Biography: The interview was recorded on April 1, 1997 with Asʻad Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in 1927 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of the dog barber. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The fisherman and the fish I. (@ 11:10)Table of contents: The fisherman and the fish II . (@ 31:26)Table of contents: Fictions and fables. (@ 46:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 3, 1997 with Khiḍir Asʻad Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in1947 in Yaʻbad, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Three Brothers story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 18:0)Table of contents: Fables and other stories. (@ 44:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 1997 with Samīḥah Abū Hawwāsh, female, born in 1944 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aytām, al-Ittiḥād al-Nisāʼī (School); Madrasat Ghirnāṭah (School); Dār al-Ṭufl (School); Madrasat al-Najāḥ (School).Significant figures: Shuwaykī, Hayfāʼ (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Hādī, ʻAlyāʼ (Teacher); al-Ḥusaynī, Hind (Orphanage principal).Table of contents: Childhood and refugee experience in Jordan and Palestine. (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Child education at the orphanage. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 57:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 15, 1995 with Samīḥah Fahd Abū Hawwash, female, born in 1944 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Dār al-Ṭufl (School).Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration and others. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Maymūnah and Zīnat al-Dār story. (@ 17:20)Table of contents: Woodcutter story. (@ 38:56)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 54:56)Table of contents: Popular songs and fables. (@ 75:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 30, 1995 with Sa‘īd Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in 1939 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: The Fisherman and his wife story. (@ 0:06)Table of contents: Sitt al-Ḥusun story. (@ 28:54)Table of contents: The Princes and the three brothers. (@ 55:55)Table of contents: Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none
. (@ 77:11)Table of contents: Fables. (@ 91:53)Table of contents: If you want a friend, get a dog. (@ 119:39)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع محمد الحامد، ذكر، ولد عام 1926 في صفورية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Marriage songs. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations. (@ 24:22)Table of contents: Songs collection. (@ 46:48)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 53:7)Table of contents: Popular songs. (@ 63:51)Table of contents: Ḥasān al-Rā‘ī story and folk songs. (@ 72:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع عطرة زيد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1931 في البويزية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Kwayyis (Maqām).Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet).Table of contents: Social conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs of life and rural life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 14:20)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and short stories. (@ 33:15)Table of contents: Fairy tales and traditions. (@ 62:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 6, 1997 with Fāṭimah Muḥammad Abū Sālim, female, born in 1925 in al-Ṭīrah, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Short story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Ghuzzilmah. (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Story of the green bird. (@ 31:16)Table of contents: Story of Umm Ṣubayḥ and Abū Ṣubayḥ. (@ 36:15)Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories. (@ 41:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 5, 1997 with Khadījah Muḥammad Abū Sālim,female, born in 1926 in al-Ṭīrah Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Tale of passed times. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular tale. (@ 11:57)Table of contents: The Merchant. (@ 22:26)Table of contents: Story of Magic Birds. (@ 45:27)Table of contents: Three Sisters story. (@ 53:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 22, 1995 with Ḥashmīyah Abū Sīkh, female, born in 1927 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Ḥārit Ḥrayk, Beirut, Lebanon.Families: Nābulsī; Rabāḥ.Significant figures: ʻAzīz, Aḥmad (Poet).Table of contents: Real Romantic story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 18:52)Table of contents: Songs of life. (@ 31:20)Table of contents: Emotional songs. (@ 46:39)Table of contents: Nostalgia, love and other folk songs. (@ 55:44)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 69:31)
Biography: سعسع، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم برج البراجنة للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Whayyib (Maqām).Table of contents: Marriage and wedding customs and traditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian songs. (@ 21:51)Table of contents: Story of Shammah and Zahr al-Bān. (@ 29:0)Table of contents: Beliefs and doubts in Palestinian stories. (@ 49:2)Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine and story of Banū Hilāl . (@ 62:5)Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 73:40)Table of contents: Story of al-Zīr . (@ 87:15)Table of contents: Palestinian folk and wedding songs. (@ 113:9)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs . (@ 138:51)
