Biography: The interview was recorded on January 5, 2004 with Aḥmad Jabr Rifāʻī, male, born in 1931 in Firʻim, Palestine.Significant figures: ‘Izz al-Dīn, Kāmil (School principal); ‘Uthmān, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).Table of contents: Political conditions and community life in Pre-Nakba Palestine . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Political turmoil, Zionist terrorism and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 22:12)
Biography: The interview was recorded on March 17, 2003 with Aḥmad Ḥusayn al-‘Alī, male, born in 1921 in al-Khāliṣah, Palestine.Families: Sursuq.Significant figures: al-Ḥāj Yāsīn, ʻAlī (School principal); al-Rumayiẓ, Jumʻah (Teacher); al-Fandī, Maḥmūd (Teacher); al-Zaghmūt, Kāmil (Teacher); ʻArrābī, Maḥmūd (School principal); Yūsuf, Kāmil al-Ḥusayn (Village leader); Yūsuf, Kāmil al-Ḥusayn (Village leader); al-Ḥamīd, ‘Abdullāh (Shaykh); al-Ḥusayn Yūsuf, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Hamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor); Marzūq, Mūsá Jumʻah (Revolutionary); Zahrah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Shaykh Mūsá, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Murshid, Qāsim (Martyr); al-ʻĪsá, Maryam (Martyr); Mirʻī, ʻAlī (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education in al-Khāliṣah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Agriculture and everyday life . (@ 10:18)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life. (@ 26:32)Table of contents: Traditions and customs in al-Khāliṣah . (@ 55:23)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 65:30)Table of contents: War events and military occupation. (@ 73:6)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine, 1948. (@ 89:10)Table of contents: Land, refugees and right of return. (@ 100:31)
Biography: The interview was recorded on May 20, 2004 with Aḥmad Ḥusayn Ḥammūd, male, born in 1922 in Wādī al-Ḥundāj, Palestine.Families: al-Rasāṭimah; al-Ẓawāhirah; Ghazāziwah; Sursuq; Nuhrah; al-As‘ad.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Muḥammad al-Munṭār (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Naṭṭāḥ (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Ḥasan, Mūsá (Mayor); al-Muḥsin, Masʻūd (Mayor); al-Ṣāliḥ, Sulaymān Khālid (Revolutionary); al-Muḥammad, Sʻayyid (Revolutionary); al-Ḥusayn, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); Ḥummayḍah, Anīs (Revolutionary leader); Abū Khulayṣ, Muḥammad (Arab Salvation Army leader); ‘Ammār, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander); ‘Ammār; ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); al-Ja‘far, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Childhood, social life, and customs. (@ 0:04)Table of contents: Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1936-1939. (@ 20:16)Table of contents: Settlement expansion and the Zionist occuaption. (@ 33:19)Table of contents: Expulsion from Palestine. (@ 62:24)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 12, 2004 with Aḥmad Khālid, male, born on 1917 in al-Birwah, Palestine and resides in al-Jīyah, Lebanon.Families: Darwīsh; Sa‘id; Kayyāl; N‘ārī; Samrī; Dīb.Significant figures: al-Naḥfāwī, Ḥasan (Teacher); al-Sa‘dī, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Teacher); ʻAṭallāh, As‘ad (Poet); al-Khaṭīb, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).Table of contents: Rural community of al-Birwah. (@ 0:13)Table of contents: Social life in al-Birwah. (@ 23:9)Table of contents: Political dynamics at al-Birwah. (@ 34:17)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 21, 2004 with Aḥmad Khalīl Bashīr, male, born in 1926 in al-Sumayrīyah.Families: al-Amīn; al-Gharīb; Yūsuf; Ka‘mūsh; al-Bunnī; Sirrīyah; Ḥamādah; ‘Awaḍ; Ismā‘īl; al-Khaṭīb; ‘Abd al-Raḥīm; Sursuq; Twaynī.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Yūsuf (Maqām).Significant figures: Bāb Allāh, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Ḥamādah (Village leader); al-Dīrāwī, Sa‘īd (Poet); al-Ṣayāḥ, Aḥmad (Doctor); Qaṭrān, Na‘īm (Doctor); al-Ismā‘īl, Mūsá (Revolutionary); Bāb Allāh, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); Ḥulayḥil, Mūsá (Revolutionary); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Khaṭīb, Sa‘īd (Martyr); Laymūnah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Shanā‘ah, Muṣṭafá (Revolutionary); al-Khaṭīb, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd (Wounded).Table of contents: Rural life and agriculture in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social and community life in al-Sumayrīyah. (@ 14:24)Table of contents: Political turbulence, warfare, and expulsion
