Biography: The interview was recorded on May 8, 2003 with Maḥmūd ʻAlī Abū Dāwūd, male, born in 1926 in Majd al-Kurūm, Palestine. He worked at a coffee shop then with the British army during World War II.Families: Qiblāwī; ‘Aṭāyā; al-Sa‘dī; al-Kayyāl; al-Zayyāt; al-Ghaḍbān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka Airport (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Shām Hotel (Hotel).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ Jinīn (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Barghūthī, Sayf al-Dīn (Teacher); Kitmitū, Ḥasan (Teacher); Faḍāyil, Ibrāhīm (Manager); Qaṭrān, Naʻīm (Doctor); al-Birjāwī, Abū Maḥmūd (Shoemaker); al-Birjāwī, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, Muṣṭafá (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, Nājī (British Army officer); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); ‘Aṭāyah, Abū Fāyiz (Revolutionary); ‘Aṭāyah , Nāyif (Revolutionary); Bishr, Kāmil (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-‘Abd, Ḥakam (Martyr); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); al-Faḍl, Fāyiz (Wounded); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd ‘Abd (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Yāsīn Aḥmad (Driver); al-Shwaylī, Abū Khiḍir (Officer); al-Bayyūmī, Muḥammad (Prisoner).Table of contents: Education and labor under British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions. (@ 16:16)Table of contents: Political situation under British mandate. (@ 32:59)Table of contents: Political activities during the Zionist occupation . (@ 44:22)Table of contents: Displacement and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 50:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 1, 1997 with Asʻad Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in 1927 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of the dog barber. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The fisherman and the fish I. (@ 11:10)Table of contents: The fisherman and the fish II . (@ 31:26)Table of contents: Fictions and fables. (@ 46:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 3, 1997 with Khiḍir Asʻad Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in1947 in Yaʻbad, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Three Brothers story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 18:0)Table of contents: Fables and other stories. (@ 44:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 1997 with Samīḥah Abū Hawwāsh, female, born in 1944 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aytām, al-Ittiḥād al-Nisāʼī (School); Madrasat Ghirnāṭah (School); Dār al-Ṭufl (School); Madrasat al-Najāḥ (School).Significant figures: Shuwaykī, Hayfāʼ (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Hādī, ʻAlyāʼ (Teacher); al-Ḥusaynī, Hind (Orphanage principal).Table of contents: Childhood and refugee experience in Jordan and Palestine. (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Child education at the orphanage. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 57:29)
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 November 30, 1995 with Sa‘īd Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in 1939 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: The Fisherman and his wife story. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Sitt al-Ḥusun story. (@ 28:54)Table of contents: The Princes and the three brothers. (@ 55:55)Table of contents: Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none
. (@ 77:11)Table of contents: Fables. (@ 91:53)Table of contents: If you want a friend, get a dog. (@ 119:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 20, 2003 with ʻĪd Abū Huḍayb, male, born in 1917 in Baṣṣat al-Fāliq, Palestine.Families: Baydas; al-Jallād; al-Zubaydāt.Significant figures: Aḥmad al-Rudaysī (Prisoner); Yūnus, Abū Qandīl (Martyr); Khalīl, Abū Qandīl (Martyr); Aḥmad Saʻīd (Reporter).Table of contents: Childhood and socio-economic conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and trade . (@ 19:37)Table of contents: Social and cultural life at Baṣṣat al-Fāliq . (@ 24:44)Table of contents: Socio-political life at Baṣṣat al-Fāliq under the British rule. (@ 47:40)Table of contents: Economic hardships and resistance. (@ 63:5)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 83:6)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 102:42)
Biography: The Interview was recorded on January 18, 2003 with Qāsim Muḥammad Abū Jāmūs, male, born in 1924 in ʻAmqā, Palestine. He worked with British Army during World War II.Families: al-‘Akkī; al-Majẓūb; al-Shāmī; al-Sa‘īd; Salāmah; Tḥaybish; al-Muṣṭafá; Twaynī.Significant figures: al-Ḥusayn, Qāsim (Mayor); Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary Leader); Abū Jāmūs, Wahībah (Martyr).Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity during the British Mandate. (@ 0:45)Table of contents: Families and land in ʻAmqā. (@ 19:44)Table of contents: Battles and resistance. (@ 30:44)Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist occupation and displacement. (@ 39:39)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 62:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 2003 with Muḥammad Abū Raqabah, male, born in 1929 in Akka, Palestine. He was an Arab Salvation Army commander.Families: Ṭūqān; Shaqʻah; Nābulsī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Latin School (School); Kullīyat al-Najāḥ al-Waṭanī (School); al-Madrasah al-Ahlīyah al-Thānawīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Dayr al-Lātīn (Convent); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Mayor); al-ʻĪd, Sāmī (School principal); al-Naḥawī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥassūn, ʻAbdullāh (Teacher); Ṭūqān, Qadrī (Teacher); al-ʻAmad, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Jālī, Ṣubḥī (Resistance fighter); Bushnāq, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Tawfīq, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Budayrī, Muṣbāḥ (Resistance fighter); Ḥaddād, ʻUthmān Jaʻfar (Resistance fighter); al-Khālidī, Ḥāzim (Officer); ʻAlī, Mufliḥ (Teacher); al-Hāshim, Ṭāhā (Arab Salvation Army commander); Salāmah, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ḥnayṭī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Lababīdī, Rafīq (Teacher); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Ṭabarī, Mūsá (Shaykh); Shuqayr, Shawkat (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jarbūʻ, Rashīd (Prisoner); al-ʻAẓm, Hishām (Prisoner).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and political life . (@ 10:20)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 37:32)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Akka, 1948 and imprisonment . (@ 54:58)Table of contents: Death of Amīn al-Ḥusaynī and final reflections
. (@ 72:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 18, 2003 with Kāmil Ṣāliḥ Abū Rashīd, male, born in Khirbat Jiddīn, Palestine.Families: Sursuq.Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); M‘addī, Jābir (Village leader); Farfaḥīnī, Abū Aḥmad (Poet); al-Ḍāhir, ‘Alī (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Social dynamics at a tribal community at Khirbat Jiddīn . (@ 0:14)Table of contents: Health and political conditions of ʻArab al-Suwayṭāt before and during the Zionist occupation . (@ 19:54)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع محمد الحامد، ذكر، ولد عام 1926 في صفورية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Marriage songs. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations. (@ 24:22)Table of contents: Songs collection. (@ 46:48)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 53:7)Table of contents: Popular songs. (@ 63:51)Table of contents: Ḥasān al-Rā‘ī story and folk songs. (@ 72:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع عطرة زيد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1931 في البويزية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Kwayyis (Maqām).Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet).Table of contents: Social conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs of life and rural life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 14:20)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and short stories. (@ 33:15)Table of contents: Fairy tales and traditions. (@ 62:11)