Biography: The interview was recorded on April 3, 1998 with Yūsuf Nādir Nādir, male, born in 1924 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon. He worked as a technician with the British Army forces.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Hamer work (Corporation); German school (School); Madrasat al-Jalīl (School); al-Madrasah al-Usqufīyah (School).Significant figures: al-Khaḍrā, Fawzī (School principal); Jarrār, ‘Abd al-Hādī (Teacher); Mazzāwī, Jamīl (Teacher); Salāmah, Ḥannā (Broker); Rustum, Ṭānyus (Jordanian Army officer); Ḥaddād, Tawfīq (Technician).Table of contents: Childhood, education and work before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Work and employment. (@ 31:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 16, 1998 with Aḥmad Yūsuf Qaddūrah, male, born in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Biqāʻ, Lebanon.Families: Qaddūrah; al-Madāydī; Mūsá; Fāyiz; al-Jishshī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Būtāgī Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-‘Abd Mūsá, Sa‘īd (Mayor); Qayṣar, Jirjis (Mayor); Qaddūrah, ‘Alī Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Alī, al-‘Abd (Mayor).Table of contents: Agriculture and socio-economic conditions in Suḥmātā . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tobacco industry in Palestine . (@ 9:17)Table of contents: Cultivating and picking Tobacco in Palestine. (@ 37:10)Table of contents: Economic dynamics in the village before Nakba. (@ 45:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1998 with Maḥmūd Qaddūrah, male, born in 1926 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah. Lebanon. He worked with British police forces then as a shoemaker.Families: Qaddūrah; Mūsa; Murrah; al-Jishshī; ‘Āmir; Barshīr.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Rashīd ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Company (Corporation); Najran Company (Corporation); Singer (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Ṭūqah, Rāshid (Trader); Fu’ād, ʻUthmān (Manager).Table of contents: Agriculture and social conditions in the village before Nakba. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Professions in Suḥmātā. (@ 10:27)Table of contents: Shoe industry in Suḥmātā. (@ 21:8)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع ابنها عبدو سعيد غفور، ذكر، ولد في عكا، فلسطين.Families: al-Bayā‘ah; al-Ghandūr; al-Srūjī; al-Sa‘dī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Azhar (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Furqah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Mu‘allaq (Mosque); Kanīsat al-Rūm (Church); Jāmi‘ al-Majādlī (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Qazmūz, Sa‘īd (Prayer caller); Qazmūz, Maḥmūd (Prayer caller).Table of contents: Childhood and wedding customs in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life and landmarks in Akka. (@ 16:27)Table of contents: Akka during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 32:9)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and return visit . (@ 38:8)Table of contents: Attempt at return to Akka. (@ 55:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 9, 1998 with Qāsim Sa‘īd Qāsim,male, born in 1928 in Khirbat Jālīn, Palestine and resides in al-Burghulīyah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Nāyif (Mayor).Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life in Khirbat Jālīn. (@ 16:59)Table of contents: Bedouin houses practices. (@ 22:39)Table of contents: Tribal community customs. (@ 41:46)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics during british rule and Zionist invasion. (@ 60:14)Table of contents: Tribal society in Palestine. (@ 68:1)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع صالح الصالح، انثى، ولدت عام 1926 في السميرية، فلسطين وتقيم في صيدا، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Marriage celebrations. (@ 10:44)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and tales of love. (@ 31:18)Table of contents: Wedding folk songs. (@ 45:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 2, 1989 with Zahrah Salīm Rabāḥ, female, born in 1924 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Shu‘ayb (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Badawī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Poet).Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village . (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Community life during the British Mandate. (@ 12:25)Table of contents: Political conditions before Nakbah. (@ 20:34)Table of contents: Community life in Ḥiṭṭīn. (@ 30:41)Table of contents: Social life and customs in the village. (@ 44:0)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 12, 1999 with Ibrāhīm Yūsuf Rinnū, male, born in 1926 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Tripoli, Lebanon. He was a fisherman.Families: Abū Zayd, Rinnū; al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm; al-Ḥāj Khalīl; al-Bāshā; al-Ḥāj Sālim; Ḥishmī; Abū Hawwāsh.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Palestine Electric Company (Corporation).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell Palestine (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Nāṣirī, Abū ‘Alī (Martyr); Rinnū, Kāmil (Leader); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Ṭāhā (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and Zionist terrorism . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Haifa. (@ 11:19)Table of contents: Socio-economic life and expulsion. (@ 40:1)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 7, 1997 with Maḥmūd Rinnū, male, born in 1922 in Haifa, Palestine. He was a fisherman in Haifa port.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Burj (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).Significant figures: Qaṣād, Kāmil (Principal); Nāyif, Aḥmad (Military officer); Farḥāt, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Srūr (Resistance leader); Ṣafwat, Ismāʻīl (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ibrāhīm, Surūr (Martyr); Qazmūz, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Martyr); Rinnū, Aḥmad Ibrāhīm (Martyr); Rinnū, Maḥmūd Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Political life under the British Mandate of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil and settler colonialism in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 17:28)Table of contents: Expulsion from Haifa and hope of return. (@ 37:7)Table of contents: War events and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 49:39)Table of contents: Final reflections . (@ 65:47)
