Village destruction and exile. (@ 13:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 21, 2004 with Zaynab Ibrāhīm ‘Abdullāh, female, born in 1935? in al-Dawwārah, Palestine and resides in al-Nā‘mih, Lebanon.Families: ʻAzzūz; Ṣāliḥ; al-Ḥāj.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Yūsuf (Maqām); al-Khiḍir Abū al-‘Abbās (Maqām); al-Nabī Ayyūb (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Darwīsh (Mayor); al-Ḥammūd, Ḥusayn (Leader); al-Kinnāwī, Muḥammad (Wounded).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and traditions. (@ 14:21)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 26:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 2, 2004 with Zaynah Ṣāliḥ, female, born in 1921? in Maʻlūl, Palestine.Families: ‘Awwād; al-Ṣāliḥ; al-Sarāḥinah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: Abū al-ʻArdāt, Khalīl (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural life in Maʻlūl. (@ 8:27)Table of contents: Social and community life in the village. (@ 13:37)Table of contents: Political turmoil and popular resistance. (@ 31:46)Table of contents: War time, displacement and exile. (@ 41:39)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile . (@ 50:14)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 61:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 2, 2004 with Sāmī Yāsīn, male, born in 1931 in Tiberias, Palestine.Families: al-Ṭabarī; al-Sakhnīnī; al-Baghdādī; Sūṭarī; Bawākīr; al-Khuṭabah; al-Ḥayātlī; Salaymī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Government School of Palestine (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Torrance (Hospital); Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Sayf al-Dīn, Ṭalʻat (School principal); Tahtamūnī, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Ṣāyigh, Fāyiz (Teacher); Darwīsh, Yūsuf (Mayor); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-ʻAlī, Nājī (Painter); Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader); ʻUlūṭī, Faḍl (Martyr); Ḥasan Salāymī, Fāliḥ (Martyr).Table of contents: Education and childhood in Tiberias. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics during the British Mandate. (@ 11:6)Table of contents: Community life at al-Shajarah . (@ 33:7)Table of contents: Skirmishes with Jewish settlers in Tiberias. (@ 49:46)Table of contents: al-Shajrah battle and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 62:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 1, 2004 with Ṣafīyah Aḥmad ‘Abdū, female, born in 1922 in Akka, Palestine.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām).Significant figures: Qaṭrān, Na‘īm (Doctor); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Balṭajī, Muḥammad (Driver).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Akka's weddings. (@ 13:6)Table of contents: Social life activity. (@ 31:18)Table of contents: Political dynamics in Akka. (@ 47:53)Table of contents: Exodus and refugee's expulsion experience . (@ 61:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ‘Awaḍ Maḥmūd Yūnus, male, born in 1910 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon. He worked in tax collection in Palestine.Families: Yūnis.Significant figures: Ṭaḥḥān, Najīb (Teacher); al-Salṭī, Rashīd (Public officer).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and political conditions in al-Ṣafṣāf . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education, political conditions, and employment in finance . (@ 20:5)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 43:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 21, 2004 with Fawzī ʻAlī Qiblāwi, male, born in 1924 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine. He worked in the Department of Agriculture during the British mandate.Families: Sursuq; Qaramān; Dīk; Ṣaltī; al-Ḥāmūlah; al-Khayrāt; Qiblāwī; al-Fallāḥīn.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Tarshīḥā (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Sharikat Bāṣāt Tarshīḥā (Corporation); Ata (Corporation).Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Hādī, Jamīl (Public officer); Ḥabīb, Karam (Teacher); Qubruṣī, Khalīl (Teacher); Qamar, Ṣāḍiq (School principal); al-Jarrāḥ, Abū Khālid (Public offer); Ᾱghā, Taqī al-Dīn (Mayor); Qiblāwī, ʻAlī Abū ʻĪsá (Municipality council); Haydar, Maḥmūd Naṣr (Revolutionary leader); Ᾱghā, Fawzī (Revolutionary leader); Milḥim, Maḥmūd Rashīd (Revolutionary); Shaṭārah, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Ᾱghā, Muḥammad Kamāl Saʻīd (Revolutionary leader); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); ʻUmar, Fāyiz (Martyr); Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); ʻAbd al-Hādī, ʻAwnī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood memories