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: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع حسين محمد حسن، ذكر، ولد عام 1947 في صفد، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Real story . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 12:38)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 31:59)Table of contents: Ethics an moral. (@ 48:58)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع نبيهة الأشقر، أنثى، ولدت عام 1944 في شفا عمرو، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Table of contents: Popular tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian short folk stories . (@ 30:1)Table of contents: The kings and his three sons. (@ 49:27)Table of contents: Story of Rummān al-Dhahab. (@ 66:29)Table of contents: Palestinian popular short stories. (@ 82:52)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع عبد الفتاح الفول، ذكر، ولد عام 1940 في حيفا، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئن الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat Ghassān Kanafānī (School); Madrasat al-Shahīd al-shaykh Ḥasan (School); Madrasat al-Shahīd al-Shaykh Ḥasan (School).Table of contents: Wise Turtle story and other stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Sleeping Beauty story. (@ 18:37)Table of contents: Little Red Riding Hood Story. (@ 29:6)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 40:0)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع زوجته فاطمة علي شبعاني، أنثى، ولدت عام 1934؟. تقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shib‘ānī; Sha‘bān; Rajab; ‘Asqūl; al-Dilsī; Ṣawwān; Ayyūb; Shaʻbān.Significant figures: Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Shib‘ānī, Aḥmad (Wounded); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Shib‘ānī, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Yūsuf (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Ṣāfī Yaḥyá (Shepherd); Ṣawwān, Ismāʻīl (Shaykh); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥamad, Fuʼād As‘ad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 17:17)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 26:14)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 38:16)Table of contents: Economic conditions, Employment and exile. (@ 51:4)Table of contents: The Palestinian exodus. (@ 60:23)
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 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 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 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 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)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع أم خالد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1941 في الصفصاف، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطنين، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk and wedding songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding songs and customs. (@ 26:32)Table of contents: Fairy tales and children's stories. (@ 49:24)Table of contents: Humorous tales . (@ 71:41)Table of contents: War between two countries and escape of the ogre. (@ 99:49)Table of contents: Popular songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 108:49)Table of contents: Dabkah songs and ululation. (@ 132:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 6, 1997 with Ᾱminah Ḥasan Banāt, female, born in 1931 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in Lebanon . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Everyday life in Palestine and refugee conditions in Lebanon. (@ 11:6)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and hardships of expulsion from Palestine. (@ 23:34)Table of contents: War incidents and suffering
. (@ 44:27)Table of contents: Folk traditions and social life . (@ 61:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 23, 1997 with Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Barakah, male, born in 1923 in Mughr al-Khayṭ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Umar; Yūnus; al-Ḥāj; Barakah; al-Biqāʻī; Nashāshībī.Significant figures: al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Shiḥādah, Saʻīd (Martyr); Sārī, Fnaysh (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ṣabbāgh, Fāyiz (Camp leader).Table of contents: History of Nakba. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Political activity in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 14:48)Table of contents: Battles and military occupation. (@ 21:55)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 43:21)Table of contents: Violence, battles and exile. (@ 53:49)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 76:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 1995 with Abū al-ʻAbd Barqajī, male, born in 1911 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ḥmayyid, Muḥammad (Poet); Ḥmayyid, Hāshim (Poet); Ḥmayyid, Qāsim (Poet); al-Baytam, Muḥammad ‘Alī (Singer); al-‘Alī, Jamīl Ḥusayn (Singer); Najā, Muḥammad (Singer); al-‘Alayyān, Aḥmad (Poet); ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, Kāmil (Governor).Table of contents: Social life before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics during ottoman rule. (@ 17:11)Table of contents: al-Zīr Sālim story. (@ 33:21)Table of contents: Songs and stories. (@ 47:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 3, 1998 with Muṣṭafá Bayraqjī, male, born in 1906 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked at Akka airport during the British Mandate of Palestine.Families: al-Ḥusaynī; al-Nashāshībī; Ṭūqān; al-’Aẓm; al-Qūwatlī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka Airport (Airport).Significant figures: Iskandar, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Mayor); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Mayor).Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military attacks. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist- British agreement for Palestine before 1948. (@ 8:41)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 20:24)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity. (@ 33:14)Table of contents: Tales of passed times . (@ 46:11)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine. (@ 59:27)Table of contents: Pre-Nakbah life in the village. (@ 68:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 7, 1999 with Karīmah Muḥammad Bushnāq, female, born in 1935 in Qaysārīyah, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Families: Bushnāq.Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, ‘Alī (Shaykh); al-Khamrah, Ya‘qūb (Shaykh); Shammās, Salīm (Principal); Abū Dāhish, Aḥmad (Teacher).Table of contents: Bosnian immigration to Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Bosnians during armed conflicts and exile to Lebanon. (@ 11:21)Table of contents: Adaptation and integration with Palestinians . (@ 22:29)Table of contents: Exile to Lebanon and refugee experience . (@ 31:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 17, 1998 with Maḥmūd Yūsuf Dakwar, male, born in 1937 in Qaddītā, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon. He was an anthropologist.Families: Ḥlayḥil; Dakwar.