Interview with Mūsá ‘Awaḍ Mūsá مقابلة مع موسى عوض موسى

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood and the community of Nimrīn

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Za‘rūrah, Muḥammad (Martyr).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Akka Battle, 1948; Building materials; Children's games; Cultivation; Dairy products; Demolition; Dwellings; Economic prosperity; Education; Football; Furniture; Harvesting; Horses; Landowners; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Peasant workers; Police; Qurʼānic teaching; Schools; Siblings

00:08:25 - British Police Forces and security conditions

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Jāsir (Police academy).

Significant Figures: Salāmih, Ḥasan (Revolutionary leader); al-Maw‘id, ʻIzz al-Dīn (Policeman); ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn, Muḥammad (Policeman).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; British colonialism; British police forces; Cities and towns; Employment; Gold; Knights; Measurement units; Military orders; Military training; Murder; Police; Police investigations; Shepherds; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

00:18:03 - Community relations and political turmoil

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Partial Transcript: Families: Shak‘ah; Nābulsī; Ṭūqān.

Significant Figures: Kaʻwash, Abū Fayṣal (Policeman).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1916-1918; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British colonialism; British officers; Children's games; Disputes; Executions; Farmers; Horses; Ḥusayn, Ṭāhā, 1889-1973; Land; Mayors; Military officials; Palestine Railways; Punishment; Reading; Revolutionaries; Rifles; Theft

00:24:14 - Social customs and political conditions

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Partial Transcript: Families: Bakr; Khalīfah; Ṭurmān.

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

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Keywords: Agricultural econonmics; Algerian Government; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Carpenters; Children's games; Cities and towns; Confiscation; Construction; Cultivation; Dwellings; Land deeds; Land ownership; Landowners; Living conditions; Marriage; Money; Nazareth (Palestine); Police; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Resistance movements; Saʻādah, Anṭūn, 1904–1949; Sūq; Tools; Trade; Victory; Zionist colonization; al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:36:13 - Community celebrations and customs

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥusayn, Muḥammad (Landowner); Mūsá, Ḥalīmah (Doctor).

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Keywords: Arranged marriage; Child mortality; Communal celebrations; Dabkah; Daughters; Dhabīḥah; Dietary practices; Diseases; Dowry; French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon, 1923-1943; Herbal remedies; Horses; Hospitality; Hospitals; Intervillage relations; Invitations; Marriage proposals; Medical doctors; Neighbors; Social norms; Syria; Traditional medical procedures; Vehicles; Wedding celebration; Wood; ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)

00:49:07 - Political opposition and military resistance

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Keywords: Ambushes; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Archival documents; Armed patrols; Armored vehicles; Assassination; British colonialism; Commemoration; Conduct of life; Displacement; Druzes; Humiliation; Jewish settlements; Lūbiyā Battle, 1947; Negotiations; Nimrīn (Palestine); Opposition; Partition plan, 1947; Political activity; Revolutionaries; Rumors; Social classes; Syria; Telephone; Tiberias (Palestine); Ṭāhā, Sāmī, 1916–1947; Weapon acquisition; Zionist colonization; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

01:01:33 - Violence, battles and armed resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shanārū, Khalīl (Revolutionary leader); Abū Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaghīr (Revolutionary leader); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Junayd, Yūsuf (Martyr); al-Khalīl, Maḥmūd (Wounded); al-Qāsim, Saʻīd (Wounded); al-Maw‘id, ‘Āṭif (Wounded); Shihādah, Fāyiz (Martyr); Saʻīd, Abū Khālid (Revolutionary).

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Keywords: Airplanes; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Bombardment; British Army; Clothing and dresses; Crimes against individuals; Horses; Hospitality; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; Jewish settlements; Knights; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Military withdrawal; Olive oil mills; Resistance movements; Revolutionary leadership; Syria; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Truces; Village siege; Weapon acquisition; Weapons; al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Shajarah Battle, 1948; ‘Arābit al-Baṭūf Battle, 1936

01:17:15 - War events

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Qāsim, Aḥmad (Mayor); ‘Alayyān, Aḥmad (Martyr); ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, Abū al-‘Abd (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arabic patriotic poetry; Armored vehicles; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British; Cheating; Dwellings; Folk poetry; Germany; Gold; Governors; Injuries; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Medical care; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Relief; Self-sufficiency; Tanks; Trade; Trucks; Wedding celebration; Zionist colonization; ‘Abd el-Ḥamīd II, Sulṭān of the Turks, 1842-1918

01:28:54 - War time and military occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khūrī, Fāris (Prime minister).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Balfour Declaration, 1917; City occupation; Counter-offensives; Defense; Executions; Fīlasṭīn Newspaper; Harvesting time; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; Jewish settlements; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Martyrs; Military training; Military withdrawal; Mines; Nazareth (Palestine); Palestine Broadcasting Service; Police; Resistance movements; Rifles; Threshing; Truces; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist colonization; al-Difāʻ (Newspaper); al-Jāmiʻah al-ʻArabīyah; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; Ṣaffurīyah Battle, 1948

01:40:25 - Occupation, displacement and exile

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Ḥusaynī; al-Nashāshībī.

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882–1951; Animals; Arab Salvation Army; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Army; British-Jewish relations; Brutal treatment; Churches; Competitiveness; Confiscation; Conspiracy; Despair; Dispersion; Egypt; Expulsion from Palestine; Fathers; Glubb, John Bagot, Sir, 1897-1986; Heaven; Homeland; Hope; Horseback riding; House burning; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Nationalism; News; Opposition; Partition plan, 1947; Personal belongings; Propaganda; Refugee experience; Return; Revolutions; Routes; Safad Battle, 1948; Tiberias (Palestine); Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Underground movements; Water wells; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)