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 September 27, 2005 with Najīyah Ḥusayn, female, born in 1940 in Qabbāʻah, Palestine and resides in Lebanon.Families: Sh'ḥādah; al-Maṣārwī; al-Ḥaj; Ḥamādah; Fandī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻŪṣajī (Maqām).Table of contents: Childhood and agricultural life in Qabbāʻah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and customs in Qabbāʻah . (@ 12:31)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948 and expulsion. (@ 25:39)
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: Biiography: The interview was recorded on October 1, 2003 with Qāsim Muḥammad Dyāb, male, born in 1920? in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā, Palestine.Significant figures: al-‘Ajāj, Muḥammad (Tribe leader); Nakhlah, Jamīl (Village leader); Ṣghayyir, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Village leader); al-Mūsá, Dyāb (Revolutionary); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Weapon trader); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad (Landowner).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 13:39)Table of contents: Community life in Khirbat al-Waʻrah al-Sawdā. (@ 26:25)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity . (@ 42:11)Table of contents: Displacement and the journey of expulsion . (@ 64:27)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 26, 2003 with Dībah Muṣṭafá Ḥijāzī, female, born in 1933 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine.Families: ‘Awaḍ; Ayyūb; Ḥammād; Dāwūd.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); al-Ḥasan, Abū Ṣāliḥ (Circumcisor); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ(Revolutionary leader); al-Aḥmad, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); Ḥammīd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Arab Salvation Army commander); Rāḍī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Badī‘ah, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Marār, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Rāʻī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Ghurrah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Zaynah, Dāwūd (Martyr); ʻŪthmān, Ḥasan (Martyr); ʻŪthmān, Asʻad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 14:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in al-Ghābisīyah. (@ 37:54)Table of contents: Violence, battles and resistance. (@ 45:8)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 62:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Laṭīfah Dīb, female,born in ʻAkbarah, Palestine.Families: Maʻārī; Mukhtār.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh ‘Alī (Maqām); Shaykh Salāmah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥlayḥil, Ḥasan (Musician); al-Aḥmad, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Nājī, Mūsà (Revolutionary); Abū Qāsim, Ḥayāt (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusaynī, Yūsuf (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions at ʻAkbarah. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Political activity at ʻAkbarah during the British Mandate. (@ 22:49)Table of contents: British policy towards the villagers and revolutionists. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 50:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 9, 2004 with Āminah Aḥmad Mūsá, female, born in al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī, Palestine.Families: Khalaf.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Shārm (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad (Maqām); al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām); al-Shaykh Sharaf (Maqām).Significant figures: Yūnus, Khalīl (Shaykh); al-Dakhīl, Shiḥādah (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Ḥmayyid, Muṣṭafá (Musician); al-Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Singer).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in Palestine. (@ 7:46)Table of contents: Childbirth and women's role . (@ 32:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 2004 with Āminah al-Sayyid, female, born in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon.Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; Ḥammād; al-Ḥāj; Khalīl; Balʻūs.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Sayidah Nafīsah (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: Wihbī, Zaydān (Mayor); ʻAzzām, Ᾱminah (Martyr); Yāsīn, Yāsīn (Martyr); Yāsīn, ʻAql (Martyr); ʻAzzām, Ḥāmid (Martyr); Ghunayyim, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); ʻAzzām, Shaykhah al-Dīb (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and cultural life in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions and turmoil . (@ 13:42)Table of contents: Evacuation orders from Saʻsaʻ . (@ 20:4)Table of contents: Zionist invasion during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 26:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 28, 2009 with Āminah Jamāl Zaydān, female, born in 1943 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Bank al-Mashriq (Bank); Madrasat al-Kifāḥ (School).Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Ibrāhīm (Professor); Fā‘ūr, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Refugee condition during the Israeli invasion of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah, 1982. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: House reconstruction in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp . (@ 20:36)Table of contents: House demolition in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp and war atrocities of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 1982 . (@ 50:6)Table of contents: Final reflections on refuge experience. (@ 73:13)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 11, 2004 with Āmīnah Saʻd, female, born in 1928? in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Saʻīd; al-Kayyāl; Mi'ārī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); al-Kayyāl (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Sulṭānī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and cultural life in al-Birwah . (@ 0:25)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance to military occupation in al-Birwah . (@ 19:3)Table of contents: Historical reflections. (@ 35:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 18, 2006 with Āminah Qāsim, female, born in 1936 in al-Jish, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ṭālib, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ayyūb, Salīm (Mayor); Qāsim, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Najīyah (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic dynamics under British rule. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:56)
