Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Maḥmūd Ka‘wash, male, born in Mayrūn in 1927, Palestine. He worked as a policeman during the British mandate.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah(Church); al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Ṣddiq (Maqām).Significant figures: Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet).Table of contents: Childhood and employment . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the police during the British rule . (@ 21:50)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 30:49)Table of contents: Palestine during 1947-1948. (@ 51:49)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 70:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 11, 2003 with Rashrāsh Muḥammad Ka‘wash, male, born in 1922 in Mayrūn, Palestine. He worked with the Border guards.Families: Kan‘ān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Zāwyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); Maghārit al-Mshabbak (Maqām).Significant figures: Ka‘wash, Muḥammad al-ʻAbd (Village leader); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad Ṭalāl (Resistance fighter); Ka‘wash, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); Ka‘wash, Khālid Ṭāhā (Resistance fighter); Kan‘ān, Khalīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Education in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: History of Mayrūn. (@ 6:16)Table of contents: Wedding traditions political turmoil, resistance and military activity in Mayrūn. (@ 18:38)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 32:45)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 1, 1995 with Khadījah, female, born in 1911 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular songs collection. (@ 19:8)Table of contents: Prayers and songs. (@ 32:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 16, 1998 with Zahrah Ḥamad Khadījah, female, born in 1926 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Qāsimīyah, Lebanon.Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Traditional customs in a Bedouin community. (@ 17:29)Table of contents: Rites and ceremonies. (@ 42:4)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions. (@ 61:46)Table of contents: Social gatherings and customs. (@ 85:15)Table of contents: War time, military occupation and exile. (@ 100:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 3, 2004 with Fāris Khalīl, male, born in Sabalān, Palestine.Families: ʻAmir; Khalīl; al-Muḥammad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Muḥammad, Ḥusayn (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture in Sabalān. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Social and community life . (@ 10:0)Table of contents: Political conditions and deception . (@ 24:13)Table of contents: Expulsion from Sabalān. (@ 32:33)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع رشيد موعد، ذكر، ولد عام 1915 في صفورية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk songs and popular tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Fairy tales and popular songs. (@ 21:36)Table of contents: Popular tales and wedding songs. (@ 46:45)Table of contents: Palestinian folk tales and popular songs. (@ 63:0)
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 on July 7, 1997 with Zahrah Muḥammad Khalīl, female, born in 1934? in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine.Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 8:53)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 13:0)Table of contents: Eyewitness of the Palestinian exodus. (@ 32:54)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 42:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 30, 1998 with Zaynab Ibrāhīm Khalīl, female, born in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Abū Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Majẓub, Abū Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 16:38)Table of contents: Palestinian handicrafts and refugee hopes for the future. (@ 29:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 29, 2003 with Ḥusayn Dīb Khalīl, male, born in 1926 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine. He was a soldier with the British Army.Families: Shadhlī,; Qāsim; Ḥammūd; al-Shūlī; ‘Akkāwī; al-‘Aynayn; al-Mashāyikh; al-Nūr; Ayyūb; Aṣlān; al-Nūr; Rustom; Baytam; ʻAkkāwī; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Bahjah airport.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Badr (Club); Mustashfà Akka (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dāwūd (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Farfaḥīnī, Dīb (Poet); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Teacher); Faramāwī, Qāsim (Teacher); Mir‘ī , ‘Abd (Soldier); al-ʻAdawī, Ibrāhīm (Soldier); Faraj, Aḥmad (Soldier); Mortaḍá, Rāghib (Soldier); al-Jishshī, Muḥammad (Soldier); Da‘ās, Mūsá (Corporal); Rustom, ‘Abd (Landowner); al-Baytam, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-‘Aynayn, Mir‘ī (Revolutionary): Zaynab, ‘Alī (Revolutionary); Ḥassūn, Kamāl (Revolutionary): al-Shūlī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Shūlī, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Shaykh); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, 'Uthmān (Martyr); Abd al-ʻĀl, Abd al-ʻĀl (Martyr); Ṭamalāwī, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Social life and traditional customs at al-Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and political activities
. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic aspects of al-Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 37:44)Table of contents: Religious pluralism and political activities. (@ 51:27)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British Mandate and Zionist occupation. (@ 67:6)Table of contents: Political dynamics at al-Shaykh Dāwūd during the Zionist occupation of Palestine . (@ 82:25)Table of contents: The expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 91:19)Table of contents: Exodus and refugees' experience . (@ 102:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 15, 2002 with ‘Abd Ḥusayn Khalīl, male, born in 1922 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a soldier in theTrans-Jordan Frontier Forces.Families: Ḥammūd; Fahd.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dāwūd ( Maqām).Significant figures: Rāghib, Ibrāhīm (Teacher); al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); al-Jālūdī, Muḥammad (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); Abū Khabīṭah (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier); Rāghib, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); Ḥassūn, Kamāl (Revolutionary); Kāyid, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Mahdī, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); Ṭurfah, Rashīd (Resistance fighter); Ibrāhīm, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood and family life in Shaykh Dāwūd. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment with the British Army. (@ 9:17)Table of contents: Agriculture, society and ceremonial customs in Shaykh Dāwūd
. (@ 19:18)Table of contents: Colonialism, military occupation and resistance. (@ 39:24)Table of contents: Revolutionaries and resistance during the Zionist invasion, 1948. (@ 54:59)
Biography: The interview was also recorded with Abū Yāsir, male, born in Palestine and resides in Lebanon.Table of contents: The Bedouin prince and his dead wife I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The Bedouin prince and his dead wife II. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: The prince's beard and his lion friend. (@ 32:7)Table of contents: Abraham's destruction of imagery and his miracle . (@ 46:14)Table of contents: Forced departure of Abraham from his land and marriage. (@ 75:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 28, 2004 with Dīb Muḥammad Khashshān, male, born in 1923 in Dayr al-Qāsī, Palestine.He worked as a policeman with the British authority during World War II.Families: Ma‘rūf; al-Ṣādiq; Maḥmūd; Khashshān; Qurfalī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh Jawhar (Maqām).Significant figures: ʻUthmān, Ibrāhīm (Teacher); ʻĀrif, Khālid (Teacher); Ḥasan, Muḥsin (Teacher); Jad‘ūn, Michel (School principal); Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Military trainer); ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Jordanian Army commander); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Ṣādiq, Majīd (Mayor); Ma‘rūf, Muḥammad (Mayor); Zaydān, ‘Alī (Folk poet); Khashshān, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Khashshān, Naʻīm (Revolutionary); Khashshān, Jamīl (Revolutionary); Jadʻūn, Michel (Translator); Sa‘ūd, Naʻīm (Martyr); Ḥammūd, Khālid (Martyr); Khashshān, Khālid (Revolutionary); Ẓāhir, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); ʻŪthmān, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader); Ma‘rūf, Khalīl (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Education in Dayr al-Qāsī. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and work experience in the British Army during the mandate. (@ 18:32)Table of contents: Religious and ethnic pluralism in Palestine during the British Mandate . (@ 36:26)Table of contents: Cultural and intervillage relations in Dayr al-Qāsī . (@ 52:24)Table of contents: Political conditions at Dayr al-Qāsī. (@ 62:12)Table of contents: War events and the Zionist invasion . (@ 69:4)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of the village. (@ 87:59)Table of contents: Military situation at Dayr al-Qāsī then the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 97:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 20, 1997 with Nabīhah Khatīb, female, born in 1927 in ʻAmqā, Palestine.Table of contents: Purposeful story of Palestinian popular culture. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of the lazy man and his wife. (@ 18:22)Table of contents: Story of a king and his sons. (@ 25:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 27, 2004 with Jamīlah Ḥasan Khaḍrah, female, born in Kufayrāt, Palestine.Families: Ḥamdān; al-Nāṭūr; al-Shaḥtarī; Khaḍrah; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: Khaḍrah, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Jammāl, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and agricultural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural and social life at Khirbat al-Kasāyir. (@ 17:25)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 42:50)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and expulsion of Palestine. (@ 56:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 29, 1997 with ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Ḥasan Khiḍir, male, born in 1912 in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; al-Maḥājinah.Significant figures: al-Ḥusaynī, Yaʻqūb (Public officer); Muḥammadī, Fādī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Farhāt, Muḥammad (Land broker); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Khāliq, Muṣṭafá (Martyr).Table of contents: Political dynamics under the British Mandate and warfare . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist colonization and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 27:5)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and social norms. (@ 51:9)Table of contents: Wedding customs and traditions. (@ 62:33)Table of contents: Political conditions, betrayal, and return visit to Palestine . (@ 68:4)
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 on June 12, 2004 with Aḥmad Khālid, male, born on 1917 in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in al-Jīyah, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Sa‘id; Kayyāl; N‘ārī; Samrī; Dīb.Significant figures: al-Naḥfāwī, Ḥasan (Teacher); al-Sa‘dī, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Teacher); ʻAṭallāh, As‘ad (Poet); al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).Table of contents: Rural community of al-Birwah. (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Social life in al-Birwah. (@ 23:9)Table of contents: Political dynamics at al-Birwah. (@ 34:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Khālid Yūnus Khālid, male, born in 1928 in Shaʻb, Palestine. He worked in the Forestry Service and than in the post office.Families: Khaṭīb; Fā‘ūr; Ḥamzah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dāi'rat al-Aḥrāj (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-‘Ulaymī (Maqām); Banāt al-‘Ayn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj ‘Abd, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Salīm, Kāyid, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Armūsh, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Rūsān, Ḍayf Allāh (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ḥassūn, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); al-‘Alī , Kāmil Sayyid (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Maḥmud Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education and employement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 12:46)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 18:56)Table of contents: Ceremonies and celebrations. (@ 26:44)Table of contents: War time and armed resistance. (@ 33:18)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 46:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 6, 2004 with Fīfī Khūrī, female, born in 1922 in Jaffa, Palestine and resides in al-Ḥamrā, Lebanon.Families: al-Ṭarazī; Dabbās; Dumyānī; Gharghūr.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Banco di Roma (Bank); Madrasat Rāhibāt Ṣahyūn (School); Rāhibāt Mār Yūsuf Lilẓuhūr (School); Madrasat Ḥasan ʻArafah (School); Jerusalem Girls Collage (School); Bīr zaytt School (School); Orthodox (School); Madrasat al-Muṭrān (School); Barclays Bank (Bank); Ottoman Bank (Bank).Significant figures: al-Khūrī, Anthony (Trader); Nāṣir, Nabīhah (School principal); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Revolutionary leader); Bear, Lola (Tailorer); Nāṣir, Mūsá (Mayor); al-ʻĪsá, Micheal (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Family origins and childhood in Palestine. (@ 0:15)Table of contents: Education and degrees . (@ 8:1)Table of contents: Socio-economic life . (@ 27:56)Table of contents: Social and cultural life. (@ 39:44)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and psychological warfare . (@ 48:50)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 69:15)
Biography: .ولدت عام 1928 في قدس، فلسطين وتقيم في الأنصارية، لبنانFamilies: Kinyār; Dirbāj.Significant figures: al-Mārdīnī, Aḥmad (Landowner); Ḥadīd, Khalīl (Public officer); ‘Īsá, Siknah (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Martyr); Jumʻa, Mūsá (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic conditions in Qadas. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in Qadas during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 11, 2006 with Ḥamdah Qāsim Kinyār, female, born in 1929? in Qadas, Palestine and resides in al-Anṣārīyah, Lebanon.Families: Farḥāt; Bazzī.Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before the Zionist occupation. (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Social and political conditions in Qadas during the Zionist invasion. (@ 20:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 19, 2009 with Ṣubḥīyah Krayyim, female, born and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Mustashfá al-Hamsharī (Hospital).Table of contents: Women's leadership in war time. (@ 9:59)Table of contents: Israeli occupation practices during the invasion. (@ 26:9)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 37:52)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile . (@ 52:25)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 69:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 11, 2003 with ‘Abd al-Majīd Krayyim, male, born in 1927 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a military commander with the Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces.Families: Krayyim; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; al-ʻAfīfī; Muʻīd.Significant figures: Krayyim, Aḥmad (School principal); al-Yaḥyá, ʻAbd al-Razzāq (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Amīn, Bahjat Najāt (Arab Salvation Army soldier); al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); Abū Laylá, Ḥasan (Shaykh); ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Cheese maker) al-Ṭāhā, Mifliḥ Amīn (Village leader); Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ al-Salīm al-Muḥammad (Village leader); Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ al-Salīm (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Sulaymān (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj, Saʻīd (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj, Salīm (Municipal council); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Yāsīn, Muṣliḥ (Resistance leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Border guard); Abū al-Niʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Broker).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British army. (@ 6:35)Table of contents: Cultural and social life . (@ 25:9)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948. (@ 53:53)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance for survival . (@ 82:18)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 105:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 17, 2011 with Renée Kuttih, female, born in 1925 in al-Ramlah, Palestine.Families: al-Ghuṣaynī; Abū al-Laban; al-Khayrī; al-Tāj; al-Fārūqī; Qutrān; al-‘Azūnī; al-Ṣūṣū; Naṣṣār.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Mustashfá al-‘Askarī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al- Ingliz (School); Sharikat Bāṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Spinneys (Corporation); American University of Beirut (University); Friends Girls School (School); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation); Sharikat Baṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Sharika al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Significant figures: Kuttih, Costandi (Mayor); Kuttih, Georges (Pharmacist); Kuttih, Ḥannah (Doctor); Qutrān, Michel (Chief justice); Bishārah, Sāmī (Doctor); Shaṭārah, Wadī‘ah (Teacher); Ḥannūsh, Victoria (School principal); Kuttih, Alex (Pharmacist); ‘Aṣāṣah, Ḥikmat (Landlord); Bshārah, Sāmī (Doctor); Fī‘ānī, Georges (Businessman).Table of contents: Socio-economic Life in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Pre-marital Life,Village Traditions and Schooling . (@ 14:39)Table of contents: Engagement, Marriage and Family Life . (@ 40:45)Table of contents: Wedding celebration and honeymoon in Europe. (@ 63:16)Table of contents: Political turmoil and displacement. (@ 79:44)Table of contents: Relations with the Jews. (@ 87:43)Table of contents: Land Ownership and attacks. (@ 98:10)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and life in exile . (@ 104:48)Table of contents: Return to Palestine and life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 116:34)Table of contents: Childhood and other Personal Memories. (@ 129:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Maḥmūd Mūsá Kāyid, male, born in 1912 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Attempt of demolishing Kaʻbah and birth of prophet Muḥammad. (@ 11:18)Table of contents: Biography of prophet Muhammad I. (@ 22:23)Table of contents: Biography of prophet Muhammad II . (@ 50:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 28, 2004 with Muḥammad Yūsuf Kāyid, male, born in 1927 in al-Ṭīrah, Palestine. He worked with the British army during World War II.Families: Zaydān; Ḥajīr; Abū Rāshid; al-Bashīr; Shiblī; al-‘Asal; Abū Shaqrā; Kāyid.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Baladiyat Haifa (Municipality); Dā’irat al-Rrayy wa al-Miyāh (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Sibā‘ī (School); Iraq Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Lifshitz, Joseph (Engineer); al-Ḥalabī, Muḥammad (Businessman); al-Sibā‘ī, Muḥammad (School principal); Idrīs, Khiḍir (Mayor); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); al-Bardān, Mus‘ad (Martyr); Ḥajīr, Muḥammad ‘Abdū (Martyr); al-Dabbūr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Idrīs, ‘Alī (Martyr).Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political history of al-Ṭīrah under British rule. (@ 17:56)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 37:59)Table of contents: Humanitarian situation of the Palestinian refugees. (@ 56:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16, 1997 with Muḥsin ʻAbd al-Majīd Kāyid, male, born in 1924 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Baalbek, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Steel Brothers (Corporation).Significant figures: Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Village leader); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Village leader); al-Muṣṭafá, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor).Table of contents: Palestinian resistance and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War events and expulsion of Palestinians . (@ 14:37)Table of contents: Political activity during Nakba. (@ 23:58)Table of contents: Refugee conditions and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 35:47)
