Interview with Maḥmūd Darwīsh ‘Abd al-‘Āl مقابلة مع محمود درويش عبد العال

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Sālim, Yūsuf (Village leader); al-Sālim, Muḥammad (Village leader); al-‘Amrīṭī, Ibrāhīm (Mayor); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor).

Families: ‘Abd al-‘Āl; ‘Awaḍ.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Book reviews; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Jokes; Living conditions; Mawlid; Olive oil mills; Peasants; Population; Religious education; Schools; al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Zayn, Muḥammad Maḥmud (Poet).

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Keywords: Agriculture; Atābā; British Occupation of Palestine, 1918-1922; Brothers; Building practices; Communal celebrations; Competitiveness; Dabkah; Death; Defeat; Dwellings; Dīwān; Education; Famine; Fasting; Imprisonment; Intervillage relations; Killing; Landowners; Medical care; Mental illness; Mothers; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Peasants; Strangers; Wedding celebration; Zaffah; Zajal

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British policy; British-Jewish relations; Childhood; Children's games; Desserts; Disputes; Education; Maliciousness; Nahariya (Palestine); Palestinian-Jewish relations; Persecution; Propaganda; Taxes

Partial Transcript: Families: Sursuq; Salām; Twaynī.

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Coffeehouses; Defense; Expulsion from Palestine; Family structure; Guards; Land brokers; Land sale; Mayors; Personal belongings; Refugee aid; Return; Suicide; Village leaders; Village occupation; Weapon acquisition; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Qal‘at Jiddīn (Fortress).

Significant Figures: Dāhish, Jabr (Resistance fighter); Sarkīs, Ḥasan (Resistance fighter); al-Dāwūd, Muṣṭafá (Resistance fighter); Fahīm, Abū ‘Alī (Landowner).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Bombardment; British Army; British army camps; British officers; Camels; Convoys; Jewish Army; Killing; Resistance; Shepherds; Surrender; Survival; Tanks; Trains; Trenches; Weapons; Weapons confiscation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948

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Keywords: Betrayal; Boundaries; Coffeehouses; Dispersion; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Police; Refugee experience; Resistance; Return; Syria; Traders; Trains; Vehicles; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥijāzī, Musṭafá (Resistance fighter); Ḥijāzī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian measures; Arab countries; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Guards; Health conditions; Personal belongings; Propaganda; Refugee aid; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Return; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Weapons; Zionism; ʻAnjar (Lebanon)

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Agricultural land lease; Armies intervention; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Bedouins; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Damaged weapons; Destruction; French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon, 1923-1943; Germans; Glubb, John Bagot, Sir, 1897-1986; Homeland; Hope; Identity cards; Jewish national home; Land appropriation; Land sale; Naguib, Muhammed, 1901- 1984; Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918-1970; Nation; Naturalization; Netanyahu, Binyamin, 1949-; Passports; Refugees; Religious belief; Return; Treason; Ṭalāl, King of Jordan, 1911-1972; Victory; World War, 1939-1945