Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع رجاء موسى شبايطة، أنثى، ولدت وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Ma‘mal Ṣafā (Factory); Maʻmal Ṣafā (Factory); Ma ʻmal Ṣafā (Factory); Madrasat Ḥiṭṭīn (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-al-Ṣafṣāf (Mosque).Significant figures: Daḥābirah, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: War events in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, 1982. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli occupation and resistance. (@ 23:37)Table of contents: Palestinian women resistance during the Israeli occupation, 1982. (@ 34:46)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance . (@ 46:32)Table of contents: Return to ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 64:5)Table of contents: Women's role in peace and war. (@ 86:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 6, 1997 with Laylá Shalṭaf, female, born in 1940 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Bshāmūn, Lebanon.Families: Ṭannūs; Faraḥ; Ghandūr.Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 15:14)Table of contents: Humanitarian conditions of refugees. (@ 23:52)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 35:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Marie Shammās, female, born in 1927 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine.Families: al-Khūrī; Khalīl; Shammās; al-Bannā; Būlus; al-Shammās.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).Significant figures: Diāb, Salīm ʻAṭallāh (School principal); Khūrī, Saʻdah (Teacher); al-Khūrī, Salīm (Mayor); Ballūṭ, ‘Aql (Barber); al-Ḍāhir, Yūsuf Yunān (Revolutionary); al-Jubrān, Tawfīq (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life in al-Baṣṣah . (@ 13:42)Table of contents: al-Baṣṣah during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 31:17)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 43:15)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Baṣṣah . (@ 52:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 11, 2003 with Ismāʻīl ʻAbd al-Qādir Shammūṭ, male, born in 1930 in al-Lidd, Palestine. He was an artist.Families: Shammūṭ.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Lidd al-’Ibtidā’īyah (School); Maṭār al-Lidd (Airport).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Ṣālih (Maqām); al-Nabī Rūbīn (Maqām); Saint George Church (Church); Bi’r al-Za’baq (Maqām).Significant figures: Ẓalātīnū, Dāwūd (Teacher); al-Ḥusaynī, Shawqī (Artist); Ṣaqr, Ḥāfiẓ (Revolutionary); Ṣaqr, Ḥāfiẓ (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, family origin and political conditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural life and education . (@ 11:34)Table of contents: Early life and art education . (@ 28:51)Table of contents: Jordanian army withdrawal and expulsion from al-Lidd. (@ 52:40)Table of contents: Expulsion and suffering. (@ 72:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 2, 2003 with Ḥusayn Shams, male, born in 1937 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine.Families: Karrūm; Faraj; Shams; al-‘Āṣī; Ḥusayn.Significant figures: al-Dimāsī, Khalīl (Teacher).Table of contents: Customs and community life in Farrādīyah
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socioeconomic and political conditions in Farrādīyah. (@ 15:50)Table of contents: Society and medical practices. (@ 24:11)Table of contents: Political turmoil and forced departure . (@ 29:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Ḥusayn Shams, male, born in 1934 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥusayn; Karrūm; Sārah; Shams; Ghunaym; Abū Shākir.Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Aḥmad (Village leader); Abū Dayyā, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); ‘Uṭūr, Ibrāhīm (Wonded); Ghunaym, ‘Abdullāh (Wounded); Karrūm, Tawfīq al-Mūsa (Martyr); al-Khālid, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr).Table of contents: Socioe-conomic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and forced departure. (@ 19:45)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 32:39)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 43:42)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 57:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 27, 2003 with Amīnah Ḥusayn Shamālī, female, born in ʻArab al-Zubayd, Palestine.Significant figures: Yūsuf, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Kibrah, Maḥmūd (Construction worker); al-Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Landowner); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Ṭayyib, Fāyiz (Mayor); Sa‘īd , Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Muṣṭafá, ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); al-Khūrī , Shiḥādah (Trader); Ṭayyib, Fāyiz (Martyr); Dīb, Ṣubḥī (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in al-ʻAlmānīyah. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Social and cultural conditions in the village. (@ 22:6)Table of contents: Health conditions in the village. (@ 50:30)Table of contents: Political dynamics during the British rule. (@ 62:54)Table of contents: War events and the evacuation. (@ 76:55)Table of contents: Forced migration and refugees . (@ 92:30)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 106:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 2, 2006 with ‘Ā’ishah Shanāʻah, female, born in Ṭayṭabā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Shanāʻah; al-Rifāʻī.Significant figures: al-Rifāʻī, Khālid Ḥusayn (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic life in Ṭayṭabā during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions in Ṭayṭabā during the Zionist occupation. (@ 14:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 7, 2004 with Faḍil Maḥmūd Shanā‘ah, male, born in 1930 in Ṭayṭabā, Palestine.Families: al-Kūkū; al-Shanāʻah; Saʻdah; Rifāʻīyah; Dahshah.Significant figures: al-Rifāʻī, ʻAlī (Poet).Table of contents: Childhood and family history . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life in Ṭayṭabā. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine to Lebanon. (@ 35:33)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع إبراهيم حسن أبو ثريا، ذكر، ولد عام 1939 في قلنديا، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-‘Arabīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Juraynī (Mosque); al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); al-Zāwiyah al-Shādhilīyah (Mosque).Significant figures: Ṭāhā, Khalīl Muḥammad (Leader); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); Salām, Farḥān (Poet); al-Jazzār, ‘Abdullāh (Shaykh); al-Shādhilī, ‘Alī (Shaykh); Ḥijāzī, Muḥammad (Circumcisor); al-Shalabī, Abū Ḥasan (Circumcisor).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Buwayzīyah. (@ 11:21)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 27:36)Table of contents: Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions. (@ 35:34)Table of contents: Community and family life in Palestine pre-Nakbah. (@ 44:6)Table of contents: Folk traditions in Akka. (@ 53:9)Table of contents: Ceremonies and celebrations. (@ 68:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Shaḥādah Jumʻah Shatlah on September 25, 2003, male, born in 1923 in al-Buwayzīyah, Palestine.Families: al-Ṭabarī.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Kīlānī (Maqām); al-Ḥusayn, Abū Khalīl Muḥammad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood and education . (@ 0:30)Table of contents: Religious beliefs and community life at al-Buwayzīyah . (@ 22:36)Table of contents: Cultural life and customs at al-Buwayzīyah . (@ 40:23)Table of contents: Political conditions and revolution support . (@ 56:23)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of al-Buwayzīyah . (@ 77:39)Table of contents: Expulsion and treason . (@ 93:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Shiḥādah Jum‘ah Shatlah, male, born in 1923 in al-Buwayzīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a tribe leader.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Rasūl (Maqām).Significant figures: al-‘Alī, Shiḥādah (Shaykh); al-Luwasī, Ḥasan (Shaykh); al-Shāʻir, ʻAbdullāh (Resistance leader); Rabīʻ, Abū Fawzī (Resistance leader); Yāsīn, Abū ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Ḥūrānī, Akram (Leader); Suwaydān, Khalīl (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Buwayzīyah . (@ 13:47)Table of contents: Community customs and traditions. (@ 31:26)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries, and military activity. (@ 42:7)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 57:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 9, 2003 with Yūnus Maḥmūd Shaʻbān, male, born in 1924 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine. He was a policeman with the British Police Forces.Families: al-Fahhūm.