Biography: The interview was recorded on June 8, 2003 with ‘Abd al-Majīd Muḥammad Zaydānī, male, born in 1932 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine.Families: Zaydānī; al-Biqāʻī; Sursuq; Salām; al-Qūwwatlī; al-Fāhūm.Significant figures: Shaʻbān, Nāyif (Teacher); al-Ṭāhir, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); al-Ṭayyār, Najīb (Teacher); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Revolutionary leader); Muhāwish, Yāsīn (Revolutionary leader); al-ʻUmar, ʻAlī (Revolutionary leader); Zawātah, ʻAlī (Public officer); al-Mukhtār, ʻAlī (Prisoner); al-ʻUmar, ʻAlī (Prisoner); al-ʻUmar, Muḥammad (Prisoner).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture in Palestine. (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 9:24)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 and imprisonment . (@ 21:11)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 44:34)Table of contents: Hope of return to Palestine. (@ 58:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 30, 2003 with Ḥasan Qāsim Zayn, male, born in 1928 in al-Mazraʻah, Palestine. He worked in the British Army camps.Families: Saʻd; al-Zayn; Qallūs; Ḥijāzī; al-Ḥaddād.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: Saʻīd, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Ḥasan, Badr (Foreman); al-Najamī, Salīm (Leader); al-Kurdī, Fāyiz (Lawyer); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance leader); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and education in al-Mazraʻah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions, employment, and agricultural life. (@ 9:15)Table of contents: Customs, Traditions, and Socio-political life . (@ 26:18)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 51:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 29, 2004 with Nicolas ‘Abdū Ziyādah, male, born in 1907 in Damascus, Syria. He was a professor at al-Kulliyah al-Rashīdīyah, al-Kulliyah al-‘Arabīyah and the American University of Beirut, then a historian.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dār al-Muʻalimīn (School); al-Kullīyah al-Rashīdīyah (College); Idārat al-Ma‘ārif (Ministry); al-Kullīyah al-‘Arabīyah (College); Wizātrat al-Musta‘marāt (Ministry); Dār al-Mu‘allimīn (School); Idārat al-Maʻārif (Ministry); Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Dār al-Aytām al-Sūrīyah (School); al-Mustashfá al-ʻAskarī al-Almānī (Hospital); al-Maktabah al-Khālidīyah (Library); Schneller School (School); Schmidt School (School); Maktabat Filaṣtīn al-ʻIlmīyah (Bookstore); Mrs Robertson School (School); al-Najāḥ School (School); Rawḍat al-Ma‘ārif (School); Frères School (School); American University of Beirut (University); Cliff Hotel (Hotel); al-Madrasah al-Dustūrīyah (School).Significant figures: al-Khālidī, Adīb (Muftī); al-Muqdādī, Darwīsh (School principal); Shiḥādah, Būlus (Journalist); Ḥaddād, Ilyās Naṣr Allāh (Teacher); al-Shuqayrī, Asʻad (Shaykh); Mukhliṣ, ʻAbdullāh (Historian); al-Saʻdī, ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ (Mayor); Farrel, Jerome (Public officer); al-Fāhūm, Badr (Buisnessman); Manṣūr, George (Communist); Hūrānī, George (Writer); ‘Arafāt, Ḥasan (School principal); Haycraft, Thomas (Chief Justice); Khalīfah, Aḥmad (Public officer); Yāsīn, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd (News presenter); al-Ghuṣayn, Muḥammad (Radio presenter); Shammā, Munīr (Radio presenter); al-Khālidī, Aḥmad Sāmih (College director); Ḥasan, Ḥasan Ibrāhīm (Historian); al-Saqqāf, Aḥmad (Public officer); ʻĀkif, Aḥmad Zakī (Chemist); al-ʻAskarī, Sulaymān (Editor in Chief); Baydas, Muḥammad (School principal); Jubrān, Būlus (Teacher); Shrayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Tāzī, ʻAbd al-Hādī (Writer); Jār Allāh, Ḥusam al-Dīn (Muftī); al-Ṣīdāwī, Anīs (School principal); Saʻīd, Būlus (Bookstore owner); ʻAṭallāh, ʻĪsá (School principal); Khamīs, Georges (Teacher); Ḥaddād, Iskandar (Priest); Ḥūrānī, Georges (Professor); Ziyādah, Muṣṭafá (Author); Ḥasan, Ḥasan Muḥammad (Historian); al-Zayyāt, Aḥmad Ḥasan (Editor in chief); al-‘Alī, Ṣaliḥ (Professor).Table of contents: Family history and early life in Damascus. (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Early life in Palestine . (@ 20:2)Table of contents: Education in Jerusalem. (@ 47:39)Table of contents: Employment in Akka . (@ 66:27)Table of contents: Receiving educational grant and traveling to London. (@ 83:17)Table of contents: Educational experience at London University. (@ 110:18)Table of contents: Cultural experience in Germany. (@ 131:16)Table of contents: London Roundtable Conference, 1939 . (@ 160:9)Table of contents: Schools and colleges in Palestine. (@ 188:12)Table of contents: United Nation and the Palestinian cause. (@ 201:51)Table of contents: Arab armies and Israeli occupation. (@ 216:57)Table of contents: Intellectual life in Jerusalem. (@ 233:18)Table of contents: Working in Arabic Radio stations. (@ 254:41)Table of contents: Arabic Radio stations. (@ 268:19)Table of contents: Intellectual life in Palestine and exile. (@ 279:8)Table of contents: Study and teaching in Palestine during the British Mandate. (@ 297:29)Table of contents: Renaissance of Palestine and Arab countries. (@ 313:5)Table of contents: Culture and politics in the Arab world. (@ 330:12)Table of contents: The meeting with the president Bashār al-Assad. (@ 342:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 18, 1998 with Maḥmūd Muḥammad al-Amīn, male, born in 1924 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a mayor.Families: ‘Abd al-Ghanī; ‘Awaḍ; al-Yūsuf; Ḥamādah; Ismā‘īl; al-Khaṭīb; al-Bunnī; al-Amīn; al-Sirḥān; Aṭāyā.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Kafr Yāsīf (School).Significant figures: al-Yūsuf, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Bunnī, Maḥmūd Aḥmad (Village leader); Ismā‘īl, Shiḥādah (Village leader); ‘Awaḍ, ‘Īsa (Village leader); al-Yūsuf, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); al-Kurdī, Maḥmūd ‘Alī (Village leader); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Amīn, Muḥammad (Landowner); al-Nimir, Muḥammad (Public officer); Murād, As‘ad (School principal).Table of contents: Mayorship and community life in al-Sumayrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and mayorship . (@ 19:23)Table of contents: Mayor contact with British authorities and anti-Palestinian economic measures. (@ 44:33)Table of contents: Roles of Mayors post-Nakba. (@ 70:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 2, 2003 with Maḥmūd Muḥammad al-Amīn, male, born in 1924 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine. He worked at the Palestine Railways and later as a mayor.Families: ’Abd al-Ghanī; Yūsuf; ’Abd al-Raḥīm; Ḥusaynī; Nashāshībī; Twaynī; Sursuq; Ḥawwā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Azīz, Shiḥādah (Teacher); al-Zanānīrī, Jamīl (Public officer); Khalīl, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Sa’īd Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd Khalīl (Revolutionary); al-Yūsuf, Ṣāliḥ Sa’īd (Martyr); Shanā’ah, Muḥammad ’Alī (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Muṣṭafá (Revolutionary); Sarrīyah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Ḥazbūn, Muḥammad Khalīl (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Sulaymān (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions and agricultural merchandising. (@ 14:10)Table of contents: Rites and ceremonies. (@ 26:33)Table of contents: Political and historical developments in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 30:25)Table of contents: Land, conflict and political activity. (@ 41:37)Table of contents: Zionist expansion, resistance and warfare
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Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع عمر دياب، ذكر، ولد عام 1928 في شعب، فلسطين. عمل في مركز للسنترال ثم مع بوليس القوات البريطانية خلال الحرب العالمية الثانيةFamilies: al-Khaṭīb; ‘Abbūd.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nūr Safety Match (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Aḥmad al-‘Alaymī (Maqām); Shaykh Shukur (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd (Village leader); ʻAbbūd, Naʻīm (Carpenter); al-Ṣādiq, ʻUmar ʻAbd al-Karīm (School principal); al-Ḥāj ʻAlī, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj ʻAbd, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Abū al-Hayjah, Kāyid (Martyr); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Social dynamics in Shaʻb under British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: British strategy during the Arab rebellion in Palestine. (@ 16:8)Table of contents: Political dynamics of Shaʻb under Zionist occupation. (@ 29:8)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance to occupation. (@ 43:39)
