Interview with Aḥmad Ḥijjū مقابلة مع أحمد حجو

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Nakhlah, Naṣrī (School principal); ’Abd al-Qādir, Muḥammad (Teacher).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Arab tribes; Childhood; Children's games; Dalʻūnā; Economic hardship; Education; Expulsion; Family structure; Farming practices; House burning; Mayors; Neighboring villages; Orchards; Orphans; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Poems; Public schools; Rural life; Theft; Trade; Work; Work songs; ʻAtābah

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Shahāybī; ‘Aṭwāṭ; ‘Ajāyinah; Ḥajājiwah; al-Fuqarah; ‘Aṣāfirah; al-Samallūt.

Significant Figures: Shihābī, ’Alī (Shaykh); al-‘Abd, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Shahāybī, Fawwāz al-‘Ali (Village leader); Abū D'hays, Ḥasan (Village leader).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Bassūn (Maqām); al-‘Ajamī (Maqām).

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Keywords: Abuse of power; Antiquities; British Mandate, 1922-1948; British police forces; British policy; Building practices; Clans; Dwellings; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Housing; Income; Jewish neighbors; Land ownership; Mosques; Prayers for rain; Professions; Religious belief; Rural life; Self-sufficiency; Social classes; Social relations; Socio-economic conditions; Water resources; Weapon acquisition; Weapons; Work

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-‘Awdī, Marzūq (Revolutionary); Ḥijjū, Muḥammad Sulaymān (Revolutionary); al-‘Alī Shihābī, Fawwāz (Village leader); Abū Dʹhays, Ḥasan (Village leader); Abū Dʹhays, Ḥasan (Resistance leader).

Families: al-Shanāshilah.

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Attacks; Bombings; British Mandate, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; City occupation; Clans; Coexistence; Collaborationists; Curfew; Displacement; Expulsion; Guards; Gunshots; Haganah; Horses; Hostages; Jewish settlements; Kidnapping; Martyrs; Military strategy; Murder; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Peace; Prisoner exchange; Skirmishes; Tiberias (Palestine); Weapon acquisition; Women in armed conflicts; al-Shajarah Battle, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Salāmah, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Dīb, Aḥmad Ḥasan (Martyr).

Families: al-Shahāybī.

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Armed patrols; Armed resistance; Atrocities of war; Battles; Bombings; Clans; Defense; Guards; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Martyrs; Revolutionaries; Skirmishes; Social relations; Warfare; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sulaymān, Aḥmad (Mayor); Sulaymān, Dīb (Revolutionary); al-Kāyid, Nāfī (Martyr); Su‘ūd, ‘Īsá (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Battles; British-Jewish relations; City evacuation; City liberation; Conspiracy; Defense; Elderly people; Expulsion from Palestine; Forced evacuation; Jewish national home; Military training; Mines; Murder; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Refugee experience; Right of return; Route choices; Siblings; Syrian Army; Truces; Weapons; Zaʻīm, Ḥusnī, 1897-1949; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation