Interview with Aḥmad Salīm al-Khaṭīb مقابلة مع أحمد سليم الخطيب

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Murād, Rashid (Teacher).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Child labour; Coeducation; Conduct of life; Farmers; Harvesting; Landowners; Neighbors; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Rural life; Students

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaṭīb, Faṭṭūm (Midwife); Ayyūb, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm (Mayor); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Muṣṭafá (Poet); al-Shaʻbī, Abū Khalīl (Poet); al-Khaṭīb, Ḥannā al- ʻAlī (Musician); al-Khaṭīb, ʻAlī As‘ad (Musician); al-Khaṭīb, Muḥyī al-Dīn (Village leader); Ayyūb, Tawfīq (Village leader); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Qādir (Singer).

Families: Ayyūb; al-Shāyib; al-Khaṭīb.

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Qādirīyah (Maqām).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Animals; Childbirth; Dabkah; Dowry; Family structure; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Funerals; Maiden; Marriage; Mawlid; Midwives; Musical instruments; Population; Rural life; Singing; Trade; Water resources; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions; Zaffah; ʻĪd celebrations

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Qaddūrah, Jamāl (Doctor); Qaddūrah, Ṣalāḥ (Doctor); al- Hirish, Fayyāḍ (Martyr).

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Keywords: British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Building practices; Children; Conspiracy; Construction workers; Envy; Expulsion from Palestine; Health conditions; Home bombing; Marriage; Mawlid; Medical doctors; Mines; Neighboring villages; Reconstruction; Revolutionaries; Taxes; Torture; Trade; Traditional medical procedures

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shāhīn, Aḥmad (Revolutionary).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Jarmaq (Mountain).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Executions; Governors; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Jaffa Riots, 1921; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Land sale; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Poetry; Political activity; Raʼs al-Aḥmar (Palestine); Revolutionaries; Revolutionary songs; Social norms; Social relations; Traders; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938; al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā Aḥmad, 1895-1930; al-Ḥusaynīyah Massacre, 1948

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Keywords: Armed patrols; British Army; British-Jewish relations; Damascus (Syria); Defense; Guards; Home bombing; Martyrs; Military superiority; Murder; Rifles; Safad Battle, 1948; Scouts; Syrian Army; Weapon acquisition; Zionist occupation; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

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Keywords: Animals; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Displacement; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Homeland; Jewish immigrants; Landowners; Machination; Means of transportation; Military superiority; Naturalization refusal; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Personal belongings; Return; Rifles; Routes; Safad (Palestine); Village occupation; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Rās al-Aḥmar (Palestine); al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948; Ṣalḥah Massacre, 1948