Biography: The Interview was recorded on October 16, 2005 with Fāṭimah al-Asadī, female, born in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Dhabbāḥ; al-Khaṭīb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Asad (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:15)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 10:52)Table of contents: Zionist occupation occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 21:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 11, 2005 with Zaynab ʻAbd al-Ḥay' al-Asadī, female, born in 1930 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Muḥammad al-Asadī (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor).Table of contents: Marriage, family relations and community life in the village. (@ 0:05)Table of contents: Socio-religious customs and celebrations. (@ 12:54)Table of contents: War events, socio-economic conditions and the expulsion . (@ 25:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 14, 1997 with Ḥafīẓah al-Asadī, female, born in 1911? in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She was a seamstress.Table of contents: Community and family life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 18:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 11, 2005 with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Asadī, male, born in 1922 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked with the British army during World War II.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Terra-Santa School (School).Significant figures: al-Jaylānī, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Shaykh); al-Asad, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Naqqārah, Ḥannā (Lawyer); Jdīd, Ṣalāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd Sa‘īd (Mayor).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Childhood, education and work during the British Mandate. (@ 19:45)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Dayr al-Asad. (@ 36:4)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 50:51)Table of contents: Refugee experience and expulsion. (@ 68:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 20, 1997 with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Asadī, male, born in 1922 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked with the British Army.Families: al-Asadī; al-Dhabāḥ; Mūsá.Table of contents: Childhood and education in Pre-Nakba Dayr al-Asad . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British army and political turmoil . (@ 9:57)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience . (@ 17:43)Table of contents: lsraeli colonization of Palestinian land. (@ 34:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on ٍSeptember 22, 1997 with Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Aswad, male, born in 1920 in al-Karmil, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was Quarrier.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Evangelical School (School); Maṭār Nihlāl (Airport); Utility Company (Corporation); Egged Bus Company (Corporation); Schwat (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Ḥāj ‘Abdullāh (Mosque).Significant figures: Abū Durrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Ṣahyūn, Rājī (News reporter); Srūr, Abū Maḥmūd (Leader).Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Britain and Germany in the second world war . (@ 11:27)Table of contents: Palestine from Ottoman to British rule. (@ 31:43)Table of contents: Jews, Palestinians and one Palestine during the British Mandate. (@ 42:33)Table of contents: Social life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 58:58)Table of contents: Community traditions and customs in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 68:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 11, 2005 with Khaznah Ḥusayn al-As‘ad, female, born in 1932? in Iksāl, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Abdullāh.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Dāwūd (Maqām); al-‘Ajamī (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Mūsá, Aḥmad (Mayor).Table of contents: Everyday life and political activity in the village. (@ 0:40)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and attacks. (@ 11:35)Table of contents: The Palestinian exodus. (@ 27:38)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع حنيفة أبو غزالة، أنثى، ولدت عام 1937 في حيفا، فلسطين وتقيم في الروشة، لبنان.Families: al-Dīk; al-Qalʻah; al-Ṣalāḥ; al-Yāsīn; Khūrī; Abū Yāghī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 20:10)Table of contents: Political conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine and expulsion. (@ 32:15)Table of contents: Popular tale and folk songs. (@ 50:16)Table of contents: Social life in pre-Nakba Haifa and folk stories . (@ 62:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 11, 2004 with Turkīyah al-Aḥmad, female, born in 1933 in Haifa, Palestine.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Khamrah, Abū Yūsuf (Mayor); al-ʻAwaḍ, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).Table of contents: Tribal community life in Pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tribal customs and social life. (@ 23:8)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from Haifa. (@ 41:13)Table of contents: Hope of return and final reflections. (@ 65:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 16, 2005 with Ḥamdah al-Aḥmad, female, born in ʻArab al-Ghawārinah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-‘Alī.Significant figures: al-ʻAlī, Ḥusayn (Village leader); al-‘Alī, Ḥusayn (Village leader).Table of contents: Social life, traditions and customs. (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Ceremonial customs in ʻArab al-Ghawārinah. (@ 15:5)Table of contents: Family socio-economic situation and expulsion. (@ 41:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 2004 with Ṣubḥīyah al-Aḥmad, female, born in al-Khiṣāṣ, Palestine.Table of contents: Childhood memories and traditional treatment of illness. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Cultural and social life. (@ 25:0)Table of contents: Agriculture and political conditions. (@ 41:51)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 53:58)Table of contents: Final reflections. (@ 77:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 7, 1997 with Ᾱminah Ibrahīm al-Bakrī, female, born in 1914 in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Badrān; Khalīl; al-Tītī; ʻĀbid; al-Ḥusayn; al-Bakrī; Khāzin; Būlus; al-Khūrī.Significant figures: al-Sarkas, ʻUthmān (Mayor); Badrān, Ḥusayn Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al-Bakrī, Muḥammad Ḥasan (Lawyer); Darwīsh, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabaḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-‘Ābid, ‘Alī Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Dāhish, Jabr (Village leader); Bakrī, Ḥusayn (Leader).Table of contents: Rural life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Biʻnah. (@ 10:6)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 17:6)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 23:27)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 28:46)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 45:45)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 49:57)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 64:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 11, 1997 with Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ al-Bashīr, male, born in 1934 in al-Ḥusaynīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Fāyiz; Ja‘far; al-Rawāshidah; al-Bashāyīrah; al-Ṭawāhirah; al-Rawābiḥah; al-‘Amāmirah.Significant figures: al-Kānūn, Aḥmad (Martyr); Jaʻfar, Raḥmah (Martyr); Fāyiz, Raḥmah (Martyr).Table of contents: Land purchase scheme in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 12:56)Table of contents: Violence, betrayal and expulsion. (@ 27:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 27, 1995 with Muná Khalīl al-Bashīr, female, born in 1916 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Poetry and short story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Love story and folk poetry. (@ 12:13)Table of contents: Folk songs and poetry. (@ 27:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 20, 2004 with Maryam Aḥmad al-Baḥrī, female, born in 1934 in Haifa, Palestine.Families: al-Maghāribah; al-Gharābilah; al-Yaḥyá; al-Dusūqī; al-‘Ashmāwī; al-Maṣrī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka Port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Jamʻīyah al-Islāmīyah (School); al-Shabāb al-Islāmī (Scout association).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Luwaysī (Maqām).Table of contents: Education and childhood memories . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-cultural dynamics at Haifa. (@ 11:43)Table of contents: Political dynamics at Haifa. (@ 36:19)Table of contents: War events and the exodus. (@ 50:19)
