Interview with Fāṭimah Muḥammad al-ʻAynayn مقابلة مع فاطمة محمد العينين

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Everyday life in Dannūn

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Akkāwī, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Baytam, Aḥmad (Mayor); al-‘Uthmān, Muḥammad (Martyr); Yasīn, Maḥmūd (Mayor); Ḥāmid, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Bahā’ al-Dīn (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Druzes; Dwellings; Education; Fathers; Intervillage relations; Neighboring villages; Peasants; Relief; Rural life; Schools; Shaykhs; Siblings; Wedding Customs; al-Shaykh Dāwūd (Palestine)

00:07:48 - Community customs, ceremonies and economic conditions

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Nabī Ṣāliḥ (Maqām); Abū ‘Atabah (Maqām); al-Khiḍir (Maqām).

Significant Figures: al-Ḥusaynī, Shiḥādah (Landowner).

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Keywords: Brides; Building practices; Clothing and dresses; Dalʻūnā; Farming practices; Folk songs; Grooms; Horses; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Income; Inheritance; Jafrā; Land ownership; Revolutionary songs; Sewing machines; Tailoring; Threshing; Wedding songs; Zaffah; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:22:17 - Employment and socialization in Dannūn

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Agricultural economics; Arranged marriage; Bethlehem (Palestine); Communal celebrations; Customs and traditions; Dairy products; Dietary practices; Engagement; Farm animals; Honey; Interreligious relations; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Living conditions; Marriage; Marriage proposals; Means of transportation; Olive Oil; Peasants; Religious belief; Rifāʻīyah (Islamic sect); Sewing machines; Sūq; Tailoring

00:33:44 - The society and town of Dannūn

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmi‘ al-Jazzār (Mosque); Jāmi‘ al-Jraynī (Mosque); al-Shaykh Dannūn (Maqām); al-Shaykh Nūr (Maqām); al-Shaykh Muḥammad (Maqām); al-Shaykh Yaḥyá (Maqām); al-Shaykh Ṣāliḥ (Maqām).

Significant Figures: al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṭūbī, Elias (Jeweler); al-Būrī, Sam‘ān (Jeweler); al-Kayyāl, Khalīl (Dairyman).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); Arab tribes; Caves; Communal celebrations; Dairy products; Folk songs; Graveyards; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Letters; Mayors; Means of transportation; Measurement units; Medical doctors; Nahariya (Palestine); Neighboring villages; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pilgrims; Qurʼān; Relief; Religious ceremonies; Religious tradition; Remapping national territories; Return; Rifāʻīyah (Islamic sect); Shaykhs; Syria; Sūq; Trade; Traditional medical procedures; Typhoid fever; Urban planning; Wedding Customs; Ḥanūṭah (Palestine)

00:52:07 - Land occupation and political turmoil

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Partial Transcript: Families: Rustum; al-Afandī.

Significant Figures: ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Shuqayrī, As‘ad (leader); al-Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); al-As‘ad, ʻŪthmān (Martyr); al-Tamrāwī, Muḥammad (Martyr); Badr, Ṣāliḥ (Martyr).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al- Khiḍir (Maqām).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Arab Salvation Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Burial; Children; Cities and towns; Collaborationists; Confiscation; Courts; Currencies; Death; Dispersion; Displacement; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Forced evacuation; Germans; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Land ownership; Land sale; Martyrs; Mayors; Medical doctors; Mines; Nahariya (Palestine); Neighboring villages; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Refugee experience; Social relations; Truces; Village leaders; Warfare; al-Rayyis Battle, 1948; al-Ṣuwayṭāt (Arab tribe)

01:10:55 - Immigration, displacement and refugees

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: ‘Ayn al-‘Asal (Water resource); Bi'r ‘Abdullāh (Water well).

Significant Figures: Ḥawwā, Ḥabīb (Landowner).

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Keywords: Agricultural prosperity; Arab Salvation Army; British-Jewish relations; Currencies; Despair; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Government officials; Homeland; Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982; Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Mayors; Naturalization; Olive trees; Personal belongings; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Refugee experience; Return; Sewing machines; Vehicles; Weapon acquisition; al-Rayyis Battle, 1948