Interview with Muḥammad Ḥusayn Abū Ḥassān مقابلة مع محمد حسين أبو حسان

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Agricultural products; Building practices; Children's games; Crops; Dwellings; Economic prosperity; Education; Family structure; Harvesting time; Inheritance; Landowners; Orchards; Peasants; Pre-Nakba life; Self-sufficiency; Siblings; Trade

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥusaynī, ‘Abd al-Qādir (Teacher); Bashīr, ‘Ādil (Teacher); Bal‘ūs, Ḥusnī (Mayor).

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

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Anti-Palestinian measures; Armenians; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; Carpenters; Coeducational schools; Dairy products; Education; Employment; Farm animals; Folktales; Income; Landowners; Means of transportation; Police; Qurʼānic teaching; Reading; Religious belief; Rural life; Schools; Self-sufficiency; Shoemakers; Social conditions; Socio-economic conditions; Storytelling; Students; Sūq; Tobacco industry; Trade; Urban planning

Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: Sittī Nafīsah (Maqām).

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

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Keywords: Agricultural products; British police forces; Cooking; Dietary practices; Economic prosperity; Family relations; Farmers; Harvesters; Intervillage relations; Land ownership; Means of transportation; Nature; Rural life; Socio-economic conditions; Trade; Work

Partial Transcript: Families: Sayyid; Wihbah; Balʻūs; Abū Ḥassān; Khalīl; Abū al-Shabāb; al-Saʻīd.

Significant Figures: al-Saʻīd, Maḥmūd (Landowner).

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Keywords: Economic conditions; Economic measures; Family income; Famine; Gambling; Land acquisition; Land ownership; Land sale; Landowners; Lebanon; Locust infestation

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Keywords: Bridal customs; Building practices; Dabkah; Feasts; Housing; Intervillage relations; Love; Marital relations; Marriage; Marriage proposals; Property destruction; Social norms; Wedding celebration; Wedding customs; Wedding songs

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Childbirth; Circumcision; Communal celebrations; Desserts; Dhabīḥah; Dietary practices; Health conditions; Herbal remedies; Illness; Medical care; Right of return; Traditional medical procedures; ʻĪd al-Aḍḥá; ʻĪd al-Fiṭr; ʻĪd celebrations

Partial Transcript: Families: Sayyid; Wihbah.

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Arbitration; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Condolences; Cooking; Currencies; Dalʻūnā; Dietary practices; Disputes; Entertainment; Folktales; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Interpersonal relations; Interreligious relations; Intervillage relations; Jafrā; Jerusalem Radio; Justice; Leaders; Loans; Maiden; Mayors; Musicians; News; Saʻsaʻ (Palestine); Social norms

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Ayzak, Abū Ibrāhīm Zaydān (Mayor); al-Shawīsh, Muḥammad (Wounded).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: ‘Uyūn al-Rakhim (Water resource)

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Assassination; Atrocities of war; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Army; British army camps; Burial; Disappeared persons; Governors; Home bombing; Imprisonment; Jewish immigrants; Land sale; Mass graves; Mass murder; Minorities; Neighboring villages; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Police; Political parties; Prisoners; Shepherds; Tanks; Terrorism; Tracing; Traitors; Village siege; Water wells; Weapons; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938

Partial Transcript: Families: Azzām; Yassīn.

Significant Figures: Wākid, Abdū (Vehicle driver); Azzām, Fahd (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Atrocities of war; Battles; Border cities and towns; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Burials; Death; Defense; Expulsion from Palestine; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Guards; Mass murder; Massacres; Minorities; Moroccans; News; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Revolutionaries; Rifles; Safad Battle, 1948; Social relations; Theft; Treason; Weapon acquisition; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Atrocities of war; Battles; Bombardment; Border cities and towns; Decision making; Expulsion from Palestine; Fall; Homeland; House keys; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Jewish immigration; Lebanon; News; Personal belongings; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Return; Right of return; Route choices; Settler colonialism; Shootings; Socio-economic conditions; Suffering; United Nations; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

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Keywords: Agricultural land lease; British colonialism; Burj al-Barājinah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon); Capital punishment; Crimes against humanity; Dispersion; Elderly people; Generations; Homeland; Hospitality; Identity cards; Lebanon; Liberation movements; Mistreatment; Naturalization refusal; Nostalgia; Passing on memories; Permits; Personal belongings; Right of return; Survival; United Nations; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

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Keywords: Civil rights; Contracts; Inheritance; Injustice; Islamic law; Jewish immigrants; Judges; Land deeds; Land registration; Landowners; Mayors; Nostalgia; Official documents; Palestinian diaspora; Personal belongings; Political rights; Refugee experience; Right of return; Settler colonialism; United Nations

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Keywords: British colonialism; Generations; Homeland; Hope; Identity cards; Palestinian national identity; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Refugee camp conditions; Refugee experience; Right of return