Biography: The interview was recorded on June 9, 2004 with Wazīrah Ayyūb, female, born in Dallātah, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp Lebanon.Families: ʻAbdallāh; Ayyūb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Naṭṭāḥ, (Maqām).Significant figures: Qāsim, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-ʻAlī, Ḥasan Ḥusayn (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood in Dallātah. (@ 0:53)Table of contents: Social and cultural life . (@ 10:7)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 24:17)Table of contents: Disputes and battles with the Zionists. (@ 28:45)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 34:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 17, 1997 with Aḥmad Sulaymān Aḥmad, male, born in 1926 in Dayshūm, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Abū Yaḥyá; Mīzārī; Nūḥ; al-Mārdīnī.Significant figures: Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); Ṣāliḥ, Muḥammad (Wounded); Nūḥ, Sa‘īd Ṣāliḥ (Wounded); Mizyān, al-Hādī ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); ‘Īsá, ‘Umar (Wouded); Ḥaddād, Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Qāsim, Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū Widdū, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Sha‘bān, ‘Umar (Martyr); Abū al-Nasab, Farīd (Camp leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 7:52)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 14:20)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 27:11)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 40:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 10, 2004 with Aḥmad Sulaymān Aḥmad, male, born in 1926 in Dayshūm, Palestine.Families: Nūḥ; Sulaymān; Mizyān; al-Mārdīnī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ḥanīyah (Maqām); Ḥanīyah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hādī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Rabīʻ, ʻAbd al-Rahīm (Prisoner); al-Salīm, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Nāyif (Martyr); Mizyān, al-Hādī ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Nūḥ, Abū ʻUmar (Martyr); Ṣāliḥ, Sa‘īd Muḥammad (Wounded); Shaʻbān, ʻUmar (Martyr); Abū Waddū, Ṣālih (Martyr); Ḥaddād, Saʻīd (Martyr); Ṣālih, Sa‘īd Muḥammad (Wounded).Table of contents: Social life and customs in Dayshūm. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 12:57)Table of contents: Agriculture and land ownership in Dayshūm. (@ 21:31)Table of contents: Customs and traditions. (@ 30:13)Table of contents: Military activity and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 40:6)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 60:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 6, 1997 with Aḥmad ʻAbdullāh Mizyān Aḥmad, male, born in 1925 in Dayshūm, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bazzī; al-Mārdīnī; al-Mīzānī.Significant figures: Mizyān, ʻAbdullāh (Imām); al-Mīzārī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); Zalghūṭ, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Resistance leader); al-Shāmī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Resistance leader); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, Ḥusnī (Martyr); al-Hādī, Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad (Martyr); Rābiḥ, Zakīyah (Survivor).Table of contents: Social dynamics and community life in Dayshūm . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture, community, and social life in Dayshūm . (@ 26:57)Table of contents: Settler colonialism and political activity
. (@ 42:21)Table of contents: Arab Salvation Army in Dayshūm . (@ 69:18)Table of contents: Warfare and resistance. (@ 91:20)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 120:19)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 142:39)Table of contents: Final reflections on refugee experience and expulsion . (@ 164:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 2003 with Fāṭimah Ḥusayn Aḥmad, female, born in 1930? in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine.Families: al-Nāṭūr; al-Ḥanafī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Akka (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Khiḍir, Ḥasan (Landowner); al-Aḥmad, Ḥusayn (Landowner); al-Ḥamdān, Fāris (Landowner); al-Jammāl, Ḥasan (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life and customs in Khirbat al-Kasāyir . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ceremonies and practices in Khirbat al-Kasāyir . (@ 10:40)Table of contents: Resisting occupation in Khirbat al-Kasāyir
. (@ 23:15)Table of contents: Violence, battles and expulsion. (@ 35:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 5, 2003 with Maḥmūd Aḥmad, male, born in 1925 in al-Manshīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a soldier with the British Armed Forces during World War II.Significant figures: Mirʻī, Yūsuf (Martyr); Kāmil, Salīm (Political leader).Table of contents: Agriculture and Palestinian land sale . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Cultural life and Palestinian songs. (@ 24:14)Table of contents: Arabic poetry . (@ 51:44)Table of contents: Employment in the British army. (@ 56:14)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939 . (@ 73:26)Table of contents: The events leading to the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 82:19)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine . (@ 104:24)Table of contents: Imprisonment and killing the Palestinians. (@ 125:10)Table of contents: Revolutionary, folk, and wedding songs. (@ 139:34)Table of contents: Reunion with the family in exile. (@ 146:50)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 166:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1998 with Ḥafīẓah Qāsim Aḥmad, female, born in 1917 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She worked as a tailor.Families: Dhabbāḥ; al-Khaṭīb; al-Mūsá; Ṣunʻ Allāh; al-Muzayyan; Badrān; al-Dhabāḥ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Maqām Al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Dhabbāḥ, Fāṭimah (Tailor); al-Shaykh, ‘Alī (Shop owner); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd Sa‘īd (Mayor); Balṭajī, Umm Ḥasan (Derssmaker).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and sewing . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Sewing and bridal trousseau. (@ 29:58)Table of contents: Sewing tools and socio-economic conditions in Palestine. (@ 46:45)Table of contents: Refugee experience and education in exile . (@ 55:26)Table of contents: Sewing profession Post-Nakba and refugee life. (@ 64:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 23, 2003 with Ḥafīẓah Ḥamādah Aḥmad, female, born in 1929? in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in Shātīlā Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAbd al-Ghanī; Maṭar; Qays; Abbās; Ayyūb; ‘Abbās.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aḥmadīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Rabīʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: Khāzin, Adīb (Doctor); Dāhish, Jabr (Village leader).Table of contents: Agricultural life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 12:2)Table of contents: Political activity during the British rule. (@ 35:55)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 44:44)Table of contents: Refugee life and exile. (@ 51:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 6, 1999 with Rāfī ‘Uwaydis Aṭāmyān, male, born in 1946 and resides in al-Baṣṣ, Lebanon.Families: al-Safrī; al-Qubṭī; al-Dāmūnī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Table of contents: History of Armenians in the Arab countries. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Armenian-Palestinian relations. (@ 10:40)Table of contents: Armenians in Palestine. (@ 21:27)Table of contents: Armenians attitudes towards Arabs. (@ 26:57)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع فوزية شحادة الخطيب، أنثى، ولدت عام 1926 في بلد الشيخ، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk and love songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration. (@ 16:16)Table of contents: Communal celebrations. (@ 31:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 23, 2006 with Fāṭimah Maḥmūd Badr, female, born in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Fahd; Ḥammūd; al-Baytam; ‘Abd al-ʻĀl; Fahid.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Dāwūd (Maqām); al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionist); al-‘Uthmān, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥammīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Aḥmad,‘Abdullāh (Martyr); Badr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of al-Shaykh Dāwūd and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 15:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 1, 1997 with Maryam al-Fayyāḍ Badrān, female, born in 1938 in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Naḥf.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Badrān, Qāsim (Resistance fighter); Badrān, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Badrān, Qāsim (Military officer); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Mayor).Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 21:13)