Biography: وتقيم في مخيم مار الياس للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Ma’rūf; Ẓāhir, Khashshān, Ṣādiq; Ḥamādah.Significant figures: Ma’rūf, Ghādī (Mayor); Ẓāhir, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Ṣādiq, Muṣṭafá (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life, customs and celebrations in Dayr al-Qāsī
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Biography: Biography The interview was recorded with ‘Ārif Ma‘rūf, male, born in 1926 in Dayr al-Qāsī, Palestine. He worked as policeman during the British mandate.Families: Ma‘rūf; Ḍāhir; al-Ṣādiq.Significant figures: Ma‘rūf, Ghānim (Mayor); al-Ṣādiq, Majīd (Mayor); Abū Naʻāj, Nimir (Revolutionary leader); al-Hrāsh, Fāyiz (Revolutionary leader); al-Aṣlī, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Sa‘ūd, Aḥmad (Martyr); Zaydān, ‘Alī (Poet); Ma‘rūf, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣādiq, Fāyiq (Teacher); al-Majīd, al-Ṣādiq (Teacher); Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Policeman); Sa‘īd, Fāyiz (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣādiq, Fāyiz (Martyr); Ṣabḥah, Salīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Political dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity during the British mandate. (@ 14:51)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 22:32)Table of contents: Political and social conditions under British rule. (@ 44:19)Table of contents: The Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 57:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 28, 1995 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Mir‘ī, female, born in 1931 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and praise of Muḥammad. (@ 21:14)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة مع مرعي محمود مرعي في 8 نيسان أبريل عام 2006، ذكر، ولد عام 1930 في النهر، فلسطين.Families: al-ʻAfīfī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Akka al-Ibtidāīyah (School); Madrasat Akka al-Thānawīyah (School); Dāirat al-Zirā‘ah (Governmental institution); al-Kullīyah al-Rashīdīyah (College); al-Kullīyah al-‘Arabīyah (College); Dāʼirat al-Muʼan (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sayyid al-Badawī (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: Farrel, Jerome (Public officer); ʻAnabtāwī, Waṣfī (Government officer); Drāz, Muḥammad ‘Abduh (Mayor); Rāghib, Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Akar, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-‘Afīfī, Khayrīhah (Martyr); Badī‘ah, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Kurd, Fāyiz Ṣāliḥ (Lawyer); al-‘Afīfī, Aḥmad (Leader).Table of contents: Education system during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural life and childhood before Nakba. (@ 14:16)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 28:7)Table of contents: Social relations rites and ceremonies. (@ 49:21)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 59:5)Table of contents: City occupation,displacement and exile. (@ 71:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 24, 1997 with Nimir ‘Alī Miṣrī, male, born in 1929 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a driver with the British Army.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Haifa Port (Port); Akka port (Port).Significant figures: al-Ṣuluḥ, Adīb (Teacher); Qaṭṭān, Ḥabīb (School principal); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Abū Durrah, Abū al-‘Abd (Revolutionary leader); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); al-Ayyūbī, Najātī (Masyor); al-Ayyūbī, Najāt (Mayor); al-Sammān, Khiḍir (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Abū Ḥusayn (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Agricultural life in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 8:47)Table of contents: Political turmoil, military activity in the village. (@ 15:55)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in al-Ṭīrah. (@ 32:15)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military activity. (@ 41:9)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 47:34)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 59:57)Table of contents: War time, military occupation and exile. (@ 71:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 17, 2004 with Mūsá Maḥmūd Mubārakah, male, born in 1919 in al-Nahr, Palestine and resides in Barjā, Lebanon.Families: Twaynī; al-‘Afīfī; SurSuq; Mir‘ī; Mubārakah; Mūsá; Shādhlī; Naff‘a; Shaykh; ‘Awaḍah; Sursuq.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); Shaykh Ghānim (Maqam).Significant figures: al-‘Abdullāh, Tawfīq (Mayor); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Kutabī, Yūsuf (Teacher); Drāz, Muḥammad ‘Abdū (Mayor); al-Majdalāwī, Rashīd (Poet); ʻIbilīnī, Muḥammad (Poet); al-‘Afīfī, Muḥammad (Landowner); al-ʻAkkī, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); Sirḥān, Fāris (Resistance fighter); Abū al-Khayr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); Shatāt, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ṣulḥ, Ḥākim (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions at al-Nahr. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Land purchase and political activity . (@ 14:5)Table of contents: Political conditions at al-Nahr during the Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 26:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on Decmber12, 1995 with Asʻad Mughrabī, male, born in 1927 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Bald head story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The end of the Bald head story. (@ 28:10)Table of contents: Moral short story. (@ 38:31)Table of contents: Symbolism in Arabic short story. (@ 54:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 14, 2003 with Ḥasnah Dīb Munayzil, female, born in 1931? in al-Manshīyah, Palestine.Families: Mannā‘; Da‘bis; Khraybī; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Ḥammām al-Bāshā (Public bath).Significant figures: Khraybī, ʻAlī (Mayor); Ẓalām, ʻAbd (Policeman); al-Qūwatlī, Sham‘ah (Landowner); Ṣaqr, Dyāb (Water supplier); ʻUṭir, ʻAlī (Water supplier); Mannā‘, Nimir (Revolutionary leader); Ḥamdū, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); Mannā‘, Yāsīn (Poet); al-‘Abd, Rashīd (Poet); Sa‘d, Muḥammad (Martyr); Shukrī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al- Ṭarāwī, Aḥmad (Coffeehouse owner); Ḥāmid, al-Fahid (Coffeehouse owner); al-Maqdaḥ, Umm Khalīl (Martyr); Ṭūqān, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); al-Sakhnīnī, al-ʻAbd (Martyr); Shukrī, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Social life at al-Manshīyah . (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics of al-Manshīyah. (@ 17:2)Table of contents: Religious pluralism and political activity during the British mandate . (@ 37:41)Table of contents: Weddings pre-Nakba and Zionist occupation. (@ 52:36)Table of contents: War, displacement and strategies of survival. (@ 76:20)Table of contents: Homeland and diaspora. (@ 93:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Zahrah Fahd Murrah, female, born in 1930 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām); al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām).Significant figures: Murrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Qaddūrah, Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Falāḥ, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ṭunnah, Yūsuf (Mayor); Mubaddah, Nāyif (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Ḥusayn Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAbbūd, Khalīl (Martyr); Qāsim, Muḥammad Khalīl (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Wahāb, Aḥmad (Martyr); Murrah, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Salīm, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Suḥmātā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 under the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli occupation and expulsion . (@ 6:44)Table of contents: Community life and beliefs in Sabalān. (@ 21:22)Table of contents: Expulsion and suffering. (@ 31:27)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hardships . (@ 42:34)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and wedding customs. (@ 51:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 20, 1997 with Sihām Muḥammad ‘Ali, female, born in 1954 in Fārah, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: ‘Uqlat al-Uṣba‘ story. