Interview with Fāṭimah Farīd al-‘Alī مقابلة مع فاطمة فريد العلي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood, agriculture and everyday life

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Ḥisbat Haifa (Market).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); British army camps; Building materials; Children's games; Chores; Cities and towns; Dispersion; Displacement; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Farmers; Fathers; Guards; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Lebanon; Marriage; Permits; Revolutionaries; Rural life; Social norms; Tailoring; Trade; Vehicles; Women education; al-Ghawārinah (Arab tribe); al-Kurdānah (Palestine)

00:11:55 - Wedding customs and family relations

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Shāyib; Abū Nimir; Hannīyah.

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Keywords: Arranged marriage; Barbers; Brides; British army camps; Building stones; Communal celebrations; Cousins; Dabkah; Dwellings; Employment; Groom Shower; Interreligious marriage; Jewish settlements; Mayors; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Palestinian Jews; Qurʼānic teaching; Shaykhs; Social norms; Wedding celebration; Wedding songs; al-Kurdānah (Palestine); Ḥinnah

00:26:16 - Everyday life and political activity in al-Kurdānah

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Ajīnih, Jamīl (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882–1951; Aerial bombing; Agricultural products; Atrocities of war; British-Jewish relations; Children in armed conflicts; Cities and towns; Coffee; Dispersion; Displacement; Druzes; Entertainment; Expulsion from Palestine; Forced evacuation; Harvesting time; Intervillage relations; Jewish immigrants; Lebanon; Marriage; Military withdrawal; Neighboring villages; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Political activity; Rural life; Suffering; Syria; Theft; Trains; Treason; Truces; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Ḥawwāsah Massacre, 1948

00:41:29 - War time and military occupation

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Ajīnī, Jamīl (Revolutionary); Salmān, ‘Abdullāh (Village leader).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Akka (Palestine); Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Bombardment; British-Jewish relations; Cities and towns; City evacuation; Cost of living; Damaged weapons; Defense; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Family structure; Guards; Income; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Iraqi Army; Jewish settlements; Marriage; Military orders; Military withdrawal; Palestinian diaspora; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Personal belongings; Reconstructed urban setting; Resistance movements; Return; Treason; Truces; Vehicles; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; ʻAtābā; Ḥawwāsah Massacre, 1948

00:59:25 - Military occupation,displacement and evacuation

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); Buses; City occupation; Coloring; Damūn (Palestine); Diseases; Displacement; Druzes; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Forced evacuation; Generations; Handicrafts; Hardship; Hope; Hunger; Husbands; Income; Lebanon; Marriage; Mosques; Peasant workers; Permits; Personal belongings; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Religious stories; Remapping national territories; Resistance movements; Return; Right of return; Syria; Trains; Wedding dresses; Work; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948