Interview with ‘Alī Muḥammad al-Najjār مقابلة مع علي محمد النجار

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Qaddūrah, Zakī (Municipal council).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; Carpenters; City occupation; Displacement; Guards; Haifa (Palestine); Imports; Jewish immigrants; Landowners; Murder; Palestinian Jews; Population; Professions; Religious diversity; Safad (Palestine); Strikes; Vehicles; Work; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥāj Khalīl, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Mir‘bī, Muṣṭafá (Governor).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Building practices; Carpenters; Child abuse; Childhood memories; Cost of living; Dwellings; Economic conditions; Education; French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon, 1923-1943; Income; Iraq; Lebanon; Loyalty; Medical doctors; Orphans; Professions; Qurʼānic teaching; Return; Shaykhs; Vaccination

Partial Transcript: Families: Khaḍrā; Qaddūrah.

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

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Keywords: Animal slaughter; Carpenters; Children's games; Dwellings; Foreigners; Grandfathers; Landowners; Marriage proposals; Mawwāl; Municipalities; Orchards; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Religious diversity; Rural life; Safad (Palestine); Self-sufficiency; Social norms; Sūq; Threshing; ʻĪd celebrations

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻArābī, Muṣṭafá (School principal); Shamar, ‘Alī (Coffeehouse owner); ‘Asqūl, ʻAlī (Public servant); al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Village leader).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Conduct of life; Displacement; Divorce; Ein Zeitim (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Gambling; Germans; Guards; Haganah; Intelligence services; Military training; Mines; News; Radio stations; Resistance movements; Safad (Palestine); Seeking shelter; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Weapon smuggling; Yugoslavs; Zionist occupation; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Qaddūrah, Walīd (Martyr).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Armenians; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Carpenters; Children in armed conflicts; City evacuation; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Family structure; Interrogations; Land sale; Mantaqat Imtiyāz al-Ḥūlah (Palestine); Military superiority; Military training; Military withdrawal; Official documents; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Return; Safad Battle, 1948; Strikes; Suffering; Terrorism; Weapons; Women in armed conflicts; World War, 1939-1945; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; ʻAnjar (Lebanon)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṭāfish, Aḥmad (Trader).

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Keywords: Arab countries; British army camps; Carpenters; Christians; Discrimination; Dreams; Dwellings; Electricity; Expulsion from Palestine; Generations; Homeland; Hope; Israeli colonization; Israeli occupation; Jewish settlements; Land brokers; Land sale; Landowners; Lebanese Government; Medical care; Military orders; Mines; Moroccans; Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Naturalization; Nostalgia; Palestinian national identity; Passports; Personal belongings; Refugee aid; Refugee camp conditions; Refugee experience; Religious belief; Return; Routes; Rumors; Safad (Palestine); Social relations; Socio-economic conditions; Suffering