Interview with Ḥasan ‘Alī ʻĪsá مقابلة مع حسن علي عيسى

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Turk, Ghālib (School principal); al-Mun’im, ’Abd (Policeman).

Landmarks - Lakes, River: Wādi al Laymūn (Valley).

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Keywords: Battles; British Army, Royal Engineers; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; British officers; Children's games; Discriminatory measures; Education; Farmers; Hunting; Languages; Machination; Military training; Moshavim; Nahalal (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Orchards; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Police; Public schools; Rural life; Skirmishes; Trains; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Weapons; Women education; Ḥiṭṭīn Battle, 1948

Partial Transcript: Families: Sursuq, Salām.

Significant Figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Sa’īd (Poet).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arabic patriotic poetry; Battles; British Army; Haganah; Ibrāhīm, Nūḥ, 1913-1938; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Revolutionary leadership; Road blocks; Settler colonialism; Tiberias (Palestine); al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938; al-Qassām, ʻIzz al-Dīn, 1882-1935; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ḥiṭṭīn Battle, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Sa’īd (Poet); al-Ḥiṭṭīnī, Abū Shakīb (Poet); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Mayor); al-Rinnāwī, Tawfīq (Poet); Nādir, Ḥasan (Doctor).

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Agricultural machinery; Agricultural products; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Arab countries; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British high commissioner; British police forces; Chickenpox; Child mortality; Clans; Eldest child; Expulsion from Palestine; Farming practices; Hospitality; Illness; Income; Intervillage relations; Poetry; Resistance; Revolutionary songs; Rural life; Trade; Traditional medical procedures; Weapon acquisition; Wedding traditions; Zaffah; Zajal; Ḥiṭṭīn Battle, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Rabāḥ, ’Alī Ṣāliḥ (Resistance fighter); Sha’bān, Abū Fawzī (Resistance fighter); al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Mayor).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British army camps; British officers; British police forces; Compensation; Humiliation; Identity cards; Income; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Machination; Martyrs; Military orders; Military superiority; Military training; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Patriotism; Police; Punishment; Revolutionaries; Trucks; Weapon acquisition; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Shajarah Battle, 1948

Partial Transcript: Families: Daḥābirah.

Significant Figures: al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Mayor).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British officers; British-Jewish relations; Currency convertibility; Damaged Weapons; Haganah; Machination; Martyrs; Massacres; Military superiority; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Relief; Rifles; Truces; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; Ḥiṭṭīn Battle, 1948; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al- ‘Azzām, Muḥammad al-‘Abdullāh (Resistance fighter); Rabāḥ, ‘Ursān ‘Azzām (Resistance fighter); al-Khālid, Muḥammad As’ad (Shaykh); al-Khālid, Muḥammad As‘ad (Martyr).

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Keywords: Agricultural machinery; Ambushes; Ammunition; Arab Salvation Army; Battles; Crops; Damaged Weapons; Expulsion from Palestine; Faith; Guards; Homeland; Massacres; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Priests; Resistance; Settler colonialism; Truces; United Nations; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist propaganda; Ḥiṭṭīn (Palestine)

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Keywords: Aid distribution; Arab Salvation Army; Arabism; Conspiracy; Cost of living; Distress; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Frustration; Fuel; Hardship; Homeland; Martyrs; Mayors; Military withdrawal; Moral tales; Refugee aid; Refugee experience; Route choices; Rulers; Survival; Syria; United Nations; Vehicles; ʻAyn al-Ḥilwah (Palestinian refugee camp: Lebanon)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻĪsá, Nimir ‘Alī (Policeman).

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Keywords: Barbed wire; Border cities and towns; British police forces; Family reunification; Generations; Homeland; Hope; Identity cards; Interreligious relations; Israel-Arab border conflicts; Jerusalem (Palestine); Jewish immigrants; Jewish national home; Land appropriation; Land deeds; Landowners; Leaders; Monotheism; Morality; Naturalization refusal; Official documents; Palestinian diaspora; Palestinian resistance; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Peacekeeping operations; Personal belongings; Photographs; Religious belief; Right of return; Sephardim Jews; Treason

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Keywords: Arabism; Border guards; Dabkah; Jafrā; Military commanders; Military service; Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1918–1970; Refugee experience; Revolutionary songs; Right of return; Security; Settler colonialism; State of Israel; Syria; Wedding songs; Zajal; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻAtābah