Interview with ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sa’dī مقابلة مع عبد الرحمن السعدي

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Sharīf, ʻAbd al-Karīm (Teacher); al-Ḥāj, Jamīl (Teacher); Mawʻid, Faraj (Teacher); Sulaymān, Ṣāliḥ Salīm (Mayor); al-Sa’dī, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor).

Families: Mawʻid; al-Saʻdī; Ghgunaym; Sulaymān; al-Ḥāj; Murād.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Madrasat Haifa al-Ṣināʻīyah (Schools).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Dā'irat al-Maʻārif (Governmental institution).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arbitration; Boarding schools; British colonization; Courts; Disputes; Elections; Expulsion; Farmers; Food; Historic buildings; House rent; Intervillage relations; Marriage; Municipalities; Neighboring villages; Population; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Schools; Socio-economic conditions; Teachers; Terrorism; Trade; Women education; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: al-Madrasah al-Ṣināʻīyah (School); Madrasat Ṣaffūrī (School).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Dā'irat al-Maʻārif (Governmental institution).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Agricultural economics; Arabism; Boarding schools; British colonization; Cities and towns; Coexistence; Convents; Dwellings; Education; Embroidery; Family structure; Famine; Farmers; Fathers; Illiteracy; Jerusalem (Palestine); Landowners; Loggers; Money; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Protests against occupation; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Religious fanaticism; Shaykhs; Socio-economic conditions; Students; Teachers; Women education; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Mawʻid, Faraj (Teacher); ʻArābī, Rajā (Teacher); al-Mawʻid, Faraj (Teacher); al-ʻAllūsh, ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Teacher); al-Ḥāj, Maḥmūd Sulaymān (Teacher).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat Safad al-Thānawīyah (School); Madrasat Haifa al-Thānawīyah (School); Madrasat Kafr Mindah al-Ibtidāʼīyah (School).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Building practices; Cities and towns; Coeducational schools; Education; Employment; Heating; Languages; Police; Public schools; Skirmishes; Students; Students Grading and marking; Teachers; Writing materials and instruments; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

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Keywords: British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonization; Cities and towns; Education; Fathers; Governors; Holidays; Imprisonment; Independence; Jewish gangs; Murder; Patriotism; Protests against occupation; Schools; Skirmishes; Strikes; Students; Weapons; ʻĪd celebrations; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Attempt at return; Displacement; Education; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Generations; Hiding; Homeland; House rent; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Kafr Mindah (Palestine); Military superiority; Murder; Negotiations; Psychological warfare; Refugee aid; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Resistance movements; Revolutionary leadership; Routes; Seeking shelter; Socio-economic conditions; Teachers; Terrorism; Village siege; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ṣaffurīyah Battle, 1948; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)