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Elias Church (Church); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Bishārah (Church); Masjid al- Ṣakhrah (Mosque).Significant figures: Zaʻrūrah, Abū 'Alī (Resistance fighter); Rāḍī, Sharīf (Resistance fighter); Shūmān, Aḥmad (Leader); Nuwayhiḍ, Bayān (Professor); Atanas, ʻAql (Priest); Ghaṭṭās, Ghaṭṭās (School principal); ‘Abdūshah, Laṭīf (Teacher); ‘Arrāf, Shukrī (Writer).Table of contents: Early life: Family, childhood and schooling. (@ 0:29)Table of contents: Village description and Zionist infiltration . (@ 15:47)Table of contents: Folk traditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:7)Table of contents: Rural life and childhood memories. (@ 49:52)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 62:42)Table of contents: Forced departure from Qaddītā in 1948. (@ 75:7)Table of contents: Exile and refugee life. (@ 80:5)Table of contents: Cultural activities for Palestine in Exile. (@ 93:37)Table of contents: Palestinian handicrafts . (@ 117:40)Table of contents: Palestinian documents collections. (@ 146:15)Table of contents: Palestinian heritage equal to the Palestinian national identity. (@ 159:7)Table of contents: Heritage and identity . (@ 182:38)Table of contents: Conservation of the Palestinian cultural heritage. (@ 208:50)Table of contents: The Palestinian cultural identity. (@ 231:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 249:3)Table of contents: Family, land and childhood memories in occupied Palestine. (@ 265:35)Table of contents: Cities and villages under Israeli occupation. (@ 279:14)Table of contents: Collecting old remains from his destroyed village. (@ 297:43)Table of contents: Heritage theft. (@ 316:53)Table of contents: Palestinians under Israeli occupation. (@ 327:0)Table of contents: Palestinians in Israel, segregation and discrimination. (@ 347:17)Table of contents: Nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 361:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Ḥusayn Muḥammad Darwīsh, male, born in 1937 in Khirbat Ja‘tūn, Palestine.Families: al-Darāwshah; Mir‘ī; Manāṣrī; Mḥaysnīyah; Ḥijāzī; Ḥawwā; Twaynī; Sursuq; Ḥabāyib; Bazzī; Salām; al-As‘ad.Significant figures: al-ʻAkkī, Aḥmad (Landowner); Ḥijāzī, Abū Aḥmad (Mayor); Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); al-Qassīs, Abū Mas‘ad (Village leader).Table of contents: Farming and living conditions before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 7:50)Table of contents: Infiltration during the British rule. (@ 15:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 28:46)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 38:23)Table of contents: War time and military operations. (@ 54:42)Table of contents: Land, defense and resistance. (@ 67:22)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 83:28)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 101:24)Table of contents: Humanitarian conditions during the exodus. (@ 114:38)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 130:19)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع تفاحة العلي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1945 في التل، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Popular music and songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of a crazy man. (@ 13:1)Table of contents: Popular stories. (@ 22:7)Table of contents: Folk poetry and Zalghutah. (@ 39:25)Table of contents: Fictional stories. (@ 51:31)Table of contents: The Woodcutter story. (@ 64:18)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 27, 1997 with Qāsim Rāghib Dīb, male, born in 1922 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Historical events leading to Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948. (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Expulsion, refugee experience in exile, and hope of return. (@ 21:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 12, 1997 with Yūsuf Dīwān, male born in 1939 in Yājūr, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥilū; Abū al-Ghizlān; Jumʻah; Abū Rudaynah; al-Shaqrā; Abū Shtayyā; Ḥammād; al-ʻAfīfī; Murād.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Dūghān, Dīb (Resistance fighter); al-Milījī, Zaydān (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 14:40)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 27:10)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 37:5)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine, humiliation and isolation. (@ 48:19)Table of contents: Arab attitudes toward Palestine. (@ 58:42)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and resistance. (@ 62:20)Table of contents: Refugees hope for the future. (@ 71:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 12, 1997 with Yūsuf Dīwān, male born in 1939 in Yājūr, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥilū; Abū al-Ghizlān; Jumʻah; Abū Rudaynah; al-Shaqrā; Abū Shtayyā; Ḥammād; al-ʻAfīfī; Murād.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: Dūghān, Dīb (Resistance fighter); al-Milījī, Zaydān (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: History of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 14:40)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 27:10)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 37:5)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine, humiliation and isolation. (@ 48:19)Table of contents: Arab attitudes toward Palestine. (@ 58:42)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and resistance. (@ 62:20)Table of contents: Refugees hope for the future. (@ 71:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 27, 1997 with Aḥmad Shiḥādah Falāḥ, male, born in 1918 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Quṭṭ; al-ʻArīq; ʻAlī Sālim; Ḥāj Mūsá; al-Ḥāj ʻAlī; Sursuq; ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl; Aṣlān.Significant figures: al-ʻAdawī, Ḥasan (Landowner); Abū al-Saʻd, Ḥusayn (Landowner); al-Ḥallāq, Aḥmad (Landowner); Zamzam, Asʻad (Landowner); al-Quṭṭ, Khalīl (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAkkī, Ibrāhīm (Landowner); Barakah, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance leader); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Ḥamādah, Kāmil (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in pre-Nakba Palestine and expulsion . