Biography: The interview was recorded on June 13, 1997 with Ḥusayn Muḥammad Ḥijjū, male, born in 1931 in Lūbyā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Shihābī.Significant figures: al-ʻUthmān, Dawwās (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, ʻᾹrif (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Muḥammad Saʻīd (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Saʻīd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Manṣūr, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al-Shaʻbān, ʻAlī (Prisoner); Abū ʻAyshah, Ṣāliḥ (Prisoner).Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and war events. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 17:15)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile and attempt at return . (@ 42:37)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 15, 1997 with Ḥusayn Muḥammad Darwīsh, male, born in 1937 in Khirbat Ja‘tūn, Palestine.Families: al-Darāwshah; Mir‘ī; Manāṣrī; Mḥaysnīyah; Ḥijāzī; Ḥawwā; Twaynī; Sursuq; Ḥabāyib; Bazzī; Salām; al-As‘ad.Significant figures: al-ʻAkkī, Aḥmad (Landowner); Ḥijāzī, Abū Aḥmad (Mayor); Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader); al-Qassīs, Abū Mas‘ad (Village leader).Table of contents: Farming and living conditions before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 7:50)Table of contents: Infiltration during the British rule. (@ 15:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and military activity. (@ 28:46)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 38:23)Table of contents: War time and military operations. (@ 54:42)Table of contents: Land, defense and resistance. (@ 67:22)Table of contents: Military occupation and political clashes. (@ 83:28)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 101:24)Table of contents: Humanitarian conditions during the exodus. (@ 114:38)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 130:19)
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 December 7, 1998 with Ḥafīẓah Qāsim Aḥmad, female, born in 1917 in Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She worked as a tailor.Families: Dhabbāḥ; al-Khaṭīb; al-Mūsá; Ṣunʻ Allāh; al-Muzayyan; Badrān; al-Dhabāḥ.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Maqām Al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Dhabbāḥ, Fāṭimah (Tailor); al-Shaykh, ‘Alī (Shop owner); al-Khaṭīb, Maḥmūd Sa‘īd (Mayor); Balṭajī, Umm Ḥasan (Derssmaker).Table of contents: Socio-economic life and sewing . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Sewing and bridal trousseau. (@ 29:58)Table of contents: Sewing tools and socio-economic conditions in Palestine. (@ 46:45)Table of contents: Refugee experience and education in exile . (@ 55:26)Table of contents: Sewing profession Post-Nakba and refugee life. (@ 64:35)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Ḥulwah ‘Abbās, female, born in 1914 in Kuwaykāt, Palestine and resides in Ḥārit Ḥurayk, Lebanon.Significant figures: al-Amūn, Yaḥyá (Poet); al-Baytam, ʻAwaḍ (Poet).Table of contents: Traditional Palestinian wedding. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: The Palestinian Wedding Practices and Rituals. (@ 13:23)Table of contents: Sleeping Beauty story. (@ 28:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 20, 1995 with Ḥalīmah al-Shaykh Khalīl, female, born in 1892 in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Memories of Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular story. (@ 18:28)Table of contents: Two short popular stories. (@ 29:15)Table of contents: Popular poetry and songs. (@ 50:12)
In this interview, a Saudi writer and translator Hamad Al-Jasser discuss linguistic issues raised in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He talks about the establishment of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo, the Iraqi Language Academy, and other institutes in Jordan and Saudi Arabia to exchange knowledge of the different Arabic dialects. The interview was conducted by Doria Sharaf El-Din.
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)
In this interview, Khaled El Seddiq, a pioneer of Kuwaiti cinema and the director of the Kuwaiti film ""Cruel Sea"", discusses his directing of movies. The interview was conducted by Dorreya Sharaf al-Din.
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 1, 1995 with Khadījah, female, born in 1911 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding celebration. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular songs collection. (@ 19:8)Table of contents: Prayers and songs. (@ 32:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 5, 1997 with Khadījah Muḥammad Abū Sālim,female, born in 1926 in al-Ṭīrah Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Table of contents: Tale of passed times. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular tale. (@ 11:57)Table of contents: The Merchant. (@ 22:26)Table of contents: Story of Magic Birds. (@ 45:27)Table of contents: Three Sisters story. (@ 53:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Khaznah Muḥammad ʻUlayyān, female, born in 1921 in Mughr al-Khayṭ, Palestine.Families: Barakah; Tarāshiḥah; Ḍāhir; Dyāb.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); ʻUlayyān , Sulaymān ʻAbd al-laṭīf (Resistance fighter); al-Yūnus, ʻAwaḍ (Landowner); ‘Umar, Ḥusayn (Landowner); ‘Umar, ‘Alī (Landowner); ʻUlayyān , ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Landowner); ʻAbd al-Ghanī, Sulaymān (Landowner); ʻUlayyān , Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Mayor); Dyāb, ‘Umar (Vehicle driver); al-Ḥāj, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Biqā‘ī, Sharīfah Maḥmūd (Wounded).Table of contents: Rural life in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-political dynamics in the village. (@ 13:17)Table of contents: Political life during the British Mandate. (@ 24:11)Table of contents: Occupation and exile. (@ 34:35)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 50:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 3, 1997 with Khiḍir Asʻad Abū Hawwāsh, male, born in1947 in Yaʻbad, Palestine and resides in al-Rashidīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Three Brothers story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Purposeful story. (@ 18:0)Table of contents: Fables and other stories. (@ 44:8)
An interview with the Emirati plastic artist, Kholoud Muhammad Ali, in which she discusses plastic art in the UAE, especially to help Gulf women work and produce. She also talks about the impact of the visual environment around her on her paintings and artistic style, and her painting "Woman and Land", for which she won several awards. The interview was conducted by Doria Sharaf El-Din.
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 22, 1997 with Khalīl Ibrāhīm Sālim, male, born in 1929 in Umm al-Faraj, Palestine.Families: Ḥijāzī; ‘Ulayyān; Twaynī.Significant figures: Twaynī, Ghassān (Landowner); al-Yamanī, Muḥammad (Shaykh); Mir‘ī, ‘Abd (Resistance fighter); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rābāḥ (Resistance leader); Sirḥān, Fāyiz (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Families and land. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Battles and resistance. (@ 8:31)Table of contents: Military operations and the Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 20:1)Table of contents: The exodus and the refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 9, 1997 with Khalīl Ḥusayn Ṣidqī, male, born in 1924 in Haifa, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon. He was as a quarrier.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell Oil Company (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Iraqi Pipeline Company (Corporation); English Hospital (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh ‘Īsá (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); Mār Ilyās (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Kāmil (Businessman).Table of contents: Quarrying profession during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Religious diversity and socio-economic life. (@ 9:43)Table of contents: Palestine during World War II. (@ 30:10)Table of contents: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 and political conditions. (@ 37:51)Table of contents: City occupation, terrorism and expulsion. (@ 58:32)Table of contents: Terrorism, expulsion and journey to exile. (@ 68:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 13, 1997 with Khalīl Ḥusayn Yāsīn, male, born in 1933 in Ibṭin, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Qaramān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Haifa (Hospital).Significant figures: Yāsīn, al-‘Abd (Wounded); Yāsīn, Aḥmad (Wounded).Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood memories. (@ 11:35)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 18:37)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 25:7)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 35:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضاّ مع أبو مازن، ذكر، ولد في فلسطين ويقيم في لبنان.Significant figures: Shuqayr, Asʻad (Shaykh); al-Miʻjil, Khālid (Judge); Layyūm, Ḥusayn (Poet).Table of contents: Palestinian elderly people's tales. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian conduct of life . (@ 10:57)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and songs in Palestine. (@ 21:5)Table of contents: Story of al-Shāṭir Muḥammad. (@ 31:43)Table of contents: Folk poetry and marriage customs. (@ 47:0)Table of contents: Folk music. (@ 57:17)Table of contents: Wedding traditions and children's stories. (@ 64:0)Table of contents: Fairy tales . (@ 74:9)Table of contents: Marriage celebration and traditions. (@ 82:24)
'In this interview, Khairy Beshara, an Egyptian film director, speaks about his favorite and most successful movies "Al-T\'wq Wa-al-Iswirah""House Boat No.70"and "The Village DoctorBloody Destinies". He also discusses issues in cinema and the role of the public sector in the development of cinema. The interview was conducted by Dorreya Sharaf al-Din.'
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 5, 1997 with Dībah Muṣṭafá Ḥijazī, female, born in 1933 in al-Ghābisīyah, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Children's songs. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Poems and songs. (@ 12:18)Table of contents: Short stories and poems. (@ 27:5)Table of contents: Stories and aphorims. (@ 36:53)
In this interview, Dr. Sayyid Hasaballah speaks about using sound and light in Egypt. He discusses using this technology for pyramids and temples. The interview was conducted by Dorreya Sharaf al-Din.
