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00:00:00 - Social life and customs in Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Families: Abbās; Qaddūrah; al-Khaḍrah.

Significant Figures: Sirḥān, Nāyif (Village leader); al-ʻAbdullāh, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); ʻAwaḍ, Ḥamad (Shaykh); Shuqayr, Asʻad (Shaykh); al-Mājid, Khālid (Village leader); ʻAjāj, Amīr (Village leader); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Saʻīd (Poet); al-Ḥmayyid, Aḥmad (Poet); al-Ḥmayyid, Muḥammad (Poet).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Blood money; Cities and towns; Death; Dhabīḥah; Dignity; Elderly people; Family structure; Folk poetry; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Generosity; Grooms; Gunshots; Harvesting; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Law enforcement; Leaders; Light; Martyrs; Naḥf (Palestine); Olive trees; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Palestinian diaspora; Penalties; Persecution; Poets; Praise; Respect; Safad (Palestine); Sheep; Wedding presents; al-Hayʼah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā

00:25:57 - Folktales

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Keywords: Arab tribes; Dwellings; Dīwān; Flour mills; Happiness; Hunger; Income; Killing; Men; Migration; Princes; Secrets; Unemployment; Wives; Work

00:46:43 - Dispute resolution between Palestinian clans

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Keywords: Arbitration; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British high commissioner; Dīwān; Education; Friendship; Guests; Heritage; Marriage proposals; Murder; Revenge; Schools; Social relations

00:52:49 - Father's murder and dispute resolution

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-Rāziq, Sulaymān (Martyr).

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Keywords: British authorities; Customs and traditions; Gunshots; Rape; al-Farrāḍīyah (Palestine)

01:00:16 - Betrayal of the mayor's wife

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Balad al-Shaykh (Palestine); Disputes; Families; Maqām; Murder; al-Ṣuwayṭāt (Arab tribe); al-Ṭūqīyah (Arab tribe)

01:06:52 - Dispute resolution between al-Farrāḍīyah and al-Rās al-Aḥmar

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Afandī; ʻAzzām.

Significant Figures: Naḥlah, Jamīl (Village leader); Abū ʻAwaḍ, Ḥamad (Village leader); Kaʻwash, Muḥammad (Village leader); ʻAbd Ibrāhīm, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Khaḍrah, Ṣubḥī (Leader); Qaddūrah, ʻIzz al-Dīn (Leader); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Leader); Ḥazūr, ʻAbd al-ʻᾹlī (Village leader); al-Nāṣir, Muḥammad (Village leader).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nahr Wādī al-Laymūn (River).

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Keywords: Customs and traditions; Death; Dhabīḥah; Forgiveness; Gunshots; Imprisonment; Leaders; Murder; Neighboring villages; Social relations; Weddings

01:13:29 - Dispute resolution in Tal al-Zaʻtar refugee camp

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Salīm, Abū Muḥammad (Leader); Wihbī, ʻAwaḍ (Leader); al-Najmī, Mūsá (Leader); ʻIzziyah, Aḥmad (Leader); Wihbī, Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Rāziq (Leader); Shaʻbān, Fahd (Leader); Durghām, Abū ʻUmar (Leader); Maʻrūf, Ṭālib (Leader); Shaḥrūr, Maḥmūd Shākir (Leader); al-Sakhnīnī, Muṣṭafá (Leader); Kanʻān, Abū ʻIṣām (Leader); al-Suḥmānī, Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Leader).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Shuʻayb (Maqām).

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Keywords: Arbitration; Arrest; Celebrations; Childlessness; Circumcision; Customs and traditions; Dayr al-Qāsī (Palestine); Disputes; Elderly people; Lebanese; Murder; Oppression; Palestinian diaspora; Terrorism; Tribal customs; Vows; ʻAlmā (Palestine)