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Settler colonialism, childhood memories, and education. (@ 10:38)Table of contents: Battles and the Arab Salvation Army withdrawal. (@ 26:17)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 50:19)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile . (@ 71:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Nazmīyah Fatḥ Allāh, female, born in 1930 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Families: Sirḥān.Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The exodus and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 9:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on may 15, 1997 with Amīnah Fayyāḍ, female, born in1925 in Shaʻb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Inspirational story of Honor. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of The Three Brothers. (@ 12:19)Table of contents: Fictional story. (@ 21:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 6, 1997 with Nādiyah Faḍḍah, female, born in 1927 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Biʼr al-‘Abd, Lebanon.Families: Staytīyah; al-ʻĀsī; Sursuq; Twaynī; Bayhum; al-‘Abdah; Jarrāḥ; Badr; al-Shuqayrī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Barclays bank (Bank); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Zaytūn (Mosque).Significant figures: Faḍḍah, Jihād (Resistance fighter); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Muwaqqiʻ, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Amīn, Muḥammad (School principal); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Leader); ‘Azzām, Samīrah (Journalist).Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity in the city. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 12:27)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 22:9)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 37:45)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion. (@ 46:51)Table of contents: Refugees in Lebanon. (@ 54:55)Table of contents: Experiences of Palestinian exile. (@ 70:43)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile from Palestine. (@ 83:32)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع عقل حجاوي (أبو أيمن)، ذكر، ولد عام 1943 في حجة، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding songs and music. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian traditional wedding songs and music . (@ 27:31)Table of contents: Wedding customs and traditions. (@ 56:41)Table of contents: Marriage customs and rites. (@ 65:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Karīm Ghunaym , male, born in 1938 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Najm; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; ʻĪsá; al-Maw‘id; Ghunaym; al-Maqāziḥah; al-Ḥadāyidah; Rāshīd.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Municipal council); Yūsuf, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Laylá, Ḥasan (Shaykh).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ṣaffurīyah. (@ 17:48)Table of contents: Popular resistance in the village. (@ 32:3)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion from Palestine. (@ 48:9)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 65:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1998 with Aḥmad Faḍīl Hijjū, male, born in 1922 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a Police officer in the British Police forces during the mandate.Families: al-Shahāyibah; al-ʻAjāyinah; al-ʻAṭwāt; al-Ḥajājiwah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Qādir, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Shihābī, Yaḥyá Saʻīd (Mayor); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-ʻAṭwāt, Kāmil (Policeman); al-Fawwāz, Ibrāḥīm (Policeman); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Policeman); al-Fayyāḍ, ʻUthmān (Policeman); Ṭabbārah, Anīs (Policeman); Saʻīd, Sulaymān (Policeman); al-Khaḍrah, Aḥmad (Policeman); al-Jayyūsī, Ḥusnī (Lawyer).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and rural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British police forces. (@ 18:14)Table of contents: British Police activity in Palestine. (@ 37:54)Table of contents: British police during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 64:57)Table of contents: British Police activity and Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 89:44)Table of contents: Warfare and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 105:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 3, 1998 with Mūsà ʻAlī Hāshim, male, born in 1897 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a butcher and a trader.Families: al-Frayjāt; al-Khaṭīb; al-Dawālī; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-‘Abdullāh; al-Qawāsimah; al-Hawāshimah.Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Martyr); al-‘Alī, Sulaymān (Martyr); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Prisoner); al-Qaṭawīyah, Mir‘ī (Martyr); al-Jammāl, ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Ibrāhīm, ‘Abdullāh (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Yūsuf; Ḥusayn (Village leader); Jumʻah, Mūsá (Revolutionary); Yūsuf, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Dāwūd, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Yūsuf, ‘Īsá (Wounded).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political and economic conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 13:4)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics during the British rule . (@ 26:0)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 42:15)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 54:39)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 8,1998 with Nāyifah Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1922 in Kawkab Abū al-Hayjāʼ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū al-Hayjāʼ(Maqām).Significant figures: Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Mayor); al-Ibrāhīm, Khalīl Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Muṣṭafá, Tawfīq Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-Ṣāliḥ, Ṭāhā (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 14:26)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance and leadership. (@ 26:55)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 40:5)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 53:41)Table of contents: Poems and nostalgia for Palestine. (@ 66:53)
