Interview with Yūnus Maḥmūd Shaʻbān مقابلة مع يونس محمود شعبان

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Bolam, Simon (Policeman); Bellin, Ram (Policeman).

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Keywords: Arrest; British Mandate of Palestine, 1922-1948; British colonialism; British police forces; Childhood; Elementary schools; Employment; Family structure; Farmers; Germans; Land ownership; Political prisoners; Prisons; Punishment; Resistance movements; Revolutions; Schooling; Settlements; Village siege; Waldheim (Umm al 'Amad); Weapons; Ḥiṭṭīn (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Mughrabī, Abū ʻĀṭif (Revolutionary); Zaʻrūrah, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary); al-Aṣbaḥ, Abū al-‘Abd (Revolutionary); Za‘rūrah, Abū Maḥmūd (Revolutionary leader).

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Keywords: Ammunition; Arab Revolt, 1936-1939; Arrest; British colonialism; Childhood memories; Clashes; Escape; Executions; Military strategy; Murder; Parents; Priests; Prisons; Revolutionaries; Tiberias (Palestine); Vandalism; Village siege; Weapons; al-Aṣbaḥ, ‘Abdullāh, 1910-1938; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; ʻAylabūn (Palestine); Ḥiṭṭīn (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Yāsīn, Mifliḥ (Resistance fighter); al-Hind, Salīm (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Agricultural economics; Bombings; Deception; Gunshots; Jewish settlements; Jordanian Army; Nazareth (Palestine); Relief; Resistance; Retreat; Trade; Trans-Jordan Frontier Forces; Traps; Village occupation; Zionist occupation; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Shajarah (Palestine)

Partial Transcript: Families: al-Fahhūm.

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Keywords: Abdullah, King of Jordan, 1882–1951; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Benkirane, ʻAbd al-Ilāh, 1954-; Brutal treatment; Collaborationists; Conspiracy; Damaged weapons; Fārūq of Egypt, 1920–1965; Hospitality; Ibn Saʻūd, King of Saudi Arabia, 1880-1953; Jewish settlements; Khūrī, Bishārah ʻAbd Allāh, 1890–1968; Martyrs; Military withdrawal; Mu’tamar al-Qimmah al-‘Arabiyyah (1946:Cairo); Palestinian diaspora; Resistance; Truces; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Rabāḥ, Aḥmad Qāsim (Mayor); Shaʻbān, Sulaymān Qaddūrah (Municipal council); ʻAzzām, Aḥmad Abū Rāḍī (Mayor); Shabāyṭah, Muḥammad Ibrāhīm (Municipal council); al-Rabāḥ, Ismāʻīl (Resistance fighter); Shabāyṭah, Saʻīd al-ʻAbd (Resistance fighter); al-Muhanná, Sulaymān (Resistance fighter); Shaʻbān, Yūnus Maḥmūd (Resistance fighter); Yāsīn, Muṣṭafá Aḥmad (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Attacks; Conspiracy; Guards; Haganah; Jewish settlements; Lūbyā Battle, 1947; Military strategy; Nazareth (Palestine); Palestinian resistance; Relief; Revolutionary songs; Rulers; Skirmishes; Tanks; Village leaders; Village occupation; Women in armed conflicts; Zionist Invasion of Palastine, 1948; Zionist occupation; al-Qāwūqjī, Fawzī, 1890-1977; Ḥiṭṭīn Battle, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: al-Rabāḥ, Ismāʻīl (Resistance fighter); Ibrāhīm, Ṣālih (Mayor); al-Ṣālih, Faḍl (Resistance fighter).

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Keywords: Aerial bombing; Arab Salvation Army; Arab countries; Armies; Border guards; Christians; Churches; Conspiracy; Crimes against humanity; Deception; Escape; Executions; Expulsion from Palestine; Fathers; Home bombing; Hospitality; Israeli occupation; Jewish settlements; Kafr ʻĀnā (Palestine); Lūbyā (Palestine); Mass murder; Military withdrawal; Seeking refuge; Seeking shelter; Shootings; Terrorism; Zionist Invasion of Palastine, 1948; Zionist occupation; ʻAylabūn (Palestine); ʻAylabūn Massacre, 1948

Partial Transcript: Significant Figures: Yūnus, al-ʻAbd (Policeman); Fnaysh, Sārī (Arab Salvation Army commander).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Collaboration; Conspiracy; Deception; Expulsion from Palestine; Hospitality; Injuries; Order; ʻAylabūn Massacre, 1948

Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Munṭār (Maqām); al-Nabī Shu‘ayb (Maqām).

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Keywords: Dignity; Expulsion from Palestine; Family relations; Homeland; Mosques; Neighboring villages; Nostalgia; Passing on memories; Photographs; Poetry; Remapping national territories; Return; Ḥiṭṭīn (Palestine)