Interview with ʻAlī Zakī Shaʻbī and his wife مقابلة مع علي زكي شعبي وزوجته

Partial Transcript: Families: Ḥammīd; Khaṭṭāb; Idrīs; Ghrayyib; al-Ḥāj Ismā‘īl; Ḥajjār.

Significant Figures: Khaṭṭāb, Abū Ḥusayn (Mayor); al-Shaʻbī, Ḥasan ‘Abd (Village leader); al-Shaʻbī, Nimir (Village leader).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; British Army; Children; Diwān; Family structure; Farm animals; Laborers; Marriage; Military patrol; Neighboring villages; Pre-Nakba life; Siblings; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Idrīs, Muḥammad Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter); al-Shaʻbī, Fawzī (Resistance fighter); al-Shaʻbī, Maḥmūd Ḥasan (Resistance fighter); Khaṭṭāb, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Hādī (Resistance fighter); Ḥammīd, Aḥmad Khalīl (Resistance fighter); Qaddūrah, Zakī (Mayor); al-Khaḍrā, Muṣṭafá (Landowner); Khaṭṭāb, Maḥmūd (Landowner); al-Shaʻbī, Rashīd Khalīl (Resistance fighter); al-Shaʻbī, Khalīl al-‘Abd (Resistance fighter); Khaṭṭāb, Fūʼād (Resistance fighter); al-Khaḍrā, Abū Hāshim (Landowner); al-Shaʻbī, Dīb Zakī (Resistance fighter); Khaṭṭāb, Ḥāmid ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Resistance fighter).

Families: Qddūrah; al-Khaḍrā; Abū Dyāb; Murād; Suwayd; Shaqrā; Shuqayr.

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Kan‘ān (Mountain).

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Keywords: Ambushes; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab countries; Armored vehicles; Attack; Barbed wire; British high commissioner; British-Jewish relations; Buses; Checkpoints; Children in armed conflicts; General amnesty; Grenades; Guards; Independence; Israeli checkpoints; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Land appropriation; Land policy; Martyrs; Mayors; Partition plan, 1947; Protests against occupation; Public lands; Pumps; Safad Battle, 1948; Settler colonialism; Shepherds; Shootings; Skirmishes; Strikes; Tanks; Topography; United States Army; Weapon acquisition; World War, 1939-1945; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Battle, 1938

Partial Transcript: Families: Salām; Sursuq; Zinātī.

Significant Figures: al-Shaʻbī, Ḥāmid Ḥasan (Martyr); al-Shaʻbī, Muḥammad Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Shaʻbī, Aḥmad Qāsim (Martyr); Khaṭṭlāb, Muḥammad As‘ad (Martyr); Idrīs, Jamīl (Martyr); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab salvation Army commander).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal Kan‘ān (Mountain).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Armed resistance; Balad al-Shaykh Massacre, 1947-1948; Bombardment; British-Jewish relations; Defense; Executions; Home bombing; Land sale; Martyrs; Military superiority; Seeking shelter; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Battle, 1938; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Massacre, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); al-Khaḍrā, Abū Hāshim (Village leader); al-Qallā, Dīb (Arab Salvation Army soldier); Khūrī, Fuʼād (Resistance leader).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī al-laymūn (Valley).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Armies intervention; Battles; British army camps; British officers; British-Jewish relations; Brutal treatment; Displacement; Economic aid; Evacuation; Expulsion from Palestine; Home bombing; Israeli Army (IDF); Khaḍrā, Ṣubḥī, 1895-1954; Mayors; Military withdrawal; Partition plan, 1947; Rape; Resistance movements; Rumors; Safad Battle, 1948; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Ẓāhirīyah (Palestine); ʻAtlit (Prison: Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander); Almās, Ihsān (Resistance fighter); Idrīs, Muḥammad Ḥusayn (Resistance fighter).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī al-Laymūn (Valley).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Animals; Arab Salvation Army; Armies intervention; City evacuation; Death; Defense; Dispersion; Displacement; Elderly people; Executions; Expulsion from Palestine; Food; Gold; Haganah; Home bombing; Hunger; Injuries; Money; Moroccans; Permits; Rain; Refugee experience; Safad (Palestine); Suffering; Theft; Traitors; Trenches; Weapons; Youth; Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Mutawwat, Zaynab (Martyr); al-Mutawwat, Jamīl (Martyr); al-Shāwīsh, Amīnah (Martyr); al-Shaʻbī, ‘Abdullāh (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Arab riots, Palestine, 1920; Atrocities of war; Beirut (Lebanon); Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); Bombings; Brutal treatment; Childbirth; Children; Christians; Dispersion; Displacement; Employment; Floods; Gaza (Palestine); Hope; House painting; Humiliation; Lebanese Government; Marriage; Naturalization refusal; Palestinian diaspora; Refugee aid; Refugee camps; Refugee legal status; Refugees; Return; Revenge; Revolutions; Smuggling; Suffering; Syria; Tripoli (Lebanon); Village siege; Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949; al-Baddāwī (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); ‘Abd al-Bāqī, Aḥmad Hilmi, 1882-1963