Interview with Saʻīd Ismāʻīl al-Uṭruq مقابلة مع سعيد اسماعيل الأطرق

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Amīn, Muḥammad (Teacher); Ziyādah, Nicolas (Teacher); al-Ṣīdāwī, Anīs (Principal).

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: al-Burj (Cinema); al-Ahlī (Cinema).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); Beirut (Lebanon); Boats; Brokers; Camels; Childhood memories; Cinemas; Education; Egypt; Exports; Fathers; Fishermen; Fishing; Means of transportation; Neighboring villages; Schools; Trade; Wedding celebration

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Bilbāsī, Sārī ʻĪsá (Wedding planner).

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Keywords: Circumcision; Dance; Desserts; Disputes; Food; Grooms; Hospitality; Interpersonal relations; Intervillage relations; Poetry; Police; Religious ceremonies; Singing; Social relations; Trains; Wedding celebration; Wedding traditions; Zaffah; Zajal; ‘Īd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural income; Agricultural products; Boats; Exports; Farmers; Fathers; Imports; Intervillage relations; Measurement units; Neighboring villages; Trade

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Qaṭrān, Na‘īm (Doctor); Bayḍūn, Nājī (Doctor); Anstas, Ḥannā (Doctor); Ḥijāzī, ‘Abdullāh (Barber).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Sarāyā Abdullāh Pasha (Hospital).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Būstān al-Bahjah (Orchard).

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Keywords: Abdullāh, Pasha, 1801-?; Agricultural prosperity; Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār, approximately 1730-1804; Cities and towns; Herbal remedies; Historic buildings; Hospitals; Ibrāhīm, Pasha, 1789-1848; Illness; Medications; Nuns; Pilgrimage; Prisoners; Social relations; Traditional medical procedures; Trenches

Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Jāmiʻ al-Jazzār (Mosque).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Aḥmadīyah (School).

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

Families: Qiblāwī; Ṣāliḥ Aghā; al-Akkī.

Significant Figures: Khalīfah, Ḥusnī (Mayor); al-Barād‘ī, Abū Shukur (Mayor); ‘Abdū, Aḥmad (Municipal council); al-Idilbī, Aḥmad (Municipal council ); Makāwī, Ḥasan (Policeman); al-Dūkhī, Ṣaliḥ (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Assassination; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British White Paper, 1939; British-Jewish relations; Convoys; Courts; Electricity; Executions; Forced labor; Funerals; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Immigration; Infrastructure; Islamic education; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Land sale; Landowners; Municipalities; Olive Oil; Olive trees; Pamphlets; Population; Protests against occupation; Revolutionaries; Road blocks; Shaykhs; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Skirmishes; Slogans; Strikes; Traders; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Water supplies; World War, 1939-1945; al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā Aḥmad, 1895-1930; Ḥaṭṭah

Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: ‘Umar Ibn al-Khaṭṭāb Scouts (Club).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).

Families: al-Nashāshībī; al-Amīn.

Significant Figures: al-Dūkhī, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); Abū Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaghīr (Revolutionary leader); Salāmah, Ḥasan (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: Arab nationalism; Arabic language; Bedouins; Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992; Bourguiba, Habib, 1903-2000; British-Jewish relations; Child Custody; Children; Convents; Divorce; Dwellings; Executions; Irgun; Jaffa oranges; Jewish immigrants; Jewish national home; Jewish settlements; King David Hotel bombing, 1946; Newspapers; Nādī Usāmah; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pamphlets; Priests; Ramaḍān; Resistance movements; Saudi Arabia; Settler colonialism; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Socio-economic conditions; Stern; Underground movements; Weapon acquisition; Zionist propaganda; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Attacks; Boats; Bombardment; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; British officers; British-Jewish relations; Expulsion from Palestine; Fishermen; Lebanese Government; Mortars; Nahariya (Palestine); Personal belongings; Ports; Refugees; Resistance movements; Revolutionaries; Suffering; Vehicles; Weapons

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shukrī, Aḥmad (Resistance fighter); al-Dūkhī, Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter).

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

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Keywords: Accommodation; Akka (Palestine); Beirut (Lebanon); Brothers; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Despair; Dreams; Expulsion from Palestine; Family structure; Generations; Homeland; Hope; Lebanon; Murder; Nostalgia; Official documents; Palestinian diaspora; Personal belongings; Photographs; Police; Psychological warfare; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Refused naturalization; Right of return; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation