Interview with Rasmīyah Shihābī مقابلة مع رسمية شهابي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Everyday life in Lūbyā

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Partial Transcript: Families: Shihābī; ‘Aṭwah.

Significant Figures: al-Sa‘īd, Yaḥyá (Vehicle driver); al-Ḥajjī, Ḥasan (Vehicle driver); al-Ḥasan, Muṣṭafá (Vehicle driver).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Children's games; Cities and towns; Economic prosperity; Family structure; Illiteracy; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Landowners; Marriage; Means of transportation; Neighboring villages; Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Peasants; Rural life; Siblings; Sūq; Trade; Vehicles; Women education; Youngest child

00:12:55 - Communal ceremonies and customs in Lūbyā

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Shihābī, Yahyá (Mayor); Shihābī, Fawwāz (Mayor); ’Aṭwah, Ḥassan al-Ḥajjī (Mayor); al-’Abd, Khalīl (Mayor).

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Keywords: Agricultural prosperity; Brides; Camels; Children; Communal celebrations; Condolences; Cows; Dhabīḥah; Dietary practices; Disputes; Family relations; Grooms; Health conditions; Herbal remedies; Horses; Hospitality; Hospitals; Interpersonal relations; Intervillage relations; Marital relations; Medical care; Medical doctors; Peasants; Police; Social norms; Trade; Wedding celebration; Wedding traditions; Zaffah; ʻĪd al-Mawlid al-Nabawī

00:25:55 - Military occupation and the exodus

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Muḥammad, Ṣāliḥ (Revolutionary leader); al-Muḥammad, Aḥmad (Revolutionary leader); al-Ḥāmidī; ’Alī (Revolutionary leader); al-Manṣūr, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-ʻAbd, Ḥasan (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Brutal treatment; Caves; Dispersion; Expulsion from Palestine; Guards; Home bombing; Imprisonment; Intervillage relations; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Patriotism; Police; Relief; Revolutionaries; Socio-economic conditions; Village siege; Warfare; Weapon acquisition

00:43:39 - Military attacks, warfare and continued resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ṣāliḥ, Sa’īd (Martyr); al-Sa’īd, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Adwān, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-‘Awaḍ, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Shihābī, ‘Alī (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Shihābī; Mudayris (Martyr); al-Ghubaysh; Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Manṣūr, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-‘Uthmān, ‘Ārif (Martyr); al-Shanshīrī, Khālid (Martyr); al-Shihābī, Sa’īd (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Caves; Crimes against individuals; Dayr Yāsīn Massacres, 1948; Defense; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Farm animals; Guards; Harvesting time; Honor; Kfar Yammah (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Land sale; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Mass murder; Resistance movements; Suffering; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Truces; Village occupation; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist colonization; Zionist propaganda; al-Shajarah (Palestine)

01:02:11 - Expulsion and refugee experience

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Animals; Battles; Children; Cows; Displacement; Distress; Evacuation; Expulsion from Palestine; Hardship; Humiliation; Living conditions; Martyrs; Personal belongings; Property destruction; Ramaḍān; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Rifles; Route choices; Shaykhs; Suffering; Weapons; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

01:14:39 - Refugees and the right to return to Palestine

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Bint Jubayl (Lebanon); Bombings; Distress; Economic prosperity; Farm animals; Generations; Hardship; Homeland; House rent; Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, 1982; Martyrs; Naturalization refusal; Personal belongings; Red Crescent; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Right of return; Zionist occupation