Biography: The interview was recorded on October 7, 1997 with Raʼīfah Sha‘fāṭī, female, born in 1912? in Akka, Palestine and resides in ‘Aramūn, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Sīdī Abū ‘Atabah (Maqām): al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Sīdī ‘Izz al-Dīn (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Jazzār, ‘Abdullāh (Muftī); al-Khalīl, Nadīyā (Dressmaker).Table of contents: Community and family life in Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Family, childhood and schooling. (@ 10:31)Table of contents: Wedding and marriage customs. (@ 22:31)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions in Akka. (@ 51:23)Table of contents: Refugees and living conditions. (@ 67:49)Table of contents: Forced departure from Palestine. (@ 80:8)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 93:39)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 102:6)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 125:52)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع غزالة إبراهيم عبد المعطي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1927 في بيت لحم، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Significant figures: al-Bahār, Khaḍrah (Midwife); Abū N‘āj, Nimir (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Displacement, exile and hope. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian children folk songs. (@ 12:54)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Palestine before Nakba. (@ 31:28)
Biography: The interview was recorded in 1995 with Rāḍiyah Nawfal, female, born in 1951 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Weddings and ceremonies. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Songs of love. (@ 16:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 6, 1999 with Rāfī ‘Uwaydis Aṭāmyān, male, born in 1946 and resides in al-Baṣṣ, Lebanon.Families: al-Safrī; al-Qubṭī; al-Dāmūnī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).Table of contents: History of Armenians in the Arab countries. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Armenian-Palestinian relations. (@ 10:40)Table of contents: Armenians in Palestine. (@ 21:27)Table of contents: Armenians attitudes towards Arabs. (@ 26:57)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 11, 1997 with Jum‘ah Rizq al-Ḥāj Dāwūd, male, born in 1925 in Akka, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He was a shoemaker.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Aḥmadīyah (School).Landmarks-Private Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Waṭanīyah (School); Jam‘īyat al-Ṭaqm al-Ḥadīd (Association).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Raml (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Mīnā’ (Mosque).Significant figures: Abū al-Ḥudá, ‘Alī (School principal); al-Dāyah, Muḥammad (Teacher); al-‘Awaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Childhood and cultural life in Akka. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: History and cultural life in Pre-Nakba Akka. (@ 12:35)Table of contents: Work in the shoe industry in Akka. (@ 29:19)Table of contents: Political conditions during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 34:21)Table of contents: Betrayal, collaboration and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 42:19)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 22, 1997 with Rashīd Aḥmad al-ʻAynayn, male, born in 1926 in al-Shaykh Dāwūd, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-ʻAynayn; al-Nūr; Rustum: al-Bayk; Fahd; Baytam; Yāsīn; Wajdī; Badr; Asʻad al-Khalīl; Sursuq.Significant figures: al-ʻAynayn, Aḥmad Rashīd (Revolutionary); Fahd, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Shūrī, Muḥammad ʻUthmān (Martyr); Abū al-Khayr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Ḥisn, Qāsim (Martyr); Badr, Ḥasan (Land owner); Ḥisn, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Resistance leader); al-Fāris, Najīb (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Political conditions and events surrounding 1948 Nakba . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political dynamics and betrayal . (@ 18:9)Table of contents: War events and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 35:45)Table of contents: Refugee living conditions in Lebanon. (@ 50:39)
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)
"In this interviewRafiq Abd al-Qadira Vice director of Qasr al-Sha'bspeaks about the customs and traditions of art in Djibouti. The interview was conducted by Ibrahim Abdeen."
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 7, 1997 with Raymond Elias ʻAffārah, male, born in 1936 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Catholic school (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).Significant figures: Ḥallās, Riḍā (Teacher); Kannūn, Maḥmud (Shaykh).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions before Nakba. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Infiltration and attacks. (@ 8:20)Table of contents: City occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 19:25)Table of contents: Refugee life, humiliation and isolation. (@ 29:50)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 43:0)
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 August 31, 1997 with Zahrah Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāj, female, born in 1928 in Ṣaffūrīyah, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ‘Arābī, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd (Doctor); al-Maṣrī, ‘Umar (Doctor).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture life in Palestine. (@ 10:43)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 20:55)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 16, 1998 with Zahrah Ḥamad Khadījah, female, born in 1926 in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine and resides in al-Qāsimīyah, Lebanon.Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Traditional customs in a Bedouin community. (@ 17:29)Table of contents: Rites and ceremonies. (@ 42:4)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community traditions. (@ 61:46)Table of contents: Social gatherings and customs. (@ 85:15)Table of contents: War time, military occupation and exile. (@ 100:2)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع فاطمة اليوسف، أنثى، ولدت عام 1941 في السُمَيريّة، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Table of contents: Magical world story. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Popular poems and songs. (@ 12:40)Table of contents: Arabic short story. (@ 23:44)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 35:9)Table of contents: The Princess and the slave and other stories. (@ 59:33)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 80:34)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 27, 1997 with Zahrah Ḥumayyid, female, born in 1927 in ʻAyn al-Zaytūn, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥammīd; Khaṭṭāb; Idrīs; Ghrayyib; al-Sha‘bī.Significant figures: Khaṭṭāb, ‘Abd (Mayor); Ḥamad, As‘ad (Olive mill owner); Yāsīn; Aḥmad (Olive mill owner); al-Zayn, Salīm (Revolutionary); Ḥamad; Fū'ād As‘ad (Prisoner); Khaṭṭāb, Aḥmad Murrah (Martyr); al-Ṭabarānī, ʻAlī (Prisoner); Maḥmūd, Qāsim Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Muḥammad, Qāsim (Martyr); Sulaymān, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Abd, Ḥāmid Ḥasan (Martyr); al-‘Abd, ‘Abd Muḥammad (Martyr); Nimr, Asʻad (Martyr); al-Rashīd, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); Khaṭṭāb, Kāyid (Martyr); al-Sha‘bī, Nimi r (Martyr); al-Sha‘bī, ʻAbdullāh (Martyr); Idrīs, Jamīl (Martyr); al-Shāwīsh, Amīnah (Martyr); al-Mtawwat, Zaynab (Martyr); Idrīs, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Idrīs, Zaynab (Martyr); Khaṭṭāb, Maḥmūd al-Ḥamad (Matyr).Table of contents: Village history . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture, and everyday life. (@ 10:6)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 31:41)Table of contents: Marriage celebrations. (@ 41:2)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule. (@ 52:47)Table of contents: War time, massacres and exodus. (@ 67:48)
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 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: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع أمينة قبلاوي.Table of contents: Palestinian wedding customs. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Folk songs. (@ 23:29)Table of contents: Popular songs. (@ 36:23)Table of contents: Emotional songs. (@ 40:49)Table of contents: Traditional tales. (@ 47:20)Table of contents: Love songs. (@ 62:51)Table of contents: Traditional folk songs. (@ 77:20)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 7, 1997 with Zahrah Fahd Murrah, female, born in 1930 in Suḥmātā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sabalān (Maqām); al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām).Significant figures: Murrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); Qaddūrah, Maḥmūd Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Falāḥ, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ṭunnah, Yūsuf (Mayor); Mubaddah, Nāyif (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Ḥusayn Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAbbūd, Khalīl (Martyr); Qāsim, Muḥammad Khalīl (Martyr); ʻAbd al-Wahāb, Aḥmad (Martyr); Murrah, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Salīm, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Suḥmātā during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 under the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli occupation and expulsion . (@ 6:44)Table of contents: Community life and beliefs in Sabalān. (@ 21:22)Table of contents: Expulsion and suffering. (@ 31:27)Table of contents: Refugee experience and hardships . (@ 42:34)Table of contents: Palestinian folk songs and wedding customs. (@ 51:32)
Biography: .سجلت المقابة أيضا مع زوجها أبو رشيدFamilies: ʻAllūsh; Najm; al-Ḥāj; al-Sa‘dī; Sulaymān; al-Maw‘ad.Significant figures: al-Maw‘ad, Muḥammad (Mayor); Sulaymān, ‘Abd al-Majīd (Mayor); al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Sa‘dī, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Ghuzz, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Aḥmad, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Bakr, Tawfīq Sulaymān (Martyr); Bishr, Muḥammad Sa‘īd (Matyr); al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-Hādī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Community and family life. (@ 0:02)Table of contents: Rites, ceremonies and customs. (@ 12:7)Table of contents: Agriculture, families and social relations. (@ 25:57)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 42:10)Table of contents: Exile from Palestine. (@ 51:47)
Biography: The interview was recorded on July 7, 1997 with Zahrah Muḥammad Khalīl, female, born in 1934? in al-Baṣṣah, Palestine.Table of contents: Pre-Nakba life. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Community celebrations and customs. (@ 8:53)Table of contents: Characteristics of a tribal community. (@ 13:0)Table of contents: Eyewitness of the Palestinian exodus. (@ 32:54)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 42:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 30, 1998 with Zaynab Ibrāhīm Khalīl, female, born in ʻAmqā, Palestine and resides in Nahr al-Bārid Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Abū Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Majẓub, Abū Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community life in the village. (@ 16:38)Table of contents: Palestinian handicrafts and refugee hopes for the future. (@ 29:4)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع راضية مرهجي، انثى، ولدت عام 1926 في صفورية، فلسطين وتقيم في مخيم نهر البارد للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Significant figures: al-ʻŪthmān, Ṣāliḥ (Singer).Table of contents: Songs of life. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Moral fiction. (@ 10:30)Table of contents: Songs and stories. (@ 16:39)Table of contents: Tales of passed times. (@ 25:47)Table of contents: Love folk songs. (@ 45:31)Table of contents: Stories of love and devotion. (@ 69:43)
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 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: 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)