Biography: Biogarphy: The interview was recorded on May 9, 2004 with Sa‘dá al-Ḥasan Kāyid, female, born in 1922 in Jidrū, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Shamālī Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Table of contents: Everyday life practices in Ḥawwāsah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Marriage customs and wedding celebrations. (@ 21:37)Table of contents: Socio-religious customs and celebrations. (@ 33:38)Table of contents: Palestinian social customs. (@ 53:50)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration, occupation and military attacks . (@ 83:32)Table of contents: Continued warfare and departure. (@ 96:1)Table of contents: Right of return and refugee hardship. (@ 115:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 26, 1998 with Ḥasnah ‘Abd Kīlānī, female, born in 1925 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Kīlānī; al-Shahāyibah; al-Hajājiwah; al-‘Aṭwāṭ; al-‘Ajāyinah; al-Ḥiṭṭīnī; Qaddūrah; al-Kīlānīyah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Jāmi‘ al-Azhar (School).Significant figures: Kīlānī, Muḥammad (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Social life and rural conditions . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Lūbyā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 16:43)Table of contents: Social life and customs . (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 36:39)
Biography: Tthe interview was recorded on February 8, 2004 with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lubānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Tripoli, Lebanon.Families: al-Zayādinah; al-Biqā‘īyah; al-‘Ayāyshah; al-‘Athāminah; al-Lawābinah; Sarḥānī; Abū al-Hayjā; Fir‘im; ‘Uthmānī; al-Shanā‘ah; Ka‘wash; Zaghmūṭ; Shraydī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Zaydānī, Ṣāliḥ (Historical figure); 'Ubayd, Shafīq (Principal); al-Bīṭār, Khalīl (Teacher); al-ʻAbbūd, Jubrān (Landowner); ʻAzīz, Aḥmad (Poet); al-Mrāḥ, Shanā‘ah (Poet); Saʻīd, As‘ad (Poet); al-Asadī, Abū Sa‘ūd (Poet); al-Rīnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-Biqā‘ī, Ḥaydar (Village leader); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); Jayyūsī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Poet); Wihbī, Mārūn Ilyās (Poet); Abū al-ʿAsal, Riyāḥ Ḥannā (Bishop); ʻArafāt, Jamīl (Author); al-Walī, Fu’ād (Teacher); al-Bāsh, Ḥasan (Author); al-Mubayyīḍ, Salīm ‘Arafāt (Author); Sirḥān, Nimir (Author); al-Dājānī, Mu‘taz (Director of the Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural life, social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 14:10)Table of contents: Palestinian folklore. (@ 31:27)Table of contents: Memories in poetry. (@ 61:31)Table of contents: Poetry and politics in Palestine. (@ 83:18)Table of contents: Battles and Palestinian poetry. (@ 105:22)Table of contents: Post-Nakba literature. (@ 121:40)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations and marriage customs. (@ 141:49)Table of contents: Memories of childhood. (@ 167:48)Table of contents: War time and military operations. (@ 179:5)Table of contents: Exile road. (@ 203:43)Table of contents: Exile literature. (@ 219:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 29, 2003 with ‘Ā'ishah Maḥmūd Luṭfī, female, born in 1930? in Jabāliyā, Palestine.Families: Ḥamdān; Shaḥbarī; al-Khiḍir.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Ṣaffūrīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Hūshān (Maqām).Significant figures: Faraj, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Khiḍir, Ḥasan (Mayor); Luṭfī, Aḥmad Ramaḍān (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and upbringing in Khirbat al-Kasāyir
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Biography: The interview was recorded with Muḥammad Lubānī on October 14, 2009, male, born in 1928 in Tiberias, Palestine. He was a driver.Families: al-‘Afīfī; al-Ṭabarī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Trans Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Bank al-ʻArabī (Bank); Baritos Bank (Bank); Anglo Bank (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church); Jāmiʻ al-Baḥrah (Mosque).Significant figures: Shuqayf, Ṣalʻat (School principal); Mdayris, Antoine (Teacher); ʻAnkūsh, Muṣṭafá Shāhīn (Revolutionary); Abū Zayyān, Ḥusayn ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary); al-Ḥamawī, Ṣubḥi (Revolutionary); Shāhīn, Shukrī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, education, and employment . (@ 0:10)Table of contents: Weapon trade and British siege. (@ 19:7)Table of contents: Socio-political conditions and religious life in Tiberias . (@ 27:43)Table of contents: Cultural life and interreligious relations in Tiberias . (@ 48:20)Table of contents: Battles and Palestinian reisstance. (@ 55:13)Table of contents: Hardships and exile. (@ 73:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Nāyfah Lūbānī, female, born in 1928 in al-Damūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs and political poetry. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of ʻAbdullātū and his siblings. (@ 6:5)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and poetry. (@ 13:7)Table of contents: Islamic ruqyah from evil eye and Palestinian popular songs. (@ 35:31)Table of contents: Short stories . (@ 45:56)
