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00:00:00 - Socio-economic conditions and everyday life in the village

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Qaramān, Ṭāhir (Businessman); al-Sharīf, Ḥusayn (Shaykh).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: ʻAyn al-Maksūr (Water resource).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Animals; Arabic ghazal; Atābā; Bedouins; Camels; Children's games; Conduct of life; Dalʻūnā; Dīwān; Economic hardship; Farm animals; Generosity; Girls; Harvesting; Hospitality; Interpersonal relations; Letters; Permits; Return; Salt; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Singing; Social norms; Stinginess; Trade; Traders; Wedding songs; Youth; al-Harbaj (Palestine)

00:17:40 - Community celebrations and customs

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū al-Habaj, Muḥammad (Musician).

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Keywords: Atābā; Bedouins; Coexistence; Dalʻūnā; Druzes; Grooms; Intervillage relations; Love stories; Mawwāl; Neighboring villages; Orchards; Permits; Religious diversity; Return; Singing; Snakes; Syria; Trade; Wedding celebration

00:27:45 - Revisiting Palestine

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Keywords: Biblical teaching; Camels; Children in armed conflicts; Convents; Convoys; Destruction; Dispersion; Education; Expulsion from Palestine; Folk songs; Lūbyā (Palestine); Medical care; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Priests; Qurʼān; Reading; Return; Settler colonialism; Singing; Storytelling; Zionist colonization; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

00:37:50 - Passing on memories

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Keywords: British; Brothers; Dalʻūnā; Death; Druzes; Generosity; Killing; Loved ones; Photographs; Professions; Quarries and quarrying; Return; Shepherds; Singing; Social duties; Suffering; Suicide; Wives

00:49:41 - Zionist infiltration and political turmoil

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Keywords: Ammunition; British Occupation of Palestine, 1918-1922; British-Jewish relations; Building practices; Building stones; Camels; Forced migration; Imprisonment; Neighboring villages; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Quarries and quarrying; Refugee experience; Resistance movements; Return; Settler colonialism; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Siblings; Skirmishes; Traders; Weapon acquisition; Zionist colonization

00:57:16 - Exile and immigration

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Naṣir, Ibrāhīm (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; British-Jewish relations; Building practices; Children in armed conflicts; Displacement; Druzes; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948; Imprisonment; Land purchase; Permits; Personal belongings; Psychological warfare; Refugee experience; Resistance; Return; Water wells

01:07:06 - Military occupation and exodus

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Keywords: Children in armed conflicts; Construction; Convents; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Destruction; Dispersion; Expulsion from Palestine; Jewish settlements; Land expropriation; Land sale; Nuns; Psychological warfare; Rumors; Schools; Settler colonialism; Summer; War casualties; Work; Ṣaffurīyah (Palestine)

01:15:35 - Refugee conditions in Lebanon

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Keywords: Babies; Building stones; Children in armed conflicts; Destruction; Dispersion; Friendship; Golan (Syria); Grandmothers; House rent; Laborers; Lebanon; Nuns; Quarries and quarrying; Refugee aid; Return; Schools; War casualities; Work

01:23:46 - Return to Palestine

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Beliefs; Child mortality; Children; Churches; Cousins; Death; Dwellings; Hope; Killing; Land sale; Living conditions; Return; Seeking shelter; Weapons; Wives

01:31:26 - Economic conditions in Shafā ʻAmrū

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Jlayyīl, Ibrāhīm (Resistance leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Najīb (Village leader)

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Arab Salvation Army; Building stones; Camels; Currencies; Expulsion from Palestine; Germans; Gold; Guards; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Palestinian diaspora; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Population; Quarries and quarrying; Return; Revolutionaries; Self-sufficiency; Settler colonialism; Traders; Work

01:43:37 - Socio-political dynamics in Shafā ʻAmrū before Nakba

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥamādah, Muḥammad (Mayor); Ḥusayn, Ibrāhīm Nimr (Village leader).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Haifa Oil Refinery (Corporation).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Border cities and towns; Coexistence; Communal celebrations; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Forced migration; Identity cards; Israeli colonization; Municipalities; Muslims; News; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Psychological warfare; Reconstructed urban setting; Religious diversity; Return; Revolutionaries; Settler colonialism; State of Israel; Threshing; Traders; World War, 1939-1945

01:54:15 - Nostalgia, Postmemories, and Homeland

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Keywords: Atābā; Biblical teaching; Brothers; Churches; Dwellings; Education; Emotions; Exile; Expulsion from Palestine; Imprisonment; Land deeds; Permits; Poems; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Priests; Qurʼān; Reading; Return; Schools; Sons; Wives; Zionist occupation; ʻAntarah ibn Shaddād, active 6th century

02:07:28 - Songs and memories

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Keywords: Atābā; Cousins; Dalʻūnā; Death; Emotions; Grandchildren; Hunting; Jafrā; Poems; Reading; Singing; Sons; Water resources; Wedding celebration; Zarīf al-Ṭūl