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Woodcutter story. (@ 13:11)Table of contents: Moral stories. (@ 25:30)Table of contents: Fantasy and magic stories. (@ 40:15)Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 55:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 25, 2003 with ‘Alī ʻAbdullāh Muḥammad, male, born in 1932? in al-Manṣūrah, Palestine.Significant figures: Rḥayyim, Yūsuf (Landowner); al-Nimir, Yūsuf (Mayor); ‘Aṭīl, ‘Alayyān (Carpenter).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding traditions, political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in al-Manṣūrah. (@ 15:40)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 30:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 30, 1998 with Muḥammad Qāsim Muḥammad, male, born in 1926 in Jāḥūlā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a straw mats maker.Families: Sha‘bān; ‘Aṭīyah; Jabr; al-Danānshah; Sursuq; Ghulmīyah; Salām.Significant figures: al-ʻAlī, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (mayor); al-Ḥūrī, Mūsá (Teacher); ʻIzz al-Dīn, Muḥammad (Teacheer); al-Ḥāj, Unsī (Shaykh); Ṣubḥ, Nāyif (Landowner); Yāsīn, Muḥammad (Broker); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Broker); al-Ṣāliḥ, Aḥmad (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Abū Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family, childhood and schooling during the British rule. (@ 13:47)Table of contents: Rural life in Jāḥūlā before Nakba. (@ 25:35)Table of contents: Family business and economic conditions in the village. (@ 46:52)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and community life. (@ 64:4)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion . (@ 79:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June19, 1997 with Muḥammad Qāsim Muḥammad, male, born in 1923 in Jāḥūlā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sha‘bān; ‘Aṭīyah; Jabr; Fannīsh; Sursuq; Salām; Ghulmīyah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Hadassah hospital (Hospital).Significant figures: ‘Aṭīyah, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Yūnus (Shaykh); ‘Īsá, Maḥmūd Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Naḥawī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Lawyer); al-Rifā‘ī, Ḥusnī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Rifaʻī, Ḥusayn (Arab Salvation army commander); Lūbyā, Ḥusayn (Arab Salvation army soldier); ‘Aṭīyah, Abū Aḥmad Sulaymān (Wounded); Yāsīn, ‘Alī Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 11:44)Table of contents: Social and political conditions before Nakba. (@ 19:31)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 29:16)Table of contents: Battle and armed resistance. (@ 42:21)Table of contents: Military activity and resistance. (@ 50:29)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 59:0)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 73:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 2004 with Muṣṭafá Muḥammad, male, born in 1925, in Jāḥūlā, Palestine.He was a trench digger.Families: ʻAṭiyah; Shaʻbān; Muḥammad; ʻAlī; ʻĪsá.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: ʻIzz al-Dīn, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Fattaḥ, ʻAbd (Teacher); Shiḥādah, Mūsà (Shaykh).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and cultural life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture, social, and cultural life. (@ 8:41)Table of contents: Disputes and relations with the jews. (@ 27:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 10, 2004 with Mūsá Maḥmūd Muḥammad, male, born in 1927 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine. He worked as a store keeper with the British army during World War II.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madarsat Shafā ʻAmrū al-Ibtidā’īyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Episcopal Catholic School (School); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Jiryis (School principal); Ḥamādah, Nāyif (Teacher); Khawlī, Samīḥ (Teacher); Murray, Sidney Patrick (British officer).Table of contents: History of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule . (@ 15:9)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 26:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 1, 2004 with Ṣāliḥ Maḥmud Muḥammad, male, born in 1933 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Shafā ʻAmrū (School).Significant figures: al-ʻAnabtāwī, ʻAlī (Teacher); al-Ḥāj, Jirjis (School principal); Ḥamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Ḥallāq, Jabbūr (Mayor); Dyāb, Muwaffaq (Doctor); Bramskī, Hārūn (Landowner); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Sājir, Jamīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in the village. (@ 5:28)Table of contents: Political activity during the British Mandate. (@ 13:30)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 18:35)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 28:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 14, 2009 with Rūzā Ayyūb Muṣliḥ (Umm ‘Iṣām), female, born in 1938? in ʻArab al-Zubayd, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Mustashfá al-Nabī Yūsha‘ (Hospital).Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli invasion and quest for disappeared persons. (@ 7:58)Table of contents: Expulsion and suffering during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon . (@ 25:2)Table of contents: Forced evacuation and suffering. (@ 39:18)
Biography: Biograpgy: The interview was recorded on June 4, 2004 with Amīnah Maḥmūd Muṣṭafá, female, born in 1928 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥamūl; al-Aghawāt; al-Muqassim; Fāʻūr; Muṣṭafá.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Shafīq (Mayor); ʻUmar, Fāyiz al-ʻAbd (Martyr); Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Zakī (Resistance leader); Ḥammūd, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Jishshī, Abū Suhayl (Leader); al-Jishshī, Maḥmūd (Leader).Table of contents: Women education and agriculture. (@ 0:17)Table of contents: Social conditions and community life in Tarshīḥā. (@ 21:32)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Zionist invasion. (@ 41:48)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā. (@ 59:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 5, 2004 with Aḥmad Muḥammad Muṣṭafá, male, born in al-Khiṣāṣ, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Families: Shiḥādah; Juwayyid.Significant figures: Khalīl, Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb (Teacher); Shiḥādah, Aḥmad Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Juwayyid, ‘Aṭīyah Muḥammad (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic life at al-Khiṣāṣ. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Cultural life, settler colonialism, and Zionist invasion . (@ 11:20)Table of contents: Expulsion and nostalgia. (@ 31:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 4, 2003 with Muḥammad Ḥasan Muṣṭafá, male, born in 1914 in Kafar Kannā, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Ṭāhā; Ḥamdān.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-ʻAfīfī Bus Company (Corporation); al-Jalīl Bus Comapny (Corporation).Significant figures: Ḥusayn, Amīnah (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Mubārak (Doctor); Dhyāb, ʻAlī (Doctor); Ṣubayḥ, ʻAlī (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); Khaṭīb, Aḥmad (Martyr); Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Zu‘bī, Nāyif (Resistance leader); Qāsim, Ḥusayn (Prisoner).Table of contents: Everyday life amidst political turmoil. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social relations and celebrations. (@ 18:15)Table of contents: Political turbulence and revolutionary activity. (@ 40:8)Table of contents: Resistance, revolutionaries and interreligious relations. (@ 54:49)Table of contents: Aggression, imprisonment and British rule. (@ 71:29)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 82:49)Table of contents: The first visit to Palestine. (@ 96:31)Table of contents: Right of return to Palestine. (@ 105:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 12, 2006 with Rashīd Yūsuf Muṣṭafá, male, born in al-Mālikīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Najjārīyah, Lebanon.Families: Muṣṭafá; Khalīl; Mūsá; al-Mārdīnī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: Khalīl, Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: al-Mālikīyah history during Ottoman and British rule. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Political dynamics in al-Mālikīyah during the Zionist invasion. (@ 21:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 12, 1998 with Faḍl Muḥammad Mīʻārī, male, born in 1920 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Mīʻārī; al-Mashāyikh; Ḥusayn; al-Badārinah; Mī‘ārī; Karrūm.