Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad ʻAbd al- Ḥāmid Fāris on May 21, 2003, male, born in 1921 in al-Zīb, Palestine. He worked with the British Army forces.Families: Sirḥān; al-Saʻdī; ʻAṭāyā; ‘Aṭāyā.Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, Fatḥ Allāh (Shaykh); al-Majdalāwī, Saʻd (Poet); al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Landowner); al-Saʻdī, Muṣṭafá (Land owner); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Jammāl, Aḥmad (Guard); Fāris, Salīm ‘Alī (Martyr); ʻAwaḍ, Sulaymān Mūsá (Revolutionary); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Yamanī, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); al-Qiblāwī, Abū Mūsá (Revolutionary); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Baytam, Rufayyiḍ (Revolutionary leader); al-Mughrabī, Abū ‘Āṭif (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:30)Table of contents: Cultural and political life at al-Zīb
. (@ 13:24)Table of contents: Work and cultural life. (@ 38:43)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and Battles . (@ 52:20)Table of contents: Bitterness of exile and hope of return. (@ 66:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 24, 2004 with Ṣāliḥ Fāyiz, male, born in 1928 in Balad al-Shaykh, Palestine.Families: ʻAbbūdī; al-Aḥmad; al-Mashāyikh.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Sahel (Maqām).Significant figures: Jarrāḥ, Shafīq (Teacher); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); al-Rīnāwī, Ṭawfīq (Poet); Khuraybish, Ṣāliḥ (Poet); al-Kharasānī, Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); al-Manāṣfī, ʻAlī (Martyr); Yūsuf, ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Manṣūr, Yūsuf (Revolutionary leader); Nāyif, Aḥmad (Policeman).Table of contents: Childhood and employment. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Community life and beliefs. (@ 20:45)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 31:51)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 51:14)Table of contents: Battles and Zionist occupation of Palestine . (@ 60:8)Table of contents: Expulsion from Balad al-Shaykh. (@ 71:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 2004 with ‘Uthmān Aḥmad Fā‘ūr, male, born in 1920 in Firʻim, Palestine and resides in Saʻdnāyil, Lebanon. He was a trader.Landmarks-Public Institutions: ʻᾹqir (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Scots College (School).Significant figures: ʻAllām, Niyāzī (Teacher); Mirʻī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn (Nurse); ʻUthmān, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-ʻAwdah, Sulaymān (Shaykh); al-ʻUthmān, Salīm (Village leader); Manṣūr, Muḥammad (Trader); ʻAbdullāh, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary leader); ʻAwdah, Yūsuf (Revolutionary leader); al-Zayn, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); ʻUthmān, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); ʻAwdah, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Education and trade. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in Firʻim . (@ 27:20)Table of contents: Firʻim during the Arab revolt 1936-1939 and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 46:32)Table of contents: Firʻim during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 62:59)
Biography: Biogarphy: This interview was recorded on August 20, 2003 with Nufaylah Muḥammad Fā‘ūr, female, born in 1933? in ʻArab al-Samnīyah, Palestine.Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Nāyif (Mayor).Table of contents: Everyday life and social customs in Tarshīḥā . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions, resistance and exile. (@ 30:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 25, 2003 with Kalthūm Ghannām, female, born in 1923? in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine.Families: Abū Shawwāṭah; Abū ʻĪsá.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shyakh Rabī‘ah (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Khūrī, Ḥannā (Doctor); al-Zāwih, Samīrah (Doctor); Ghannām, Asʻad (Resistance fighter); Dirbās, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Rural life in al-Ṭīrah and land appropriation . (@ 0:18)Table of contents: Cultural life at al-Ṭīrah
. (@ 12:5)Table of contents: Political conditions and Zionist invasion of al-Ṭīrah
. (@ 37:39)Table of contents: Betrayal, expulsion, and suffering. (@ 53:32)Table of contents: Exile and longing . (@ 76:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 1, 2005 with Maḥmūd Ghaḍbān, male, born in 1926 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nur Safety Match (Corporation).Significant figures: al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary); al-Baytam, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); al-Baytam, Fayyāḍ (Revolutionary); al-Wāwī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Iskandar, Khalīl (Village leader); Iskandar, ‘Alī (Village leader); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Village leader); al-Baytam, Fayyāḍ (Revolutionary leader); Abū Ghanī, Fāyiz (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Political turmoil during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War events and Zionist occupation . (@ 14:54)Table of contents: Military occupation and Palestinian resistance . (@ 27:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 18, 2006 with Ammūn Aḥmad Ghunaym, female, born in 1930? in al-Jish, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Dīb; Ruḥaymī; Shāhīn; Nimir.Significant figures: ‘Aql, Atanās (Teacher); al-Khaṭīb, Nājīyah (Martyr); Fahdī, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Socical dynamics in al-Jish. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 18:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Karīm Ghunaym , male, born in 1938 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Najm; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; ʻĪsá; al-Maw‘id; Ghunaym; al-Maqāziḥah; al-Ḥadāyidah; Rāshīd.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Municipal council); Yūsuf, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Laylá, Ḥasan (Shaykh).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ṣaffurīyah. (@ 17:48)Table of contents: Popular resistance in the village. (@ 32:3)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 48:9)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 65:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16,2003 with ‘Abdullāh Mir‘ī Hambūz,male, born in 1920 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Jamāl; Kan‘ān; al-Khūrī; Fraywāt; Mamlūk; al-As‘ad; Sursuq; al-Bannā.Significant figures: Ḥammād, Muḥammad (Martyr); Fraywāt, Mīkhā’īl (Resistance fighter); Kanʻān, Zakī (Resistance fighter); Kanʻān, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Resistance fighter); al-Jamal, Rashīd (Resistance fighter); al-Jamāl, Fāyiz (Resistance fighter); al-Nābulsī, ‘Abd al-Ḥay (Resistance fighter); Fraywāt, Buṭrus (Village leader).Table of contents: Community life in ʻArab al-Ṭūqīyah
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: ʻArab al-Ṭūqīyah's community and customs
. (@ 12:55)Table of contents: Marriage and familial customs. (@ 17:28)Table of contents: Political events from 1936-1948. (@ 21:48)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 29:20)Table of contents: War time and military occupation
. (@ 49:51)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 61:34)Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 67:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1998 with Aḥmad Faḍīl Hijjū, male, born in 1922 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a Police officer in the British Police forces during the mandate.Families: al-Shahāyibah; al-ʻAjāyinah; al-ʻAṭwāt; al-Ḥajājiwah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Qādir, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Shihābī, Yaḥyá Saʻīd (Mayor); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-ʻAṭwāt, Kāmil (Policeman); al-Fawwāz, Ibrāḥīm (Policeman); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Policeman); al-Fayyāḍ, ʻUthmān (Policeman); Ṭabbārah, Anīs (Policeman); Saʻīd, Sulaymān (Policeman); al-Khaḍrah, Aḥmad (Policeman); al-Jayyūsī, Ḥusnī (Lawyer).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and rural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British police forces. (@ 18:14)Table of contents: British Police activity in Palestine. (@ 37:54)Table of contents: British police during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 64:57)Table of contents: British Police activity and Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 89:44)Table of contents: Warfare and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 105:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 22, 2006 with Ṣafīyah Hilāl, female, born in al-Manshīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū ‘Atābā (Maqām).Table of contents: Social life in al-Manshīyah. