Biography: The interview was recorded on June 9, 2004 with Wazīrah Ayyūb, female, born in Dallātah, Palestine and resides in al-Rashīdīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp Lebanon.Families: ʻAbdallāh; Ayyūb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Naṭṭāḥ, (Maqām).Significant figures: Qāsim, Ḥasan (Martyr); al-ʻAlī, Ḥasan Ḥusayn (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood in Dallātah. (@ 0:53)Table of contents: Social and cultural life . (@ 10:7)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939. (@ 24:17)Table of contents: Disputes and battles with the Zionists. (@ 28:45)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 34:58)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 28, 2003 with Waḍ'ḥah al-Khaṭīb, female, born in 1926 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine.Families: Ḥamādah; al-Khaṭīb; ‘Abdullāh; Frayj; Maḥmūd; al-Ḥusayn.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Washa’ (Maqām); al-Nabī Hūdā (Maqām); al-Nabī al-Shaykh Ismā’īl (Maqām); al-Nabī al-’Ajamī (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); Ḥamādah, Muḥammad al-Qāsim (Mayor); al-Mir‘ī, ‘Alī Sulaymān (Martyr); al-Murshid, Qāsim (Martyr).Table of contents: Community life in al-Khāliṣah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Ceremonies, rites and customs. (@ 16:10)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance. (@ 33:40)Table of contents: Explusion from Palestine. (@ 49:22)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 60:54)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 19, 2003 with Waḍḥah Shabāyṭah, female, born in 1935? in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); Abū Rāḍī, ʻAzzām (Trader); al-Yāsīn, Muḥammad (Trader); Abū Khalīl, Zahrah (Midwife); al-Qāsim, Aḥmad (Mayor); ‘Azzām, Aḥmad Abū Rāḍī (Mayor); al-Rabāḥ, Ismā‘īl (Mayor); al-Daqah, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Yūsuf, Muḥammad (Martyr); Zurayq, Naʻīm (Martyr); Naḥmānī, Yūsuf (Land broker).Table of contents: Childhood in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and farming practices in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 9:11)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life. (@ 23:23)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations in Ḥiṭṭīn . (@ 48:45)Table of contents: Ḥiṭṭīn during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 58:50)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and expulsion. (@ 67:19)Table of contents: Refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 94:8)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 9, 2009 with Waṭfah ‘Abd al-Muʻṭī, female, born in 1925 in Ṭanṭūrah, Palestine and resides in al-Baddāwī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sīdī al-Mjayramī (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū al-Haná, Fayṣal (Wounded).Table of contents: Childhood under British occupation. (@ 0:22)Table of contents: Political dynamics and economic conditions under British rule. (@ 10:36)Table of contents: Wedding customs and social conditions
. (@ 23:40)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 41:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on February 5, 2004 with Yasīn Muṣṭafà al-Ḥāj, male, born in 1924 in Kafr ʻAnān, Palestine. He worked as a policeman with the British authority during World War II.Families: ʻAnnān; al-Aḥmad; Shuqayr; Manṣūr; Khashshān.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū Bayt (Maqām); Majid Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque).Significant figures: Dīmāsī, Khalīl (Teacher); Saʻd, Fūād (Landowner); al-Ḥallāq, Aḥmad (Leader); ‘Asfūr, Ḥannā (Lawyer); ʻAbdullāh, Kamāl (Poet); al-Ṣāliḥ, ʻAbdullāh (Poet); Mūsá, Jamīl (Policeman); Ṣāliḥ, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Ṭāhā, Ḥasan (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Fawwāz (Martyr); Louis, Ḥannā (Land broker); al-Kāyid, ‘Īsá (Martyr).Table of contents: Education and Economic conditions at Kafr ʻAnān. (@ 0:51)Table of contents: Social life at the village. (@ 15:0)Table of contents: Socio-economic life and employment . (@ 29:14)Table of contents: Political conditions during the British rule and Zionist immigration . (@ 56:54)Table of contents: The Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 75:52)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 11, 2005 with Yaḥyá al-Mir‘ī, male, born in 1929 in al-Ṭīrah, Palestine and resides in Mīyah wa Mīyah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: Salmān; ʻAmmūrah; Dirbās; Ḥajīr; al-Rabbānī; ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm.Significant figures: al-Ṣulḥ, Adīb (Teacher); Ḥammūd, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Ṭāhir, Yūsuf (Lawyer); Abū Ḥamad, Elias (Military personnel); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor).Table of contents: Economic conditions in al-Ṭīrah during the British Mandate. (@ 0:05)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and popular resistance. (@ 24:56)Table of contents: Village occupation and exile. (@ 38:48)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 52:6)