Biography: فلسطين.Families: al-Asadī.Significant figures: al-Bāqī, Muḥammad ʻAbd a-Raḥīm (Revolutionary); Anṭāqyā, Sālim (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Ṣawwān, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Shaʻbān, Yaḥyá (Revolutionary leader); al-Ḥāj, Aḥmad Khalīl (Martyr); Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Qamalmaz, Iḥsān (Military officer); Shdīd, Ghassān (Military officer); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Family origin and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions in Palestine. (@ 16:18)Table of contents: Social life and ceremonies. (@ 20:41)Table of contents: Bīrīyā during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 31:59)Table of contents: Political life and military training in Syria. (@ 41:43)Table of contents: Military activity and resistance. (@ 57:56)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Palestinian villages during 1948. (@ 75:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 2004 with Kāmilah al-Biqā‘ī, female, born in 1934 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Saʻdnāyil, Lebanon.Families: al-Biqāʻī; al-ʻAyāshī; Lūbānī; Murād; ʻUthmān; Rayyān.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Biqāʻī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz (Martyr).Table of contents: Cultural life and childhood. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and social life. (@ 23:24)Table of contents: Arab Salvation Army arrival and Zionist attacks. (@ 47:9)Table of contents: Expulsion and hardships. (@ 65:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 2004 with ‘Amshah Maḥmūd al-Biqā‘ī, female, born in 1927 in Mughr al-Khayṭ, Palestine.Families: al-Biqāʻī; ʻAbd al-Hādī; al-Ṣabbāgh.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Biqā‘ī, Sharīfah Maḥmūd (Wounded); al-Ṣāliḥ, Muḥammad ʻAbdullah (Wounded).Table of contents: Agricultural life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Political turmoil during the British rule. (@ 22:13)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 28:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 13, 1995 with Maḥmūd al-Bāyir, male, born in 1936 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Shabrīḥah, Lebanon. The interview was also recorded with Șālih Rashīd, male, born in 1934 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in Jal al-baḥ, Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of Bishr and Husn I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Bishr and Husn II. (@ 26:59)Table of contents: Arabic folk poetry. (@ 39:26)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and folk poetry . (@ 59:16)Table of contents: Prayers to God and religious anthems. (@ 80:51)
Biography: This interview was recorded on May 8, 2003 with Muḥammad Sa‘d al- Dāwūd, male, born in 1918 in Majd al-Kurūm, Palestine. He worked with the British army during World War II, then as a Doorman in Haifa Hospital.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Mustashfá al-Ḥukūmī fī Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Shāmī, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Abū Dāwūd, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); Salīm, Muḥammad (Village leader); Sirḥān, Ḥasan (Village leader); Abū Rimḥayn, Ḥusayn (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Rashīd (Village leader); al-ʻAbbī, Rashīd (Poet); Farḥāt, Badr (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Battles and memories. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 7:31)Table of contents: Economic conditions during the British rule. (@ 18:34)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 26:11)Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist occupation and displacement. (@ 39:36)Table of contents: Refugee life and hope to return. (@ 52:35)Table of contents: Homeland: Photos, official papers. (@ 72:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Mas‘ūdah ‘Alī al-Ghazī, female, born in 1925? in Jazāyir al-Ḥindāj, Palestine.Families: al-‘Alī; al-Muḥsin.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Qāsim (Maqām); al-Ḥannīyah (Maqām).Significant figures: Shiḥādah, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Ḥasan, Mūsá (Mayor).Table of contents: Characteristics of a Bedouin community. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 17:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 22, 1996 with ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ al-Ghūl, male, born in 1941 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Rāshid, Khālid (Singer); al Qayyā, Arghul Abū al-‘Abd (Musician).Table of contents: Palestinian ballads. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Palestinian folklore. (@ 16:0)Table of contents: Wedding music. (@ 25:21)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 35:37)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 44:15)Table of contents: Mother's recompense. (@ 54:1)Table of contents: Story of a Mother. (@ 75:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 22, 1996 with ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ al-Ghūl, male, born in 1941 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: God prophets. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of a prophet. (@ 11:11)Table of contents: Religious stories. (@ 28:16)Table of contents: King Sulayman story. (@ 50:23)Table of contents: Biaqīs and king Sulayman. (@ 65:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 6, 1997 with Maḥmūd al-Hindi, male, born in 1934 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aḥmadī (School); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Shukrī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Muftī).Table of contents: History of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Akka. (@ 18:17)Table of contents: Refugees: The experience of forced migration . (@ 29:45)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 49:56)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:52)Table of contents: Refugees hopes. (@ 74:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 8, 2005 with Najlā Muḥammad al-Hābīṭ, female, born in 1933? in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al-Ghaḍbān.Significant figures: al-Hābiṭ, Fahmīyah (Craftswoman); al-Yūsuf, Ṣāliḥ (Landowner).Table of contents: Socioeconomic conditions and everyday life in the village. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: War events and expulsion. (@ 14:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1996 with ‘Āʼishah al-Amām, female, born in 1936 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Praise songs and speech of prophet Muḥammad I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Praise songs and speech of Prophet Muḥammad II. (@ 27:42)Table of contents: Birth of Prophet Muḥammad. (@ 54:11)Table of contents: Songs and storytelling of biography of Prophet Muḥammad . (@ 57:48)Table of contents: Songs of Prophet Muḥammad . (@ 74:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 1997 with Āminah Muḥammad al-Jabbār (Sārah Cohen), female, born in 1926 in Jerusalem and resides in Beirut, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘Ḥasan Bayk (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Samrī, Khalīl (Martyr); Ḥūsah, Dhakīyah (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic and political conditions in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, immigration and exile. (@ 7:46)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 22:20)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 30:23)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع هنا أبو مهاوش، أنثى، ولدت عام 1934 في حيفا، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البص للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Jamal, Tawfīq (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian rites and ceremonies. (@ 14:29)Table of contents: Two folk stories. (@ 25:4)Table of contents: Children story. (@ 48:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on 1995 with Naẓmīyah al-Janḥāwī, female, born in 1916 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Dāwūd (Maqām).Table of contents: Palestinian traditional songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zalghutah. (@ 10:13)Table of contents: Traditional songs in Palestine. (@ 16:32)Table of contents: Songs collection. (@ 38:43)Table of contents: Miscellaneous collection of songs. (@ 56:51)Table of contents: Classic Arabic songs. (@ 69:12)Table of contents: Short story. (@ 75:3)Table of contents: Green Bird story. (@ 85:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Khalīlī, male, Born in 1911 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a truck driver in Palestine.Families: Muṣṭafá; al-Jishī; Samārah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: Shraym, Fahd (Mayor); Ḥadād, Jibrā’īl (Mayor).Table of contents: Agriculture and socio-economic life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tobacco cultivation and trade. (@ 10:17)Table of contents: Tobacco industry and cultivation. (@ 36:57)Table of contents: Dwellings in Palestine. (@ 64:19)
Biography: فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم برج البراجنة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Yānūḥ (School).Significant figures: al-Ṣafadī, Sālim (Teacher); Abū Abd al-Qādir, ‘Abd al-Ghanī (Teacher); al- Majẓub, Qāsim (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Abū Ḥusayn Muḥammad (Mayor); al-‘Akkī, Aḥmad (Land owner); ‘Abd al-‘Āl, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); al-‘Akkī, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Dīb, Rāghib (Landowner); ʻŪthmān, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Rifʻat, Aḥmad (Martyr); Abū Ḥamdān, Sulaymān (Shaykh); Ibrāhim, Nūḥ (Poet).Table of contents: Social life in ‘Amqā. (@ 1:29)Table of contents: Palestinian society characteristics before Zionist occupation. (@ 26:47)Table of contents: Weddings in ʻAmqā during British occupation. (@ 50:54)Table of contents: Battle events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 69:13)Table of contents: Battle events. (@ 88:57)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 105:1)Table of contents: Arab attitudes towards Palestinians right to return. (@ 111:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 8, 2003 with Aḥmad Salīm al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1912 in al-Rās al-Aḥmar, Palestine.Families: Ayyūb; al-Shāyib; al-Khaṭīb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Qādirīyah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Murād, Rashid (Teacher); al-Khaṭīb, Faṭṭūm (Midwife); Ayyūb, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Mayor); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Shaʻbī, Abū Khalīl (Poet); al-Khaṭīb, Ḥannā al- ʻAlī (Musician); al-Khaṭīb, ʻAlī As‘ad (Musician); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥyī al-Dīn (Village leader); Ayyūb, Tawfīq (Village leader); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Qādir (Singer); Qaddūrah, Jamāl (Doctor); Qaddūrah, Ṣalāḥ (Doctor); al- Hirish, Fayyāḍ (Martyr); Shāhīn, Aḥmad (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Childhood and education in Raʼs al-Aḥmar. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community relations and ceremonial practices in Raʼs al-Aḥmar. (@ 10:10)Table of contents: Social practices, political turmoil and resistance. (@ 25:35)Table of contents: Society and conflict during Mandate Palestine. (@ 40:24)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 53:56)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 63:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 25, 2004 with Aḥmad Shafīq al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1926 in al-Qubaybah, Palestine.Families: al-Jadīlī; Sulṭān; al-Kuttah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Kullīyat Rawḍat al-Maʻārif (School).Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, Shafīq (Mayor); Shāhīn, Mūsá (Mayor); Yūnus, Muḥammad ʻᾹrif (School principal); Abū Sharkh, al-Sayyid (Mayor).Table of contents: Family origins, education, and childhood. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Social life, culture, and political conditions. (@ 21:46)Table of contents: Social and community life. (@ 46:48)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and political life. (@ 71:29)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and battles . (@ 83:27)Table of contents: Exile to Beirut and career establishment . (@ 96:40)Table of contents: Father's death and career. (@ 116:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 12, 1996 with Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1920 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader).Table of contents: Story of al-Mughdād the Arabian knight I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of al-Mughdād the Arabian knight II. (@ 27:55)Table of contents: Folk poetry and ʻatābā. (@ 44:53)Table of contents: Popular tales. (@ 56:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16, 2004 with Muṣṭafá Mūsá al-Khaṭīb, male, born in ʻArab al-Zubayd, Palestine and resides in al-Burghulīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, ʻAlī (Mayor).Table of contents: Education and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Political turmoil and cutting off Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 18:56)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 30:45)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 28, 2003 with Waḍ'ḥah al-Khaṭīb, female, born in 1926 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine.Families: Ḥamādah; al-Khaṭīb; ‘Abdullāh; Frayj; Maḥmūd; al-Ḥusayn.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Washa’ (Maqām); al-Nabī Hūdā (Maqām); al-Nabī al-Shaykh Ismā’īl (Maqām); al-Nabī al-’Ajamī (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Ḥamādah, Muḥammad al-Qāsim (Mayor); al-Mir‘ī, ‘Alī Sulaymān (Martyr); al-Murshid, Qāsim (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life in al-Khāliṣah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ceremonies, rites and customs. (@ 16:10)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 33:40)Table of contents: Explusion from Palestine. (@ 49:22)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:54)
Biography: كما سجّلت المقابلة مع نايف الخطيب، ذكر، ولد عام 1921 في الراس الأحمر، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم الميّة وميّة للاجئين الفلسطينيين.Families: al-Khaṭīb; Ayyūb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣulṭān ʻAbd al-Qādir (Maqām); al-Munṭār (Maqām).Significant figures: Zikrah, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ayyūb, ʻ Abd al-Raḥīm (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Musician); al-Shāʻir, ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary); Yaʻqūb, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); al-Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-ʻAbdallāh, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); Jadīd, Ghassān (Arab Aalvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and cultural life . (@ 20:27)Table of contents: British Mandate of Palestine . (@ 48:0)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine. (@ 57:31)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 63:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 13, 2003 with Ṣalāḥ al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1925 in al-Rās al-Aḥmar, Palestine. He was a Policeman in Akka Prison during the British Mandate.Families: Khaṭīb; Ayyūb; Huraysh; Shāyib.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Rās al-Aḥmar (School).Significant figures: Shāhīn, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Huraysh; Muḥammad Fayyāḍ (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Samīr (Teacher); Ḥamad, Fuʼād (Revolutionary leader); Blaybil, Abū ‘Āṭif (Police).