Interview with Kāmilah Ibrāhīm al-Nāṣir مقابلة مع كاملة إبراهيم الناصر

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood and society during wartime

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Muṣṭafá, Ḥalīm (Martyr); al-Nāṣir, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Qaddūmī, Dāwūd (Martyr); al-Sharār, ‘Alī (Martyr).

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Keywords: Attack; Battles; Blindness; Bombardment; British colonialism; Brothers; Burial; Buses; Children's games; Collaborationists; Crimes against humanity; Disputes; Distress; Druzes; Educational grants; Egypt; Executions; Fathers; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Illness; Innocence; Martyrs; Neighborhoods; Orphans; Pregnancies; Prisoners; Revolutionaries; Schools; Shafā ʻAmrū (Palestine); Siblings; Social norms; al- Ḥujayrāt (Arab tribe); al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

00:14:49 - Customs and community life in Shafā ʻAmrū

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Nimir, Ḥusayn (Mayor).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Haifa Cigarettes Manufacture (Corporation).

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Keywords: British army camps; Brothers; Building practices; Christians; Churches; Coexistence; Communal celebrations; Community support; Compensation; Convents; Dwellings; Gold; Imprisonment; Interreligious relations; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Marriage; Means of transportation; Mizrahi Jews; Mosques; Orchards; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Religious belief; Religious diversity; Return; Social classes; Synagogues; Sūq; Vehicles; Women in agriculture; Work

00:25:28 - Ceremonies, rites and traditional practices in Shafā ʻAmrū

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Mustashfá Ḥamzah (Hospital).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al- Khiḍir (Maqām); Mar Elias (Maqām).

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Keywords: Diseases; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Grooms; Haifa (Palestine); Interreligious marriage; Interreligious relations; Medical care; Mosques; Nadbīyah; Ramaḍān; Religious ceremonies; Social norms; Vows; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions; ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawwī; ʻĪd celebrations

00:33:47 - Social relations and political turmoil

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Wannih.

Significant Figures: al-Ḥallāq, Jabbūr (Mayor).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Alcoholic beverages; Arab Salvation Army; Arab tribes; Arbitration; Assassination; Breastfeeding; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Coffeehouses; Collaborationists; Cowardice; Dispersion; Disputes; Druzes; Graveyards; Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948; Hospitality; Interreligious relations; Islamic education; Jamʻiyyat al-Iʻtiṣām; Jewish settlements; Jihād; Land sale; Leaders; Martyrs; Medical care; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Qarīnah; Ramaḍān; Relief; Religious awakening; Rifles; Seeking shelter; Shafā ʻAmrū Battle, 1947; Snipers; Socio-economic conditions; Weapons; Women socio-economic role; Zionist occupation

00:53:49 - Society and warfare

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū al-ʻUlā, Khiḍir (Resistance fighter); al-Hindāwī, Umm ‘Alī (Prisoner); Na‘īm, Umm Khalīl (Prisoner).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Akka (Palestine); Arrest; Brothers; Collaborationists; Crimes against humanity; Displacement; Dogs; Emotions; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Forced evacuation; Governors; House raid; Identity cards; Imprisonment; Injuries; Interreligious relations; Martyrs; Police; Police investigations; Prisoners of war; Ramaḍān; Refugee experience; Resistance movements; Return; Socio-economic conditions; Suffering; Terrorism; Torture

01:07:14 - Mass evacuation by Israeli authority

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Keywords: Arrest; Barbed wire; Border crossing; Caves; Distress; Druzes; Forced evacuation; Generations; Generosity; Governors; Hiding; Homeland; Identity cards; Injuries; Jordanian Army; Means of transportation; Nostalgia; Olive oil mills; Personal belongings; Police investigations; Pregnancies; Refugee experience; Religious diversity; Right of return; Sisters; Smuggling; Terrorism; Village siege