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Dīmāsī, Khalīl (Teacher); al-Naḥawī, Ṣalāḥ (Teacher).Table of contents: Agriculture and economic conditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Village history. (@ 7:35)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and agriculture in al-Farrāḍīyah . (@ 17:15)Table of contents: Tobacco industry and trade in Farrāḍīyah. (@ 38:18)Table of contents: Tobacco smuggling and trade. (@ 63:50)Table of contents: Tobacco industry and rural life . (@ 72:48)Table of contents: Agricultural economics, cultivation and rural conditions. (@ 96:49)Table of contents: Cultivation and farming practices. (@ 116:32)Table of contents: Farming practices and tools. (@ 129:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 17, 1998 with Maḥmūd Nimir Mīʻārī, male, born in 1927 in ʻAkbarah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.He was a tobacco farmer.Families: Ḥasná; Ḥishmih; Fayyāḍ; Mīʻārī; Maghāmis.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Mīʻārī, Aḥmad Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Mīʻārī, Nimir ‘Abd (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural economics in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 16:46)Table of contents: Agricultural practices in the village. (@ 38:29)Table of contents: Land preparation and planting methods in the village. (@ 58:8)Table of contents: Harvesting operations . (@ 73:25)Table of contents: Rural conditions in Palestinian village during the British rule. (@ 89:1)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile
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Biography: The interview was recorded on May 22, 2004 with Maythah Muḥammad Mūsà, female, born in 1918? in al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī, Palestine.Significant figures: al-Dāwūd, ʻAlī (Teacher); al-Muṣṭafá, Ismāʻīl (Teacher); al-Dakhīl, Shiḥādh (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Maḥmūd (Village leader); al-Muṣṭafá, al-Dāwūd (Leader); al-Aḥmad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Aḥmad, ‘Abdullāh (Village leader); al-Zāʻil, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Mūsá, Maḥmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life and customs in al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī . (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs. (@ 26:55)Table of contents: Cultural life and beliefs . (@ 42:16)Table of contents: Terrorism and expulsion from al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī. (@ 66:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Salīm Khalīl Mūsà, male, born in 1927 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a quarryman.Families: ʻAbbās; Ayyūb; Maṭar; ʻAbdullāh ʻAbd al-Ghanī; Qays; Sirḥān; al-Ḥāj Ḥasan; Dʻaybis.Significant figures: al-‘Abdullāh, Khālid (Leader); ʻUbayd, Shafīq (Teacher); al-Nāṭūr, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); Ghunaym, Rif‘at (Teacher); Abū Naṣrah, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Ḥasan, Khalīl Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá (Martyr); al-Dūkhī, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); ‘Uṭūr, al-‘Abd (Village leader); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Ghazāl, Khālid (Village leader); al-‘Abdullāh, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); al-Muṣṭafá, Maḥmūd (Village leader); al-‘Abdullāh, Khālid (Village leader); al-As‘ad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Biqāʻī, Adīb (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: History of Naḥf . (@ 10:3)Table of contents: Community life and social relations in the village . (@ 24:1)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Naḥf . (@ 38:55)Table of contents: Norms and practices in Naḥf and it's surroundings. (@ 53:8)Table of contents: social conditions and political turmoil before Nakba. (@ 74:35)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاّ مع أبو مازن، ذكر، ولد في فلسطين ويقيم في لبنان.Significant figures: Shuqayr, Asʻad (Shaykh); al-Miʻjil, Khālid (Judge); Layyūm, Ḥusayn (Poet).Table of contents: Palestinian elderly people's tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian conduct of life . (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and songs in Palestine. (@ 21:5)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Muḥammad. (@ 31:43)Table of contents: Folk poetry and marriage customs. (@ 47:0)Table of contents: Folk music. (@ 57:17)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and children's stories. (@ 64:0)Table of contents: Fairy tales . (@ 74:9)Table of contents: Marriage celebration and traditions. (@ 82:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 26, 2005 with Muḥammad Mūsá, male, born in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in Baalbek, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-‘Abd, Saʻīd (Mayor); Sallūm, Khalīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Political conditions at Suḥmātā. (@ 0:22)Table of contents: War events at Suḥmātā and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 22:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 3, 2003 with Mūsá Awaḍ Mūsá, male, born in 1921 in Nimrīn, Palestine. He worked with the British Police Forces.Families: Shak‘ah; Nābulsī; Ṭūqān; Bakr; Khalīfah; Ṭurmān; al-Ḥusaynī; al-Nashāshībī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Jāsir (Police academy).Significant figures: al-Za‘rūrah, Muḥammad (Martyr); Salāmih, Ḥasan (Revolutionary leader); al-Maw‘id, ʻIzz al-Dīn (Policeman); ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn, Muḥammad (Policeman); Kaʻwash, Abū Fayṣal (Policeman); al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad (Landowner); Mūsá, Ḥalīmah (Doctor); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); Abū Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaghīr (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Junayd, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Khalīl, Maḥmūd (Wounded); al-Qāsim, Saʻīd (Wounded); al-Maw‘id, ‘Āṭif (Wounded); Shihādah, Fāyiz (Martyr); Saʻīd, Abū Khālid (Revolutionary); al-Qāsim, Aḥmad (Mayor); ‘Alayyān, Aḥmad (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, Abū al-‘Abd (Resistance fighter); al-Khūrī, Fāris (Prime minister).Table of contents: Childhood and the community of Nimrīn. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: British Police Forces and security conditions. (@ 8:25)Table of contents: Community relations and political turmoil. (@ 18:3)Table of contents: Social customs and political conditions. (@ 24:14)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 36:13)Table of contents: Political opposition and military resistance. (@ 49:7)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 61:33)Table of contents: War events. (@ 77:15)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 88:54)Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 100:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 10, 2003 with Naẓmīyah Ṣāliḥ Mūsá, female, born in 1928? in Suḥmātā, Palestine.Significant figures: Samārah, Shukrī (Doctor); al-ʻAbd, Saʻīd (Mayor); Maʻrūf, Abū Nājī (Mayor).Table of contents: Manners and customs in pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs and customs . (@ 14:8)Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs. (@ 41:19)Table of contents: Community life and social conditions. (@ 55:14)Table of contents: Political conditions and expulsion . (@ 71:22)
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 March 24, 2003 with ‘Īsá Muḥammad Mūsá, male, born in 1920 in Fārah, Palestine.Families: al-As‘ad; al-Ḥāj; Ḥamad; Marmar; al-Ḥusayn.Significant figures: al-Yūsuf, Nāyif (Mayor); Bazzī, ‘Alī (Resistance).Table of contents: Everyday life and customs in Fārah
