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00:00:00 - Zionist infiltration and military attacks

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Airports; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Assassination; Bernadotte, Folke, 1895-1948; British Government; British-Jewish relations; Burj al-Barājinah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Collaborationists; Displacement; Enemies; Germans; Iraqi Army; Jewish immigrants; Jewish national home; Military superiority; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Pre-Nakba life; Weapons confiscation; Women in armed conflicts; World War, 1939-1945; Zionist colonization; Zionist occupation

00:08:41 - Zionist- British agreement for Palestine before 1948

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Ḥusaynī; al-Nashāshībī; Ṭūqān; al-’Aẓm; al-Qūwatlī.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Akka Airport (Airport).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Airports; Akka (Palestine); Ammunition; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab countries; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Cultivation; Farm animals; Germans; Income; Kuwaykāt (Palestine); Land sale; Landowners; Peasants; Revolutionary leadership; Theft; Trenches; World War, 1939-1945

00:20:24 - Community celebrations and customs

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Customs and traditions; Dhabīḥah; Exile; Expulsion from Palestine; Friendship; Generosity; Hospitality; Interpersonal relations; Poets; Refugees; Tanẓīmāt; Wedding customs; al-Hilālī, Abū Zayd; ʻAtābā

00:33:14 - Political turmoil, revolutionary and military activity

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Iskandar, ʻAlī (Mayor); al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Mayor); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Mayor).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Ammunition; Armed resistance; Battles; Betrayal; Building stones; Currencies; Dīwān; Hookahs; Hospitality; Hunger; Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006; Ḥusayn, King of Jordan, 19351999; Illiteracy; Iraqi Army; Israeli colonization; Lebanese Army; Lebanon; Mines; Peasants; Qurʼānic teaching; Terrorism; Traders; Uncles; Weapon acquisition; Weapon trade; al-Saʻīd, Nūrī, 1888-1958; ʻAbd al-Ilāh, Ḥaqqī Ismāʻīl, 1913-1953

00:46:11 - Tales of passed times

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Keywords: Attack; Beggars; Boats; Disguise; Fishermen; Folktales; Horses; Hostility; Injuries; Knights; Muhalhil; Nawar; Official documents; Poems; Survival

00:59:27 - Rural life in Palestine

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Airports; Arab workers; Bread; Family structure; Farmers; Intervillage relations; Kuwaykāt (Palestine); Land deeds; Living conditions; Municipalities; Neighboring villages; Peasant workers; Population; Professions; Self-sufficiency; Socio-economic conditions

01:08:31 - Pre-Nakbah life in the village

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: ʻAyn al-Asad (Water resources).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arbitration; Burj al-Barājinah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Clans; Coffee; Construction workers; Cooking; Cost of living; Dietary practices; Dignity; Disputes; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Horses; Hunting; Intervillage relations; Land deeds; Land registration; Living conditions; Marriage proposals; Naturalization refusal; Prayers; Princes; Qatar; Refugee experience; Stoves; ʻAtābā