Biography: The interview was also recorded with her husband Muḥammad ʻAbd Darwīsh, male, born in 1921 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Expulsion and journey to Lebanon
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine. (@ 13:31)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 36:6)Table of contents: Rural life in Pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 60:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 16, 1997 with Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ Ismāʻīl, male, born in 1932 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked in a fire match factory.Families: ʻAbd al-Rāziq; Sursuq; Twaynī; Salām.Significant figures: al-ʻĪsá, Muḥammad (Martyr); Shrayḥ, Fādī (Mayor).Table of contents: Political conditions and events surrounding Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and suffering in exile. (@ 22:4)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hope of return. (@ 44:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December, 1995 with Shammā Maḥmūd Ismā‘īl, female, born in 1926 in ʻArab al-Zubayd, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebrations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Traditions and customs. (@ 12:44)Table of contents: Children's songs. (@ 26:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 7, 1997 with Șubḥīyah Ja‘far, female, born in 1932 in al-Ḥusaynīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Ṭayyib; ‘Ammār; al-Rāshīdī; Ja‘far; Rābiḥ; al-Zāyir; al-Bashīr.Significant figures: ‘Ammār, ‘Alī (Wounded); Kānūn, Aḥmad (Martyr); ʻAmmār, Mahmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Killings and massacres in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 14:33)Table of contents: War events and the exodus. (@ 21:52)Table of contents: War crimes and collective wrongdoing. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: The long life of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. (@ 41:7)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah under zionist occupation. (@ 50:13)
Biography: وسجلت المقابلة ايضا مع الياس شربين، ذكر، ولد عام 1931 في حيفا، فلسطين.Significant figures: al-al-Ḥajjār, Muṭrān (Poet).Table of contents: Socio- political dynamics during British mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Two popular stories. (@ 11:31)Table of contents: ِArabic aphorism. (@ 20:36)Table of contents: Story of the Old woman and the Treasure. (@ 31:29)Table of contents: Real story. (@ 41:30)Table of contents: Friendship short story. (@ 53:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 2, 1997 with Sa‘dah Nimir Jrays, female, born in 1918 in Rmaysh, Lebanon and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Shaykh ʻAbdullāh (Mosque); al-Shaykh 'Īsá (Maqām).Significant figures: Jrays, Nimir (Revolutionary); al-Ḥajjār (Bishop); Māḍī, al-‘Abd (Governor); Zqayriq, al-‘Abd (Governor); al-Ḥajjār (Bishop).Table of contents: Ottoman rule of Palestine and Lebanon. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 29:16)Table of contents: Community and family life in the village. (@ 50:45)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 59:40)Table of contents: Refuge life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 70:11)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع لطيفة أسعد أبو طه، انثى، ولدت عام 1922 في البروة، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Darwīsh; al-Kayyāl; Dīb; Saʻd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Jināyāt fī Akka (Court).Significant figures: al-Saʻdī, Muṣṭafá (Bus driver); al-Ḥumayrī, Nimir (Political prisoner); Fandī, ʻAlī (Political prisoner); al-Ḥammād, Nimir (Martyr); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Village leader); Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); Ṭāhā, Yūsuf (Mayor).Table of contents: Violence, battles and exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity. (@ 11:46)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 21:35)Table of contents: Refugee life conditions in Lebanon. (@ 31:37)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 37:49)
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 on November 12, 1998 with Muḥammad ‘Alī Jābir, male, born in 1928 in ʻAmqā , Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked at Nur Safety Match in Akka.Families: ‘Abd al-Rāziq; al-Majdhūb; ‘Uthmān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nur Safety Match (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Majdhūb, Qāsim (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Majdhūb, Mifliḥ (Trader); al-Sa‘īd, Bāsim (Trader); al-‘Akkī, Muḥammad (Olive mill owner).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity in ʻAmqā . (@ 11:46)Table of contents: Labor and laboring conditions before Nakba. (@ 21:47)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 52:46)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December, 1995 with Fatḥīyah Jānzī, female, born in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Ṣabrā, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian patriotic poetry and revolutionary songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Dalʻūnā and revolutionary songs. (@ 13:53)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and revolutionary songs. (@ 34:20)Table of contents: Ululations and folk songs. (@ 50:8)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs . (@ 74:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 20, 1998 with Karīm Nāyif Kanj, male, born in 1925 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a Policeman with the British Police Forces in Palestine.Families: Sirḥān; Sursuq; Salām; al-Sa‘dī; al-Shaykh Ṭāhā; ‘Aṭāyā; Murād; Kanj; Sa‘īd; Abū Khashab.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Za‘īm, Ḥusnī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Abū Khashab, Muṣṭafá (Jailor); Rāfi‘, Sa‘īd (Prisoner); Sh'hayyib, Muḥammad (Policeman).Table of contents: Exile to Lebanon and refugee experience. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life and socio-economic conditions. (@ 16:1)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Socio-economic life. (@ 30:14)Table of contents: Employment and work in the British police forces. (@ 43:57)Table of contents: Employment and hierarchy in British Police forces in Palestine. (@ 70:7)Table of contents: Military training in Syria . (@ 99:50)Table of contents: Police activity in Palestine. (@ 110:0)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 121:32)
