Interview with Qāsim Muḥammad Suwaydān مقابلة مع قاسم محمد سويدان

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Sa‘d, Fu'ād (Landowner); al-Ṣafadī, Aḥmad (Teacher).

Families: Ḥusayn.

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Balfour Declaration, 1917; Birth certificates; Bribery; British colonialism; British policy; British-Jewish relations; Collaborationists; Courts; Currencies; Education; Executions; Family relations; Family structure; Farm animals; Farming practices; Hunting; Intervillage relations; Irrigation; Land brokers; Land deeds; Land sale; Landowners; Lawyers; Martyrs; Means of transportation; Military training; Orphans; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Peasants; Prisoners of war; Rural life; Shaykhs; Social relations; Trade; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Weapon acquisition; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

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Keywords: Arbitration; Brides; Community support; Condolences; Disputes; Family relations; Farm animals; Folk songs; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Grooms; Horses; Intervillage relations; Mayors; Means of transportation; Medical care; Poets; Population; Shaykhs; Social relations; Traditional medical procedures; Wedding celebration; Wedding traditions; ʻĪd celebrations

Partial Transcript: Families: Ḥusayn; Salām; Sursuq.

Significant Figures: ‘Aṣfūr, Ḥannā (Lawyer); al-Ṣafadī, Abū Walīd (Trader); al-Sa‘d, Fu'ād (Landowner).

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Keywords: Bail; Bribery; British army camps; British authorities; British colonialism; Community support; Disputes; Gold; Herbal remedies; Intervillage relations; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Martyrs; Murder; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Police stations; Religious belief; Settler colonialism; Shuqayrī, Aḥmad, 1908-1980; Social relations; Tobacco industry; Treason; Water resources; Water resources; al-Nuwayrīyah (Palestine); al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Qaddūrah, Salīm (Martyr); al-Naḥfāwī, Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Uṭūr, Maḥmūd (Martyr); Muḥyī al-Dīn, Na‘īm (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Guns; Humiliation; Lebanon; Mass graves; Mass murder; Massacres; Military superiority; Olive oil mills; Prisoners of war; Prisons; Refugee experience; Return; Revolutionaries; Rmaysh (Lebanon); Shepherds; Shootings; Survival; Tanks; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Sammūʻī (Palestine); al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Laḥmah, Khalīl (Survivor).

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Keywords: Absentee property laws; Arab countries; City occupation; Displacement; Druzes; Expulsion from Palestine; Generations; Hiding; Home bombing; Homeland; Hope; Israeli occupation; Land sale; Marūn al-Rās (Lebanon); Military officials; Official documents; Olive trees; Personal belongings; Right of return; Summer; Theft; Victory; al-Farrāḍīyah (Palestine); al-Sammūʻī (Palestine)