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: al-Rās al-Aḥmar during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 7:31)Table of contents: Prisons and prisoners in Palestine. (@ 20:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 23, 2005 with Naẓmīyah Muḥammad al-Kāyid, female, born in Umm al-Faḥm, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Social conditions in the village. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Umm al-Faraj. (@ 13:0)Table of contents: Political situation in Umm al-Faraj during teh Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 26:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 25, 2003 with Muḥammad al-Madad, male, born in 1928 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides at ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked in a British camp during the World War II.Families: al-Madad; Abd al-ʻᾹl; Fahd; Rustum; al-Nūr; Sirḥān.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Dannūn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Jarrāḥ, ‘Ādil (Teacher); al-‘Aynayn, Aḥmad (Foreman); Rustum, Yūsuf (Foreman); Quṭrān, Na‘īm (Doctor); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Leader); al-Baytamī, Aḥmad (Mayor); ʻUthmān, Muḥammad (Martyr); Fahd, Aḥmad (Martyr); Nūr, Yaḥyá (Revolutionary leader); Nūr, Saʻīd (Prisoner); Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); Sirḥān, ‘Abdullāh (Village leader).Table of contents: Education in al-Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Work experience, religious ceremonies and social life. (@ 10:8)Table of contents: Social and health conditions in al-Shaykh Dāwūd . (@ 28:34)Table of contents: Political activities during the British rule. (@ 35:58)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 48:36)
Biography: وتقيم في بيروت، لبنان.Families: Abū Laban; Dājānī; Dabbāgh; Jār Allāh; Ṣalībā; Ṭūbāṣī; Bīṭār; al-Zaʻbalāwī; al-Ayyūbī; ʻAzzūnī; Bāmiyah; Baydas; al-Kayyālī; al-Nimir; al-Dājānī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Chamber of Commerce (Governmental institutions); Mustashfá al-Baladīyah (Hospital); Jaffa port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Zahrā’ (School); Collège des Frères de Jaffa (School); National Christian Orthodox School (School); Madrasat al-Rahibāt (School); Madrasat al-Falāḥ (School); Jāmiʻat al-Quds (University); al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank); British Bank (Bank); Palestine Iron and Brass Foundry LTd (Corporation); Mustashfá Fuʼād al-Dājānī (Hospital); al-Bank al- ʻArabī (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Nuzhah (Mosque); Sayyidnā ʻAlī (Maqām); al-Nabī Rūbīn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Dabbāgh, Mufīdah (Teacher); al-Dabbāgh, Kāmilah (Teacher); Jār Allāh, Sārah (Teacher); Ṣfayr, Nadá (Teacher); al-Sha‘rāwī, Fāṭimah (Teacher); Shāhīn, Lydia (School principal); Shāhīn, Farīdah (Teacher); al-Dājānī, F ūʼād (Doctor); Abū Khalīl, Emile (Doctor); al-Dājānī, Zuhdī (Doctor); Haykal, Yūsuf (Doctor); al-Madʹhūn, Sa‘īd (Leader); Abū Laban, Ḥāmid (Leader); al-Ayyūbī, Ḥarb (Prisoner); al-Nimir, Rif'at (Prisoner); al Ṣalāḥī, Ibrahīm (Martyr); Abū Dayyā, Ibrahīm (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Families, employment and society in Jaffa
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Weddings and ceremonies in Jaffa. (@ 18:21)Table of contents: Community and family life in Jaffa. (@ 29:48)Table of contents: Political conditions and revolution. (@ 41:42)Table of contents: Political hostility and interreligious relations. (@ 54:10)Table of contents: Palestinian public opinion and political participation. (@ 61:24)Table of contents: Coercion, fear and exile from Jaffa. (@ 66:26)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 76:16)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع زوجها عبد الرحمن محمد المجذوب، ذكر، ولد عام 1925 في عمقا، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم المية ومية للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان. كان يعمل في فبركت الكبريت في عكا.Families: Abū Jāmūs; ʻUwayyid; al-Ḥajal; al-ʻAkkī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka airport (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nūr Safety Match (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Muṣṭafá (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Darwīsh, Shafīq (Lawyer).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and beliefs in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 21:35)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 43:0)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 58:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded in January 4, 2006 with Ḥawwā Ibrāhīm al-Majdhūb, female, born in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Majdhūb; ʻAbd al-Razzāq.Significant figures: al-Ẓarīf, Āminah (Hairdresser); Farfaḥῑnῑ, Dῑb (Poet); Abū Jāmūs, Ḥalῑmah (Tailor).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in ‘Amqā . (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Political and social conditions during the Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 25:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 2, 2006 with Khalīl Ḥusayn al-Maqdaḥ, male, born in 1915 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Da‘bs; Yāsīn; Ward; Ṣaqr; Sakhnīnī; Khraybī; Bayḍūn.Significant figures: Feffer, Moshe (Foreman); Hensy Aronson (Foreman); Khayen, Lamdani (Foreman); Ward, ‘Īsá (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Social and economic conditions in al-Manshīyah during the British rule. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: Arab revolution and the Zionist invasion. (@ 22:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 6, 2006 with Maḥmūd al-Maqdaḥ, male, born in 1926 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAlayyān; al-Mughrabī; al-Sa‘ūr; ʻAbd al-ʻĀl; ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd; Shammā; al-‘Alī; ‘Awaḍ; Zlīkhah; al-Birshallī; al-Jalīl; Ḥammād; al-Sālim; Abd al-ʻĀl.Significant figures: Khūbal, ‘Abdū (Teacher); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Aḥmad As‘ad (Resistance fighter); Rabāḥ al-‘Awaḍ (Resistance fighter); Shanāʻah, Muḥammad ‘Alī (Martyr); D‘aybis, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Lamūnah, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Social life at al-Ghābisīyah during the British Mandate. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Social- economic life in al-Ghābisīyah . (@ 20:34)Table of contents: al-Sumayrīyah during the British Mandate and Zionist occupation. (@ 43:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded with 'Alyā al-Mawʻid, female, Born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine.Families: al-Ḥadāyidah; al-ʻAdādinah.Significant figures: al-Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Barmakīyah, Zaynah (Dancer); al-Mawʻid, Salīm (Village leader); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Salīm, Yūsuf (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Ka‘dlī, Muḥammad (Leader).Table of contents: Wedding Customs and traditions
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and community life in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 8:49)Table of contents: Pre-nakba life and the military occupation of Palestine. (@ 31:17)Table of contents: Community and family life . (@ 51:31)Table of contents: Socio-religious ceremonies in the village. (@ 75:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 9, 1998 with ʻAbd al-Qādir Yūsuf al-Mawʻid, male, born in 1924 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Mawʻid; Sulaymān; al-Ḥadāydī; al-Zahayrī; Tāhā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Holy Family Hospital (Hospital); Nazareth Hospital (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Mawʻid, Yūsuf (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣālih (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Sharīf (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and agriculture in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Water resources, land acquisition and German settlements . (@ 28:10)Table of contents: Olive mills. (@ 45:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 19, 2003 with ‘Alyā al-Maw‘ad, female, born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine.Families: al-Najjār; ʻAbd al-Majīd; al-Salīm.