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: 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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: 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 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 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 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: The interview was recorded on November 14, 1998 with Mawʻid Muḥammad Mawʻid, male born in 1920 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon. Hes was a teacher.Families: Mawʻid; Sulaymān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Qalʻah (School); Jāmi‘at al-Quds (University); Madrasat Ṣaffurīyah al-Ibtidāīyah (School); Madrasat al-Nāṣirah al-Thānawīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: American University of Beirut (University); Madrasat al-Ṣinā‘ah (School); Madrasat al-Nāṣirah al-Thānawīyah (School); Madrasat al-Funūn (School); Dār al-Muʻallimīn (School); American university of Beirut (University); Madrasat Ṣaffūrīyah al-Ibtidā’īyah (School).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Sharīf, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Saʻīd Muḥammad (Mayor); Laylá, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Dhizrá, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Teacher); Khaḍrā, Fawzī (Teacher); Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Village leader); ʻAwn Allāh, Raʼūfah (School principal); Faraḥ, Fu’ād (Public officer); Makkīyah, ‘Itāb (Public officer); Sa‘d al-Dīn, Rashād (School principal); Abū Qāsim, Jamīl ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Shaykh); al-Zanānīrī, Jamīl (Supplier); al-Dīrānī, Riḍā (Supplier); Samārah, Shākir (Principal); Samārah, Shukrī (Teacher); Samārah, Usāmah (Teacher); ‘Uthmān, Rābi‘ah (Teacher); ʻAzzīyah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Na‘nā‘, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ʻAwn Allāh, Ra’ūfah (School principal); al-Mawʻid, Naṣṣār (Village leader); Fāyiq, Aḥmad (School principal); Dhizrá, Muḥammad ‘Abdū (Teacher); Na‘nā‘, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Sharīf, ‘Abd al-Karīm Muḥammad (Teacher); Abū Qāsim, Jamīl ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); ‘Azzīyah, Aḥmad (Teacher); Mawʻid, Aḥmad al-ʻAlī (Teacher); Krayyim, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Sa‘dī, Muḥammad ʻIzz al-Dīn (Teacher); Laylá, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥallāq, Ḥasan (Shaykh); Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); Krayyim, Aḥmad (Teacher): al-Mawʻid, Aḥmad ‘Alī (Teacher); al-Mawʻid, Salīm (Village leader); al-Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Village leader).Table of contents: Social conditions in the village before the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Study and teaching in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 18:5)Table of contents: Education and labor market in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:56)Table of contents: Educational curriculum before 1948 in Palestine. (@ 44:48)Table of contents: Educational assessment in Palestinian schools during the British Mandate. (@ 62:40)Table of contents: Teaching methods. (@ 70:34)Table of contents: Parents teacher relations and educational systems in Palestine. (@ 90:22)Table of contents: Learning, Teaching and work in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 104:13)Table of contents: Female education and school activities in Palestine. (@ 117:20)Table of contents: Military activity and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 127:1)Table of contents: Teaching as a profession. (@ 137:30)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 141:19)Table of contents: Educational environments and religious diversity in the village. (@ 151:41)Table of contents: Teaching skills. (@ 162:23)Table of contents: Living conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 175:16)Table of contents: Educational history of the village. (@ 187:25)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 1997 with Muḥammad ʻAlī Mawʻid, male, born in 1925 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon. He worked with the British Army.Families: Sulaymān; Maw'id.Significant figures: Qashmūsh, Simʻān (Foreman); Fawzī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Fāyiq, Aḥmad (School principal); al-‘Īsá, Rashīd Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Tawbah, Khalīl Sulaymān (Resistance fighter); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Sa‘d al-Dīn, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Salīm, Maw‘id (Village leader); al-Ibrāhīm, Sa‘īd (Mayor); al-ʻAbdullāh, Ibrāhīm Aḥmad (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Majīd, Sa‘īd (Artist).Table of contents: Political activities during the British rule. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 10:12)Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 32:26)Table of contents: Social and traditional customs in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 43:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 29, 1998 with Muḥammad Dhīb Maw‘id, male, born in 1923 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sulaymān; al-Maw‘id; al-Sa‘īdīyah; al-Ghanāyimah; Abū Ma‘āz; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-Daghāyirah; al-‘Anātinah; al-Khaṭābinah; Rāshid; al-Maqādiḥah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Maw‘id, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); Sulaymān, Abū Fāris (Mayor); al-Sa‘īd, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī , Muḥammad Sayyid (Soap maker); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Yamanī, Salīm (Resistance leader); Mawʻid, Faraj (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Village history . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic dynamics in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 13:8)Table of contents: Land and agriculture. (@ 35:53)Table of contents: British colonialist policies and employment . (@ 50:59)Table of contents: War events and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 59:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 3, 1997 with ʻĪsá Muḥammad Maṣrī, male, born in 1914 in al-Nāʻimah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bayk.Significant figures: ‘Ablah, Ḥasīb (Landowner); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Landowner); Abū Kharrūb, Ismā‘īl (Mayor); al-‘Alī, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Maṣrī, Maḥmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion, terrorism and defense. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family and community life . (@ 29:11)Table of contents: Political conditions and socio-economic life. (@ 40:59)Table of contents: Zionist terrorism, expulsion and refugee experience . (@ 60:14)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in exile. (@ 72:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 28, 1995 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Mir‘ī, female, born in 1931 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and praise of Muḥammad. (@ 21:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 24, 1997 with Nimir ‘Alī Miṣrī, male, born in 1929 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a driver with the British Army.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Haifa Port (Port); Akka port (Port).Significant figures: al-Ṣuluḥ, Adīb (Teacher); Qaṭṭān, Ḥabīb (School principal); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Abū Durrah, Abū al-‘Abd (Revolutionary leader); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); al-Ayyūbī, Najātī (Masyor); al-Ayyūbī, Najāt (Mayor); al-Sammān, Khiḍir (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Abū Ḥusayn (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Agricultural life in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British Mandate. (@ 8:47)Table of contents: Political turmoil, military activity in the village. (@ 15:55)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in al-Ṭīrah. (@ 32:15)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military activity. (@ 41:9)Table of contents: Violence, battles and armed resistance. (@ 47:34)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 59:57)Table of contents: War time, military occupation and exile. (@ 71:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 6, 1997 with Jumʻah Ruḥayyil Mshayrifah, male, born in 1926 in Nāʻimah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a policeman with the British Army forces.Families: Mashārifah; Daḥāwishah; ‘Absīyah; Khdayrawīyah; Ḥajjāj; Shihāb.Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 7:37)Table of contents: Refugees life conditions. (@ 20:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on Decmber12, 1995 with Asʻad Mughrabī, male, born in 1927 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Bald head story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The end of the Bald head story. (@ 28:10)Table of contents: Moral short story. (@ 38:31)Table of contents: Symbolism in Arabic short story. (@ 54:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Zahrah Fahd Murrah, female, born in 1930 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām); al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām).Significant figures: Murrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Qaddūrah, Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Falāḥ, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ṭunnah, Yūsuf (Mayor); Mubaddah, Nāyif (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Ḥusayn Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAbbūd, Khalīl (Martyr); Qāsim, Muḥammad Khalīl (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Wahāb, Aḥmad (Martyr); Murrah, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Salīm, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Suḥmātā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 under the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli occupation and expulsion . (@ 6:44)Table of contents: Community life and beliefs in Sabalān. (@ 21:22)Table of contents: Expulsion and suffering. (@ 31:27)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hardships . (@ 42:34)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and wedding customs. (@ 51:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 20, 1997 with Sihām Muḥammad ‘Ali, female, born in 1954 in Fārah, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: ‘Uqlat al-Uṣba‘ story. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Woodcutter story. (@ 13:11)Table of contents: Moral stories. (@ 25:30)Table of contents: Fantasy and magic stories. (@ 40:15)Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 55:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 30, 1998 with Muḥammad Qāsim Muḥammad, male, born in 1926 in Jāḥūlā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a straw mats maker.Families: Sha‘bān; ‘Aṭīyah; Jabr; al-Danānshah; Sursuq; Ghulmīyah; Salām.Significant figures: al-ʻAlī, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (mayor); al-Ḥūrī, Mūsá (Teacher); ʻIzz al-Dīn, Muḥammad (Teacheer); al-Ḥāj, Unsī (Shaykh); Ṣubḥ, Nāyif (Landowner); Yāsīn, Muḥammad (Broker); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Broker); al-Ṣāliḥ, Aḥmad (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Abū Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family, childhood and schooling during the British rule. (@ 13:47)Table of contents: Rural life in Jāḥūlā before Nakba. (@ 25:35)Table of contents: Family business and economic conditions in the village. (@ 46:52)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and community