Biography: The interview was recorded on October 24, 2004 with Sa‘dah Ṣāliḥ Abū Ḥannā, female, born in 1926? in al-Raynah, Palestine.Families: al-Dabdūb; al-Ḥuways; al-ʻArrām; al-Kalash; Sillāwī; Abū Ḥannā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Catholic School (School); Orphanage School (School); Schneller School (School); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Rūm (Church); Abū Shūshah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥāṭūm, Kāmilah (Teacher).Table of contents: Childhood and hardships. (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Cultural and social life . (@ 11:18)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 22:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 17, 2003 with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Abū Ḥassān, male, born in 1931 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sayyid; Wihbah; Balʻūs; Abū Ḥassān; Khalīl; Abū al-Shabāb; al-Saʻīd; Azzām; Yassīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sittī Nafīsah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥusaynī, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Teacher); Bashīr, ‘Ādil (Teacher); Bal‘ūs, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Landowner); ‘Ayzak, Abū Ibrāhīm Zaydān (Mayor); al-Shawīsh, Muḥammad (Wounded); Wākid, Abdū (Vehicle driver); Azzām, Fahd (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and socio-economic life in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 12:49)Table of contents: Agriculture and economic measures. (@ 23:39)Table of contents: Families and land in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 38:27)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations and marriage customs. (@ 43:16)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 53:2)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 61:47)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Sa'sa'. (@ 90:28)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 97:59)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 114:58)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 130:3)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 146:7)Table of contents: Return to Palestine. (@ 160:35)
Biography: سعسع، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم برج البراجنة للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Whayyib (Maqām).Table of contents: Marriage and wedding customs and traditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs. (@ 21:51)Table of contents: Story of Shammah and Zahr al-Bān. (@ 29:0)Table of contents: Beliefs and doubts in Palestinian stories. (@ 49:2)Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine and story of Banū Hilāl . (@ 62:5)Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 73:40)Table of contents: Story of al-Zīr . (@ 87:15)Table of contents: Palestinian folk and wedding songs. (@ 113:9)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs . (@ 138:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ʻAbdullāh Abū Ṣahyūn on February 23, 2003, male, born in 1932 in Akka, Palestine.Table of contents: Childhood memories and education in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and Zionist invasion. (@ 8:27)Table of contents: Zionist invasion, imprisonment, and expulsion. (@ 20:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 24, 2003 with ‘Abdullāh Ḥamīd Abū Ṣahyūn, male, born in 1931 in Akka, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Palestine Electric Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Ḥannā, George (Teacher); al-Naḥawī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Abū Ṣahyūn, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Mayor); ‘Aṣfūr, Ḥannā (Lawyer); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); al-Khāzin, Adīb (Doctor); al-Lūwaysī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Abū ‘Arqūb, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Khraybī, Rajā (Resistance fighter); al-Ṣīdānī, Tawfīq (Prisoner); al-Zīdānī, ‘Abd al-Majīd (Prisoner).Table of contents: Family history and tracing thieves . (@ 0:29)Table of contents: Economic conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 12:2)Table of contents: Land tenure,Tribes and tribal system. (@ 25:59)Table of contents: Tribal community characteristics. (@ 33:12)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity . (@ 46:57)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine after Nakbah. (@ 54:52)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 66:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 2003 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Abū ‘Adas, male, born in 1924 in al-Mujaydil, Palestine. He worked with the Police during the British Mandate.Families: Sursuq; al-Lawābinah; Abū Khamīs; Wākid; Maṣāl; Sūṭarī; al-Khūrī; al-Buṭruṣ; Ṣalībā; Abū Dāwūd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Mujaydil (School); Ramat David (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū ʻAdas, Maḥmūd (Prisoner); Sūṭarī, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Sulaymān, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-Ghāzī, Muṭlaq Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Aḥmad, Tawfīq (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); Kassāb, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Martyr); ʻĪsá, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sulaymān, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Badīʻ, Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū ʻAzārah, Nāyif (Martyr); Samārah, Yūsuf (Martyr); Dabbūr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-ʻAbd, Dīb Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Mbadā, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Professions and employment . (@ 21:25)Table of contents: Political activity during the British rule. (@ 30:25)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in Palestine. (@ 42:55)Table of contents: Zionist attacks and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 67:38)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 89:22)Table of contents: Final reflections. (@ 111:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded in April 7, 2006 with Salīmah Abū ‘Assāf, female, born in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al- Aswad; Ḥajῑr; Abū Dāhish; Abū al-Durrah; Kaʻwash; Khuwaytar; Zamzam; Abu Manhal; Darrāz; al-ʻArīḍ; Yazbik; al-Jamal.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Burj (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Hindῑ (School); Madrasat al-Sibā‘ῑ (School).Significant figures: Abū ‘Assāf, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Abū ‘Assāf, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Resistance fighter); al-Durrah, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻAsfūr, Ḥannā (Lawyer).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in Haifa during the British Mandate . (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Political dynamics during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 20:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 22, 2004 with Ḥusayn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm Abū ‘Ayyāsh, male, born in 1921 in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine.Families: Abū Rās; ʻAwaḍ Allāh; Abū Juwayyid; ʻAbbūd.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Lūṭ (Maqam).Significant figures: al-Aḥmad, Ḥasan al-Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Ṣaltī, Nāyif (Revolutionary leader); al-Sulaymān, ʻAwaḍ (Revolutionary leader); ʻAbd al-Khalīl, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ṭāhā (Martyr); al-ʻᾹmūd, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Saʻīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); ʻAbd al-ʻAlī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, Salīm Muḥammad (Disappeared person); al-‘Awdah, ‘Alī (Disappeared person); al-‘Alī, ‘Awaḍ (Disappeared person).Table of contents: Childhood life at ʻAylūṭ. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 7:38)Table of contents: British colonialism and political life. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: Battles and Palestinian mass murder . (@ 41:45)Table of contents: Expulsion from ʻAylūṭ during 1948
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Biography: The interview was recorded on November 7, 2004 with ‘Alyā Michael Ajwaḥ, female, born in 1930 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in Ḍbayyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bannā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Chatholic School (School).Significant figures: al-Rayyīs, Bishārah (Mayor); Jadʻūn, Najlā (Martyr); al-Shuwayrī, Salīm (Martyr); al-Ḥāṣbānī, Jiryis (Survivor).Table of contents: Social life in al-Baṣṣah . (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 25:6)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 34:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded in March 24, 2006 with Maryam Maḥmūd Asʻad, female, born in Fārah, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Ṣāliḥ; Khalīl; Maḥmūd; al-As‘ad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Nāyif (Mayor); al-Maḥmūd, ‘Abdullāh (Coffeehouse owner).Table of contents: Social life and events practices in Fārah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in Fārah during the Zionist occupation and expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 23:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on with Umm Muḥammad Asʻad, female, born in Shaʻb, Palestine.Table of contents: Palestinians' call for Arab leaders. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Salutations to Family relations. (@ 12:3)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع حسين محمد حسن، ذكر، ولد عام 1947 في صفد، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Real story . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 12:38)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 31:59)Table of contents: Ethics an moral. (@ 48:58)