and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions during the British rule. (@ 17:53)Table of contents: Agricultural life in Tarshīḥā. (@ 40:15)Table of contents: Social conditions in Tarshīḥā. (@ 48:42)Table of contents: Acquisition of land in Palestine. (@ 74:23)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 79:49)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 92:24)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā to Lebanon. (@ 100:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 2, 2003 with Maḥmūd Muḥammad al-Amīn, male, born in 1924 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine. He worked at the Palestine Railways and later as a mayor.Families: ’Abd al-Ghanī; Yūsuf; ’Abd al-Raḥīm; Ḥusaynī; Nashāshībī; Twaynī; Sursuq; Ḥawwā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Azīz, Shiḥādah (Teacher); al-Zanānīrī, Jamīl (Public officer); Khalīl, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Sa’īd Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd Khalīl (Revolutionary); al-Yūsuf, Ṣāliḥ Sa’īd (Martyr); Shanā’ah, Muḥammad ’Alī (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Muṣṭafá (Revolutionary); Sarrīyah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Ḥazbūn, Muḥammad Khalīl (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Sulaymān (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions and agricultural merchandising. (@ 14:10)Table of contents: Rites and ceremonies. (@ 26:33)Table of contents: Political and historical developments in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 30:25)Table of contents: Land, conflict and political activity. (@ 41:37)Table of contents: Zionist expansion, resistance and warfare
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Biography: The interview was recorded on April 27, 2003 with Muṭlaq Nāyif Maḥmūd, male, born in 1914 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine. He worked at the farm of the British High commissioner during the British mandate.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Sāḥil (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Naḥawī, Ṣalāḥ (Teacher); Kutmittū, ʻUthmān (Teacher); Kamāl, Nihād (Teacher); al-Mashāyikh; Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); Saʻd, Fuʼād (Landowner); Ḥijāzī, Yūsuf (Martyr); Shāhīn, Ḥusayn ʻAlī (Revolutionary); ʻUṭūr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); ʻIjāl, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Mī‘āri, Nūkhah (Wounded); Muḥyī al-Dīn, Naʻīm (Wounded); al-Ṣafaḍī, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Early life in al-Farrādīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 11:53)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule. (@ 25:7)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 42:41)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Farrādīyah . (@ 50:57)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 63:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 11, 2005 with Yaḥyá al-Mir‘ī, male, born in 1929 in al-Ṭīrah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Salmān; ʻAmmūrah; Dirbās; Ḥajīr; al-Rabbānī; ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm.Significant figures: al-Ṣulḥ, Adīb (Teacher); Ḥammūd, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Ṭāhir, Yūsuf (Lawyer); Abū Ḥamad, Elias (Military personnel); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor).Table of contents: Economic conditions in al-Ṭīrah during the British Mandate. (@ 0:05)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and popular resistance. (@ 24:56)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 38:48)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 52:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 12, 2004 with Yūsuf Salīm Ḥasan, male, born in 1930 in Ṣalḥah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻUmar, ʻAwn, ʻUthmān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Ṣalḥah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: ʻAwdah, Muḥammad ʻAlī (School principal); Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Sharārah, Muḥsin (Shaykh); Qaranfal, Ḥusyan (Martyr); Salāmah, Ismāʻīl (Martyr); Salāmah, Naʻīm (Martyr); al-Shiblī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Martyr); al-ʻAbd Ṭāhir, Kāmil (Martyr); Muṣṭafá, Naʻīm (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Ismāʻīl, ʻAbd (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood memories and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and traditions in Ṣalḥah . (@ 6:28)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance . (@ 21:4)Table of contents: Ṣalḥah Massacre, 1948. (@ 33:49)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 47:7)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 52:33)