Biography: كما سجلت المقابلة أيضاً مع وزوجته نايفة أحمد علي، أنثى، ولدت عام 1933 في علما، فلسطين.Families: al-ʻAjjāwī; Shaḥrūr; al-Shaykh Aḥmad.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Sunbul (School).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque); al-Shaykh Nāṣir (Maqām); al-Ṣiddīq (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Faḥḥūmī, Būlūs (Teacher); al-Shakhnīnī, Muḥammad ʻAlī (Teacher); al-Shaffūlī, Abū Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Shwaybī, Isḥāq (Jailer); Ḥammūd, Abū Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Mirʻī, Qāṣim (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (Resistance fighter); ʻAjāwī, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); ʻAjāwī, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter); Muṣṭafá, Khalīl (Martyr); Ghannām, Ḥasan, (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education in ʻAlmā . (@ 0:20)Table of contents: Employment in British Police forces . (@ 5:55)Table of contents: Cultural life at ʻAlmā . (@ 19:0)Table of contents: Palestinian political activity during the Arab revolt and Zionist invasion. (@ 34:6)Table of contents: Zionist occupation and expulsion from ʻAlmā . (@ 47:5)Table of contents: Exodus to exile. (@ 53:41)Table of contents: Zionist terrorism and expulsion. (@ 59:36)Table of contents: Hardships of exile. (@ 66:33)
Biography: The interview was recorded on December 13, 2003 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Abū ‘Adas, male, born in 1924 in al-Mujaydil, Palestine. He worked with the Police during the British Mandate.Families: Sursuq; al-Lawābinah; Abū Khamīs; Wākid; Maṣāl; Sūṭarī; al-Khūrī; al-Buṭruṣ; Ṣalībā; Abū Dāwūd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Mujaydil (School); Ramat David (Airport).Landmarks-Private Institutions: Shell (Corporation); Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: Abū ʻAdas, Maḥmūd (Prisoner); Sūṭarī, Muḥammad (Prisoner); Sulaymān, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); al-Ghāzī, Muṭlaq Aḥmad (Mayor); al-Aḥmad, Tawfīq (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥān (Poet); Kassāb, ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (Martyr); ʻĪsá, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sulaymān, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Resistance leader); Badīʻ, Muḥammad (Martyr); Abū ʻAzārah, Nāyif (Martyr); Samārah, Yūsuf (Martyr); Dabbūr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-ʻAbd, Dīb Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Mbadā, Yūsuf (Martyr).Table of contents: Childhood and education. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Professions and employment . (@ 21:25)Table of contents: Political activity during the British rule. (@ 30:25)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in Palestine. (@ 42:55)Table of contents: Zionist attacks and Palestinian popular resistance. (@ 67:38)Table of contents: Revisiting Palestine. (@ 89:22)Table of contents: Final reflections. (@ 111:23)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 1,2006 with Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Mu‘ṭī, male, born in 1925 in Nimrīn, Palestine and resides in ‘Ayn al-Ḥilwah Refugee Camp, Lebanon.Table of contents: Social and political dynamics in the village during the British Mandate. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Political conditions in Nimrīn during the zionist occupation and the expulsion to Lebanon . (@ 21:44)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 25, 2004 with Aḥmad ‘Awn, male, born in 1918, in Ṣalḥah, Palestine and resides in Shabrīhā, Lebanon.Families: Άwn; ‘Umar; Ma‘anqī.Significant figures: ‘Awdah, Muḥammad ‘Alī (School principal); al-Ḥāj Mūsá, ‘Alī (Mayor); Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Ismā‘īl, Na‘īm (Village leader); Maḥmūd, Ḥasan (Village leader); Ḥasan, Kāẓim (Village leader); Kasīrah, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); ‘Abbās, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Ḍahir, Nāṣīf (Martyr); Kāẓim, ‘Alī (Martyr); Ḥasan, Khalīl (Martyr); Ya‘qūb, Mūsá ‘Alī (Martyr); Ismā‘īl, ‘Abd al-Ḥāj (Martyr); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Martyr); Salāmah, Ismā‘īl (Martyr).Table of contents: Socio-economic and cultural life in Ṣalḥah during the British Mandate. (@ 0:07)Table of contents: Events of the Arab Revolt, Zionist invasion and expulsion from Palestine. (@ 11:9)