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: Political dynamics during the Zionist invasion in al-Manshīyah and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 3, 1998 with Mūsà ʻAlī Hāshim, male, born in 1897 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a butcher and a trader.Families: al-Frayjāt; al-Khaṭīb; al-Dawālī; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-‘Abdullāh; al-Qawāsimah; al-Hawāshimah.Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Martyr); al-‘Alī, Sulaymān (Martyr); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Prisoner); al-Qaṭawīyah, Mir‘ī (Martyr); al-Jammāl, ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, ‘Abdullāh (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Yūsuf; Ḥusayn (Village leader); Jumʻah, Mūsá (Revolutionary); Yūsuf, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Dāwūd, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Yūsuf, ‘Īsá (Wounded).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 13:4)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics during the British rule . (@ 26:0)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 42:15)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 54:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 10, 2003 with Ibrāhīm Khalīl Ibrāhīm, male,born in 1929 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine.Families: Ḥasan; Shiḥādah; al-Ghaḍbān; Ibrīq; Twaynī; Sham‘aah; Qūwatlī; Salām.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: Shiḥādah, Ḥalīm (School principal); al-Jishshī, Muḥammad Rāghib (Teacher); Niyāzī, Rif‘at (Teacher); Mzīghīṭ, Sāmī (Teacher); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Mayor); Fāris, Rujina (Midwife); al-Shiblī, Shaykhah (Midwife); al-Ḥāj ʻAlī, Ḥasan (Circumcisor); al-Dīb, Elias (Doctor).Table of contents: Social history of the village . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socioeconomic life during the British rule in Kuwaykāt. (@ 11:54)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 24:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 25, 2004 with Luṭfīyah Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1928? in Safad, Palestine.Families: al-Khiḍir; al-Naḥawī; Rustum.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Saʻīd (Maqām); Abu Qamīṣ (Maqām); Banāt Yaʻqūb (Maqām); al-Sit Zaynab (Maqām); al-Ṣiḍḍīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Mirʻī, Shiḥādah (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and conduct of life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural life and religious beliefs . (@ 10:31)Table of contents: Social life and cultural customs . (@ 21:52)Table of contents: Zionist harrasment and expulsion from Palestine during 1948. (@ 37:40)Table of contents: Final reflections on refugee experience. (@ 60:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 8,1998 with Nāyifah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1922 in Kawkab Abū al-Hayjāʼ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū al-Hayjāʼ(Maqām).Significant figures: Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Mayor); al-Ibrāhīm, Khalīl Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Muṣṭafá, Tawfīq Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Ṣāliḥ, Ṭāhā (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 14:26)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance and leadership. (@ 26:55)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 40:5)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 53:41)Table of contents: Poems and nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 66:53)
Biography: The interview was also recorded with her husband Muḥammad ʻAbd Darwīsh, male, born in 1921 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Expulsion and journey to Lebanon
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine. (@ 13:31)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 36:6)Table of contents: Rural life in Pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 60:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16, 1997 with Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ Ismāʻīl, male, born in 1932 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked in a fire match factory.Families: ʻAbd al-Rāziq; Sursuq; Twaynī; Salām.Significant figures: al-ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Martyr); Shrayḥ, Fādī (Mayor).Table of contents: Political conditions and events surrounding Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and suffering in exile. (@ 22:4)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hope of return. (@ 44:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December, 1995 with Shammā Maḥmūd Ismā‘īl, female, born in 1926 in ʻArab al-Zubayd, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebrations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Traditions and customs. (@ 12:44)Table of contents: Children's songs. (@ 26:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 4, 2003 with Sumayyah Aḥmad Ismā‘īl, female, born in 1936 in al-Kābrī, Palestine and resides in Beirut, Lebanon.Families: Qaddūrah; al-Sal‘ūs; Dabājah; Hāshim; ‘Aṭif; Sirḥān.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Leader); al-Ṣafadī, Abū al-’Abd (Mayor); Farfaḥīnī, Dīb (Poet); al-Shabaṭī, ’Īsá (Martyr); al-Anas, Sulaymān (Martyr); Salīm, Yūsuf (Trader); al-Duqqī, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Ḥasan, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Kallās, Khalīl (Arab Salvation Army commander); Abū Shāwir, Rashād (Writer); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Marwān (Writer).Table of contents: Agriculture, families and social relations in al-Kābrī. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding customs and celebrations. (@ 14:46)Table of contents: Family life and child care. (@ 27:59)Table of contents: Village life and communal gatherings . (@ 39:54)Table of contents: Political activity and interreligious relations. (@ 50:14)Table of contents: War time, battles and displacement. (@ 72:35)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 86:39)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 98:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 16, 2004 with Meli Ḥannā Isḥāq, female, born in 1925 in Jerusalem, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Saint Francis (Club); Saint Anthony (Club); Golf Club (Club); Orthodox Club (Club); Young Men Christian Association (Library).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat Rahbāt Ṣahyūn (School); Schmidt's Girls College (School); Jerusalem Girls' College (School); Christian Missionary Society (Hospital); Nun Pollad (Hospital); Bayt Laḥm (Hospital); Augusta Victoria (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Holy Saviour (Church); Sœurs de Marie Réparatrice (Church); Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church); Haykal Sulaymān (Temple); al-Mahd (Church); al-Qiyāmah (Church).Table of contents: Social life in Jerusalem under British mandate. (@ 0:08)Table of contents: Religious pluralism and social life in Jerusalem
. (@ 12:37)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in Jerusalem during Mandatory Palestine . (@ 22:39)Table of contents: Conduct of life in pre-Nakba Jerusalem and the expulsion . (@ 41:28)
Biography: السيرة سجلت المقابلة مع مسعدة عبد جمّال في 23 ايلول سبتمبر عام 2003، انثى، ولدت عام 1915؟ في شفا عمرو، فلسطين .Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām).Table of contents: Upbringing in Shafā ʻAmru
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Land and society
. (@ 15:33)Table of contents: Wedding ceremonies and marriage customs. (@ 31:59)Table of contents: Arab-Jewish relations. (@ 55:34)Table of contents: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and socio-political activity. (@ 63:0)Table of contents: Interreligious relations, conflict and warefare. (@ 73:26)Table of contents: Military occupation, hostility and exile. (@ 93:39)Table of contents: Refugee life and right of return. (@ 100:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 7, 1997 with Șubḥīyah Ja‘far, female, born in 1932 in al-Ḥusaynīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Ṭayyib; ‘Ammār; al-Rāshīdī; Ja‘far; Rābiḥ; al-Zāyir; al-Bashīr.Significant figures: ‘Ammār, ‘Alī (Wounded); Kānūn, Aḥmad (Martyr); ʻAmmār, Mahmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Killings and massacres in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 14:33)Table of contents: War events and the exodus. (@ 21:52)Table of contents: War crimes and collective wrongdoing. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: The long life of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. (@ 41:7)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah under zionist occupation. (@ 50:13)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع محمود سعيد جعفر، ذكر، ولد عام 1935 في الحسينية، فلسطين.Families: Ṭayyib; Zāyir; al-Bashīr; ‘Ammār; al-Rāshidī.Significant figures: Ja‘far, ‘Ṭāhir (Landowner); Ja‘far, Ḥusayn (Resistance leader); ‘Ammār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Ṭayyib, Fāyiz Aḥmad (Martyr); Sa‘īd, Nimir (Martyr); Ja‘far, Zahrah (Wounded); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Ammār, ‘Alī (Wounded).Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist occupation and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 21:18)