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: سجلت المقابلة أيضًا مع حسنة علي في تشرين الثاني يناير عام 1995، أنثى، ولدت عام 1913 في مجد الكروم، فلسطين وتقيم في الطريق الجديدة، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs and ʻAtābā. (@ 29:15)Table of contents: Folk songs and poetry. (@ 58:10)Table of contents: Children's lullabies and Islamic Ruqyah . (@ 72:44)
Biography: The interview was also recorded witih Ibtihāj al-Daqqāq, female, born in 1936 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Hādī (Maqām); al-Mujāhid (Maqām); Shīḥah (Maqām); al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām); al-Bayyāḍ (Maqām).Table of contents: Folk and harvesting songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs and social customs. (@ 6:44)Table of contents: Popular songs and Palestinian monuments . (@ 35:33)Table of contents: Story of Jbaynah. (@ 53:58)Table of contents: Grandfather and the jinn and children's songs. (@ 58:39)Table of contents: Wedding songs and customs. (@ 64:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Maḥmūd Sarrīs, male, born in Majd al-Kurūm, Palestine.Families: Minnā'; Khalāyil; Kanʻān; Sirḥān.Significant figures: al-Maḥbūb, Salīm (Landowner); Salīm , Muḥammad (Mayor); Sirḥān, Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Salīm (Mayor); Kinʻān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Economic conditions before Nakba. (@ 18:42)Table of contents: Rural economy and country life in Palestine before 1948. (@ 37:42)
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: الشمالي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Families: Shahābīyah.Significant figures: Maḥmūd, ‘Alī Yāsīn (Teacher); al-Blīlānī, Muṣṭafá ʻĪsá (Teacher); al-Maṣrī, Qāsim Muḥammad (Teacher); al-Zaghmūṭ, Yūsuf Kāmil (School principal).Table of contents: Agriculture and economic conditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 10:11)Table of contents: Political clashes, attacks and resistance. (@ 21:41)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 36:29)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 60:50)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع فاطمة علي سعد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1919 في نحف، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: The Beauty story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 14:35)Table of contents: Story of Two Friends and the king. (@ 25:8)Table of contents: Two popular stories. (@ 39:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 12, 1997 with Ṣāliḥa Maḥmūd Sa‘d, female, born in 1912 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Love story of passed times. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ghoul story and fable. (@ 9:5)Table of contents: Green Bird story and other stories. (@ 25:3)Table of contents: Real story. (@ 40:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 6, 1997 with Laylá Shalṭaf, female, born in 1940 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Bshāmūn, Lebanon.Families: Ṭannūs; Faraḥ; Ghandūr.Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 15:14)Table of contents: Humanitarian conditions of refugees. (@ 23:52)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 35:35)
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)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع إبراهيم حسن أبو ثريا، ذكر، ولد عام 1939 في قلنديا، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-‘Arabīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Juraynī (Mosque); al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); al-Zāwiyah al-Shādhilīyah (Mosque).Significant figures: Ṭāhā, Khalīl Muḥammad (Leader); al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm, Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); Salām, Farḥān (Poet); al-Jazzār, ‘Abdullāh (Shaykh); al-Shādhilī, ‘Alī (Shaykh); Ḥijāzī, Muḥammad (Circumcisor); al-Shalabī, Abū Ḥasan (Circumcisor).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Buwayzīyah. (@ 11:21)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 27:36)Table of contents: Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions. (@ 35:34)Table of contents: Community and family life in Palestine pre-Nakbah. (@ 44:6)Table of contents: Folk traditions in Akka. (@ 53:9)Table of contents: Ceremonies and celebrations. (@ 68:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Shiḥādah Jum‘ah Shatlah, male, born in 1923 in al-Buwayzīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a tribe leader.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Rasūl (Maqām).Significant figures: al-‘Alī, Shiḥādah (Shaykh); al-Luwasī, Ḥasan (Shaykh); al-Shāʻir, ʻAbdullāh (Resistance leader); Rabīʻ, Abū Fawzī (Resistance leader); Yāsīn, Abū ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Ḥūrānī, Akram (Leader); Suwaydān, Khalīl (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Buwayzīyah . (@ 13:47)Table of contents: Community customs and traditions. (@ 31:26)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries, and military activity. (@ 42:7)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 57:48)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 1997 with Ṣāliḥ Shaʻbān, male, born in 1934 in al-Dāmūn, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Biqāʻīyah; al-Zaydānīyīn; ʻUthmān; Abū ʻAlī; al-Lūbānī; Shaʻbān; ʻAyyāsh; Ibrāhīm al-Muṣṭafá; Ballūṭ; Khnayfis.