Interview with Ḥasan Nabūl Z'aytir مقابلة مع حسن نبول زعيتر

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Shahāyibah; al-‘Aṭawāt; al-Ḥajājiwah; al-Shanāshirah; al-Ṣamallūt; al-‘Ajāynī.

Significant Figures: al-‘Alī, Fawwāz (Village leader); al-Sa‘īd, Yaḥyá (Village leader); Abū Dhays, Ḥasan (Village leader); al-Qawāṭī‘, Maḥmūd (Village leader); al-Sulaymān, Aḥmad (Village leader); al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Khālid (Mayor); al-Dhyāb, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Maḥmūd (Village leader).

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Camels; Farm animals; Farmers; Farming practices; Harvesting; Jewish neighbors; Jewish settlements; Lūbyā (Palestine); Markets; Means of transportation; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Peasant workers; Population; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Religious diversity; Rural life; Threshing; Tiberias (Palestine); Trade; Water resources

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab tribes; British colonialism; Childhood; Childhood memories; Education; Family structure; Intervillage relations; Martyrs; Neighboring villages; Public schools; Rural life; Self-sufficiency; Shaykhs; Sheep; Shepherds; Socio-economic conditions; Spying

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṭāhā, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); al-‘Uqlah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); ‘Abd al-Qādir, Aḥmad Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); al-Ḥūrānī, ‘Alī (Revolutionary leader); Ḥassūnah, Yūsuf (Revolutionary); Z‘aytir, Yūnus Rashīd (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Mufaḍḍī Ḥasan (Martyr); Faṭrūsh, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Martyr); Z‘aytir, Yūnis Rashīd (Revolutionary); Ṭāhā, Mufaḍḍī Ḥasan (Revolutionary); Faṭrūsh, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Revolutionary).

Families: al-‘Aṭawāt; al-Shahāyibah.

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arranged marriage; Arrest; Assassination; Bread; Bridal customs; British Army; British Occupation of Palestine, 1918-1922; British army camps; British colonialism; Brutal treatment; Burial; Celebrations; Children in armed conflicts; Clothing and dresses; Curfew; Customs and traditions; Dowry; Farm animals; Furniture; Hiding; House raid; Imprisonment; Independence; Injuries; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Land; Land sale; Lūbyā (Palestine); Minorities; Promises; Relief; Revolutionaries; Revolutionary songs; Shepherds; Syria; Telephone; Torture; Trade; Uncles; Vandalism; Village leaders; Water wells; Weapon acquisition; Weapon trade; Weddings

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Village leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Ḥajī, Ibrāhīm (Lawyer); al-Tuqī, ‘Alī al-Mufaḍī (Police); al-‘Awdah, Marzūq (Military officer); ‘Aṭīyah, Sulaymān (Resistance leader).

Families: al-‘Aṭawāt; al-Shahāybī; al-Shaykh; Sursoq; Salām.

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Sūq al-Khāliṣah (Markets).

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Keywords: Agricultural machinery; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arbitration; British Army; British army camps; British colonialism; British high commissioner; British police forces; Clothing and dresses; Courts; Currency convertibility; Elections; Employment; Generosity; Guards; Income; Jewish immigration; Land purchase; Land sale; Military strategy; Oppression; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Protests against occupation; Respect; Skirmishes; Taxes; Trucks; Village leaders; Weapon acquisition; Weapon smuggling

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader); al-Manṣūr, Abū Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Sa‘īd, Yaḥyá (Resistance fighter); al-‘Aṭá, ‘Īd (Resistance fighter); al-Shawwah, Abū Jamāl (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥūrānī, ‘Alī (Resistance leader).

Families: al-Shahāybī.

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Ambushes; Arab Salvation Army; Armored vehicles; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Buses; Collaboration; Conspiracy; Crimes against humanity; Death; Defense; Disputes; Evacuation orders; Expulsion; Guards; Haganah; Hospitality; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Martyrs; Military operations; Military strategy; Military withdrawal; Museums; Palestinian resistance; Personal belongings; Relief; Road blocks; Syrian Army; Tanks; Tiberias (Palestine); Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Victory; War crimes; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Shajarah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Abū Dhays, Muṣṭafá (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Currency convertibility; Deception; Demolition; Expulsion from Palestine; Home bombing; Home demolition; Lūbyā (Palestine); Mines; Safad (Palestine); Syrian Army; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Weapons confiscation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; ʻAnjar (Lebanon)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥajjī, Ibrāhīm (Village leader); ‘Aṭīyah, Sulaymān (Mayor); al-Sa‘īd, Yaḥyá (Mayor); Maw‘id, Ṣāliḥ al-Salīm (Village leader).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Shu‘ayb (Maqām).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Battles; Blood money; Disputes; Druzes; Gunshots; Hospitality; Imprisonment; Intervillage relations; Mayors; Official documents; Passports; Relief; Storytelling; Theft; Village leaders; al-Ṣubayḥ (Arab tribe); Ḥiṭṭīn (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Sūq al-Nāṣirī (Market).

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Keywords: Arab tribes; Arranged marriage; Bribery; British colonialism; British policy; Caves; Children's games; Coffee; Dabkah; Daughters; Disputes; Dowry; Dīwān; Entertainment; Farm animals; Farmers; Folktales; Graveyards; Grooms; Horse racing; Hospitality; Invitations; Judges; Marriage contracts; Ogres; Poets; Qabaḍāy; Shaykhs; Social conditions; Social norms; Storytelling; Superstition; Sūq; Trade; Traders; Wedding songs; Zaffah