life. (@ 64:4)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion . (@ 79:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June19, 1997 with Muḥammad Qāsim Muḥammad, male, born in 1923 in Jāḥūlā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sha‘bān; ‘Aṭīyah; Jabr; Fannīsh; Sursuq; Salām; Ghulmīyah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Hadassah hospital (Hospital).Significant figures: ‘Aṭīyah, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Yūnus (Shaykh); ‘Īsá, Maḥmūd Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Naḥawī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Lawyer); al-Rifā‘ī, Ḥusnī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Rifaʻī, Ḥusayn (Arab Salvation army commander); Lūbyā, Ḥusayn (Arab Salvation army soldier); ‘Aṭīyah, Abū Aḥmad Sulaymān (Wounded); Yāsīn, ‘Alī Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village during the British rule. (@ 11:44)Table of contents: Social and political conditions before Nakba. (@ 19:31)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 29:16)Table of contents: Battle and armed resistance. (@ 42:21)Table of contents: Military activity and resistance. (@ 50:29)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 59:0)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 73:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 12, 1998 with Faḍl Muḥammad Mīʻārī, male, born in 1920 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Mīʻārī; al-Mashāyikh; Ḥusayn; al-Badārinah; Mī‘ārī; Karrūm.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Dīmāsī, Khalīl (Teacher); al-Naḥawī, Ṣalāḥ (Teacher).Table of contents: Agriculture and economic conditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Village history. (@ 7:35)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and agriculture in al-Farrāḍīyah . (@ 17:15)Table of contents: Tobacco industry and trade in Farrāḍīyah. (@ 38:18)Table of contents: Tobacco smuggling and trade. (@ 63:50)Table of contents: Tobacco industry and rural life . (@ 72:48)Table of contents: Agricultural economics, cultivation and rural conditions. (@ 96:49)Table of contents: Cultivation and farming practices. (@ 116:32)Table of contents: Farming practices and tools. (@ 129:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 17, 1998 with Maḥmūd Nimir Mīʻārī, male, born in 1927 in ʻAkbarah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.He was a tobacco farmer.Families: Ḥasná; Ḥishmih; Fayyāḍ; Mīʻārī; Maghāmis.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Mīʻārī, Aḥmad Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Mīʻārī, Nimir ‘Abd (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural economics in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 16:46)Table of contents: Agricultural practices in the village. (@ 38:29)Table of contents: Land preparation and planting methods in the village. (@ 58:8)Table of contents: Harvesting operations . (@ 73:25)Table of contents: Rural conditions in Palestinian village during the British rule. (@ 89:1)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile
. (@ 115:14)
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: سجلت المقابلة أيضاّ مع أبو مازن، ذكر، ولد في فلسطين ويقيم في لبنان.Significant figures: Shuqayr, Asʻad (Shaykh); al-Miʻjil, Khālid (Judge); Layyūm, Ḥusayn (Poet).Table of contents: Palestinian elderly people's tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian conduct of life . (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and songs in Palestine. (@ 21:5)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Muḥammad. (@ 31:43)Table of contents: Folk poetry and marriage customs. (@ 47:0)Table of contents: Folk music. (@ 57:17)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and children's stories. (@ 64:0)Table of contents: Fairy tales . (@ 74:9)Table of contents: Marriage celebration and traditions. (@ 82:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 7, 1997 with Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Nawfal, male, born in 1932 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-ʻAfīfī; Sulaymān; al-Mawāʻidah; al-Ḥadāyidah; al-Saʻdīyah.Significant figures: Ḥallāb, Ḥasan (Teacher); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Shaykh, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Mayor); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Sarīnī, Mifliḥ (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Agriculture and community life in pre-Nakba Ṣaffurīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion and occupation of Ṣaffurīyah . (@ 16:40)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 27:50)Table of contents: Incidents and refugee social condition in Lebanon. (@ 41:51)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع غزالة عزّية، أنثى، ولدت عام 1926 في صفورية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Story of the ogre and al-Shāṭir Ḥdʻash. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Nuṣṣ Nṣayṣ and the Ogre. (@ 16:42)Table of contents: Popular tales and anecdotes. (@ 24:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Rāḍiyah Nawfal, female, born in 1951 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Weddings and ceremonies. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Songs of love. (@ 16:33)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع هدى أبو الدينة، أنثى ولدت في الناصرة، فلسطين.Families: al-ʻInbtāwī, Yāsīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Oil Refinery Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Qassām, Abū Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary leader); al-ʻInbtāwī, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ḥamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor); Khunayfis, Ṣaliḥ (Mayor); Indrāws, Abū Ilyās (Mayor).Table of contents: Wedding traditions and songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding customs
. (@ 9:54)Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 14:26)Table of contents: Harvesting and work . (@ 34:47)Table of contents: Love story. (@ 41:31)Table of contents: Arab revolt. (@ 49:19)Table of contents: Revolutionary songs and social life in Shafā ʻAmrū. (@ 59:23)Table of contents: Bedtime stories and the woodcutter story . (@ 69:20)