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sit Sukaynah (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Mūsá, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); Muḥammad al-Maw‘ad (Mayor); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Leader); al-Salīm, Muḥammad (Poet); ‘Abd al-Salām, Ḥamad (Poet); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader).Table of contents: Education and childhood in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions of a Palestinian family . (@ 10:28)Table of contents: British policy towards Palestinians during the British Mandate . (@ 37:16)Table of contents: Songs of social events. (@ 50:29)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and war events. (@ 56:39)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 70:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 26, 2004 with Maḥmūd al-Hazzā‘ al-Maḥmūd, male, born in 1917 in ʻArab al-Suyyād, Palestine and resides in Shabrīḥah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-‘Alī; al-ʻĪd; Murād.Significant figures: al-‘Ajāj, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-‘Alī, Ḥmaydī Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Ḥmūd, ‘Aṭiyyah (Martyr); al-Ḥmūd, Mi‘jil (Martyr); al-Maḥmud, Muḥammad (Poet).Table of contents: Characteristics of the Bedouin community. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life during the British rule and the Zionist occupation. (@ 19:55)Table of contents: The Palestinian's expulsion. (@ 36:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 3, 2005 with Amīnāh al-Maṣrī, female, born in 1932? al-Kābrī, Palestine and reides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Shaykh; al-Hādī; ʻᾹṭif; Sirḥān; al-Jishshī; Balqīs; al-ʻAlī; ‘Aṭāyā.Significant figures: al-Rīnnāwī, Ṭawfīq (Poet); Ḥisin, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood memories at al-Kābrī. (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Social and community life at al-Kābrī. (@ 6:31)Table of contents: Battles in al-Kābrī. (@ 31:41)Table of contents: Hope of return . (@ 37:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 13, 2003 with Rajab al-Maṣrī, male, born in 1918 in Ghazzah, Palestine. He was a coffeehouse owner.Families: Malaṣ; Rinnū; ʻAbd al-Ḥāfīẓ; Abū Ṭāhā; Bāshā; Shḥaybar; Ṭarazī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Farajallāh for Tourism (Corporation); al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ Wilāyāt (Mosque).Significant figures: ʻArafāt, Aḥmad (Shop owner); ʻArafāt, Muḥammad (Shop owner); al-Ghafīr, Kāmil (Potter); Abū Ṭāhā, Khalīl (Landowner); Tūmā, Mīkhāʼīl (Shop owner).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in Haifa . (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Haifa during the British mandate. (@ 18:43)Table of contents: Zionist invasion . (@ 32:9)Table of contents: Political activity and social life . (@ 40:50)Table of contents: Political dynamics under British rule and Zionist colonization. (@ 55:35)Table of contents: Political activity during the Zionist occupation. (@ 71:46)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 98:35)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع زوجها أحمد مطر، ذكر، ولد عام 1924 في نحف، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم الرشيدية للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان. كان جندياً في جيش الإنقاذ العربي.Families: ʻAbbās.Significant figures: Yūsuf al-Ṭāhā, Maṭar (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Salām, Muḥammad (Martyr); Dāhish, Jabr (Leader); al-Dūkhī, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-Ghanī, Ḥamad (Mayor); Ṣubḥīyah, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Khashshān, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Shanāʻah, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Ḥamādah, ʻAbdullāh (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Social and political conditions during the Zionist occupation of Naḥf. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 8:20)Table of contents: Military occupation of Naḥf. (@ 24:43)Table of contents: Violence, battles and resistance. (@ 33:28)Table of contents: Military service in Arab Salvation Army. (@ 57:5)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 66:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 20, 2003 with Muḥammad Dyāb al-Mir‘ī, male, born in 1931 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine.Families: Suwayṭ; Darwīsh; Mir‘ī; ʻAwaḍ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Ja‘tūn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Mir‘ī, Maḥmūd (Village leader); al-Mir‘ī, Dyāb (Village leader); Ḥmaydār, Riḍā (Landowner); Muṣṭafá, Salīm (Landowner); al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Bedouin community at Tarshīḥā . (@ 0:08)Table of contents: Social and political aspects of the bedouins of Tarshīḥā. (@ 18:19)Table of contents: Events during the Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 30:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 11, 2005 with Yaḥyá al-Mir‘ī, male, born in 1929 in al-Ṭīrah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Salmān; ʻAmmūrah; Dirbās; Ḥajīr; al-Rabbānī; ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm.Significant figures: al-Ṣulḥ, Adīb (Teacher); Ḥammūd, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Ṭāhir, Yūsuf (Lawyer); Abū Ḥamad, Elias (Military personnel); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor).Table of contents: Economic conditions in al-Ṭīrah during the British Mandate. (@ 0:05)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and popular resistance. (@ 24:56)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 38:48)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 52:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 1, 2003 with Ḥusayn al-Mi‘āri, male, born in 1927 in ʻAkbarah, Palestine.Families: al-Mīʻārī; Abū Kayl; Fayyāḍ.Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Mirʻī, Shiḥādah (Martyr).Table of contents: Family origin and childhood. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and cultural life. (@ 9:51)Table of contents: ʻAkbarah during and the British colonialist policies towrads the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 1936-1939 . (@ 21:43)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine. (@ 27:14)Table of contents: Expulsion from ʻAkbarah . (@ 47:43)Table of contents: Final reflections. (@ 56:18)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع صباح محمد عوض، أنثى، ولدت عام 1969 في الغابسية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البص للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Significant figures: ʻAwaḍ, Marzūq (Village leader); al-Tawbah, Abū Maḥmūd (Leader); al-Najmī, salīm (Leader); Khiḍir, Qāsim (Land agent).Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Heroic stories. (@ 19:1)Table of contents: Real stories from Palestine and Heroic poems. (@ 30:36)Table of contents: Poems and songs. (@ 45:20)Table of contents: The Old man and his wife story. (@ 65:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 16, 2004 with Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Mkaḥal, male, born in 1925? Qadas, Palestine.Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); ‘Ammār, Ḥusayn (Landowner); al-Mārdīnī, Aḥmad (Landowner); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander).Table of contents: Tribal customs and community life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural life and customs. (@ 16:41)Table of contents: Expulsion of Palestinians . (@ 26:13)
