Biography: The interview was recorded with Laṭīfah Dīb, female,born in ʻAkbarah, Palestine.Families: Maʻārī; Mukhtār.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh ‘Alī (Maqām); Shaykh Salāmah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥlayḥil, Ḥasan (Musician); al-Aḥmad, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Nājī, Mūsà (Revolutionary); Abū Qāsim, Ḥayāt (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusaynī, Yūsuf (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions at ʻAkbarah. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Political activity at ʻAkbarah during the British Mandate. (@ 22:49)Table of contents: British policy towards the villagers and revolutionists. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 50:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ᾱminah Khiḍir, female, Born in 1926 in Kufrītā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: al-Nāṭūr; al-Shaḥbarī; Sursuq; al-Ṭayyib; al-Ḥanafī; al-Khiḍir; al-Nawāṭīr; al-Aḥmad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥanafī, ʻAbd al-Salām (Revolutionary); Khiḍir, Fāris (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary leader); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Ḥāfiẓ (Martyr); al-Muḥammad, ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Political turmoil and Hawshah and al-Kasāyir battle. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions and social life. (@ 14:21)Table of contents: Rural conditions and social life. (@ 35:5)Table of contents: Childbirth and cultural life . (@ 62:16)Table of contents: Expulsion from Khirbat al-Kasāyir and dispersion. (@ 72:55)Table of contents: Childhood incidents and cultural life in Khirbat al-Kasāyir . (@ 79:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1997? with Aḥmad Ḍāhir ‘Īsá, male, born in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine.Table of contents: Relay of memories and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile and diaspora . (@ 11:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Aḥmad Muṣṭafà Shabāyṭah, male, born in 1912 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine and resides in ʼAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shabāyṭah; Azzām; al-Imām; Rabāḥ; Qīyyam; Sursuq; Ramaḍān; Twaynī; al-Lawābinah.Significant figures: Azzām, Mufaḍḍī (Trader); Azzām, Azzām (Trader); Shaʻbān, Muḥammad (Trader); al-Būlīṣ, Khalīl (Doctor); al-Saʻīd, Diyāb (Poet); al-Badawī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); Shabāyṭah, Mūsá (Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd al-ʻAbd (Mayor); Azzām, Abū Rāmī,(Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Resisatnce leader); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd ʻAbd al-Qādir (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Resistance fighter); al-Imām, Ḥāmid (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood difficulties and education. (@ 0:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn
. (@ 8:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 27:23)Table of contents: Political conditions and Palestinian resistance. (@ 38:21)Table of contents: Expulsion and hardships of exile . (@ 63:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Aḥmad Mifliḥ ‘Alā’ al-Dīn (Abū Usāmah), male, born in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-‘Īsá, Sulaymān Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Martyr); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Alā’ al-Dīn, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Mufliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and resistance . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance, occupation, and expulsion from Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 11:28)Table of contents: Journey to exile and refugee experience . (@ 34:18)Table of contents: Final reflections on the future of Palestinians . (@ 54:53)
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: The interview was recorded with Umm Ṭāhā Saʻd, female and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Two short stories. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Sacrifice in social relations. (@ 8:18)Table of contents: Dignity in literature. (@ 16:37)Table of contents: The king and his son in law . (@ 26:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Tāhā Saʻd, female and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of a king and his daughter. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Short Arabic stories. (@ 11:28)Table of contents: Moral stories. (@ 21:42)Table of contents: Cunning and guile in Arabic short stories. (@ 34:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on with Umm Muḥammad Asʻad, female, born in Shaʻb, Palestine.Table of contents: Palestinians' call for Arab leaders. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Salutations to Family relations. (@ 12:3)