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: 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.Significant figures: al-Bāsh, Ḥasan (Writer); al-Bakr, Maḥmūd Mifliḥ (Writer); al-‘Afīfī, Fāṭimah (Poet).Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs and stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Love stories in literature. (@ 13:22)Table of contents: Palestinian social customs and traditions . (@ 28:47)Table of contents: Popular songs and poetry. (@ 46:19)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 68:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 17, 1997 with Ḥusayn ‘Alī Lūbānī, male, born in 1939 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Biqāʻī; al-Zayādinah; al-Lawābinah; al-ʻAthāminah; al-ʻAyāyshah; Abū ʻAlī; Mīkhā'īl; Abū Ḥamdī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-ʻAfīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Lūbānī, Dāhish Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Biqāʻī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz (Martyr); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Tawfīq (Martyr); Ṣāliḥ, al-ʻAbd (Martyr); al-Bīṭār, Khalīl (Teacher); ʻŪbayd, Shafīq (School principal).Table of contents: Sociopolitical dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 18:10)Table of contents: Political turmoil and popular resistance. (@ 44:34)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 54:7)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 61:24)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 82:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 14, 2003 with Fāṭimah Majẓūb, female, born in 1933 in ʻAmqā, Palestine.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Ibrahīm (Policeman); al-Majẓūb, Rajā (Policeman); al-Majẓūb, Amīn (Policeman); al-Majẓūb, Naʻīm (Policeman); al-Jamāl, Abū Ṣāliḥ (Policeman); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Policeman); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life, customs and celebrations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Chiildhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 8:22)Table of contents: Celebrations, customs and community life in ʻAmqā. (@ 23:37)Table of contents: Revolutionaries, interreligious relations and the Zionist occuaption. (@ 36:55)Table of contents: Political turbulence and fleeing Palestine. (@ 49:47)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 62:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 17, 1997 with Ḥasnah ‘Alī Mannā‘, female, born in 1927 in Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Most popular folk tale: Jbaynih. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Nways story. (@ 14:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 11, 2006 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Manṣūr, female, born in 1926 in al-Rās al-Aḥmar, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Khaṭīb; Ayyūb; al-Ḥāj.Significant figures: Ayyūb, Fakhrῑ (Village leader); Ayyūb, Ma‘in (Village leader); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Sāmiyah (Teacher); al- Khaṭīb, Muḥyī al-Dīn Ṭāhā (Village leader); Nῑsān, Salīm (Trader); al-Hraysh, Fayyād (Martyr); al -‘Abdullāh, Tawfīq (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio- economic dynamics in al-Rās al-Aḥmar . (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule, Zionist occupation and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 24:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1995 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Manṣūr, female, born in 1941 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ṭuwaysī; Ghunaym; Ḥāmid; Sulaymān.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Mayor).Table of contents: Farming practices and rural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Dietary practices and social norms in Palestine. (@ 24:54)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and celebrations. (@ 40:11)Table of contents: Wedding customs and folk traditions. (@ 69:41)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع زكية حسنين، أنثى، ولدت في حيفا وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shraydī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Significant figures: Shraydī, Abū Khālid (Teacher).Table of contents: Refugee life during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon . (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Israeli attacks on South Lebanon. (@ 11:17)Table of contents: Political conditions during the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon, 1982. (@ 24:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 2009 with ‘Adlah Manṣūr, female, born and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She worked with al-Jabhah al-Shaʻbīyah li Taḥrīr Filasṭīn.Families: Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Umm Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 0:50)Table of contents: Economic conditions in the camp during the Israeli invasion. (@ 9:1)Table of contents: Palestinian women role in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 22:11)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 38:47)Table of contents: Political activity of Palestinian women in Lebanon. (@ 52:0)Table of contents: Women’s Leadership during conflicts. (@ 63:45)Table of contents: Women political activity . (@ 74:22)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع مريم رابح، أنثى، ولدت عام 1934؟ في الحسينية، فلسطين.Significant figures: al-ʻUthmān; Jaʻfar; al-Bashīr; Rābiḥ; al-Saʻīd, Nimir (Resistance fighter); ʻAmmār, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Rābiḥ, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Waqān, Ᾱminah (Martyr); al-Kānūn, Aḥamd (Martyr); Rābiḥ, al-Kānūn (Martyr); ʻAmmār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Ṭāhir, Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Saʻīd, Nimir (Martyr).Table of contents: Agricultural life in al-Ḥusaynīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah battle and massacre, 1948. (@ 5:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and hope of return. (@ 27:50)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah battle and massacre, 1948 and journey to exile. (@ 32:43)