Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع حورية أبو الهنا، أنثى، ولدت عام 1939 في الطنطورة، فلسطين.Families: Salabūd; Ḥamdān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-al-Ṭanṭūrah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bujayrimī (Maqām); al-Shaykh ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bujayrimī (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hindī, Dāwūd (Mayor); al-Hindī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ṭanṭūrī, Mūsá (Landowner); Abū al-Ḥanā, Faḍl (Martyr); Abū al-Hanā, Saʻūd (Prisoner); Abū al-Hanā, Ḥasan (Prisoner); Abū al-Hanā, Ḥusayn (Prisoner).Table of contents: Childhood and education . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 6:13)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 13:55)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion. (@ 21:17)Table of contents: al-Ṭanṭūrah Massacre, 1948 . (@ 37:43)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 50:19)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 63:7)
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 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 Muḥammad Ḥusayn Darwīsh, male, born in 1917 in al-Birwah, Palestine. He worked as policeman with the British authorities.Families: Darwīsh; al-Kayyāl; Hawwāsh; ‘Alī Dīb; al-Zāyid; Khūrī; al-Shuqayrī; al- Saʻdī; Ḥbayshī; Sursuq; Qūwwatlī; al-‘Aḍm; Salām; Dabbāḥ.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa International Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabi Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Masjid al-Aqṣà (Mosque).Significant figures: Naḥfāwī, Ḥasan (Shaykh); al-Barghūtī, Nāyif (Military officer); Abū Zayid, Nājī (Military officer); al-Shuqayrī, Aḥmad (Lawyer); al-Dīb, Shafīq (Trader); Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥmayyid, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Ḥmayyid, Qāsim (poet); Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-‘Abdullāh, Najīb (Revolutionary leader); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Jūdī, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); Hawwāsh, Yaḥyá (Revolutionary); Sulṭānah, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā (Revolutionary); Darwīsh, Shafīq (Chief justice); Bashir, ʻĀbid (Revolutionary leader); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); Bayḍūn, ʻIṣām (Doctor); al-Khūrī, Salīm (Doctor).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in al-Birwah under British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and political activity in Akka during British mandate. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: The British measures towards the Arab revolution. (@ 32:34)Table of contents: al-Birwah battle events and the expulsion to Lebanon
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Biography: The interview was recorded with Qasim Muḥammad Dirbāj, male, born in 1925 in Qadas, Palestine.Families: Mārdīnī; al-Mārdīnī; Bazzī; Farḥāt; Kinyār; Dirbaj; al-Sūqīyah; ‘Īsá.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām); Umm Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Dʹhaynī, ʻAbdullāh (Shaykh); Dirbāj, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Sūqīyah,ʻAqlah (Mayor); Khanāfir, Saʻīd (Village leader); al-Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Village leader); Khalīl, Ḥasan (Wounded); al-As‘ad, Aḥmad (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Dirbāj, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter leader); Ḥusayn, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Kinyār, Muḥammad Qāsim (Resistance fighter); al-‘Abd, Qāsim (Wounded); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-As‘ad, Aḥmad (Leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in the villagwe. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Land and identity in Palestine. (@ 8:59)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics during the British rule. (@ 25:40)Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 32:27)Table of contents: Marriage celebrations in Palestine. (@ 42:14)Table of contents: Community life in Qadas. (@ 53:38)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity in the village. (@ 59:44)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 69:7)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 81:13)Table of contents: Military occupation and hopes for the future. (@ 93:30)
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 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: 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 Shiḥādah al-Ḥasan Jum‘ah, male,born in 1927 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; Fustuq; Salām; Sharārī; Ṭāhā; Maʻrūf; al-Khaṭīb; Hawwārī.Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ḥusayn (Tribe leader); Abū Shāhir, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Shāṭir, Ḥusayn (Trader); ʻAṣfūrah, Abū Mirshid (Trader); Abū al- Shanab, Farīd (Policeman); al-Ḥakīm, Ṣāliḥ (Policeman).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 15:34)Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life . (@ 35:40)Table of contents: Bedouins community in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 55:23)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine. (@ 69:41)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 86:7)Table of contents: Military activity and exile. (@ 112:35)Table of contents: Songs of life and love. (@ 122:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Nimir Muḥammad Khalīl, male, born in 1923? in ʻArrābah, Palestine. He worked as a Blacksmith.Table of contents: The blacksmith's materials. (@ 0:00)
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 with Salmá ‘Alī Lūbānī, female, born in 1955 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Sleeping Beauty story. (@ 12:41)Table of contents: Songs and stories. (@ 26:9)
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: Biography The interview was recorded with ‘Ārif Ma‘rūf, male, born in 1926 in Dayr al-Qāsī, Palestine. He worked as policeman during the British mandate.Families: Ma‘rūf; Ḍāhir; al-Ṣādiq.Significant figures: Ma‘rūf, Ghānim (Mayor); al-Ṣādiq, Majīd (Mayor); Abū Naʻāj, Nimir (Revolutionary leader); al-Hrāsh, Fāyiz (Revolutionary leader); al-Aṣlī, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Sa‘ūd, Aḥmad (Martyr); Zaydān, ‘Alī (Poet); Ma‘rūf, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣādiq, Fāyiq (Teacher); al-Majīd, al-Ṣādiq (Teacher); Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Policeman); Sa‘īd, Fāyiz (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣādiq, Fāyiz (Martyr); Ṣabḥah, Salīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Political dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity during the British mandate. (@ 14:51)Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 22:32)Table of contents: Political and social conditions under British rule. (@ 44:19)Table of contents: The Zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 57:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Salīm Khalīl Mūsà, male, born in 1927 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a quarryman.Families: ʻAbbās; Ayyūb; Maṭar; ʻAbdullāh ʻAbd al-Ghanī; Qays; Sirḥān; al-Ḥāj Ḥasan; Dʻaybis.Significant figures: al-‘Abdullāh, Khālid (Leader); ʻUbayd, Shafīq (Teacher); al-Nāṭūr, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); Ghunaym, Rif‘at (Teacher); Abū Naṣrah, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Ḥasan, Khalīl Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá (Martyr); al-Dūkhī, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); ‘Uṭūr, al-‘Abd (Village leader); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Ghazāl, Khālid (Village leader); al-‘Abdullāh, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); al-Muṣṭafá, Maḥmūd (Village leader); al-‘Abdullāh, Khālid (Village leader); al-As‘ad, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Biqāʻī, Adīb (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: History of Naḥf . (@ 10:3)Table of contents: Community life and social relations in the village . (@ 24:1)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Naḥf . (@ 38:55)Table of contents: Norms and practices in Naḥf and it's surroundings. (@ 53:8)Table of contents: social conditions and political turmoil before Nakba. (@ 74:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Fāṭimah Ibrāhīm Qaddūrah, female, born in 1939 in Suḥmātā, Palestine.Families: Qaddūrah; Ḥamādah; Ḥusayn; Mūsá; ‘Āmir; Mūsá; Sursuq; Kittānah; Salām; al-As‘ad.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Manzūl (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al- Fāhūm Company (Corporation); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Sabalān (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Dīmāsī, Khalīl (Teacher); ‘Abdullāh, Jamīl (Bakery owner); Qaddūrah, ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); Qaddūrah, Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Wounded).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in Suḥmātā . (@ 16:34)Table of contents: Community celebration and customs. (@ 26:12)Table of contents: Political turmoil and social life in Suḥmātā . (@ 33:5)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 45:23)Table of contents: Land, refugees and return. (@ 61:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Laṭīfah Qaddūrah, female, born in 1924 in Suḥmātā, palestine.Families: Mūsá; Ḥusayn; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh Ibrāhīm (Maqām); al-Nabī Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: Qaddūrah, Kāmil ʻAlī (Poet); al-ʻAbd, Sa‘īd (Revolutionary); Sallūm, Khalīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Agricultural life in Suḥmātā . (@ 13:6)Table of contents: Community life during the British rule. (@ 25:23)Table of contents: Communal celebrations and marriage customs. (@ 39:25)Table of contents: Political turmoil and revolution during the British Mandate . (@ 55:25)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 68:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad ‘Alī Qays, male, born in 1933 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAbd al-Ghanī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Rabīʻ (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: Shukrī, Elyas (Village leader); Nakhlah, Jamīl (Village leader).Table of contents: British colonization of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories and education. (@ 10:1)Table of contents: Cultural life and religious beliefs . (@ 19:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded with S‘ayyid Muḥammad Rasāṭmah, male, born in Jazāyir al-Ḥindāj, Palestine.Significant figures: S‘ayyid, Mas‘ūd al-Miḥsin (Mayor); al-Ḥāj Ḥusayn, Mūsá (Village leader); S‘ayyid, Miḥsin (Martyr); al-Ṣāliḥ, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Ḍāhir, Salīm (Resistance fighter); Gharībih, Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn (Resistance leader); al-Atāsī, Fatḥī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ja‘far, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); ‘Ammār, ‘Alī (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Armed clashes between Bedouins and the Zionists . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 24:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Maḥmūd Sarrīs, male, born in Majd al-Kurūm, Palestine.Families: Minnā'; Khalāyil; Kanʻān; Sirḥān.Significant figures: al-Maḥbūb, Salīm (Landowner); Salīm , Muḥammad (Mayor); Sirḥān, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Salīm (Mayor); Kinʻān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Economic conditions before Nakba. (@ 18:42)Table of contents: Rural economy and country life in Palestine before 1948. (@ 37:42)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Ṭāhā Saʻd, female and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Two short stories. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Sacrifice in social relations. (@ 8:18)Table of contents: Dignity in literature. (@ 16:37)Table of contents: The king and his son in law . (@ 26:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Tāhā Saʻd, female and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of a king and his daughter. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Short Arabic stories. (@ 11:28)Table of contents: Moral stories. (@ 21:42)Table of contents: Cunning and guile in Arabic short stories. (@ 34:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ʻAlī Dāwūd Saʻīd, male, born in 1941 in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Abū Ṭāhā, Nimir As‘ad (Village leader); al-Idlibī, Aḥmad (Governor); ‘Ashshām, Sa‘īd (Resistance fighter); ‘Ashshām, Aḥmad Muṣṭafá (Resistance fighter); al-Jūdī, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Violence, battles and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 8:55)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 23:7)Table of contents: Marriage celebrations in rural community. (@ 41:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥusun Sa‘īd, female, born in Khirbat Saʻsaʻ, Palestine.Families: ‘Azzām; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Sa‘īd, Maḥmūd (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:35)Table of contents: Village destruction and exile. (@ 13:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Aḥmad Muṣṭafà Shabāyṭah, male, born in 1912 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine and resides in ʼAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shabāyṭah; Azzām; al-Imām; Rabāḥ; Qīyyam; Sursuq; Ramaḍān; Twaynī; al-Lawābinah.Significant figures: Azzām, Mufaḍḍī (Trader); Azzām, Azzām (Trader); Shaʻbān, Muḥammad (Trader); al-Būlīṣ, Khalīl (Doctor); al-Saʻīd, Diyāb (Poet); al-Badawī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); Shabāyṭah, Mūsá (Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd al-ʻAbd (Mayor); Azzām, Abū Rāmī,(Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Resisatnce leader); Shabāyṭah, Maḥmūd ʻAbd al-Qādir (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Resistance fighter); al-Imām, Ḥāmid (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood difficulties and education. (@ 0:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn
. (@ 8:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and cultural life in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 27:23)Table of contents: Political conditions and Palestinian resistance. (@ 38:21)Table of contents: Expulsion and hardships of exile . (@ 63:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded 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 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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)
