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 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 October 22, 1995 with Ḥashmīyah Abū Sīkh, female, born in 1927 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Ḥārit Ḥrayk, Beirut, Lebanon.Families: Nābulsī; Rabāḥ.Significant figures: ʻAzīz, Aḥmad (Poet).Table of contents: Real Romantic story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 18:52)Table of contents: Songs of life. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Emotional songs. (@ 46:39)Table of contents: Nostalgia, love and other folk songs. (@ 55:44)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 69:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Khālid Yūnus Khālid, male, born in 1928 in Shaʻb, Palestine. He worked in the Forestry Service and than in the post office.Families: Khaṭīb; Fā‘ūr; Ḥamzah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dāi'rat al-Aḥrāj (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-‘Ulaymī (Maqām); Banāt al-‘Ayn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj ‘Abd, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Salīm, Kāyid, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Armūsh, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Rūsān, Ḍayf Allāh (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ḥassūn, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); al-‘Alī , Kāmil Sayyid (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Maḥmud Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education and employement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 12:46)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 18:56)Table of contents: Ceremonies and celebrations. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: War time and armed resistance. (@ 33:18)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 46:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:51)
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 November 15, 1995 with Samīḥah Fahd Abū Hawwash, female, born in 1944 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Dār al-Ṭufl (School).Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration and others. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Maymūnah and Zīnat al-Dār story. (@ 17:20)Table of contents: Woodcutter story. (@ 38:56)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 54:56)Table of contents: Popular songs and fables. (@ 75:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December, 1995 with Fāṭimah Muṣṭafá al-Rūbī, female, born in 1934 in Safad, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. The interview was also recorded with Kāmilah al-ʻAlūṭī, female, born in 1931 in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.The interview was also recorded with Asʻad al-Mughrabī, male, born in 1927 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Jāmiʻ al-Aḥmar (Mosque).Significant figures: Funaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kaʻwash, Saʻd (Singer).Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Moses and Zionist occupation of Safad . (@ 16:8)Table of contents: Real life stories and Palestinian wedding celebration. (@ 25:15)Table of contents: Story of Joseph (Son of Jacob). (@ 42:41)Table of contents: Palestinian folk tales. (@ 50:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on may 15, 1997 with Amīnah Fayyāḍ, female, born in1925 in Shaʻb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Inspirational story of Honor. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of The Three Brothers. (@ 12:19)Table of contents: Fictional story. (@ 21:44)
Biography: Biiography: The interview was recorded on October 1, 2003 with Qāsim Muḥammad Dyāb, male, born in 1920? in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā, Palestine.Significant figures: al-‘Ajāj, Muḥammad (Tribe leader); Nakhlah, Jamīl (Village leader); Ṣghayyir, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Village leader); al-Mūsá, Dyāb (Revolutionary); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Weapon trader); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad (Landowner).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 13:39)Table of contents: Community life in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā. (@ 26:25)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity . (@ 42:11)Table of contents: Displacement and the journey of expulsion . (@ 64:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 26, 2003 with Dībah Muṣṭafá Ḥijāzī, female, born in 1933 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine.Families: ‘Awaḍ; Ayyūb; Ḥammād; Dāwūd.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); al-Ḥasan, Abū Ṣāliḥ (Circumcisor); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ(Revolutionary leader); al-Aḥmad, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); Ḥammīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Arab Salvation Army commander); Rāḍī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Badī‘ah, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Marār, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Rāʻī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Ghurrah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Zaynah, Dāwūd (Martyr); ʻŪthmān, Ḥasan (Martyr); ʻŪthmān, Asʻad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 14:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in al-Ghābisīyah. (@ 37:54)Table of contents: Violence, battles and resistance. (@ 45:8)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 62:34)