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rites, celebrations and community relations in Fārah. (@ 14:9)Table of contents: Resistance, revolutionaries and occupation. (@ 28:54)Table of contents: Zionist occupation, settlements and clashes. (@ 42:6)Table of contents: Warfare, violent clashes and immigration. (@ 51:40)Table of contents: Refugee experience and the right of return. (@ 64:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 6, 2006 with Muḥammad Najmī, male, born in 1938 in ʻIbilīn, Palestine and resides in al-Wardānīyah, Lebanon.Families: Nāṣir; Naddāf; al-Shaykh; Najmī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻArūrī (Maqām).Significant figures: Najamī, Ḥusayn (Mayor).Table of contents: Social condiotions and the geography of the village . (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Social-political dynamics in ʻIbilīn and the exodus to Lebanon. (@ 28:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 7, 1997 with Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Nawfal, male, born in 1932 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-ʻAfīfī; Sulaymān; al-Mawāʻidah; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-Saʻdīyah.Significant figures: Ḥallāb, Ḥasan (Teacher); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Shaykh, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Sarīnī, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Agriculture and community life in pre-Nakba Ṣaffurīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion and occupation of Ṣaffurīyah . (@ 16:40)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 27:50)Table of contents: Incidents and refugee social condition in Lebanon. (@ 41:51)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع غزالة عزّية، أنثى، ولدت عام 1926 في صفورية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Story of the ogre and al-Shāṭir Ḥdʻash. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Nuṣṣ Nṣayṣ and the Ogre. (@ 16:42)Table of contents: Popular tales and anecdotes. (@ 24:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Rāḍiyah Nawfal, female, born in 1951 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Weddings and ceremonies. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Songs of love. (@ 16:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 26, 2009 with Muná Muḥammad Naḍr (Umm Maḥmūd), female, born in Saida and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Abū Shaqrah, ‘Āṭif (Martyr); al-Ṭarābulsī, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); Rabāḥ, Ramzī (Political activist); Murād, Abū al-Sa‘īd (Political activist); al-Za‘tarī, Muṣṭafá (Taxi driver); al-Ṭāhir, Zakīyah (Political activist); Bishārah, ‘Āṭif (Political activist); ‘Abbūd, Ghassān (Political activist); Aṣlān, Bilāl (Political activist); Ḥaddād, Iskandar (Lawyer); Āghā, Fu’ād (Shop owner).Table of contents: Israeli invasion and terrorism . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political activity during the Israeli invasion and women's role. (@ 21:14)Table of contents: Women's role in the reconstruction of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp . (@ 42:1)Table of contents: Views on Palestinian women's role . (@ 59:27)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع هدى أبو الدينة، أنثى ولدت في الناصرة، فلسطين.Families: al-ʻInbtāwī, Yāsīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Oil Refinery Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Qassām, Abū Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary leader); al-ʻInbtāwī, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ḥamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor); Khunayfis, Ṣaliḥ (Mayor); Indrāws, Abū Ilyās (Mayor).Table of contents: Wedding traditions and songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding customs
. (@ 9:54)Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 14:26)Table of contents: Harvesting and work . (@ 34:47)Table of contents: Love story. (@ 41:31)Table of contents: Arab revolt. (@ 49:19)Table of contents: Revolutionary songs and social life in Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 59:23)Table of contents: Bedtime stories and the woodcutter story . (@ 69:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 12, 2005 with Bayān Nuwayhiḍ, female, born in 1937, in Jerusalem, Palestine and resides in Beirut, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Kullīyat Dār al-Mu‘allimāt (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: King David Hotel (Hotel); Schmidt school (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: Ṣalāḥ, ‘Abd al-Laṭīf (Lawyer); Balābisah, Ḥayāt (Martyr).Table of contents: Political and cultural history of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil in Jerusalem. (@ 12:44)Table of contents: War events. (@ 23:57)Table of contents: Palestinians in exile. (@ 38:46)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع خديجة عبد العال، أنثى، ولدت في الشيخ داوود، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان. عملت مع جمعية النجدة الاجتماعية.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospitals); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Khalīl (Hospital); Mustashfá Ghassān Hammūd (Hospital).Significant figures: Ḥassūn, Hala (Teacher).Table of contents: Israeli invasion and war events. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli invasion casualties . (@ 14:35)Table of contents: Israeli detention and Palestinian prisoners' treatment. (@ 32:1)Table of contents: Israeli policies during invasion and women's political activity . (@ 51:21)Table of contents: Women's socio-economic role and political activity in the war . (@ 65:0)Table of contents: Organizations and social activism in Palestinian refugee camps. (@ 76:27)Table of contents: Palestinian women activities during the Israeli invasion, 1982. (@ 83:41)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in refugee camps in Lebanon, 1982. (@ 89:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 3, 1998 with Yūsuf Nādir Nādir, male, born in 1924 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon. He worked as a technician with the British Army forces.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Hamer work (Corporation); German school (School); Madrasat al-Jalīl (School); al-Madrasah al-Usqufīyah (School).Significant figures: al-Khaḍrā, Fawzī (School principal); Jarrār, ‘Abd al-Hādī (Teacher); Mazzāwī, Jamīl (Teacher); Salāmah, Ḥannā (Broker); Rustum, Ṭānyus (Jordanian Army officer); Ḥaddād, Tawfīq (Technician).Table of contents: Childhood, education and work before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Work and employment. (@ 31:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 14, 2003 with Bādī‘ah Nāyfah, female, born in Qāqūn, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Na‘ālwah; Fuqahā’; Bahatah; Nāyfah.Significant figures: Nāyfah, Qāsim (Village leader); al-Nāṣir, Shafīqah (Tailor); al-Nāsir, Ᾱminah (Midwife).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and wedding celebrations at Qāqūn. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Community patterns and mechanisms. (@ 25:2)Table of contents: Political dynamics at the village during Zionist attack. (@ 41:43)Table of contents: Political situation and resistance during the Zionist occupation. (@ 57:44)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 87:29)Table of contents: The expulsion and socio-economic conditions in Lebanon. (@ 100:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 26, 2003 with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Nāṣir, male, born in 1928 in Dallātah, Palestine. He worked with the British army.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Lidd Airport (Airport).Significant figures: Ṭāhā, ʻAlī (Village leader); Yūsuf, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Dāhish, Jabir (Shaykh); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥasná, Muḥammad ‘Alī (Wounded); al- Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Social history of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life during the British Mandate. (@ 22:19)Table of contents: The political challenges of the Palestinian resistance. (@ 50:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 16, 1998 with Aḥmad Yūsuf Qaddūrah, male, born in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Biqāʻ, Lebanon.Families: Qaddūrah; al-Madāydī; Mūsá; Fāyiz; al-Jishshī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Būtāgī Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-‘Abd Mūsá, Sa‘īd (Mayor); Qayṣar, Jirjis (Mayor); Qaddūrah, ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Alī, al-‘Abd (Mayor).Table of contents: Agriculture and socio-economic conditions in Suḥmātā . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tobacco industry in Palestine . (@ 9:17)Table of contents: Cultivating and picking Tobacco in Palestine. (@ 37:10)Table of contents: Economic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 45:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Fāṭimah Ibrāhīm Qaddūrah, female, born in 1939 in Suḥmātā, Palestine.Families: Qaddūrah; Ḥamādah; Ḥusayn; Mūsá; ‘Āmir; Mūsá; Sursuq; Kittānah; Salām; al-As‘ad.