Interview with Su‘ād al-Mi‘ārī, Siknah Yūnus, Muḥammad Ḥijāzī, Dībah ʻAwaḍ and Ṣabāḥ Muḥammad ʻAwaḍ مقابلة مع سعاد المعاري، سكنة يونس، محمد حجازي، ديبة عوض وصباح محمد عوض

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Keywords: Arabic ghazal; Barbers; Brides; Circumcision; Dabkah; Dalʻūnā; Damascus (Syria); Death; Emotions; Folk poetry; Groom Shower; Loved ones; Lullabies; Mawwāl; Mothers; Poets; Seas; Ululation; ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, 600-661?; Ẓarīf al-Ṭūl

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAwaḍ, Marzūq (Village leader); al-Tawbah, Abū Maḥmūd (Leader); al-Najmī, salīm (Leader); Khiḍir, Qāsim (Land agent).

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Keywords: Banū Hilāl (Arab tribe); Bedouins; Birds; Cultivation; Disputes; Dīwān; Folk tradition; Ibrāhīm, Nūḥ, 1913-1938; Landowners; Love stories; Marriage; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Peasant workers; Poison; Revolutionary songs; Sayf, King of Yemen, approximately 516-approximately 574; Storytelling; Tools; al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine); al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād, active 6th century

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Keywords: Armed resistance; Blindness; David King of Israel; Defense; Fasting; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Imprisonment; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Jesus Christ; Judges; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Military training; Moses (Biblical leader); Muhalhil; Muhammad, Prophet, 571-633, Prayers; Palestinian ballads; Poems; Police; Population; Qabaḍāy; Rifles; al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine); al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā Aḥmad, 1895-1930

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Keywords: Arabic ghazal; Brides; Children's songs; Circumcision; Clothing and dresses; Dignity; Exile; Frustration; Fāṭimah, -632 or 633; Groom Shower; Hardship; Knights; Letters; Loved ones; Nation; Patriotism; Percussion music; Princes; Ululation; Umm al-Zuluf; Wedding songs; Zaffah; ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Caliph, 600-661?; ʻAtābā

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Keywords: Chores; Disputes; Farm animals; Fishermen; Folk songs; Food; Generations; Intervillage relations; Kings; Magic; Mermaids; Saḥāb, Salīm, 1941; Singing; Ẓarīf al-Ṭūl