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00:00:01 - Agricultural life in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣuluḥ, Adīb (Teacher); Qaṭṭān, Ḥabīb (School principal).

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; Agricultural products; British police forces; Childhood; Cultivation; Education; Family structure; Holidays; Landowners; Neighboring villages; Neighbors; Olive oil mills; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Traders; Vehicle drivers; West Bank (Palestine); al-Ṭīrah, Haifa (Palestine)

00:08:47 - Political conditions during the British Mandate

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab countries; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British army camps; British colonialism; British high commissioner; British-Jewish relations; Drivers; Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī, King of Hejaz, 1853?-1931; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Protests against occupation; Strikes; Vehicle drivers; Vehicles; World War, 1939-1945; ‘Abd el-Ḥam īd II, Sulṭān of the Turks, 1842-1918

00:15:55 - Political turmoil, military activity in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Abū Durrah, Abū al-‘Abd (Revolutionary leader); al-Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Mayor); al-Ayyūbī, Najātī (Masyor).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British colonialism; Burial; Coexistence; Collaborationists; Disappeared persons; Disputes; Identity cards; Immigration; Mayors; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Protests against occupation; Religious diversity; Revenge; Revolutionaries; Skirmishes; Strikes; World War, 1939-1945; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935

00:32:15 - Socio-economic conditions in al-Ṭīrah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ayyūbī, Najāt (Mayor); al-Sammān, Khiḍir (Mayor).

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Cinema Armūn (Cinema).

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Keywords: British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Building stones; Cowardice; Dwellings; Hadar (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Immigrants; Land appropriation; Land brokers; Land sale; Living conditions; Population; ʻAtlit (Prison: Palestine)

00:41:09 - Zionist infiltration and military activity

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).

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Keywords: Ambushes; Attack; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; British-Jewish relations; European Jewish Immigration; Haganah; Jewish settlements; Military withdrawal; Settler colonialism; Skirmishes; Weapon acquisition; ʻAtlīt (Prison: Palestine)

00:47:34 - Violence, battles and armed resistance

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Keywords: Ammunition; Armed resistance; Attack; Bombardment; British Army; British army camps; British officers; British-Jewish relations; Buses; Caves; Displacement; Guards; Home bombing; Jordanian Army; Marriage; Martyrs; Seeking shelter; Weapon acquisition; World War, 1939-1945; al-Ṭirah Battle

00:59:57 - City occupation, displacement and exile

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaṭīb, Abū Ḥusayn (Resistance leader).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation); Haifa Port (Port); Akka port (Port).

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Ḥisbat Haifa (Market).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Armed resistance; Barbed wire; Battles; Betrayal; Boats; Collaborationists; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Haifa (Palestine); Injuries; Iraqi Army; Jordanian Army; Military training; Organizations; Personal belongings; Return; Sa‘d, Ma‘rūf, 1910-1975; Snipers; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977

01:11:49 - War time, military occupation and exile

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Armed resistance; Arrest; Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); British officers; Damaged Weapons; Helpfulness; House rent; Lebanese Government; Martyrs; Massacres; Military withdrawal; Mīyah wa Mīyah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); News; Palestinian Jews; Property destruction; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Suicide; Ṣulḥ, Riyāḍ, 1894-1951; Torture; Treason; Truces; Village siege; Violation of humanitarian law; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Qasṭal Battle, 1948; al-Ṭirah Battle; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948