Biography: The interview was recorded on May 30, 1997 with Aḥmad Mifliḥ ‘Alāʼ al-Dīn, male, born in 1931 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Ghuzz, Abū Mahmūd (Resistance leader); al-ʻĪsá, Sulaymān ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Martyr); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Alāʼ al-Dīn, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Mifliḥ (Policeman); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Naṣr, Saʻīd (Survival); al-Ṭufaylī, ‘Alī (Survival).Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 15:4)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 22:40)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 33:17)Table of contents: Refugees hopes for the future. (@ 47:42)
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 on September 1, 1998 with Nāyif Darwīsh ‘Alī, male, born in 1917 in Khirbat Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a trader.Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Mustashfá al-Islāmī (Hospital).Significant figures: al-Bukhārī , Yūsuf (Musician).Table of contents: Political turmoil and military attack. (@ 0:05)Table of contents: Wedding celebrations and political conditions in Palestine before 1948. (@ 8:5)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 26:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 1996 with Abū Ayman‘Aql, male, born in 1943 in Nablus, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Love folk songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 22:21)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 39:22)Table of contents: Fables stories. (@ 63:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 15, 1997 with Amīnah ‘Aql, female, born in 1927 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Fictional stories. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral story and patriotic songs. (@ 21:14)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 10, 1997 with Muḥammad ‘Aql, male, born in 1929 in Ṣaffurīyah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻAtābā; al-Ḥadāydī; Abū Nāṣir; Ḥallūm; Yāsīn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Steel (Corporation).Significant figures: al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); Abū Qāsim, Jamīl (Teacher); al-Maw‘id, Maw‘id Muḥammad (Teacher); ʻIzzīyah, Aḥmad Dāwūd (Teacher); al-Mawʻid, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Ḥadīdī, Aḥmad (Public officer); al-Mawʻid, Salīm (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Nawfal, Amīn (Refugee camp leader); al-Ṣabbāgh, Fāyiz (Refugee camp leader).Table of contents: Rural life and political history of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social dynamics and economic condition in Ṣaffūrīyah. (@ 20:14)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee experience . (@ 32:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on 1995 with Ni‘mah ‘Awaḍ, female, born in 1921 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Ḥasan and al-Shāṭir Muḥammad. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Folk stories and pilgrimage songs. (@ 14:11)Table of contents: Pilgrimage story and songs. (@ 24:43)Table of contents: al-Shāṭir Muḥammad story. (@ 53:3)Table of contents: Folk songs and stories. (@ 65:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 30, 1995 with Fāṭimah ‘Awdah, female, born in 1916 in al-Zīb, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Table of contents: Children's songs. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Story of a prince. (@ 10:35)Table of contents: ‘Awdah family origin. (@ 20:3)Table of contents: Folk traditions. (@ 33:43)Table of contents: Childhood in Palestine and songs. (@ 44:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 1997 with Ḥusayn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ‘Ayyāsh (Abū 'Alī), male, Born in 1921? in ʻAylūṭ, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Abū Rāṣ; ʻAṭāllāh; ʻAbbūd; ʻAyyāsh; Sursuq; Sirḥān; al-Nashāshībī.Significant figures: Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ṭāhā Muḥammad Khalīl (Revolutionary); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Sālim, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Sulaymān, ʻAwaḍ (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣalṭī, Nāyif (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣahyūn, Abū Fāyiz (Tracker); Abū ʻAyyāsh, Sārī (Martyr); Zāyid, Ibn Qūrá (Jewish officer).Table of contents: Social life and political history of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: ʻAylūṭ during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 16:41)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and feudalism in Palestine. (@ 45:0)Table of contents: Political activity during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 68:1)Table of contents: Battles and Zionist invasion and occupation of Palestine, 1948. (@ 84:19)Table of contents: Mass murder and expulsion from ʻAylūṭ . (@ 109:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 11, 1998 with Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Karīm ‘Azzām, male, born in 1924 in Ṣaffūrīyah , Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a circumcisor.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Ḥāj Muḥammad, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Landowner); al-Fāhūm, Rāfi‘ (Resistance leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Writer).Table of contents: Social values and traditions in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in Palestine. (@ 11:42)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 25:47)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine under Israeli occupation. (@ 43:24)Table of contents: Tales of wonder, wisdom and heroes. (@ 60:4)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 70:39)Table of contents: Popular stories. (@ 77:7)Table of contents: Community life and traditions. (@ 87:18)
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 January 2, 1999 with Fāṭimah Ḥamad ‘Aṭīyah, female, born in 1927 in Jāḥūlā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ‘Aṭīyah; ‘Alī; Sha‘bān.Significant figures: ‘Alī, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Leader).Table of contents: Mayorship and social life in Jāḥūlā . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Mayorship activity and social relations. (@ 28:27)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and mayorship Post-Nakba. (@ 49:26)
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)