Biography: The intrview was recorded on August 2, 2004 with Iftikār Abū Shullayḥ, female, born in 1936 in Jaffa, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Khalaf; al-Uqrum; al-Ramādī; Abū Samrā; al-Ghūl.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Rūbīn (Maqām).Significant figures: Khalaf, Khamīs (Martyr).Table of contents: Social history of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebration and traditions. (@ 12:15)Table of contents: Expulsion and right of return. (@ 30:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 24, 2004 with Sa‘dah Ṣāliḥ Abū Ḥannā, female, born in 1926? in al-Raynah, Palestine.Families: al-Dabdūb; al-Ḥuways; al-ʻArrām; al-Kalash; Sillāwī; Abū Ḥannā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Catholic School (School); Orphanage School (School); Schneller School (School); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Rūm (Church); Abū Shūshah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥāṭūm, Kāmilah (Teacher).Table of contents: Childhood and hardships. (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Cultural and social life . (@ 11:18)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 22:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded in April 7, 2006 with Salīmah Abū ‘Assāf, female, born in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al- Aswad; Ḥajῑr; Abū Dāhish; Abū al-Durrah; Kaʻwash; Khuwaytar; Zamzam; Abu Manhal; Darrāz; al-ʻArīḍ; Yazbik; al-Jamal.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Burj (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Hindῑ (School); Madrasat al-Sibā‘ῑ (School).Significant figures: Abū ‘Assāf, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Abū ‘Assāf, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Resistance fighter); al-Durrah, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻAsfūr, Ḥannā (Lawyer).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in Haifa during the British Mandate . (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Political dynamics during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 20:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 22, 2004 with Ḥusayn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm Abū ‘Ayyāsh, male, born in 1921 in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine.Families: Abū Rās; ʻAwaḍ Allāh; Abū Juwayyid; ʻAbbūd.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Lūṭ (Maqam).Significant figures: al-Aḥmad, Ḥasan al-Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Ṣaltī, Nāyif (Revolutionary leader); al-Sulaymān, ʻAwaḍ (Revolutionary leader); ʻAbd al-Khalīl, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ṭāhā (Martyr); al-ʻᾹmūd, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Saʻīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); ʻAbd al-ʻAlī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, Salīm Muḥammad (Disappeared person); al-‘Awdah, ‘Alī (Disappeared person); al-‘Alī, ‘Awaḍ (Disappeared person).Table of contents: Childhood life at ʻAylūṭ. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 7:38)Table of contents: British colonialism and political life. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: Battles and Palestinian mass murder . (@ 41:45)Table of contents: Expulsion from ʻAylūṭ during 1948
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Biography: The interview was recorded on November 7, 2004 with ‘Alyā Michael Ajwaḥ, female, born in 1930 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in Ḍbayyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bannā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Chatholic School (School).Significant figures: al-Rayyīs, Bishārah (Mayor); Jadʻūn, Najlā (Martyr); al-Shuwayrī, Salīm (Martyr); al-Ḥāṣbānī, Jiryis (Survivor).Table of contents: Social life in al-Baṣṣah . (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 25:6)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 34:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded in March 24, 2006 with Maryam Maḥmūd Asʻad, female, born in Fārah, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Ṣāliḥ; Khalīl; Maḥmūd; al-As‘ad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Nāyif (Mayor); al-Maḥmūd, ‘Abdullāh (Coffeehouse owner).Table of contents: Social life and events practices in Fārah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in Fārah during the Zionist occupation and expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 23:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 9, 2004 with Wazīrah Ayyūb, female, born in Dallātah, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp Lebanon.Families: ʻAbdallāh; Ayyūb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Naṭṭāḥ, (Maqām).Significant figures: Qāsim, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-ʻAlī, Ḥasan Ḥusayn (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood in Dallātah. (@ 0:53)Table of contents: Social and cultural life . (@ 10:7)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 24:17)Table of contents: Disputes and battles with the Zionists. (@ 28:45)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 34:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 23, 2006 with Fāṭimah Maḥmūd Badr, female, born in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Fahd; Ḥammūd; al-Baytam; ‘Abd al-ʻĀl; Fahid.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dāwūd (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionist); al-‘Uthmān, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥammīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Aḥmad,‘Abdullāh (Martyr); Badr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of al-Shaykh Dāwūd and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 15:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 6, 2004 with Khalīl Bayyūk, male, born in al-Ramlah, Palestine and resides in al-Ḥamrā, Lebanon.Families: Salāmah; al-Rifāʻī; al-Sūsū; al-Kuṭṭī; Zabānī; Sallām; al-Zughalī; al-Ḥusaynī; al-Fār; al-Billī; Kishhīk.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Saint Joseph School (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Dayr al-Lātīn (Convent).Table of contents: Education and childhood memories. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Social and community life . (@ 13:29)Table of contents: Political conditions and Expulsion from al-Ramlah. (@ 28:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 18, 2006 with Mūsá ʻAli Birjāwī, male, born in 1929 in Hūnīn, Palestine and resides in Dayr al-Zahrānī, Lebanon.Families: Shaḥrūr; Birjāwī; Ḥudruj; Ma‘tūq.Significant figures: al-Shuqayrī, Aḥmad (Lawyer); al-Asʻad, Aḥmad (Leader); Shaḥrūr, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and political dynamics in Hūnīn. (@ 0:42)Table of contents: Political conditions in Hunīn during the British rule and Zionist occupation. (@ 30:47)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon and Jordan. (@ 41:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Qasim Muḥammad Dirbāj, male, born in 1925 in Qadas, Palestine.Families: Mārdīnī; al-Mārdīnī; Bazzī; Farḥāt; Kinyār; Dirbaj; al-Sūqīyah; ‘Īsá.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām); Umm Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Dʹhaynī, ʻAbdullāh (Shaykh); Dirbāj, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Sūqīyah,ʻAqlah (Mayor); Khanāfir, Saʻīd (Village leader); al-Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Village leader); Khalīl, Ḥasan (Wounded); al-As‘ad, Aḥmad (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Dirbāj, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter leader); Ḥusayn, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Kinyār, Muḥammad Qāsim (Resistance fighter); al-‘Abd, Qāsim (Wounded); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-As‘ad, Aḥmad (Leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in the villagwe. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Land and identity in Palestine. (@ 8:59)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics during the British rule. (@ 25:40)Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 32:27)Table of contents: Marriage celebrations in Palestine. (@ 42:14)Table of contents: Community life in Qadas. (@ 53:38)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity in the village. (@ 59:44)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 69:7)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 81:13)Table of contents: Military occupation and hopes for the future. (@ 93:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 28, 2006 with Muḥammad Mūsà D‘aybis, male, born in 1934 in Qadas, Palestine and resides in al-Anṣārīyah, Lebanon.Families: al-Mārdīnī; Bazzī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Table of contents: Social and economic dynamics in Qadas. (@ 0:12)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion. (@ 8:8)