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Manzūl (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al- Fāhūm Company (Corporation); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Sabalān (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Dīmāsī, Khalīl (Teacher); ‘Abdullāh, Jamīl (Bakery owner); Qaddūrah, ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); Qaddūrah, Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Wounded).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in Suḥmātā . (@ 16:34)Table of contents: Community celebration and customs. (@ 26:12)Table of contents: Political turmoil and social life in Suḥmātā . (@ 33:5)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 45:23)Table of contents: Land, refugees and return. (@ 61:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Laṭīfah Qaddūrah, female, born in 1924 in Suḥmātā, palestine.Families: Mūsá; Ḥusayn; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh Ibrāhīm (Maqām); al-Nabī Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: Qaddūrah, Kāmil ʻAlī (Poet); al-ʻAbd, Sa‘īd (Revolutionary); Sallūm, Khalīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Agricultural life in Suḥmātā . (@ 13:6)Table of contents: Community life during the British rule. (@ 25:23)Table of contents: Communal celebrations and marriage customs. (@ 39:25)Table of contents: Political turmoil and revolution during the British Mandate . (@ 55:25)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 68:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1998 with Maḥmūd Qaddūrah, male, born in 1926 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah. Lebanon. He worked with British police forces then as a shoemaker.Families: Qaddūrah; Mūsa; Murrah; al-Jishshī; ‘Āmir; Barshīr.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Rashīd ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Company (Corporation); Najran Company (Corporation); Singer (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Ṭūqah, Rāshid (Trader); Fu’ād, ʻUthmān (Manager).Table of contents: Agriculture and social conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Professions in Suḥmātā. (@ 10:27)Table of contents: Shoe industry in Suḥmātā. (@ 21:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 05,2003 with Najībah Muḥammad Qaddūrah, female, born in 1923 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She was a dressmaker.Families: Qaddūrah; Ḥusayn; Mūsá.Significant figures: Qaddūrah, Muḥammad (Butcher); ʻAbd al-Qādir, Muḥammad (Butcher); Qaddūrah, Shaykhah (Dressmaker): Qaddūrah, Amīnah (Dressmaker); Qaddūrah, Ḥasnah (Dressmaker); Qaddūrah, Badr (Businessman); Balshī, ʻAbdullāh (Businessman); Murrah, Abū Ḥasan Faḍḍah (Businessman); Ḥusayn, Ḥasan (Businessman); Qaddūrah, Aḥmad Naʻmān (Businessman); Qaddūrah, Muḥammad Ḥusayn (Businessman); Jān, Yūsuf al-Najjār (Circumcisor).Table of contents: Childhood and family in Suḥmātā. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Work life and socio-economic affairs in Suḥmātā. (@ 6:14)Table of contents: Marriage, village life, and customs. (@ 17:37)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 32:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad ‘Alī Qays, male, born in 1933 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAbd al-Ghanī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Rabīʻ (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: Shukrī, Elyas (Village leader); Nakhlah, Jamīl (Village leader).Table of contents: British colonization of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories and education. (@ 10:1)Table of contents: Cultural life and religious beliefs . (@ 19:52)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع ابنها عبدو سعيد غفور، ذكر، ولد في عكا، فلسطين.Families: al-Bayā‘ah; al-Ghandūr; al-Srūjī; al-Sa‘dī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Azhar (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Furqah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Mu‘allaq (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Rūm (Church); Jāmi‘ al-Majādlī (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Qazmūz, Sa‘īd (Prayer caller); Qazmūz, Maḥmūd (Prayer caller).Table of contents: Childhood and wedding customs in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life and landmarks in Akka. (@ 16:27)Table of contents: Akka during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 32:9)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and return visit . (@ 38:8)Table of contents: Attempt at return to Akka. (@ 55:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 16, 2005 with Adīb Qa‘wār, male, born in 1930? in Nazareth, Palestine.Families: Fāhūm; Ḥamad; al-Fāhūm; al-Zu‘bī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Chamber of Commerce (Governmental institution); Kullīyyat al-Ḥuqūq (University).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Freres School (School); Palestine Electric Company Ltd (Corporation); Madrasat al-Maskūbīyah (School); Madarsat al-Maskūbīyah (School); al-Maskūbīyah School (School); American University of Beirut (University).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Bishārah (Church).Significant figures: Qa‘wār, Ṭannūs (Contractor); Ṭannūs, Qa‘wār (Mayor); Bishārah, Salīm (Mayor).Table of contents: History of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 11:27)Table of contents: Religious pluralism and social conditions in Nazareth . (@ 26:30)Table of contents: Political turmoil in Nazareth. (@ 38:5)Table of contents: Zionist occupation . (@ 48:2)Table of contents: City occupation and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 62:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 21, 2004 with Fawzī ʻAlī Qiblāwi, male, born in 1924 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine. He worked in the Department of Agriculture during the British mandate.Families: Sursuq; Qaramān; Dīk; Ṣaltī; al-Ḥāmūlah; al-Khayrāt; Qiblāwī; al-Fallāḥīn.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Tarshīḥā (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Sharikat Bāṣāt Tarshīḥā (Corporation); Ata (Corporation).Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Hādī, Jamīl (Public officer); Ḥabīb, Karam (Teacher); Qubruṣī, Khalīl (Teacher); Qamar, Ṣāḍiq (School principal); al-Jarrāḥ, Abū Khālid (Public offer); Ᾱghā, Taqī al-Dīn (Mayor); Qiblāwī, ʻAlī Abū ʻĪsá (Municipality council); Haydar, Maḥmūd Naṣr (Revolutionary leader); Ᾱghā, Fawzī (Revolutionary leader); Milḥim, Maḥmūd Rashīd (Revolutionary); Shaṭārah, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Ᾱghā, Muḥammad Kamāl Saʻīd (Revolutionary leader); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); ʻUmar, Fāyiz (Martyr); Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); ʻAbd al-Hādī, ʻAwnī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood memories and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions during the British rule. (@ 17:53)Table of contents: Agricultural life in Tarshīḥā. (@ 40:15)Table of contents: Social conditions in Tarshīḥā. (@ 48:42)Table of contents: Acquisition of land in Palestine. (@ 74:23)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 79:49)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 92:24)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā to Lebanon. (@ 100:46)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع زوجته أم أحمد، أنثى، ولدت في فلسطين. عملت في الأونروا.Families: Twaynī; Bayḍūn; Salām, Sursuq; Quwaṭlī.Significant figures: Qaṭāyā, Abū Mūṣṭafá (Port manager); al-Nāṭūr, Abū Asʻad (Trader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Darwīsh ʻAwaḍ, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Dūkhī, Ṣālih (Martyr); al-Ṭarābulsī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Mughrabī, Salīm (Martyr); Shatāt, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥafīz al-Ḥusayn, Abū Maḥmūd ʻAbd (Martyr); ʻAwaḍ, Darwīsh (Mayor); al-Shaʻʻār, ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); Jamjūm, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Zīf, ʻAṭá (Martyr); Ḥijāzī, Fūʾād (Martyr); al-ʻAbd ʻAwaḍ, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and cultural life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: British mandate and relations with Jews. (@ 10:21)Table of contents: Battles and British injustice . (@ 25:58)Table of contents: Post-1936 revolt and continued political efforts in al-Zīb. (@ 40:30)Table of contents: Al-Zīb Battle and explusion. (@ 52:54)Table of contents: Exile and recollection of Palestine. (@ 62:5)Table of contents: Expulsion and hardships. (@ 70:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2003 with Nadá ‘Abd al-Qādir Qudsī, female, born in Haifa, Palestine.Families: Jāmūs; Shiblāq.