Biography: وسجلت المقابلة ايضا مع الياس شربين، ذكر، ولد عام 1931 في حيفا، فلسطين.Significant figures: al-al-Ḥajjār, Muṭrān (Poet).Table of contents: Socio- political dynamics during British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Two popular stories. (@ 11:31)Table of contents: ِArabic aphorism. (@ 20:36)Table of contents: Story of the Old woman and the Treasure. (@ 31:29)Table of contents: Real story. (@ 41:30)Table of contents: Friendship short story. (@ 53:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 2, 1997 with Sa‘dah Nimir Jrays, female, born in 1918 in Rmaysh, Lebanon and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Shaykh ʻAbdullāh (Mosque); al-Shaykh 'Īsá (Maqām).Significant figures: Jrays, Nimir (Revolutionary); al-Ḥajjār (Bishop); Māḍī, al-‘Abd (Governor); Zqayriq, al-‘Abd (Governor); al-Ḥajjār (Bishop).Table of contents: Ottoman rule of Palestine and Lebanon. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 29:16)Table of contents: Community and family life in the village. (@ 50:45)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 59:40)Table of contents: Refuge life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 70:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 20, 2004 with Aḥmad Maḥmūd Jrād, male, born in 1928? in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā, Palestine and resides in Jib Jinnīn, Lebanon.Families: Nādir; al-‘Awāydah; Zahrān; al-‘Īsāt; al-Baṭāṭikhah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Mūsá al-Kāẓim (Maqām); Khirbat Irbid (Maqām).Significant figures: Nādir, Musṭafá (Soldier); Nādir, Khālid (Soldier); al-‘Ajāj, Muḥammad (Tribe leader); al-Mūsá, ‘Alī (Revolutionary); Nādir, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Nādir, Aḥmad (Martyr); Nādir, Khālid (Martyr); al-Ṭabarī, Khalīl (Leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and political turmoil in the village. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community . (@ 11:35)Table of contents: Political dynamics in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā. (@ 33:22)Table of contents: War events and expulsion. (@ 50:20)Table of contents: Refugee life and expulsion . (@ 73:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad Maḥmūd Jumʻah on February 2, 2004, male, born in 1926 in Arab al-Zubāydah, Palestine.Significant figures: Yūsuf, Ṣubḥī (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood difficulties and growing up . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist terrorism and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 8:46)Table of contents: Battles and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 27:12)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع لطيفة أسعد أبو طه، انثى، ولدت عام 1922 في البروة، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Darwīsh; al-Kayyāl; Dīb; Saʻd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Jināyāt fī Akka (Court).Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, Muṣṭafá (Bus driver); al-Ḥumayrī, Nimir (Political prisoner); Fandī, ʻAlī (Political prisoner); al-Ḥammād, Nimir (Martyr); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Village leader); Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); Ṭāhā, Yūsuf (Mayor).Table of contents: Violence, battles and exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity. (@ 11:46)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 21:35)Table of contents: Refugee life conditions in Lebanon. (@ 31:37)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 37:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 18, 2004 with Fāyiz Khalīfah Jum‘ah, male, born in 1929 in Khirbat Jālīn, Palestine.Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Ḥusayn, Ḥamadah (Arab tribe leader); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-Ṣāliḥ, ʻAlī (Prisoner); al-Ṣāliḥ, Aḥmad (Prisoner); al-Ḥasan, Ḥuwaydah (Prisoner).Table of contents: Social dynamics in Arab tribes. (@ 0:36)Table of contents: Cultural and social life . (@ 21:25)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 31:33)Table of contents: Palestine during 1947-1948. (@ 37:28)Table of contents: War events, imprisonment at the Israeli prisons and expulsion . (@ 56:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Shiḥādah al-Ḥasan Jum‘ah, male,born in 1927 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; Fustuq; Salām; Sharārī; Ṭāhā; Maʻrūf; al-Khaṭīb; Hawwārī.Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ḥusayn (Tribe leader); Abū Shāhir, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Shāṭir, Ḥusayn (Trader); ʻAṣfūrah, Abū Mirshid (Trader); Abū al- Shanab, Farīd (Policeman); al-Ḥakīm, Ṣāliḥ (Policeman).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 15:34)Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life . (@ 35:40)Table of contents: Bedouins community in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 55:23)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine. (@ 69:41)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 86:7)Table of contents: Military activity and exile. (@ 112:35)Table of contents: Songs of life and love. (@ 122:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 1998 with Muḥammad ‘Alī Jābir, male, born in 1928 in ʻAmqā , Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked at Nur Safety Match in Akka.Families: ‘Abd al-Rāziq; al-Majdhūb; ‘Uthmān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nur Safety Match (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Majdhūb, Qāsim (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Majdhūb, Mifliḥ (Trader); al-Sa‘īd, Bāsim (Trader); al-‘Akkī, Muḥammad (Olive mill owner).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity in ʻAmqā . (@ 11:46)Table of contents: Labor and laboring conditions before Nakba. (@ 21:47)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 52:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 18, 2006 with al-‘Abdah Jābir, female, born in al-Mālikīyah, Palestine. She worked at the British camp of al-Mālikīyah and resides in al-Marwānīyah, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Ḥākūrit Khalīl ʻAyyād (Jewish monument).Significant figures: ʻĪsà, Aḥmad (Landowner); Khalīl, Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAwaḍ, Alī (Revolutionary); al-Asʻad, Aḥmad (Revolutionaryr); Bazzī, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Jumʻa, Mūsá (Martyr); Muṣṭafá, Mūsá (Martyr); al-Sayyid Ḥusayn, Yūsuf (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); Sa‘d, Ma‘rūf (Resistance fighter); al-Asʻad, Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Economic conditions of a Palestinian family. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Events of Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 12:16)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 24:42)Table of contents: The military situation during the Zionist invasion of al-Mālikīyah. (@ 41:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December, 1995 with Fatḥīyah Jānzī, female, born in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Ṣabrā, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian patriotic poetry and revolutionary songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Dalʻūnā and revolutionary songs. (@ 13:53)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and revolutionary songs. (@ 34:20)Table of contents: Ululations and folk songs. (@ 50:8)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs . (@ 74:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 3, 2004 with ‘Abd al-Laṭīf Kanafānī, male, born in 1927 in Haifa, Palestine. He was the administrative director of Bayt al-Māl al-ʻArabī.Families: al-Mīqātī; al-Jārūdī; al-Nūrī; Ni‘mah; Shbīb; al-Kanafānī; Shiblāq.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Kulīyat al-Quds (University); Dā’irat al-Mālīyah (Governmental institution); Bayt al-Māl al-ʻArabī (Financial institution).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Islāmīyah (School); Frères Maris School (School); Catholic School (School); Sicilian School (School); Holy Family Hospital (Hospital); al-Mustashfá al-Almānī (Hospital); Saint Luke's School (School); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Qaṣṣāb, Kāmil (Principal); al-Ḥabbāl, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf (Teacher); Blayq, Najīb (Teacher); Ḥammād, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Ṭāhir, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Jāmi‘ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Rashīd (Leader); al-Khāl, Yūsuf (Teacher); Wakīm, George (Teacher); Levy, Shabtai (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Rahmān (Mayor); Abū Fāḍil, Munīr (Policeman).Table of contents: Childhood and education in Haifa. