Interview with Maḥmūd Muḥammad Shiblāq مقابلة مع محمود محمد شبلاق

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Customs, ceremonies and community life in Haifa

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Rāhibāt (School).

Significant Figures: Sulaymān, Fahd (Poet); Rīḥān, Anīs (School principal).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Church of St.

John (Church).

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Keywords: Arabic patriotic poetry; Carriages; Childhood; Coeducation; Dalʻūnā; Damaged Weapons; Dwellings; Education; Educational grants; Fathers; Interreligious relations; Landowners; Leaders; Nādī Shabāb al-ʻArab; Palestinian Orthodox Clubs; Partition plan, 1947; Population; Priests; Protests against settlements; Public schools; Religious ceremonies; Siblings; Singing; Strikes; Teachers; Trade; Weapon acquisition; Wedding celebration; ʻAtābah

00:14:25 - Political turmoil, clashes and resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Suwaykī, Ḥasan (Martyr); Ḥusayn, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Dallūl, Abū ʻAlī (Leader); Shiblāq, Abū Nāyif (Leader).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Jāmiʻ al-Istiqlāl (Mosque).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882–1951; Akka (Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Boats; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British White Paper, 1939; British-Jewish relations; Celebrations; Checkpoints; Children in armed conflicts; Cinemas; City occupation; Executions; Explosions; Expulsion from Palestine; Haifa Battle, 1948; Ḥijāzī, Fuʼād Ḥasan, 1904-1930; Jamjūm, Muḥammad Khalīl, 1902-1930; Jamʻiyyat al-ʻUmmāl al-ʻArabīyah al-Filasṭīnīyah; Jewish immigration; Partition plan, 1947; Protests against settlements; Relief; Settler colonialism; Skirmishes; Snipers; Terrorism; Volunteers; Weapons; World War, 1939-1945; al-Burāq Revolt, 1929; al-Difāʻ (Newspaper); al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; al-Zīr, ‘Aṭā Aḥmad, 1895-1930; al-Ḥusaynī, Jamāl, 1893-1982

00:32:00 - Military occupation, political violence and Palestinian resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Zughayb, Muḥammad (Lebanese Army commander).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Arab Salvation Army; Armed resistance; Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); Boats; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Gold; Haganah; Haifa (Palestne); Lebanese army; Living conditions; Money; Refugee experience; Return; Syria; Tarshīḥā (Palestine); Technicians; Vehicles; al-Hay’ah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā; al-Mālikīyah Battle, 1948; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:40:04 - Displacement from Haifa

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Būshanāq, Aḥmad (Teacher).

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).

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Keywords: Airplanes; Armenians; British colonialism; Cinemas; Deception; Entertainment; Expulsion from Palestine; Foreigners; Generations; Haifa (Palestine); International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Lebanon; Letters; Nādī Shabāb al-ʻArab; Palestinian Orthodox Clubs; Photographs; Post offices; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Return; Rifles; Tyre (Lebanon); Zionist propaganda; al-Nādī al- Islāmī

00:51:33 - Remembering Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Rūmī, Ḥalīm (Composer).

Segment Synopsis:

Keywords: Arabic patriotic poetry; Armed resistance; British colonialism; Expulsion from Palestine; Films; Generations; Homeland; Hope; Ibrāhīm, Nūḥ, 1913-1938; Memory; National identity; Naturalization refusal; Nostalgia; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Palestinian diaspora; Photographs; Poets; Refugee camps; Return; Revolutionaries; Weapons; World War, 1914-1918; Zionist occupation