Biography: The interview was recorded on April 16, 2004 with Aḥmad Krayyim al-Ḥāj, male, born in 1925 in ʻAlmā, Palestine. He worked as a policeman with the British Army.Families: al-Ḥāj; al-ʻAjjāwī; Shaḥrūr; al-Zaghmūṭ; Zaghmūṭ.Landmarks-Private Institutions: Keren Kayemeth (Corporation); British Bank (Bank).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque); al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); al-Nabī Yaʻqūb (Maqām); al-Nabī Yūsuf (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Masjid al-Aqṣá (Mosque).Significant figures: al-Fāḥūm, Ziyād (Teacher); ʻAbdullāh, Amīn (Teacher); Mūsá, Aḥmad ʻUmar (Teacher); al-Mukaḥḥal, Sha‘bān (Policeman); al-Ḥāj, Aḥmad Ḥusayn (Teacher); Ḥusayn ʻᾹqil (Poet); Saʻīd, Aḥmad (Mayor); Farḥāt Sallām (Poet); al-Maḥmūd, Muḥammad (Poet); al-Shaʻbī, Abū Khalīl (Poet); ʻᾹqil, Ḥusayn (Poet); Sulaymān, Aḥmad Saʻīd (Mayor); Sallām, Farḥāt (Poet); Mall, Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Shdīd, Ghassān (Arab Salvation Army commander).Table of contents: Education and Employment during the British Mandate. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Social life in ʻAlmā. (@ 17:19)Table of contents: Ceremonies and community life in the village. (@ 31:52)Table of contents: Political turmoil and the popular resistance. (@ 38:32)Table of contents: Expulsion and refugee life in Lebanon. (@ 54:24)Table of contents: Exile and hope of return. (@ 66:46)
Biography: فلسطين ويقيم في مخيم برج البراجنة للاجئين الفلسطينيين، لبنان.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Madrasat Yānūḥ (School).Significant figures: al-Ṣafadī, Sālim (Teacher); Abū Abd al-Qādir, ‘Abd al-Ghanī (Teacher); al- Majẓub, Qāsim (Mayor); ‘Abd al-Rāziq, Abū Ḥusayn Muḥammad (Mayor); al-‘Akkī, Aḥmad (Land owner); ‘Abd al-‘Āl, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr); al-‘Akkī, Aḥmad (Landowner); al-Dīb, Rāghib (Landowner); ʻŪthmān, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Rifʻat, Aḥmad (Martyr); Abū Ḥamdān, Sulaymān (Shaykh); Ibrāhim, Nūḥ (Poet).Table of contents: Social life in ‘Amqā. (@ 1:29)Table of contents: Palestinian society characteristics before Zionist occupation. (@ 26:47)Table of contents: Weddings in ʻAmqā during British occupation. (@ 50:54)Table of contents: Battle events and the expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 69:13)Table of contents: Battle events. (@ 88:57)Table of contents: War time and military occupation. (@ 105:1)Table of contents: Arab attitudes towards Palestinians right to return. (@ 111:40)
Biography: The interview was recorded on January 27, 2004 with Aḥmad Muḥammad ‘Awaḍ, male, born in 1925 in al-Manshīyah, Palestine. He was a store keeper at the Department of Agriculture.Families: Di‘bis; Ṣaqr; al-Ḥāj Ḥusayn; Ḥamdū; al-‘Awīṣ; Abū Ṣghayyar; ‘Ayn Maḥmūd.Landmarks-Public Institutions: Dāīrat al-Zirā‘ah (Governmental institution); Dā'irat al-Masāḥah (Governmental institution); Dā'irat al-Zirā‘ah (Governmental Institution).Landmarks-Places of Worship: Abū ‘Atabah (Maqām); ʻIzz al-Dīn (Maqām); al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).Significant figures: al-Qūwwatlī, Shamʻah (Landowner); Ḥāmid, Fahd (Shop owner); al-Ṭarāwī, Aḥmad (Shop owner); al-ʻAbd, ‘Alī (Sop owner); al-Ṭarāwī, Yūsuf (Shop owner); Mannā‘, Nimir (Village leader); al-Ḥāj Aḥmad, ʻĪsá (Village leader); Mannā‘, Yāsīn (Poet); al-‘Abd, Rashīd (Poet); Lātī, Georges (Public officer); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); Mannā‘, Khalīl (Martyr); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Leader); Ḥamdū, Maḥmūd (Translater); Naffā‘, Yūsuf (Resistance fighter).Table of contents: Education and childhood in the village. (@ 0:00)Table of contents: Economic dynamics in al-Manshīyah . (@ 14:53)Table of contents: Social history of the village. (@ 28:16)Table of contents: Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity. (@ 41:13)Table of contents: Battles, armed resistance and expulsion to Lebanon. (@ 60:51)
Biography: The interview was recorded on June 5, 2004 with Aḥmad Muḥammad Muṣṭafá, male, born in al-Khiṣāṣ, Palestine and resides in Tyre, Lebanon.Families: Shiḥādah; Juwayyid.Significant figures: Khalīl, Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb (Teacher); Shiḥādah, Aḥmad Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Juwayyid, ‘Aṭīyah Muḥammad (Village leader).Table of contents: Socio-economic life at al-Khiṣāṣ. (@ 0:09)Table of contents: Cultural life, settler colonialism, and Zionist invasion . (@ 11:20)Table of contents: Expulsion and nostalgia. (@ 31:42)