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00:00:00 - Traditional Palestinian songs and stories

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Bāsh, Ḥasan (Writer); al-Bakr, Maḥmūd Mifliḥ (Writer).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); Arabic proverbs; Book reviews; Bread; Cities and towns; Cultivation; Damascus (Syria); Dhabīḥah; Folk songs; Folk tradition; Girls; Hyenas; Land ownership; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Sahlī, Muḥammad Tawfīq; Sirḥān, Nimr; Swings of ʻĪd; Work songs; al-Dāmūn (Palestine); ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī

00:13:22 - Love stories in literature

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-‘Afīfī, Fāṭimah (Poet).

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Keywords: Circumcision; Cities and towns; Clothing and dresses; Dabkah; Family structure; Folk songs; Honor; Jokes; Lebanon; Love; Maiden; Married women; Money; Mosques; Peasants; Poets; Prayers for rain; Sakhnīn (Palestine); Shaykhs; Vehicles; Wedding songs; Yā Ghzayyil

00:28:47 - Palestinian social customs and traditions

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Keywords: Barbers; Brides; Clothing and dresses; Cooking; Currency convertibility; Dietary practices; Dowry; Folk songs; Generosity; Groom Shower; Marriage proposals; Rural life; Sewing; Stinginess; Theft; Threshing; Ululation; Zaffah; Ḥaṭṭah

00:46:19 - Popular songs and poetry

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Keywords: Brides; Clothing and dresses; Cooking; Daughters-in-law; Dietary practices; Folk poetry; Folk songs; Grooms; Hairdressing; Jewelry; Love stories; Mothers-in-law; Social norms; Threshing; Wedding preparations; Wedding songs; Zaffah; al-Hilālī, Abū Zayd

01:08:19 - Tales of passed times

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Keywords: Arab countries; Arabic ghazal; Arranged marriage; Brides; Chickens; Children's games; Children's songs; Cousins; Dabkah; Escape; Folk poetry; Hiding; Hunger; Hunting; Ibrāhīm, Nūḥ, 1913-1938; Jealousy; Loved ones; Machination; Nuṣṣ Nṣayṣ; Ogres; Revolutionary songs; Ululation; Zajal; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād, active 6th century