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00:00:01 - Childhood and agriculture

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Partial Transcript: Families: Ḥamzah; Khaṭīb; Zaytūn; al-Asadīyah; Shaykh Muḥammad; Ḥusayn; Najjār.

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Building practices; Coffee; Communal celebrations; Crops; Dwellings; Education; Feasts; Hospitality; Inheritance; Olive oil mills; Olive trees; Peasants; Police; Population; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Religious diversity; Shaykhs; Shaʻb (Palestine); Socio-economic conditions

00:13:00 - Politics and government during the British rule

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṭayyār, Musṭafá (Policeman); ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, Saʻīd Amīn (Policeman).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jisr al-Dāmūn (Bridge).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Building practices; Children in armed conflicts; Displacement; Dogs; Dynamite; Employment; Food; Forced migration; Home bombing; Imprisonment; Martyrs; Mayors; Mines; Patriotism; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Priests; Revolutionaries; Social welfare; Tracing; Water resources

00:24:59 - Political turmoil and popular resistance in Shaʻb

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū ʻAlī, Dhāhir (Martyr).

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Ḥisbat Haifa (Market).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arabs; Bombings; British-Jewish relations; Colonialism; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Demographics; Expulsion; Guards; Haganah; Honor; Irgun; Martyrs; Military training; Mines; Police; Psychological warfare; Shootings; Terrorism; Weapon acquisition; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ḥāmiyat Shaʻb

00:31:46 - Battles and armed resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Salāmah, Ḥasan (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Bombardment; British-Jewish relations; Defense; Expulsion; Haifa (Palestine); Jewish settlements; Land brokers; Land sale; Martyrdom; Means of transportation; Media; News; Settler colonialism; Shafā ʻAmrū Battle, 1947; Wahhāb, Shakīb, 1890-1980; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation

00:38:44 - War time and military occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Salīm, Kāyid Muḥammad (Martyr); Ḥamzah, Muṣṭafá al-Ḥāj ‘Abd (Martyr); al-Ḥarāmī, Ḥasan (Wounded); Ṭarīf, Salmān (Shaykh).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Arab Salvation Army; Betrayal; Expulsion; Guards; Harvesting; Interreligious relations; Iraqi Army; Land appropriation; Landowners; Military orders; Relief; Resistance movements; Village liberation; Village siege; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Birwah Battle, 1948; al-Saʻīd, Nūrī, 1888-1958; ʻAbd al-Ilāh, Prince, 1913-1958

00:47:51 - Exile from Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Shaykh Aḥmad, Aḥmad (Shaykh); Flayyih, Rashīd (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Battles; Burial; Caves; Death; Dispersion; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Fathers; Grenades; Guards; Humiliation; Martyrs; Mass murder; Military orders; Military withdrawal; Refugee aid; Revenge; Rifles; Stepmothers; Suffering; Truces; United Nations; Water wells; Weather; al-Tall, Waṣfī, 1919-1971; Ḥāmiyat Shaʻb

01:04:50 - Citizenship and identity

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Keywords: Arab unity; Collaborationists; Confiscation; Despair; Dispersion; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Generations; Home bombing; Hope; House keys; Humiliation; Israeli colonization; Jerusalem (Palestine); Land deeds; Naturalization refusal; Palestinian diaspora; Palestinian national identity; Peace; Personal belongings; Quarries and quarrying; Refugee aid; Refugee camps conditions; Refugee legal status; Refugees; Return; Shame; Socio-economic conditions; State of Israel; Theft; United States; Work

01:20:25 - Refugees hope for the future

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Keywords: Border cities and towns; Disputes; Faith; Jerusalem (Palestine); Living conditions; Poets; Radio stations; Sacrifice; Strikes; Weapon acquisition; Wedding celebration; Wedding traditions