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 January 7, 1997 with Khaznah Muḥammad ʻUlayyān, female, born in 1921 in Mughr al-Khayṭ, Palestine.Families: Barakah; Tarāshiḥah; Ḍāhir; Dyāb.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻUlayyān , Sulaymān ʻAbd al-laṭīf (Resistance fighter); al-Yūnus, ʻAwaḍ (Landowner); ‘Umar, Ḥusayn (Landowner); ‘Umar, ‘Alī (Landowner); ʻUlayyān , ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Ghanī, Sulaymān (Landowner); ʻUlayyān , Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Dyāb, ‘Umar (Vehicle driver); al-Ḥāj, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Biqā‘ī, Sharīfah Maḥmūd (Wounded).Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 13:17)Table of contents: Political life during the British Mandate. (@ 24:11)Table of contents: Occupation and exile. (@ 34:35)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 50:41)
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 June 22, 1997 with Khalīl Ibrāhīm Sālim, male, born in 1929 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine.Families: Ḥijāzī; ‘Ulayyān; Twaynī.Significant figures: Twaynī, Ghassān (Landowner); al-Yamanī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Mir‘ī, ‘Abd (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rābāḥ (Resistance leader); Sirḥān, Fāyiz (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Families and land. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and resistance. (@ 8:31)Table of contents: Military operations and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: The exodus and the refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 9, 1997 with Khalīl Ḥusayn Ṣidqī, male, born in 1924 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon. He was as a quarrier.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell Oil Company (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Pipeline Company (Corporation); English Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh ‘Īsá (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); Mār Ilyās (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Kāmil (Businessman).Table of contents: Quarrying profession during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Religious diversity and socio-economic life. (@ 9:43)Table of contents: Palestine during World War II. (@ 30:10)Table of contents: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and political conditions. (@ 37:51)Table of contents: City occupation, terrorism and expulsion. (@ 58:32)Table of contents: Terrorism, expulsion and journey to exile. (@ 68:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 13, 1997 with Khalīl Ḥusayn Yāsīn, male, born in 1933 in Ibṭin, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Qaramān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: Yāsīn, al-‘Abd (Wounded); Yāsīn, Aḥmad (Wounded).Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 11:35)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 18:37)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 25:7)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:13)
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 April 5, 1997 with Dībah Muṣṭafá Ḥijazī, female, born in 1933 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Children's songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Poems and songs. (@ 12:18)Table of contents: Short stories and poems. (@ 27:5)Table of contents: Stories and aphorims. (@ 36:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 7, 1997 with Raʼīfah Sha‘fāṭī, female, born in 1912? in Akka, Palestine and resides in ‘Aramūn, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Sīdī Abū ‘Atabah (Maqām): al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Sīdī ‘Izz al-Dīn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Jazzār, ‘Abdullāh (Muftī); al-Khalīl, Nadīyā (Dressmaker).Table of contents: Community and family life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family, childhood and schooling. (@ 10:31)Table of contents: Wedding and marriage customs. (@ 22:31)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in Akka. (@ 51:23)Table of contents: Refugees and living conditions. (@ 67:49)Table of contents: Forced departure from Palestine. (@ 80:8)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 93:39)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 102:6)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 125:52)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع غزالة إبراهيم عبد المعطي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1927 في بيت لحم، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Significant figures: al-Bahār, Khaḍrah (Midwife); Abū N‘āj, Nimir (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Displacement, exile and hope. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian children folk songs. (@ 12:54)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:28)
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: 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)