Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Aḥmad Ḥajīr, male, born in 1930 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥāmūlī.Significant figures: Abū Jrās, Khalīl (Survivor); Ḥajīr, Fāyiz (Revolutionary); Ḥajīr, Ṣafīyah (Martyr); Salmān, ʻAbdullāh (Village leader); Abū Dūdah, Khiḍir (Village leader); Ḥajīr, Ḥasan Muḥammad (Prisoner).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil anf revolutionaries. (@ 9:2)Table of contents: Military occupation and the popular resistance. (@ 23:0)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:48)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 44:42)Table of contents: Palestinian refugees life. (@ 53:56)
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 November 18, 1998 with Aḥmad Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Ghanī, male, born in 1929 in Dabbūrīyah, Palestine. He was a police officer in the British Police forces during the mandate.Families: Yūsuf; Ibrāhīm; al-Maṣāliḥah; al-ʻAzāyzah; al-Aṭrash; al-Najjār; al-Yūsufī; Khamīs.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Pipeline Company (Corporation); German Hospital (Hospital).Significant figures: Abū Zurāq, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Burīnī, Saʻīd (Policeman); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Military officer); Khamīs, Mūsá (Policeman); al-ʻDaysī, Aḥmad (Martyr); Simḥān, Maḥmūd Resistance leader); Sallām, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAwartānī, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); Ḥadīd, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Mifliḥ, Yūsuf (Resistance leader); al-Dājānī, Mūsá (Resistance leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Arab Salvation Army leader).Table of contents: Employment in the British Police forces . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: British Police activity and army mistreatment during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 27:46)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and Palestinian resistance. (@ 35:15)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion. (@ 60:8)Table of contents: Return to Palestine and resistance . (@ 83:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 21, 1996 with Aḥmad Sallūmmah, male, Born in 1961 from Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Childhood life of Prophet Muḥammad and dawn of prophethood. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Beginning of islamic missionary and torture of muslim believers. (@ 29:49)Table of contents: Islamic missionary and the miracle of al-Isrāʾ wa al-Miʻrāj . (@ 55:28)Table of contents: Immigration of Prophet Muḥammad and muslims to Medina. (@ 84:43)
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 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 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 June 18, 1997 with Aḥmad Ḍāhir al-‘Īsá, male, born in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes manufacture (Corporation).Table of contents: Palestinian history. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Palestinian affair. (@ 17:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1997? with Aḥmad Ḍāhir ‘Īsá, male, born in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine.Table of contents: Relay of memories and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile and diaspora . (@ 11:30)
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: The interview was recorded on March 7, 1997 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Qādir Ḥasan, male, born in 1928 in Ijzim, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Dwāymah; al-‘Azāyzah; al-Ṭaḥbūsh; Abū Zarad; al-‘Awāṣī; al-Qannūn; Qudsīyah; al-Kīlānī; al-Zinātī; Sursuq.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Lawyer); al-Māḍī, Mu‘īn (Lawyer); al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Landowner); Mūrād, ‘Abd al-Raḥīm (Shaykh); al-Nabhānī, Taqī al-Dīn (Shaykh); al-Khaṭīb, Nimir (Shaykh); Naffā‘, Yūnus (Leader); Naffāʻ; al-Ṣīdāwī, ‘Abdū (Resistance leader); Māḍī, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Rural life in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Childhood and everyday life. (@ 8:32)Table of contents: Political turmoil and armed resistance. (@ 19:13)Table of contents: Military occupation and the expulsion. (@ 25:10)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 34:10)Table of contents: Refuge life between Syria and Lebanon. (@ 48:7)
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)