Interview with Maḥmūd Muḥammad al-Amīn مقابلة مع محمود محمد الأمين

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ‘Abd al-Azīz, Shiḥādah (Teacher); al-Zanānīrī, Jamīl (Public officer).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Building practices; Children's games; Dwellings; Education; Family structure; Farm animals; Fathers; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Landowners; Lebanon; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Rural life; Sisters; Socio-economic conditions; Trade; Water resources

Partial Transcript: Families: ’Abd al-Ghanī; Yūsuf; ’Abd al-Raḥīm.

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Egged Bus Company (Corporation).

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Keywords: Agricultural income; Agricultural land lease; Agricultural products; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Competitiveness; Economic prosperity; Exports; Germans; Intervillage relations; Jaffa oranges; Jewish settlements; Landowners; Means of transportation; Orchards; Palestine Railways; Peasants; Pumps; Rural life; Socio-economic conditions; Sūq; Trade; Traders; Water wells

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Keywords: Brides; Communal celebrations; Cousins; Currencies; Customs and traditions; Dabkah; Economic conditions; Family relations; Grooms; Intervillage relations; Marriage; Mourning; Poets; Wedding presents; Wedding traditions; Zajal

Partial Transcript: Families: Ḥusaynī; Nashāshībī.

Significant Figures: Khalīl, Muḥammad (Martyr).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: ʻAyn al-Zuhūr (Water resource).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Antiquities; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Coffeehouses; Dwellings; Dīwān; Entertainment; Illiteracy; Income; Leaders; Martyrs; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Peasant workers; Revolutionaries; Revolutionary leadership; Values; al-Difāʻ (Newspaper)

Partial Transcript: Families: Twaynī; Sursuq; Ḥawwā.

Landmarks- Monuments: Qalʻat Jiddīn (Fortress).

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Keywords: British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Economic measures; Electricity; Feudalism; Haganah; Herzl, Theodor, 1860–1904; Home bombing; Jewish gangs; Jewish settlements; Land brokers; Land sale; Leaders; Military superiority; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Political parties; Settler colonialism; Taxes; Terrorism; Weapon acquisition; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥāj, Muḥammad Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Sa’īd Muḥammad (Martyr); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd Khalīl (Revolutionary); al-Yūsuf, Ṣāliḥ Sa’īd (Martyr); Shanā’ah, Muḥammad ’Alī (Martyr); al-Khaṭīb, Muṣṭafá (Revolutionary); Sarrīyah, Muḥammad (Revolutionary); al-Ṣaffūrī, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Ḥazbūn, Muḥammad Khalīl (Martyr); al-Ṣaffūrī, Sulaymān (Martyr).

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Keywords: Akka Battle, 1948; Ambushes; Arab Salvation Army; Battles; City occupation; Collaborationists; Convoys; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Imprisonment; Jewish settlements; Land appropriation; Military training; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Revolutionary leadership; Suffering; al-Hay’ah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā; al-Shīshaklī, Adīb, 1909-1964; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

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Keywords: City occupation; Conspiracy; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Expulsion from Palestine; International Committee of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Israeli occupation; Jewish national home; Land appropriation; Land deeds; Leaders; Mayors; Mines; Naturalization refusal; News; Official documents; Palestinian national identity; Partition plan, 1947; Personal belongings; Psychological warfare; Radio stations; Refugee aid; Resistance movements; Right of return; Routes; Terrorism; Topography; Truces; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Weapon acquisition; Zionist propaganda; al-Sumayrīyah Battle, 1948; ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)