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 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: 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 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: 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 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 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)
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 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 ʻAzīzah Saʻīd al-‘Āydī and others, female and resides in Mar Elias Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Bzaym, al-Shaykh Bandar (Doctor); al-Khanjar, Adʹham (Revolutionary); Falḥah, Ḥassan (Civil servant); al-Asʻad, Aḥmad (Leader).Table of contents: Bayyā‘ al-Turmus. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Sorcery in literature. (@ 8:51)Table of contents: Political conditions during French rule. (@ 18:20)Table of contents: Jokes and Anecdotes. (@ 34:5)
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 Maḥmūd ʻĪsá, male, born in 1951 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in al-Jalīl Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Lebanese University (University); University of Copenhagen (University).Significant figures: ʻAllūsh, Nājī (Writer); Khālid, Ḥasan (Muftī); Yaḥfūfī, Sulaymān (Muftī).Table of contents: Political and military activity of a Palestinian refugee. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Memories of passed times. (@ 13:6)Table of contents: Intellectual activities of the Palestinian diaspora. (@ 21:30)Table of contents: Palestinians in exile: Diaspora and the search for a homeland. (@ 40:20)Table of contents: Palestinians, from peasants to revolutionaries. (@ 55:21)Table of contents: Palestinians in Israel: A nation in waiting . (@ 66:55)
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: البريطاني خلال الإنتداب.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Maṭār al-Jāʻūnah (Airport); Haifa port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Sarāyāt Kanʻān (Students dorms); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); Jāmiʻ al-Jraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Kūrī, Maḥmūd (Auto mechanic); al-Rifāʻī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad Nimir (Resistance fighter leader); al-Shā‘ir, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter leader); al-Ḥamad, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Rifaʻī, Aḥmad (Shaykh).Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries, and military acivity . (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 24:21)Table of contents: Military occupation of Palestine. (@ 35:24)Table of contents: War time and occupation. (@ 47:24)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 71:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded with ‘Abdullāh Muṣṭafá ‘Abdullāh, male, born in 1923 in Sa'sa', Palestine.Families: Khalīl; Wihbih; al-Sayyid; ‘Abd al-Ghanī; ‘Abd al-Karīm; ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd; Shaykh Ḥusayn.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Siḍḍīq (Maqām); Sitt Nafīsah (Maqām); Shaykh Whayb (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Shawwā, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Sa‘īd, Maḥmūd (Village leader); Wihbih, Zaydān ‘Abd al-Karīm (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, ‘Awaḍ (Village leader); al-Sayyid, Maḥāsin (Village leader); Wihbih, Zaydān ‘Abd al-Karīm (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, ‘Awaḍ (Resistance fighter); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad( Weapon trader).Table of contents: Childhood in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socioeconomic conditions in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 10:17)Table of contents: Religious communities, customs and monuments. (@ 18:57)Table of contents: Social conditions and customs in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 34:24)Table of contents: Revolutionary and nationalist chants from Saʻsaʻ. (@ 45:7)Table of contents: Political and military events in Saʻsaʻ . (@ 49:35)Table of contents: Refugee hope. (@ 70:5)
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 Fāṭimah Aḥmad ‘Aṭīyah, female, born in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in Baalbek.Families: Sulaymān; Shaḥrūr; al-Mukhtār; al-‘Ajjāwī; al-Sa‘īd.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Ḥāj ‘Abdullāh (Mosque).Significant figures: Sa‘īd, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Fāris, Sa‘īd (Village leader); Sayf, Yūsuf (Martyr); Dirbās, Ammūn (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, community life and customs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life and conditions in ʻAlmā. (@ 12:59)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 28:55)Table of contents: Socio-economic life in ʻAlmā and Haifa. (@ 47:38)
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)