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Munṭār (Maqām); al-Nabī Shu‘ayb (Maqām).Significant figures: Bolam, Simon (Policeman); Bellin, Ram (Policeman); Mughrabī, Abū ʻĀṭif (Revolutionary); Zaʻrūrah, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); al-Aṣbaḥ, Abū al-‘Abd (Revolutionary); Za‘rūrah, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Hind, Salīm (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Mayor); Shaʻbān, Sulaymān Qaddūrah (Municipal council); ʻAzzām, Aḥmad Abū Rāḍī (Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Municipal council); al-Rabāḥ, Ismāʻīl (Resistance fighter); Shabāyṭah, Saʻīd al-ʻAbd (Resistance fighter); al-Muhanná, Sulaymān (Resistance fighter); Shaʻbān, Yūnus Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Yāsīn, Muṣṭafá Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Ibrāhīm, Ṣālih (Mayor); al-Ṣālih, Faḍl (Resistance fighter); Yūnus, al-ʻAbd (Policeman); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Rebelling against the British authorities and escape . (@ 0:32)Table of contents: Political conditions and activity during the Arab revolt. (@ 12:4)Table of contents: Agriculture and Palestinian resistance. (@ 28:19)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance . (@ 41:46)Table of contents: Ḥiṭṭīn battle and village preparations . (@ 54:20)Table of contents: Withdrawal from Ḥiṭṭīn and exodus to exile
. (@ 73:53)Table of contents: Arab Salvation Army withdrawal from Safad. (@ 102:8)Table of contents: Nostalgia and hope of return . (@ 106:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 1997 with Ṣāliḥ Shaʻbān, male, born in 1934 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Biqāʻīyah; al-Zaydānīyīn; ʻUthmān; Abū ʻAlī; al-Lūbānī; Shaʻbān; ʻAyyāsh; Ibrāhīm al-Muṣṭafá; Ballūṭ; Khnayfis.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Dhū al-Kifal (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Biqāʻīyah, Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Razzāq (Martyr); al-Biqāʻīyah, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Saʻīd (Martyr); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr); al-Shaʻbān, Ḥusayn (Hostage); al-ʻAbwānī, Dāwūd (Martyr); al-Zayādinah, Muḥammad Saʻīd al-Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Yāsīn, ʻAbd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Hilālī, Ibrāhīm (Military officer); al-ʻAyyāsh, Qāsim (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life and customs in al-Dāmūn. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and British colonialism. (@ 13:35)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of al-Dāmūn, expulsion, and journey to exile . (@ 32:30)Table of contents: Refugee experience and suffering in Lebanon. (@ 48:51)Table of contents: Final reflections and hope of return. (@ 66:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 19, 2006 with Amīn Shākir Shaḥrūr, male, born in 1933 in Hūnīn, Palestine and resides in Dayr al-Zahrānī, Lebanon.Families: Fā‘ūr; al-Birjāwī; Ḥudruj; Ḥassūn; ‘Allūsh.Significant figures: Shaḥrūr, Shākir (Mayor); al-Birjāwī, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Kaḥḥāl, Najībah (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic aspects in Hūnīn under the British rule. (@ 0:23)Table of contents: Political dynamics in Hūnīn during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 15, 2003 with Fāṭimah Sha‘bān, female, born in 1920 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Aṭāyā; Yūsuf; Abū Fahd; Jammāl.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maṭār al-al-Baṣṣah (Airport).Significant figures: al-Sa‘dī, Abū Sāmī (Mayor); ‘Awaḍ, Sulaymān (Revolutionary); al-Dalīl, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and everyday life in al-Zīb. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Marriage and wedding traditions. (@ 11:14)Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: Familial and social practices in al-Zīb. (@ 40:26)Table of contents: al-Zīb under the British Mandate of Palestine, 1920-1948. (@ 57:21)Table of contents: Community life, customs and resistance. (@ 66:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 14, 1997 with Fāṭimah Ḥusayn Sha‘bān, female, born in 1928? in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Zayādinah; ʻAṭāyā.Significant figures: Nimrah, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); ʻAṭāyā, Maḥmūd (Mayor); ʻAwaḍ, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Ismāʻīl (Landowner); ʻAwaḍ, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: al-Zīb amidst the 1948 Nakba and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience and social conditions in Lebanon. (@ 25:53)Table of contents: Refugee living conditions and suffering. (@ 42:16)Table of contents: Community life and expulsion. (@ 61:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 25, 2004 with Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Sha‘bān, male, born in 1930 in Nazareth, Palestine.Families: Faraḥ; Nicolas; Shaʻbān; al-Ḥṭaḥūṭ; al-Fāhūm; Qaʻwār; al-Zuʻbiyyah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Maufature (Corporation); English Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū al-Yatāmá (Convent).Significant figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); Shaʻbān, ʻAbd (Revolutionary); ʻAṣfūr, Ḥannā (Lawyer); Shaʻbān, ʻAlī ʻAbd (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: History of the city of Nazareth
. (@ 11:22)Table of contents: Wedding customs and traditions. (@ 33:41)Table of contents: Nazareth during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939 . (@ 44:59)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 54:9)
Biography: ويقيم في مخيم البرج الشمالي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: al-Mīzārī.Significant figures: al-Mīzārī, ’Abdul Raḥmān (Mayor); al-Mīzārī, Muḥammad (Mayor); Sha‘bān, ‘Umar (Disappeared person); Abū Widdū, Ṣāliḥ (Disappeared person); al-Ḥaddād, Sa‘īd (Disappeared person); Qāsim, Muḥammad (Disappeared person); Mizyān, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Education, employment and celebrations in Dayshūm. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic activity and social relations. (@ 14:32)Table of contents: British rule and Palestinian resistance. (@ 30:13)Table of contents: Wedding customs and ceremonies. (@ 43:48)Table of contents: Community relations and everyday life. (@ 55:42)Table of contents: Politics, society and and resistance. (@ 64:18)Table of contents: Warfare and return to the homeland. (@ 76:45)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 91:35)Table of contents: Exile and refugee life. (@ 100:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 7, 1997 with Raʼīfah Sha‘fāṭī, female, born in 1912? in Akka, Palestine and resides in ‘Aramūn, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Sīdī Abū ‘Atabah (Maqām): al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Sīdī ‘Izz al-Dīn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Jazzār, ‘Abdullāh (Muftī); al-Khalīl, Nadīyā (Dressmaker).Table of contents: Community and family life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family, childhood and schooling. (@ 10:31)Table of contents: Wedding and marriage customs. (@ 22:31)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in Akka. (@ 51:23)Table of contents: Refugees and living conditions. (@ 67:49)Table of contents: Forced departure from Palestine. (@ 80:8)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 93:39)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 102:6)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 125:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 4, 2003 with Muḥammad Shbīb, male, born in 1914 in Qadas, Palestine. He worked with the British authority.Families: Bazzī; Farḥāt; al-Mārdīnī; Niḥmānī.Significant figures: Fā‘ūr, ‘Abdullāh (Contractor); al-‘Askarī, Ṣubḥī (Trader); al-Maw‘id, Saʻīd (Shaykh); al-Sūqīyah, ʻAqlah (Mayor); al-As‘ad, Aḥmad (Leader).Table of contents: Economic conditions at the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social events and health care in Qadas . (@ 15:41)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Palestine . (@ 31:42)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 56:31)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of al-Ḥulah. (@ 66:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 18, 2003 with Maḥmūd Muḥammad Shiblāq, male, born in 1931 in Haifa, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Rāhibāt (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Church of St; Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).Significant figures: Sulaymān, Fahd (Poet); Rīḥān, Anīs (School principal); al-Suwaykī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Dallūl, Abū ʻAlī (Leader); Shiblāq, Abū Nāyif (Leader); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); Būshanāq, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Rūmī, Ḥalīm (Composer).Table of contents: Customs, ceremonies and community life in Haifa. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, clashes and resistance. (@ 14:25)Table of contents: Military occupation, political violence and Palestinian resistance . (@ 32:0)Table of contents: Displacement from Haifa. (@ 40:4)Table of contents: Remembering Palestine. (@ 51:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 6, 1997 with ‘Abd al-Karīm Shiblī, male, born in 1926 in Ṣalḥah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shiblī; ʻAwn; al-Maʻmārī; al-Asʻad; al-Mizārī; Slīm; Sursuq.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūsuf (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Ismāʻīl, Naʻīm (Martyr); al-Naqīb, Ḥasan (Teacher); Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Jumʻah, Mūsá (Martyr); Fayyāḍ, ʻAbd (Martyr); al-Atāsī, Abū Khalīl (Resistance leader); Saʻīd, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Saʻīd, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ismāʻīl, Naʻīm (Mayor assistant); ʻAbdullāh, Najīb Ḍāhir (Resistance fighter); ʻAbdū, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-ʻAbdullāh, Tawfīq (Village leader).Table of contents: Childhood memories and family in Ṣalḥah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Warfare and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal. (@ 6:55)Table of contents: Ṣalḥah massacre, 1948 and Palestinian land sale. (@ 29:26)Table of contents: Refugee hardships and war atrocities . (@ 40:54)Table of contents: Social life and customs in pre-Nakba Ṣalḥah . (@ 63:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 1, 2003 with Raʼīfah Rashīd Shibʻānī, female, born in Safad, Palestine.Families: Qaddūrah; al-Shammah; al-Naḥwah; Shammā.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá al-Jāmiʻ al-Aḥmar (Hospital).Significant figures: al- Shāʻir, ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary); Abū al-Laban, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary); ʻAbdallī, Rashīd (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Landowner).Table of contents: Childhood, family employment and social life in Safad. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding traditions in Safad. (@ 12:46)Table of contents: Inter-religious relations, social and economic life in Safad. (@ 27:36)Table of contents: Political turmoil and the events that led to the expulsion from Safad. (@ 49:29)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 62:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 4, 2009 with Amal Shihābī, female, born in 1962 and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Sarāyā Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Mustashfá al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Significant figures: Sulaymān, ‘Abd al-Laṭīf (Teacher); al-Maw‘id, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Salwá (Prisoner); al-‘Abdullāh, Āminah (Prisoner); al-Ta‘miri, Ṣalāḥ (Social worker).Table of contents: Israeli war crimes and terrorism. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political activity and detention in Israeli camps. (@ 8:32)Table of contents: Experience in Israeli detention camps. (@ 35:30)Table of contents: Women's role in building up the Palestinian society. (@ 59:30)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع أم محمد عباس، أنثى، تقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institutions).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ghassān Ḥammūd (Hospital).Significant figures: al-‘Abdullāh, Āminah (Prisoner); Ka‘wash, Sanīyah (Prisoner).Table of contents: Childhood, education and political situation in the camp. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: A week in Israeli detention camp. (@ 15:47)Table of contents: Release of detainees. (@ 29:47)Table of contents: Palestinian women in detention camps. (@ 39:41)Table of contents: Palestinian Political secret movements. (@ 65:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 24, 2003 with Ibrāhīm Shiḥādah, male, born in 1927 in Qabbāʻah, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Families: al-Qūwwatlī; al-Hrāwī; Sursuq.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Firʻim (School); Madrasat Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (School); Madrasat Beisan (School).Significant figures: al-Muṣṭafá, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Muṣṭafá, Muḥammad (Mayor); Yāzidī, Tawfīq (Governor); ʻAbbās, Aḥmad Nimir (Military officer); Sulaymān, Naẓmī (Military officer); al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al- Muṣṭafá, ‘Alī (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); al-Zaghmūṭ, Nāyif Maḥmūd (Poet); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Ṣāliḥ (Dentist); ʻUthmān, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); al-Salīm al-Ṣāliḥ, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Ghurayyib, Khālid (Martyr); Ghurayyib, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ghurayyib, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Salām, Ṣā’ib (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Yūsuf (Martyr); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr).Table of contents: Mayor elections and education . (@ 0:16)Table of contents: Service in the British police forces. (@ 11:29)Table of contents: Social norms and community life. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 52:0)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine during 1948 . (@ 60:1)Table of contents: Terrorism and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 73:28)Table of contents: Political conditions and dates of leading events to Nakba. (@ 99:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 22, 2006 with Khaznah Muḥammad Shiḥādah, female, born in 1933 in Majd al-Kurūm, Palestine and resides in Beirut, Lebanon.Families: al-Afandī; Mannā‘ah; al-Khalīl; ‘Alwān; al-Khaṭīb; Shiḥādah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh Ṭuʻmah (Maqām); Shaykh Sarrīs (Maqām).Significant figures: Salīm, Kāmil (School principal); Salīm, Muḥammad (Mayor); Sarḥān, Ḥasan (Mayor); Fustuq, Maḥmūd (Trader); Bishir, ʻAbd (Revolutionary); al-ʻAbd, Rashīd (Singer).Table of contents: Socio-economic life in the village. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Social conditions in Majd al-Kurūm. (@ 15:32)Table of contents: Community celebrations, customs and traditions . (@ 31:29)Table of contents: Political dynamics int Majd al-Kurūm during the British Mandate. (@ 48:27)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Majd al-Kurūm. (@ 55:59)Table of contents: The expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 73:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 11, 2003, with Muḥyiddīn ‘Umar Shiḥādah, male, born in 1927 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine. He was a policeman in Akka Prison.Families: al-Ṣaffūrī; Shiḥādah; Ḥasan.Significant figures: al-Khaḍrah, Najīb (Teacher); Niyāzī, Rifʻat (Teacher); al-Khaḍrah, Najīb (School principal); Bkhūr, Muḥyiī al-Dīn (Driving instructor); al-Ḥasan, Ṣālih (Doctor); Sirrīyah, Dāwūd (Shaykh); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Mayor); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Ḥasan, Aḥmad ʻAzīz (Poet); Sunūnū, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Naṣṣār, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-ʻAṭʻūṭ, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-ʻArʻūr, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Baytam, ʻAlī (Martyr); Iskandar, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Ibrīq, Ḥamad (Martyr); Dīb, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Sunūnū, Dīb (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Childhood and rural life in Kuwaykāt. (@ 0:25)Table of contents: Socio-political conditions and settler colonialism in Palestine