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Dhū al-Kifal (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Biqāʻīyah, Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb (Martyr); Ibrāhīm, Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Razzāq (Martyr); al-Biqāʻīyah, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Saʻīd (Martyr); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr); al-Shaʻbān, Ḥusayn (Hostage); al-ʻAbwānī, Dāwūd (Martyr); al-Zayādinah, Muḥammad Saʻīd al-Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Yāsīn, ʻAbd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Hilālī, Ibrāhīm (Military officer); al-ʻAyyāsh, Qāsim (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life and customs in al-Dāmūn. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and British colonialism. (@ 13:35)Table of contents: Zionist occupation of al-Dāmūn, expulsion, and journey to exile . (@ 32:30)Table of contents: Refugee experience and suffering in Lebanon. (@ 48:51)Table of contents: Final reflections and hope of return. (@ 66:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 14, 1997 with Fāṭimah Ḥusayn Sha‘bān, female, born in 1928? in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Zayādinah; ʻAṭāyā.Significant figures: Nimrah, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); ʻAṭāyā, Maḥmūd (Mayor); ʻAwaḍ, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Ismāʻīl (Landowner); ʻAwaḍ, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: al-Zīb amidst the 1948 Nakba and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee experience and social conditions in Lebanon. (@ 25:53)Table of contents: Refugee living conditions and suffering. (@ 42:16)Table of contents: Community life and expulsion. (@ 61:26)
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: The interview was recorded on May 6, 1997 with ‘Abd al-Karīm Shiblī, male, born in 1926 in Ṣalḥah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Shiblī; ʻAwn; al-Maʻmārī; al-Asʻad; al-Mizārī; Slīm; Sursuq.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūsuf (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Ismāʻīl, Naʻīm (Martyr); al-Naqīb, Ḥasan (Teacher); Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Jumʻah, Mūsá (Martyr); Fayyāḍ, ʻAbd (Martyr); al-Atāsī, Abū Khalīl (Resistance leader); Saʻīd, ʻAlī (Resistance fighter); Saʻīd, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); Ismāʻīl, Naʻīm (Mayor assistant); ʻAbdullāh, Najīb Ḍāhir (Resistance fighter); ʻAbdū, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-ʻAbdullāh, Tawfīq (Village leader).Table of contents: Childhood memories and family in Ṣalḥah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Warfare and Arab Salvation Army withdrawal. (@ 6:55)Table of contents: Ṣalḥah massacre, 1948 and Palestinian land sale. (@ 29:26)Table of contents: Refugee hardships and war atrocities . (@ 40:54)Table of contents: Social life and customs in pre-Nakba Ṣalḥah . (@ 63:46)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضّا مع صباح عوض، أنثى، ولدت عام 1976؟ وتقيم في صور، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian folk traditions and songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk stories . (@ 21:49)Table of contents: Folk story: The king and the peasant. (@ 35:29)Table of contents: Folk stories II: Shams al-Shumūs and the Ghoul. (@ 50:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 3, 1997 with Maḥmūd Aḥmad Shtaywī, male, born in 1936 in Naḥf, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Naḥf (School); Madrasat al-Rāmah (School).Significant figures: Naḥlah, Jamīl (Mayor); al-Dāhish, Jabr (Mayor); Shuqayr, Abū ʻAlī (Prisoner of war).Table of contents: Early life and betrayal . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from al-Rāmah and journey to exile . (@ 8:21)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hardships in Lebanon. (@ 36:4)Table of contents: Attempt at return to Palestine and rejection. (@ 43:10)Table of contents: Communication with family relations in occupied Palestine . (@ 59:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 6, 1997 with Āmāl Shurayḥ, female, born in 1939? in Akka, Palestine and resides in ‘Aramūn, Lebanon.Families: Ṭannūs; Fākhūrī; Faraḥ.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Waṭanīyah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Shurayḥ, Fādī (Poet); Sirḥān, ʻĀdil (Village leader); Sirḥān, Fāris (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family and childhood . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The Exodus from Palestine. (@ 7:57)Table of contents: Occupation and exile. (@ 22:56)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 45:44)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 54:48)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 65:6)Table of contents: Exile and immigration. (@ 77:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Khiḍr Darwīsh Skaynī, male, born in 1924 in Saida, Lebanon.Significant figures: Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Shīshaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander); ‘Assāf, Najīb (Wounded); al-B‘aynī, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Mallāk, Saʻīd (Martyr); Zayn al-Dīn, Maḥmud (Martyr); al-‘Abdullāh, Ḥusayn (Martyr); Ḥalāwah, Fawzī (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestine is not the "promised land" . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance : memoirs of occupied Palestine. (@ 11:53)Table of contents: War time, resistance and military activity. (@ 38:10)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 47:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 25, 1998 with Rashīd ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd Sulaymān, male, born in 1927 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Najm; Sulaymān; ‘Īsá; al-Maw‘id; Ḥadāyidah; al-Sa‘dīyah; al-Maṣāriwah.Significant figures: ‘Izzīyah, Aḥmad Dāwūd (Teacher); Samārah, Shākir (School principal); al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Municipal council); al-‘Afīfī, Maḥmud (Municipal council); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor).Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural economic in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 14:34)Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 39:26)Table of contents: Employment, agriculture and rural conditions in the village. (@ 58:3)Table of contents: Crops and agriculture life in Saffuriyah. (@ 73:21)Table of contents: House construction and Farming practices in Palestine. (@ 83:17)Table of contents: Rural life and practices. (@ 95:26)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 106:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 18, 1996 with Abū Muḥammad Suwayd, male, born in 1946 in Safad, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: The birth of Moses and survival from Pharaoh's execution . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Escape of Moses from executioners and his first contact with God . (@ 28:18)Table of contents: Return of Moses to Egypt and his miracles . (@ 44:4)Table of contents: God's messages to people through Moses and oppression of his believers . (@ 53:19)Table of contents: Separation of the sea by Moses and death of the Pharaoh. (@ 68:56)
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: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع راضية إبراهيم عبدالله، انثى، ولدت عام 1925؟ في صفورية، فلسطين.Families: ‘Afīfī; al-Ḥāj.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Symbolism in popular culture. (@ 19:46)Table of contents: Weddings and ceremonies in the village. (@ 31:18)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 52:18)Table of contents: Songs and poems. (@ 65:2)Table of contents: Palestinian folk traditions. (@ 84:8)
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 July 18, 1997 with Aḥmad Ibrāhīm Tamīm, male, born in 1931 in al-Jāʻūnah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid, Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Tamīm; al-‘Amāyrī; Dakhl Allāh; Shiḥādah; al-Jalbūṭ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Maghārit al-Ghasīl (Maqām).Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Social conditions in the village. (@ 4:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil, resistance and military activity. (@ 22:34)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 33:37)Table of contents: Leaving al-Jāʻūnah. (@ 41:20)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 49:11)
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 on November 19, 1995 with Umm Ibrāhīm, female, born in 1921 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Children's song. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk traditions in Palestine. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Rural life and traditions in Palestine . (@ 22:42)Table of contents: Wedding traditions. (@ 44:6)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع أم سعيد في أيلول سبتمبر عام 1995، أنثى، ولدت عام 1916 في لوبيا، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Arabic short stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The king and his daughter story. (@ 17:55)Table of contents: Popular tales. (@ 31:35)Table of contents: Popular story. (@ 52:13)Table of contents: Three Sisters story. (@ 62:52)Table of contents: The Woodcutter story. (@ 73:43)Table of contents: Folk song and a story. (@ 84:31)
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: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع زهرة الخضر، أنثى، ولدت عام 1932 في أم الفرج، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البص للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: ِArabic folk poetry. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Fairy tale. (@ 8:26)Table of contents: Songs and poems. (@ 21:4)Table of contents: al-Zayn M‘ammar story. (@ 33:3)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 45:24)Table of contents: Songs and Story. (@ 50:17)Table of contents: Sleeping beauty. (@ 60:37)Table of contents: The Six Brothers story. (@ 71:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 10, 1995 with Umm Ḥusayn ‘Aql, female, born in 1899 in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in Ḥārit Ḥrayk, Lebanon.Families: ‘Aṭā.Table of contents: Traditional folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk traditions. (@ 9:56)Table of contents: Popular culture and tradition. (@ 27:46)Table of contents: Weavers of the songs. (@ 36:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 3, 1995 with Umm ‘Alī, female, born in 1916 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Popular songs and poetry. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs of love. (@ 7:47)Table of contents: Collective songs. (@ 26:12)Table of contents: The most famous Palestinian popular song. (@ 42:36)Table of contents: Zalghūṭah. (@ 61:38)Table of contents: Political poetry. (@ 73:21)Table of contents: Wedding customs. (@ 84:34)
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: The interview was recording on October 27, 1995 with Ṣubhīyah ‘Abdullāh Yāssīn, female, born in 1942 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 24:26)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 46:48)Table of contents: Palestinian folklore. (@ 72:7)Table of contents: Religious and children songs. (@ 94:40)Table of contents: Short Arabic stories. (@ 109:24)