Biography: The interview was recording on February 7, 1997 with Amīnah Bashīr al-Mughrabī, female, born in 1921 in Nahariya, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon.Families: Twaynī; Sursuq; Twaynī.Significant figures: al-Shanṭī, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Ḥimmū, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥūrānī, Abū Kāmil (Engineer).Table of contents: Settlements and land issues before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 18:45)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 26:11)Table of contents: Exodus and revisiting Palestine. (@ 37:25)Table of contents: Exile and emigration. (@ 47:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 12, 2004 with ‘Alī Saʻīd al-Mughrabī, male, born in 1926 in Ma‘dhar, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-ʻAdil al-ʻUlyā (Court).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation); Steel Wheat Company (Corporation); Kyron Kenneth Company for Land Purchase (Corporation).Significant figures: ʻAnabtāwī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Ṭabarī, Fāyiz (Lawyer); al-Ṭabarī, Fāyiz (Lawyer); al-Ṭayyib, Ibrāhīm (Land broker); Nehmani, Yusef Mendel (Land broker); al-Mukhārī, Muḥammad ‘Alī (Mayor); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Shīshaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Economic conditions at Ma‘dhar during the British Mandate. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and land appropriation . (@ 24:31)Table of contents: Arab Revolution during British colonialism . (@ 51:30)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 70:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with ‘Alī Saʻīd al- Mughrabī, male, born in 1928 in Maʻdhar, Palestine.Families: ‘Aṭāyā.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-‘Adl al-‘Ulyā (Court).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Keren Kayemeth (Corporation); Egged Bus Company(Corporation).Significant figures: al-Ṭabarī, Fāyiz (Lawyer); Kūsā, Elias (Lawyer); ‘Anabtāwī, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Ṭabarī, Khalīl (Revolutionary); al-Ṭabarī, Ṣidqī (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ṭāhir, Sālim (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ṭāhir, Sālim (Village leader); Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Village leader); Shishaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander); Abū Nasab, Farīd (Refugee camp leader); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-‘Arābī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Rizq, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Land legislation in Palestine. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Land ownership in Palestine. (@ 12:59)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 18:15)Table of contents: Violence,battles and armed resistance. (@ 29:7)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 39:6)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 49:2)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 63:47)Table of contents: Land, refugees and return. (@ 79:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Āʼishah al-Munawwar, female, born in 1928 in Dayshūm, Palestine.Families: Nūḥ.Table of contents: Handicrafts and Pottery making . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Dietary practices and socio-economic conditions . (@ 13:0)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاّ مع حسين سويد، ذكر، ولد عام 1931 في صفد، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding songs and story of the old lady and her daughters in law. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk tale . (@ 22:56)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Ḥasan I. (@ 41:2)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Ḥasan II. (@ 65:10)Table of contents: The tote bag of happiness and the fluent rooster. (@ 73:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 17, 1995 with Amīnah al-Mūsá, female, born in 1911 in ʻAmqā, Plaestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Traditional songs and memories of childhood. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic life in ʻAmqā . (@ 15:55)Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 30:51)Table of contents: Marriage traditional celebration. (@ 56:59)Table of contents: Black Dog story. (@ 65:24)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 83:16)
Biography: The interview was recording with ‘Alī al-Najjār, male, born in Jaffa, Palestine and reides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a driver with the British Army.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ Ḥasan Bayk (Mosque).Significant figures: Dabbās, ʻIzzat (Auto mechanic); Haykal, Yūsuf (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Description of the city. (@ 9:34)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Zionist infiltration . (@ 26:1)Table of contents: War time, military occupation , immigration and refugees. (@ 39:8)Table of contents: Refugee hope. (@ 57:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 17, 1997 with ‘Alī Muḥammad al-Najjār, male, born in 1913 in Safad, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a carpenter.Families: Khaḍrā; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Significant figures: Qaddūrah, Zakī (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Mir‘bī, Muṣṭafá (Governor); ʻArābī, Muṣṭafá (School principal); Shamar, ‘Alī (Coffeehouse owner); ‘Asqūl, ʻAlī (Public servant); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Village leader); Qaddūrah, Walīd (Martyr); Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Trader).Table of contents: Political conditions in the city before Nakba. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Memories of life in Palestine and Lebanon. (@ 7:43)Table of contents: Community life in the city. (@ 19:31)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics before Nakba. (@ 31:29)Table of contents: War time, city occupation and the expulsion. (@ 44:24)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 61:49)
Biography: عام 1937 في بيريا، فلسطين ويقيم في بعلبك، لبنان.Significant figures: Naʻmān, Faḍl Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻAsqūt, Muḥammad Khālid (Martyr).Table of contents: Early childhood and community life in Birīyā. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: al-Ṣafṣāf massacre . (@ 6:33)Table of contents: Hope of return to Palestine. (@ 20:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 22, 2002 with Kāmilah Ibrāhīm al-Nāṣir, female, born in 1932 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine.Families: al-Wannih.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al- Khiḍir (Maqām); Mar Elias (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū Muṣṭafá, Ḥalīm (Martyr); al-Nāṣir, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Qaddūmī, Dāwūd (Martyr); al-Sharār, ‘Alī (Martyr); Nimir, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Ḥallāq, Jabbūr (Mayor); Abū al-ʻUlā, Khiḍir (Resistance fighter); al-Hindāwī, Umm ‘Alī (Prisoner); Na‘īm, Umm Khalīl (Prisoner).Table of contents: Childhood and society during wartime. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Customs and community life in Shafā ʻAmrū
. (@ 14:49)Table of contents: Ceremonies, rites and traditional practices in Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 25:28)Table of contents: Social relations and political turmoil. (@ 33:47)Table of contents: Society and warfare. (@ 53:49)Table of contents: Mass evacuation by Israeli authority. (@ 67:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 23, 1995 with Zubaydah Aḥmad al-Nāṭūr, female, born in 1918 in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding customs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Homeland nostalgia. (@ 15:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 1, 1995 with Muḥammad Saʻd al-Quṭṭ, male, born in 1921 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Zayādinah.Table of contents: Proverbs and wise sayings . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular songs and Arabic proverbs. (@ 26:48)Table of contents: Arabic proverbs and real life stories . (@ 49:47)Table of contents: Arabic proverbs and storytelling . (@ 78:24)Table of contents: Proverb tales and advice . (@ 86:53)Table of contents: Benevolence and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 105:55)Table of contents: Popular tales . (@ 129:13)Table of contents: Short stories . (@ 153:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 9, 2003 with Muḥammad Saʻd al-Quṭṭ, male, born in 1920 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine.Families: Sālim; Hwaydī; al-Ḥāj Mūsá; al-Ḥāj ‘Alī; al-‘Adawī; al-ʻArīḍ; Aṣlān; Zayn al-Dīn; al-Ḥallāq.Significant figures: al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Muṣṭafá, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Ḥammād, Nimir (Martyr); al-Rīnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); al-Majdalāwī, Rashīd (Poet); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Mayor); Sa‘dī, al-‘Abd (Public officer); Abū al-Sa‘d, Ḥusayn (Water supplier); al-Ḥallāq, Aḥmad (Water supplier); al-ʻArīḍ, Sahl (Water supplier); al-ʻArīḍ, Ḥusayn (Water supplier).Table of contents: Social life of Umm al-Faraj. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and folk stories . (@ 14:17)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics at the village. (@ 30:14)Table of contents: Social and political dynamics at Umm al-Faraj. (@ 42:0)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 63:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 28, 1997 with Muḥammad Sa‘d al-Quṭṭ, male, born in 1919 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, Asʻad (Shaykh); Shiḥādah, Muḥammad (Coffeehouse owner); Huwaydī, Ḥamīd (Trader); Sirḥān, Nāyif (Leader); al-Rīnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); al-Majdalāwī, Rashīd (Poet).Table of contents: Agriculture life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic and political conditions during the Ottoman and British rule. (@ 12:2)Table of contents: Revolution and revolutionists during the British Mandate. (@ 21:52)Table of contents: Community life and celebrations. (@ 45:42)Table of contents: Life style in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 59:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with ʻAlī al-Qādirī, male, born in 1924 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was the Imām of the mosque in al-Ṣafṣāf.Significant figures: Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kāyid, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Warfare and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 10:2)Table of contents: Refugee conditions in exile . (@ 22:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 26, 2006 with ‘Alī al-Qādirī, male, born in 1920 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Qādirī; ‘Ubayd; al-Jarmūsh.Significant figures: Ḥamad, Muḥammad (Shaykh): Ṭālib, Aḥmad (Teacher); Zaghmūṭ, ‘Abd al-Karīm (Mayor); Zaghmūṭ, ‘Awaḍ (Martyr); Zaghmūṭ, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and religious life during the British Mandate . (@ 0:28)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebnaon. (@ 18:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 12, 1999 with Fāṭimah Kāmil al-Qāḍī, female, Born in 1932 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Qāḍī; al-Jishshī; Sirḥān; al-Āghā.Significant figures: Shrayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Qāḍī, Shukrī (Mayor); al-Maḥmūd, Shafīq (Mayor).Table of contents: Embroidery work and sewing. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and embroidery. (@ 17:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 5, 2004 with Maryam al-Rifā‘ī , female, born in Firʻim, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻUthmān; ʻAwdah; Shaʻbān.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Munṭār (Maqām).Significant figures: Mir‘ī, Maḥmūd (Vehicle driver); al-Ḥasan, Qāsim (Landowner); al-Muṣṭafá, Ḥusayn (Businessman); Ḥajjāj, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture. (@ 0:23)Table of contents: Ceremonies celebrations and community life. (@ 12:24)Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 33:23)Table of contents: Military operations and resistance. (@ 38:29)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 50:31)Table of contents: Refugees hope for the future. (@ 62:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ‘Alī Jabr al-Rifā‘ī, male, born in 1920 in Firʻim, Palestine. He was a trader.Families: Ḥmayyid; Fā‘ūr; Kassāb; ‘Azīmih; ‘Awdah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj Ḥasan, Mir‘ī (Poet).Table of contents: Agriculture, Education and political conditions in the village. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Religious life and customs in Firʻim . (@ 18:27)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 37:32)Table of contents: Revolt and political activity during the British rule. (@ 50:17)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 63:24)Table of contents: Land, refugees,and right of return. (@ 86:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 29, 1998 with Qāsim al-Rāghib, male, born in 1922 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a trader.Significant figures: al-Qabalān, Kanj (Village leader); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Village leader); al-Ibrāhīm, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ma‘rūf, Ghānim (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Rashīd, Shafīq (Trader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 15:18)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 27:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1997 with Mudalalah ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Rīnāwī, female, born in 1937 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Khalaf; al-Naṣṣār.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Banāt Yaʻqūb (Maqām); Dayr Ḥannah (Convent); Dayr Ṣaffūrī (Convent).Significant figures: al-Rīnāwī, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Rīnāwī, Saʻīd (Martyr); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Ghuzz, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: History of Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule. (@ 14:29)Table of contents: Occupation of Ṣaffūrīyah and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 21:57)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 31:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 6, 1997 with Mudallalah al-Rīnāwī, female, born in 1932 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Table of contents: Palestinian wedding folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of the pigeon and the ogre. (@ 11:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on Jul 3, 2003 with Fāṭimah Muṣṭafá al-Rūbī, female, born in 1932 in Ṣafad, Palestine.Families: Shib‘ānī.Significant figures: al-Rūbī, Yaḥyá (Martyr); Abū al-Laban, al-Ṣāliḥ (Landlord).Table of contents: Education and social conditions in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Safad. (@ 6:31)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 23:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December, 1995 with Fāṭimah Muṣṭafá al-Rūbī, female, born in 1934 in Safad, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. The interview was also recorded with Kāmilah al-ʻAlūṭī, female, born in 1931 in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.The interview was also recorded with Asʻad al-Mughrabī, male, born in 1927 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Jāmiʻ al-Aḥmar (Mosque).Significant figures: Funaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kaʻwash, Saʻd (Singer).Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Moses and Zionist occupation of Safad . (@ 16:8)Table of contents: Real life stories and Palestinian wedding celebration. (@ 25:15)Table of contents: Story of Joseph (Son of Jacob). (@ 42:41)Table of contents: Palestinian folk tales. (@ 50:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 15, 1997 with Fāṭimah Muṣṭafá al-Rūbī, female, born in 1934 in Safad, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī, Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Naḥawī; al-‘Arabī; al-Shab‘ānī; Dīb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Jāmi‘ al-Aḥmar (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Rūbī, Sa‘īd (Butcher); Abū al-Laban, Ṣāliḥ (Landlord); al-Rūbī, Muḥammad (Arab Salavtion Army soldier); al-Rūbī, Ibrāhīm (Arab Salvation Army soldier).Table of contents: Pre Nakba life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio political dynamics in Safad. (@ 6:40)Table of contents: Violence and armed resistance. (@ 14:41)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 20:52)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 30:20)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 47:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November, 1995 with Badr al-Sayyid, male, born in 1926 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 12:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Dyāb Muḥammad al-Sayyid, male, born in 1922 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine. He was a policeman.Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; al-Ḥāj; Khalīl; al-Lūbānī.Significant figures: al-Shawwah, Muḥammad (Teacher); ‘Awartānī, Sa‘īd (Teacher); Badr, ‘Alī (Public officerl); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Mayor); Sulaymān, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Ḥusayn, ʻAbdullāh (Prisoner); Nāṣir, ʻAlī (Prisoner); al-ʻAjamī, Kamāl (Prisoner); Abū al-Shabāb, Yūsuf (Prisoner); al-Sayyid, Khālid (Prisoner).Table of contents: Education and community life. (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Employment during the British Mandate in Palestine. (@ 29:10)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 58:24)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and expulsion. (@ 69:2)