Interview with Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥāj Aḥmad مقابلة مع محمد حسين الحاج أحمد

Partial Transcript: Families: Najm; ‘Īsá; Ṭāhā; Sulaymān; al-Khalīl; Bakr; al-‘Allūsh; al-Maw‘id; al-Ḥadāyidah; Ghunaym; al-Maṣāriwah; Abū ‘Awdah; al-Ḥāj Aḥmad; al-Ḥāj As‘ad; al-Jundī; Abū Na‘āj; al-‘Afīfī.

Significant Figures: al-Salīm, Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Maw‘id, Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad (Mayor); Sulaymān, Abū Fāris (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Yūsuf Salīm (Mayor).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Buses; Converts; Farm animals; Germans; Handicrafts; Islam; Municipalities; Neighboring villages; Olive trees; Orchards; Population; Population resettlements; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Shoemakers; Threshing; Traders; Water resources; Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Families: ‘Alā’ al-Dīn.

Significant Figures: Sa‘d al-Dīn, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Sharīf, Ḥusayn (Shaykh); Yūsuf, Saʻīd (School principal); al-‘Anabtāwī, ‘Abd al-Raḥīm (Teacher); al-Faṭābīl, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ḥallūmī, Jamīl (Teacher).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Dayr Ḥannā (Convent).

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Keywords: Dīwān; Education; Educational grants; Elections; Hospitality; Intifada, 1987-1993; Mayors; Mosques; Nuns; Prayers; Prayers; Priests; Public schools; Religious education; Religious practices; Women education

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Arābī, ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd (Doctor); al-Masrī, ‘Umar (Doctor); Salāmah, Farḥāt (Poet).

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Keywords: Arabic patriotic poetry; Arabs; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British colonialism; Cities and towns; Clothing and dresses; Convents; Cost of living; Dalʻūnā; Dīwān; Entertainment; Fīlasṭīn (Newspaper); Handicrafts; Herbal remedies; Mayors; Media; Medical care; Medications; Nakba; Professions; Religious belief; Sacred places; Sewing; Social norms; Social relations; Tailoring; The Jerusalem Post (Newspaper); Trade; Traditional medical procedures; Wedding celebration; Women education; al-Difāʻ (Newspaper); al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935

Partial Transcript: Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Ḥisbat al-Nāṣirah (Marqet).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural land lease; Agricultural machinery; Agricultural products; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonization; Brokers; Cities and towns; Cultivation; Germans; Governmental institutions; Income; Irrigation; Land; Means of transportation; Municipalities; Nazareth (Palestine); Olive trees; Peasants; Pumps; Settlements; Strikes; Taxes; Threshing; Tools; Trade; Trucks; Water supplies; Water wells

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); Abū Nʻāj, Nimir (Resistance leader); al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmud (Resistance leader); al-Sirrinī, Mifliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Maw‘id, ʻĀṭif (Resistance fighter); al-Maw‘id, ʻĀrif (Resistance fighter).

Families: Salām; Sursuq; al-Asʻad; al-Khalīl.

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural calendars; Akka (Palestine); Arabic patriotic poetry; Carpenters; Children; Clothing and dresses; Cows; Deception; Discrimination practices; Dwellings; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Feudalism; Furniture; Handicrafts; Helpfulness; Jewish settlements; Land acquisition; Land brokers; Land deeds; Land sale; Mawlid; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Religious ceremonies; Resistance movements; Rural life; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Weapon acquisition; Weapon trade; Women in agriculture; Work songs; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-‘Abbūshī, Muḥammad (Store keeper).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Animals; Arranged marriage; Blacksmithing; British Army; British army camps; British police forces; Camels; Cultivation; Dietary practices; Disputes; Dowry; Employment; Family structure; Fertility; Flour mills; French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon, 1923-1943; Haifa (Palestine); Handicrafts; Identity cards; Income; Inheritance; Intervillage relations; Killing; Marriage; Measurement units; Nazareth (Palestine); Olive oil mills; Peasants; Porters; Rights; Rural life; Social norms; Socio-economic conditions; Threshing; Tools; Trade; Women in agriculture