This compilation video was created from scenes depicting AUC and its student, faculty, and campus in the AUC Historic Films collection. The video was created by RBSCL staff and displayed at Community Day in 2015
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 11, 2012 with Āminah Muḥammad Qundus, female, born in 1931? in al-Zīb, Palestine.Families: al-Afandī; ‘Aṭāyā; Qiblāwī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: ‘Īsá, Ḥasan (Martyr); Qundus, Khalīl (Martyr); ‘Abdū, Aḥmad (Wounded); al-Rā‘ī, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Ṣaqlāwī (Fisherman); Bas‘ad, ‘Alī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, and eveyday life during the British rule. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in the village. (@ 16:31)Table of contents: Political clashes during the British Mandate. (@ 28:25)Table of contents: Interreligious relations and military attacks . (@ 37:17)Table of contents: Violence, resistance during the Zionist colonization. (@ 47:41)Table of contents: Economic conditions in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 62:42)Table of contents: Village occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 84:10)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 17, 2011 with Renée Kuttih, female, born in 1925 in al-Ramlah, Palestine.Families: al-Ghuṣaynī; Abū al-Laban; al-Khayrī; al-Tāj; al-Fārūqī; Qutrān; al-‘Azūnī; al-Ṣūṣū; Naṣṣār.Landmarks-Public Institutions: al-Mustashfá al-‘Askarī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Madrasat al- Ingliz (School); Sharikat Bāṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Spinneys (Corporation); American University of Beirut (University); Friends Girls School (School); Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation); Sharikat Baṣāt al-Ramlah, al-Lidd, Jaffa (Corporation); Sharika al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).Significant figures: Kuttih, Costandi (Mayor); Kuttih, Georges (Pharmacist); Kuttih, Ḥannah (Doctor); Qutrān, Michel (Chief justice); Bishārah, Sāmī (Doctor); Shaṭārah, Wadī‘ah (Teacher); Ḥannūsh, Victoria (School principal); Kuttih, Alex (Pharmacist); ‘Aṣāṣah, Ḥikmat (Landlord); Bshārah, Sāmī (Doctor); Fī‘ānī, Georges (Businessman).Table of contents: Socio-economic Life in the city. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Pre-marital Life,Village Traditions and Schooling . (@ 14:39)Table of contents: Engagement, Marriage and Family Life . (@ 40:45)Table of contents: Wedding celebration and honeymoon in Europe. (@ 63:16)Table of contents: Political turmoil and displacement. (@ 79:44)Table of contents: Relations with the Jews. (@ 87:43)Table of contents: Land Ownership and attacks. (@ 98:10)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine and life in exile . (@ 104:48)Table of contents: Return to Palestine and life in pre-Nakba Palestine. (@ 116:34)Table of contents: Childhood and other Personal Memories. (@ 129:3)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 28, 2009 with Āminah Jamāl Zaydān, female, born in 1943 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Bank al-Mashriq (Bank); Madrasat al-Kifāḥ (School).Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Ibrāhīm (Professor); Fā‘ūr, Muḥammad (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Refugee condition during the Israeli invasion of ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah, 1982. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: House reconstruction in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp . (@ 20:36)Table of contents: House demolition in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp and war atrocities of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 1982 . (@ 50:6)Table of contents: Final reflections on refuge experience. (@ 73:13)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع إبنتها هلا أيو سالم، أنثى، ولدت وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution).Significant figures: al-Yūsuf, Māhir (Writer); Abū Sālim, Maḥmud (Martyr); al- Ḥiṭṭīnī, Umm Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad (Lebanese Army commander).Table of contents: Battles and violence in Lebanon,1982. (@ 2:21)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 12:18)Table of contents: Living conditions during the Israeli invasion. (@ 22:0)Table of contents: Palestinian refugee camp conditions during the Israeli invasion. (@ 40:26)Table of contents: Social dynamics in a Palestinian community. (@ 56:40)Table of contents: Social and political changes in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 71:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 4, 2009 with Amal Shihābī, female, born in 1962 and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Sarāyā Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Mustashfá al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital).Significant figures: Sulaymān, ‘Abd al-Laṭīf (Teacher); al-Maw‘id, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Salwá (Prisoner); al-‘Abdullāh, Āminah (Prisoner); al-Ta‘miri, Ṣalāḥ (Social worker).Table of contents: Israeli war crimes and terrorism. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political activity and detention in Israeli camps. (@ 8:32)Table of contents: Experience in Israeli detention camps. (@ 35:30)Table of contents: Women's role in building up the Palestinian society. (@ 59:30)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع إبنتها جميلة الاشقر، انثى، ولدت وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيينن لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá al-Baṣṣah (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution); Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Mustashfá Ghassān Ḥammūd (Hospital).Table of contents: War and displacement. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian women role during the Israeli invasion. (@ 10:37)Table of contents: War atrocities in a Palestinian refugee camp. (@ 37:41)Table of contents: War and social changes. (@ 54:21)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 2, 2009 with Bahījah Muḥammad Darwīsh, female, born and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Sa‘dī.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution).Significant figures: ‘Aṭīyah, ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Umm Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Israeli occupation and the resistance in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: War and women activity during the Israeli invasion. (@ 18:55)Table of contents: Women protest movement during the israeli occupation. (@ 36:7)Table of contents: Palestinian popular resistance in Lebanon, 1982. (@ 49:53)Table of contents: Women's rights and role in the society. (@ 62:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 17, 2009 with Khadījah ʻAbd al-ʻĀl, female, resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon. She worked with Jamʻiyyat al-Najdah al-Ijtimāʻīyah, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Mustashfá al-Najdah (Hospital).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Baṣṣ (Hospital).Table of contents: War time and events. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social services during the Israeli invasion. (@ 12:21)Table of contents: Women role during the Israeli invasion, 1982 . (@ 32:41)Table of contents: Charities and international organizations for rebuilding ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 40:14)Table of contents: Transformation of the community in refugee camps. (@ 49:47)Table of contents: Women's political activity during the Israeli occupation . (@ 71:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 14, 2009 with Rūzā Ayyūb Muṣliḥ (Umm ‘Iṣām), female, born in 1938? in ʻArab al-Zubayd, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Mustashfá al-Nabī Yūsha‘ (Hospital).Table of contents: Occupation, displacement and exile. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli invasion and quest for disappeared persons. (@ 7:58)Table of contents: Expulsion and suffering during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon . (@ 25:2)Table of contents: Forced evacuation and suffering. (@ 39:18)
Biography: سجلت المقابلة أيضا مع رجاء موسى شبايطة، أنثى، ولدت وتقيم في مخيم عين الحلوة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Sarāy Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Governmental institution).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Ma‘mal Ṣafā (Factory); Maʻmal Ṣafā (Factory); Ma ʻmal Ṣafā (Factory); Madrasat Ḥiṭṭīn (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-al-Ṣafṣāf (Mosque).Significant figures: Daḥābirah, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: War events in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, 1982. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Israeli occupation and resistance. (@ 23:37)Table of contents: Palestinian women resistance during the Israeli occupation, 1982. (@ 34:46)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance . (@ 46:32)Table of contents: Return to ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 64:5)Table of contents: Women's role in peace and war. (@ 86:4)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 19, 2009 with Ṣubḥīyah Krayyim, female, born and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Mustashfá Saida al-Ḥukūmī (Hospital); Mustashfá al-Hamsharī (Hospital).Table of contents: Women's leadership in war time. (@ 9:59)Table of contents: Israeli occupation practices during the invasion. (@ 26:9)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 37:52)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile . (@ 52:25)Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp. (@ 69:4)