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00:00:00 - Childhood, agriculture and everyday life

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

Families: Shib‘ānī; Sha‘bān; Rajab; ‘Asqūl.

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Assault; Bread; Building practices; Bīrīyā (Palestine); Children's games; Complaints; Cultivation; Disputes; Family structure; Grandfathers; Landowners; Maiden; Medical care; Palestinian ballads; Peasants; Poems; Population; Social norms; Uncles; al-Manārah (Lebanon)

00:17:17 - Political turmoil and resistance

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Keywords: Ammunition; Bombardment; Bread; British; Chores; Cooking; Damaged weapons; Dowry; Dynamite; Evacuation orders; Farm animals; Farmers; Grenades; Harvesting; Jewish settlements; Land ownership; Stoves; Weapons; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

00:26:14 - Military occupation and exile

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Shib‘ānī, Aḥmad (Wounded); al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Wounded); al-Shib‘ānī, ʻAlī (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Yūsuf (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Ṣāfī Yaḥyá (Shepherd).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; Attack; Bombardment; Bombings; British Army; Burial; Children; Civilians; Destruction; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Fathers; Jewish settlements; Mass graves; Military orders; Mines; Resistance movements; Rifles; Shootings; Suffering; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Massacre, 1948

00:38:16 - Refugee life

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

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

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Keywords: Buses; Cheating; Children; Complaints; Dispersion; Displacement; Evacuation orders; Expulsion from Palestine; Food; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Safad (Palestine); Suffering; Trains; Trucks; al-Manārah (Lebanon); al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

00:51:04 - Economic conditions, Employment and exile

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Dilsī; Ṣawwān; Ayyūb; Shaʻbān; Rajab.

Significant Figures: Ṣawwān, Ismāʻīl (Shaykh).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Celebrations; Classrooms; Cost of living; Dwellings; Education; Family reunification; Farm animals; Harvesting time; Income; Landowners; Mosques; Orphans; Peasants; Prayers; Qurʼānic teaching; Safad (Palestine); Schools; Socio-economic conditions; Work

01:00:23 - The Palestinian exodus

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Badawī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥamad, Fuʼād As‘ad (Martyr).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Aunts; Blindness; Disputes; Expulsion from Palestine; Food; Generosity; House keys; Intervillage relations; Invitations; Jewish settlements; Military superiority; Official documents; Pre-Nakba life; Resistance movements; Safad (Palestine); Suffering; Terrorism; Weapons; Wedding celebration; Work songs; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; ʻAyn al-Zaytūn Massacre, 1948