Interview with ʻAbdullāh Muḥammad al-Sayyid مقابلة مع عبد الله محمد السيد

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Sayyid; Wihbī; al-Ḥāj; al-Shaykh Khalīl.

Significant Figures: al-Sayyid, Muḥammad Maḥāsin (Mayor); Wihbī, Zaydān (Mayor); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Riḍā (Scout leader).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: al-Jarmaq (Mountain).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation); Sharikat al-Ittīḥād (Corporation).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural income; Agricultural land lease; Agricultural machinery; Agricultural products; Birds; Caves; Cultivation; Dietary practices; Disputes; Farm animals; Farming practices; Harvesting; Intervillage relations; Land ownership; Means of transportation; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Olive trees; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Schools; Scouts; Tobacco industry; Trees; Water resources; Weddings; Women in agriculture

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Sayyid; Qaddūrah.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī Fārah (Valley); Wādī al-Jish (Valley); ‘Ayn al-Zghīrih (Water resource); ‘Ayn al-Ḥmaymih (Water resource); Ayn al-Badawīyah (Water resource).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Agricultural income; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Building practices; Dietary practices; Dwellings; Elderly people; Harvesting; Health conditions; Horseback riding; Housing; Inheritance; Intervillage relations; Jerusalem Radio; Land deeds; Land ownership; Land purchase; Living conditions; Mayors; Ottoman Empire; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Strikes; Water wells; Wedding celebration

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Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Blacksmithing; British colonialism; British police forces; British policy; Butchers; Child labour; Cultivation; Dairy products; Dhabīḥah; Dietary practices; Farm animals; Flour mills; Handmade; Lebanese; Lebanon; Olive oil mills; Palestine Railways; Rural life; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Self-sufficiency; Soap; Threshing; Tools; Work

Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Maḥkamat al-Ṣulḥ (Governmental institution).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Agriculture; Arbitration; British police forces; British policy; Courts; Disputes; Financial compensation; Governmental institution; Guards; Haifa (Palestine); Imprisonment; Jewish gangs; Killing; Law; Military courts; Municipalities; Palestine Railways; Social duties; Threats; Weapons

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Yāsīn, Yāsīn (Martyr); al-Dīb, Shaykhah (Martyr); ʻAzzām, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Sayyid,
Abū Muḥammad Dyāb (Resistance fighter); al-Sayyid, Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Khāliq (Resistance fighter); Qaddūrah, ʻAbd al-Majīd (Martyr).

Families: Qaddūrah.

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Brothers; Bullets; Carpenters; Clashes; Collaboration; Disputes; Druzes; Farm animals; Feudalism; Folktales; Guards; Gunshots; Home bombing; Home demolition; Israeli Army (IDF); Khirbat Saʻsaʻ Battle, 1948; Landowners; Maiden; Military withdrawal; Mines; Mothers; Murder; Pamphlets; Resistance movements; Rifles; Shaykhs; Storytelling; Tailoring; War casualties; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Jish (Palestine); Ḥurfaysh (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Sayyid.

Significant Figures: Qaddūrah, ʻAbd al-Majīd (Martyr).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Arab countries; Bayt Līd (Palestine); Displacement; Disputes; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Humiliation; Israeli Army (IDF); Lebanese Government; Murder; Naturalization refusal; Nostalgia; Palestinian unity; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Return; Rifles; Routes; Theft; Women; Work; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; Ḥurfaysh (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Balʻūs, Ṣubḥī (Scout trainer); ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Riḍā (Scout leader); ‘Abdullāh al-Aṣbaḥ (Resistance leader.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Maṭār al-Jāʻūnah (Airport).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Airports; Battles; Bribery; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Burial; Checkpoints; Clashes; Iraq; Mosques; National anthem; Officers; Penalties; Police stations; Rakhṣūn Battle, 1938; Road blocks; Scouts; Students; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938; al-Jāʻūnah (Palestine)