Interview with Ḥammūdah ‘Alī ʻAlwānī مقابلة مع حمودة علي علواني

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Education and economic conditions in al-Zīb

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, Fatḥallāh (Shaykh); Qāsim, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Khālid (Martyr); ʻAwaḍ, Mahmūd ʻAbd (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, Fatḥallah (Shaykh); al-Aḥmad, Muṣṭafá (Coffeehouse owner); al-Khaṭīb, Ḥasan (Coffeehouse owner).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Agricultural products; Ambushes; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Boats; British Government; Childhood; Coffeehouses; Court officials and employees; Currencies; Drivers; Education; Entertainment; Exports; Fishermen; Friendship; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Landowners; Living conditions; Mass murder; Money; Orchards; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Peasant workers; Qurʼānic teaching; Schools; Sephardim Jews; Siblings; Students; Trade; Trucks; Zionist Immigration

00:18:20 - Political conditions and social practices in pre-Nakba al-Zīb

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAlwānī, Yūsuf (Martyr); ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-ʻAlī, Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (Survivor); ʻAṭāyā, Maḥmūd ʻĪsá (Mayor); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmud (Revolutionary leader); ʻAwaḍ, Sulaymān Mūsá (Revolutionary leader); ʻAwaḍ, Aḥmad Darwīsh (Revolutionary leader); Qiblāwī, Abū Rashīd (Revolutionary leader); al-Haybah, Yūsuf (Revolutionary).

Families: ‘Aṭāyā; Yūsuf;al-Shaykh Ṭāhā.

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

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Armed patrols; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Brothers; Building practices; Buses; Caves; Children; Cities and towns; Coffeehouses; Confiscation; Death; Fishermen; Haifa (Palestine); Hospitality; House burning; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Landowners; Lebanese; Marriage; Medical care; Mines; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Patrol; Pumps; Radio stations; Teachers; Technicians; Traditional medical procedures; Village occupation; Village siege; Water resources; Weapon acquisition; al-Baṣṣah (Palestine); al-Zīb (Palestine); al-Zīb Massacre, 1947

00:42:06 - Communal celebrations and political events in al-Zīb

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Monuments: Qalʻat Jiddīn (Fortress).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Brides; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Coffeehouses; Dabkah; Damaged weapons; Dhabīḥah; Dietary practices; Dowry; Dream interpretation; Expulsion from Palestine; Grooms; Landowners; Marriage; Massacres; Means of transportation; Military superiority; Money; Mothers; Newspapers; Pilgrims; Poets; Radio stations; Social relations; Weapon acquisition; Wedding celebration; Wedding songs; Zaffah; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; ʻĪd celebrations

00:58:09 - Escalated violence and Arab Salvation Army

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Partial Transcript: F; ‘Aṭāyā.

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Atheists; Conspiracy; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Defense; Expulsion from Palestine; Generations; Homeland; House keys; Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982; Jordanian Army; Landowners; Lebanon; Military superiority; Nostalgia; Official documents; Palestinian resistance; Passports; Personal belongings; Pre-Nakba life; Refugee camp conditions; Right of return; Suffering; Swimming; Terrorism; Village leaders; Village occupation; Water resources; Weapons; al-Zīb (Palestine)