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Biography: The interview was recorded on March 31, 2004 with Aḥmad Khalīl Ḥusayn, male, born in 1931? in Ḥamāmah, Palestine and resides in ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Families: al-Maṣrīyīn; al-Maqādīd; al-Kalālibah; Shurbajī; Bakr; Ḥasanayn.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Mustashfá al-Shawwā (Hospital).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū ʻArqūb (Maqām); al-Shaykh Ḥāmid (Maqām); Abū Jahm (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū Shaqrah, Kāmil (Teacher); al-Nāẓir, Kāmil (Teacher); al-Khayyāl, Khulūṣī (Teacher); Abū Samʻān, Yūsuf Khalīl (Martyr); al-Khawājah, Khālid (Martyr); Manāsh, Ḥusayn (Martyr); al-‘Abd, Yaḥyá (Martyr); al-Bakr, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Prisoner); Ḥāfiẓ, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Socio-economic dynamics in Ḥamāmah. (@ 7:23)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 21:1)Table of contents: Expulsion from Ḥamāmah . (@ 36:59)Table of contents: Expulsion from Gaza. (@ 58:43)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 25, 2003 with Aḥmad Dawāymah, male, born in 1922 in Yibnah, Palestine.He worked in Pasta Manufacture during the British mandate.Families: al-Dawāynī; al-Khūrī; al-Māḍī.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Pasta Manufacture (Corporation); Haifa Cigarette Manufacture (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Juraynī (Mosque).Significant figures: Ṣafadī, Sāmī (Tailor); al-Khaṭīb, Nimir (Shaykh); Murād, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Shaykh); Naffāʻ, Yūnus (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Childhood memories in Ijsim. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and interreligious marriage. (@ 12:34)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 23:18)Table of contents: Political turmoil, battles and military occupation. (@ 46:30)Table of contents: Expulsion from Haifa. (@ 55:24)Table of contents: Refugee experience in exile. (@ 73:36)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 21, 2003 with Aḥmad Saʻīd Ka‘wash, male, born in 1927 in Mayrūn, Palestine.Families: Kan‘ān; Ka‘wash.Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Ṣaddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: Sharaf, ‘Abd al-Ghanī (Teacher); al-Dusūqī, Ḥusayn (Teacher); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Mayor); Ka‘wash, Saʻīd ʻAbd (Mayor); Ka‘wash, Muḥammad ʻAbd (Martyr); Zaynih, Ḥasan (Arab Salvation Army commander); Kanʻān, Khalīl (Martyr); Kanʻān, Fāris (Martyr); Kanʻān, Muḥammad (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood, agriculture and everyday life . (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Mayrūn history. (@ 16:26)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and revolution. (@ 27:51)Table of contents: Zionist infiltration during the British rule. (@ 35:38)Table of contents: City occupation, resistance, displacement and exile. (@ 43:9)Table of contents: Battles, resistance and the expulsion. (@ 63:2)
Biography: The interview was recorded on September 8, 2003 with Aḥmad Salīm al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1912 in al-Rās al-Aḥmar, Palestine.Families: Ayyūb; al-Shāyib; al-Khaṭīb.Landmarks-Places of Worship: Qādirīyah (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Murād, Rashid (Teacher); al-Khaṭīb, Faṭṭūm (Midwife); Ayyūb, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Mayor); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Shaʻbī, Abū Khalīl (Poet); al-Khaṭīb, Ḥannā al- ʻAlī (Musician); al-Khaṭīb, ʻAlī As‘ad (Musician); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥyī al-Dīn (Village leader); Ayyūb, Tawfīq (Village leader); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Qādir (Singer); Qaddūrah, Jamāl (Doctor); Qaddūrah, Ṣalāḥ (Doctor); al- Hirish, Fayyāḍ (Martyr); Shāhīn, Aḥmad (Revolutionary).Table of contents: Childhood and education in Raʼs al-Aḥmar. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Community relations and ceremonial practices in Raʼs al-Aḥmar. (@ 10:10)Table of contents: Social practices, political turmoil and resistance. (@ 25:35)Table of contents: Society and conflict during Mandate Palestine. (@ 40:24)Table of contents: Battles and armed resistance. (@ 53:56)Table of contents: Military occupation and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 63:26)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 25, 2004 with Aḥmad Shafīq al-Khaṭīb, male, born in 1926 in al-Qubaybah, Palestine.Families: al-Jadīlī; Sulṭān; al-Kuttah.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Kullīyat Rawḍat al-Maʻārif (School).Significant figures: al-Khaṭīb, Shafīq (Mayor); Shāhīn, Mūsá (Mayor); Yūnus, Muḥammad ʻᾹrif (School principal); Abū Sharkh, al-Sayyid (Mayor).Table of contents: Family origins, education, and childhood. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Social life, culture, and political conditions. (@ 21:46)Table of contents: Social and community life. (@ 46:48)Table of contents: Palestinian-Jewish relations and political life. (@ 71:29)Table of contents: Zionist invasion of Palestine and battles . (@ 83:27)Table of contents: Exile to Beirut and career establishment . (@ 96:40)Table of contents: Father's death and career. (@ 116:47)