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education in Saida and Jerusalem . (@ 14:28)Table of contents: Political conditions and joining al-Ḥizb al-Sūrī al-Qawmī al-Ijtimāʻī . (@ 32:8)Table of contents: Employment and political conditions . (@ 41:47)Table of contents: Social dynamics and intellectual life in Haifa. (@ 50:50)Table of contents: Political life in Palestine during 1947-1948 and expulsion. (@ 63:23)Table of contents: Final reflections on expulsion and nostalgia . (@ 83:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 20, 1998 with Karīm Nāyif Kanj, male, born in 1925 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a Policeman with the British Police Forces in Palestine.Families: Sirḥān; Sursuq; Salām; al-Sa‘dī; al-Shaykh Ṭāhā; ‘Aṭāyā; Murād; Kanj; Sa‘īd; Abū Khashab.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Za‘īm, Ḥusnī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Abū Khashab, Muṣṭafá (Jailor); Rāfi‘, Sa‘īd (Prisoner); Sh'hayyib, Muḥammad (Policeman).Table of contents: Exile to Lebanon and refugee experience. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life and socio-economic conditions. (@ 16:1)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Socio-economic life. (@ 30:14)Table of contents: Employment and work in the British police forces. (@ 43:57)Table of contents: Employment and hierarchy in British Police forces in Palestine. (@ 70:7)Table of contents: Military training in Syria . (@ 99:50)Table of contents: Police activity in Palestine. (@ 110:0)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 121:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 30, 2005 with Mahdīyah ʻĀrif Kanjū, female, born in Tiberias, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shishannah; al-Sukkarī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dar al-Muʻalimāt (School of Teachers); Ḥamām al-Bāshā (Public bath).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation); Alliance School (School).Significant figures: al-Ṭabarī, Ṭāhir (Mayor); Kanjū, Iḥsān (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics at Tiberias. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Religious pluralism in Tiberias . (@ 16:33)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 28:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded in March 31, 2006 with ‘Uṭrah Saʻīd Kaʻwash, female, born in 1935 in Mayrūn, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥmayyid; Kanʻān; Fā‘ūr; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfà Adāsah (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Ayyūb (Maqām); al-Nabῑ Shuʻayb (Maqām); Mazār Abū Bakir (Maqām); Sham‘ūn (Maqām).Significant figures: Kishkish, ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ (Teacher); al-Khadrah, Fawzῑ (Teacher); Kanʻān, Fāris (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic and religious aspects in Mayrūn . (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Social events and practices in Mayrūn . (@ 22:22)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics and medical care in Mayrūn . (@ 51:35)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and uprooting from Mayrūn . (@ 66:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 21, 2003 with Aḥmad Saʻīd Ka‘wash, male, born in 1927 in Mayrūn, Palestine.Families: Kan‘ān; Ka‘wash.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣaddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: Sharaf, ‘Abd al-Ghanī (Teacher); al-Dusūqī, Ḥusayn (Teacher); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Mayor); Ka‘wash, Saʻīd ʻAbd (Mayor); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Martyr); Zaynih, Ḥasan (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kanʻān, Khalīl (Martyr); Kanʻān, Fāris (Martyr); Kanʻān, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Mayrūn history. (@ 16:26)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and revolution. (@ 27:51)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration during the British rule. (@ 35:38)Table of contents: City occupation, resistance, displacement and exile. (@ 43:9)Table of contents: Battles, resistance and the expulsion. (@ 63:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Maḥmūd Ka‘wash, male, born in Mayrūn in 1927, Palestine. He worked as a policeman during the British mandate.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah(Church); al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Ṣddiq (Maqām).Significant figures: Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet).Table of contents: Childhood and employment . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the police during the British rule . (@ 21:50)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 30:49)Table of contents: Palestine during 1947-1948. (@ 51:49)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 70:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 11, 2003 with Rashrāsh Muḥammad Ka‘wash, male, born in 1922 in Mayrūn, Palestine. He worked with the Border guards.Families: Kan‘ān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Zāwyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); Maghārit al-Mshabbak (Maqām).Significant figures: Ka‘wash, Muḥammad al-ʻAbd (Village leader); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad Ṭalāl (Resistance fighter); Ka‘wash, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); Ka‘wash, Khālid Ṭāhā (Resistance fighter); Kan‘ān, Khalīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Education in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: History of Mayrūn. (@ 6:16)Table of contents: Wedding traditions political turmoil, resistance and military activity in Mayrūn. (@ 18:38)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 32:45)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 1, 1995 with Khadījah, female, born in 1911 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular songs collection. (@ 19:8)Table of contents: Prayers and songs. (@ 32:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 16, 1998 with Zahrah Ḥamad Khadījah, female, born in 1926 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Qāsimīyah, Lebanon.Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Traditional customs in a Bedouin community. (@ 17:29)Table of contents: Rites and ceremonies. (@ 42:4)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions. (@ 61:46)Table of contents: Social gatherings and customs. (@ 85:15)Table of contents: War time, military occupation and exile. (@ 100:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 3, 2004 with Fāris Khalīl, male, born in Sabalān, Palestine.Families: ʻAmir; Khalīl; al-Muḥammad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ḥusayn (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture in Sabalān. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Social and community life . (@ 10:0)Table of contents: Political conditions and deception . (@ 24:13)Table of contents: Expulsion from Sabalān. (@ 32:33)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع رشيد موعد، ذكر، ولد عام 1915 في صفورية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk songs and popular tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Fairy tales and popular songs. (@ 21:36)Table of contents: Popular tales and wedding songs. (@ 46:45)Table of contents: Palestinian folk tales and popular songs. (@ 63:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Nimir Muḥammad Khalīl, male, born in 1923? in ʻArrābah, Palestine. He worked as a Blacksmith.Table of contents: The blacksmith's materials. (@ 0:00)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 7, 1997 with Zahrah Muḥammad Khalīl, female, born in 1934? in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine.Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 8:53)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 13:0)Table of contents: Eyewitness of the Palestinian exodus. (@ 32:54)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 42:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 30, 1998 with Zaynab Ibrāhīm Khalīl, female, born in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Abū Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Majẓub, Abū Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 16:38)Table of contents: Palestinian handicrafts and refugee hopes for the future. (@ 29:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 29, 2003 with Ḥusayn Dīb Khalīl, male, born in 1926 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine. He was a soldier with the British Army.Families: Shadhlī,; Qāsim; Ḥammūd; al-Shūlī; ‘Akkāwī; al-‘Aynayn; al-Mashāyikh; al-Nūr; Ayyūb; Aṣlān; al-Nūr; Rustom; Baytam; ʻAkkāwī; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Bahjah airport.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Badr (Club); Mustashfà Akka (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dāwūd (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Farfaḥīnī, Dīb (Poet); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Teacher); Faramāwī, Qāsim (Teacher); Mir‘ī , ‘Abd (Soldier); al-ʻAdawī, Ibrāhīm (Soldier); Faraj, Aḥmad (Soldier); Mortaḍá, Rāghib (Soldier); al-Jishshī, Muḥammad (Soldier); Da‘ās, Mūsá (Corporal); Rustom, ‘Abd (Landowner); al-Baytam, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-‘Aynayn, Mir‘ī (Revolutionary): Zaynab, ‘Alī (Revolutionary); Ḥassūn, Kamāl (Revolutionary): al-Shūlī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Shūlī, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Shaykh); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, 'Uthmān (Martyr); Abd al-ʻĀl, Abd al-ʻĀl (Martyr); Ṭamalāwī, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Social life and traditional customs at al-Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and political activities
. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic aspects of al-Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 37:44)Table of contents: Religious pluralism and political activities. (@ 51:27)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British Mandate and Zionist occupation. (@ 67:6)Table of contents: Political dynamics at al-Shaykh Dāwūd during the Zionist occupation of Palestine . (@ 82:25)Table of contents: The expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 91:19)Table of contents: Exodus and refugees' experience . (@ 102:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2002 with ‘Abd Ḥusayn Khalīl, male, born in 1922 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a soldier in theTrans-Jordan Frontier Forces.Families: Ḥammūd; Fahd.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dāwūd ( Maqām).Significant figures: Rāghib, Ibrāhīm (Teacher); al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); al-Jālūdī, Muḥammad (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); Abū Khabīṭah (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); Rāghib, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); Ḥassūn, Kamāl (Revolutionary); Kāyid, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Mahdī, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); Ṭurfah, Rashīd (Resistance fighter); Ibrāhīm, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood and family life in Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment with the British Army. (@ 9:17)Table of contents: Agriculture, society and ceremonial customs in Shaykh Dāwūd
. (@ 19:18)Table of contents: Colonialism, military occupation and resistance. (@ 39:24)Table of contents: Revolutionaries and resistance during the Zionist invasion, 1948. (@ 54:59)
Biography: The interview was also recorded with Abū Yāsir, male, born in Palestine and resides in Lebanon.Table of contents: The Bedouin prince and his dead wife I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The Bedouin prince and his dead wife II. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: The prince's beard and his lion friend. (@ 32:7)Table of contents: Abraham's destruction of imagery and his miracle . (@ 46:14)Table of contents: Forced departure of Abraham from his land and marriage. (@ 75:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 28, 2004 with Dīb Muḥammad Khashshān, male, born in 1923 in Dayr al-Qāsī, Palestine.He worked as a policeman with the British authority during World War II.Families: Ma‘rūf; al-Ṣādiq; Maḥmūd; Khashshān; Qurfalī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh Jawhar (Maqām).Significant figures: ʻUthmān, Ibrāhīm (Teacher); ʻĀrif, Khālid (Teacher); Ḥasan, Muḥsin (Teacher); Jad‘ūn, Michel (School principal); Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Military trainer); ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Jordanian Army commander); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Ṣādiq, Majīd (Mayor); Ma‘rūf, Muḥammad (Mayor); Zaydān, ‘Alī (Folk poet); Khashshān, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Khashshān, Naʻīm (Revolutionary); Khashshān, Jamīl (Revolutionary); Jadʻūn, Michel (Translator); Sa‘ūd, Naʻīm (Martyr); Ḥammūd, Khālid (Martyr); Khashshān, Khālid (Revolutionary); Ẓāhir, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); ʻŪthmān, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader); Ma‘rūf, Khalīl (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Education in Dayr al-Qāsī. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and work experience in the British Army during the mandate. (@ 18:32)Table of contents: Religious and ethnic pluralism in Palestine during the British Mandate . (@ 36:26)Table of contents: Cultural and intervillage relations in Dayr al-Qāsī . (@ 52:24)Table of contents: Political conditions at Dayr al-Qāsī. (@ 62:12)Table of contents: War events and the Zionist invasion . (@ 69:4)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of the village. (@ 87:59)Table of contents: Military situation at Dayr al-Qāsī then the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 97:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 20, 1997 with Nabīhah Khatīb, female, born in 1927 in ʻAmqā, Palestine.Table of contents: Purposeful story of Palestinian popular culture. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of the lazy man and his wife. (@ 18:22)Table of contents: Story of a king and his sons. (@ 25:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 27, 2004 with Jamīlah Ḥasan Khaḍrah, female, born in Kufayrāt, Palestine.Families: Ḥamdān; al-Nāṭūr; al-Shaḥtarī; Khaḍrah; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: Khaḍrah, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Jammāl, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and agricultural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural and social life at Khirbat al-Kasāyir. (@ 17:25)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 42:50)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and expulsion of Palestine. (@ 56:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 29, 1997 with ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Ḥasan Khiḍir, male, born in 1912 in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; al-Maḥājinah.Significant figures: al-Ḥusaynī, Yaʻqūb (Public officer); Muḥammadī, Fādī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Farhāt, Muḥammad (Land broker); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Khāliq, Muṣṭafá (Martyr).Table of contents: Political dynamics under the British Mandate and warfare . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist colonization and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 27:5)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and social norms. (@ 51:9)Table of contents: Wedding customs and traditions. (@ 62:33)Table of contents: Political conditions, betrayal, and return visit to Palestine . (@ 68:4)
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 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)
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 July 6, 2004 with Fīfī Khūrī, female, born in 1922 in Jaffa, Palestine and resides in al-Ḥamrā, Lebanon.Families: al-Ṭarazī; Dabbās; Dumyānī; Gharghūr.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Banco di Roma (Bank); Madrasat Rāhibāt Ṣahyūn (School); Rāhibāt Mār Yūsuf Lilẓuhūr (School); Madrasat Ḥasan ʻArafah (School); Jerusalem Girls Collage (School); Bīr zaytt School (School); Orthodox (School); Madrasat al-Muṭrān (School); Barclays Bank (Bank); Ottoman Bank (Bank).Significant figures: al-Khūrī, Anthony (Trader); Nāṣir, Nabīhah (School principal); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Revolutionary leader); Bear, Lola (Tailorer); Nāṣir, Mūsá (Mayor); al-ʻĪsá, Micheal (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Family origins and childhood in Palestine. (@ 0:15)Table of contents: Education and degrees . (@ 8:1)Table of contents: Socio-economic life . (@ 27:56)Table of contents: Social and cultural life. (@ 39:44)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and psychological warfare . (@ 48:50)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 69:15)