. (@ 16:25)Table of contents: Customs and traditions Kuwaykāt. (@ 28:3)Table of contents: Social relations and entertainment pre-Nakba Kuwaykāt. (@ 52:48)Table of contents: The village of Kuwaykāt: demography, geography and cultural practices. (@ 63:16)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine : events and outcome . (@ 72:16)Table of contents: Palestine under the British rule and Zionist Invasion: war events and riots. (@ 83:19)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 112:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 2004 with ʻUmar Dyāb Shiḥādah, male, born in 1922 in Qabbāʻah, Palestine and resides in Taʻlabāyā, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: ʻIzz al-Dīn, Kāmil (Teacher); al-ʻUthmān, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Mughrabī, Abū ʻᾹṭif (Revolutionary); al-Murrah, Aḥmad Salīm (Martyr); al-Shāʻir, ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary); al-Firkh, Khālid (Revolutionary leader); Ghūrī, Amīr (Revolutionary leader); Saʻīd, Sulaymān (Policeman); al-Ḥūrānī, Akram (Resistance fighter); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Ḥamdān, Fuʼād (Resistance fighter); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Martyr); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 10:42)Table of contents: Employment in the British Army and police forces. (@ 27:13)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal . (@ 55:50)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile and hope of return. (@ 72:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 16, 2005 with Ṣādim ‘Umar Shiḥādah, male, born in 1925 and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked in Akka prison.Families: Twaynī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dā’irat al-Zirā‘ah (Governmental institution).Significant figures: Ibrīq, Muḥammad (Public officer); Snūn, Ḥasan Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Ṣafadī, ‘Alī (Martyr); Iskandar, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ibrīq, Aḥmad (Martyr); ‘Alī, Khalīl (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and community life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 16:38)Table of contents: Settler colonialism and British colonialism. (@ 31:35)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 57:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 3, 2003 with Fahdah Khālid Shmaysī, female, born in 1929 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine.Families: al-Nābulsī; ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl; ʻAwaḍ; al-Bayk; Ayyūb; Mūsá; Shmaysī; al-Maqdāḥ; al-Ḥāj ʻAlī; Ṣabḥah; al-Miʻārī.Significant figures: Wardah, Shiḥādīah (Shop owner); Banāt, Muḥammad (Driver); Banāt, Khālid (Driver); Khāzin, Adīb (Doctor); Qaṭrān, Naʻīm (Doctor).Table of contents: Family Life, Socio-economic Dynamics and Traditions in al-Ghābisīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life, social dynamics, and medicine in al-Ghābisīyah. (@ 21:30)Table of contents: Arbitration and wedding traditions in al-Ghābisīyah . (@ 46:42)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 60:19)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضّا مع صباح عوض، أنثى، ولدت عام 1976؟ وتقيم في صور، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian folk traditions and songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories . (@ 21:49)Table of contents: Folk story: The king and the peasant. (@ 35:29)Table of contents: Folk stories II: Shams al-Shumūs and the Ghoul. (@ 50:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 3, 2003 with Muṣṭafá Shmaysī, male, born in 1925 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine.Families: Ayyūb; ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl; Sursuq.Significant figures: al-Miʻārī, Ḥusayn (Olive mill worker); al-Shaykh Khalīl, Aḥmad (Village leader); Musāghā, Mūsá (Village leader); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); Sirḥān, Kāmil (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood memories and agricultural life in Ghābisīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic life and customs in al-Ghābisīyah . (@ 13:7)Table of contents: Political life during the British Mandate and battles against Zionist forces. (@ 29:41)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience
. (@ 57:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 3, 1997 with Maḥmūd Aḥmad Shtaywī, male, born in 1936 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Naḥf (School); Madrasat al-Rāmah (School).Significant figures: Naḥlah, Jamīl (Mayor); al-Dāhish, Jabr (Mayor); Shuqayr, Abū ʻAlī (Prisoner of war).Table of contents: Early life and betrayal . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Rāmah and journey to exile . (@ 8:21)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hardships in Lebanon. (@ 36:4)Table of contents: Attempt at return to Palestine and rejection. (@ 43:10)Table of contents: Communication with family relations in occupied Palestine . (@ 59:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 6, 1997 with Āmāl Shurayḥ, female, born in 1939? in Akka, Palestine and resides in ‘Aramūn, Lebanon.Families: Ṭannūs; Fākhūrī; Faraḥ.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Waṭanīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Shurayḥ, Fādī (Poet); Sirḥān, ʻĀdil (Village leader); Sirḥān, Fāris (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family and childhood . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The Exodus from Palestine. (@ 7:57)Table of contents: Occupation and exile. (@ 22:56)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 45:44)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 54:48)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 65:6)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 77:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 29, 2003 with Fāṭimah Sirḥān, female, born in 1927 in al-Jish, Palestine.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām).Table of contents: Palestinian labor and social relations . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural life and traditions . (@ 11:19)Table of contents: Zionist aerial operations at al-Jish during 1948. (@ 21:29)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Jish. (@ 34:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Khiḍr Darwīsh Skaynī, male, born in 1924 in Saida, Lebanon.Significant figures: Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Shīshaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Assāf, Najīb (Wounded); al-B‘aynī, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Mallāk, Saʻīd (Martyr); Zayn al-Dīn, Maḥmud (Martyr); al-‘Abdullāh, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Ḥalāwah, Fawzī (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestine is not the "promised land" . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance : memoirs of occupied Palestine. (@ 11:53)Table of contents: War time, resistance and military activity. (@ 38:10)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 47:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Fawzīyah Sulaymān, female, born in 1934 in al-Shaʻb, Palestine.Families: Fāʻūr; Manṣūr; Ḥusayn; al-Khaṭīb; al-Shaykh Muḥammad; al-Zaytūn; ʻAbbūd; ʻĪd.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Banāt al-ʻAyn (Maqām); Aḥmad al-ʻUlaymī (Maqām); al-Shaykh Shukur (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥamzah, Amīn (Mayor); Fāʻūr, Fāʻūr (Mayor); al-Manṣūr, Sulaymān (Mayor); al-Ḥāj ʻAbd, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Muḥammad Salīm, Kāyid (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and customs . (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Social life and customs in Shaʻb. (@ 19:36)Table of contents: Community life in Palestine. (@ 46:28)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 53:47)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Palestine during 1948. (@ 70:57)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 89:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 20, 2006 with Fāṭimah Khalīl Sulaymān, female, born in 1935? in Qadas, Palestine and resides in al-Anṣārīyah, Lebanon.Families: Dirbāj; ʻĪsá; Kuzbor; Arāch; Awṣān; al-Mārdīnī, Bazzī; Farḥāt; al-Mazārī.Significant figures: Yaḥyà, Qāsim (Singer); al-Sūqīyah, ʻAql (Mayor); Za‘rūr, ‘Abd al-Nabī (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic life, family and childhood in Qadas. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Qadas from the British rule to the Zionist occupation. (@ 16:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 7, 2003 with Naʻāmah Ḥusayn Sulaymān, female, born in Suḥmātā, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port).Significant figures: Ṣaliḥ, ‘Alī (Mayor); Ṣaliḥ, Maḥmūd (Mayor); Sulaymān, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Ṣāliḥ, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Zar‘aynī, Abū Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Sharaf, ʻAbd (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Yamānī, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad (Martyr); Qaddūrah, ‘Alī (Martyr); Sallūm, Khalīl (Guide); al-Yamānī, Abū Khālid (Resistance fighter); Sakrān Sakrān (Resistance fighter); al-Asmar, Muḥmmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Social life in Suḥmātā during the British mandate . (@ 0:05)Table of contents: Palestinian folklore, social practices in Suḥmātā. (@ 16:52)Table of contents: Social and Political activities in Suḥmātā during the British Mandate. (@ 30:55)Table of contents: Resistance during Zionist Invasion . (@ 38:16)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon and the political conditions of the refugees . (@ 53:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 25, 1998 with Rashīd ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd Sulaymān, male, born in 1927 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Najm; Sulaymān; ‘Īsá; al-Maw‘id; Ḥadāyidah; al-Sa‘dīyah; al-Maṣāriwah.Significant figures: ‘Izzīyah, Aḥmad Dāwūd (Teacher); Samārah, Shākir (School principal); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Municipal council); al-‘Afīfī, Maḥmud (Municipal council); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural economic in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 14:34)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 39:26)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and rural conditions in the village. (@ 58:3)Table of contents: Crops and agriculture life in Saffuriyah. (@ 73:21)Table of contents: House construction and Farming practices in Palestine. (@ 83:17)Table of contents: Rural life and practices. (@ 95:26)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 106:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 16, 2003 with Sa‘dah Ḥasan Sulaymān, female, born in Ḥawwāsah, Palestine.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-‘Abd, ‘Aṭīyah (Martyr); Qaramān, Ṭāhir (Businessman); al-Nimir, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political and social history. (@ 16:21)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 35:16)Table of contents: Political conditions during and after Zionist occupation. (@ 54:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 24, 2004, with Zinah Aḥmad Sulaymān, female, born in 1943 in Qabbāʻah, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Fandī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Yāsīn, Zahrah (Martyr); al-Fandī, Ḥalīmah (Wounded).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture community in Qabbāʻah. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 25:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 24, 2006 with ‘Ā'ishah ʻAbd al-Ghanī Sulaymān, female, born in 1928? in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine and resides in al-Ūzā‘ī, Lebanon.Families: Abū Rās; ‘Abbūd; Sulaymān; Abū ‘Ayyāsh.Significant figures: Abū Rās, Ḥasan (Mayor).Table of contents: Zionist massacre in Balad al-Shaykh. (@ 0:12)Table of contents: The Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 22:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 18, 1996 with Abū Muḥammad Suwayd, male, born in 1946 in Safad, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: The birth of Moses and survival from Pharaoh's execution . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Escape of Moses from executioners and his first contact with God . (@ 28:18)Table of contents: Return of Moses to Egypt and his miracles . (@ 44:4)Table of contents: God's messages to people through Moses and oppression of his believers . (@ 53:19)Table of contents: Separation of the sea by Moses and death of the Pharaoh. (@ 68:56)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع محمد عبد الغني الخليل، ذكر، ولد عام 1931 في صفورية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Families: Abū al-Nʻāj.Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Amīn, Muṣliḥ (Village leader).Table of contents: Social life and customs in Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and social customs. (@ 14:47)Table of contents: The reward of good deeds . (@ 34:4)Table of contents: Story about the chivalry of Arabs. (@ 48:2)Table of contents: The virtue of patience. (@ 59:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 2, 2003 with Khalīl Muḥammad Suwaydān, male, born in 1926 in al-Buwayzīyah, Palestine.Families: Francis; Salām; Sursuq; Suwaydān; al-Ḥusayn; Ṣāliḥ; Shatlah; Suhayl.Significant figures: ʻIzz al-Dīn, Muḥammad (School principal); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Suwaydān, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Maḥmūd, Hmayyid (Wounded); al-Yamanī, Aḥmad (Leader); Abū Dayyā, Ibrāhīm (Resistance leader); al-‘Abdullāh, ‘Umar (Resistance leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Leader).Table of contents: Political turbulence and everyday life in al-Buwayzīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Land and agriculture. (@ 19:15)Table of contents: Society and customs in al-Buwayzīyah
. (@ 33:36)Table of contents: Community life and political circumstances. (@ 42:53)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration, armed resistance and military attacks. (@ 54:8)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance and political leadership. (@ 66:43)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance and military activity. (@ 79:14)Table of contents: Zionist occupation, propaganda and military warfare. (@ 96:14)Table of contents: Military occupation, attacks and expulsion. (@ 109:24)Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 119:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 18, 2004 with Maryam ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Suwaydān, female, born in Baysamūn, Palestine and resides in al-Burghulīyah, Lebanon.Table of contents: Customs and traditions in Pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestine during 1948. (@ 21:43)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and exile. (@ 27:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 7, 2003 with Qāsim Muḥammad Suwaydān, male, born in 1937 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine.Families: Ḥusayn; Salām; Sursuq.Significant figures: al-Sa‘d, Fu'ād (Landowner); al-Ṣafadī, Aḥmad (Teacher); ‘Aṣfūr, Ḥannā (Lawyer); al-Ṣafadī, Abū Walīd (Trader); Qaddūrah, Salīm (Martyr); al-Naḥfāwī, Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Uṭūr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Muḥyī al-Dīn, Na‘īm (Martyr); Abū Laḥmah, Khalīl (Survivor).Table of contents: Everyday life amidst political violence in al-Farrādīyah