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 ‘Awaḍ Maḥmūd Yūnus, male, born in 1910 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Saida, Lebanon. He worked in tax collection in Palestine.Families: Yūnis.Significant figures: Ṭaḥḥān, Najīb (Teacher); al-Salṭī, Rashīd (Public officer).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and political conditions in al-Ṣafṣāf . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education, political conditions, and employment in finance . (@ 20:5)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience. (@ 43:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 23, 1997 with Yūsuf Muḥammad Yūsuf, male, born in 1923 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; Salām; al-As‘ad; Fā‘ūr; Arslān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Iraqi Petroleum Company (Corporation).Table of contents: Economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 7:47)Table of contents: Warfare and the forced departure from Palestine. (@ 12:33)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 21:31)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 32:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 15, 1995 with Fāṭimah Zaghmūṭ, female, born in 1927 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Wedding customs and songs. (@ 0:00)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 30, 1997 with Shaykha Ismā‘īl Zayd, female, born in 1926 in al-Ẓāhirīyah ,Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Zayd; Salāmah; Shāhīn; Ṭarāwīyah; al-Khabbāzī; Sha‘bān; Ḥudayrī.Significant figures: al-ʻĪsá, Faṭṭūm (Dressmaker); Ṭarāwīyah, Ṭāhā (Martyr); al-Ḥudayrī, Saʻīd (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Salīm (Resistance fighter); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Social dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community and family life. (@ 14:16)Table of contents: Socio-political conditions in the village. (@ 25:55)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Zionist infiltration during the British rule. (@ 35:39)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 46:5)
Biography: biography: The interview was recorded on November 19, 1995 with Zahrah Zayd, female, born in 1916 in ʻAyn al-Zaytūn, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian customs and ceremonies. (@ 10:32)Table of contents: Palestinian wedding customs. (@ 23:2)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ayn al-Zaytūn. (@ 30:25)Table of contents: Agriculture life in Palestine. (@ 50:22)Table of contents: Socio economic and political conditions in Ayn al-Zaytūn. (@ 64:25)Table of contents: Palestinian food habits and traditional customs. (@ 76:24)
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 أيضا مع فاطمة حسين سالم، أنثى، ولدت عام 1950 في بعلبك، لبنان وتقيم في مخيم الرشيدية للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Early childhood songs. (@ 12:32)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 18, 1998 with Maḥmūd Muḥammad al-Amīn, male, born in 1924 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a mayor.Families: ‘Abd al-Ghanī; ‘Awaḍ; al-Yūsuf; Ḥamādah; Ismā‘īl; al-Khaṭīb; al-Bunnī; al-Amīn; al-Sirḥān; Aṭāyā.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Kafr Yāsīf (School).Significant figures: al-Yūsuf, Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Bunnī, Maḥmūd Aḥmad (Village leader); Ismā‘īl, Shiḥādah (Village leader); ‘Awaḍ, ‘Īsa (Village leader); al-Yūsuf, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); al-Kurdī, Maḥmūd ‘Alī (Village leader); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Amīn, Muḥammad (Landowner); al-Nimir, Muḥammad (Public officer); Murād, As‘ad (School principal).Table of contents: Mayorship and community life in al-Sumayrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and mayorship . (@ 19:23)Table of contents: Mayor contact with British authorities and anti-Palestinian economic measures. (@ 44:33)Table of contents: Roles of Mayors post-Nakba. (@ 70:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 14, 1997 with Ḥafīẓah al-Asadī, female, born in 1911? in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She was a seamstress.Table of contents: Community and family life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 18:42)
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 on ٍSeptember 22, 1997 with Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Aswad, male, born in 1920 in al-Karmil, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was Quarrier.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Evangelical School (School); Maṭār Nihlāl (Airport); Utility Company (Corporation); Egged Bus Company (Corporation); Schwat (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Ḥāj ‘Abdullāh (Mosque).Significant figures: Abū Durrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Ṣahyūn, Rājī (News reporter); Srūr, Abū Maḥmūd (Leader).Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Britain and Germany in the second world war . (@ 11:27)Table of contents: Palestine from Ottoman to British rule. (@ 31:43)Table of contents: Jews, Palestinians and one Palestine during the British Mandate. (@ 42:33)Table of contents: Social life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 58:58)Table of contents: Community traditions and customs in Palestine during the British rule. (@ 68:46)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع حنيفة أبو غزالة، أنثى، ولدت عام 1937 في حيفا، فلسطين وتقيم في الروشة، لبنان.Families: al-Dīk; al-Qalʻah; al-Ṣalāḥ; al-Yāsīn; Khūrī; Abū Yāghī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 20:10)Table of contents: Political conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine and expulsion. (@ 32:15)Table of contents: Popular tale and folk songs. (@ 50:16)Table of contents: Social life in pre-Nakba Haifa and folk stories . (@ 62:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 7, 1997 with Ᾱminah Ibrahīm al-Bakrī, female, born in 1914 in al-Biʻnah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Badrān; Khalīl; al-Tītī; ʻĀbid; al-Ḥusayn; al-Bakrī; Khāzin; Būlus; al-Khūrī.Significant figures: al-Sarkas, ʻUthmān (Mayor); Badrān, Ḥusayn Muṣṭafá (Mayor); al-Bakrī, Muḥammad Ḥasan (Lawyer); Darwīsh, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabaḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-‘Ābid, ‘Alī Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Ḥusayn (Mayor); Dāhish, Jabr (Village leader); Bakrī, Ḥusayn (Leader).Table of contents: Rural life in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in al-Biʻnah. (@ 10:6)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 17:6)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 23:27)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 