Biography: 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 on with Bahīyah al-ʻAdawī, female, born in Palestine.Table of contents: ʻAtābā and wedding songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Stupidity in popular tale. (@ 25:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Thérèse Dāʼūd, female, born in 1963 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Abū al-Marājil, and two short stories. (@ 12:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Thérèse Dāwūd, female, born in 1963 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ‘Awdah, Fāris (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Mūsá Srāj story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Umm Fāris story. (@ 18:0)Table of contents: ‘Ā̕idah bint al-Nakba and other real stories. (@ 25:57)Table of contents: Real stories and songs. (@ 37:2)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع حسين لوباني، ذكر، ولد عام 1939 في الدامون، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم نهار البارد للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Table of contents: Short stories . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral stories. (@ 14:14)Table of contents: Story of women's machination . (@ 29:21)Table of contents: Moral story of mothers in law and daughters in law . (@ 40:13)
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: 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: This interview was recorded with Ḥasan Badr al-Shāhīn, male, born in Jaffa, Palestine.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Wadādiīyah (Hospital); Barclays Bank (Bank); English hospital (Hospital).Table of contents: Childhood memories and Battles. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Jaffa and war events. (@ 16:15)Table of contents: Cultural life and traditions. (@ 21:3)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hope of return . (@ 35:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lūbānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Short story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social story. (@ 20:33)Table of contents: Story of two old married. (@ 31:58)Table of contents: Folk stories. (@ 44:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥusayn Maḥmūd Dakwar, male, born in 1910? in Qaddītā, Palestine.Families: Ḥlayḥil.Significant figures: Abū Rayyā, Maryam (Martyr).Table of contents: Rural conditions in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Arab Revolt during the British rule. (@ 12:33)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion to lebanon. (@ 23:17)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 36:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥammūdah Sa‘īd Ḥasan, male, born in 1928 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in al-Jalīl Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a policeman.Families: ‘Aṭwāṭ; al-Shahaybah; al-Shahāybah; Sursuq.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port); Port Saʻīd (Port); Ministry of Educatiion (Ministry).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Shwāmīn (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ḥamādah, Ḥasan Anīs (Teacher); al-Fāhūm, Dyāb (Teacher); Ṭāhā, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); al-Shihābī, ‘Alī al-Ṣāliḥ (Shaykh); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Village leader); Sallūm, Farḥāt (Poet); Badīʻah, Muṣṭafá (Poet); Ṭāhā, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader); al-A‘awar, Bashīr (Lebanese Deputy); al-Salīm, Fawzī (Mayor); al-Jarbunī, ‘Alī (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 0:24)Table of contents: Economic conditions during British Manadate. (@ 28:37)Table of contents: Socio-political situation in the village. (@ 40:49)Table of contents: Refugee life and community celebrations. (@ 49:36)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Lūbyā. (@ 59:6)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 73:46)Table of contents: Refugee life and isolation. (@ 88:8)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 103:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥammūdah ‘Alī ʻAlwānī, male, born in 1918 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a fisherman then a truck driver.Families: ‘Aṭāyā; Yūsuf; al-Shaykh Ṭāhā.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, Fatḥallāh (Shaykh); Qāsim, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Khālid (Martyr); ʻAwaḍ, Mahmūd ʻAbd (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, Fatḥallah (Shaykh); al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Coffeehouse owner); al-Khaṭīb, Ḥasan (Coffeehouse owner); ʻAlwānī, Yūsuf (Martyr); ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-ʻAlī, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Survivor); ʻAṭāyā, Maḥmūd ʻĪsá (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmud (Revolutionary leader); ʻAwaḍ, Sulaymān Mūsá (Revolutionary leader); ʻAwaḍ, Aḥmad Darwīsh (Revolutionary leader); Qiblāwī, Abū Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); al-Haybah, Yūsuf (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Education and economic conditions in al-Zīb. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions and social practices in pre-Nakba al-Zīb. (@ 18:20)Table of contents: Communal celebrations and political events in al-Zīb. (@ 42:6)Table of contents: Escalated violence and Arab Salvation Army . (@ 58:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥusun Sa‘īd, female, born in Khirbat Saʻsaʻ, Palestine.Families: ‘Azzām; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Sa‘īd, Maḥmūd (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:35)Table of contents: Village destruction and exile. (@ 13:21)