Interview with Muḥammad Qiblāwī مقابلة مع محمد قبلاوي

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:00 - Childhood and cultural life

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Qaṭāyā, Abū Mūṣṭafá (Port manager); al-Nāṭūr, Abū Asʻad (Trader).

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Keywords: Agricultural products; Agriculture; Anti-Palestinian economic measures; Dowry; Education; Family structure; Fishing; Land; Marriage proposals; Means of transportation; Sūq; Trade; Weddings; Work; al-Zīb (Palestine)

00:10:21 - British mandate and relations with Jews

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Ghuzz, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader); Darwīsh ʻAwaḍ, Aḥmad (Revolutionary); al-Dūkhī, Ṣālih (Martyr); al-Ṭarābulsī, Ibrāhīm (Martyr); al-Mughrabī, Salīm (Martyr); Shatāt, Muḥammad (Martyr); al-Ḥafīz al-Ḥusayn, Abū Maḥmūd ʻAbd (Martyr).

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; British colonization; Gunshots; Hospitality; House burning; Jamʻīyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Jewish settlements; Nahariya (Jewish Settlement: Palestine); Palestinian-Jewish relations; Settler colonialism; Tall Waqīyah Battle, 1936; Weapon acquisition; al-Kābrī (Palestine)

00:25:58 - Battles and British injustice

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Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: ʻAwaḍ, Darwīsh (Mayor); al-Shaʻʻār, ʻAbdullāh (Revolutionary); al-ʻAwaḍ, Rabāḥ (Revolutionary leader); Jamjūm, Aḥmad (Martyr); al-Zīf, ʻAṭá (Martyr); Ḥijāzī, Fūʾād (Martyr).

Families: Twaynī; Bayḍūn; Salām, Sursuq; Quwaṭlī.

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Keywords: Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British-Jewish relations; Deception; Executions; Folk poetry; Jamʻiyyat al-Kaff al-Aswad; Jewish settlements; Land sale; Levantine; Revolutions; Socio-economic conditions; Village leaders; Weapons; al-Dāmūn (Palestine); al-Zīb (Palestine); Ṣaffūrīyah (Palestine)

00:40:30 - Post-1936 revolt and continued political efforts in al-Zīb

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Battles; British Army; Collaborationists; Crime; Damaged weapons; Deception; Escape; Expulsion from Palestine; Hardship; Jewish settlements; Killing; Massacres; Mines; Revolutionaries; Treason; al-Kābrī (Palestine)

00:52:54 - Al-Zīb Battle and explusion

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

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arrest; Attack; Collaborationists; Deception; Defeat; Displacement; Escape; Guards; Gunshots; Homeland; Killing; Military training; Treason; Weapons; Weapons confiscation

01:02:05 - Exile and recollection of Palestine

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Keywords: Child killings; City occupation; Displacement; Expulsion from Palestine; Haifa (Palestine); Hardship; Homeland; Hope; Jewish neighbors; Martyrs; Massacres; Murder; Photographs

01:10:06 - Expulsion and hardships

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

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Keywords: Boats; Child killings; Collaborationists; Emotions; Employment; Expulsion from Palestine; Family relations; Passing on memories; Return; Routes; Slaughter; Village occupation; Zionist occupation