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00:00:00 - Childhood, agriculture and everyday life

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Partial Transcript: Families: Sha‘bān; ‘Aṭīyah; Jabr; Fannīsh.

Significant Figures: ‘Aṭīyah, Mir‘ī Ḥasan (Mayor); al-Ḥāj, Yūnus (Shaykh).

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Keywords: Banks; Building stones; Dairy products; Dwellings; Economic sectors; Education; Farm animals; Fishing; Generosity; Handicrafts; Jāḥūlā (Palestine); Land brokers; Land expropriation; Land sale; Landowners; Marriage; Money; Peasants; Population; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Rug tapestry; Self-sufficiency; Socio-economic conditions; Village leaders

00:11:44 - Social dynamics in the village during the British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Īsá, Maḥmūd Muḥammad (Village leader); al-Naḥawī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī (Lawyer)

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Keywords: Arrest; Bedouins; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Brutal treatment; Cheating; Courts; Dabkah; Disputes; Forced evacuation; Governors; Guilt; Identity cards; Innocence; Land expropriation; Land registration; Loans; Marriage; Polygamy; Socio-economic conditions; Traders

00:19:31 - Social and political conditions before Nakba

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Rifā‘ī, Ḥusnī (Arab Salvation Army commander).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī ‘Arūs (Valley).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Betrayal; British army camps; Cheating; Childhood; Children's games; Dabkah; Dalʻūnā; Dignity; Druzes; Engagement; Farming practices; Fishing; Haganah; Hunting; Jewish settlements; Martyrs; Money; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Relief; Shootings; Snipers; Social norms; Wedding celebration; Zarīf al-Ṭūl; al-Nabī Yusha' Battle, 1948; al-Ḥamdūn (Arab tribe)

00:29:16 - Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Rifaʻī, Ḥusayn (Arab Salvation army commander); Lūbyā, Ḥusayn (Arab Salvation army soldier); ‘Aṭīyah, Abū Aḥmad Sulaymān (Wounded); Yāsīn, ‘Alī Muḥammad (Wounded).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Betrayal; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Bullets; Caves; Collaborationists; Competitiveness; Courage; Damaged weapons; Guards; Haganah; Imprisonment; Jewish immigrants; Mayors; Military superiority; Non-Zionist Jews; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Prisoners' treatment; Propaganda; Revolutionaries; Safad (Palestine); Shaykhs; Stern; Taxes; Threats; Village siege; Violation of humanitarian law; Weapon acquisition; Weapons confiscation; Zionism; Zionist occupation; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

00:42:21 - Battle and armed resistance

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Keywords: Ambushes; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; British policy; Defense; Military training; Military withdrawal; Mines; Prisoners; Relief; Revolutionaries; United States; Yemenis; Yugoslavs; al-Hayʼah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā; al-Nabī Yusha' Battle, 1948

00:50:29 - Military activity and resistance

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Betrayal; Checkpoints; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Magazines; Massacres; Military aircraft; Military training; Oil Refinery Battle, 1947; Palestinian resistance; Psychological warfare; Stern; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; War casualities; Zionist occupation; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Ḥusaynīyah Massacre, 1948

00:59:00 - War time and military occupation

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

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Ambushes; Arab Salvation Army; Attempt at return; Bombings; Crimes against individuals; Crops; Economic conditions; Expulsion from Palestine; Forced evacuation; Forests; Hostility; Injuries; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; Israelites; Lebanon; Mines; Naturalization refusal; Pamphlets; Personal belongings; Refugee aid; Refugee camps conditions; Seeking refuge; Shootings; Tanks

01:13:48 - Refugees and displacement

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Partial Transcript: Families: Sursuq; Salām; Ghulmīyah.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Hadassah hospital (Hospital).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Dignity; Disputes; Economic conditions; Expulsion from Palestine; Hizballah; Homeland; Interpersonal relations; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Land sale; Leaders; Lebanese Government; Means of transportation; Mosques; Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Naturalization refusal; Police regulations; Pre-Nakba life; Professions; Refugee camps conditions; Refugee experience; Return; Routes; Social norms; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Weapon acquisition; al-Ghawārinah (Arab tribe); al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948; Ṣandūq al-Ummah (Jerusalem)