Interview with Aḥmad Khalīl Bashīr مقابلة مع أحمد خليل بشير

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Rural life and agriculture in al-Sumayrīyah

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Keywords: Agricultural calendars; Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); Anti-Palestinian economic measures; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Childhood; Family structure; Farmers; Farming practices; Harvesting; Imports; Land ownership; Means of transportation; Neighbors; Orchards; Professions; Rural life; Schools; Sūq; Trade; Water resources; Work; al-Sumayrīyah (Palestine)

00:14:24 - Social and community life in al-Sumayrīyah

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Partial Transcript: Families: al-Amīn; al-Gharīb; Yūsuf; Ka‘mūsh; al-Bunnī; Sirrīyah; Ḥamādah; ‘Awaḍ; Ismā‘īl; al-Khaṭīb; ‘Abd al-Raḥīm; Sursuq; Twaynī.

Significant Figures: Bāb Allāh, Aḥmad (Shaykh); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Village leader); ‘Abd al-Ghanī, Ḥamādah (Village leader); al-Dīrāwī, Sa‘īd (Poet); al-Ṣayāḥ, Aḥmad (Doctor); Qaṭrān, Na‘īm (Doctor).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Yūsuf (Maqām).

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Keywords: Antiquities; Arbitration; Arranged marriage; Banū Hilāl (Arab tribe); British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; Building practices; Dwellings; Entertainment; Farmers; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Grandfathers; Hospitality; Inheritance; Intervillage relations; Jewish settlements; Land ownership; Land partition; Land sale; Mawlid; Medical aid; Nahariya (Palestine); Neighboring villages; Religious diversity; Settler colonialism; Social classes; Traditional medical procedures; Water resources; Wedding traditions; al-Hayb (Arab tribe); al-Sumayrīyah (Palestine); ʻĪd celebrations

00:35:55 - Political turbulence, warfare, and expulsion

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ismā‘īl, Mūsá (Revolutionary); Bāb Allāh, Ḥusayn (Revolutionary); Ḥulayḥil, Mūsá (Revolutionary); al-Amīn, Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); al-Khaṭīb, Sa‘īd (Martyr); Laymūnah, Aḥmad (Martyr); Shanā‘ah, Muṣṭafá (Revolutionary); al-Khaṭīb, Ibrāhīm (Revolutionary); ‘Awaḍ, Maḥmūd (Wounded).

Families: Sursuq; Twaynī.

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Assault; Bombardment; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; Brothers; Burial; Child mortality; Children in armed conflicts; Crimes against humanity; Damaged weapons; Displacement; Escape; Guards; Jewish immigrants; Jewish settlements; Land partition; Land sale; Lies; Martyrs; Military superiority; Murder; Palestinian resistance; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Relief requests; Revolutionaries; Route choices; Settler colonialism; Shootings; Violation of humanitarian law; Weapon trade; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Sumayrīyah (Palestine)

01:01:01 - Expulsion from Palestine and refugee experience

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaṭīb, Sa‘īd (Martyr); Laymūnah, Aḥmad (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab countries; Conspiracy; Damaged weapons; Deception; Dispersion; Displacement; Economic aid; Expulsion from Palestine; Family reunification; Land deeds; Means of transportation; Military superiority; Mortars; Naturalization; Palestinian resistance; Passing on memories; Personal belongings; Route choices; Rulers; Smuggling; Socio-economic conditions; Suffering; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948