Biography: The interview was recorded with Laṭīfah Dīb, female,born in ʻAkbarah, Palestine.Families: Maʻārī; Mukhtār.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Shaykh ‘Alī (Maqām); Shaykh Salāmah (Maqām).Significant figures: Ḥlayḥil, Ḥasan (Musician); al-Aḥmad, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Nājī, Mūsà (Revolutionary); Abū Qāsim, Ḥayāt (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusaynī, Yūsuf (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Socio-economic conditions at ʻAkbarah. (@ 0:01)Table of contents: Political activity at ʻAkbarah during the British Mandate. (@ 22:49)Table of contents: British policy towards the villagers and revolutionists. (@ 30:56)Table of contents: Expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 50:38)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 9, 2004 with Āminah Aḥmad Mūsá, female, born in al-Zūq al-Taḥtānī, Palestine.Families: Khalaf.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Shārm (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad (Maqām); al-Shaykh Mūsá (Maqām); al-Shaykh Sharaf (Maqām).Significant figures: Yūnus, Khalīl (Shaykh); al-Dakhīl, Shiḥādah (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Ḥmayyid, Muṣṭafá (Musician); al-Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Singer).Table of contents: Childhood and agriculture. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in Palestine. (@ 7:46)Table of contents: Childbirth and women's role . (@ 32:59)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 7, 2004 with Āminah al-Sayyid, female, born in Saʻsaʻ, Palestine and resides in al-Ghāzīyah, Lebanon.Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; Ḥammād; al-Ḥāj; Khalīl; Balʻūs.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām); al-Sayidah Nafīsah (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Sabalān (Maqām).Significant figures: Wihbī, Zaydān (Mayor); ʻAzzām, Ᾱminah (Martyr); Yāsīn, Yāsīn (Martyr); Yāsīn, ʻAql (Martyr); ʻAzzām, Ḥāmid (Martyr); Ghunayyim, ʻAwaḍ (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); ʻAzzām, Shaykhah al-Dīb (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and cultural life in Saʻsaʻ. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political conditions and turmoil . (@ 13:42)Table of contents: Evacuation orders from Saʻsaʻ . (@ 20:4)Table of contents: Zionist invasion during 1948 and expulsion. (@ 26:19)
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: The interview was recorded on June 11, 2004 with Āmīnah Saʻd, female, born in 1928? in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in Wādī al-Zaynah, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Saʻīd; al-Kayyāl; Mi'ārī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-ʻAjamī (Maqām); al-Kayyāl (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Darwīsh, Ḥasan (Mayor); Darwīsh, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Sulṭānī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and cultural life in al-Birwah . (@ 0:25)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance to military occupation in al-Birwah . (@ 19:3)Table of contents: Historical reflections. (@ 35:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 18, 2006 with Āminah Qāsim, female, born in 1936 in al-Jish, Palestine and resides in al-Baṣṣ Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ṭālib, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ayyūb, Salīm (Mayor); Qāsim, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Najīyah (Martyr).Table of contents: Social and economic dynamics under British rule. (@ 0:11)Table of contents: War events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:56)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 21, 2003 with Āminah Muḥammad Zaydān, female, born in 1933 in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa, Palestine and resides in al-Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Ḥazīr; al-Dabbūr; al-Rabānī; ʻAsqūl; al-Ḥalabī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Sharikat al-Mustaqbal (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Khalīl (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Nabī Yaḥyá (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Hajjūj, Bahjāt (Mayor); al-ʻAbbās, Fahd (Village leader); al-Hajjūj, Ramaḍān (Village leader); al-Rabānī, Nimir (Village leader); al-Rabānī, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Zawāwī, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); al-Zawāwī, Nimir (Revolutionary); Zaydān, Maḥmūd Salīm (Businessman).Table of contents: Education, agriculture, and community life in al-Ṭīrah, Haifa. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life, wedding customs, and celebrations. (@ 11:48)Table of contents: Zionist attacks on al-Ṭīrah, Haifa . (@ 25:13)Table of contents: Conduct of life and expulsion from al-Ṭīrah, Haifa. (@ 36:41)
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 October 15, 2003 with Ᾱminah Yāsīn Sa‘d, female, born in al-Jish, Palestine.Families: al-Khalāylī; al-Zayādnī; Ayyūb; Saʻd; Zaydān; Fahdah.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām); al-Nabī Sabalān (Maqām); al-ʻAjamī (Maqām).Significant figures: Ayyūb, Salīm ʻAlī (Mayor); Jubrān, Samʻān (Mayor); Ḥulayḥil, Aḥmad (Reporter); Jadīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Nāṣir, Aḥmad (Poet); al-Nāṣir, Aḥmad (Martyr); Ḥūrān, Maḥmūd Ḥusayn (Martyr); Fayyūm, Salīm (Mayor); al-Khaṭīb, Najīyah (Martyr); Sirḥān, Faṭṭumah (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic Life in al-Jish . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Religious places, practices, and social life in al-Jish . (@ 8:24)Table of contents: Political Dynamics in al-Jish . (@ 28:1)Table of contents: Events that led to the expulsion from al-Jish. (@ 33:50)Table of contents: Final reflections on expulsion and refugee experience. (@ 59:41)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 23, 2005 with Āmīnah Yāsīn ‘Umar, female, born in 1932 Dayr al-Asad, Palestine and resides in al-Jalīl Palestinian Refugee Camp, Baalbek, Lebanon.Significant figures: Kāyid, Muḥammad (Mayor).Table of contents: Characteristics of Palestinian agriculture community under British rule. (@ 0:08)Table of contents: Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 19:50)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 14, 2004 with Aḥmad Āghā, male, born in 1930 in Tarshīḥā, Palestine. He worked as a military commander with the British police forces.Families: Sirḥān; Ᾱghā; al-Ḥammulah; al-Khayrāt; al-Fallāḥīn; Abū Anṭūn; al-Qiblāwī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Saint Luke's School (School); Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Mujāhid (Maqām); al-Nabī Yahyá (Maqām); Jablat ʻAlī Abū Saʻd (Maqām); Jāmi‘ al-Ḥammūlah (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Qubbah, Maḥmūd (Teacher); Bishārah, Ḥannā (Teacher); ʻAwdah, ʻAbdallāh (Teacher); Ḥūrānī, Adīb (Teacher); Ḥabīb, Karam (Teacher); ʻAbd al-Bāqī, Muṣṭafá (Teacher); Ḥijāzī, Fakhr (Teacher); Bustānī, Bashīr (Teacher); Shurayḥ, Fahd (Mayor); al-Qāḍī, Shukrī (Mayor); Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad (Mayor), Sirḥān, ʻAbd al-Qādir (Mayor); Ᾱghā, Taqīy al-Dīn Aḥmad (Mayor); ʻAwdah, Fāṭimah (Dressmaker); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); Fuʼād, ʻUthmān (Revolutionary leader); al-Rashīd, Fawzī (Revolutionary leader); Ᾱghā, Muḥammad Kamāl (Resistance leader); Jadīd, Fuʼād (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Yannī, Yannī (Mayor); Laḥḥūd, Ḥannā (Resistance fighter); Ghabghad, Naʻīm (Minister); ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Rafīq, Naẓmī (Resistance fighter); al-Sibāʻī, Sabiʻ (Resistance fighter); Ᾱghā, Muḥmmad Kamāl (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Family history and origin. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 7:29)Table of contents: Employment in the Palestinian mobile forces. (@ 15:28)Table of contents: Socio-political life in Tarshīḥā . (@ 27:13)Table of contents: Cultural life in Tarshīḥā. (@ 51:42)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 66:30)Table of contents: Zionist Invasion of Palestine . (@ 74:17)Table of contents: Expulsion from Tarshīḥā and life in exile. (@ 100:38)