Interview with Aḥmad Muḥammad ʻAsqūl مقابلة مع أحمد محمد عسقول

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṣawwān, Aḥmad (Mayor).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Kanʻān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Building practices; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Dairy products; Displacement; Farm animals; Guards; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Peasants; Population; Safad (Palestine); Schools; Siblings; Skirmishes; Traders; Village leaders; Water resources; Weapon acquisition; Zionist occupation

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shaʻbān, ʻAlī (Shepherd); Brayk, Shafīq (School principal).

Families: Ṣawwān; Ayyūbī; Shaʻbān.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nabiʻ Abū Khalīl (Water resources); Jabal Kanʻān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Burial; Children's games; Coexistence; Domestic animals; Education; Farming practices; Football; Graveyards; Interpersonal relations; Land acquisition; Landowners; Languages; Leaders; Martyrs; Naturalization; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Qurʼānic teaching; Rural life; Safad (Palestine); Skirmishes; Socio-economic conditions; Tanks

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Bombardment; Childbirth; Children's games; Damaged weapons; Dispersion; Displacement; Football; Guards; Hiding; Intervillage relations; Land ownership; Land sale; Military withdrawal; Moroccans; Possessions; Rifles; Routes; Singing; Suffering; Survival; Tanks; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; al-Ṣafṣāf Battle, 1948; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Battlefields; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Conspiracy; Damaged weapons; Death; Expulsion from Palestine; Haganah; Home bombing; Khaḍrā, Ṣubḥī, 1895-1954; Martyrs; Military superiority; Military withdrawal; Narrators; News; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pamphlets; Resistance; Resistance movements; Return; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

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Keywords: Beggars; Caves; Dairy products; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Families; Farm animals; Guards; House rent; Living conditions; Moroccans; Rain; Refugee aid; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Return; Rifles; Routes; Safad (Palestine); Shootings; Suffering; Traders; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Youth; Zionist occupation

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Najjār, Muḥammad (Camp leader); Ḥamad, Ḥasan (Public servant).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Attempt at return; Boats; British-Jewish relations; Brothers; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Cheating; Collaborationists; Conspiracy; Cowardice; Defense; Discrimination; Displacement; Disputes; Druzes; Explosions; Expulsion from Palestine; Fishermen; Great Britain; Homeland; Income; Mines; Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Naturalization refusal; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Protests; Refugee aid; Refugee camps conditions; Refugee experience; Resistance movements; Sisters; Suffering; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Water resources; Weapon acquisition; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻAnjar (Lebanon)