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00:00:00 - History of the city

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

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Aḥmadī (School).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Nahr al-Na‘āmayn (River).

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Keywords: Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār, approximately 1730-1804; Akka (Palestine); British Occupation of Palestine, 1918-1922; Carpenters; Charity; Churches; Communal celebrations; Construction; Convents; Folk tradition; Graveyards; Haifa (Palestine); Historic buildings; Housing; Interreligious relations; Military strategy; Mischief; Plants; Ports; Public welfare; Schooling; Social norms; Social welfare; Swimming; Traditional medical procedures; Trenches; Uncles; Urban planning; Water resources; Water supplies

00:18:17 - Political turmoil, revolutionaries and military activity in Akka

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shukrī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter).

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

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Ḥammām al-Bāshā (Public bath).

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Keywords: Akka (Prison: Palestine); Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Armed resistance; Armies intervention; Beirut (Lebanon); Bombardment; British policy; Children in armed conflicts; Courage; Damaged weapons; Egyptian Army; Escape; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Hiding; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Iraqi Army; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Killing; Maliciousness; Military orders; Military superiority; Military withdrawal; Promises; Public baths; Resistance movements; Rifles; Skirmishes; Weapon acquisition; Zionist occupation; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā Aḥmad, 1895-1930

00:29:45 - Refugees: The experience of forced migration

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Sharikat al-‘Alamayn (Corporation).

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Keywords: Akka Battle, 1948; Ammunition; Bombardment; Childhood memories; Conspiracy; Diseases; Dispersion; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Family structure; Humiliation; Hygiene; Mischief; Permits; Refugee aid; Refugee camps conditions; Refugee experience; Refugee legal status; Resistance movements; Rifles; Routes; Social welfare; Socio-economic conditions; Swimming; Syria; Trains; Trucks; Weather

00:49:56 - Refugees and displacement

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Blindness; Currency convertibility; Diseases; Fleas; Hiding; Hope; Hospitality; Hygiene; Lebanese Army; Military withdrawal; Money; News; Official documents; Personal belongings; Refugee camps; Refugee legal status; Return; Syria; Work; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

01:00:52 - Revisiting Palestine

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Keywords: Burj al-Barājinah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Collaborationists; Death; Deportation; Despair; Diseases; Dispersion; House rent; Imprisonment; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Medical care; Military courts; Mothers; Palestinian diaspora; Pamphlets; Public welfare; Rain; Refugee aid; Refugee camps conditions; Return; Smuggling; Threats; Underground movements; Water resources; Weather; Women socio-economic role

01:14:52 - Refugees hopes

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (Muftī).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Armies intervention; Assassination; Bridal customs; Circumcision; Collaborationists; Communal celebrations; Deception; Despair; Desserts; Expulsion from Palestine; Faith; Grooms; Hope; Humiliation; Identity cards; Imprisonment; Interreligious relations; Land sale; Leaders; Machination; Medical care; Military occupation; Palestinian diaspora; Pamphlets; Prayers; Pre-Nakba life; Public baths; Qabaḍāy; Ramaḍān; Refugee experience; Religious belief; Revolutionaries; Rulers; Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193; Shaykhs; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Strikes; Traitors; Zaffah; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; Ḥattah; Ṭarbūsh