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 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 with Aḥmad Mifliḥ ‘Alā’ al-Dīn (Abū Usāmah), male, born in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-‘Īsá, Sulaymān Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Martyr); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Alā’ al-Dīn, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Mufliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and resistance . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance, occupation, and expulsion from Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 11:28)Table of contents: Journey to exile and refugee experience . (@ 34:18)Table of contents: Final reflections on the future of Palestinians . (@ 54:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm al-ʻAbd, female, born in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Za‘rūrah; ‘Izzīyah; Sulaymān; Maw‘id; Abū al-N‘āj; ‘Aṭīyah; Khaṭṭāb.Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social customs and community life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 11:40)Table of contents: Palestinian songs and customs . (@ 20:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Ṭāhā Saʻd, female and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Two short stories. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Sacrifice in social relations. (@ 8:18)Table of contents: Dignity in literature. (@ 16:37)Table of contents: The king and his son in law . (@ 26:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Umm Tāhā Saʻd, female and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of a king and his daughter. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Short Arabic stories. (@ 11:28)Table of contents: Moral stories. (@ 21:42)Table of contents: Cunning and guile in Arabic short stories. (@ 34:34)
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: The interview was recorded on with Bahīyah al-ʻAdawī, female, born in Palestine.Table of contents: ʻAtābā and wedding songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Stupidity in popular tale. (@ 25:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Jabr Muḥammad Yūnus, male, born in 1920 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon. He was a trader.Families: al-Zaghmūṭ; Yūnus, Ḥamad; Yāsīn; Yūnus; Ḥamad.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Ecole Des Frères (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá Saʻd Allāh al-Khalīl (Hospital); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Kull, Naʻīm (Resistance fighter); al-Zaghmūṭ, Ismāʻīl (Village leader); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAbdullāh (Mayor); al-Yūnus, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Yūnus, Dīb Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥasan, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Resistance fighter); Zaynī, Ḥasan (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); Farhūd, Aḥmad Nimir (Resistance fighter); Kāyid, Aḥmad Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); Shraynī, Muḥammad Ṭāhā (Mayor); al-Zaghmūṭ, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Poet); al-Shūlī, Ḥannah (Flour mill owner); ʻAzzām, ʻAlī (Flour mill owner); Yūnus, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); al-Zaghmūṭ, Nāyif (Martyr); Swaydī, Aḥmad ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestinian villages. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948. (@ 16:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Ṣafṣāf and journey to Lebanon. (@ 42:18)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile . (@ 65:11)Table of contents: Education and economic conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 77:8)Table of contents: Political conditions and Zionist occupation. (@ 88:2)Table of contents: Social and community life in pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 104:12)Table of contents: Living conditions during the British Mandate of Palestine 1920-1948 . (@ 126:1)Table of contents: Final reflections on life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 149:37)
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 with Sa‘d al-Dīn Tawfīq, male, born in 1920 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Twaynī; Mamlūk; Sursuq; ‘Aṭāyā.Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Aṭāyā, Fāyiz (Village leader).Table of contents: Land defense and military occupation. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 10:18)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 21:0)Table of contents: Refugee experience and revisiting Palestine. (@ 33:33)Table of contents: Refugees in Lebanon. (@ 48:1)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance and military occupation. (@ 59:57)
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)