Interview with Aḥmad Shiḥādah Falāḥ مقابلة مع أحمد شحادة فلاح

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Quṭṭ; al-ʻArīq; ʻAlī Sālim; Ḥāj Mūsá; al-Ḥāj ʻAlī.

Significant Figures: al-ʻAdawī, Ḥasan (Landowner); Abū al-Saʻd, Ḥusayn (Landowner); al-Ḥallāq, Aḥmad (Landowner); Zamzam, Asʻad (Landowner); al-Quṭṭ, Khalīl (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arab Salvation Army; Betrayal; Building materials; Children's games; Construction; Dwellings; Expulsion; Housing; Intervillage relations; Islamic education; Military strategy; Neighboring villages; Population; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Pre-Nakba life; Schools; Shaykhs; Umm al-Faraj (Palestine); Village leaders; Village siege; Wealth; Weapons confiscation; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948

Partial Transcript: Families: Sursuq.

Significant Figures: al-ʻAkkī, Ibrāhīm (Landowner); Barakah, Ibrāhīm (Shaykh); al-Maṣrī, Aḥmad (Shaykh).

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Keywords: Bribery; Child abuse; Children; Education; Health services; Jewish National Fund; Jewish settlements; Land purchase; Land sale; Medical aid; Nahariya (Palestine); Palestinian-Jewish relations; Qurʼānic teaching; Reconstructed urban setting; Settler colonialism; Umm al-Faraj (Palestine); Urban planning; Water resources; Work

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Resistance leader); Ḥijāzī, Muṣṭafá (Mayor).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951; Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; British-Jewish relations; Currency convertibility; Damaged weapons; Demolition; Displacement; Economic hardship; Evacuation orders; Military agreements; Murder; News; Psychological warfare; Radio stations; Rifles; Smuggling; Umm al-Faraj (Palestine); Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Weapon smuggling; Weapon trade; Zionist occupation; al-Ghābisīyah (Palestine); al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; al-Sumayrīyah Battle, 1948

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; British-Jewish relations; Brutal treatment; Conspiracy; Coups d'état; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Displacement; Guards; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Manners; News; Propaganda; Psychological warfare; Radio stations; Refugee experience; Resistance; Routes; Saʻādah, Anṭūn, 1904-1949; Seeking refuge; Terrorism; Tyre (Lebanon); Umm al-Faraj (Palestine); Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; al-Sumayrīyah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥamādah, Kāmil (Mayor).

Families: ʻAbd al-ʻᾹl; Aṣlān; Sursuq.

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882–1951; Betrayal; Building materials; Defeat; Discrimination; Expulsion; Health conditions; Hiding; Husayn Ibn Ali, King of Hejaz, 1853?-1931; Hygiene; Income; International Committee of the Red Cross; Land sale; Leaders; Lies; Living conditions; Nahariya (Palestine); Nahr al-Bārid (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Nationalism; Naturalization; Peasants; Personal belongings; Professions; Refugee aid; Respect; Seeking shelter; Social norms; Tyre (Lebanon); Umm al-Faraj (Palestine); United Nations; Wars; al-Mazraʻah (Palestine); al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻAnjar (Lebanon); Ḥadīth