Biography: The interview was recorded on December, 1995 with Shammā Maḥmūd Ismā‘īl, female, born in 1926 in ʻArab al-Zubayd, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebrations. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Traditions and customs. (@ 12:44)Table of contents: Children's songs. (@ 26:50)
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: The interview was recorded on April 10, 1997 with Shīrīn al-Ḥāj, female, born in 1975 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Ghoul story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The end of Sit Budūr story. (@ 12:53)Table of contents: Gbaynih story. (@ 21:11)Table of contents: The Woodcutter story. (@ 33:32)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع أحمد الزامل، ذكر، ولد عام 1951 في ترشيحا، فلسطين ويقيم في صور، لبنان.Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tale of passed times. (@ 21:56)Table of contents: Ghoul story. (@ 32:43)Table of contents: Arab tribes stories, inaudible. (@ 38:5)Table of contents: Arabic poetry. (@ 60:17)Table of contents: Song and story. (@ 77:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 1997 with Ṣāliḥ Rashīd ‘Abd al-Ḥalīm, male, born in 1932 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in Jal al-Baḥr, Lebanon.Families: Mūsá; al-Dabbāḥ; Niʻmah; ‘Uthmān.Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in the village during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 8:56)Table of contents: Refugee life and isolation. (@ 23:23)Table of contents: Childhood and parents. (@ 33:44)Table of contents: The psychological impact of the exodus. (@ 49:19)Table of contents: Sufferance and struggle. (@ 62:59)
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 December 17, 1995 with Ṣālih Ṣālih, male, born in 1926 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Popular songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tale of passed times and songs. (@ 6:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 5, 1998 with Șāliḥ ʻAbd al-Rāziq, male, born in 1922 in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Burj al-Barājinah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked as a policeman.Families: al-Majdhūb; ʻAbd al-Rāziq; al-Khaṭīb.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Majdhūb, Qāsim (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Aḥmad (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Land, agriculture and community life. (@ 12:40)Table of contents: Political turmoil, immigration and refugees. (@ 24:4)
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: سجلت المقابلة ايضا مع تحفة يعقوب، أنثى، ولدت عام 1916 في شفا عمرو، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian wedding folk songs. (@ 11:5)Table of contents: Political songs. (@ 26:47)Table of contents: Palestinian political and folk songs. (@ 36:17)Table of contents: Songs of love and nation. (@ 46:50)Table of contents: Arabic folk songs. (@ 73:49)
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 on April 7, 1997 with Șubḥīyah Ja‘far, female, born in 1932 in al-Ḥusaynīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon.Families: Ṭayyib; ‘Ammār; al-Rāshīdī; Ja‘far; Rābiḥ; al-Zāyir; al-Bashīr.Significant figures: ‘Ammār, ‘Alī (Wounded); Kānūn, Aḥmad (Martyr); ʻAmmār, Mahmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Killings and massacres in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 14:33)Table of contents: War events and the exodus. (@ 21:52)Table of contents: War crimes and collective wrongdoing. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: The long life of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. (@ 41:7)Table of contents: al-Ḥusaynīyah under zionist occupation. (@ 50:13)
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: 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: البريطاني خلال الإنتداب.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Maṭār al-Jāʻūnah (Airport); Haifa port (Port).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Sarāyāt Kanʻān (Students dorms); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque); Jāmiʻ al-Jraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Kūrī, Maḥmūd (Auto mechanic); al-Rifāʻī, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥammad Nimir (Resistance fighter leader); al-Shā‘ir, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter leader); al-Ḥamad, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Rifaʻī, Aḥmad (Shaykh).Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries, and military acivity . (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 24:21)Table of contents: Military occupation of Palestine. (@ 35:24)Table of contents: War time and occupation. (@ 47:24)Table of contents: Battles and memories of war. (@ 71:34)
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 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 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 August 29, 1997 with ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Ḥasan Khiḍir, male, born in 1912 in Khirbat al-Kasāyir, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Sursuq; al-Maḥājinah.Significant figures: al-Ḥusaynī, Yaʻqūb (Public officer); Muḥammadī, Fādī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Farhāt, Muḥammad (Land broker); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Khāliq, Muṣṭafá (Martyr).Table of contents: Political dynamics under the British Mandate and warfare . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Zionist colonization and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 27:5)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and social norms. (@ 51:9)Table of contents: Wedding customs and traditions. (@ 62:33)Table of contents: Political conditions, betrayal, and return visit to Palestine . (@ 68:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 22, 1998 with ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sa’dī, male, born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a teacher.Families: Mawʻid; al-Saʻdī; Ghgunaym; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; Murād.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dā'irat al-Maʻārif (Governmental institution); al-Madrasah al-Ṣināʻīyah (School); Madrasat Ṣaffūrī (School); Madrasat Safad al-Thānawīyah (School); Madrasat Haifa al-Thānawīyah (School); Madrasat Kafr Mindah al-Ibtidāʼīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat Haifa al-Ṣināʻīyah (Schools).Significant figures: al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); al-Ḥāj, Jamīl (Teacher); Mawʻid, Faraj (Teacher); Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ Salīm (Mayor); al-Sa’dī, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor); Mawʻid, Faraj (Teacher); ʻArābī, Rajā (Teacher); al-Mawʻid, Faraj (Teacher); al-ʻAllūsh, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); al-Ḥāj, Maḥmūd Sulaymān (Teacher).Table of contents: Socio-economic life in pre-Nakba Ṣaffūrīyah . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Education and social life. (@ 13:13)Table of contents: Education in Palestine during the British Mandate. (@ 43:4)Table of contents: Education and political dynamics . (@ 72:28)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 83:39)
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 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: 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: The interview was recorded on September 1, 1997 with ʻAbdullāh al-Ṣāliḥ, male, Born in Sannīrīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He served as a soldier in the British Army.Families: Ghulmīyah.Significant figures: Ghulmīyah, Ḥabīb Raḍwān (Mayor); Māḍī, Maḥmūd (Lawyer); Ghulmīyah, Naṣṣār (Lawyer).Table of contents: Land expropriation and disputes . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Employment in British Army. (@ 11:34)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 29:17)Table of contents: Dispute between France and Britain . (@ 35:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 17, 1998 with ʻAbdullāh Muḥammad al-Sayyid, male, born in 1924 in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He served in the British Police forces in Palestine during the mandate.Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; al-Ḥāj; al-Shaykh Khalīl; Qaddūrah.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Ṣulḥ (Governmental institution); Maṭār al-Jāʻūnah (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Sharikat al-Ittīḥād (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Sayyid, Muḥammad Maḥāsin (Mayor); Wihbī, Zaydān (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Riḍā (Scout leader); Yāsīn, Yāsīn (Martyr); al-Dīb, Shaykhah (Martyr); ʻAzzām, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Sayyid, Abū Muḥammad Dyāb (Resistance fighter); al-Sayyid, Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Khāliq (Resistance fighter); Qaddūrah, ʻAbd al-Majīd (Martyr); al-Balʻūs, Ṣubḥī (Scout trainer); ‘Abdullāh al-Aṣbaḥ (Resistance leader.Table of contents: Agriculture and rural conditions in Saʻsaʻ . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and rural life. (@ 22:14)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Saʻsaʻ during the British Mandate. (@ 51:9)Table of contents: Employment in the British police forces. (@ 75:16)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine in 1948 and expulsion. (@ 87:49)Table of contents: Expulsion from Saʻsaʻ and hope of return. (@ 104:32)Table of contents: Scout incident and martyrdom of resistance leader ‘Abdullāh al-Aṣbaḥ. (@ 116:23)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع حسين محمد حسن، ذكر، ولد عام 1947 في صفد، فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Real story . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral story. (@ 12:38)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 31:59)Table of contents: Ethics an moral. (@ 48:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 10, 1995 with ʻAbdullāh al-Ṣalih, male, born in Kafr Birʻim, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Saʻīd al-Shaykh.Table of contents: Weddings and folk traditions. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk traditions and dispute resolution. (@ 28:6)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and ʻAtābā. (@ 46:5)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 25, 1995 with ‘Abdullāh Muṣṭafá ‘Abdullāh, male, born in 1923? in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Wuhayyib (Maqām).Table of contents: Wedding songs and customs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 9:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 28, 1997 with ‘Azīzah Ḥasan (Umm Nimir), female, born in 1931 in al-Buwayzīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Jabābīrī; al-Khaḍrawīyah; al-Ṭūkhī; Shiblī; Suwaydān; Shatlah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: ʻĀmūd al-Dīn (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: Ghunaym, Khaṭīb (Shaykh); Suwaydān, Abū al-Nūr (Shop owner); al-Rumayḥ, Manṣūr (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and community life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood, social life, and customs. (@ 15:1)Table of contents: Rural life in al-Buwayzīyah . (@ 25:34)Table of contents: Zionist invasion in 1948 and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 36:51)
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 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 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 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: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع عطرة زيد، أنثى، ولدت عام 1931 في البويزية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Kwayyis (Maqām).Significant figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet).Table of contents: Social conditions in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs of life and rural life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 14:20)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and short stories. (@ 33:15)Table of contents: Fairy tales and traditions. (@ 62:11)
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 October 30, 1998 with ʻUmar As‘ad ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, male, born in 1922 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and reides in Tripoli, Lebanon.Families: al-Ḥalabī; al-Zayn; Abū Shaqrā; Dirbās; al- Abṭaḥ; Bakīr; al-Bāshīyah; Salmān; Nājī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqam).Significant figures: al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); Idrīs, Khiḍir (Mayor); Zaydān, Fāyiz (Teacher); al-ʻAykī, Ḥasan (Carpenter).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agricultural land in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa . (@ 15:32)Table of contents: Agricultural conditions in the village . (@ 30:59)Table of contents: Political turmoil and exile from Palestine. (@ 46:1)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع نبيهة الأشقر، أنثى، ولدت عام 1944 في شفا عمرو، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم البداوي للاجئين الفلسطينين، لبنان.Table of contents: Popular tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian short folk stories . (@ 30:1)Table of contents: The kings and his three sons. (@ 49:27)Table of contents: Story of Rummān al-Dhahab. (@ 66:29)Table of contents: Palestinian popular short stories. (@ 82:52)
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 September 3, 1997 with ʻĪsá Muḥammad Maṣrī, male, born in 1914 in al-Nāʻimah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Bayk.Significant figures: ‘Ablah, Ḥasīb (Landowner); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Landowner); Abū Kharrūb, Ismā‘īl (Mayor); al-‘Alī, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Maṣrī, Maḥmūd (Martyr).Table of contents: Zionist invasion, terrorism and defense. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family and community life . (@ 29:11)Table of contents: Political conditions and socio-economic life. (@ 40:59)Table of contents: Zionist terrorism, expulsion and refugee experience . (@ 60:14)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience in exile. (@ 72:8)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع سميرة أبو حمدي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1951 في صفد، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Love songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular songs. (@ 16:33)Table of contents: bald head story. (@ 22:10)Table of contents: Palestinian popular songs. (@ 40:0)Table of contents: Palestinian ceremonies celebrations. (@ 52:56)Table of contents: Story of passed times. (@ 62:44)Table of contents: Story and children's songs. (@ 70:30)
Biography: The interview was recorded with Fāṭimah Aḥmad ‘Aṭīyah, female, born in ʻAlmā, Palestine and resides in Baalbek.Families: Sulaymān; Shaḥrūr; al-Mukhtār; al-‘Ajjāwī; al-Sa‘īd.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Ḥāj ‘Abdullāh (Mosque).Significant figures: Sa‘īd, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Fāris, Sa‘īd (Village leader); Sayf, Yūsuf (Martyr); Dirbās, Ammūn (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, community life and customs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Rural life and conditions in ʻAlmā. (@ 12:59)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and journey to exile. (@ 28:55)Table of contents: Socio-economic life in ʻAlmā and Haifa. (@ 47:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 28, 1995 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Mir‘ī, female, born in 1931 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: ʻAtābā and praise of Muḥammad. (@ 21:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 24, 1995 with Fāṭimah Aḥmad Manṣūr, female, born in 1941 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ṭuwaysī; Ghunaym; Ḥāmid; Sulaymān.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Mayor).Table of contents: Farming practices and rural life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Dietary practices and social norms in Palestine. (@ 24:54)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and celebrations. (@ 40:11)Table of contents: Wedding customs and folk traditions. (@ 69:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 13, 1995 with Fāṭimah al-Ṣāliḥ, female, Born in 1941 in Kafr Birʻim, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and wedding songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Songs of life . (@ 27:47)