Biography: .ولدت عام 1928 في قدس، فلسطين وتقيم في الأنصارية، لبنانFamilies: Kinyār; Dirbāj.Significant figures: al-Mārdīnī, Aḥmad (Landowner); Ḥadīd, Khalīl (Public officer); ‘Īsá, Siknah (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Martyr); Jumʻa, Mūsá (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic conditions in Qadas. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in Qadas during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 11, 2006 with Ḥamdah Qāsim Kinyār, female, born in 1929? in Qadas, Palestine and resides in al-Anṣārīyah, Lebanon.Families: Farḥāt; Bazzī.Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before the Zionist occupation. (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Social and political conditions in Qadas during the Zionist invasion. (@ 20:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 19, 2009 with Ṣubḥīyah Krayyim, female, born and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Mustashfá al-Hamsharī (Hospital).Table of contents: Women's leadership in war time. (@ 9:59)Table of contents: Israeli occupation practices during the invasion. (@ 26:9)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 37:52)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile . (@ 52:25)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 69:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 11, 2003 with ‘Abd al-Majīd Krayyim, male, born in 1927 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a military commander with the Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces.Families: Krayyim; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; al-ʻAfīfī; Muʻīd.Significant figures: Krayyim, Aḥmad (School principal); al-Yaḥyá, ʻAbd al-Razzāq (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Amīn, Bahjat Najāt (Arab Salvation Army soldier); al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); Abū Laylá, Ḥasan (Shaykh); ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Cheese maker) al-Ṭāhā, Mifliḥ Amīn (Village leader); Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ al-Salīm al-Muḥammad (Village leader); Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ al-Salīm (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Sulaymān (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj, Saʻīd (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj, Salīm (Municipal council); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Yāsīn, Muṣliḥ (Resistance leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Border guard); Abū al-Niʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Broker).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British army. (@ 6:35)Table of contents: Cultural and social life . (@ 25:9)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 53:53)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance for survival . (@ 82:18)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 105:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 17, 2011 with Renée Kuttih, female, born in 1925 in al-Ramlah, Palestine.Families: al-Ghuṣaynī; Abū al-Laban; al-Khayrī; al-Tāj; al-Fārūqī; Qutrān; al-‘Azūnī; al-Ṣūṣū; Naṣṣār.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Mustashfá al-‘Askarī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al- Ingliz (School); Sharikat Bāṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Spinneys (Corporation); American University of Beirut (University); Friends Girls School (School); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation); Sharikat Baṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Sharika al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Significant figures: Kuttih, Costandi (Mayor); Kuttih, Georges (Pharmacist); Kuttih, Ḥannah (Doctor); Qutrān, Michel (Chief justice); Bishārah, Sāmī (Doctor); Shaṭārah, Wadī‘ah (Teacher); Ḥannūsh, Victoria (School principal); Kuttih, Alex (Pharmacist); ‘Aṣāṣah, Ḥikmat (Landlord); Bshārah, Sāmī (Doctor); Fī‘ānī, Georges (Businessman).Table of contents: Socio-economic Life in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Pre-marital Life,Village Traditions and Schooling . (@ 14:39)Table of contents: Engagement, Marriage and Family Life . (@ 40:45)Table of contents: Wedding celebration and honeymoon in Europe. (@ 63:16)Table of contents: Political turmoil and displacement. (@ 79:44)Table of contents: Relations with the Jews. (@ 87:43)Table of contents: Land Ownership and attacks. (@ 98:10)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and life in exile . (@ 104:48)Table of contents: Return to Palestine and life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 116:34)Table of contents: Childhood and other Personal Memories. (@ 129:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Maḥmūd Mūsá Kāyid, male, born in 1912 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Attempt of demolishing Kaʻbah and birth of prophet Muḥammad. (@ 11:18)Table of contents: Biography of prophet Muhammad I. (@ 22:23)Table of contents: Biography of prophet Muhammad II . (@ 50:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 28, 2004 with Muḥammad Yūsuf Kāyid, male, born in 1927 in al-Ṭīrah, Palestine. He worked with the British army during World War II.Families: Zaydān; Ḥajīr; Abū Rāshid; al-Bashīr; Shiblī; al-‘Asal; Abū Shaqrā; Kāyid.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Baladiyat Haifa (Municipality); Dā’irat al-Rrayy wa al-Miyāh (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Sibā‘ī (School); Iraq Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Lifshitz, Joseph (Engineer); al-Ḥalabī, Muḥammad (Businessman); al-Sibā‘ī, Muḥammad (School principal); Idrīs, Khiḍir (Mayor); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); al-Bardān, Mus‘ad (Martyr); Ḥajīr, Muḥammad ‘Abdū (Martyr); al-Dabbūr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Idrīs, ‘Alī (Martyr).Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political history of al-Ṭīrah under British rule. (@ 17:56)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 37:59)Table of contents: Humanitarian situation of the Palestinian refugees. (@ 56:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16, 1997 with Muḥsin ʻAbd al-Majīd Kāyid, male, born in 1924 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Baalbek, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Steel Brothers (Corporation).Significant figures: Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Village leader); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Village leader); al-Muṣṭafá, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor).Table of contents: Palestinian resistance and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War events and expulsion of Palestinians . (@ 14:37)Table of contents: Political activity during Nakba. (@ 23:58)Table of contents: Refugee conditions and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 35:47)
Biography: Biogarphy: The interview was recorded on May 9, 2004 with Sa‘dá al-Ḥasan Kāyid, female, born in 1922 in Jidrū, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Shamālī Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Table of contents: Everyday life practices in Ḥawwāsah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Marriage customs and wedding celebrations. (@ 21:37)Table of contents: Socio-religious customs and celebrations. (@ 33:38)Table of contents: Palestinian social customs. (@ 53:50)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration, occupation and military attacks . (@ 83:32)Table of contents: Continued warfare and departure. (@ 96:1)Table of contents: Right of return and refugee hardship. (@ 115:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 26, 1998 with Ḥasnah ‘Abd Kīlānī, female, born in 1925 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Kīlānī; al-Shahāyibah; al-Hajājiwah; al-‘Aṭwāṭ; al-‘Ajāyinah; al-Ḥiṭṭīnī; Qaddūrah; al-Kīlānīyah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Jāmi‘ al-Azhar (School).Significant figures: Kīlānī, Muḥammad (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Social life and rural conditions . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Lūbyā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 16:43)Table of contents: Social life and customs . (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 36:39)
Biography: Tthe interview was recorded on February 8, 2004 with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lubānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Tripoli, Lebanon.Families: al-Zayādinah; al-Biqā‘īyah; al-‘Ayāyshah; al-‘Athāminah; al-Lawābinah; Sarḥānī; Abū al-Hayjā; Fir‘im; ‘Uthmānī; al-Shanā‘ah; Ka‘wash; Zaghmūṭ; Shraydī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Zaydānī, Ṣāliḥ (Historical figure); 'Ubayd, Shafīq (Principal); al-Bīṭār, Khalīl (Teacher); al-ʻAbbūd, Jubrān (Landowner); ʻAzīz, Aḥmad (Poet); al-Mrāḥ, Shanā‘ah (Poet); Saʻīd, As‘ad (Poet); al-Asadī, Abū Sa‘ūd (Poet); al-Rīnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-Biqā‘ī, Ḥaydar (Village leader); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); Jayyūsī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Poet); Wihbī, Mārūn Ilyās (Poet); Abū al-ʿAsal, Riyāḥ Ḥannā (Bishop); ʻArafāt, Jamīl (Author); al-Walī, Fu’ād (Teacher); al-Bāsh, Ḥasan (Author); al-Mubayyīḍ, Salīm ‘Arafāt (Author); Sirḥān, Nimir (Author); al-Dājānī, Mu‘taz (Director of the Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural life, social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 14:10)Table of contents: Palestinian folklore. (@ 31:27)Table of contents: Memories in poetry. (@ 61:31)Table of contents: Poetry and politics in Palestine. (@ 83:18)Table of contents: Battles and Palestinian poetry. (@ 105:22)Table of contents: Post-Nakba literature. (@ 121:40)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations and marriage customs. (@ 141:49)Table of contents: Memories of childhood. (@ 167:48)Table of contents: War time and military operations. (@ 179:5)Table of contents: Exile road. (@ 203:43)Table of contents: Exile literature. (@ 219:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 29, 2003 with ‘Ā'ishah Maḥmūd Luṭfī, female, born in 1930? in Jabāliyā, Palestine.Families: Ḥamdān; Shaḥbarī; al-Khiḍir.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Ṣaffūrīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: Faraj, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Khiḍir, Ḥasan (Mayor); Luṭfī, Aḥmad Ramaḍān (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and upbringing in Khirbat al-Kasāyir
