Interview with Ṭalībah Muḥammad Fuḍḍah مقابلة مع طليبة محمد فضة

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:21 - Agriculture and social customs in Suḥmātā

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Ṣāliḥ, Maḥmūd (Mayor); al-Jawdah, Maḥmūd (Martyr); al-Ḥāj Ḥamzah, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Abū al-Hayjah, Kāyiḥ (Martyr); Jamīl, Sa‘īd (Policeman); Fiḍḍah, Ṭālib (Policeman).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Iraqi Pipeline Company (Corporation).

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Keywords: Agricultural machinery; Agricultural products; Akka (Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; British colonialism; Buses; Childhood; Children in armed conflicts; Children's games; Dabkah; Dalʻūnā; Employment; Family structure; Haganah; Hospitality; House burning; House raid; Intervillage relations; Land ownership; Murder; Revolutionaries; Routes; Rural life; Rāmīn (Palestine); Shootings; Sūq; Tobacco industry; Trade; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions; Women education; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Birwah Battle, 1948; al-Buqayʻah (Palestine); Ṣafṣāf (Palestine)

00:21:18 - Cultural and religious practices in Suḥmātā

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Partial Transcript: Families: Qaddūrah; ʻAbd al-Wahhāb; al-Jishshī; Zaydān; Faʻūr.

Significant Figures: al-Jishshī ,Maḥmūd (Landowner); Zaydān, Asʻad (Landowner).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm (Maqām); Sit Naʻaymīyah (Maqām); Sit al-Zāwiyah (Maqām).

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Keywords: Building practices; Building stones; Children; Customs and traditions; Dwellings; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Handicrafts; Herbal remedies; Hospitality; Interreligious marriage; Interreligious relations; Land ownership; Maqām; Marriage contracts; Marriage proposals; Orchards; Religious belief; Religious diversity; Revolutionaries; Sabalān (Palestine); Shaʻb (Palestine); Suḥmātā (Palestine); Vows; Weaving; Women in agriculture

00:44:55 - Political turmoil, military attacks and Palestinian resistance

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Abū Ibrāhīm; Fawzī (Resistance fighter); Ḥamzah, Muṣṭafá (Martyr); Abū al-Hayjā, Kāyid (Martyr); Ṭāhā, Maḥmūd Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Bakhītah, Ibn Yūsuf (Martyr); al-ʻArrābī, Muḥammad (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; Atrocities of war; Bombings; British colonialism; Buses; Child mortality; Collaborationists; Crimes against humanity; Displacement; Economic aid; Economic conditions; Ethnic cleansing; Expulsion from Palestine; Hostages; House burning; Imprisonment; Internal migration; Jewish neighbors; Jewish settlers; Jordanian Army; Lūbyā (Palestine); Majd al-Kurūm (Palestine); Mass murder; Medical aid; Mental illness; Nahāriyyā (Jewish settlement: Palestine); Palestinian Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Revolutionaries; Revolutionary songs; Routes; Shaʻb (Palestine); Suffering; Suḥmātā (Palestine); Umm al-Faḥm (Palestine); Village siege; Violation of humanitarian law; Zionist occupation; al-Birwah (Palestine); al-Ramil (Prison: Palestine)

01:13:26 - Military occupation of Majd al-Kurūm

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Jawdah, Maḥmūd (Martyr).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Armed resistance; Atrocities of war; Attempt at return; Buses; Child mortality; Displacement; Expulsion; Family relations; Family reunification; Gunshots; Humiliation; Internal migration; Kafr Qāsim (Palestine); Majd al-Kurūm (Palestine); Military withdrawal; Persecution; Refugee experience; Remapping national territories; Surrender; Suḥmātā (Palestine); Terrorism; Village siege; Weapons; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Birwah (Palestine); al-Dāmūn (Palestine)

01:27:07 - Palestinian refugee experience

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Keywords: Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Displacement; Distress; Exile; Expulsion; Generations; Hardship; Hiding; Homeland; Israeli occupation; Lebanon; Nostalgia; Palestinian national identity; Personal belongings; Psychological warfare; Refugees; Regret; Right of return; Terrorism