Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 2005 with Najīyah Ḥusayn, female, born in 1940 in Qabbāʻah, Palestine and resides in Lebanon.Families: Sh'ḥādah; al-Maṣārwī; al-Ḥaj; Ḥamādah; Fandī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻŪṣajī (Maqām).Table of contents: Childhood and agricultural life in Qabbāʻah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and customs in Qabbāʻah . (@ 12:31)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 25:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 4, 1998 with Jalāl As‘ad Ḥusayn, male, born in 1935 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Political turmoil, resistance and military activity in the village. (@ 9:20)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 23:44)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 38:25)Table of contents: Witnesses of al-Ṣafṣāf Battle. (@ 47:1)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 70:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Khiḍr Darwīsh Skaynī, male, born in 1924 in Saida, Lebanon.Significant figures: Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Shīshaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Assāf, Najīb (Wounded); al-B‘aynī, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Mallāk, Saʻīd (Martyr); Zayn al-Dīn, Maḥmud (Martyr); al-‘Abdullāh, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Ḥalāwah, Fawzī (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestine is not the "promised land" . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance : memoirs of occupied Palestine. (@ 11:53)Table of contents: War time, resistance and military activity. (@ 38:10)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 47:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 9, 2004 with Āminah Aḥmad Mūsá, female, born in al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī, Palestine.Families: Khalaf.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Shārm (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad (Maqām); al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām); al-Shaykh Sharaf (Maqām).Significant figures: Yūnus, Khalīl (Shaykh); al-Dakhīl, Shiḥādah (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Ḥmayyid, Muṣṭafá (Musician); al-Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Singer).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in Palestine. (@ 7:46)Table of contents: Childbirth and women's role . (@ 32:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 2004 with Āminah al-Sayyid, female, born in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon.Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; Ḥammād; al-Ḥāj; Khalīl; Balʻūs.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Sayidah Nafīsah (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: Wihbī, Zaydān (Mayor); ʻAzzām, Ᾱminah (Martyr); Yāsīn, Yāsīn (Martyr); Yāsīn, ʻAql (Martyr); ʻAzzām, Ḥāmid (Martyr); Ghunayyim, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); ʻAzzām, Shaykhah al-Dīb (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and cultural life in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions and turmoil . (@ 13:42)Table of contents: Evacuation orders from Saʻsaʻ . (@ 20:4)Table of contents: Zionist invasion during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 26:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 28, 2009 with Āminah Jamāl Zaydān, female, born in 1943 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Bank al-Mashriq (Bank); Madrasat al-Kifāḥ (School).Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Ibrāhīm (Professor); Fā‘ūr, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Refugee condition during the Israeli invasion of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah, 1982. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: House reconstruction in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp . (@ 20:36)Table of contents: House demolition in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp and war atrocities of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 1982 . (@ 50:6)Table of contents: Final reflections on refuge experience. (@ 73:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ᾱminah Khiḍir, female, Born in 1926 in Kufrītā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al-Nāṭūr; al-Shaḥbarī; Sursuq; al-Ṭayyib; al-Ḥanafī; al-Khiḍir; al-Nawāṭīr; al-Aḥmad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥanafī, ʻAbd al-Salām (Revolutionary); Khiḍir, Fāris (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary leader); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Ḥāfiẓ (Martyr); al-Muḥammad, ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Political turmoil and Hawshah and al-Kasāyir battle. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions and social life. (@ 14:21)Table of contents: Rural conditions and social life. (@ 35:5)Table of contents: Childbirth and cultural life . (@ 62:16)Table of contents: Expulsion from Khirbat al-Kasāyir and dispersion. (@ 72:55)Table of contents: Childhood incidents and cultural life in Khirbat al-Kasāyir . (@ 79:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 11, 2004 with Āmīnah Saʻd, female, born in 1928? in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Saʻīd; al-Kayyāl; Mi'ārī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); al-Kayyāl (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Sulṭānī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and cultural life in al-Birwah . (@ 0:25)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance to military occupation in al-Birwah . (@ 19:3)Table of contents: Historical reflections. (@ 35:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 18, 2006 with Āminah Qāsim, female, born in 1936 in al-Jish, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ṭālib, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ayyūb, Salīm (Mayor); Qāsim, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Najīyah (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic dynamics under British rule. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 14, 2004 with Aḥmad Āghā, male, born in 1930 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine. He worked as a military commander with the British police forces.Families: Sirḥān; Ᾱghā; al-Ḥammulah; al-Khayrāt; al-Fallāḥīn; Abū Anṭūn; al-Qiblāwī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Saint Luke's School (School); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Mujāhid (Maqām); al-Nabī Yahyá (Maqām); Jablat ʻAlī Abū Saʻd (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Ḥammūlah (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Qubbah, Maḥmūd (Teacher); Bishārah, Ḥannā (Teacher); ʻAwdah, ʻAbdallāh (Teacher); Ḥūrānī, Adīb (Teacher); Ḥabīb, Karam (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Bāqī, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Ḥijāzī, Fakhr (Teacher); Bustānī, Bashīr (Teacher); Shurayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Qāḍī, Shukrī (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad (Mayor), Sirḥān, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Mayor); Ᾱghā, Taqīy al-Dīn Aḥmad (Mayor); ʻAwdah, Fāṭimah (Dressmaker); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); Fuʼād, ʻUthmān (Revolutionary leader); al-Rashīd, Fawzī (Revolutionary leader); Ᾱghā, Muḥammad Kamāl (Resistance leader); Jadīd, Fuʼād (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Yannī, Yannī (Mayor); Laḥḥūd, Ḥannā (Resistance fighter); Ghabghad, Naʻīm (Minister); ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Rafīq, Naẓmī (Resistance fighter); al-Sibāʻī, Sabiʻ (Resistance fighter); Ᾱghā, Muḥmmad Kamāl (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family history and origin. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 7:29)Table of contents: Employment in the Palestinian mobile forces. (@ 15:28)Table of contents: Socio-political life in Tarshīḥā . (@ 27:13)Table of contents: Cultural life in Tarshīḥā. (@ 51:42)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 66:30)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine . (@ 74:17)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā and life in exile. (@ 100:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 20, 2004 with Aḥmad Ḥusayn Ḥammūd, male, born in 1922 in Wādī al-Ḥundāj, Palestine.Families: al-Rasāṭimah; al-Ẓawāhirah; Ghazāziwah; Sursuq; Nuhrah; al-As‘ad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Muḥammad al-Munṭār (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Mūsá (Mayor); al-Muḥsin, Masʻūd (Mayor); al-Ṣāliḥ, Sulaymān Khālid (Revolutionary); al-Muḥammad, Sʻayyid (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Ḥummayḍah, Anīs (Revolutionary leader); Abū Khulayṣ, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army leader); ‘Ammār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); ‘Ammār; ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); al-Ja‘far, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood, social life, and customs. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 20:16)Table of contents: Settlement expansion and the Zionist occuaption. (@ 33:19)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 62:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 12, 2004 with Aḥmad Khālid, male, born on 1917 in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in al-Jīyah, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Sa‘id; Kayyāl; N‘ārī; Samrī; Dīb.Significant figures: al-Naḥfāwī, Ḥasan (Teacher); al-Sa‘dī, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Teacher); ʻAṭallāh, As‘ad (Poet); al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).Table of contents: Rural community of al-Birwah. (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Social life in al-Birwah. (@ 23:9)Table of contents: Political dynamics at al-Birwah. (@ 34:17)