28:46)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 45:45)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 49:57)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 64:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 11, 1997 with Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ al-Bashīr, male, born in 1934 in al-Ḥusaynīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Fāyiz; Ja‘far; al-Rawāshidah; al-Bashāyīrah; al-Ṭawāhirah; al-Rawābiḥah; al-‘Amāmirah.Significant figures: al-Kānūn, Aḥmad (Martyr); Jaʻfar, Raḥmah (Martyr); Fāyiz, Raḥmah (Martyr).Table of contents: Land purchase scheme in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 12:56)Table of contents: Violence, betrayal and expulsion. (@ 27:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 27, 1995 with Muná Khalīl al-Bashīr, female, born in 1916 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Poetry and short story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Love story and folk poetry. (@ 12:13)Table of contents: Folk songs and poetry. (@ 27:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 13, 1995 with Maḥmūd al-Bāyir, male, born in 1936 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Shabrīḥah, Lebanon. The interview was also recorded with Șālih Rashīd, male, born in 1934 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in Jal al-baḥ, Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of Bishr and Husn I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of Bishr and Husn II. (@ 26:59)Table of contents: Arabic folk poetry. (@ 39:26)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and folk poetry . (@ 59:16)Table of contents: Prayers to God and religious anthems. (@ 80:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 22, 1996 with ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ al-Ghūl, male, born in 1941 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Rāshid, Khālid (Singer); al Qayyā, Arghul Abū al-‘Abd (Musician).Table of contents: Palestinian ballads. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Palestinian folklore. (@ 16:0)Table of contents: Wedding music. (@ 25:21)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 35:37)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 44:15)Table of contents: Mother's recompense. (@ 54:1)Table of contents: Story of a Mother. (@ 75:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 22, 1996 with ‘Abd al-Fattāḥ al-Ghūl, male, born in 1941 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: God prophets. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of a prophet. (@ 11:11)Table of contents: Religious stories. (@ 28:16)Table of contents: King Sulayman story. (@ 50:23)Table of contents: Biaqīs and king Sulayman. (@ 65:22)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 6, 1997 with Maḥmūd al-Hindi, male, born in 1934 in Akka, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aḥmadī (School); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).Significant figures: Shukrī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Muftī).Table of contents: History of the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Akka. (@ 18:17)Table of contents: Refugees: The experience of forced migration . (@ 29:45)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 49:56)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:52)Table of contents: Refugees hopes. (@ 74:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1996 with ‘Āʼishah al-Amām, female, born in 1936 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Praise songs and speech of prophet Muḥammad I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Praise songs and speech of Prophet Muḥammad II. (@ 27:42)Table of contents: Birth of Prophet Muḥammad. (@ 54:11)Table of contents: Songs and storytelling of biography of Prophet Muḥammad . (@ 57:48)Table of contents: Songs of Prophet Muḥammad . (@ 74:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 29, 1997 with Āminah Muḥammad al-Jabbār (Sārah Cohen), female, born in 1926 in Jerusalem and resides in Beirut, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘Ḥasan Bayk (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Samrī, Khalīl (Martyr); Ḥūsah, Dhakīyah (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic and political conditions in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, immigration and exile. (@ 7:46)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 22:20)Table of contents: Refugees, aid and living conditions. (@ 30:23)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع هنا أبو مهاوش، أنثى، ولدت عام 1934 في حيفا، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البص للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Jamal, Tawfīq (Martyr).Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian rites and ceremonies. (@ 14:29)Table of contents: Two folk stories. (@ 25:4)Table of contents: Children story. (@ 48:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on 1995 with Naẓmīyah al-Janḥāwī, female, born in 1916 in Shafā ʻAmrū, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Dāwūd (Maqām).Table of contents: Palestinian traditional songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zalghutah. (@ 10:13)Table of contents: Traditional songs in Palestine. (@ 16:32)Table of contents: Songs collection. (@ 38:43)Table of contents: Miscellaneous collection of songs. (@ 56:51)Table of contents: Classic Arabic songs. (@ 69:12)Table of contents: Short story. (@ 75:3)Table of contents: Green Bird story. (@ 85:52)
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 February 12, 1996 with Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1920 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader).Table of contents: Story of al-Mughdād the Arabian knight I. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Story of al-Mughdād the Arabian knight II. (@ 27:55)Table of contents: Folk poetry and ʻatābā. (@ 44:53)Table of contents: Popular tales. (@ 56:51)
Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع زوجها عبد الرحمن محمد المجذوب، ذكر، ولد عام 1925 في عمقا، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم المية ومية للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان. كان يعمل في فبركت الكبريت في عكا.Families: Abū Jāmūs; ʻUwayyid; al-Ḥajal; al-ʻAkkī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Akka airport (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Nūr Safety Match (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Muṣṭafá (Resistance fighter); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Darwīsh, Shafīq (Lawyer).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and beliefs in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 21:35)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 43:0)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 58:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded with 'Alyā al-Mawʻid, female, Born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine.Families: al-Ḥadāyidah; al-ʻAdādinah.Significant figures: al-Mawʻid, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Barmakīyah, Zaynah (Dancer); al-Mawʻid, Salīm (Village leader); al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Salīm, Yūsuf (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Ka‘dlī, Muḥammad (Leader).Table of contents: Wedding Customs and traditions
. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and community life in Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 8:49)Table of contents: Pre-nakba life and the military occupation of Palestine. (@ 31:17)Table of contents: Community and family life . (@ 51:31)Table of contents: Socio-religious ceremonies in the village. (@ 75:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 9, 1998 with ʻAbd al-Qādir Yūsuf al-Mawʻid, male, born in 1924 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Mawʻid; Sulaymān; al-Ḥadāydī; al-Zahayrī; Tāhā.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Holy Family Hospital (Hospital); Nazareth Hospital (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Mawʻid, Yūsuf (Mayor); al-Mawʻid, Ṣālih (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Sharīf (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and agriculture in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Water resources, land acquisition and German settlements . (@ 28:10)Table of contents: Olive mills. (@ 45:24)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع صباح محمد عوض، أنثى، ولدت عام 1969 في الغابسية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البص للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Significant figures: ʻAwaḍ, Marzūq (Village leader); al-Tawbah, Abū Maḥmūd (Leader); al-Najmī, salīm (Leader); Khiḍir, Qāsim (Land agent).Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Heroic stories. (@ 19:1)Table of contents: Real stories from Palestine and Heroic poems. (@ 30:36)Table of contents: Poems and songs. (@ 45:20)Table of contents: The Old man and his wife story. (@ 65:31)
Biography: The interview was recording on February 7, 1997 with Amīnah Bashīr al-Mughrabī, female, born in 1921 in Nahariya, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon.Families: Twaynī; Sursuq; Twaynī.Significant figures: al-Shanṭī, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Ḥimmū, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥūrānī, Abū Kāmil (Engineer).Table of contents: Settlements and land issues before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 18:45)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and exile. (@ 26:11)Table of contents: Exodus and revisiting Palestine. (@ 37:25)Table of contents: Exile and emigration. (@ 47:11)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with ‘Alī Saʻīd al- Mughrabī, male, born in 1928 in Maʻdhar, Palestine.Families: ‘Aṭāyā.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-‘Adl al-‘Ulyā (Court).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Keren Kayemeth (Corporation); Egged Bus Company(Corporation).Significant figures: al-Ṭabarī, Fāyiz (Lawyer); Kūsā, Elias (Lawyer); ‘Anabtāwī, Aḥmad (Teacher); al-Ṭabarī, Khalīl (Revolutionary); al-Ṭabarī, Ṣidqī (Revolutionary); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ṭāhir, Sālim (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ṭāhir, Sālim (Village leader); Mīzārī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Village leader); Shishaklī, Ṣalāḥ (Arab Salvation Army commander); Abū Nasab, Farīd (Refugee camp leader); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-‘Arābī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Rizq, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Land legislation in Palestine. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Land ownership in Palestine. (@ 12:59)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration and political turmoil. (@ 18:15)Table of contents: Violence,battles and armed resistance. (@ 29:7)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 39:6)Table of contents: Refugees and displacement. (@ 49:2)Table of contents: Refugee life. (@ 63:47)Table of contents: Land, refugees and return. (@ 79:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Āʼishah al-Munawwar, female, born in 1928 in Dayshūm, Palestine.Families: Nūḥ.Table of contents: Handicrafts and Pottery making . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Dietary practices and socio-economic conditions . (@ 13:0)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاّ مع حسين سويد، ذكر، ولد عام 1931 في صفد، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding songs and story of the old lady and her daughters in law. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk tale . (@ 22:56)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Ḥasan I. (@ 41:2)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Ḥasan II. (@ 65:10)Table of contents: The tote bag of happiness and the fluent rooster. (@ 73:16)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 17, 1995 with Amīnah al-Mūsá, female, born in 1911 in ʻAmqā, Plaestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Traditional songs and memories of childhood. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic life in ʻAmqā . (@ 15:55)Table of contents: Fairy tales. (@ 30:51)Table of contents: Marriage traditional celebration. (@ 56:59)Table of contents: Black Dog story. (@ 65:24)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 83:16)
