Interview with ‘Abdullāh Muṣṭafá ‘Abdullāh مقابلة مع عبدالله مصطفى عبدالله

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Shawwā, Muḥammad (Teacher).

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Keywords: Adventures; Border cities and towns; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Childhood memories; Children's games; Competitiveness; Conduct of life; Educational grants; Football; Illiteracy; Interpersonal relations; Landowners; Letters; Means of transportation; Qurʼānic teaching; Rural life; Schools; Women education; Youngest child; Ṣafṣāf (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Families: Khalīl; Wihbih; al-Sayyid; ‘Abd al-Ghanī; ‘Abd al-Karīm; ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd; Shaykh Ḥusayn.

Significant Figures: al-Sa‘īd, Maḥmūd (Village leader); Wihbih, Zaydān ‘Abd al-Karīm (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, ‘Awaḍ (Village leader); al-Sayyid, Maḥāsin (Village leader).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: ‘Ayn al-Badawīyah (Water resource); ‘Ayn al-Ghabaṭih (Water resource); Wādī al-Jish (Valley); Wādī Fārah (Valley).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Blacksmithing; Carpenters; Caves; Cultivation; Dalʻūnā; Economic prosperity; Farm animals; Harvesters; Income; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Lebanon; Mosques; Muslims; Peasants; Pre-Nakba geographical territories; Safad (Palestine); Singing; Social classes; Sūq; Tobacco industry; Trade; Water resources; Work songs

Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Siḍḍīq (Maqām); Sitt Nafīsah (Maqām); Shaykh Whayb (Maqām).

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Keywords: Brides; Caves; Childbirth; Desserts; Dietary practices; Dowry; Family relations; Folk poetry; Graveyards; Grooms; Horseback riding; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Invitations; Lanterns; Mosques; Muslims; Neighboring villages; Poems; Prayers; Religious belief; Rites; Singing; Trees; Vows; Wedding celebration; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions; ʻĪd celebrations

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Wihbih, Zaydān ‘Abd al-Karīm (Mayor); al-Sayyid, Maḥāsin (Village leader).

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Keywords: Blood money; Celebrations; Chivalry; Cities and towns; Death; Diseases; Disputes; Herbal remedies; Illness; Injuries; Intervillage relations; Judges; Land expropriation; Medical care; Muftis (Muslim officials); National identity; Orchards; Poetry; Social relations; Traditional medical procedures; Wedding celebration; Wedding traditions; Zajal; ʻAtābah

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Keywords: Arabic patriotic poetry; Dignity; Homeland; Martyrs; Palestinian resistance; Poetry; Population; Right of return; Samawʼal, -approximately 560; Zajal; ʻAtābah

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Abd al-Ghanī, ‘Awaḍ (Resistance fighter); al-Khaṭīb, Aḥmad( Weapon trader).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: ‘Ayn al-‘Asal (Water resource).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Bombardment; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Bullets; City occupation; Defense; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Hiding; Home bombing; Martyrs; Mass murder; News; Palestine Broadcasting Service; Personal belongings; Political activity; Rakhṣūn Battle, 1938; Relief; Resistance movements; Return; Revolutionaries; Revolutionary songs; Rifles; Safad (Palestine); Seeking shelter; Tanks; Torture; United Nations; Village occupation; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977

Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: ‘Ayn al-Badawīyah (Water resource).

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Keywords: Camels; Cities and towns; City occupation; Expulsion from Palestine; Generations; God's will; Health services; Homeland; Israeli Withdrawal from South Lebanon, 2000; Israeli checkpoints; Khaḍrā, Ṣubḥī, 1895-1954; Killing; Land deeds; Leaders; Medications; Mourning; Nadbīyah; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Return; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; al-Ṣafṣāf Battle, 1948; ʻAbdullāh, King of Jordan, 1882–1951; ʻAtābā