Interview with ‘Alī al-Dūkhī مقابلة مع علي الدوخي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood, education and family life in al-Baṣṣah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaḍrā, Fawzī (School principal).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Maṭār al-Baṣṣah (Airport).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Anti-Palestinian measures; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Camels; Crops; Cultivation; Education; Educational grants; Exports; Farmers; Landowners; Measurement units; Olive Oil; Private schools; Public schools; Shaykhs; Teachers; Threshing; Trade; Women education

00:09:12 - Community life of al-Baṣṣah

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Partial Transcript: Families: Ashqar; Jamal; Dūkhī; Ṣalḥānī; Muḥsin; Kanʻān; Salām; al-Khūrī; ‘Azzām.

Significant Figures: al-Aḥmad, Khiḍir (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Muḥammad (Mayor); al-Shaykh, Darwīsh (Mayor); al-Ḥarūq, Jabbūr (Mayor); ‘Azzām, Wadī‘ (Mayor); al-Jubrān, Ṭawfīq (Municipal council); Abū ʻAlī, Yūsuf (Leader); Shāwīsh, Aḥmad (Leader); al-Khūrī, Salīm (Mayor).

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Keywords: Arab tribes; Christians; Coexistence; Disputes; Elections; Electoral process; Farm animals; Governors; Identity cards; Interreligious relations; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Landowners; Lebanon; Municipalities; Muslims; Neighboring villages; Political activity; Village leaders

00:23:56 - Social gatherings and community relations

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Farfaḥīnī, Dīb (Poet); al-Zayn, Abū ‘Alī (Poet); Shuqayrī, Anwar (Doctor); Qatrān, Na‘īm (Doctor); Rashīd, Michel (Doctor); al-Nashshār, Sa‘dá (Doctor).

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Keywords: Communal celebrations; Dabkah; Graveyards; Grief; Harvesting; Herbal remedies; Hospitality; Interreligious relations; Invitations; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Medical care; Medical doctors; Orchards; Poets; Traditional medical procedures; Wedding celebration

00:36:02 - Political turmoil, revolutionaries and resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥūrānī, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Jamal, Tawfīq, (Martyr); al-Jamal, Aḥmad (Martyr); Farḥāt, Nimir (Martyr); al-Haybah, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Majdalāwī, Rashīd (Revolutionary); al-Zayn, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Ḥamdān, Wāṣif (Revolutionary); Kanʻān, Muḥammad Tawfīq (Revolutionary); Ṣāliḥ, Wardih (Revolutionary); al-‘Ānūtī, Salīm (Revolutionary); Jalīlī, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); al-Jamal, Fāyiz (Revolutionary); Farḥāt, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Shāwīsh, Ismāʻīl (Revolutionary); Ḥalwān, Fahd (Revolutionary); al-Ṣālḥānī, ʻAlī (Revolutionary); al-Ṣālḥānī, Ṭālib (Revolutionary); al-Ṣālḥānī, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); Faḍḍah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary leader); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionry leader).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Ambushes; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Bribery; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Governors; Interreligious relations; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Mayors; Military superiority; Mines; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Police stations; Pumps; Settler colonialism; Smuggling; Tanks; Topography; Torture; Village siege; Water resources; Water supplies; Weapons; al-Zīb (Palestine)

00:58:01 - Military occupation and the expulsion

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī al-Qarn (Valley).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Attack; Battles; Bombardment; Border crossing; British Army; British-Jewish relations; Defense; Discrimination practices; Expulsion from Palestine; Grandmothers; Harvesting; Homeland; Hope; House burning; Identity cards; Income; Injuries; Israeli checkpoints; Land deeds; Medical doctors; Military superiority; Money; Naturalization refusal; Personal belongings; Police stations; Refugee experience; Return; Settler colonialism; Tanks; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Naqūrah (Lebanon); al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964