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Celebrations, social gatherings and customs. (@ 27:4)Table of contents: Political circumstances in al-Farrādīyah. (@ 35:15)Table of contents: Political violence, massacres and exile. (@ 53:58)Table of contents: Refugees and return to Palestine. (@ 69:58)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع راضية إبراهيم عبدالله، انثى، ولدت عام 1925؟ في صفورية، فلسطين.Families: ‘Afīfī; al-Ḥāj.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Symbolism in popular culture. (@ 19:46)Table of contents: Weddings and ceremonies in the village. (@ 31:18)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 52:18)Table of contents: Songs and poems. (@ 65:2)Table of contents: Palestinian folk traditions. (@ 84:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 22, 1997 with Khalīl Ibrāhīm Sālim, male, born in 1929 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine.Families: Ḥijāzī; ‘Ulayyān; Twaynī.Significant figures: Twaynī, Ghassān (Landowner); al-Yamanī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Mir‘ī, ‘Abd (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rābāḥ (Resistance leader); Sirḥān, Fāyiz (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Families and land. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and resistance. (@ 8:31)Table of contents: Military operations and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: The exodus and the refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 12, 2003 with Anīs ʻAbdullāh Sāyigh, male, born in 1931 in Tiberias, Palestine.Families: al-Ṭabarī; al-Khūrī; al-Ḥāj Ismāʻīl; al-Khaṭṭābīn.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School); al-Kullīyah al-ʻArabīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Bishop Gobat School (School); Mustashfá al-Ṭāʼifah (Hospital); al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Sayyida Sukayna (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ṣayfī, Ṭalʻat (School principal); Wihbī, Tawfīq (Teacher); Najm, Muḥammad Yūsuf (Writer); al-Hawwārī, Muḥammad Nimir (Leader); Ṣāyigh, Yūsuf (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family origin and childhood memories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education in Palestine. (@ 16:3)Table of contents: Community and social classes of the city. (@ 33:27)Table of contents: Zionist movement in Palestine . (@ 45:53)Table of contents: History of Tiberias. (@ 56:1)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 63:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 14, with Dyāb ʻAlī S‘ayyid, male, born in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in al-Qāsimīyah, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Sa‘īd, Ḥasan (Martyr).Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Political conditions in ʻAlmā during the Zionist occupation. (@ 19:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 7, 2003 with Ḥusayn S‘ādah, male, born in 1924 in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in Tripoli, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Idlibī; al-Kayyāl.Significant figures: Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Dūkhī, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Jūdī, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); ‘Ashān, Aḥmad (Prisoner).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions during the British Mandate in the village . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political dynamics in the village during the British Mandate . (@ 16:9)Table of contents: Political conditions in al- Birwah during the Zionist occupation. (@ 28:17)Table of contents: War events and expulsion. (@ 46:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 18, 1997 with Aḥmad Ibrāhīm Tamīm, male, born in 1931 in al-Jāʻūnah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid, Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Tamīm; al-‘Amāyrī; Dakhl Allāh; Shiḥādah; al-Jalbūṭ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Maghārit al-Ghasīl (Maqām).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Social conditions in the village. (@ 4:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil, resistance and military activity. (@ 22:34)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 33:37)Table of contents: Leaving al-Jāʻūnah. (@ 41:20)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 49:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Sa‘d al-Dīn Tawfīq, male, born in 1920 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Twaynī; Mamlūk; Sursuq; ‘Aṭāyā.Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Aṭāyā, Fāyiz (Village leader).Table of contents: Land defense and military occupation. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 10:18)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 21:0)Table of contents: Refugee experience and revisiting Palestine. (@ 33:33)Table of contents: Refugees in Lebanon. (@ 48:1)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance and military occupation. (@ 59:57)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة مع حمزة سعيد تركي في 30 كانون الأول ديسمبر عام 2003، ذكر، ولد عام 1908؟ في ميعار، فلسطين.Families: al-Namārinah; al-Shaḥaydah; al-Haybah; al-Jamal; Saʻdah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh ʻAlī (Maqām); Abū al-Hayjah (Maqām); al-Shaykh Saʻīd (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Darwīsh, Ṣāliḥ (Shaykh); al-ʻAbdullāh, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); Ḥasan al-Ṭāhā, Mirʻī (Mayor); al-Majīd, Khalīl (Poet); ʻAbd al-Hādī, Ḥusayn (Poet); al-Muḥammad, Abū Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn al-Ṭāhā, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṭāhā, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); ʻAbd al-Hādī, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); al-Afandī, ʻUmar (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Childhood and daily life in Mīʻār. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life. (@ 13:59)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 42:40)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Mīʻār . (@ 48:33)Table of contents: Expulsion from Mīʻār and hope of return. (@ 54:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 19, 1995 with Umm Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1921 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Children's song. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk traditions in Palestine. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Rural life and traditions in Palestine . (@ 22:42)Table of contents: Wedding traditions. (@ 44:6)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع أم سعيد في أيلول سبتمبر عام 1995، أنثى، ولدت عام 1916 في لوبيا، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Arabic short stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The king and his daughter story. (@ 17:55)Table of contents: Popular tales. (@ 31:35)Table of contents: Popular story. (@ 52:13)Table of contents: Three Sisters story. (@ 62:52)Table of contents: The Woodcutter story. (@ 73:43)Table of contents: Folk song and a story. (@ 84:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Mīlād, female, born in 1940 in Wādī al-Ḥundāj, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 17:9)Table of contents: The prince and his wife. (@ 30:42)Table of contents: Refugee hopes and stories. (@ 44:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Wāʼil, female, born in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: The Story of the injured lady. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wisdom tale. (@ 10:0)Table of contents: Milkman, Poorman and Richman story. (@ 20:18)Table of contents: Symbolism in Arabic stories. (@ 27:43)Table of contents: Parent - child influence. (@ 33:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm al-ʻAbd, female, born in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Za‘rūrah; ‘Izzīyah; Sulaymān; Maw‘id; Abū al-N‘āj; ‘Aṭīyah; Khaṭṭāb.Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social customs and community life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 11:40)Table of contents: Palestinian songs and customs . (@ 20:48)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع زهرة الخضر، أنثى، ولدت عام 1932 في أم الفرج، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البص للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: ِArabic folk poetry. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Fairy tale. (@ 8:26)Table of contents: Songs and poems. (@ 21:4)Table of contents: al-Zayn M‘ammar story. (@ 33:3)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 45:24)Table of contents: Songs and Story. (@ 50:17)Table of contents: Sleeping beauty. (@ 60:37)Table of contents: The Six Brothers story. (@ 71:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 10, 1995 with Umm Ḥusayn ‘Aql, female, born in 1899 in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in Ḥārit Ḥrayk, Lebanon.Families: ‘Aṭā.Table of contents: Traditional folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk traditions. (@ 9:56)Table of contents: Popular culture and tradition. (@ 27:46)Table of contents: Weavers of the songs. (@ 36:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 3, 1995 with Umm ‘Alī, female, born in 1916 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Popular songs and poetry. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs of love. (@ 7:47)Table of contents: Collective songs. (@ 26:12)Table of contents: The most famous Palestinian popular song. (@ 42:36)Table of contents: Zalghūṭah. (@ 61:38)Table of contents: Political poetry. (@ 73:21)Table of contents: Wedding customs. (@ 84:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 13, 1997 with Khalīl Ḥusayn Yāsīn, male, born in 1933 in Ibṭin, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Qaramān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: Yāsīn, al-‘Abd (Wounded); Yāsīn, Aḥmad (Wounded).Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 11:35)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 18:37)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 25:7)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 2, 2004 with Sāmī Yāsīn, male, born in 1931 in Tiberias, Palestine.Families: al-Ṭabarī; al-Sakhnīnī; al-Baghdādī; Sūṭarī; Bawākīr; al-Khuṭabah; al-Ḥayātlī; Salaymī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Government School of Palestine (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Torrance (Hospital); Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Sayf al-Dīn, Ṭalʻat (School principal); Tahtamūnī, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Ṣāyigh, Fāyiz (Teacher); Darwīsh, Yūsuf (Mayor); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-ʻAlī, Nājī (Painter); Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader); ʻUlūṭī, Faḍl (Martyr); Ḥasan Salāymī, Fāliḥ (Martyr).Table of contents: Education and childhood in Tiberias. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics during the British Mandate. (@ 11:6)Table of contents: Community life at al-Shajarah . (@ 33:7)Table of contents: Skirmishes with Jewish settlers in Tiberias. (@ 49:46)Table of contents: al-Shajrah battle and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 62:52)
Biography: The interview was recording on October 27, 1995 with Ṣubhīyah ‘Abdullāh Yāssīn, female, born in 1942 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 24:26)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 46:48)Table of contents: Palestinian folklore. (@ 72:7)Table of contents: Religious and children songs. (@ 94:40)Table of contents: Short Arabic stories. (@ 109:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Jabr Muḥammad Yūnus, male, born in 1920 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon. He was a trader.Families: al-Zaghmūṭ; Yūnus, Ḥamad; Yāsīn; Yūnus; Ḥamad.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Ecole Des Frères (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Saʻd Allāh al-Khalīl (Hospital); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Kull, Naʻīm (Resistance fighter); al-Zaghmūṭ, Ismāʻīl (Village leader); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); al-Yūnus, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Yūnus, Dīb Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥasan, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Resistance fighter); Zaynī, Ḥasan (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); Farhūd, Aḥmad Nimir (Resistance fighter); Kāyid, Aḥmad Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); Shraynī, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); al-Shūlī, Ḥannah (Flour mill owner); ʻAzzām, ʻAlī (Flour mill owner); Yūnus, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, Nāyif (Martyr); Swaydī, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestinian villages. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948. (@ 16:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Ṣafṣāf and journey to Lebanon. (@ 42:18)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile . (@ 65:11)Table of contents: Education and economic conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 77:8)Table of contents: Political conditions and Zionist occupation. (@ 88:2)Table of contents: Social and community life in pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 104:12)Table of contents: Living conditions during the British Mandate of Palestine 1920-1948 . (@ 126:1)Table of contents: Final reflections on life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 149:37)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع زوجها جبر محمد يونس، ذكر، ولد عام 1922؟ في الصفصاف، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم الرشيدية للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and community life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles, violence and Village occupation . (@ 12:12)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 36:57)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 49:33)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع زوجها فوزي محمود أبو علول، ذكر، ولد عام 1922 في لوبيا، فلسطين.Families: al-Shahāybah; Shihāb; ‘Aṭwāṭ; ‘Ajāynah.Significant figures: Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Leader); al-‘Abd, Khalīl (Leader); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Village leader); al-‘Abbād, Fāṭimah (Doctor); Abū Dhays, Ḥassan (Village leader); al-Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Village leader); Dallāshah, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Khalīl, Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Rashīd, Amīnah (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and everyday life in Lūbyā. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Marriage, family relations and community life in Lūbyā. (@ 17:4)Table of contents: Social and political relations in Lūbyā
. (@ 35:34)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration, warfare and attacks. (@ 50:28)Table of contents: Political turmoil and refugees' experience . (@ 61:57)Table of contents: Return to the homeland. (@ 75:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ‘Awaḍ Maḥmūd Yūnus, male, born in 1910 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon. He worked in tax collection in Palestine.Families: Yūnis.Significant figures: Ṭaḥḥān, Najīb (Teacher); al-Salṭī, Rashīd (Public officer).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and political conditions in al-Ṣafṣāf . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education, political conditions, and employment in finance . (@ 20:5)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 43:21)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع حليمة شناعة، أنثى، ولدت وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان. كانت مدرسة.Families: Ward; al-Maqdaḥ.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Mustashfá al-Hamsharī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Madrasat al-Rahibāt (School); Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Madrasat al-Maqāsid (School); Madrasat al-Rāhibāt (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Iṣlāḥ (School).Significant figures: Sa‘d, Moná (Leader).Table of contents: Study and teaching during the Israeli invasion, 1982. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War events and displacement. (@ 11:42)Table of contents: City occupation and popular reisitance. (@ 22:7)Table of contents: Education during the Israeli invasion. (@ 40:9)Table of contents: Education and psychology in the Palestinian schools during the invasion. (@ 51:56)Table of contents: Israeli invasion of South Lebanon and evacuation of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 67:36)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions of Palestinian refugees in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah . (@ 91:32)Table of contents: Israeli policy during the occupation of South Lebanon. (@ 106:33)Table of contents: Palestinian refugees and human rights. (@ 116:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 3, 2003 with Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn Yūsuf, male, born in 1932 in Ghuwayr Abū Shūshah, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Evangelical Episcopal School (School); al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).Significant figures: al-Ḥannā', Y‘aqūb (Bishop); Kanʻān, Sulaymān (Trader); ʻAylabūnī, Sa‘īd (Teacher); Dyāb, Salīm ‘Aṭallāh (School principal); ʻAbd al-Hādī, Khamīs (Mayor); al-Ḥannā, Y‘aqūb (Bishop).Table of contents: Education in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Land, Conflict, and Justice . (@ 12:1)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and attacks. (@ 26:15)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 40:1)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 52:23)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right to return. (@ 65:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 23, 1997 with Yūsuf Muḥammad Yūsuf, male, born in 1923 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; Salām; al-As‘ad; Fā‘ūr; Arslān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Table of contents: Economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 7:47)Table of contents: Warfare and the forced departure from Palestine. (@ 12:33)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 21:31)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 32:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 15, 1995 with Fāṭimah Zaghmūṭ, female, born in 1927 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 0:00)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 30, 1997 with Shaykha Ismā‘īl Zayd, female, born in 1926 in al-Ẓāhirīyah ,Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Zayd; Salāmah; Shāhīn; Ṭarāwīyah; al-Khabbāzī; Sha‘bān; Ḥudayrī.Significant figures: al-ʻĪsá, Faṭṭūm (Dressmaker); Ṭarāwīyah, Ṭāhā (Martyr); al-Ḥudayrī, Saʻīd (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Salīm (Resistance fighter); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community and family life. (@ 14:16)Table of contents: Socio-political conditions in the village. (@ 25:55)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Zionist infiltration during the British rule. (@ 35:39)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 46:5)
Biography: biography: The interview was recorded on November 19, 1995 with Zahrah Zayd, female, born in 1916 in ʻAyn al-Zaytūn, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian customs and ceremonies. (@ 10:32)Table of contents: Palestinian wedding customs. (@ 23:2)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ayn al-Zaytūn. (@ 30:25)Table of contents: Agriculture life in Palestine. (@ 50:22)Table of contents: Socio economic and political conditions in Ayn al-Zaytūn. (@ 64:25)Table of contents: Palestinian food habits and traditional customs. (@ 76:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Zahrah Zayd, female, born in 1927 in al-Ẓāhirīyah, Palestine. She was a tailor.Families: Salāmah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Aytām (School); Mustashfá Ẓahr al-Kitif (Hospital).Significant figures: Zayn, Abū Sa‘īd (Landowner); Zayn, Dīb (Landowner).Table of contents: Social life in al-Ẓāhirīyah
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rites and ceremonies in al-Ẓāhirīyah. (@ 18:21)Table of contents: Resistance and displacement. (@ 30:7)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 46:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 18, 1996 with Ḥusayn Zayd, male, born in 1941 in al-Ẓāhirīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Harām (Mosques); Ibrāhīm Maqām (Maqām).Table of contents: Story of a prophet. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Qurʼān stories. (@ 23:32)Table of contents: Palestine, the land of prophets. (@ 37:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 8, 2004 with Ṭāhā Salīm Zayd, male, born in 1926 in al-Ẓāhirīyah, Palestine.Families: Zayd; Shāhīn; Ṣāliḥ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Quwayyis (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Bīṭār, Sa‘īd Sulaymān (Landowner); Qashqūsh, Ḥāmid (Revolutionary); Shāhīn, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); Zayd, Shukrī (Martyr); Ṭarawīyah, Ṭāhā (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Amīn, Nazhah (Martyr); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and agricultural economics. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life at al-Ẓāhirīyah . (@ 15:42)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations in mandatory Palestine. (@ 35:49)Table of contents: Social norms and community life. (@ 44:13)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939 . (@ 64:2)Table of contents: Palestine during 1948 events. (@ 69:40)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 77:25)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع فاطمة حسين سالم، أنثى، ولدت عام 1950 في بعلبك، لبنان وتقيم في مخيم الرشيدية للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Early childhood songs. (@ 12:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Sanīyah Zaydān, female, born in 1936 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Families: Kāyid; Zaydān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Table of contents: Children stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs and poems. (@ 8:4)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 22:26)Table of contents: Social life in the village. (@ 28:17)Table of contents: Social relations and marriage in the Village. (@ 40:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 28, 2009 with Āminah Jamāl Zaydān, female, born in 1943 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Bank al-Mashriq (Bank); Madrasat al-Kifāḥ (School).Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Ibrāhīm (Professor); Fā‘ūr, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Refugee condition during the Israeli invasion of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah, 1982. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: House reconstruction in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp . (@ 20:36)Table of contents: House demolition in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp and war atrocities of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 1982 . (@ 50:6)Table of contents: Final reflections on refuge experience. (@ 73:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 21, 2003 with Āminah Muḥammad Zaydān, female, born in 1933 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥazīr; al-Dabbūr; al-Rabānī; ʻAsqūl; al-Ḥalabī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Sharikat al-Mustaqbal (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Khalīl (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Nabī Yaḥyá (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hajjūj, Bahjāt (Mayor); al-ʻAbbās, Fahd (Village leader); al-Hajjūj, Ramaḍān (Village leader); al-Rabānī, Nimir (Village leader); al-Rabānī, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Zawāwī, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); al-Zawāwī, Nimir (Revolutionary); Zaydān, Maḥmūd Salīm (Businessman).Table of contents: Education, agriculture, and community life in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life, wedding customs, and celebrations. (@ 11:48)Table of contents: Zionist attacks on al-Ṭīrah, Haifa . (@ 25:13)Table of contents: Conduct of life and expulsion from al-Ṭīrah, Haifa. (@ 36:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 12, 2003 with Ḥusayn Fayyāḍ Zaydān, male, born in Balad al-Shaykh, Palestine. He worked in Haifa Cigarette Manufacture.Families: Yūnus.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarette Manufacture (Corporation); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Yūnus, ʻAbd (Mayor); Zaydān, ʻAlī Dīb (Revolutionary); Abū Nasab, Farīd (Policeman); Zakarīyā, Yaḥyá (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Agriculture and everyday life at Balad al-Shaykh. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Imprisonment , 1936-1939. (@ 9:30)Table of contents: Employment and life during post-Arab revolt . (@ 30:31)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 52:41)
Biography: .عمل كسائقFamilies: al-Ḥāmūlī; ‘Ammūrah; al-Abṭaʻ.Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ, Khiḍir (Mayor); al-Ṣabbān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-political conditions at al-Ṭīrah during the British mandate. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Political activities during the Zionist occupation. (@ 14:22)Table of contents: Massacres and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 24:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ẓarīfah Ḥasan Zaydān, female, born in 1928? in al-Ṭīrah Palestine.Families: Ḥajīr.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital).Significant figures: Abū ‘Umar, Laṭīfah (Midwife); Ḥajīr, Um Sāmī (Midwife); Abū Hilāl, Fāṭimah (Midwife); Abū Jrās, Amīnah (Martyr); Ḥajīr, Ḥusayn (Teacher); ʻAsqūl, Asʻad (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 8:25)Table of contents: Violence and armed resistance. (@ 20:12)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in al-Ṭīrah. (@ 35:32)Table of contents: Land, defense and resistance. (@ 44:23)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 50:40)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience . (@ 60:32)