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00:00:00 - Farming and living conditions before Nakba

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Darāwshah; Mir‘ī; Manāṣrī; Mḥaysnīyah; Ḥijāzī.

Significant Figures: al-ʻAkkī, Aḥmad (Landowner).

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Keywords: Agriculture; Building practices; Dwellings; Farm animals; Fathers; Horses; Khirbat Ja‘tūn (Palestine); Land purchase; Mayors; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Siblings; Surveillance; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Water resources; ʻal-Ṣuwayṭāt (Arab tribe)

00:07:50 - Characteristics of a tribal community

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Keywords: Arbitration; Bedouins; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Coffee; Dīwān; Education; Employment; Hospitality; Housing; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Neighboring villages; Peasants; Punishment; Religious diversity; Schools; Settler colonialism; Socio-economic conditions; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Tribal customs

00:15:52 - Infiltration during the British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥijāzī, Abū Aḥmad (Mayor).

Families: Ḥawwā.

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Qal‘at Jiddīn (Fortress).

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Keywords: Balfour Declaration, 1917; Bedouins; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Imprisonment; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Jewish settlements; Land brokers; Land sale; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Peasants; Revolutionary leadership; Settler colonialism; Shepherds; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Social relations; Underground movements; Urban planning; Weapons

00:28:46 - Political turmoil and military activity

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Partial Transcript: Families: Twaynī; Sursuq.

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British-Jewish relations; Children's games; Education; Farm animals; Harvesting; Jewish settlements; Mines; Neighboring villages; Newspapers; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Settler colonialism; Skirmishes; Stern; Water resources

00:38:23 - Battles and armed resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sirḥān, Fāris (Village leader).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Bedouins; Bridges; British-Jewish relations; Children in armed conflicts; Farm animals; Fārūq of Egypt, 1920-1965; Khirbat Ja‘tūn (Palestine); Mines; Moroccans; Seeking refuge; Syrian Army; Weapons; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; al-Saʻīd, Nūrī, 1888-1958; ʻAbd al-Ilāh, Ḥaqqī Ismāʻīl, 1913-1953

00:54:42 - War time and military operations

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Armored vehicles; Bedouins; British-Jewish relations; Farm animals; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Newspapers; Resistance movements; Rumors; Tanks; Weapon acquisition; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948

01:07:22 - Land, defense and resistance

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Armored vehicles; Bedouins; Bombardment; British Army; British officers; British-Jewish relations; Dīwān; Evacuation; Injuries; Jordanian Army; Killing; Military strategy; Military withdrawal; Resistance; Sephardim Jews; Spring; Tanks; Treason; West Bank (Palestine); al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; al-Qūwatlī, Shukrī, 1891-1967; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

01:23:28 - Military occupation and political clashes

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Qassīs, Abū Mas‘ad (Village leader).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Battles; Bedouins; Children in armed conflicts; Christians; Displacement; Druzes; Evacuation; Expulsion from Palestine; Harvesting; Military strategy; Rumors; Snipers; Tarshīḥā Battle, 1948; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Truces; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist colonization; al-Hayb (Arab tribe)

01:41:24 - Military occupation and exile

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Partial Transcript: Families: Twaynī; Sursuq; Ḥabāyib; Bazzī; Salām; al-As‘ad.

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Anti-Palestinian measures; Arab Salvation Army; Armored vehicles; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Bombardment; British-Jewish relations; Conspiracy; Crimes against humanity; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Greed; Jewish immigration; Land brokers; Massacres; Military withdrawal; Psychological warfare; Rumors; Tanks; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Terrorism; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

01:54:38 - Humanitarian conditions during the exodus

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Keywords: Bedouins; Bread; Building practices; Camels; Children in armed conflicts; Conspiracy; Decision making; Displacement; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Lebanon; Orphans; Personal belongings; Psychological warfare; Revenge; Routes; Suffering; Tanks; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Terrorism; Tribes

02:10:19 - Refugee life, humiliation and isolation

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Bedouins; Border crossing; Chickenpox; Cities and towns; Crops; Demographics; Druzes; Farm animals; Generations; Health services; Israeli checkpoints; Israeli occupation; Land deeds; Landowners; Medical doctors; Military withdrawal; Personal belongings; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Refugee aid; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Return; Tanks; Theft; Ululation; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Vaccination; Water resources; Zionist colonization; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938