Biography: The interview was recording with ‘Alī al-Najjār, male, born in Jaffa, Palestine and reides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a driver with the British Army.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ Ḥasan Bayk (Mosque).Significant figures: Dabbās, ʻIzzat (Auto mechanic); Haykal, Yūsuf (Mayor).Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Description of the city. (@ 9:34)Table of contents: Political turmoil and Zionist infiltration . (@ 26:1)Table of contents: War time, military occupation , immigration and refugees. (@ 39:8)Table of contents: Refugee hope. (@ 57:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 17, 1997 with ‘Alī Muḥammad al-Najjār, male, born in 1913 in Safad, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a carpenter.Families: Khaḍrā; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Significant figures: Qaddūrah, Zakī (Municipal council); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Mir‘bī, Muṣṭafá (Governor); ʻArābī, Muṣṭafá (School principal); Shamar, ‘Alī (Coffeehouse owner); ‘Asqūl, ʻAlī (Public servant); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Village leader); Qaddūrah, Walīd (Martyr); Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Trader).Table of contents: Political conditions in the city before Nakba. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Memories of life in Palestine and Lebanon. (@ 7:43)Table of contents: Community life in the city. (@ 19:31)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics before Nakba. (@ 31:29)Table of contents: War time, city occupation and the expulsion. (@ 44:24)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 61:49)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 23, 1995 with Zubaydah Aḥmad al-Nāṭūr, female, born in 1918 in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding customs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Homeland nostalgia. (@ 15:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 1, 1995 with Muḥammad Saʻd al-Quṭṭ, male, born in 1921 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Zayādinah.Table of contents: Proverbs and wise sayings . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular songs and Arabic proverbs. (@ 26:48)Table of contents: Arabic proverbs and real life stories . (@ 49:47)Table of contents: Arabic proverbs and storytelling . (@ 78:24)Table of contents: Proverb tales and advice . (@ 86:53)Table of contents: Benevolence and Palestinian-Jewish relations. (@ 105:55)Table of contents: Popular tales . (@ 129:13)Table of contents: Short stories . (@ 153:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 28, 1997 with Muḥammad Sa‘d al-Quṭṭ, male, born in 1919 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, Asʻad (Shaykh); Shiḥādah, Muḥammad (Coffeehouse owner); Huwaydī, Ḥamīd (Trader); Sirḥān, Nāyif (Leader); al-Rīnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); al-Majdalāwī, Rashīd (Poet).Table of contents: Agriculture life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic and political conditions during the Ottoman and British rule. (@ 12:2)Table of contents: Revolution and revolutionists during the British Mandate. (@ 21:52)Table of contents: Community life and celebrations. (@ 45:42)Table of contents: Life style in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 59:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with ʻAlī al-Qādirī, male, born in 1924 in al-Ṣafṣāf, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was the Imām of the mosque in al-Ṣafṣāf.Significant figures: Ismāʻīl, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kāyid, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine, 1948 . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Warfare and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 10:2)Table of contents: Refugee conditions in exile . (@ 22:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 12, 1999 with Fāṭimah Kāmil al-Qāḍī, female, Born in 1932 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Qāḍī; al-Jishshī; Sirḥān; al-Āghā.Significant figures: Shrayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Qāḍī, Shukrī (Mayor); al-Maḥmūd, Shafīq (Mayor).Table of contents: Embroidery work and sewing. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions and embroidery. (@ 17:7)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 29, 1998 with Qāsim al-Rāghib, male, born in 1922 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a trader.Significant figures: al-Qabalān, Kanj (Village leader); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Village leader); al-Ibrāhīm, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ma‘rūf, Ghānim (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Rashīd, Shafīq (Trader).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 15:18)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 27:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 7, 1997 with Mudalalah ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Rīnāwī, female, born in 1937 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Khalaf; al-Naṣṣār.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Banāt Yaʻqūb (Maqām); Dayr Ḥannah (Convent); Dayr Ṣaffūrī (Convent).Significant figures: al-Rīnāwī, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Rīnāwī, Saʻīd (Martyr); Abū al-Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Ghuzz, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader).Table of contents: History of Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule. (@ 14:29)Table of contents: Occupation of Ṣaffūrīyah and expulsion from Palestine . (@ 21:57)Table of contents: Refugee experience in Lebanon. (@ 31:47)