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Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad Lubānī on October 14, 2009, male, born in 1928 in Tiberias, Palestine. He was a driver.Families: al-‘Afīfī; al-Ṭabarī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Trans Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank); Baritos Bank (Bank); Anglo Bank (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church); Jāmiʻ al-Baḥrah (Mosque).Significant figures: Shuqayf, Ṣalʻat (School principal); Mdayris, Antoine (Teacher); ʻAnkūsh, Muṣṭafá Shāhīn (Revolutionary); Abū Zayyān, Ḥusayn ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary); al-Ḥamawī, Ṣubḥi (Revolutionary); Shāhīn, Shukrī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and employment . (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Weapon trade and British siege. (@ 19:7)Table of contents: Socio-political conditions and religious life in Tiberias . (@ 27:43)Table of contents: Cultural life and interreligious relations in Tiberias . (@ 48:20)Table of contents: Battles and Palestinian reisstance. (@ 55:13)Table of contents: Hardships and exile. (@ 73:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Nāyfah Lūbānī, female, born in 1928 in al-Damūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs and political poetry. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of ʻAbdullātū and his siblings. (@ 6:5)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and poetry. (@ 13:7)Table of contents: Islamic ruqyah from evil eye and Palestinian popular songs. (@ 35:31)Table of contents: Short stories . (@ 45:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Salmá ‘Alī Lūbānī, female, born in 1955 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Sleeping Beauty story. (@ 12:41)Table of contents: Songs and stories. (@ 26:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lūbānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Short story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social story. (@ 20:33)Table of contents: Story of two old married. (@ 31:58)Table of contents: Folk stories. (@ 44:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lūbānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Bāsh, Ḥasan (Writer); al-Bakr, Maḥmūd Mifliḥ (Writer); al-‘Afīfī, Fāṭimah (Poet).Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs and stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Love stories in literature. (@ 13:22)Table of contents: Palestinian social customs and traditions . (@ 28:47)Table of contents: Popular songs and poetry. (@ 46:19)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 68:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 17, 1997 with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lūbānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Biqāʻī; al-Zayādinah; al-Lawābinah; al-ʻAthāminah; al-ʻAyāyshah; Abū ʻAlī; Mīkhā'īl; Abū Ḥamdī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-ʻAfīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Lūbānī, Dāhish Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Biqāʻī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz (Martyr); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Tawfīq (Martyr); Ṣāliḥ, al-ʻAbd (Martyr); al-Bīṭār, Khalīl (Teacher); ʻŪbayd, Shafīq (School principal).Table of contents: Sociopolitical dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 18:10)Table of contents: Political turmoil and popular resistance. (@ 44:34)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 54:7)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 61:24)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 82:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 14, 2003 with Fāṭimah Majẓūb, female, born in 1933 in ʻAmqā, Palestine.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Ibrahīm (Policeman); al-Majẓūb, Rajā (Policeman); al-Majẓūb, Amīn (Policeman); al-Majẓūb, Naʻīm (Policeman); al-Jamāl, Abū Ṣāliḥ (Policeman); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Policeman); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life, customs and celebrations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Chiildhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 8:22)Table of contents: Celebrations, customs and community life in ʻAmqā. (@ 23:37)Table of contents: Revolutionaries, interreligious relations and the Zionist occuaption. (@ 36:55)Table of contents: Political turbulence and fleeing Palestine. (@ 49:47)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 62:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 17, 1997 with Ḥasnah ‘Alī Mannā‘, female, born in 1927 in Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Most popular folk tale: Jbaynih. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Nways story. (@ 14:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 11, 2006 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Manṣūr, female, born in 1926 in al-Rās al-Aḥmar, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Khaṭīb; Ayyūb; al-Ḥāj.Significant figures: Ayyūb, Fakhrῑ (Village leader); Ayyūb, Ma‘in (Village leader); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Sāmiyah (Teacher); al- Khaṭīb, Muḥyī al-Dīn Ṭāhā (Village leader); Nῑsān, Salīm (Trader); al-Hraysh, Fayyād (Martyr); al -‘Abdullāh, Tawfīq (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio- economic dynamics in al-Rās al-Aḥmar . (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule, Zionist occupation and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 24:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1995 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Manṣūr, female, born in 1941 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ṭuwaysī; Ghunaym; Ḥāmid; Sulaymān.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Mayor).Table of contents: Farming practices and rural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Dietary practices and social norms in Palestine. (@ 24:54)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and celebrations. (@ 40:11)Table of contents: Wedding customs and folk traditions. (@ 69:41)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع زكية حسنين، أنثى، ولدت في حيفا وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shraydī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Significant figures: Shraydī, Abū Khālid (Teacher).Table of contents: Refugee life during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon . (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Israeli attacks on South Lebanon. (@ 11:17)Table of contents: Political conditions during the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon, 1982. (@ 24:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 2009 with ‘Adlah Manṣūr, female, born and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She worked with al-Jabhah al-Shaʻbīyah li Taḥrīr Filasṭīn.Families: Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Umm Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 0:50)Table of contents: Economic conditions in the camp during the Israeli invasion. (@ 9:1)Table of contents: Palestinian women role in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 22:11)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 38:47)Table of contents: Political activity of Palestinian women in Lebanon. (@ 52:0)Table of contents: Women’s Leadership during conflicts. (@ 63:45)Table of contents: Women political activity . (@ 74:22)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع مريم رابح، أنثى، ولدت عام 1934؟ في الحسينية، فلسطين.Significant figures: al-ʻUthmān; Jaʻfar; al-Bashīr; Rābiḥ; al-Saʻīd, Nimir (Resistance fighter); ʻAmmār, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Rābiḥ, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Waqān, Ᾱminah (Martyr); al-Kānūn, Aḥamd (Martyr); Rābiḥ, al-Kānūn (Martyr); ʻAmmār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Ṭāhir, Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Saʻīd, Nimir (Martyr).Table of contents: Agricultural life in al-Ḥusaynīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah battle and massacre, 1948. (@ 5:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and hope of return. (@ 27:50)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah battle and massacre, 1948 and journey to exile. (@ 32:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 16, 2004 with Muḥammad Jamīl Mash‘al, male, born in 1929 in Safad, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Jāmiʻ al-Aḥmar (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Banāt Yaʻqūb (Maqām).Significant figures: Brayk, Shafīq (Teacher); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Landowner); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and social relations. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Community life and culture in Safad. (@ 9:26)Table of contents: Political conditions and treason. (@ 17:43)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 29:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 14, 1998 with Mawʻid Muḥammad Mawʻid, male born in 1920 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon. Hes was a teacher.Families: Mawʻid; Sulaymān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Qalʻah (School); Jāmi‘at al-Quds (University); Madrasat Ṣaffurīyah al-Ibtidāīyah (School); Madrasat al-Nāṣirah al-Thānawīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: American University of Beirut (University); Madrasat al-Ṣinā‘ah (School); Madrasat al-Nāṣirah al-Thānawīyah (School); Madrasat al-Funūn (School); Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School); American university of Beirut (University); Madrasat Ṣaffūrīyah al-Ibtidā’īyah (School).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Sharīf, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Saʻīd Muḥammad (Mayor); Laylá, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Dhizrá, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Teacher); Khaḍrā, Fawzī (Teacher); Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Village leader); ʻAwn Allāh, Raʼūfah (School principal); Faraḥ, Fu’ād (Public officer); Makkīyah, ‘Itāb (Public officer); Sa‘d al-Dīn, Rashād (School principal); Abū Qāsim, Jamīl ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Zanānīrī, Jamīl (Supplier); al-Dīrānī, Riḍā (Supplier); Samārah, Shākir (Principal); Samārah, Shukrī (Teacher); Samārah, Usāmah (Teacher); ‘Uthmān, Rābi‘ah (Teacher); ʻAzzīyah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Na‘nā‘, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ʻAwn Allāh, Ra’ūfah (School principal); al-Mawʻid, Naṣṣār (Village leader); Fāyiq, Aḥmad (School principal); Dhizrá, Muḥammad ‘Abdū (Teacher); Na‘nā‘, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Sharīf, ‘Abd al-Karīm Muḥammad (Teacher); Abū Qāsim, Jamīl ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); ‘Azzīyah, Aḥmad (Teacher); Mawʻid, Aḥmad al-ʻAlī (Teacher); Krayyim, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Sa‘dī, Muḥammad ʻIzz al-Dīn (Teacher); Laylá, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥallāq, Ḥasan (Shaykh); Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); Krayyim, Aḥmad (Teacher): al-Mawʻid, Aḥmad ‘Alī (Teacher); al-Mawʻid, Salīm (Village leader); al-Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Village leader).Table of contents: Social conditions in the village before the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Study and teaching in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 18:5)Table of contents: Education and labor market in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:56)Table of contents: Educational curriculum before 1948 in Palestine. (@ 44:48)Table of contents: Educational assessment in Palestinian schools during the British Mandate. (@ 62:40)Table of contents: Teaching methods. (@ 70:34)Table of contents: Parents teacher relations and educational systems in Palestine. (@ 90:22)Table of contents: Learning, Teaching and work in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 104:13)Table of contents: Female education and school activities in Palestine. (@ 117:20)Table of contents: Military activity and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 127:1)Table of contents: Teaching as a profession. (@ 137:30)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 141:19)Table of contents: Educational environments and religious diversity in the village. (@ 151:41)Table of contents: Teaching skills. (@ 162:23)Table of contents: Living conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 175:16)Table of contents: Educational history of the village. (@ 187:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 1997 with Muḥammad ʻAlī Mawʻid, male, born in 1925 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon. He worked with the British Army.Families: Sulaymān; Maw'id.Significant figures: Qashmūsh, Simʻān (Foreman); Fawzī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Fāyiq, Aḥmad (School principal); al-‘Īsá, Rashīd Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Tawbah, Khalīl Sulaymān (Resistance fighter); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Sa‘d al-Dīn, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Salīm, Maw‘id (Village leader); al-Ibrāhīm, Sa‘īd (Mayor); al-ʻAbdullāh, Ibrāhīm Aḥmad (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Majīd, Sa‘īd (Artist).Table of contents: Political activities during the British rule. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 10:12)Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 32:26)Table of contents: Social and traditional customs in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 43:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 29, 1998 with Muḥammad Dhīb Maw‘id, male, born in 1923 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sulaymān; al-Maw‘id; al-Sa‘īdīyah; al-Ghanāyimah; Abū Ma‘āz; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-Daghāyirah; al-‘Anātinah; al-Khaṭābinah; Rāshid; al-Maqādiḥah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Maw‘id, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); Sulaymān, Abū Fāris (Mayor); al-Sa‘īd, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī , Muḥammad Sayyid (Soap maker); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Yamanī, Salīm (Resistance leader); Mawʻid, Faraj (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Village history . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic dynamics in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 13:8)Table of contents: Land and agriculture. (@ 35:53)Table of contents: British colonialist policies and employment . (@ 50:59)Table of contents: War events and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 59:17)
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 June 19, 2004 with Tawfīq ʻAbdullāh Maḥmūd, male, born in 1922 in Dallātah, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al-Rifāʻīyah; Shanāʻah; al-ʻAbdullāh; Ayyūb; Ḥammīd; Suwayd.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām); al-Shaykh Yūsuf (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Nābulsī, Ḥāmid (Teacher); Murād, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Teacher); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); Saʻīd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Khālid (Musician); al-Aḥmad, Ḥasan (Musician); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm (Musician); Tawbah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); Maḥmūd, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Resistance leader); Ḥammīd, Sirḥān (Resistance leader); Shdīd, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Qāsim, Ḥasan (Martyr); Maḥmūd, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Mayor); Ḥusayn, Qāsim Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood and hardships of education . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and cultural life in Dallātah . (@ 13:33)Table of contents: Social manners and Zionist exploration of Palestinian lands. (@ 40:49)Table of contents: Palestine during Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 52:37)Table of contents: Palestine during 1948 Nakba . (@ 61:44)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 72:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 3, 1997 with ʻĪsá Muḥammad Maṣrī, male, born in 1914 in al-Nāʻimah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bayk.Significant figures: ‘Ablah, Ḥasīb (Landowner); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Landowner); Abū Kharrūb, Ismā‘īl (Mayor); al-‘Alī, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Maṣrī, Maḥmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion, terrorism and defense. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family and community life . (@ 29:11)Table of contents: Political conditions and socio-economic life. (@ 40:59)Table of contents: Zionist terrorism, expulsion and refugee experience . (@ 60:14)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in exile. (@ 72:8)