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir Abū al-ʻAbbās (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Barham, Aḥmad Srūr (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Community life in Haifa . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: British harassment of Palestinians and expulsion. (@ 12:59)Table of contents: Expulsion from Haifa and hardships. (@ 28:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 11, 2012 with Āminah Muḥammad Qundus, female, born in 1931? in al-Zīb, Palestine.Families: al-Afandī; ‘Aṭāyā; Qiblāwī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Īsá, Ḥasan (Martyr); Qundus, Khalīl (Martyr); ‘Abdū, Aḥmad (Wounded); al-Rā‘ī, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Ṣaqlāwī (Fisherman); Bas‘ad, ‘Alī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, and eveyday life during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in the village. (@ 16:31)Table of contents: Political clashes during the British Mandate. (@ 28:25)Table of contents: Interreligious relations and military attacks . (@ 37:17)Table of contents: Violence, resistance during the Zionist colonization. (@ 47:41)Table of contents: Economic conditions in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 62:42)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 84:10)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع ابنتها آمنة محمد قاسم، أنثى، ولدت في لبنان وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and suffering through expulsion and Israeli invasion . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Evacuation and demolition of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah. (@ 28:58)Table of contents: Political conditions during the Israeli invasion of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah . (@ 35:12)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions during the Israeli invasion and house reconstruction. (@ 40:38)Table of contents: Women's role during the Israeli invasion . (@ 63:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 14, 2004 with Kāmil Bishārah Qusṭandī, male, born in 1925 in Jaffa, Palestine. He was as a presenter in Idhāʻat al-Sharq al-Adná during the British Mandate.Families: Barakāt; al-Sharīf.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Cliff Hotel (Hotel); Schneller (School); Orthodox school (School); Freres School (School); Bishop Gobat School (School); Continental Hotel (Hotel); Intra Bank (Bank); al-Sharikah al-Lubnānīyah liltasjīlāt al-Fanīyah (Corporation); Sharikat al-Itiḥād al-Fannī (Corporation); Sharikat Studio Baalbek (Corporation); al-Mustashfá al-Faransī (Hospital); Orthodox church (Church).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Rubīn (Maqām).Significant figures: Dīb, Kāmil (School principal); al-Ḥūt, Maḥmūd (Poet); al-Rabīʻ, Diāb (Poet); al-Baḥrī, Yūnus (Presenter)); al-Ghuṣayn, Muḥammad (Technician); al-Sharīf, Ṣabrī (Technician); al-Sharīf, Samīḥ (Accountant); Jarrār, Aḥmad ( School principal); Dawūd, Sāmī (Presenter); Yūsuf, ʻAbd al-Wahāb (Presenter); Yūsuf, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Presenter); Būlus, Badīʻ (Businessman); Nāsir, Mūsá (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 16:37)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 41:38)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 54:52)Table of contents: Refugee life . (@ 68:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 23, 2005 with Fāṭimah Maḥmūd Qāsim, female, born in al-Jish, Palestine and resides in al-Fawwār, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ṭālib, Muḥammad (Teacher); Shāhīn, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Social life and religious pluralism at al-Jish community. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Political dynamics at al-Jish during the Zionist occupation. (@ 15:27)Table of contents: War crimes and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 27:6)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع ساجدة قاسم، أنثى، ولدت وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Sha‘ab (Court).Significant figures: al-Ḥanafī, Abū Bilāl (Leader).Table of contents: Israeli invasion, demolition of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah, and arrest. (@ 4:38)Table of contents: Women's role during the Israeli invasion and social welfare . (@ 28:5)Table of contents: Women's role in the reconstruction of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp and socio-political conditions. (@ 54:58)Table of contents: Women in armed conflicts and gender role . (@ 79:6)Table of contents: Living conditions and resistance during the Israeli invasion. (@ 93:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 9, 1998 with Qāsim Sa‘īd Qāsim,male, born in 1928 in Khirbat Jālīn, Palestine and resides in al-Burghulīyah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Nāyif (Mayor).Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life in Khirbat Jālīn. (@ 16:59)Table of contents: Bedouin houses practices. (@ 22:39)Table of contents: Tribal community customs. (@ 41:46)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics during british rule and Zionist invasion. (@ 60:14)Table of contents: Tribal society in Palestine. (@ 68:1)
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: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع صالح الصالح، انثى، ولدت عام 1926 في السميرية، فلسطين وتقيم في صيدا، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Marriage celebrations. (@ 10:44)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and tales of love. (@ 31:18)Table of contents: Wedding folk songs. (@ 45:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 2, 1989 with Zahrah Salīm Rabāḥ, female, born in 1924 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Shu‘ayb (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Badawī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Poet).Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village . (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Community life during the British Mandate. (@ 12:25)Table of contents: Political conditions before Nakbah. (@ 20:34)Table of contents: Community life in Ḥiṭṭīn. (@ 30:41)Table of contents: Social life and customs in the village. (@ 44:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded with S‘ayyid Muḥammad Rasāṭmah, male, born in Jazāyir al-Ḥindāj, Palestine.Significant figures: S‘ayyid, Mas‘ūd al-Miḥsin (Mayor); al-Ḥāj Ḥusayn, Mūsá (Village leader); S‘ayyid, Miḥsin (Martyr); al-Ṣāliḥ, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Ḍāhir, Salīm (Resistance fighter); Gharībih, Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn (Resistance leader); al-Atāsī, Fatḥī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ja‘far, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); ‘Ammār, ‘Alī (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Armed clashes between Bedouins and the Zionists . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 24:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 15, 2004 with Sa‘īd Raḍwān, male, born in 1918 in al-Ruwayyis, Palestine.Families: Abū al-Hayjā'.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū al-Hayjā' (Maqām).Significant figures: Ṣubuḥ, Sa‘īd (Shaykh); Ḥbayshī, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Trader); al-Rashīd, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Ismāʻīl, Qāsim (Broker); al-Idrīs, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Idrīs, ‘Alī (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Amīn, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Shuqayr, Sa‘īd al-ʻAbd (Revolutionary); Flayyiḥ, Rashīd (Officer).Table of contents: Social history of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and political conditions in al-Ruwayyis. (@ 19:29)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance and battles during the Zionist occupation . (@ 32:56)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 51:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 5, 2004 with Aḥmad Jabr Rifāʻī, male, born in 1931 in Firʻim, Palestine.Significant figures: ‘Izz al-Dīn, Kāmil (School principal); ‘Uthmān, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Political conditions and community life in Pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist terrorism and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 22:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 12, 1999 with Ibrāhīm Yūsuf Rinnū, male, born in 1926 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Tripoli, Lebanon. He was a fisherman.Families: Abū Zayd, Rinnū; al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm; al-Ḥāj Khalīl; al-Bāshā; al-Ḥāj Sālim; Ḥishmī; Abū Hawwāsh.