Interview with Muḥyī al-Dīn ‘Umar Shiḥādah مقابلة مع محي الدين عمر شحادة

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Khaḍrah, Najīb (Teacher); Niyāzī, Rifʻat (Teacher); al-Khaḍrah, Najīb (School principal); Bkhūr, Muḥyiī al-Dīn (Driving instructor).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; British policy; Building practices; Childhood dreams; Childhood memories; Children's games; Construction; Driving licence; Dwellings; Education; Family structure; Farmers; Football; Friendship; Hunting practices; Kuwaykāt (Palestine); Population; Public schools; Qurʼānic teaching; Rural life

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Arab Revolt ,1936-1939; Bernadotte, Folke, 1895-1948; Bribery; British-Jewish relations; Farmers; Hospitality; Imprisonment; Intervillage relations; Jewish immigration; Kuwaykāt (Palestine); Land appropriation; Land ownership; Land sale; League of Nations; Means of transportation; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Partition plan, 1947; Public lands; Revolutionaries; Settler colonialism; Strikes; Taxation; Trade; Work; World War, 1939-1945

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Ṣaffūrī; Shiḥādah; Ḥasan.

Significant Figures: al-Ḥasan, Ṣālih (Doctor); Sirrīyah, Dāwūd (Shaykh).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Agricultural products; Circumcision; Dhabīḥah; Dietary practices; Farming practices; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Grief; Groom Shower; Hospitality; Intervillage relations; Kafr Yāsīf (Palestine); Marriage proposals; Sūq; Traditional medical procedures; Wedding celebration; Wedding songs; Wedding traditions; al-Barānkī (Nawar); Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ghaḍbān, Salīm (Mayor); Ibrāhīm, Khalīl (Mayor); al-Ḥasan, Aḥmad ʻAzīz (Poet).

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Keywords: Akka (Palestine); Antiquities; Arbitration; Bedouins; Birth certificates; Cinemas; Deception; Disputes; Entertainment; Intervillage relations; Jafrā; Jewish Agency for Palestine; Jewish immigrants; Jewish neighbors; Kuwaykāt (Palestine); Maps; Mayors; Palestinian-Jewish Relations; Poetry; Rumors; Sheep; ʻĪd celebrations

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Keywords: Building practices; Construction; Cooking; Dietary practices; Interreligious relations; Kuwaykāt (Palestine); Political activity; Stoves

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Sunūnū, Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Naṣṣār, Aḥmad (Martyr).

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Keywords: Akka (Prison: Palestine); Battles; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British-Jewish relations; Conspiracy; Executions; Farming practices; Guards; Haganah; Mines; Officers; Partition plan, 1947; Patrol; Property destruction; Spring; Stern; Terrorism; Truces; Weapons confiscation; Zionist occupation

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-ʻAṭʻūṭ, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-ʻArʻūr, Abū ʻAlī (Martyr); al-Baytam, ʻAlī (Martyr); Iskandar, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (Martyr); Ibrīq, Ḥamad (Martyr); Dīb, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); Sunūnū, Dīb (Revolutionary)

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882-1951.; Aerial bombing; Akka (Palestine); Akka (Prison: Palestine); Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arab Salvation Army; Armored vehicles; Arrest; British Army; British colonialism; British-Jewish relations; Brutal treatment; Capital punishment; Clashes; Courts; Crimes against humanity; Curfew; Damaged weapons; Deception; Escape; Expulsion from Palestine; Forced labor; Haganah; House burning; Injuries; Jewish immigration; Jewish settlements; Kafr Yāsīf (Palestine); Khirbat Jiddīn (Palestine); Khirbat al-Kuwaydhibah (Palestine); Martyrs; Mines; Murder; Palestinian resistance; Police stations; Prison riots; Prisoners' treatment; Radio stations; Routes; Seeking refuge; Shootings; Skirmishes; Stern; Terrorism; Torture; Vandalism; Village siege; Weapon trade; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Kābrī Battle, 1948; al-Ṣafṣāf Massacre, 1948

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Crimes against humanity; Death; Deception; Evacuation orders; Expulsion; Family structure; Home demolition; Hope; Illness; Lebanon; Mines; Passing on memories; Refugee camps; Refugee experience; Right of return; Route choices; Socio-economic conditions; Suffering; Terrorism; Village leaders; Water resources