Interview with Khalīl Suwaydān خليل سويدان

Partial Transcript: Families: Shatlah; Jabr; Suwaydān.

Significant Figures: Suwaydān, Aḥmad al-Ṣāliḥ (Mayor).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Agricultural products; Border cities and towns; Dīwān; Farm animals; Fathers; Landowners; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Peasants; Population; Praying; Siblings; Social classes; Village leaders; al-Buwayzīyah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Rmayḥ, Abū al-Naṣr (Resistance fighter); al-Yūsuf, Dīb (Resistance fighter); Suhayl, 'Alī Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-ʻĀbid, Rashīd Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); al-Mughayīb, ʻĪsá (Resistance fighter); Suwaydān, Muḥammad ‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); Jum‘ah, Abū Jum‘ah Shihādah (Resistance leader); Shaʻbān, Muḥammad Shiḥādah (Resistance leader); Suwaydān, Muḥammad (Resistance leader); al-Ḥāj Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Resistance leader).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Ambushes; Ammunition; Animosity; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab countries; Armored vehicles; Battles; Betrayal; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Buses; Children; Convoys; Currencies; Damaged weapons; Defense; Discrimination; Expulsion from Palestine; Flour mills; Guards; Injuries; Military superiority; Military training; Military withdrawal; Mosques; Police stations; Relief; Resistance movements; Taxes; Village leaders; Villagers; Weapon acquisition; Women

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Maḥmūd, Ḥmayīd (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj, Ibrāhīm (Resistance fighter); al- ʻAlī, ʻAlī Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-ʻĀbid, Rashīd Muḥammad (Resistance fighter); Suwaydān, Aḥmad al-Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Rmayḥ, Abū al-Naṣr (resistance fighter);Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Ṭābighah (Mountain).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Arabs; Armed resistance; Armies intervention; Betrayal; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Caves; Children; Convoys; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Injuries; Jamʻiyyat al-Jihād Muqaddas; Jewish colonization; Military withdrawal; Seeking shelter; Ummah; Violation of humanitarian law; Women; al-Nabī Yusha' Battle, 1948; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṣubḥ, Nāyif (Governor); Suwaydān, Aḥmad al-Ṣāliḥ (Mayor); al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader).

Families: Francis; Sursuq.

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Antiquities; Arbitration; Ashkenazi Jews; Collaborationists; Competitiveness; Confiscation; Courts; Government ownership; Interpersonal relations; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Land brokers; Land purchase; Land registration; Land sale; Landowners; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Public lands; Settler colonialism; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Social relations; Traitors

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Dīb, Abū Yūsuf (Martyr); al-‘Alī, Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-‘Abdullāh, Shiḥādah (Resistance fighter); Wansah, Ḥusayn ‘Alī (Resistance fighter); Rmayh, Abū al-Naṣr (Resistance fighter); Mubārak, Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); al-Ḥāj Ḥasan, Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Ambushes; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Armed patrols; Armies intervention; Ashkenazi Jews; Betrayal; Clans; Convoys; Crimes against humanity; Cultivation; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Dispersion; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Fathers; Feasts; Forced migration; Fārūq of Egypt, 1920-1965; Iraqi Army; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; Lebanese Army; Machination; Maqām; Military orders; Military withdrawal; Mizrahi Jews; Najmat al-Ṣubuḥ, Battle, 1948; Palestinian unity; Personal belongings; Praying; Refugee experience; Shootings; Smuggling; Spring; Syrian Army; Treason; Truces; Village leaders; Water wells; Weapons

Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī al-Ḥujayr (Valley).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Arrest; Attack; Betrayal; Crimes against humanity; Damaged weapons; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Death; Diseases; Expulsion from Palestine; Home bombing; Homeland; Martyrs; Psychological warfare; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Revenge; Shoemakers; Survival; Trains; Ummah; Weapon trade; Weapons; Weapons confiscation; Zionist propaganda; al-Ḥūlah Massacre, Lebanon, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥusayn, Kāmil (Village leader); al-Dāmūnī, Abū Ḥasan (Court witness); al-Naḥfāwī, Ṣāliḥ (Court witness); al-Sharshabīl, Ibrāhīm (Prisoner).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Arrest; Blood money; Brokers; Coffeehouses; Disputes; Friendship; Injustice; Investigation; Killing; Lebanese Government; Military courts; Municipalities; Prison sentences; Refugee camps; Refugee legal status; Return; Weapons

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

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Agricultural products; Arab countries; Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004; Attempt at return; Brokers; Conspiracy; Crimes against humanity; Education; Farm animals; Hatred; Humiliation; Income; Injustice; Land ownership; Lebanon; Living conditions; Palestinian diaspora; Peasant workers; Police; Political prisoners; Porters; Refugee aid; Refugee camps conditions; Refugee legal status; Refugees; Socio-economic conditions; Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949

Partial Transcript: Families: Francis; Salām.

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Building stones; Burial; Chamoun, Camille, 1900-1987; Christians; Destruction; Expulsion from Palestine; Friendship; Gaza (Palestine); Home bombing; Homeland; Imprisonment; Land brokers; Land deeds; Land sale; Lebanese Government; Living conditions; Martyrs; Medical care; Muslims; Naturalization; Palestinian diaspora; Patience; Priests; Reconstructed urban setting; Refugee camps; Refugee legal status; Return; Scouts; State of Israel; Villages; Work