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Palestine Electric Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell Palestine (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Nāṣirī, Abū ‘Alī (Martyr); Rinnū, Kāmil (Leader); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Ṭāhā (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and Zionist terrorism . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Haifa. (@ 11:19)Table of contents: Socio-economic life and expulsion. (@ 40:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 7, 1997 with Maḥmūd Rinnū, male, born in 1922 in Haifa, Palestine. He was a fisherman in Haifa port.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Burj (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).Significant figures: Qaṣād, Kāmil (Principal); Nāyif, Aḥmad (Military officer); Farḥāt, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Srūr (Resistance leader); Ṣafwat, Ismāʻīl (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ibrāhīm, Surūr (Martyr); Qazmūz, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Martyr); Rinnū, Aḥmad Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Rinnū, Maḥmūd Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Political life under the British Mandate of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and settler colonialism in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 17:28)Table of contents: Expulsion from Haifa and hope of return. (@ 37:7)Table of contents: War events and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 49:39)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 65:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 20, 2004 with Lāfī Fāris Ruḥaymah, male, born in 1929 in al-Harrāwī, Palestine.Families: al-Naḥawī; al-Khaḍrā; al-Mīzārī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Keren Kayemeth (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Jishshī (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Ḥmaydī, ʻAlī (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood, social life, and tribal customs. (@ 0:08)Table of contents: War events and Zionist occupation. (@ 27:40)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 34:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 25, 2003 with Maryam Sulaymān Ruḥayyil, female, born in al-Manṣurah, Palestine.Families: al-Maḥmūd.Significant figures: Abū ʻĪd, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Maḥmūd, Nimir (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood and socio-economic life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life at al-Manṣūrah. (@ 17:36)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and suffering. (@ 30:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 29, 2003 with Yūsuf Aḥmad Salamūn, male,born in 1913? in Suḥmātā, Palestine.Families: al-Jishshī; Qaddūrah; Mūsá; Ḥusayn; Mahmūd; Ḥamādah; Murrah; al-Jishshiī; ‘Azzām; ‘Asqūl.Significant figures: Nāfi‘, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); Qassīs, Khalīl (Pharmacist); Qaddūrah, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Martyr); ‘Abbūd, Khalīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Suḥmātā. (@ 14:11)Table of contents: Families and land in the village. (@ 31:0)Table of contents: Community celebrations, customs and traditions. (@ 43:31)Table of contents: War and battles. (@ 54:54)Table of contents: The Zionist occupation and expulsion . (@ 73:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 21, 1996 with Aḥmad Sallūmmah, male, Born in 1961 from Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Childhood life of Prophet Muḥammad and dawn of prophethood. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Beginning of islamic missionary and torture of muslim believers. (@ 29:49)Table of contents: Islamic missionary and the miracle of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʻrāj . (@ 55:28)Table of contents: Immigration of Prophet Muḥammad and muslims to Medina. (@ 84:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 29, 2006 with Ṣubḥiyyah Salāmah, female, born in al-Ẓāhirīyah, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Kwayyis (Maqām).Significant figures: Yūnus, Abū Kāmil (Wounded); Yūnus, Jabir (Wounded); Shāhῑn, Sa‘īd (Martyr); Salāmah, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Qaddūrah, Qaddūrah (Martyr); Salāmah, Nazhah (Martyr); Salāmah, Rīmī (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and political dynamics in al-Ẓāhirīyah . (@ 0:05)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and the expulsion from al-Ẓāhirīyah . (@ 20:45)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 3, 2004 with Fāṭimah Salīm, female, born in 1934? in ʻArrābah, Palestine.Families: Yāsīn; al-Kanāʻinah.Significant figures: Abū Durrah, Yūsuf (Revolutionary leader); al-Salīm, Fawzī (Mayor); al-Yāsīn, Tawfīq (Mayor); al-Aḥmad, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Kharbūsh, Nimir (Village leader); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics ʻArrābah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 15:56)Table of contents: ʻArrābah during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 44:12)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 48:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded in March 31, 2006 with Fāṭimah ʻAli Salīm, female, born in al-Mazraʻah, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Sayyid; Kāmil.Significant figures: Ya‘qūb, Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-cultural conditions in al- Mazra‘áh . (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Political conditions during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 26:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 22, 2005 with Yūsuf Muḥammad Salīm, male, born in 1933 in Nimrīn, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ibrāhīm, Sa‘īd (Village leader); al-‘Alī, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); Bnayyān, Mifliḥ (Martyr).Table of contents: Social dynamics and economic sectors in the village. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 23:53)
Biography: Thie interview was recorded on June 17, 2006 with Zakīyah Salīm, female, born in 1929 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al-ʻArīḍ; ʻAbd al-ʻĀl; Twaynῑ; Sursuq.Significant figures: ‘Arabī, Maryam (Hairdresser); Salῑm, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Ḥmayyid, Qāsim (Poet); Salāmah, Mūsà (Poet); Farfaḥῑnῑ, Dīb (Poet); al-Rā‘ī, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic conditions at Umm al-Faraj during the British Mandate . (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Characteristics of Umm al-Faraj society during the British Mandate . (@ 25:15)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Umm al-Faraj and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 52:25)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع حسنة علي في تشرين الثاني يناير عام 1995، أنثى، ولدت عام 1913 في مجد الكروم، فلسطين وتقيم في الطريق الجديدة، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 29:15)Table of contents: Folk songs and poetry. (@ 58:10)Table of contents: Children's lullabies and Islamic Ruqyah . (@ 72:44)
