Interview with Muḥammad Ḥasan Muṣṭafá مقابلة مع محمد حسن مصطفى

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Everyday life amidst political turmoil

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: al-ʻAfīfī Bus Company (Corporation); al-Jalīl Bus Comapny (Corporation).

Families: Ṭāhā.

Significant Figures: Ḥusayn, Amīnah (Martyr).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Bedouins; British officers; Building practices; Children's games; Coexistence; Cultivation; Dwellings; Education; Farm animals; Imprisonment; Inheritance; Juvenile corrections; Landowners; Marriage; Money; Olive Oil; Palestinian Jews; Pamphlets; Peasants; Prisoners' treatment; Qabaḍāy; Return; Shaykhs; Siblings; Trade; Trains; Village siege

00:18:15 - Social relations and celebrations

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ḥusayn, Mubārak (Doctor); Dhyāb, ʻAlī (Doctor); Ṣubayḥ, ʻAlī (Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces soldier).

Families: Ṭāhā.

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Keywords: Arbitration; Arranged marriage; Bedouins; Circumcision; Coexistence; Coffee; Communal celebrations; Dhabīḥah; Disputes; Elections; Entertainment; Grooms; Herbal remedies; Horses; Hospitality; Inheritance; Interreligious marriage; Intervillage relations; Land ownership; Marriage; Mayors; Measurement units; Medical care; Police; Social classes; Social norms; Traditional medical procedures; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Village leaders; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions; Zaffah; ʻĪd celebrations

00:40:08 - Political turbulence and revolutionary activity

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Khaṭīb, Aḥmad (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aggression; Airplanes; Ammunition; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British army camps; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Collaborationists; Discriminatory measures; Expulsion from Palestine; Forced labor; Jewish national home; Killing; Mines; Political activity; Relief; Revolutionary leadership; Rifles; Torture; Vandalism; Village siege; al-Sawāʻid (Arab tribe)

00:54:49 - Resistance, revolutionaries and interreligious relations

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Tawbah, Aḥmad (Resistance leader); al-Zu‘bī, Nāyif (Resistance leader).

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Keywords: Balfour Declaration, 1917; Burial; Defense; Demolition; Disputes; Governors; Hawshah and al-Kasāyir Battle, 1948; Home bombing; Imprisonment; Land acquisition; Martyrs; Mass graves; Massacres; Mines; Moroccans; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Peasants; Radio stations; Resistance movements; Return; Revolutionary leadership; Rifles; Settler colonialism; al-Shajarah (Jewish settlement: Palestine); al-Shajarah Battle, 1948

01:11:29 - Aggression, imprisonment and British rule

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Keywords: Battles; Bedouin women; Bombardment; Border crossing; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; Expulsion from Palestine; Fleas; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945; Immigration; Imprisonment; Jordan; Landowners; Machination; Means of transportation; Military courts; Patrol; Prisons; Strikes; Summer; Theft; Torture; Truces; Trucks; Vehicles; Women in armed conflicts; Work; World War, 1939-1945

01:22:49 - Military occupation and exile

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

Significant Figures: Qāsim, Ḥusayn (Prisoner).

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Keywords: Attempt at return; Border crossing; Carriages; Caves; Disputes; Druzes; Family reunification; Identity cards; Imprisonment; Jaʻjaʻ, Samīr; Living conditions; Majlis al-Kanā’is al-‘Ālamī; Means of transportation; Prisoners; Prisoners' treatment; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Resistance; Return; Revolutionaries; Settler colonialism; Torture; Water resources

01:36:31 - The first visit to Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Families: Ḥamdān.

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Keywords: Arrest; Ashkenazi Jews; Battles; Buses; Collaborationists; Disputes; English; Expulsion from Palestine; Hebrew; House rent; Identity cards; Imprisonment; Jordanian Government; Kafr Kannā (Palestine); Lebanon; Moroccans; Murder; Refugee experience; Return; State of Israel; Torture

01:45:15 - Right of return to Palestine

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Keywords: Absentee property laws; Agricultural land lease; Bedouins; Border crossing; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Coffeehouses; Currencies; Customs; Displacement; Emotions; Family relations; Fatḥ; Generations; Homeland; Hope; Hospitality; Intelligence services; Intervillage relations; Jordan; Kafar Kannā (Palestine); Land deeds; Lebanon; Mizrahi Jews; Nakba; Nation; Nostalgia; Olive Oil; Palestinian diaspora; Passing on memories; Passports; Pilgrimage; Refugee legal status; Return; State of Israel; Vehicles