Interview with Ramzīyah Muḥammad al-Shanawānī مقابلة مع رمزية محمد الشنواني

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood and community life

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Madrasat al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Shā‘ir (School); Madrasat al-Ṭilyān (School); Madrasat al-Ma‘ārif (School); Madrasat al-Rābiṭah (School).

Significant Figures: al-Ghazālī, Na‘īmah (Tailor).

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Keywords: Bombardment; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Childhood dreams; Chores; Clothing and dresses; Displacement; Dolls; Dwellings; Education; Embroidery; Income; Jaffa (Palestine); Jewish immigrants; Peasants; Pre-Nakba life; Revolutions; Siblings; Skirmishes; Social relations; Tailoring; Traders; Vandalism; Women socio-economic role; al-Manshīyah (Palestine)

00:14:14 - Traditional Palestinian attire

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Keywords: Atrocities of war; Brides; Cities and towns; Clothing and dresses; Cost of living; Death; Embroidery; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Fathers; Gifts; House rent; Jaffa (Palestine); Jewelry; Mental health; Social relations; Tailoring; Theft; Torture; Wedding dresses; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

00:26:05 - The city of Jaffa and war-torn society

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Sūq al-Karmil (Market); Sūq al-Balābsah (Market); Sūq Iskandar ‘Awaḍ (Market); Sūq al-Yahūd (Market).

Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Cinema al-Ḥamrah (Cinema).

Families: Bāmiyah; Baydas; ‘Abd al-Raḥīm; Sanjaq; Ḥamdān.

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Keywords: Agriculture; Arab civilization; Building practices; Buses; Carriages; Dietary practices; Economic prosperity; Exports; Farm animals; Farmers; Gifts; Income; Jaffa oranges; Journeys; Laborers; Living conditions; Orchards; Radio stations; Social relations; Socio-economic conditions; Sūq; Vehicles; Water resources; Work songs; Zionist colonization

00:39:03 - Marriage and family relations

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Keywords: Childhood dreams; Children; Cooking; Ducks; Embroidery; Expulsion from Palestine; Feasts; Fuel; Jaffa (Palestine); Marriage proposals; Married couples; Money; Mortars; Personal belongings; Political activity; Social relations; Stoves; Tailoring

00:49:26 - Wartime and military occupation

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Haifa port (Port).

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Keywords: Boats; Bombardment; Bread; British-Jewish relations; Crimes against humanity; Displacement; Fuel; House rent; Humiliation; Hunger; Israeli checkpoints; Jewelry; Jewish settlements; Martyrs; Means of transportation; Money; Mortars; Palestine Post (Post office); Personal belongings; Photographs; Political activity; Ports; Routes; Seeking shelter; Suffering; Tailoring; Vehicles; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

01:06:50 - Military operations and forced migration

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Sūq al-Yahūd (Market).

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Keywords: Ammunition; British authorities; British-Jewish relations; Damaged Weapons; Defense; Economic prosperity; Executions; Expulsion from Palestine; Fārūq of Egypt, 1920–1965; Home bombing; House keys; Iraq; Israel-Arab War, 1967; Machination; Military orders; Official documents; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Social relations; Sūq; Theft; Weapon acquisition; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

01:15:03 - Military occupation, warfare and resistance in Jaffa

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks, Cultural and Touristic Institutions: Sūq al-Karmil (Market).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab countries; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Bombardment; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Deception; Expulsion from Palestine; Injuries; Machination; Martyrs; Military superiority; Military training; Partition plan, 1947; Prisoners of war; Resistance movements; Revolutionaries; Salameh, Ali Hassan, –1979; Seeking shelter; Vandalism; Villages; Zionist occupation; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

01:28:42 - Land, defense and revolutionaries

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Partial Transcript: Families: Salām.

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Attacks; Bombardment; British colonialism; British policy; British-Jewish relations; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Defense; Discrimination practices; Executions; Home bombing; Jewish settlements; Killing; Land brokers; Land expropriation; Land sale; Landowners; Martyrs; Military superiority; Mortars; Official documents; Palestine Railways; Psychological warfare; Resistance movements; Retreat; Social welfare; Suicide; Taxes; Urban planning; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

01:44:04 - Political turmoil, military occupation and displacement

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian measures; Arab Salvation Army; Bakeries; Border incidents; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Death; Decision making; Dignity; Dispersion; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Fathers; Fidā’iyyīn; Greed; Grief; Home bombing; Homeland; Inheritance; Jordan; Landowners; Leaders; Lebanon; Military superiority; Nakba; News; Passports; Permits; Personal belongings; Photographs; Refugee experience; Refugee legal status; Refugees; Return; Seeking shelter; Ships; Smuggling; State of Israel; Suffering; Underground movements; Weapons; Work; Ḥizb al-Najjādah