Biography: The interview was also recorded witih Ibtihāj al-Daqqāq, female, born in 1936 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Hādī (Maqām); al-Mujāhid (Maqām); Shīḥah (Maqām); al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām); al-Bayyāḍ (Maqām).Table of contents: Folk and harvesting songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs and social customs. (@ 6:44)Table of contents: Popular songs and Palestinian monuments . (@ 35:33)Table of contents: Story of Jbaynah. (@ 53:58)Table of contents: Grandfather and the jinn and children's songs. (@ 58:39)Table of contents: Wedding songs and customs. (@ 64:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Maḥmūd Sarrīs, male, born in Majd al-Kurūm, Palestine.Families: Minnā'; Khalāyil; Kanʻān; Sirḥān.Significant figures: al-Maḥbūb, Salīm (Landowner); Salīm , Muḥammad (Mayor); Sirḥān, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Salīm (Mayor); Kinʻān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Economic conditions before Nakba. (@ 18:42)Table of contents: Rural economy and country life in Palestine before 1948. (@ 37:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Ṭāhā Saʻd, female and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Two short stories. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Sacrifice in social relations. (@ 8:18)Table of contents: Dignity in literature. (@ 16:37)Table of contents: The king and his son in law . (@ 26:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Tāhā Saʻd, female and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of a king and his daughter. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Short Arabic stories. (@ 11:28)Table of contents: Moral stories. (@ 21:42)Table of contents: Cunning and guile in Arabic short stories. (@ 34:34)
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 July 5, 2004 with Pauline Saʻīd, female, born in 1928 in Jaffa, Palestine and resides in Hamra, Lebanon. She was a teacher.Families: al-Nashāshībī; al-Ḥusaynī; Abū Ghūsh; Maria; Alonso; al-Bayrūtī; Ṣabbāghah; Dabbās; Lātīn; Gharghūr; al-Ḥumṣī; ʻAbd al-Nūr; Dajānī; al-Ḥāj ʻAlī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat Rāhibāt Ṣahyūn (School); Madrasat Rāhibāt Mār Yūsuf (School); Church Missionary Society (School); Orthodox School (School); Frères (School); Madrasat Rāhibāt al-Ṭilyān (School); Madrasat Rāhibāt al-Nāṣirah (School); Ottoman Bank (Bank); Barclays Bank (Bank); Englander (Clothes shop).Significant figures: Dajānī, Saʻīd (Doctor); Saʻīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Gharghūr, Līlah (Wounded).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and cultural life . (@ 0:23)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and cultural life in Jaffa. (@ 28:25)Table of contents: Political and socio-economic conditions. (@ 42:28)Table of contents: Battles and expulsion from Jaffa. (@ 61:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ʻAlī Dāwūd Saʻīd, male, born in 1941 in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Abū Ṭāhā, Nimir As‘ad (Village leader); al-Idlibī, Aḥmad (Governor); ‘Ashshām, Sa‘īd (Resistance fighter); ‘Ashshām, Aḥmad Muṣṭafá (Resistance fighter); al-Jūdī, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Violence, battles and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 8:55)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 23:7)Table of contents: Marriage celebrations in rural community. (@ 41:2)
Biography: الشمالي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shahābīyah.Significant figures: Maḥmūd, ‘Alī Yāsīn (Teacher); al-Blīlānī, Muṣṭafá ʻĪsá (Teacher); al-Maṣrī, Qāsim Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Zaghmūṭ, Yūsuf Kāmil (School principal).Table of contents: Agriculture and economic conditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 10:11)Table of contents: Political clashes, attacks and resistance. (@ 21:41)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 36:29)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 60:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on Janary 2, 2003 with ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Sa‘d al-Dīn, male, born on 1915 in al-Zīb, Palestine.Families: Sa‘ad al-Dīn; Abū Khālid; al-Mafādī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sa‘d al-Dīn al-Jībāwī (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Dāwūd, Ḥusayn (Village leader); Ḥaddād, Fu'ād (Doctor); al-Sa‘dī, Muṣṭafá (Landowner); al-Sa‘dī, ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ (Landowner); Kīwān, Ḥasan (Auto mechanic); al-Maw‘ad, Ḥasan (Auto mechanic); ʻAbd al-Ḥafīẓ, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance fighter); Sāmbū, Ḥasan (Driver); al-Sa‘dī, Muṣṭafá (Buses owner).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics at al-Zīb. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social events and economic prosperity at al-Zīb . (@ 21:34)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions at al-Zīb . (@ 41:22)Table of contents: Political activities during the British rule . (@ 58:20)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع فاطمة علي سعد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1919 في نحف، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: The Beauty story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 14:35)Table of contents: Story of Two Friends and the king. (@ 25:8)Table of contents: Two popular stories. (@ 39:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 12, 1997 with Ṣāliḥa Maḥmūd Sa‘d, female, born in 1912 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Love story of passed times. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ghoul story and fable. (@ 9:5)Table of contents: Green Bird story and other stories. (@ 25:3)Table of contents: Real story. (@ 40:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2003 with Ᾱminah Yāsīn Sa‘d, female, born in al-Jish, Palestine.Families: al-Khalāylī; al-Zayādnī; Ayyūb; Saʻd; Zaydān; Fahdah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Nabī Sabalān (Maqām); al-ʻAjamī (Maqām).Significant figures: Ayyūb, Salīm ʻAlī (Mayor); Jubrān, Samʻān (Mayor); Ḥulayḥil, Aḥmad (Reporter); Jadīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Nāṣir, Aḥmad (Poet); al-Nāṣir, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥūrān, Maḥmūd Ḥusayn (Martyr); Fayyūm, Salīm (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Najīyah (Martyr); Sirḥān, Faṭṭumah (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic Life in al-Jish . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Religious places, practices, and social life in al-Jish . (@ 8:24)Table of contents: Political Dynamics in al-Jish . (@ 28:1)Table of contents: Events that led to the expulsion from al-Jish. (@ 33:50)Table of contents: Final reflections on expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 59:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥusun Sa‘īd, female, born in Khirbat Saʻsaʻ, Palestine.Families: ‘Azzām; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Sa‘īd, Maḥmūd (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:35)Table of contents: Village destruction and exile. (@ 13:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Aḥmad Muṣṭafà Shabāyṭah, male, born in 1912 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine and resides in ʼAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shabāyṭah; Azzām; al-Imām; Rabāḥ; Qīyyam; Sursuq; Ramaḍān; Twaynī; al-Lawābinah.Significant figures: Azzām, Mufaḍḍī (Trader); Azzām, Azzām (Trader); Shaʻbān, Muḥammad (Trader); al-Būlīṣ, Khalīl (Doctor); al-Saʻīd, Diyāb (Poet); al-Badawī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); Shabāyṭah, Mūsá (Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd al-ʻAbd (Mayor); Azzām, Abū Rāmī,(Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Resisatnce leader); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd ʻAbd al-Qādir (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Resistance fighter); al-Imām, Ḥāmid (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood difficulties and education. (@ 0:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn
. (@ 8:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 27:23)Table of contents: Political conditions and Palestinian resistance. (@ 38:21)Table of contents: Expulsion and hardships of exile . (@ 63:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 19, 2003 with Waḍḥah Shabāyṭah, female, born in 1935? in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); Abū Rāḍī, ʻAzzām (Trader); al-Yāsīn, Muḥammad (Trader); Abū Khalīl, Zahrah (Midwife); al-Qāsim, Aḥmad (Mayor); ‘Azzām, Aḥmad Abū Rāḍī (Mayor); al-Rabāḥ, Ismā‘īl (Mayor); al-Daqah, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Yūsuf, Muḥammad (Martyr); Zurayq, Naʻīm (Martyr); Naḥmānī, Yūsuf (Land broker).Table of contents: Childhood in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and farming practices in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 9:11)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life. (@ 23:23)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 48:45)Table of contents: Ḥiṭṭīn during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 58:50)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and expulsion. (@ 67:19)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 94:8)