Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 1997 with Ḥājah Khalīl ʻᾹmir, male, born in 1929 in Bīr al-Maksūr, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Jandāwī, Abū Aḥmad (Leader); al-Ṭaynīs, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Jandāwī, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Childhood memories and community life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to Lebanon. (@ 14:45)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon . (@ 35:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 20, 1997 with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Asadī, male, born in 1922 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked with the British Army.Families: al-Asadī; al-Dhabāḥ; Mūsá.Table of contents: Childhood and education in Pre-Nakba Dayr al-Asad . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in the British army and political turmoil . (@ 9:57)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience . (@ 17:43)Table of contents: lsraeli colonization of Palestinian land. (@ 34:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Ḥasan Aḥmad al-Khalīlī, male, Born in 1911 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a truck driver in Palestine.Families: Muṣṭafá; al-Jishī; Samārah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Significant figures: Shraym, Fahd (Mayor); Ḥadād, Jibrā’īl (Mayor).Table of contents: Agriculture and socio-economic life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tobacco cultivation and trade. (@ 10:17)Table of contents: Tobacco industry and cultivation. (@ 36:57)Table of contents: Dwellings in Palestine. (@ 64:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 7, 1997 with Ḥasan Ḥamad, male, born in 1930 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Kūkū; al-Zaghmūṭ; Ḥamad; Mirʻī; Sharāybī; ʻUbayd; Abū al-Kull; Shraydī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Zāwiyah (School); Madrasat al-Rujūm (School); Madrasat Khadūrī al-Zirāʻīyah (School).Significant figures: Zayn, Abū Salīm (Public officer); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); Ḥamad, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and community traditions in al-Ṣafṣāf . (@ 14:56)Table of contents: al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948. (@ 27:25)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 40:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 6, 1997 with Ḥasan Yūsuf ʻAwdah, male, born in 1920 in Nazareth, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a construction worker with the British Army forces.Families: Sursuq.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-‘Afīfī Bus Company (Corporation); al-Mustashfá al-Inglīzī (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid Cleopatra (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Fāhūm, Ismā‘īl (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and military attacks. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Military activity and exile from Palestine. (@ 10:12)Table of contents: Military occupation of Nazareth. (@ 26:1)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 41:13)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 48:27)Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 58:44)Table of contents: Israeli policy in occupied territories. (@ 72:10)
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 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 December 7, 1998 with Ḥusnī Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ, male, born in 1912 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a carpenter.Families: al-Qāḍī; al-Mukhaḥḥal; al-Ḥusaynī; Sursuq; Twaynī; Salām; al-Khūrī.Significant figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Leader); Ṭannūs, ‘Īsá (Carpenter); Shāhīn, Jibrā’īl (Carpenter); ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, Tawfīq (Artist); Kāmil, Sa‘īd (Trader); Kāmil, Maḥmūd (Trader); Ṣāliḥ, Mahdī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Jumay‘ān, Imīl (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Political history and activity in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Carpentry profession and social dynamics in Palestine. (@ 20:24)Table of contents: Socio-economic life in Tarshīḥā . (@ 46:0)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā and refugee experience . (@ 61:7)Table of contents: Refugee carpentry work Post-Nakba in exile . (@ 87:19)Table of contents: Carpentry wood types and trade. (@ 103:20)Table of contents: al-Kābrī Battle, 1948 . (@ 116:57)Table of contents: Municipality elections in Tarshīḥā and refugee experience . (@ 134:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 18, 1996 with Ḥusayn Zayd, male, born in 1941 in al-Ẓāhirīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Masjid al-Harām (Mosques); Ibrāhīm Maqām (Maqām).Table of contents: Story of a prophet. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Qurʼān stories. (@ 23:32)Table of contents: Palestine, the land of prophets. (@ 37:53)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع محمد عبد الغني الخليل، ذكر، ولد عام 1931 في صفورية، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطنيين، لبنان.Families: Abū al-Nʻāj.Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Village leader); al-Amīn, Muṣliḥ (Village leader).Table of contents: Social life and customs in Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and social customs. (@ 14:47)Table of contents: The reward of good deeds . (@ 34:4)Table of contents: Story about the chivalry of Arabs. (@ 48:2)Table of contents: The virtue of patience. (@ 59:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Ḥusayn Shams, male, born in 1934 in al-Farrāḍīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥusayn; Karrūm; Sārah; Shams; Ghunaym; Abū Shākir.Significant figures: al-Maḥmūd, Aḥmad (Village leader); Abū Dayyā, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); ‘Uṭūr, Ibrāhīm (Wonded); Ghunaym, ‘Abdullāh (Wounded); Karrūm, Tawfīq al-Mūsa (Martyr); al-Khālid, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr).Table of contents: Socioe-conomic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and forced departure. (@ 19:45)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 32:39)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 43:42)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 57:17)