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00:00:00 - Agriculture, childhood, and community life in ʻAlmā

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Inkhil, ʻAbd al-Hamīd (Shaykh); al-Dirbās, Muḥammad ʻĪsá (Businessman); al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad Fāris (Businessman); Mūsá, Aḥmad ʻUmar (Teacher); al-Karmī, ʻAbd al-Rahīm (Teacher); al-Fahūmī, Dyāb (Teacher); al-Shihāb, Fawzī (Teacher); Ḥamad, Muḥammad Ṭālib (Teacher); Ḥawwā, Aḥmad Ḥasan (Teacher); Qaddūrah, Ḥikmat (Teacher); Yūnus, Ahmad (Teacher); Suwaydān, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf (Teacher); ʻĪsá, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥāj (Teacher), Ghaṭṭās, Ghaṭṭās Yūsuf (School principal); Abū Shiḥādah, Maḥmūd (Martyr).

Families: Shaḥrūr; Sulaymān; Mirʻī; Azzām; ʻAṭīyah; ʻAql; Abū Ṭaʻʻān; Hajāj; Dʻaybis; Ghannām; Yāsīn; Abbās; al-Ḥāj Khalīl; ʻAjjāwī; al-ʻAynah; al-Khaḍrah.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nahr al-Ḥundāj (River); Wādī Fārah (Valley).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-ʻUmarī (Mosque).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Children's games; Circassians; Disputes; Farm animals; Football; Land expropriation; Land ownership; Mosques; Olive oil mills; Olive trees; Places of worship; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Rural life; Schools; Shaykhs; Social relations; Students; Wādī al-Ḥundāj (Palestine)

00:25:31 - Antiquities and caves in Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbdullāh, Muḥammad Ḥasan (Martyr).

Landmarks- Monuments: Mghārat Namnūmī (Caves); al-Dulbī (Caves).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Siddīq (Maqām); Muḥammad al-Assūm (Maqām).

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Keywords: Beliefs; Bribery; Caves; Education; Expulsion; Folktales; Graveyards; Haganah; Israelites; Jewish immigrants; Jinn; Maiden; Mines; Prayers; Sheep; Shepherds; Teachers; al-Hayb (Arab tribe); ʻAlmā (Palestine)

00:52:20 - Social life and customs

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Partial Transcript: Families: Shaḥrūr.

Landmarks- Monuments: Maghārat al-Dabiʻ (Cave).

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Keywords: Community support; Compensation; Death; Dhabīḥah; Dietary practices; Farmers; Farming practices; Grooms; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlers; Kidnapping; Najmat al-Ṣubuḥ (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Palestinian-Jewish relations; Poets; Schools; Sheep; Trees; Wedding customs; ʻAlmā (Palestine)

01:15:56 - British mandate and employment

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Saʻīd, Aḥmad Muḥammad (Mayor); ʻAṭāyā, Sulymān (Teacher).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital); Egged Bus Comapny (Corporation).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; Currency convertibility; Dowry; Husayn Ibn Ali, King of Hejaz, 1853?-1931; Income; Jewish immigrants; Letters; Marriage; Military training; Najmat al-Ṣubuḥ (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Officers; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Weapons

01:33:21 - Wedding traditions, religious events and funeral traditions

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Rifāʻī, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); al-Rifāʻī, Muḥammad (Shaykh).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Yūshaʻ (Maqām); Munṭār (Maqām).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Circumcision; Customs and traditions; Dabkah; Dhabīḥah; Dietary practices; Disputes; Dowry; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Interpersonal relations; Intervillage relations; Qaddītā (Palestine); Ramaḍān; Snakes; Village leaders; Wedding celebration; Wedding customs; Wedding songs; al-Jāʻūnah (Palestine); ʻAtābā

02:14:00 - Miscellaneous narratives and explusion to Lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shiblī, Nimir (Mayor); Ghannām, Ḥasan ʻAlī (Martyr); Shiḥādah, Saʻīd (Martyr).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ṭabaryā (Hospital).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Arbitration; Archival documents; Battles; Explosions; Expulsion from Palestine; Income; Injuries; Jaffa (Palestine); Lebanese Army; Lebanon; Means of transportation; Mines; Poetry; Relief; Return; Revolutionaries; Water resources; Work; Zionist invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Mālikīyah (Palestine); al-Ṣafṣāf (Palestine); Ḥaj; Ḥaṭṭah; Ṭarbūsh