Interview with Zahrah Zayd مقابلة مع زهرة زيد

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Social life in al-Ẓāhirīyah

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-‘Āṣī (Mountain).

Significant Figures: Zayn, Abū Sa‘īd (Landowner); Zayn, Dīb (Landowner).

Families: Salāmah.

Landmarks- Public Institutions: Madrasat al-Aytām (School).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arbitration; Armed patrols; Arrest; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Children's games; Chores; Coexistence; Collaborationists; Conduct of life; Crops; Decision making; Embroidery; Family income; Fathers; Governors; Hospitality; Imprisonment; Intervillage relations; Mayors; Means of transportation; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Olive oil mills; Orchards; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pistols; Qurʼānic teaching; Religious diversity; Revolutionaries; Rural life; Safad (Palestine); Self-sufficiency; Siblings; Social classes; Socio-economic conditions; Stoves; Sūq; Tailoring; Trade; Village leaders; Women education

00:18:21 - Rites and ceremonies in al-Ẓāhirīyah

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Mustashfá Ẓahr al-Kitif (Hospital).

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Keywords: Arranged marriage; Bedouins; Brides; Child mortality; Children's songs; Circumcision; Clothing and dresses; Coffee; Collaborationists; Disputes; Embroidery; Entertainment; Friendship; Generosity; Grooms; Herbal remedies; Horseback riding; Hospitality; Interrogations; Marriage; Mayors; Means of transportation; Mourning; Nadbīyah; Safad (Palestine); Social norms; Tailoring; Wedding celebration; Wedding customs; Wedding dresses; Zaffah

00:30:07 - Resistance and displacement

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādī al-Ṭawāḥīn (Valley); Jabal al-‘Āṣī (Mountain); Jabal al-Jarmaq (Mountain).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonization; Child mortality; Children in armed conflicts; Collaborationists; Dispersion; Displacement; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Food; Jewish settlements; Land deeds; Land sale; Martyrs; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Radio stations; Refugee experience; Resistance movements; Revolutionaries; Safad (Palestine); Secrecy; Seeking shelter; Suffering; Uncles; Water wells; Weapon acquisition; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist occupation; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938

00:46:34 - Refugee life, humiliation and isolation

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks - Lakes, River: Jabal al-Jarnaq (Mountain).

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Keywords: Arab countries; Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Discrimination practices; Displacement; Distress; Dogs; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Haganah; Homeland; Honor; Hunger; Nation; Naturalization refusal; Permits; Personal belongings; Rain; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Right of return; Suffering; Tripoli (Lebanon); Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist propaganda