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00:00:00 - Sociopolitical dynamics in the village

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Partial Transcript: Families: Biqāʻī; al-Zayādinah; al-Lawābinah; al-ʻAthāminah; al-ʻAyāyshah; Abū ʻAlī.

Significant Figures: Lūbānī, Dāhish Aḥmad (Martyr).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Mughr Abū ‘Aṣīdih (Cave); Sahl Akka (Plain); Sahl al-Dāmūn (Plain); Wādī Shannā (Valley).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arabic literature; Arabic patriotic poetry; Arabic proverbs; Armed patrols; Book reviews; British army camps; Building practices; Child killings; Childhood memories; Children's games; Demographics; Displacement; Dogs; Dwellings; Farm animals; Folk tradition; Heritage; Homeland; Jafrā; Landowners; Mines; Neighboring villages; Palestinian ballads; Palestinian diaspora; Patriotism; Population; al-Dāmūn (Palestine)

00:18:10 - Rural life in Palestine before Nakba

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Ḥadīqat al-Bahjah (Garden).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Childhood memories; Children's games; Clothing and dresses; Desserts; Dietary practices; Folk poetry; Football; Grandmothers; Interreligious relations; Pre-Nakba life; Social norms; Swings of ʻĪd; Threshing; Traps; Work songs; ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī; Ḥinnah

00:44:34 - Political turmoil and popular resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Biqāʻī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz (Martyr); Dyāb, Mūsá (Martyr); Sha‘bān, Tawfīq (Martyr); Ṣāliḥ, al-ʻAbd (Martyr).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jibāl al-Layyāt (Mountain).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; British colonialism; Children in armed conflicts; Cowardice; Education; Enemies; Guards; Hatred; Jewish settlements; Land appropriation; Land sale; Trenches; Uncles; Village liberation; Wahhāb, Shakīb, 1890-1980; Weapon acquisition; Women in armed conflicts; al-Birwah (Palestine)

00:54:07 - Battles and armed resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Bīṭār, Khalīl (Teacher); ʻŪbayd, Shafīq (School principal).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī Shannā (Valley).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Betrayal; Bombardment; Destruction; Displacement; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Harvesting; Martyrs; Military strategy; Personal belongings; Resistance movements; Seeking shelter; Village occupation; Wahhāb, Shakīb, 1890-1980; Zionist occupation; al-Birwah (Palestine); al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

01:01:24 - Zionist occupation and exile

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī Shammā (Valley); Wādī Sallāmah (Valley).

Families: Mīkhā'īl; Abū Ḥamdī.

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Jamʻiyyat Makārim al-Akhlāq (Association).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-ʻAfīfī Bus Company (Corporation).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Bombardment; Buses; Checkpoints; Collaborationists; Displacement; Dogs; Druzes; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Food; Forced migration; Homeland; Lebanon; Mass murder; Massacres; Military aircraft; Military superiority; Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Neighbors; News; Psychological warfare; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Resistance movements; Return; Routes; Seeking shelter; Suffering; Terrorism; Trains; Village occupation; Water resources; Water resources; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

01:22:48 - Refugee life in Lebanon

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Biqāʻī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz (Martyr).

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Keywords: Bombardment; Child labour; Defense; Destruction; Economic hardship; Education; Expulsion from Palestine; Floods; House keys; Identity cards; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Land deeds; Memoires; Naturalization; Palestinian diaspora; Personal belongings; Photographs; Refugee camps; Relief; Resistance movements; Socio-economic conditions; Strikes; Suffering; Teachers; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Wedding veils