Biography: The interview was recorded in April 1, 2006 with Yūsuf Aḥmad al-Ḥāj, male, born in al-Sumayrīyah, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon. He worked at British camps.Significant figures: Quṭrān, Naʻīm (Doctor); Ka‘būsh, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Saʻīd (Martyr); Shanā‘ah, Muḥammad (Martyr); Da‘ybis, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Ḥāj, Aḥmad (Martyr).Table of contents: Social relations, rites and ceremonies. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Political dynamics in al-Sumayrīyah during the Zionist invasion and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 19:15)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 29, 2003 with Yūsuf Aḥmad Salamūn, male,born in 1913? in Suḥmātā, Palestine.Families: al-Jishshī; Qaddūrah; Mūsá; Ḥusayn; Mahmūd; Ḥamādah; Murrah; al-Jishshiī; ‘Azzām; ‘Asqūl.Significant figures: Nāfi‘, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); Qassīs, Khalīl (Pharmacist); Qaddūrah, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Martyr); ‘Abbūd, Khalīl (Martyr).Table of contents: Village history. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic conditions in Suḥmātā. (@ 14:11)Table of contents: Families and land in the village. (@ 31:0)Table of contents: Community celebrations, customs and traditions. (@ 43:31)Table of contents: War and battles. (@ 54:54)Table of contents: The Zionist occupation and expulsion . (@ 73:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on August 19, 2003 with Yūsuf Sa‘īd Ḥasan, male, born in 1928 in Lūbyā, Palestine. He worked with the British Army.Families: ‘Aṭwāt; ‘Aṣāfrif; ‘Ajāynah; al-‘Awāydah; al-Shanāshirah; al-Shahāybah; al-Kawāydah; Smallūt; al-Karāznah; al-Khālidī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Parisienne Cafe (Coffehouse).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).Significant figures: Nakhlah, Naṣrī (School principal); al-Fāhūm, ‘Abd al-Laṭīf (Teacher); al-Fāhūm, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Teacher); Ḥmaydī, Ḥasan (Teacher); Safrīnī, Muḥammad (Teacher); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Mayor); aL-Sa‘īd, Yaḥyá (Mayor); al-Ṣaghīr, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Socio-economic history of the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Resistance against Zionist military infiltration. (@ 18:2)Table of contents: Political events between 1936-48. (@ 29:29)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 12, 2004 with Yūsuf Salīm Ḥasan, male, born in 1930 in Ṣalḥah, Palestine and resides in al-Burj al-Shamālī Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: ʻUmar, ʻAwn, ʻUthmān.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Ṣalḥah (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām).Significant figures: ʻAwdah, Muḥammad ʻAlī (School principal); Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Sharārah, Muḥsin (Shaykh); Qaranfal, Ḥusyan (Martyr); Salāmah, Ismāʻīl (Martyr); Salāmah, Naʻīm (Martyr); al-Shiblī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Martyr); al-ʻAbd Ṭāhir, Kāmil (Martyr); Muṣṭafá, Naʻīm (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Ismāʻīl, ʻAbd (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood memories and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life and traditions in Ṣalḥah . (@ 6:28)Table of contents: Political turmoil and resistance . (@ 21:4)Table of contents: Ṣalḥah Massacre, 1948. (@ 33:49)Table of contents: Military occupation and exile. (@ 47:7)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 52:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on November 22, 2005 with Yūsuf Muḥammad Salīm, male, born in 1933 in Nimrīn, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Significant figures: Ibrāhīm, Sa‘īd (Village leader); al-‘Alī, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); Bnayyān, Mifliḥ (Martyr).Table of contents: Social dynamics and economic sectors in the village. (@ 0:03)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine . (@ 23:53)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 9, 2003 with Yūnus Maḥmūd Shaʻbān, male, born in 1924 in Ḥiṭṭīn, Palestine. He was a policeman with the British Police Forces.Families: al-Fahhūm.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Munṭār (Maqām); al-Nabī Shu‘ayb (Maqām).Significant figures: Bolam, Simon (Policeman); Bellin, Ram (Policeman); Mughrabī, Abū ʻĀṭif (Revolutionary); Zaʻrūrah, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); al-Aṣbaḥ, Abū al-‘Abd (Revolutionary); Za‘rūrah, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Hind, Salīm (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Mayor); Shaʻbān, Sulaymān Qaddūrah (Municipal council); ʻAzzām, Aḥmad Abū Rāḍī (Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Municipal council); al-Rabāḥ, Ismāʻīl (Resistance fighter); Shabāyṭah, Saʻīd al-ʻAbd (Resistance fighter); al-Muhanná, Sulaymān (Resistance fighter); Shaʻbān, Yūnus Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Yāsīn, Muṣṭafá Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); Ibrāhīm, Ṣālih (Mayor); al-Ṣālih, Faḍl (Resistance fighter); Yūnus, al-ʻAbd (Policeman); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Rebelling against the British authorities and escape . (@ 0:32)Table of contents: Political conditions and activity during the Arab revolt. (@ 12:4)Table of contents: Agriculture and Palestinian resistance. (@ 28:19)Table of contents: Palestinian resistance . (@ 41:46)Table of contents: Ḥiṭṭīn battle and village preparations . (@ 54:20)Table of contents: Withdrawal from Ḥiṭṭīn and exodus to exile
. (@ 73:53)Table of contents: Arab Salvation Army withdrawal from Safad. (@ 102:8)Table of contents: Nostalgia and hope of return . (@ 106:54)